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WEBA new digital-only special issue from U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal is now available free to readers on Project MUSE. “Celebrating 60+ Issues of U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal” centers on three themes that often appear in the journal: mobility, storytelling, and activism. The journal is the world’s oldest periodical devoted to the study of gender and …
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Ho‘i Hou Ka Mauli Ola: Pathways to Native Hawaiian Health
WEBMauli means life, heart, spirit, our essential nature. Ola means well-being, healthy. “Hoʻi hou ka mauli ola,” or, bringing back the state of vibrant health, is the chief objective and the passion of the contributors. In addition to interviews, the volume includes historical information, personal narratives, mele oli, research findings
Penina Uliuli: Contemporary Challenges in Mental Health for …
WEBThis diverse collection of essays examines important issues related to mental health among Pacific Islanders through the topics of identity, spirituality, the unconscious, mental trauma, and healing.Contributors: Emeline Afeaki-Mafile‘o, Margaret Nelson Agee, Siautu Alefaio, A. Aukahi Austin, Tina Berking, Philip Culbertson, Caroline …
The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, Revised Edition
WEBThe Pacific is the last major world region to be discovered by humans. Although small in total land area, its numerous islands and archipelagoes with their startlingly diverse habitats and biotas, extend across a third of the globe. This revised edition of a popular text explores the diverse landforms, climates, and ecosystems of the …
Familiar Medicine: Everyday Health Knowledge and Practice in …
WEB306 pages. SHARE: About the Book. One of the first medical ethnographies to be written on contemporary Vietnam, Familiar Medicine examines the practical ways in which people of the Red River Delta make sense of their bodies, illness, and medicine. Traditional knowledge and practices have persisted but are now expressed through and …
Journal of World History Special Issue: Health, Globally – Free!
WEBNext week, the World History Association hosts its annual meeting virtually, from July 5 to 9, on the theme "Health, Globally." The Journal of World History offers an accompanying special collection, free on the Project MUSE platform through summer. Attendees can also receive 30% off select world history titles. The "Health, Globally" …
Graphic Medicine: Life Writing and Comics from Biography
WEBIn Graphic Medicine, the new monograph from the Biography quarterly, comics artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and comics explore the lived experience of illness and disability through original texts, images, and the dynamic interplay between the two. The essays and autobiographical comics in this collection respond to the …
Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical
WEBThe official journal of the Pacific Science Association. Appearing quarterly since 1947, Pacific Science is an international, multidisciplinary journal reporting research on the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific basin. It focuses on biogeography, ecology, evolution, geology and volcanology, oceanography, paleontology, and …
Ka Māno Wai: The Source of Life – UH Press
WEBKa Māno Wai is dedicated to the mo`olelo (stories) of fourteen esteemed kumu loea (expert teachers) who are knowledge keepers of cultural ways. Kamana`opono M. Crabbe, Linda Kaleo`okalani Paik, Eric Michael Enos, Claire Ku`uleilani Hughes, Sarah Patricia `Ilialoha Ayat Keahi, Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo`ole Osorio, Lynette Ka`opuiki Paglinawan, …
Samoan Medical Belief and Practice – UH Press
WEBThis is the first comprehensive study of Samoan medicine. Cluny and La‘avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofo, in Western Samoa to produce a fascinating and thoughtful study. They explain convincingly why traditional Samoan medicine and its skilled …
Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea
WEBIn late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the new nation’s reproductive health and women’s responsibility for care work to produce novel organization of services in hospitals and practices in the home. The first monograph on this topic, Imperatives of Care places …
Samoan Herbal Medicine: 'O La'au ma Vai Fofo o Samoa
WEBTwo systems of health care exist side by side in Samoa—Samoan medicine and Western medicine. Western medicine is centered in three hospitals—Moto‘otua Hospital near Apia, Tuasivi Hospital on Savai‘i, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in American Samoa. There are also a series of rural clinics, especially on Savai‘i, that are …
Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin – UH Press
WEBAbout the Book; Daoyin, the traditional Chinese practice of guiding the qi and stretching the body is the forerunner of Qigong, the modern form of exercise that has swept through China and is making increasing inroads in the West. Like other Asian body practices, Daoyin focuses on the body as the main vehicle of attainment; sees health and spiritual …
Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World – UH Press
WEBThis rich collection focuses on the nexus between Buddhism and healing in the modern and contemporary world, highlighting the many ways Buddhists have adapted in response to and in dialogue with modern science, biomedicine, and other facets of modernity from the nineteenth century to today. Buddhist healing activities are much more diverse than the …
Asian / Pacific Island Nursing Journal – UH Press
WEBArticle Processing Charge. There is no charge for submitting a paper to Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal . Upon acceptance of your manuscript, you will be charged a one-time Article Processing Charge of $100 for first author members; first author student members $80; and nonmember rates would be $150.
Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of …
WEBA variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions—sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex—resulted from the U.S. Navy’s introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam’s native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western …
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space: Best Practices for Educators …
WEBTeaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first “how-to” manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments that can be inhabited simultaneously by many participants; commonly called “multi-user virtual learning environments” or MUVE. Based on her experience supervising more than 400 …
Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern …
WEBAbout the Book; Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection’s focus on …
Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan – UH Press
WEBFrom its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became centers of medical learning,…
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