Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers accordingly sought to speak to the experience of bereavement and to provide cultural scripts for parents who had lost a child. These late ancient writers turned to characters like Eve and Sarah, Job ...
Сергей Замковой – психолог, автор курсов йоги, которые прошли более 80 тысяч человек, делится целостным видением йоги, объединяющим мудрость вековых традиций с современными психологией и социологией. Вы узнаете, какие асаны особенно полезны именно вам, почему энергетические прокачки повышают эффективность практики йоги, как интерпретировать психосоматику… Ответы на множество "как" и "почему" помогут вам заниматься йогой на более глубоком уровне. ...
In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? <I>Remaking a Life </I>uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with ...
Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction “sugar”—or, as some say in Belize, “traveling with sugar.” A decade in the making, this book unfolds as a seri ...
Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, 3rd Edition probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of judicial opinions, scholarly articles, and government reports. Crafted to be accessible to students while thorough enough for use by practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and teachers alike, the reader can be used as a stand-alone resource or alongside the internationally acclaimed& ...
In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donors—disadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class. Yet cultural attitudes and state-level policies regarding egg donation are dramatically different depending on whether the donation is for reproduction or for research. Erin Heidt-Forsythe explores the ways th ...
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. <I>Punishing Disease </I>looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease. Now that the doo ...
Hurt: Chronicles of the Drug War Generation weaves engaging first-person accounts of the lives of baby boomer drug users, including author Miriam Boeri’s first-hand knowledge as the sister of a heroin addict. The compelling stories are set in historical context, from the cultural influence of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll to contemporary discourse that pegs drug addiction as a disease punishable by incarceratio ...
С этого дня ваше счастье – дело ваших рук. Эта книга – пособие для женщин, которые хотят быть счастливыми, но запутались в своей жизни и отношениях и не знают, где искать выход. Автор предлагает способы обрести счастье, основанные на последних научных открытиях и ее собственном опыте, а значит – работают! «Это ваша жизнь, она у вас одна. И вы заслуживаете прожить ее с самым лучшим мужчиной на свете», – приняв эту истину, вы сможете изменить свою ...
