Tainted Earth

Marianne Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore--including arsenic, lead, and cad... 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

Lost

Shannon Withycombe

• Hardcover | 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

Testing Baby

Rachel Grob

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to dete... 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

The Sounds of Furious Living

Matthew Kelly

• Paperback | 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

Nursing with a Message

Patricia D'Antonio

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation's health care crisi... Lees meer

Patients as Policy Actors

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of... 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

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

Comrades in Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive mov... 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

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

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

From Pink to Green

Barbara L Ley

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• From the early 1980s, the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance o... 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

The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and u... Lees meer

Fit to Be Tied

Rebecca M Kluchin

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pi... Lees meer

Nursing the Nation

Jean C Whelan

• Hardcover | 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

Healthcare and Human Dignity

Frank M McClellan

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go... Lees meer

Just Don't Get Sick

Karen Seccombe, Kim A Hoffman

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide te... Lees meer

Children and Drug Safety

Cynthia A Connolly

• Hardcover | 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

Bishops and Bodies

Lori Freedman

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Winner of the 2024 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association's Section on Medical Sociology One out of ev... Lees meer

Prelude to Hospice

Emily K Abel

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people app... Lees meer