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HEALTH, ILLNESS AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGIESHEALTH, ILLNESS AND HEALTHTECHNOLOGIESInnovation and BiomedicineEthics, Evidence and Expectation in HIVMike Michael, University of Sydney, Australia, MarshaRosengarten, Goldsmiths College, University of London,UKWith its focus on the offshore randomized control trialsof a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventingHIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysisof the complex, virtual and topological dimensions ofthe expectations, ethics and evidence that surround theinnovation of PrEP.Contents: 1. Setting a Scene * 2. A Brief and Partial History ofRandomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in the Context of HIVPrevention and Treatment. * 3. Theory and Event: Approachingthe Study of PrEP * 4. The Gold Standard: The ComplexSingularity of PrEP, RCT and Bioethics * 5. PrEPs, Multiplicity andthe Qualification of Knowledge and Ethics * 6. On Some Topologies of PrEP * 7. Conclusion:Eventuating the Methodology of TrialsHealth, Technology and SocietySeptember 2013 UKSeptember 2013 US208 ppHardback £58.00 / $105.00 / CN$121.00 9780230302679Canadian Rightsebooks availableMaking Global Health Care Innovation WorkStandardization and LocalizationEdited by Nora Engel, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, Ine Van Hoyweghen,Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), Belgium, Anja Krumeich, MaastrichtUniversity, The NetherlandsGlobal Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people,resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes whathappens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is neededto make them work, but also how they change the setting into which they areintroduced.Contents: PART I: PUTTING STANDARDS TO USE IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS * 1.InformedConsent And Knowledge Translation: Perspectives On Clinical Trials From A GhanaianCommunity; Lloyd Akrong, Klasien Horstman, and Daniel K. Arhinful * 2. Local PerspectivesOn Universal Bioethics: A Qualitative Study On Informed Consent, South India; Inge A. S. VanAlphen, Nora Engel, and Mario Vaz * 3. Payments In Clinical Research: Views And Experiences OfParticipants In South Africa; Olga Zvonareva and Nora Engel * 4. Community Health Workers In ACommunity-Based Tuberculosis Programme: Linking Different Social Worlds; Phuong Nguyen ThiMai and Nora Engel * 5. The Forgotten Age Group: Why Children Aged 5-14 Are Succumbing ToMalaria. An Exploratory Study in Western Kenya; Marianne Eelens and Agnes Meershoek * PARTII: REDESIGNING STANDARDS AND MAKING PUBLIC HEALTH TRADE-OFFS * 6. The TranslationOf Nutri-Epigenetics Into Public Health Policy: The Case Of Folic Acid Supplementation; MariaM.C. Verhagen, Angela Brand, and Elena Ambrosino * 7. Social Confounders Of Vaccine Response;Meilee Ling, Angela Brand, and Elena Ambrosino * 8. Different Perspectives on Research andDevelopment Incentives for Diseases of the Poor; Lois A. Murray and David Townend * 9. TheInfluence Of Intellectual Property Protection On Drug Development For Neglected TropicalDiseases; Aimée Uwland and David TownendOctober 2014 UKOctober 2014 US256 pp 1 figure, 1 b/w tableHardback £57.50 / $95.00 / CN$109.00 9781137456021Canadian RightsGlobal Morality and Life Science Practices inAsiaAssemblages of LifeMargaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, University of Sussex, UK"This volume is an ideal textbook that expands ourunderstanding of how Asian sites have become globalplayers in configuring the ethics and the politics of thelife sciences today." - Aihwa Ong, Professor of SocioculturalAnthropology, Berkeley University, US.Empirical studies of life science research andbiotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of lifearticulate bioethics governance with global moralitiesand reveal why the global harmonization of bioethicalstandards is contrived.Contents: 1. Introduction: From Global Moral Economy toAssemblages of Life * 2. Reassembling Populations: Questionsof Eugenics in China, India and Japan * 3. Biopower and LifeAssemblages: Genetic Carrier Testing in India, China and Japan * 4. Human Genetic Biobankingand Life Assemblages in Asia: Transnational Moral Economies of Health, Progress and Exploitation* 5. Life Assemblages of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China and Japan: BioethicalProblematisations and Bioethical Boundary Making * 6. Scientists and Publics in East AsianLife Assemblages: Risk, Debate and the Professionalization of Bioethics * 7. Life Assemblagesand Bionetworking: Developments in Experimental Stem Cell Therapies in India and Japan * 8.Reframing the Global Moral Economy of Biotech in Asia: Life Assemblages and Research ObjectsHealth, Technology and SocietyApril 2014 UKApril 2014 US256 ppHardback £65.00 / $105.00 / CN$104.00 9780230274839Canadian Rightsebooks availableHabits: Remaking AddictionSuzanne Fraser, Curtin University, Australia, DavidMoore, Curtin University, Australia, Helen Keane,Australian National UniversityWhat is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, oursocial arrangements and our political preoccupations?Where is it going as an idea and what is at stake in itsongoing production? Drawing on ethnographic research,interviews and media and policy texts, this book tracesthe remaking of addiction in contemporary Westernsocieties.Contents: Introduction * 1. Models of Addiction * 2. StabilisingStimulants: Amphetamine Dependence and MethamphetamineAddiction * 3. Making Methamphetamine in Drug Policy andConsumer Accounts * 4. A field in Disarray? The Constitutionof Alcohol Addiction in Expert Debates * 5. Assembling Alcohol Problems: Young People andDrinking * 6. Junk: the Neuroscience of Food Addiction and Obesity * 7. Stepping to the Side ofAddiction: Everyday Realities of Overeating and Obesity * Conclusion: a Multiverse of Habits –‘Addicting’ Science, Policy and ExperienceApril 2014 UKApril 2014 US288 pp 2 b/w tables, 1 figureHardback £65.00 / $105.00 / CN$121.00 9780230308107Canadian Rightsebooks available50