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All That Was Not Her by Todd Meyers
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was... -
Gone Gone Todd Meyers 9781478031642
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and family members of... -
All That Was Not Her by Todd Meyers 9781478015277
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was... -
Gone Gone Todd Meyers 9781478028451
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and family members of... -
The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy by Todd Meyers
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.69Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many... -
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age Todd Meyers 9781350451629
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.59A Cultural History of Medicine presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical... -
Writings on Medicine by Georges Canguilhem 9780823234325
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of normality, the ideologization of scientific thought,... -
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War by Stefanos Geroulanos 9780226556451
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.90The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to... -
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War by Stefanos Geroulanos
Booksplease Price: £31.37The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to... -
Addiction Trajectories by Eugene Raikhel 9780822353508
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based... -
Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History by 9780367506322
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08A widely celebrated intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe, Anson Rabinbach is one of the most important scholars of National Socialism working over the last forty years. This volume... -
The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas Stefanos Geroulanos 9780367553296
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps... -
Knowledge of Life by Georges Canguilhem
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science... -
Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible by Richard Baxstrom 9780823268245
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Benjamin Christensen's Haxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of... -
Anthropology and Aesthetics: Cogitations by Tarek Elhaik
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.69This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology,... -
God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End Casey Golomski 9781978840607
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults... -
Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary by Herve Guibert 9780823268573
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.71By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did... -
God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End Casey Golomski 9781978840614
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £86.00Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults... -
The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar: The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar Robert Desjarlais 9781478032427
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36On the night of October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians peacefully demonstrated in the streets of Paris, protesting an illegal curfew imposed upon them by the French colonial government. The Paris... -
The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar: The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar Robert Desjarlais 9781478029069
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69On the night of October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians peacefully demonstrated in the streets of Paris, protesting an illegal curfew imposed upon them by the French colonial government. The Paris... -
On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late... -
The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line Aidan Seale-Feldman 9780226845395
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.18A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal. In a world marked by escalating disasters, the forms that care takes are increasingly fraught. In this powerful book,... -
The Problem of the Fetish by William Pietz
Booksplease Price: £22.93A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz's innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered... -
The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985 by Pamela Reynolds
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and... -
The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985 by Pamela Reynolds 9781478004066
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £79.74In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and... -
Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge by Francois Delaporte 9780823242504
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Francois Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection... -
Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914 by Rob Boddice
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.69In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as... -
Selected Writings: On Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism by Henri Atlan 9780823231829
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38Best known for his pioneering work in theories of self-organization and complexity, the biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has during the past thirty years been a major voice in contemporary... -
Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914 by Rob Boddice
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £79.06In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as... -
Perishability Fatigue: Forays Into Environmental Loss and Decay by Vincent Bruyere
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.55The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to... -
The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger by Carlo Caduff 9780520284081
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill... -
Perishability Fatigue: Forays Into Environmental Loss and Decay by Vincent Bruyere 9780231188586
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to... -
The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger by Carlo Caduff 9780520284098
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill... -
Addiction Trajectories by Eugene Raikhel
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based...