"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.
"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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Anne Fadiman Preface Resilience Apartment Number 1103/4 A Hallway Friendship Making an Apartment House My Home Beyond Borders The Meanings of My MSF Book Venturing Out with a Rolling Walker Election to the Explorers Club Encounters with Physicians Plagues Miss Balkema-and Mary Beth Life, Death, and Uncertainty in Physicians' Memoirs Terrorist Bombings in Brussels The 2016 Presidential Election Donald Trump's Executive Orders on Immigration On Being a Teacher What I Learned about the Language of Silence A Bioethics Award and a Surrogate Lecture Epilogue Index.
Foreword by Anne Fadiman Preface Resilience Apartment Number 1103/4 A Hallway Friendship Making an Apartment House My Home Beyond Borders The Meanings of My MSF Book Venturing Out with a Rolling Walker Election to the Explorers Club Encounters with Physicians Plagues Miss Balkema-and Mary Beth Life, Death, and Uncertainty in Physicians' Memoirs Terrorist Bombings in Brussels The 2016 Presidential Election Donald Trump's Executive Orders on Immigration On Being a Teacher What I Learned about the Language of Silence A Bioethics Award and a Surrogate Lecture Epilogue Index.
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