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...The Quandary and Unexamined Ordinariness of Twenty-First-Century Medicine This chapter describes the chain of connections among science, industry, and insurance that defines the quandary of drawing the line between enough and too much treatment. It explains how treatments emerge, become...

... This chapter describes the chain of connections among science, industry, and insurance that defines the quandary of drawing the line between enough and too much treatment. It explains how treatments emerge, become available to patients, and then are deemed to be wanted and necessary. The chapter...

... prejudices, and power structures. This scene is the starting point of a meditation on the quandary of doing anthropology in the Middle East, with the singular tensions between hope and cynicism, cheerfulness and negativity that undermine political debates. bioethics health inequalities cynicism...

... project and the tensions between what Gillian Whitlock names as the “sacred nature of testimony” and the “commodification and consumption of testimonial discourse.” The chapter explores the quandary of redemption sponsored by the state as both censoring and productive, interrogating how the state...

... the quandary of determining how one should live in relation to the tools of medicine as one grows old. medical technologies implantable cardiac defibrillator kidney dialysis liver transplantation Medicare eligibility ...

... with the revolution. After situating the discussion within the larger quandaries of the Egyptian Revolution, Said presents his approach: lived contingency. Lived contingency refers to studying how revolutionary actors made decisions or failed to in relation to uncertainties and unpredictabilities about power...

... himself. Complementing and competing with Wright’s own account, it is a valuable case study of the quandaries and misrecognitions involved in global intellectual exchange amid increasing Cold War tensions. The second part of Vuyk’s article appeared only two days before Wright’s death, curtailing...

... The epilogue returns to the ethical quandaries of a technology that, by seeking a pluripotent fate, may indeed open us up to a multitude of “unknown unknowns.” The author contrasts the two Asian models of biomedical entrepreneurialism. Biopolis deploys the ethnic heuristic to shape a transborder...

... large here, and each patient’s story illustrates the quandary of determining how one should live in relation to the tools of medicine as one grows old. medical technologies implantable cardiac defibrillator kidney dialysis liver transplantation Medicare eligibility This chapter...

..., cultural prejudices, and power structures. This scene is the starting point of a meditation on the quandary of doing anthropology in the Middle East, with the singular tensions between hope and cynicism, cheerfulness and negativity that undermine political debates. Tensions expert testimony...

... other than Wright himself. Complementing and competing with Wright’s own account, it is a valuable case study of the quandaries and misrecognitions involved in global intellectual exchange amid increasing Cold War tensions. The second part of Vuyk’s article appeared only two days before Wright’s death...