Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992, this new edition has be...(展开全部)

Paul Farmer, the Presley Professor at Harvard Medical School, is founding director of Partners In Health and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Among his books are Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California, 2003).

Paul Farmer, the Presley Professor at Harvard Medical School, is founding director of Partners In Health and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Among his books are Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California, 2003).

Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and oppo...(展开全部)

In his eye-opening book "Why?", world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what's really going on when we assign credit or cast blame. Everybody does it, but few understand the hidden ...(展开全部)

戴维·哈维（David Harvey），国际知名的社会理论学家与地理学家，1935年生于英国肯特郡，1961年获剑桥大学地理学博士学位。曾担任过约翰·霍普金斯大学地理学与环境工程系教授、牛津大学地理学教授，现为纽约市立大学研究生中心人类学杰出教授。主要著作有《地理学中的解释》、《社会正义与城市》、《后现代的状况》、《新帝国主义》、《巴黎城记》等。

◎彼得·汉德克（Peter Handke，1942— ）奥地利著名小说家、剧作家。当代德语文学最重要的作家之一，被称为“活着的经典”。1973年获毕希纳文学奖，2009年获卡夫卡文学奖。著有小说《守门员面对罚点球时的焦虑》《重现》《无欲的悲歌》《左撇子女人》，剧本《骂观众》《卡斯帕》《形同陌路的时刻》等。 ◎1961 年入格拉茨大学读法律。24岁出版第一部小说《大黄蜂》，在此之前他已退学专心创作。同年发表使他一举成名的剧本《骂观众》，在德语文坛引起空前的轰动。 ◎他创作的《卡斯帕》，在现代戏剧史上的地位堪与贝克特的《等待戈多》相提并论，他也被誉为创造“说话剧”与反语言规训的大师。 ◎在文学创作之外，汉德克与文德斯合作编剧的《柏林苍穹下》成为影史经典，他导演的电影《左撇子女人》曾获戛纳电影节最佳影片提名。 ◎汉德克 / 在文景 《守门员面对罚点球时的焦...(展开全部)

In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of 'how certainty is constructed or deconstructed', leading us through the views of medical researc...(展开全部)

From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology. Clearly structured...(展开全部)

Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. People clearly evaluate and critique one another for forming unjustified beliefs, harbouring biases, and pursuing faulty methods of inquiry. But what is the nature of this criticism? Does it ever amount to a kind of blame? And should we blame one...(展开全部)