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Remembering the Light Within: A Course In Soul-centred Living
by Mary R. Hulnick H. Ronald HulnickWhat if you discovered —not as a concept, but rather as a profound inner knowing born from the crucible of your own experience —that the essence of your very nature is, has always been, and always will be, the presence of love? That awareness would change everything. Your consciousness would be transformed, and you would move forward into a Soul-Centered life —your unique and beautiful life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.The book you hold in your hands is a vehicle for fostering just such an epiphany through the use of the empowering tools of Spiritual Psychology in your everyday life. As co-directors of the University of Santa Monica, the Worldwide Center for the Study and Practice of Spiritual Psychology, Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick have had many years of experience in applying these principles and practices in their own lives as well as supporting thousands of students in doing the same. Their intention is nothing less than providing you with inspiration, practical tools, encouragement, and opportunities for learning how to live into the Spiritual Context —the awareness that you are a Soul and that your life serves spiritual purpose. As you read and engage with this book, you’ll learn practical ways for waking up more fully into the awareness of the loving being that you are. You will be remembering the Light within —remembering your essential nature. Can you imagine walking through this world in a consciousness that is Awake to Love? Wouldn’t that be amazing Grace? Opportunities for just such experiences are available to you, and this book will be your guide through this process.
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
by Kate WhouleyFrom the author of the much-loved memoirCottage for Sale, Must Be Movedcomes an engaging and inspiring account of a daughter who must face her mother’s premature decline. InRemembering the Music,Forgetting the Words,Kate Whouleystrips away the romantic veneer of mother-daughter love to bare the toothed and tough reality of caring for a parent who is slowly losing her mind. Yet, this is not a dark or dour look at the demon of Alzheimer’s. Whouley shares the trying, the tender, and the sometimes hilarious moments in meeting the challenge also known as Mom. As her mother, Anne, falls into forgetting, Kate remembers for her. In Anne we meet a strong-minded, accidental feminist with a weakness for unreliable men. The first woman to apply for-and win-a department-head position in her school system, Anne was an innovative educator who poured her passion into her work. House-proud too, she made certain her Hummel figurines were dusted and arranged just so. But as her memory falters, so does her housekeeping. Surrounded by stacks of dirty dishes, piles of laundry, and months of unopened mail, Anne needs Kate’s help-but she doesn’t want to relinquish her hard-won independence any more than she wants to give up smoking. Time and time again, Kate must balance Anne’s often nonsensical demands with what she believes are the best decisions for her mother’s comfort and safety. This is familiar territory for anyone who has had to help a loved one in decline, but Kate finds new and different ways to approach her mother and her forgetting. Shuddering under the weight of accumulating bills and her mother’s frustrating, circular arguments, Kate realizes she must push past difficult family history to find compassion, empathy, and good humor. When the memories, the names, and then the words begin to fade, it is the music that matters most to Kate’s mother. Holding hands after a concert, a flute case slung over Kate’s shoulder, and a shared joke between them, their relationship is healed-even in the face of a dreaded and deadly diagnosis. “Memory,” Kate Whouley writes, “is overrated. ”
Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia
by M. Cameron HaySasaks, a people of the Indonesian archipelago, cope with one of the country's worst health records by employing various medical traditions, including their own secret ethnomedical knowledge. But anxiety, in the presence and absence of illness, profoundly shapes the ways Sasaks use healing and knowledge. Hay addresses complex questions regarding cultural models, agency, and other relationships to conclude that the ethnomedical knowledge they use to cope with their illnesses ironically inhibits improvements in their health care.
