In Pursuit of Health Equity

Eric D Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its ... Lees meer

Colonizing Leprosy

Michelle T Moran

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides ... Lees meer

All Health Politics Is Local

Merlin Chowkwanyun

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Health is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of du... Lees meer

Dying in the City of the Blues

Keith Wailoo

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a... Lees meer

Doctoring the South

Steven M. Stowe

• Hardcover | Studies in Social Medicine
• Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading the personal letters, day-books, diari... Lees meer

Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion

Michael H Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biom... Lees meer

If That Ever Happens to Me

Lois Shepherd

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all ki... Lees meer

Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter

Laurie Zoloth

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as wel... Lees meer

Bittersweet

Chris Feudtner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. The drug produced astonishing results, rescuing children ... Lees meer

Doctoring the South

Steven M Stowe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of ever... Lees meer

The Mismeasure of Minds

Michael E Staub

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America's schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multidecade debate o... Lees meer

Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture

Mari Armstrong-Hough

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines ... Lees meer

Bioethics Reenvisioned

Nancy M P King, Gail E Henderson, Larry R Churchill

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments in biomedical technology and inj... Lees meer

Bittersweet

Chris Feudtner

• Hardcover | Studies in Social Medicine
• One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. But the author demonstrates that the transformation of th... Lees meer

All Health Politics Is Local

Merlin Chowkwanyun

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Health is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of du... Lees meer

No Game for Boys to Play

Kathleen Bachynski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications f... Lees meer

Tuskegee's Truths

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the ... Lees meer

Bioethics as Practice

Judith Andre

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences... Lees meer

Old and Sick in America

Muriel R Gillick

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick ... Lees meer

The Infertility Treadmill

Karey Harwood

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Combining attention to lived experience with the critical tools of ethics, Karey Harwood explores why many women who use high-tech assisted reproducti... Lees meer

Devices & Desires

Margarete Sandelowski

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whethe... Lees meer

The AIDS Pandemic

Lawrence O Gostin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and contro... Lees meer

Wages of Sickness

Beatrix Hoffman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• The Clinton administration's failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United Stat... Lees meer

Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice

Rebecca L. Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Medicine
• The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass c... Lees meer