The Grey Zone of Health and Illness

The Grey Zone of Health and IllnessIn this book, Alan Blum outlines a nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care posits it as a sort of state of permanent emergency. To move beyond that will require a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self governance and negligence.

“The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People

With Transnational Ecocinemas

Ivanova shows how Taiwanese designers are finding inspiration in the vanishing worlds of night markets and temples and how classical elements from colonial architecture and are being reimagined for the home

all in the broader context of film adaptation studies

and estate taxation

Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver

Covering online and offline contexts

Blain and O'Donnell examine the bonds between monarchies and their 'subjects' or 'citizens'

It pleads that her equal humanity with man shall be recognized

From Tokyo Story to Godzilla

Very versatile and talented…he possessed literary ability and had written an interesting book on <i>Tales of the Bark Lodges</i>

accompanied by original texts penned by leading international film scholars and critics and an interview with Marseillais director Robert Guédiguian