Remembering Trauma
by Richard J. Mcnally<p>Are horrific experiences indelibly fixed in a victim's memory? Or does the mind protect itself by banishing traumatic memories from consciousness? How victims remember trauma is the most controversial issue in psychology today, spilling out of consulting rooms and laboratories to capture headlines, rupture families, provoke legislative change, and influence criminal trials and civil suits. This book, by a clinician who is also a laboratory researcher, is the first comprehensive, balanced analysis of the clinical and scientific evidence bearing on this issue--and the first to provide definitive answers to the urgent questions at the heart of the controversy. <p>Synthesizing clinical case reports and the vast research literature on the effects of stress, suggestion, and trauma on memory, Richard McNally arrives at significant conclusions, first and foremost that traumatic experiences are indeed unforgettable. Though people sometimes do not think about disturbing experiences for long periods of time, traumatic events rarely slip from awareness for very long; furthermore, McNally reminds us, failure to think about traumas--such as early sexual abuse--must not be confused with amnesia or an inability to remember them. In fact, the evidence for repressed memories of trauma--or even for repression at all--is surprisingly weak. <p>A magisterial work of scholarship, panoramic in scope and nonpartisan throughout, this unfailingly lucid work will prove indispensable to anyone seeking to understand how people remember trauma.</p>
Remind Me Who I Am, Again
by Linda GrantAt the beginning of the nineties, Linda Grant's mother began to repeat her questions -- not because she couldn't remember the answers but because she didn't remember having asked. As her mother's onset of Alzheimer's disease worsened, Grant realized that her family history was vanishing along with her mother's memory. Remind Me Who I Am, Again is the powerful story of a disease, of the workings of the mind, and of a daughter's quest to reconstruct the past.
Remnants of Another Age (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
by Nikola Madzirov"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola Madzirov."-Li-Young LeeBorn 1973 in a family of Balkan Wars refugees, Nikola Madzirov's poetry has already been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. A regular participant in international literary festivals, he has received several international awards including an International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa. Remnants of Another Age is his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forché who writes, "Nikola Madzirov's Remnants of Another Age is aptly titled, as these poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.""I SAW DREAMS"I saw dreams that no one remembersand people wailing at the wrong graves.I saw embraces in a falling airplaneand streets with open arteries.I saw volcanoes asleep longer thanthe roots of the family treeand a child who's not afraid of the rain.Only it was me no one saw,only it was me no one saw.
Remnants of Another Age
by Nikola Madzirov Carolyn Forché"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola Madzirov."-Li-Young LeeBorn 1973 in a family of Balkan Wars refugees, Nikola Madzirov's poetry has already been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. A regular participant in international literary festivals, he has received several international awards including an International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa. Remnants of Another Age is his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forché who writes, "Nikola Madzirov's Remnants of Another Age is aptly titled, as these poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.""I SAW DREAMS"I saw dreams that no one remembersand people wailing at the wrong graves.I saw embraces in a falling airplaneand streets with open arteries.I saw volcanoes asleep longer thanthe roots of the family treeand a child who's not afraid of the rain.Only it was me no one saw,only it was me no one saw.
Remote and Rural Dementia Care: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
by Anthea Innes, Debra Morgan and Jane FarmerAs the number of people affected by dementia continues to rise, this is the first in-depth examination of related services dedicated to the unique demands of remote and rural settings. Contributors from the UK, Australia, North America and Europe explore the experiences and requirements of those living with dementia and those caring for them in personal and professional capacities in challenging geographical locations. For practitioners, researchers, academics and policy makers, this book is an essential review of evidence and strategies to date, and a guide to future research needs and opportunities for improvements in rural dementia practice.
