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Indigenous Peoples and Dementia

New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory Care

By Wendy Hulko, Danielle Wilson, Jean Balestrery

Dementia is on the rise around the world, and health organizations the United States, Canada, and New Zealand are responding to the urgent need – voiced by communities and practitioners – for guidance on how...

Medicine and Morality

Crises in the History of a Profession

By Helen Kang

Medical professionals are expected to act in the interest of patients, the public, and the pursuit of medical knowledge. But what happens when doctors’ supposed impartiality comes under fire? Helen Kang examines three moments in...

Health Advocacy, Inc.

How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement

By Sharon Batt

Over the past several decades, a gradual reduction in state funding has pressured patient groups into forming private-sector partnerships. Health activist, scholar, award-winning journalist, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt investigates the relationship between patient advocacy...

The Impossible Clinic

A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based Medicine

By Ariane Hanemaayer

The Impossible Clinic explores the conundrum of evidence-based medicine’s (EBM) attempt to translate evidence from medical research into recommendations for practice. Ironically, when medical institutions combine disciplinary regulations with EBM to produce clinical practice guidelines,...

Be Wise! Be Healthy!

Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns

By Catherine Carstairs, Bethany Philpott, and Sara Wilmshurst

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise. For over a century, public health campaigns have encouraged Canadians to adopt healthy habits in order to prolong lives, cost the state less, and produce more efficient workers. Be Wise!...

Caring for the Low German Mennonites

How Religious Beliefs and Practices Influence Health Care

By Judith C. Kulig

What happens when health care providers meet patients whose religious views contrast with mainstream health practices? This book focuses on a unique religious group, the Low German Mennonites, to examine ways in which beliefs and...

Medicine and Memory in Tibet

Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform

By Theresia Hofer

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004

Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory...

Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS

Contributions from Critical Social Science

By Eric Mykhalovskiy, Viviane Namaste

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the world continues to grapple with this public health challenge. Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS explores the limits of mainstream approaches to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and challenges readers...

A Family History of Illness

Memory as Medicine

By Brett L. Walker

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...

The Organic Profit

Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism

By Andrew N. Case. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

From green-lifestyle mavens who endorse products on social media to natural health activists sponsored by organic food companies, the marketplace for advice about how to live life naturally is better stocked than ever. Where did...

High

Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users

By Ingrid Walker

Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods. A “drug-free America” seems to be...

Tracing Autism

Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience

By Des Fitzgerald

In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.

Through...

Indian Blood

HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community

By Andrew J. Jolivette

Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies

The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis...

Health Care and the Charter

Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada

By Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni

Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the policy impact of the resulting judicial decisions. Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni examine three...

An Integrative Metaregression Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology

By Abraham D. Flaxman, Theo Vos, Christopher J.L. Murray

To provide the tools and knowledge needed in efforts to improve the health of the world’s populations, researchers collaborated on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010. The study produced comprehensive...

Invisible Scars

Mental Trauma and the Korean War

By Meghan Fitzpatrick

Invisible Scars provides the first extended exploration of Commonwealth Division psychiatry during the Korean War and the psychiatric-care systems in place for the thousands of soldiers who fought in that conflict. Fitzpatrick demonstrates that although...

Resuscitate!

How Your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest

By Mickey S. Eisenberg, M.D.

Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among adults, yet it need not be fatal. Though survival in most communities is very poor, a few communities achieve rates as high as 50%. Why...

After Morgentaler

The Politics of Abortion in Canada

By Rachael Johnstone

The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive. In After Morgentaler, Rachael...

The Clinic and Elsewhere

Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy

By Todd Meyers

Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance...

Living with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs

A Book for Sibs

By Donald Meyer and Patricia F. Vadasy

Living with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs focuses on the intensity of emotions that brothers and sisters experience when they have a sibling with special needs, and the hard questions they ask: What...