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Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

By: Nancy Krieger

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Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

By: Nancy Krieger

From Embodying Injustice to Embodying Equity: Embodied Truths and the Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution -- Embodying (In)justice and Embodied Truths: Using Ecosocial Theory to Analyze Population Health Data -- Challenges: Embodied Truths, Vision, and Advancing Health Justice.

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Oxford University Press

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0197510728

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Embodying Inequality

Epidemiologic Perspectives

By: Nancy Krieger

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Embodying Inequality

Epidemiologic Perspectives

By: Nancy Krieger

To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" between 1990 and 2000. Framed by ecosocial theory, it employs ecosocial constructs of "embodiment"; "pathways of embodiment"; "cumulative interplay of exposure, susceptibility, and resistance across the lifecourse"; and "accountability and agency" to address the question; and who and what drives current and changing patterns of social inequalities in health.

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Routledge

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1351844601

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Nanoneuroscience

Structural and Functional Roles of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease

By: Nancy J. Woolf,Avner Priel

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Nanoneuroscience

Structural and Functional Roles of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease

By: Nancy J. Woolf,Avner Priel

Nanoneuroscience is the study of computationally relevant biomolecules found inside neurons. Because of recent technological advances at the nanometer scale, scientists have at their disposal increasingly better ways to study the brain and the biophysics of its molecules. This book describes how biomolecules contribute to the operations of synapses and perform other computationally relevant functions inside dendrites. These biomolecular operations considerably expand the brain-computer analogy - endowing each neuron with the processing power of a silicon-based multiprocessor. Amazingly, the brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642035841

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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture

By: Nancy N. Chen

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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture

By: Nancy N. Chen

What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered separate from consuming medicine--another multimillion-dollar industry. In contrast, most traditional medical systems view food as inseparable from medicine and regard medicinal foods as the front line of healing. Drawing on medical texts and food therapy practices from around the world and throughout history, Nancy N. Chen locates old and new crossovers between food and medicine in different social and cultural contexts. The consumption of spices, sugar, and salt was once linked to specific healing properties, and trade in these commodities transformed not just the political economy of Europe, Asia, and the New World but local tastes and food practices as well. Today's technologies are rapidly changing traditional attitudes toward food, enabling the cultivation of new admixtures, such as nutraceuticals and genetically modified food, that link food to medicine in novel ways. Chen considers these developments against the evolving food regimes of the diet industry in order to build a framework for understanding diet as individual practice, social prescription, and political formation.

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Columbia University Press

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0231134843

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9780231134842

Breathing Spaces

Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

By: Nancy N. Chen

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Breathing Spaces

Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

By: Nancy N. Chen

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast, qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Breathing Spaces brings to life the narratives of numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats, revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China.

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Columbia University Press

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0231502214

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9780231502214

Bodies in the Making

Transgressions and Transformations

By: Nancy N. Chen

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Bodies in the Making

Transgressions and Transformations

By: Nancy N. Chen

In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies. Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity. Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.

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North Atlantic Books

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097125463X

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9780971254633

Treating Addictions With EMDR Therapy and the Stages of Change

By: Nancy J. Abel, LCSW, LADC,John M. O'Brien, PhD

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Treating Addictions With EMDR Therapy and the Stages of Change

By: Nancy J. Abel, LCSW, LADC,John M. O'Brien, PhD

Mental health practitioners must be prepared to treat addiction-related issuesóaffecting up to 50% of mental health clientsówhether or not clients present with addiction as a primary concern. This practical roadmap to the treatment of addictions advocates an underutilizedóyet highly effectiveómethod of intervention: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. It is the first book to integrate the Stages of Change Model with EMDRís phases for successful treatment outcome. The book addresses the scope of problems relating to addiction, including relevant statistics and descriptions of substance and process addictions, and considers the connection between addiction and trauma. While focusing on the use of EMDR therapy in treating addictions, the book also considers traditional models for each stage of treatment so interventions can be individualized according to the needs of each client. The authors describe in detail the Transtheoretical Model, tracing its development and theoretical foundations. They discuss each of its stages in depth, presenting and integrating EMDR interventions used by therapists in each stage. The interventions are useful for helping clients at any motivational level. Case vignettes in each chapter illustrate how EMDR techniques are used, and several detailed cases are provided at the end of the book. The appendix features additional resources and EMDR protocols. The text will be useful for therapists currently using EMDR for addiction treatment as well as those using other modalities who are seeking an effective alternative. Key Features: Provides a practical roadmap to using the Stages of Change Model and EMDR therapy for effectively treating addictions Addresses substance and process addictions in depth Focuses on the traumañaddiction connection and treatment options Describes each Stage of Change and EMDR protocols and interventions for each stage Includes case vignettes and detailed case examples

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826198740

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9780826198747

Epidemiology and the People's Health

Theory and Context

By: Nancy Krieger

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Epidemiology and the People's Health

Theory and Context

By: Nancy Krieger

Theory. Traced to its Greek roots, "theory" means to see inwards; to theorize is to use our mind's eye systematically, following articulated principles, to discern meaningful patterns among observations and ideas (Oxford English Dictionary [OED] 2022). The implication is that without theory, observation is blind and explanation is impossible"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197695558

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Gene and Cell Therapy

Therapeutic Mechanisms and Strategies, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

By: Nancy Smyth Templeton

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Gene and Cell Therapy

Therapeutic Mechanisms and Strategies, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

By: Nancy Smyth Templeton

This reference is completely revised and expanded to reflect the most critical studies, controversies, and technologies impacting the medical field, including probing research on lentivirus, gutless adenovirus, bacterial and baculovirus vectors, retargeted viral vectors, in vivo electroporation, in vitro and in vivo gene detection systems, and all inducible gene expression systems. Scrutinizing every tool, technology, and issue impacting the future of gene and cell research, it is specifically written and organized for laymen, scholars, and specialists from varying backgrounds and disciplines to understand the current status of gene and cell therapy and anticipate future developments in the field.

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CRC Press

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0824758609

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Breathing Spaces

Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

By: Nancy N. Chen

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Breathing Spaces

Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

By: Nancy N. Chen

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, which at its core involves meditative breathing exercises, achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Anthropologist Nancy N. Chen examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC, Taiwan, and the United States, and the pages of her book come alive with the narratives of the numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats she interviewed.

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Columbia University Press

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0231128045

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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture

By: Nancy N. Chen

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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture

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Book's by Nancy N. Chen

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

Embodying Inequality

Embodying Inequality

Nanoneuroscience

Nanoneuroscience

Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Breathing Spaces

Breathing Spaces

Bodies in the Making

Bodies in the Making

Treating Addictions With EMDR Therapy and the Stages of Change

Treating Addictions With EMDR Therapy and the Stages of Change

Epidemiology and the People's Health

Epidemiology and the People's Health

Gene and Cell Therapy

Gene and Cell Therapy

Breathing Spaces

Breathing Spaces

Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

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