Remote Healing: Nonlocal Information Medicine and the Akashic Field
by Maria SagiA practical guide to the Sagi method of healing across space and time • Shows that we can interact with the Akashic information field to diagnose and treat illnesses nonlocally and that the effects are controllable and verifiable • Details techniques for diagnosing and transferring healing information at a distance, using geometric symbols to treat acute infections and reduce pain, and integrating information medicine with homeopathy and chakra therapy • Shares the author&’s development of her method, including stories of successful remote healings and her interactions with pioneers such as Erich Körbler Remote healing is healing over space and time. Often called &“nonlocal healing,&” it is no longer a magical occurrence or a mysterious technique reserved for powerful shamans. Remote healing has moved from magic to science, and it can be learned. In this practical guide to the Sagi method of information medicine, Maria Sagi, Ph.D., reveals that nonlocal healing is a quantum science that works through the transmission of information and that its effects can be controlled and verified. Drawing on the Akashic information field of Ervin Laszlo, she explains that the universe is not a mechanical system composed of matter--it operates like an overarching network that runs on and is connected by information. Cosmic information &“in-forms&” and underlies the whole physical world, including the human body. Sharing stories of successful remote healings she facilitated and her interactions with pioneers Erich Körbler, Gordon Flint, and Franz Stern, Sagi shows that we can access the Akashic information field to diagnose illnesses, treat symptoms, and heal the causes of disease, whether we are in the same room as our patient or on the other side of the earth. Moving beyond the theoretical to the practical, Sagi explains how to diagnose and treat someone with information and how to attune to the information emanating from the patient. She shares techniques for transferring healing information across space and time by using geometric symbols to treat acute illnesses and infections and reduce pain. The author also explores how to integrate information medicine with homeopathy and how to diagnose through photographs, through the chakras, and through morphic patterns in the Akashic information field. Opening up a new dimension in the art and science of healing, Maria Sagi demonstrates that by working with the Akashic information field we can trigger the body&’s self-healing mechanisms and restore order to a person&’s energy and information systems.
Removing Back-Pains
by Pílula DigitalAnyone who has ever felt a back-pain knows how urgent it is to get relief. Once you are free of the pain, most people will learn as much as they can about back-pain to try to prevent back problems from arising again. Back-pains can be different from person to person, type to type, and region to region, like in the upper, middle or lower back. It can be an unbearable constant pain or an acute sudden pain that becomes almost too painful to move. It can start suddenly if you fall, get hurt, or if you lift something very heavy. Or it can get worse progressively with time. One thing’s for sure, pain is memorable, and most people will feel it at some point in their lives. Let’s start with what’s a back-pain and how common it can be
The Renaissance Extended Mind
by Miranda AndersonThe Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century. This perspective illuminates Renaissance texts and aims to inspire a more general reevaluation in the humanities of what constitutes cognition. Anderson begins with an overview of research and debates surrounding notions of the mind and subjectivity as extended in current cognitive scientific and philosophical research. This invites a reconsideration of other theories concerned with the relationship between brain, body and world, including psychoanalytical and literary theories. The book then explores Renaissance notions of the mind and subjectivity, in terms of the use of one's body, words, objects and other people as extensions ofthe mind and subject. It concludes by focusing on Shakespeare's literary and dramatic works. The Renaissance Extended Mind reveals the interdisciplinary potential and wider relevance of the notion of the extended mind: it establishes its capacity to contribute to a rethinking of the history of ideas and that it holds repercussions for literary methodologies, as well as offering a means to richer readings of literary texts.
Renal Diet Cookbook for Beginners: 75 Simple Recipes to Help Manage Chronic Kidney Disease
by Edith YangSimple guidance and recipes to support kidney healthWhether you've been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or you're caring for someone who has, figuring out what to eat should not add stress to your life. The Renal Diet Cookbook for Beginners offers straightforward guidance for those new to the renal diet as well as convenience-focused recipes that make it easy to manage kidney health via diet.A registered dietitian board-certified in renal nutrition, author Edith Yang can help you personalize the renal diet. Discover a range of simple, flavorful, and healthful recipes that can be customized for the various stages of CKD or special considerations. When it comes to managing CKD, there's already enough for you to think about—so let the Renal Diet Cookbook for Beginners take the pressure off mealtime.The Renal Diet Cookbook for Beginners features:Supportive and satisfying recipes—From Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies to Spicy Turkey Burgers, this renal diet cookbook shows that adopting a renal diet doesn't have to be difficult or bland.The renal diet explained—Learn from a renal diet cookbook that includes a comprehensive breakdown of the five stages of CKD and how the renal diet plays a supporting role in kidney health.7-day starter plan—Simplify getting started with a detailed meal plan and shopping list that walks you through the first week.Take the stress out of cooking for CKD with the Renal Diet Cookbook for Beginners.
