In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Owing to long wait times, most urban poor cancer patients do not receive a diagnosis until it is too late to treat the disease effectively. Drawing on ethnogra...(展开全部)

"Laplanche's work is much more accessible than Jacques Lacan's; is it too much to hope that his brilliant work will help to reconcile American intellectuals to rigorous speculative thought?" -- Leo Bersani, "Partisan Review"

What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari‘a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na‘im argues that the coerciv...(展开全部)

On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler's assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, 'We are the losers, definitely the losers'. Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, 'hate is sown a million-fold'. Yet in March 1938, he wept for joy at the Anschluss with Austria: 'Not to want it just beca...(展开全部)

This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates not-soon-forgotten messages involving the sobering aspects of fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. With nutritional anthropology at its core, Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes dramatic stories that relate the author’s experiences conducting research on infant feeding a...(展开全部)

Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities explores the encounter between two processes that are unfolding in diverse patterns across Asia—the rapid urbanization of Asia across big cities, smaller towns, and the newest urban concentrations; and the contentious debates and novel schemes by which nature is figured and emplaced in cities and their conurbations. Contemporary Asian ci...(展开全部)

查尔斯·科尔（Charles A.Corr）博士自1975年开始便在南伊利诺伊大学教授死亡与临终、儿童与死亡等课程。1978年。他成为死亡教育与咨询协会成员，及美国国家临终关怀及姑息治疗组织成员。科尔博士还是死亡、临终和悲痛事务国际工作组前主席和常任理事。 目前，他还是佛罗里达阳光海岸安养协会的董事会成员。这个协会是美国国家安养与照护组织中儿童安养照护服务的首席咨询机构，同时还是国家捐献者家庭理事会执行委员会成员。他的著作包括36本书和手册，例如《帮助儿童应对死亡：指导和资料》、《儿童与死亡》、《青少年与死亡》、《青少年的死亡与悲痛手册》等。 科尔博士的工作得到了死亡教育与咨询协会的认可，并被授予杰出个人贡献奖（1988）；国际儿童安养组织授予他世界儿童安养工作杰出贡献奖（1989）；之后他还获得了创立查尔斯·科尔基金的终身成就奖（1995）等等。 ...(展开全部)

This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profo...(展开全部)

作者 [英]杰克·哈特内尔（Jack Hartnell） 英国东英吉利大学艺术史副教授，德国马克斯·普朗克学会科学历史研究员。主要研究领域为中世纪末和文艺复兴早期的医学、科学和艺术的跨学科研究。 译者 徐仕美，台湾大学植病所硕士，自由译者。

One of Jacques Derrida’s richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the relationship between life and death, undertaking multi-disciplinary analyses of a range of topics, including philosophy, linguist...(展开全部)