"The Second Edition of Medicine as Culture" provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in western societies. Drawing on the tradition of the sociology of health and illness, Deborah Lupton directs readers to an understanding of medicine, health care, illness and disease from a sociocultural perspective. At a time of increasi...(展开全部)

Medicine as Culture is unlike any other sociological text on health and medicine. For many lecturers and students the book has become a classic text, which combines perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, social history and cultural studies. The aim of the book is to tease out how medicine and health care are sociocultural constr...(展开全部)

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a univers...(展开全部)

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a univers...(展开全部)

"The Second Edition of Medicine as Culture" provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in western societies. Drawing on the tradition of the sociology of health and illness, Deborah Lupton directs readers to an understanding of medicine, health care, illness and disease from a sociocultural perspective. At a time of increasi...(展开全部)

Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invite...(展开全部)

A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles, now reissued with a new introduction. First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1...(展开全部)

In this book, Sherman Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of cultural globalization. He moves beyond traditional debates over Western influence on non-Western cultures to examine the points where Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese-owned businesses interacted with consumers. Focusing on the marketing of medicine, he shows how Chinese construc...(展开全部)

埃雷兹·艾登  1980年，埃雷兹·艾登出生于美国布鲁克林，精通希伯来语和匈牙利语。本科就读于普林斯顿大学，主修数学、物理学和哲学专业，毕业后考入叶史瓦大学历史学专业，攻读硕士学位。  2009年，在哈佛-麻省理工博德研究所攻读博士学位的艾登被《麻省理工科技评论》提名为世界上前35位年龄小于35岁的创新者。  博士毕业后，艾登先是任职于哈佛大学科研学会，后任谷歌客座教授，随后成为贝勒医学院和莱斯大学的助理教授，领导基因组架构研究中心。2012年，他因和同事一起发明了探测基因3D折叠方式的技术，获得美国总统青年科技奖（PECASE），这是美国政府颁给青年科学家的最高荣誉。 让-巴蒂斯特·米歇尔  数据科学公司量化实验室（Quantified Labs）创始人，哈佛大学副研究员，曾任谷歌客座教授。2010年在哈佛获得博士学位。2012年入选TED...(展开全部)

尼古拉•布里奥（Nicolas Bourriaud），法国著名艺术评论家，策展人，法国巴黎高等美术学院院长。1996年至2006年，担任当代艺术空间巴黎东京宫的联合总监。他曾是当代艺术杂志《艺术文献》的创办人和负责人。2009年第四届泰特三年展的策展人，2014年台北双年展策展人。著有《关系美学》《后制品》等书。