Renal Diet Cookbook for Caregivers: Recipes, Tips, and Meal Plans to Manage Kidney Disease Together
by Emily Campbell RD, CDE, MScFNRecipes to help you manage chronic kidney disease for your loved one When your loved one has chronic kidney disease (CKD), adopting a renal health-focused diet with them can help you both live life to the fullest. Featuring 75 flavor-packed renal diet recipes, each one optimized for the various stages of CKD, this cookbook sets the two of you up for long-term success. What sets this renal diet cookbook apart: Caregiver guidance—Learn about the five stages of CKD, the dos and don'ts of a proper diet, and ways that you, as a caregiver, can advocate for your loved one. Introductory plans—Get started with sample menus that guide the two of you through every meal for an entire week. Key nutrition facts—Each recipe includes detailed serving size and nutrition info, ensuring you serve up properly balanced plates. Ensure you are taking care of your loved one with this standout kidney disease diet cookbook.
Renal Disease in Pregnancy
by John M Davison Catherine Nelson-Piercy Sean Kehoe Philip BakerThis book explores the most up-to-date evidence on all aspects of diagnosis and management in women with renal problems before, during and after pregnancy. The chapters describe many of the issues likely to be faced in clinical practice, providing valuable information for all healthcare professionals working in this field. The text stems from the 54th RCOG Study Group on renal disease in pregnancy, which allowed specialists in many disciplines to sift the most up-to-date evidence on all aspects of diagnosis and management in women with renal problems before, during and after pregnancy. The chapters describe many of the issues likely to be faced in clinical practice, providing valuable information for all healthcare professionals working in this field. General principles for optimal management are clearly defined and separate chapters are devoted to specific disease entities and/or clinical situations. Many controversial areas - management of hypertension, diagnosis of pre-eclampsia, assisted conception, the rationalisation of the many medications used in nephrological practice, renal biopsy, surgical emergencies, patient input and responsibilities - are carefully considered. Much progress has been made in the last two decades but there still remains a paucity of investigative data behind many of the conflicting arguments. This text is a timely review which will be of interest to all health practitioners with an interest in renal disease and women's health.
Renegade Beauty: Reveal and Revive Your Natural Radiance--Beauty Secrets, Solutions, and Preparations
by Nadine Artemis Carrie-Anne MossRethink conventional notions of beauty and wellness, abandon established regimes and commercial products, and embrace your “renegade” beautyIn this essential full-color guide, Nadine Artemis introduces readers to the concept of "renegade" beauty—a practice of doing less and allowing the elements and the life force of nature to revive the body, skin, and soul so our natural radiance can shine through. Anyone stuck in perpetual loops of new products, facials, and dermatologist appointments will find answers as Artemis illuminates the energizing elements of sun, fresh air, water, the earth, and plants. This book is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wants to simplify their self-care routine, take their health into their own hands, and discover their own radiant beauty.
Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration
by Leonard Marcus Barry C. Dorn Phyllis B. Kritek Velvet G. Miller Janice B. WyattPresents pragmatic and effective tools for understanding conflict, negotiating difference, and creating a balance among those who work in health care. Uses narrative, example, and theory to demonstrate techniques. Stories present problems, solutions, and outcomes achieved through interest-based negotiation. Of interest to physicians, hospital management, nurses, and policy leaders. Marcus is founding director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard School of Public Health. First published in 1995.
Renewed Day by Day: A Daily Devotional
by A. W. Tozer Gerald B. SmithThis book of 365 daily devotions is a distillation of the wisdom of A.W. Tozer, gleaned in his lifelong pursuit of God. Tozer writes for those who want spiritual muscle. His summons is to "put aside the playthings of the material world and thirst for God."
