《Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America》

作者：Rapp, Rayna 著

 

Act as a moral philosopher of the limits, adjudicating the standards guarding entry into the human community." She illuminates the dense social and cultural context in which such decision making takes place—cultural ideas of maternal responsibility and which types of disability are acceptable, white middle class women's concern about being "selfish," Spanish-speaking women's concern with fetal suffering, multiethnic working-class concerns with how a disabled child will affect other family members, and new immigrants' fears about how such a child might jeopardize the family's ability to assimilate. Rapp also conveys the importance of religion, in providing not only spiritual direction but also social and material resources that affect these decisions. She vividly conveys how for women living with the real risks of poverty—dangerous neighborhoods, unemployment, depression, substandard schools, family members involved with drugs—"the very idea that risks are measurable and individual may be overwhelmed by other assessments women make" about more diffuse, socially-based risks to prenatal health. As she sketches this "practical epidemiology," Rapp notes, ". . . ironically, the very populations most at risk—less privileged, ‘older,' women having more pregnancies with more partners . . . may be the least likely to live by the numbers precisely because they understand their risks to be spread over a greater territory than chromosome analysis in pregnancy describes."

The final two chapters provide a "women-centered analysis" of what happens when a chromosomal anomaly is found. Rapp draws on interviews with 38 families of children with Down syndrome and participant observation with two parent support groups to describe the special pleasures and burdens of mothering these children. Here again we see how "the discursive and material resources available for families of disabled children vary greatly along the social fault lines."

 

館藏地	2樓電梯兩側暢銷/主題書展區
索書號	WQ209 R221 1999
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《健康、疾病與醫療：醫療社會學新論》

作者：葉肅科 著

 

本書所以稱為「醫療社會學新論」，並非在書名上標新立異，而是反映某些新事實：
1.新概念：重新定義健康、疾病與醫療等概念；
2.新方法：最大特點在於將範圍擴展到醫療以外、整體醫療保健體系，甚至一切和健康與疾病問題有關的領域；
3.新視野：一種融入更新近、更多元的健康與疾病社會學視野；
4.新趨勢：一種更貼近個人、社會與生活的發展。
本書的撰寫力求兼顧國際性與本土性、理論性與應用性、科學性與通俗性，適用於大專院校相關課程的教學，可讓學生對於健康、疾病與醫療研究領域有更深入地瞭解。當然，研究社會科學的醫療專業人員也將發現這是一本實用的書。衷心期盼本書的出版能對讀者有所助益，也讓醫療社會學新論的知識，能為庶民日常生活帶來一些樂活氛圍與健康活力。

 

館藏地	2樓電梯兩側暢銷/主題書展區
索書號	410.15 4452
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《全球化與臺灣社會：人權、法律與社會學的觀照》

作者：朱柔若 著

 

英國社會學家安東尼‧紀登斯主張全球化透過時空延伸、去鑲嵌化、與反思能力三股現代化的主要動力，「將社會關係從在地的互動脈絡中拔起，然後在時空中重構」。無法自外於世界體系之外的臺灣，在全球化動力的推促下，採行勞動市場彈性化的策略、改行民主政治、講求基本人權、主張性別平等，似乎也正朝向某種單一、多元、又共通的整體發展。在這個背景下，本書首先以全球化與勞工、人權、與法律開場，依序檢視全球化與民主法治、全球化與跨國流動、全球化與性別平權、以及全球化與醫療人權等面向下的多重議題，平實檢討臺灣社會在全球化的衝擊之下所展現的多元面貌與所面對的多元議題。

 

館藏地	2樓電梯兩側暢銷/主題書展區
索書號	540.933 2514
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《後工業機會 一個批判性的經濟社會學論述》

作者：卜洛克(Fred Block)著 鄭陸霖, 吳泉源譯

 

時序跨入後工業，在充滿開放與彈性生機的數位時代裡，我們腳底踩著的是可以讓創意自由奔馳、讓工作╱休閒更加豐足而有意義的寶藏。挖掘與把握這些讓我們的社會生活更為美好的關鍵，在於我們是否能夠跳脫舊思維的束縛，以釋放出更多創新的「經濟想像」。

