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How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement
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...
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The Impossible Clinic
A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based Medicine
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...
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Medicine and Morality
Crises in the History of a Profession
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...
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Indigenous Peoples and Dementia
New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory Care
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...
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Caring for the Low German Mennonites
How Religious Beliefs and Practices Influence Health Care
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...
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Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS
Contributions from Critical Social Science
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...
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Be Wise! Be Healthy!
Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns
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...
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Medicine and Memory in Tibet
Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
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...
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A 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...
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The Organic Profit
Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism
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...
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High
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...
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Tracing 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,...
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Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ StudiesThe first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered...
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Health Care and the Charter
Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada
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...
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An 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...
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Invisible Scars
Mental Trauma and the Korean War
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...
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Resuscitate!
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 are...
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After Morgentaler
The Politics of Abortion in Canada
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....
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The 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...
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Living 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...
ISBN: 9780295975474
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