Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist - Couverture souple

Fox, Renée C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785271458 ISBN 13 : 9781785271458

Editeur : Anthem Press, 2019

Synopsis

"Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist" is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring--and pressing--issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching, exploring, questing and writing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Renée C. Fox is the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, Emerita Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Professor Emerita of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and the Schools of Medicine and Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières (2014); In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey (2011); In the Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change (1994); and Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown (1959). She is the co-author, with Judith P. Swazey, of Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society (1992) and The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis (1974).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anthem Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785271458
• ISBN 13: 9781785271458
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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