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By Janet Halley, Jeff Nunokawa, Andrew Parker
Series: Series Q
Published: 01 January 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393627-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9362-7
Published: 09 February 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386964-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8696-4
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 04 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374497-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7449-7
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 23 May 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376521-036
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7652-1
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... through measurement, touch, observation, incision, postmortem analysis—is turned outside by the invasive but bloodless force of digital intervention, or made external in some hands-off kind of way. Developments in the management, improvement, streamlining, augmenting, and salvaging of bodies have often...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 09 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376033-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7603-3
... This chapter analyzes the postmortem coverage of Lucille Ball that conjoins her with ex-husband and costar Desi Arnaz as a star couple who were central to the development of the situation comedy as a television genre and the meaning of family in postwar America. This recycling was first used...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374398-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... doctors, indigenous patients, and healers and the emotional distress of losing patients, some of whom were relatives. Two healers detailed how their postmortem efforts to solve the puzzle prompted them to piece together strange symptoms, spiritual pathogens, corrupt government contractors, and witchcraft...
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By Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... for a perceived failure to address the situation. Nurses recounted their efforts to mediate between Spanish-speaking doctors, indigenous patients, and healers and the emotional distress of losing patients, some of whom were relatives. Two healers detailed how their postmortem efforts to solve the puzzle prompted...