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From Madness to Mental Health

From Madness to Mental Health
Subtitle: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
Edited and with an introduction by Greg Eghigian
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2010




The Fats of Life
Subtitle: Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Disease
Author: Glen D. Lawrence
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: February 2010



The Artificial Ear
Subtitle: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness
Author: Stuart Blume
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2010


Making Room in the Clinic

First Paperback Edition
Making Room in the Clinic

Subtitle: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
Author: Julie Fairman
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: September 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Your Pocket Is What Cures You
Subtitle: The Politics of Health in Senegal
Author: Ellen E. Foley
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2010
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology


Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
Subtitle: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
Author: Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine



The History of American Homeopathy
Subtitle: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care
Author: John S. Haller Jr.
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: August 2009


The Burdens of Disease

Revised Edition
The Burdens of Disease

Subtitle: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History
Author: J.N. Hays
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2009


American Melancholy

American Melancholy
Subtitle: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Author: Laura D. Hirshbein
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: September 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine



Practice Under Pressure

Practice Under Pressure
Subtitle: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in
the Twenty-first Century
Author: Timothy Hoff
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Embodying Culture Embodying Culture
Subtitle: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel
Author: Tsipy Ivry
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2009
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology

What Freud Didn't Know What Freud Didn't Know
Subtitle: A Three-Step Practice for Emotional Well-Being through Neuroscience and Psychology
Author: Timothy B. Stokes
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: January 2010

Final Acts Final Acts
Subtitle: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make
Edited and with an Introduction by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2009

  Doctors of Deception   Doctors of Deception
Subtitle: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment
Author: Linda Andre
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: February 2009
 
  Flatlined   Flatlined
Subtitle: Resuscitating American Medicine
Author
: Guy L. Clifton, M.D.
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: January 2009
 
  Medical Research for Hire   Medical Research for Hire
Subtitle: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Author: Jill A. Fisher
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
 

Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio
Subtitle: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Author: Bert Hansen
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2009


Poison in the Well

First Paperback Edition
Poison in the Well

Subtitle: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Author: Jacob  Darwin Hamblin
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: September 2009

Cultivating Health Cultivating Health
Subtitle: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform
Author: Jennifer Lisa Koslow
Editions: Cloth
Publication Date: July 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Fit to be Tied Fit to Be Tied
Subtitle: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980
Author: Rebecca M Kluchin
Editions: Cloth
Publication Date: June 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

From Pink to Green From Pink to Green
Subtitle: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
Author: Barbara L Ley
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Making the American Mouth Making the American Mouth
Subtitle: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century
Author: Alyssa Picard
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: May 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

With Shaking Hands
With Shaking Hands
Subtitle: Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland
Author: Samantha Solimeo
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2009
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology

Incurable and Intolerable Incurable and Intolerable
Subtitle: Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Jason Szabo
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: June 2009



On Duty

On Duty
Subtitle: Power, Politics, and the History of Nursing in New Jersey
Author: Frances Ward
Editions: Cloth
Publication Date: April 2009


Abject Relations Abject Relations
Subtitle: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia
Author: Megan Warin
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2009
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology





  Under the Radar   Under the Radar
Subtitle: Cancer and the Cold War
Author: Ellen Leopold
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: October 2008
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
 
    War and Disease
Subtitle: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century
Author: Leo B. Slater
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: February 2009
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
 
    Doctors Serving People
Subtitle: Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service
Author: Edward J. Eckenfels
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: August 2008

 

The Truth About Health Care
First Paperback Edition
Subtitle: Why Reform is Not Working in America
Author: David Mechanic
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: March 2008

Making Room in the Clinic
Making Room in the Clinic
Subtitle:
Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
Author: Julie Fairman
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: July 2008

The Best-Kept SecretSaving Sickly Children Saving Sickly Children
Subtitle: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970
Author: Cynthia A. Connolly
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: May 2008
With the WeathermenThe Contested Boundaries of American Public Health The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health
Editors: James Colgrove, Gerald E. Markowitz, and David Rosner
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2008

Our Marvelous Bodies
Our Marvelous Bodies
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Physiology of Human Health
Author: Gary F. Merrill
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: May 2008


Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age
Editors: Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2008

Biofeedback for the Brain Biofeedback for the Brain
Subtitle: How Neurotherapy Effectively Treats Depression, ADHD, Autism, and More
Author: Paul G. Swingle, PhD
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: May 2008

Public Health Public Health
Volume One: From the Age of Hippocrates to the Progressive Era
Subtitle: The Development of a Discipline
Editors: Donna Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld
Foreword: Warren Winkelstein Jr. 

Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2008

  To Test or not To Test   To Test or Not To Test
Subtitle
: A Guide to Genetic Screening and Risk
Author: Doris Teichler Zallen
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2008
 
Shock Therapy Shock Therapy
Subtitle: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
Authors: Edward Shorter and David Healy
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: October 2007

Surgery Junkies Surgery Junkies
Subtitle: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture
Author: Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2007

Picking Up the Pieces Picking Up the Pieces
Subtitle: Moving Forward after Surviving Cancer
Authors: Sherri Magee and Kathy Scalzo
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: March 2007

Coming to Term Coming to Term
First Paperback Edition
Subtitle: Uncovering the Truth about Miscarriage
Author: Jon Cohen
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: March 2007

The Truth about Health Care The Truth about Health Care
Subtitle: Why Reform is Not Working in America
Author: David Mechanic
Edition: Cloth
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Publication Date: August, 2006

Reproducing Inequities Reproducing Inequities
Subtitle: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti
Author: M. Catherine Maternowska
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
Publication Date: August 2006

Thinking About Dementia Thinking About Dementia
Subtitle: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility
Author: Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
Publication Date: March 2006

Menopause Menopause
Subtitle: A Biocultural Perspective
Author: Lynnette Leidy Sievert
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
Publication Date: July, 2006

Fighting for Our Lives Fighting for Our Lives
Subtitle: New York's AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease
Author: Susan M. Chambr
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Publication Date: September 2006

Living with Cancer Living with Cancer
Subtitle: A Practical Guide
Author: Dave Visel
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2006

A Woman's Concise Guide to Common Medical Tests A Woman's Concise Guide to Common Medical Tests
Author: Michele C. Moore, Caroline M. de Costa
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2005

Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison
Subtitle: Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action
Author: Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2004

Beasts of the Earth Beasts of the Earth
Subtitle: Animals, Humans, and Disease
Author: E. Fuller Torrey, Robert H. Yolken
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: February 2005

No Germs Allowed! No Germs Allowed!
Subtitle: How to Avoid Infectious Diseases-At Home and on the Road Revised and Expanded Edition
Author: Winkler G., M.D. Weinberg
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: October 2004

Digestion, Diet, and Disease Digestion, Diet, and Disease
Subtitle: Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Gastrointestinal Function
Author: Janice Vickerstaff Joneja
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: September 2004

Do You Really Need Surgery? Do You Really Need Surgery?
Subtitle: A Sensible Guide to Hysterectomy and Other Procedures for Women
Author: Michele C., M.D., FAAFP Moore, Caroline M., M.D. de Costa
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2004

Gendering Disability Gendering Disability
Author: Bonnie G. Smith, Beth Hutchison
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2004

The Medical Delivery Business The Medical Delivery Business
Subtitle: Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order
Author: Barbara Bridgman Perkins
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: December 2003

In Sickness and in Play In Sickness and in Play
Subtitle: Children Coping with Chronic Illness
Author: Cindy Dell Clark
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Series in Childhood Studies
Publication Date: August 2003

The Body Electric The Body Electric
Subtitle: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses
Author: James Geary
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: September 2002

Heart to Heart Heart to Heart
Subtitle: The Twentieth-Century Battle against Cardiac Disease, An Oral History
Author: Allen B. Weisse, M.D.
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: November 2002

The Invisible Plague The Invisible Plague
Subtitle: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
Author: E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., and Judy Miller
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: December 2001

Into Our Own Hands Into Our Own Hands
Subtitle: The Womens Health Movement in the United States, 19691990
Author: Sandra Morgen
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2002

The Right to Die with Dignity The Right to Die with Dignity
Subtitle: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law
Author: Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: December 2001

Heal Your Heart Heal Your Heart
Subtitle: How You Can Prevent or Reverse Heart Disease
Author: K. Lance Gould, M.D.
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: July 2000

The Handholder's Handbook The Handholder's Handbook
Subtitle: A Guide for Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's or Other Dementias
Author: Rosette Teitel
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2001
Under the Mask Under the Mask
Subtitle: A Guide to Feeling Secure and Comfortable during Anesthesia and Surgery
Author: James Cottrell, M.D., with Stephanie Golden
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2001
Health Work with the Poor Health Work with the Poor
Subtitle: A Practical Guide
Author: Christie W. Kiefer
Edition: Cloth/Paper
Pages: 224 pp.

Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies
Subtitle: A Guide to the Science and Politics of an Emerging Medical Field
Author: David Hess
Edition: Cloth
Pages: 288 pp.

Does it Run in the Family? Does it Run in the Family?
Subtitle: A Consumer's Guide to DNA Testing for Genetic Disorders
Author: Doris Teichler Zallen
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: May 1997

False Hopes False Hopes
Subtitle: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Sustainable, Affordable Medicine
Author: Daniel Callahan
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: March 1999

Every Person's Guide to Antioxidants Every Person's Guide to Antioxidants
Author: John Smythies, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Edition: Cloth/Paperback
Pages: 180 pp.

A Woman's Skin A Woman's Skin
Author: David Stoll, M.D.
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: September 1994

Outrageous Practices Outrageous Practices
Subtitle: How Gender Bias Threatens Women's Health
Author: Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse
Edition: Paperback
Publication Date: June 1997

Community Organizing and Community Building for Community Organizing and Community Building for
Subtitle: 2nd Edition
Editor: Meredith Minkler
Edition: Cloth/Paperback
Publication Date: May 1997

Vitamania Vitamania
Subtitle: Vitamins in American Culture
Author: Rima Apple
Edition: Paper

Purchasing Power in Health Purchasing Power in Health
Subtitle: Business, the State, and Health Care Politics
Author: Linda A. Bergthold
Edition: Cloth

Good Days, Bad Days Good Days, Bad Days
Subtitle: The Self and Chronic Illness in Time
Author: Kathy C. Charmaz
Edition: Paper


Nursing Wounds Nursing Wounds
Subtitle: Nurse Practitioners, Doctors, Women Patients, and the Negotiation of Meaning
Author: Sue Fisher
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Are Genes Us Are Genes Us
Subtitle: The Social Consequences of the New Genetics
Author: Carl F. Cranor
Edition: Paper
The Empathic Practitioner The Empathic Practitioner
Subtitle: Empathy, Gender, and Medicine
Author: Ellen Singer More, Maureen A. Milligan
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Women’s Medicine Women’s Medicine
Subtitle: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous Fertility Regulation
Author: Lucile F Newman
Edition: Paper
Unnatural Causes Unnatural Causes
Subtitle: The Three Leading Killer Diseases in America
Author: Russell C. Maulitz
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Women as Healers Women as Healers
Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Author: Carol Shepherd McClain
Edition: Paper
Understanding Allergy, Sensitivity, and Immunity Understanding Allergy, Sensitivity, and Immunity
Subtitle: A Comprehensive Guide
Author: Janice Vickerstaff Joneja, Leonard Bielory, M.D.
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Covering the Plague Covering the Plague
Subtitle: AIDS and the American Media
Author: James Kinsella
Edition: Paper
The Cure of Childhood Leukemia The Cure of Childhood Leukemia
Subtitle: Into the Age of Miracles
Author: John, M.D. Laszlo
Edition: Paper/Cloth

Services for Sale Services for Sale
Subtitle: Purchasing Health and Human Services
Author: Harold Demone, Margaret Gibelman
Edition: Paper
Preventing AIDS Preventing AIDS
Subtitle: A Programmatic Approach
Author: Ronald O Valdiserri
Edition: Paper
Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy
Author: Penny Van Esterik
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Babies in Bottles Babies in Bottles
Subtitle: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology
Author: Susan Merrill Squier
Edition: Paper
Nameless Diseases Nameless Diseases
Author: Terra Ziporyn
Edition: Cloth
Life with AIDS Life with AIDS
Author: Rose Weitz
Edition: Paper/Cloth






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