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What Really Matters
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 19.99Tells the stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century. Each is caught up in existential moral experiences that define what it means to be human, and their stories reveal just how malleable moral life is. more...
Rethinking Psychiatry
Free Press 2008; US$ 20.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Rethinking Psychiatry
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Rethinking Psychiatry
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Psychosocial Aspects of Depression
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of depressive disorders, the replicability of research results has left much to be desired. Because much of this unreliability has been attributed to variability in diagnostic criteria, this volume focuses... more...
Science of the Placebo
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2002; US$ 47.95Based on a meeting in November 2000, this book brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to examine the biological, behavioral, social, cultural and ethical aspects related to the placebo effect. Perspectives on the necessity for including a placebo in randomized clinical trials will also be examined. This is the first attempt to... more...
Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 54.95China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at China during these decades of transformation through the defining theme of governance of life. With an emphasis on how to achieve an adequate life, the contributors... more...
Subjectivity
University of California Press 2007; US$ 65.00This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what... more...
Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 135.00Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these ?factories of death,? including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings, mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result... more...
Deep China
University of California Press 2011; US$ 27.95Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal... more...









