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A Woman's Disease

The History of Cervical Cancer

By: Ilana Lowy

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A Woman's Disease

The History of Cervical Cancer

By: Ilana Lowy

Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies, and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. Ilana Lowy follows the disease from antiquity to the 21st century, tracing both medical progress and social change.

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Oxford University Press

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0199548811

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9780199548811

Between Bench and Bedside

Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward

By: Ilana Löwy

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Between Bench and Bedside

Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward

By: Ilana Löwy

Between Bench and Bedside is a compelling account of the clinical trials of interleukin-2 at a major French cancer hospital. Löwy's book offers a remarkable insider's view of the culture of clinical experimentation in oncology.

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396

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Harvard University Press

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0674068092

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9780674068094

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers

The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture

By: Ilana Pardes

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Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers

The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture

By: Ilana Pardes

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. Standing at a unique crossroads between religion and secularism, Agnon probes the paradoxes and ambiguities of the Zionist hermeneutic project. In adopting the Song, Zionist interpreters sought to return to the erotic, pastoral landscapes of biblical times. Their quest for a new, uplifting, secular literalism, however, could not efface the haunting impact of allegorical configurations of love. With superb irony, Agnon's tales recast Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the ever-surprising history of biblical exegesis.

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216

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University of Washington Press

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0295804777

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9780295804774

Tangled Diagnoses

Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

By: Ilana Löwy

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Tangled Diagnoses

Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

By: Ilana Löwy

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of that medical attention, but prenatal diagnosis in its present form, which couples scrutiny of the fetus with the option to terminate pregnancy, came into being in the early 1970s. Tangled Diagnoses examines the multiple consequences of the widespread diffusion of this medical innovation. Prenatal testing, Ilana Löwy argues, has become mainly a risk-management technology—the goal of which is to prevent inborn impairments, ideally through the development of efficient therapies but in practice mainly through the prevention of the birth of children with such impairments. Using scholarship, interviews, and direct observation in France and Brazil of two groups of professionals who play an especially important role in the production of knowledge about fetal development—fetopathologists and clinical geneticists—to expose the real-life dilemmas prenatal testing creates, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the sociopolitical conditions of biomedical innovation, the politics of women’s bodies, disability, and the ethics of modern medicine.

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326

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University of Chicago Press

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022653426X

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9780226534268

In the Name of Humanity

The Government of Threat and Care

By: Ilana Feldman

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In the Name of Humanity

The Government of Threat and Care

By: Ilana Feldman

Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.

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390

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Duke University Press

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0822348217

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9780822348214

A Woman's Disease

The History of Cervical Cancer

By: Ilana Lowy

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The History of Cervical Cancer

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Oxford University Press

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Tangled Diagnoses

Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

By: Ilana Löwy

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Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

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Between Bench and Bedside

Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward

By: Ilana Löwy

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Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward

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A Woman's Disease

A Woman's Disease

Between Bench and Bedside

Between Bench and Bedside

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers

Tangled Diagnoses

Tangled Diagnoses

In the Name of Humanity

In the Name of Humanity

A Woman's Disease

A Woman's Disease

Tangled Diagnoses

Tangled Diagnoses

Between Bench and Bedside

Between Bench and Bedside

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