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Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice Mara Buchbinder

WebEdited by Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, Rebecca L. Walker. The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume …

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Working Cures Sharla M. Fett University of North Carolina Press

WebExploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became …

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All Health Politics Is Local

WebIn All Health Politics Is Local, Merlin Chowkwanyun shifts our focus, taking us to four very different places—New York City, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Central Appalachia—to …

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Your Health, Your Decisions Robert Alan McNutt University of …

WebMcNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practical approach augmented by formal exercises designed to give …

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Old and Sick in America

WebSince the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative …

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In Pursuit of Health Equity Eric D. Carter University of North

Web"A densely packed journey through the ideologies, personalities, politics and health systems which generated the category of social medicine. Teeming with essential references and …

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The Right to Live in Health Daniel A. Rodríguez University of …

WebShortlisted, 2021 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Daniel A. Rodríguez’s history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation …

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The Wages of Sickness

WebFrom 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful crusade for compulsory health insurance in New York State. Beatrix Hoffman argues that this first …

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The People’s Welfare

WebIn The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public …

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Landscapes of Care Thurka Sangaramoorthy University of North

WebSince 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of …

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Remaking the American Patient Nancy Tomes University of …

WebA 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get …

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Dying in the City of the Blues Keith Wailoo University of North

WebSet in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of …

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Bioethics Reenvisioned Nancy M. P. King University of North

WebBy Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, Larry R. Churchill. Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments …

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Protecting America's Health Philip J. Hilts University of North

WebNew York Times Book Review. " Protecting America's Health is a history of the FDA from its origins as a tiny office within the Department of Agriculture in the nineteenth century to …

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Choice and Coercion

WebIn this book, Schoen situates the state's reproductive politics in a national and global context. Widening her focus to include birth control, sterilization, and abortion policies …

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Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

WebThis social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery.

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Anthony Cavender

WebIn the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and …

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Radium Girls Claudia Clark University of North Carolina Press

WebIn the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium …

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Examining Tuskegee

WebSusan M. Reverby's Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis among African American men, who were told by U.S. Public …

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