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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence
Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Indians, 1774-1874
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), Coast Salish, and Chinookan—with a population conservatively estimated at more...
ISBN: 9780295749181
more detailsThe Organic Profit
Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism
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...
ISBN: 9780295745015
more detailsMedicine and Memory in Tibet
Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
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...
ISBN: 9780295742991
more detailsHigh
Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users
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...
ISBN: 9780295742328
more detailsA Family History of Illness
Memory as Medicine
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...
ISBN: 9780295743035
more detailsTracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
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...
ISBN: 9780295741918
more detailsIndian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
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...
ISBN: 9780295998503
more detailsResuscitate!
How Your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest
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...
ISBN: 9780295992464
more detailsLiving with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs
A Book for Sibs
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...
ISBN: 9780295975474
more detailsAn Integrative Metaregression Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology
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...
ISBN: 9780295991849
more detailsThe Clinic and Elsewhere
Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy
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...
ISBN: 9780295992419
more detailsPersonal Information Management
In an ideal world, everyone would always have the right information, in the right form, with the right context, right when they needed it. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. This book...
ISBN: 9780295987378
more detailsHelping Your Child Recover from Sexual Abuse
The sexual abuse of a child creates a devastating family crisis. Parents want to know what to do and say to help their child, both immediately and in the long term. Helping your Child Recover...
ISBN: 9780295968063
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more detailsBecoming Citizens
Family Life and the Politics of Disability
Following the Second World War, a generation of Seattle parents went against conventional medical wisdom and chose to bring up their children with developmental disabilities in the community. This book presents a stunning visual narrative...
ISBN: 9780295985190
more detailsThe Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Overcoming Secondary Disabilities
In the first book of its kind, experts describe how to help people with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A summary of recent findings and recommendations is presented by the team who conducted the largest study ever...
ISBN: 9780295976501
more detailsWhen a Child Dies
How Pediatric Physicians and Nurses Cope
How is it possible for practitioners of the healing arts to cope with the deaths of children and the devastating grief of their families? Physician Robert McKelvey looks squarely at this painful question and gets...
ISBN: 9780295986531
more detailsHealing with Poisons
Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013
At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from...
ISBN: 9780295748993
more detailsThe Art of Healing Latinos
Firsthand Accounts from Physicians and Other Health Advocates
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,...
ISBN: 9780895511027
more detailsHope on the Hill
The First Century of Seattle Children's Hospital
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...
ISBN: 9780295989563
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