A Darkened House

Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada

by Geoffrey Bilson

<p>From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the ...

ISBN: 9781442633636

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A Family History of Illness

Memory as Medicine

by Brett L. Walker

<p>While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, ?Do you have a family history of illness???a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and ...

ISBN: 9780295743042

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A Journey With Alzheimer's

by Brenda L Golden

<p>A non-fiction, in-depth narrative, that chronicles the intertwined lives of father and daughter (the author) in twenty years of dealing with the effects of Alzheimer's disease.  Included is the gradual moving from parent/child relationship to

ISBN: 9780692718025

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A Single Swim

by Kristina Circelli

<p>On August 13th, 2011, sixteen-year-old Courtney Nash passed away after contracting Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba that lurks in warm waters. This is her story.</p><p>A Single Swim follows Courtney&apos;s life and death, while taking

ISBN: 9781310692543

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A Town Called Asbestos

Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community

by Jessica van Horssen

<p>For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. ...

ISBN: 9780774828444

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A Visual History of HIV/AIDS

Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive

by Elisabet Björklund & Mariah Larsson

<p>The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan ...

ISBN: 9781351383035

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Addiction

From Suffering to Solution

by Dr. Joseph Bradley

In Addiction: From Suffering to Solution Dr. Joseph J. Bradley, M.S., D.C., DACACD shares the heart-wrenching and compelling story of his own daughter’s journey through addiction and eventual recovery. He then presents his in-depth knowledge of ...

ISBN: 9781634134682

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Addiction and Opiates

by Alfred R. Lindesmith

<p>This classic study is concerned with addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. Lindesmith proposes and systematically elaborates a rational, general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate the

ISBN: 9781351534000

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ADHD Does not Exist

The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

by Richard Saul

<p>In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder—one of the fastest growing and

ISBN: 9780062266750

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African Americans at Risk: Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice [2 volumes]

Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice

by Glenn L. Starks

<p>With all of the progress African Americans have made, they still face many risks that threaten the entire race or place segments in jeopardy of survival. This work examines the widespread problem and suggests solutions.</p> <p>• Examines ...

ISBN: 9781440800764

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Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850–2000

Testing the Sen Hypothesis

by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Auke Rijpma & Jan Kok

<p>How has ‘agency’ – or the ability to define and act upon one’s goals – contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, ...

ISBN: 9781351815604

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AIDS and Rural Livelihoods

Dynamics and Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa

by Anke Niehof & Gabriel Rugalema

<p>AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from AIDS exceeds that from wars, famine and floods combined. Yet ...

ISBN: 9781136536762

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Assisted Reproduction Across Borders

Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions

by Merete Lie & Nina Lykke

<p>Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) ...

ISBN: 9781317200673

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Beyond Obamacare

Life, Death, and Social Policy

by James S. House

<p>Health care spending in the United States today is approaching 20 percent of GDP, yet levels of U.S. population health have been declining for decades relative to other wealthy and even some developing nations. How is it possible that the ...

ISBN: 9781610448499

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Beyond Powerful

Your Chronic Illness is Not Your Kryptonite

by Lala Jackson

<p><strong>An author with autoimmune Type 1 diabetes reveals how you can achieve what you want—even while battling chronic health issues.</strong><br />  <br /> Are you frustrated by being constantly sidelined by your health? Do you feel like ...

ISBN: 9781683503828

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Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture

Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan

by Mari Armstrong-Hough

<p>Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise in and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both ...

ISBN: 9781469646695

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Blood Sugar

Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America

by Anthony Ryan Hatch

<DIV><P>Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have ...

ISBN: 9781452950075

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Bodies and Suffering

Emotions and Relations of Care

by Ana Dragojlovic & Alex Broom

<p>This book is a critical response to a range of problems – some theoretical, others empirical – that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. It explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are ...

ISBN: 9781317504375

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Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing

Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies

by Erik Malmqvist & Kristin Zeiler

<p>Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and ...

ISBN: 9781317510963

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Born With a Junk Food Deficiency

How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health

by Martha Rosenberg

<p>This hard-hitting exposé blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devious, more disreputable than you could have ever ...

ISBN: 9781616145941

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