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Disorder and Diagnosis

Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia

By: Laura Frances Goffman

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Disorder and Diagnosis

Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia

By: Laura Frances Goffman

Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. Foregrounding the everyday practices of Gulf residents—hospital patients, quarantined passengers, women migrant nurses, and others too often excluded from histories of this region—Laura Frances Goffman demonstrates how the Gulf and its Arabian hinterland served as a buffer zone between "diseased" India and white Europe, as a space of scientific translation, and, ultimately, as an object of development. In placing health at the center of political and social change, this book weaves the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula into global circulations of commodities and movements of people. As a collection of institutions and infrastructures, pursuits of health created shifting boundaries of rule between imperial officials, indigenous elites, and local populations. As a set of practices seeking to manipulate the natural world, health policies compelled scientists and administrators to categorize fluid populations and ambiguous territorialities. And, as a discourse, health facilitated notions of racial difference, opposing native uncleanliness to white purity and hygiene, and indigenous medicine to modern science. Disorder and Diagnosis examines how Gulf residents, through their engagements with health, fiercely contested and actively shaped state and societal interactions.

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Stanford University Press

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1503640825

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Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

By: Laura Engel

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Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

By: Laura Engel

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket diaries, portraits, drawings, magic lanterns, silhouettes, waxworks, and photographs in relation to actresses, authors, and artists such as: Elizabeth Inchbald, Sally Siddons, Marguerite Gardiner the Countess of Blessington, Isabella Beetham, Jane Read, Madame Tussaud, and Amelia M. Watson. Ultimately, operating as an archival tourist in my analyses, I offer strategies for thinking about the presence of women artists in the archives through methodologies that seek to connect materials from the past with our representations of them in the present.

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177

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Springer

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1137589329

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9781137589323

Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Culture and Society in Transition

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander,Kenneth Thompson,Laura Desfor Edles

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Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Culture and Society in Transition

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander,Kenneth Thompson,Laura Desfor Edles

The first edition of A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology was the first truly new introductory sociology textbook in decades. Written by two leading sociologists at the cutting edge of theory and research, the text reflected the idioms and interests of contemporary American life and global social issues. The second edition continues to invite students to reflect upon their lives within the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the risks and potentialities of a postmodern era in which the futures of both the physical and social environment seem uncertain. As culture rapidly changes in the 21st century, the authors have broadened their analysis to cover developments in social media and new data on gender and transgender issues.

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797

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Routledge

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1317264983

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9781317264989

Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2

By: Stephen Kowalewski,Gary Feinman,Laura Finsten,Richard E. Blanton,Linda Nicholas

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Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2

By: Stephen Kowalewski,Gary Feinman,Laura Finsten,Richard E. Blanton,Linda Nicholas

This two-volume monograph is the final report and synthesis of the Valley of Oaxaca Settlement Pattern Project’s full-coverage surface survey and makes significant theoretical and methodological contributions to the investigation of social evolution, cultural ecology, and regional analysis.

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U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

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0915703750

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9780915703753

Smoking Privileges

Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America

By: Laura D. Hirshbein

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Smoking Privileges

Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America

By: Laura D. Hirshbein

Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.Hirshbein, a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, Smoking Privileges warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill.A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813563984

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9780813563985

Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory

Text and Readings

By: Scott Appelrouth,Laura Desfor Edles

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Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory

Text and Readings

By: Scott Appelrouth,Laura Desfor Edles

Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings provides students with the best of both worlds—carefully-edited excerpts from the original works of sociology′s key thinkers accompanied by an analytical framework that discusses the lives, ideas, and historical circumstances of each theorist. This unique format enables students to examine, compare, and contrast each theorist’s major themes and concepts.

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921

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SAGE Publications

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1544358547

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9781544358543

Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era

Text and Readings

By: Scott Appelrouth,Laura Desfor Edles

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Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era

Text and Readings

By: Scott Appelrouth,Laura Desfor Edles

Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era: Text and Readings features well-edited original writings from sociologyÆs core contemporary theorists witháintroductory text that provides aáhistorical and theoretical framework for understanding these works. Authors Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles use this unique text/reader approach to introduce students to sociological theory in a lively and engaging fashion.áKey Features:Enables students to compare and contrast core concepts and ideas: This book provides not just a biographical and theoretical summary of each theorist/reading, but an overarching theoretical framework with which to understand, compare, and contrast these selections. The authors rely on original texts to derive new meaning and excitement of sociological theory. áStresses contemporary applications and examples: In addition to chapters on well-known figures, there is also an in-depth discussion of lesser known voices. The social and intellectual milieu in which the selections were written is discussed, as well as their contemporary relevance. Thus, the book connects these seemingly disparate works not only theoretically but also via concrete applications to todayÆs world.Provides a variety of visuals and pedagogical devices: Charts, figures, photographs, and discussion questions help summarize key concepts, illuminate complex ideas, and provoke student interest. No other theory text combines such ôstudent-friendlyö explanation and analysis with original theoretical works.á áIntended Audience:This is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying sociological theory in courses such as Contemporary Sociological Theory, Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, and Sociological Theory

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Pine Forge Press

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0761928014

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9780761928010

Disorder and Diagnosis

Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia

By: Laura Frances Goffman

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Disorder and Diagnosis

Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia

By: Laura Frances Goffman

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Stanford University Press

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1503640825

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Disorder and Diagnosis

Disorder and Diagnosis

Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II

Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II

Smoking Privileges

Smoking Privileges

Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory

Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory

Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era

Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era

Disorder and Diagnosis

Disorder and Diagnosis

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