Renovación y sanación mediante la meditación
by Brahma Kumari Pari María José GaldónMediante los conocimientos y prácticas de este libro podrá sanar su cuerpo y sentirse renovado y sano. Aunque no esté enfermo, deseará leer este libro para comprender mejor: 1. cómo nos sirven las energías cósmicas. 2. nuestra relación con las energías cósmicas, Dios, etc. Este libro explica: 1. cómo puede absorber las energías de Dios para sanar las enfermedades de su cuerpo. 2. cómo conseguir que las energías cósmicas le sirvan mejor para llevar una vida mejor y más sana y alcanzar sus objetivos. 3. cómo sanarse a sí mismo y mantenerse sano gracias a la influencia positiva de las energías cósmicas, ya que estas le sirven según los pensamientos, sentimientos, objetivos, etc. que tenga. 4. cómo puede sanar mediante su Cuerpo Holográfico. 5. las Leyes Universales de sanación. 6. por qué se han utilizado con éxito prácticas como el Chi o el Prana para sanar sin medicina. 7. cómo las energías impuras del alma influyen en nuestro cuerpo para enfermarlo y cómo las energías puras del alma influyen en la sanación del cuerpo. 8. cómo se puede sanar fácilmente mediante la fase consciente del alma. 9. cómo puede controlar mejor su mente, intelecto y recuerdos, y cómo esto puede ayudarle a sanar. 10. cómo puede desarrollar una estrecha relación con Dios, gracias a la cual puede recibir ayuda de Dios para obtener o conseguir lo que desea, incluida una buena salud. 11. cómo puede tener las energías del Mundo Angélico en su aura y entorno, y cómo esto le ayudará a eliminar las enfermedades. 12. cómo usted y otras personas pueden sanar mediante la sanación a distancia. 13. cómo puede tener manos que sanen mediante el tacto. 14. cómo las energías cósmicas pueden proporcionar alimentos con mejores nutrientes y valor medicinal. 15. cómo puede sanar su cuerpo cuando duerme recordando a
Renove-se e Cure-se através da Meditação
by Brahma Kumari Pari Aline SassonAtravés do uso do conhecimento e práticas deste livro, as doenças em seu corpo podem ser curadas e você pode permanecer e estado renovado e saudável. Mesmo que você não tenha doenças em seu corpo, você ainda pode ler este livro a fim de ter uma melhor compreensão sobre: 1. Como as energias cósmicas lhe servem. 2. O relacionamento que você tem com as energias cósmicas, Deus, etc. Este livro explica: 1. Como você pode absorver as energias de Deus para curar qualquer doença que exista em seu corpo. 2. Como fazer com que as energias cósmicas lhe sirvam melhor para que você tenha uma vida melhor, mais saudável, enquanto alcança suas metas. 3. Como você pode se curar e permanecer saudável através de uma influência positiva das energias cósmicas uma vez que as energias cósmicas lhe servem com base em seus pensamentos, sentimentos, objetivos, etc. 4. Como você pode ser curado através do seu Corpo Holográfico. 5. Sobre as Leis Universais através das quais você é curado. 6. Por que as práticas, envolvendo Chi ou Prana, têm sido usadas com sucesso para curar pessoas sem qualquer remédio. 7. Como as energias impuras da alma influenciam seu corpo a ficar doente e como as energias puras da alma influenciam a cura do corpo. 8. Como você pode ser facilmente curado através do estágio de consciência da alma. 9. Como você pode ter mais controle sobre sua mente, intelecto e memórias; e como isto o auxiliará a ser curado. 10. Como você pode desenvolver um relacionamento próximo com Deus, através do qual você consegue a ajuda de Deus para conseguir ou alcançar tudo o que quiser, incluindo boa saúde. 11. Como você pode ter as energias do Mundo Angelical dentro de sua aura e ambiente; e como isto ajudará a eliminar suas doenças. 12. Como você e os outros podem ser curados através da cura à distância. 13. Como v
The Repetitive Strain Injury Handbook: An 8-Step Recovery and Prevention Plan
by Robert M. Simon Ruth AleskovskyA proven recovery plan for the over 8 million sufferers of repetitive strain injury, and a guide for the prevention of future injuries.Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is a painful, potentially disabling condition that most commonly stems from damage to the upper torso. Long-term misuse or overuse of everyday tools like computers and cash registers results in the painful hands, arms, and neck that are symptomatic of RSI, a condition whose incidence has increased 80 percent in this country since 1990.The Repetitive Strain Injury Handbook is a unique, user-friendly guide that is broken into two parts: (1) the 8-step recovery plan and (2) an RSI prevention guide. The 8-step plan moves RSI sufferers beyond the common denial of this ailment and into a diagnosis and treatment plan with a doctor. It provides: o Nutrition adviceo An exercise programo Breathing tipso Traditional and alternative pain management suggestions o A holistic maintenance plan for long-term healthThe second section is filled with suggestions, stories, and tips for RSI sufferers that will help them live pain-free at home, at work, and in their social and intimate lives. There is also a special section of information on women and RSI, since pregnancy, PMS, osteoporosis, mastectomy, and menopause can all aggravate this condition.
