Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

Emily K Abel

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Winner of the 2008 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association and Nominated for the 2008 William H. Welch Medal, AAHM Thoug... Lees meer

Abortion Care as Moral Work

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and hi... Lees meer

Embodied Politics

Rebecca J Hester

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Pr... Lees meer

Talking Therapy

Kylie Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• First place in the 2020 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy​ Winner of the 2020 Lavinia L. Dock Award from... Lees meer

Carrying on

Brittany Clair

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In the twenty-first century, expecting parents are inundated with information and advice from every direction, but are often strapped for perspective ... Lees meer

Classrooms and Clinics

Richard a Meckel

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century throug... Lees meer

Children and Drug Safety

Cynthia A Connolly

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Winner of the 2018 Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association​ Children and Drug Safety traces ... Lees meer

Rest Uneasy

Brittany Cowgill

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes ... Lees meer

Dying Green

Christine Vatovec

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The slow violence being inflicted on our environment--through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution--also represents an impending publ... Lees meer

Transplanting Care

Laura L Heinemann

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation--the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after... Lees meer

Embodied Politics

Rebecca J Hester

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Pr... Lees meer

Nursing the Nation

Jean C Whelan

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Modern health care cannot exist without professional nurses. Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply of ... Lees meer

Classrooms and Clinics

Richard a Meckel

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century throug... Lees meer

Smoking Privileges

Laura D Hirshbein

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges , Laura... Lees meer

Broadcasting Birth Control

Manon Parry

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations, and legislation that shaped... Lees meer

The Sounds of Furious Living

Matthew Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious "gay cancer" first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would com... Lees meer

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat

Andrew R Ruis

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat , historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to som... Lees meer

Lost

Shannon Withycombe

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Lost , medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women's personal writings and doctors' publicati... Lees meer

Communities of Health Care Justice

Charlene Galarneau

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual resp... Lees meer

The Love Surgeon

Sarah B Rodriguez

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Dr. James Burt believed women's bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called "love surgery,... Lees meer

Mapping Race

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel soc... Lees meer

Dying Green

Christine Vatovec

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The slow violence being inflicted on our environment--through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution--also represents an impending publ... Lees meer

The Business of Private Medical Practice

James A Schafer

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in the... Lees meer

Lady Lushes

Michelle L McClellan

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• According to the popular press in the mid twentieth century, American women, in a misguided attempt to act like men in work and leisure, were drinking... Lees meer