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 Free Download Bert Peeters, "Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs " English | ISBN: 1138745308 | 2019 | 158 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn't mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body is the same everywhere. Nonetheless, the (Anglo) mindis often reified and thought of in universal terms. This volume adds to the literature that denounces such reification. It looks at Japanese, Longgu (an Oceanic language), Thai, and Old Norse-Icelandic, spelling out, in a culturally neutral Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), how the "mind-like" constructs in these languages differ from the Anglo mind.  Free Download M.D. Nanda, Navin C., "Heart Disease in Women" English | ISBN: 9351522946 | 2015 | 513 pages | PDF | 57 MB Written by internationally renowned physicians, scientists and cardiologists, Heart Disease in Women addresses the myths and facts about cardiovascular disease in women, one of the most common causes of death in women globally.  Free Download Hearing Loss in Congenital, Neonatal and Childhood Infections by Ayşe Engin Arısoy, Emin Sami Arısoy, Nuray Bayar Muluk, Cemal Cingi, Armando G. Correa English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 1112 Pages | ISBN : 3031384946 | 19.3 MB This book provides a broader understanding of infectious diseases and hearing loss prevention and treatment in children. In addition to all the common infections, the book covers the prion diseases, the autoinflammatory syndromes, and diseases of unknown etiology. A specific chapter is dedicated to cochlear implant infections. The final part reviews the available therapeutic agents.
 Free Download David Carey Jr., "Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador" English | ISBN: 0520344790 | 2023 | 384 pages | PDF | 4 MB Populated by curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, nurses, and the indigenous people they served, this nuanced history demonstrates how cultural and political history, misogyny, racism, and racialization influence public health. In the first half of the twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to spread scientific medicine to their populaces, working to prevent and treat malaria, typhus, and typhoid; to boost infant and maternal well-being; and to improve overall health.
 Free Download Health and Medical Geography in Africa: Methods, Applications and Development Linkages by Yemi Adewoyin English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 503 Pages | ISBN : 3031412672 | 24.2 MB This contributed volume focuses on the evolution and current state of the sub-discipline of health and medical geography in Africa. It encompasses theoretical and methodological issues as well as the current teaching and research capacities of institutions offering programs in health and medical geography in Africa. Further, the book will review the level of adoption of the sub-discipline in State policies and practice and also provide practical illustrations, with case studies, of how studies in the sub-discipline are central to the actualization of Africa's development agenda. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between health and development.
 Free Download Diane Carlson Evans, "Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C." English | ISBN: 1682619125 | 2020 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question-and the answer was a heavy one.  Free Download Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part XV: The Chicago School of Economics, Hayek's 'luck' and the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economic Science by Robert Leeson English | EPUB (True) | 2018 | 440 Pages | ISBN : 3319952188 | 1.1 MB On 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment; on 29 April 1975, the United States scuttled from their Embassy in Saigon - optics that were interpreted as defeats for the 'International Right'. Yet in 1975, Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party; and in 1976 Ronald Reagan almost unseated a sitting Republican Party President. Pivotal to the 'turn to the Right' was Friedrich 'von' Hayek's 1974 Nobel Prize for Economic Science - awarded for having used Austrian Business Cycle Theory to predict the Great Depression: 'For him it is not a matter of a simple defence of a liberal system of society as may sometimes appear from the popularized versions of his thinking.'  Free Download Emma Kowal, "Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia " English | ISBN: 1478025379 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twenty-first century.  Free Download Kevin J. Donnelly, "Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound " English | ISBN: 1501389556 | 2023 | 222 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature of history and the complexity underpinning the relationship between location and the past. This has been especially apparent in the shifting relationship between landscape, memory and sound in film, television and other media. The result is growing interest in soundtracks, as part of audiovisual culture, as well as an interest in the spectral aspects of culture more generally. This collection of essays focuses on audiovisual forms that foreground landscape, sound and memory. The scope of inquiry emphasises the ghostly qualities of a certain body of soundtracks, extending beyond merely the idea of 'scary films' or 'haunted houses.' Rather, the notion of sonic haunting is tied to ideas of trauma, anxiety or nostalgia associated with spatial and temporal dislocation in contemporary society. Touchstones for the approach are the concepts of psychogeography and hauntology, pervasive and established critical strategies that are interrogated and refined in relation to the reification of the spectral within the soundtracks under consideration here.  Free Download < Edited by Debra Meyers, "Hating Girls An Intersectional Survey of Misogyny " English | ISBN: 9004466967 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB Hating Girls provides an intersectional perspective that deconstructs the pervasive misogynies and gender-based violence against females and gender non-conforming people. The interdisciplinary analysis exposes the destructive, oppressive beliefs and practices inherent in our society and offers an equitable way forward. |
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