Representation, Experience, and Metaphysics: Towards an Integrated Anti-Representationalist Philosophy (Synthese Library #473)
by Jonathan KnowlesThis book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy. This debate has come to prominence in recent years through the work of people like Richard Rorty, Paul Horwich, Huw Price and Amie Thomasson. It is the first book to explicitly consider this well-known pragmatist kind of anti-representationalism in relation to anti-representationalist views in other areas of philosophy, in particular the philosophy of perception and cognitive science. Taking as its point of departure the neo-pragmatism of Rorty and Price, it critiques the way these (and other) thinkers develop, on this basis, a positive view of philosophy and its remit. By examining the debate about representationalism versus anti-representationalism in perception and cognitive science it provides a different way of understanding the significance of neo-pragmatism, as well as providing an independently interesting perspective on these other debates. A central idea in this perspective involves distinguishing between a world-for-us and a world-in-itself, though in a different way from Kant and many other philosophers. The book extends these reflections to examine questions about realism and the limits of metaphysics for anti-representationalist pragmatism, arguing the view can uphold a common sense kind of realism, as well as the value of distinctively philosophical enquiry in metaphysics.
Representational Content and the Objects of Thought
by Nicholas RimellThis book defends a novel view of mental representation—of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being. The book serves as a response to two problems in the philosophy of mind. One is the problem of first-personal, or egocentric, belief: how can we have truly first personal beliefs—beliefs in which we think about ourselves as ourselves—given that beliefs are supposed to be attitudes towards propositions and that propositions are supposed to have their truth values independent of a perspective? The other problem is how we can think about nonexistents (e.g., Santa Claus) given the widespread view that thought essentially involves a relation between a thinker and whatever is being thought about. The standard responses to this puzzle are either to deny that thought is essentially relational or to insist that it is possible to stand in relations to nonexistents. This book offers an error theory to the problem. The responses from this book arise from the same commitment: a commitment to treating talk of propositions—as the things towards which our beliefs are attitudes—as talk of entities that actually exist and that play a constitutive and explanatory role in the activity of thought.
The Representational Fallacy in Neuroscience and Psychology: A Critical Analysis
by Maxwell R Bennett Peter M HackerThis book traces the history and coherence of the use of the word ‘representations’ from its origins, particularly in the description of artefacts, to its use in the description of so-called mental and neural representations in the mind and in the brain. It is shown that there are no good reasons for this transition. Experimental psychology is confused in taking what one perceives to be a mental representation. Neuroscientists need to avoid moving readily between the notions of neural and mental representations; indeed even the logic of taking a pattern of neural activity as standing for some sensibly experienced characteristic requires elucidation. It is concluded that the word ‘representation’ when used in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience is confounding.
Representing Ageing: Images and Identities
by Virpi YlänneThis collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data.
Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization
by Khiara M. BridgesReproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race--commonly seen as biological in the medical world--is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.