Fred Block 在本書中直接挑戰新自由主義經濟學的核心概念，諸如勞動、資本和市場等，拆解宰制我們時代思維的自由市場迷思，讓我們在民主深化的社會裡，重新省思經濟究為何物，透視後工業資本主義所潛藏的諸多可能性，以及達成所謂「質性成長」更具人性的制度安排與經濟組織──這是我們引進《後工業機會》一書的脈絡。

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館藏地	2樓電梯兩側暢銷/主題書展區
索書號	551.98 2334
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《The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery》

作者：Casper, Monica J.著

 

This is the first book to examine the emergence of fetal surgery as a new medical specialty and the debut of the unborn patient. Since its inception, fetal surgery has been highly controversial; it is risky, expensive, and fraught with peril for both women and their fetuses. It is proceeding rapidly without careful reflection about what it means and without public debate about its consequences. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Monica Casper shows how biomedical work has intersected with reproductive politics for three decades to generate new cultural meanings of fetuses, women, and medicine itself. In this ethnographic study of the social, cultural, and historical aspects of fetal surgery, Casper addresses the medical, political, and ethical questions raised by these still largely experimental procedures.

 

館藏地	2樓電梯兩側暢銷/主題書展區
索書號	WQ210 C342 1998
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《The imperative of health : public health and the regulated body》

 

作者：Pro. Deborah Lupton 著

 

In an exciting reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies, Deborah Lupton shows that health cannot be understood simply as the presence or absence of disease - rather, it represents a moral imperative that is embedded in social and cultural norms and expressed in public policies.

Using socio-cultural and political theory, the author analyzes the implications of the new social theories for the study of health promotion and communication. Combining sociological, anthropological, historical and cultural studies approaches, she analyzes the symbolic nature of public health practices and explores their underlying meanings and assumptions.

Key topics include:

- the history and emergence of the public health movement

- contemporary health promotion and public health strategies

- risk discourse and diagnostic testing

- the use of mass media and advertising in health promotion

- bodies, pleasures and the practices of self in response to health promotion

The Imperative of Health seeks to explore the ways in which some of the knowledge and practices of public health and health promotion have been developed and articulated, how they are justified, what ends they seek and their alliances and dependencies.

This accessible book will be essential reading for students and academics in the sociology of health and illness, health communication, cultural studies, mass communication, medical anthropology and sociology, nursing and public health.

 

館藏地	2樓電梯兩側暢銷/主題書展區
索書號	WA30 L966 1996
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2010‧8月暢銷書展選介

本月書展為『暢銷書展』

選出網路書店近期最熱賣書籍共12冊做內容簡介以及館藏連結

展示地點分為三個地點：
北醫總館-二樓內部電梯兩側書架區(38冊)
萬芳分館-五樓圖書室(36冊)
雙和分館-一樓圖書室(36冊)

1. 《還想遇到我嗎：鄧惠文陪你走過愛的深沉與寂寞》鄧惠文著
2. 《英文寫作風格的要素》威廉‧史壯克(William Strunk Jr.)著   鄒佩真 譯
3. 《TOPIK韓語檢定完全征服 初級詞彙篇》俞靖珠 著
4. 《用美國人的一天學英文：瞬間反射的圖解生活單字書》 李秀姬 著
5. 《你可以不一樣：嚴長壽和亞都的故事》   吳錦勳 著
6. 《咖啡館style三明治》 熊津編輯部
7. 《逆時針：哈佛教授教你重返最佳狀態Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility》 艾倫．蘭格(Ellen J.Langer)著
8. 《帶1枝筆去旅行：從挑選工具、插畫練習到親手做一本自己的筆記書》 王儒潔 著
9. 《理直氣平：勇於改變才會進步》  洪蘭 著
10. 《善心女神（上．下集）》 強納森．利特爾 著
11. 《獵豹財務長投資羅盤：總體經濟與投資策略應用》 郭恭克、薛兆亨 著
12. 《JOANNA．愛的料理：藍帶教我關於愛與人生的32道食譜》    劉韋彤 著
    

※ 展示期間：8/1-8/31。新書展示期間不外借，可預約。
※ 完整8月暢銷書展書單 (共110冊)。