This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Palawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.
This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions.
This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world.
This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave's Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time.
Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity.
This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor.
Raising the Dust explores the relationship between human and ecological health through the lens of African traditional medicine, as practiced in the south of Malawi.
This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal biomarkets crosses the humanitarian thresholds of feminism.
This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India.
En el presente libro se publican los resultados del estudio de la dinámica de las cualidades físicas de las jóvenes deportistas en las diferentes fases del ciclo menstrual y se caracterizan las particularidades de la formación de la función menstrual y su relación con el rendimiento en las jóvenes deportistas vallecaucanas.
Education for Sustainability is a key priority in today's schools, as our society seeks to find a balance between environmental, social, cultural, political and economic imperatives that affect our future.
This book provides professional development leaders and teachers with a framework for integrating authentic real-world performance tasks into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classrooms.
Human diversity, with its myriad of different conditions involving biology, psychology, and social structures, remains one of the biggest challenges - and opportunities - facing the species.
The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax.
Venous Ulcers, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive synthesis of evidence-based recommendations and the highest level of expertise from a leading group of doctors, which is a fundamental constituent for the appropriate management of nonhealing venous wounds in everyday practice.
El objetivo de esta obra es proporcionar al estudiante un completo y ameno panorama de los campos fundamentales de la matemática y la física y química, a través de gran cantidad de ilustraciones acompañadas de unas breves notas que explican de una forma lógica y sencilla la parte teórica, así como muchas de las aplicaciones prácticas que hoy día se encuentran en las actividades más diversas de la vida diaria y que han contribuido al fantástico progreso de la humanidad.
Un libro sumamente claro, sencillo y muy bien estructurado que explica detalladamente, y con un enfoque profundamente humanista, todos las etapas evolutivas del desarrollo de la personalidad, desde el periodo prenatal y el nacimiento hasta la adolescencia.
