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Health Humanities Keywords

WEBKeywords for Health Humanities Edited by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for …

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Health, Society and Inequality

WEBThis series publishes books about health, illness and inequality. The books in this series will show the links between structural forces and both individual experiences and …

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Keywords for Health Humanities

WEBIntroduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabul

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Health in the City

WEBHealth in the City Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930. by Tanya Hart. Published by: NYU Press. Series: Culture, Labor, History …

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Introduction Keywords

WEBMusing, in the first months of a new century, on what he called “Infectious History,” Nobel Prize–winning microbiologist Joshua Lederberg (2000, 290) predicted, “The future of …

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More Than Medicine

WEBIn 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not mere

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Observation Keywords

WEBObservation: from the Latin observationem, a watching over, “an action… performed with prescribed usage,” as in the observation of a religious rite or a civic ritual expressing a …

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Unequal Coverage

WEBUnequal Coverage The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. by Heide Castañeda. Edited by Jessica M. Mulligan. Published by: NYU Press. Series: …

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Revolutionary Medicine

WEBAn engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America Before the

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The Course of God’s Providence

WEBThe Course of God’s Providence. Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America. by Philippa Koch. Published by: NYU Press. Series: North American Religions. Imprint: …

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The Reproduction of Inequality

WEBAn important analysis of the difference class makes in reproductive health choicesCan you run a marathon, drink coffee, eat fish, or fly on a plane while pre

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Reproductive Rights as Human Rights

WEBReveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSongHow

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