Hailed by John le Carré as an act of courage on the part of its author” and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life story behind le Carré’s acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener and the feature film based on it.”A trenchant exposé . . . meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence” (Publishers Weekly), Sonia Shah’s riveting journalistic account shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing new global trend.…
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Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions. The Risks of Prescription Drugs describes how most drugs approved by the FDA are under-tested for adverse drug reactions, yet offer few new benefits. Drugs cause more than 2.2 million hospitalizations and 110,000 hospital-based deaths a year. Serious drug reactions at home or in nursing…
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O livro é uma etnografia entre clientes e profissionais de clínicas de reprodução assistida. Com origem na tese de doutorado da autora, apresentada em 2004, ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia do Museu Nacional (UFRJ), analisa as novas tecnologias reprodutivas e a clonagem humana com base nas relações de parentesco e na noção de pessoa, tópicos fundamentais na antropologia. A reprodução como objeto de intervenção médica, as peculiaridades do campo de pesquisa sobre reprodução assistida, a família, o discurso biomédico, a construção cultural do corpo,…
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