![Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation [May 01, 2003] Khandpur, R. S.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387700449l/6180089.jpg)
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Biomedical
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Biomedicine locates sickness in a specific place in an individual body: a headache, a stomachache a torn knee, lung cancer. Medical anthropologists instead locate sickness and health in three interconnected bodies: the political, the social, and the physical. The prevailing political economy impacts the distribution of sickness and health in a society and the means available to heal those who are sick. For example, poor individuals worldwide are more exposed to toxins that make them sick, while
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― Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass
― Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass
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Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of the artifice, plasticity, and technology that Wells and Loeb envisioned as the future of the human relationship to living matter as well as of the "catastrophic" situation that Georges Canghuilhem (following Kurt Goldstein) saw in life subjected to the milieu of the laboratory.
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― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
