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Published: 17 November 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385028-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8502-8
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By Urvashi Vaid, Jyotsna Vaid, Amy Hoffman, Tony Kushner
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6065-9
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Published: 21 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060659-017
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6065-9
... the current, profit-centered one. thyroid cancer breast cancer breast MRI patient-centered care health care industry ...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373124-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... The conclusion explores the process through which the tourism industry has conjoined itself with the retirement and health care industries to provide balikbayans with a solution to their incessant anxiety around returning and settling back home in the Philippines. Retirement villages represent...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 04 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375500-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7550-0
... The phrase ordinary medicine reflects the hidden chain of health care drivers among science, politics, industry, insurance, and ethics that organizes and drives our health care system. The chain and the ethical field that supports it are the mechanisms by which treatment standards become social...
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By Sharon R. Kaufman
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 04 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375500-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7550-0
... to this point are entrenched and ongoing—especially the dominance of private industry in health care services, the priority given to technology use regardless of cost, and the lack of equity in the distribution of medical care—they continue to derail the practice of medicine and the entire health care delivery...
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6065-9
... anti-sodomy law sexual identity thyroid cancer breast cancer breast MRI patient-centered care health care industry Stonewall legacy direct action political transformation anti-establishment queer protest Creating Change conferences movement longevity dignity LGBTQ movement...
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 27 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060048-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6004-8
... of formal codified workplace health and safety (WHS) standards or industrial protections, indie pornographers are creating their own blueprints, pioneering and role-modeling ethical processes from recruitment through to production, marketing, and distribution. These ethics go far beyond the WHS concerns...
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By Caitjan Gainty
Published: 07 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060611-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6061-1
... Chapter 2 examines the meeting of industrial mores and medical values that took place at the Henry Ford Hospital. The chapter examines the portrayal of the Ford Hospital by critics and supporters alike as the application of Ford’s industrial processes directly to health care, separating out what...
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By Zahra Stardust
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 27 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060048-020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6004-8
..., stigmatized people, surveilled populations and criminalized communities; to agitate against the border industrial complex, policing and welfare systems, and settler colonialism; to organize for health care, housing, food security, decolonization, and prison abolition; and to reimagine the future of work...
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By Caitjan Gainty
Published: 07 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060611-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6061-1
... The Afterword manifests the book’s quieter investment in introducing this newly focused history of early twentieth-century medicine and efficiency into our discussions of health care and its reform today. Taking apart efficiency and medicine in this way allows us to look “under the hood...
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By Sharon R. Kaufman
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 04 May 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7550-0
...The Chain of Health Care Drivers This chapter examines two components of biomedical research from which therapies emerge: the phenomenon of evidence-based medicine and the business of clinical trials. These are the apparatuses of truth making in medicine. They define what counts as “good...
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By Zahra Stardust
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 27 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6004-8
... and processes for best-practice ethics on intimate sets. In the absence of formal codified workplace health and safety (WHS) standards or industrial protections, indie pornographers are creating their own blueprints, pioneering and role-modeling ethical processes from recruitment through to production...
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By Caitjan Gainty
Published: 07 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060611-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6061-1
... shifting values away from its moorings in efficiency and toward the power-acquisition processes that historians have more generally described. Even as medicine became more monolithic as an industry itself, it also became more polarized, resolving the tensions intrinsic to efficiency into the two extrinsic...
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By Caitjan Gainty
Published: 07 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060611-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6061-1
... of efficiency in the early twentieth century and the ties that bound it to the burning questions of the day about American democracy, class and social mobility, the impact of industrialization, and the coming of a new and capitalist order. Medical efficiency is introduced as both a generative new lens...
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373148-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
... meaning of HIV itself, leading to new, symbolic incarnations of HIV in the domain of political economy. Taiwan HIV/AIDS public health surveillance administrative law ...
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By David McDermott Hughes
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373360-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7336-0
... generates no new substances. Human actions, in other words, only amplify petrolic activity that preceded industrial life. Of course, the vast strip mine amid Canada’s tar sands overruns boreal forest. Observers near and far criticize these oil fields as a form of atrocity. Less extreme cases attract less...