The Door of Last Resort

Frances Ward

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Having spent decades in urban clinical practice while working simultaneously as an academic administrator, teacher, and writer, Frances Ward is especi... 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

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

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

Exhibiting Health

Jennifer Lisa Koslow

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases wit... 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

Bodies Unbound

Piper Sledge

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Bodies Unbound is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ide... 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

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

Pink and Blue

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-sp... Lees meer

Making Room in the Clinic

Julie A Fairman

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In Making Room in the Clinic , Julie Fairman examines the context in which the nurse practitioner movement emerged, how large political and social mov... Lees meer

The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy

Gerald N Grob, Howard H Goldman

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that m... Lees meer

Under the Radar

Ellen Leopold

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• At the end of the Second World War, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Sixty years later, it is considered a chronic disease rather than one ... 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

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

Healthcare and Human Dignity

Frank M McClellan

• Paperback | 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

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

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

Cultivating Health

Jennifer Lisa Koslow

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated food, lived in deca... Lees meer

Privacy and the Past

Susan C Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical and ... Lees meer

Selling Science

Stephen E Mawdsley

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled m... Lees meer

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat

Andrew R Ruis

• Hardcover | 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

From Residency to Retirement

Terry Mizrahi

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• From Residency to Retireme nt tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, an... Lees meer

The Morning After

Heather Munro Prescott

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Since 2006, when the "morning-after pill" Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-milli... Lees meer