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The Beach Cure

A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores

By Meghan Crnic. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

How sun and sea air were prescribed as medicine on America's Eastern coast

For centuries, the ocean was seen as a place of danger and work, but by the late nineteenth century, northeastern shores of the...

Caring for Caregivers

Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis

By Valerie Francisco-Menchavez

A transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practices

Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout...

Tai Herbalism

By Susan Conway

Who Cares?

COVID-19 Social Protection Responses in Southeast Asia

By Edited by Rosalia Sciortino

Who Cares? presents findings on the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic in six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. After a regional overview, country-specific chapters narrate the pandemic's...

Skid Road

On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle

By Josephine Ensign

A finalist for the Washington State Book Award

Affluent Seattle has one of the highest numbers of unhoused people in the United States. In 2021 an estimated 40,800 people experienced homelessness in Seattle and King County...

Healing with Poisons

Potent Medicines in Medieval China

By Yan Liu

Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine

A revealing study of risky cures in classical Chinese pharmacy

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to...

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence

Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874

By Robert T. Boyd

Examines imported diseases and their impact on Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples

In the late 1700s when European colonizers arrived on the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures—Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka),...

The Organic Profit

Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism

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

Where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? In no small part, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneurial health reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Art of Healing Latinos

Firsthand Accounts from Physicians and Other Health Advocates

By David E. Cordova, Roberto Chiprut

The Art of Healing Latinos collects the wisdom of health professionals who have particular expertise in treating Latino patients. Their knowledge comes from many years of service in fields that range from pediatrics to geriatrics,...

Hope on the Hill

The First Century of Seattle Children's Hospital

By Walt Crowley and David W. Wilma

In the spring of 1898, a 5-year-old Seattle boy named Willis Clise suffered and eventually died of what was called “inflammatory rheumatism.” There was no treatment,and no doctor west of Philadelphia who specialized in childhood...

Health in the Marketplace

Professionalism, Therapeutic Desires, and Medical Commodification in Late-Victorian London

By Takahiro Ueyama

Much like consumers today, late-19th-century Londoners lived in a mass culture of commodified abundance and conspicuous consumption. Their consumer fetishism was fully represented by their avid pursuit of health-related services and medicinal goods--the market was...

Inside the Nonprofit Boardroom

What You Need to Know for Satisfaction and Success

By Charles William Golding

Nonprofit activities are the next - and possibly the most interesting - focus of the Baby Boomer Era. The United States has an estimated two million charitable organizations and this handbook is for current and...