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Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare
Subtitle: Third Edition
Editor: Meredith Minkler
Pages:
496 pages
Publication Date:
July 2012

Genetics and the Unsettled Past
Subtitle: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History
Editors: Keith Wailoo, Alondra Nelson, and Catherine Lee
Pages:
368 pages
Publication Date:
March 2012

The Health Care Safey Net in a Post-Reform World
Subtitle: Rumors, Islamist Extremism, and the Struggle for Strategic Influence
Author: Daniel Leonard Bernardi
Pages:
224 pages
Publication Date:
March 2012

Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
Subtitle: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities
Editors: Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, and Miriam Labbok
Pages:
304 pages
Publication Date:
August 2012

Public Health: The Development of a Discipline
Subtitle: Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Challenges
Edited and with an introduction by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld

Pages:
824 pages
Publication Date:
August 2011

Private Practices
Subtitle: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism
Author: Naoko Wake

Pages: 280 pages
Publication Date:
March 2011


Mental Health Disorders for Adolescents Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents
Subtitle: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Professionals
Author: Eric P. Hazen, M.D., Mark A. Goldstein, M.D., and Myrna Chandler Goldstein
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2011



Patients as Policy Actors
Edited and with an introduction by Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel Grob, and Mark Schlesinger

Pages:
328 pages
Publication Date:
July 2011




An Alternative History of Hyperactivity
Subtitle: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
Author: Matthew Smith

Pages: 256 pages
Publication Date:
June 2011


Poultry Science, Chicken Culture
American Catholic Hospitals
Subtitle: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions
Author: Barbra Mann Wall

Pages: 256 pages
Publication Date:
March 2011



Poultry Science, Chicken Culture
Breeding Contempt
Subtitle: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States
Author: Mark A. Largent
Pages: 240 pages, 5 b&w photographs, 2 graphs, 4 tables
Publication Date: November 2007



Sleep Paralysis Sleep Paralysis
Subtitle: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection
Author:
Shelley R. Adler
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2011
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology series

Medical Professionallism in the New Information Age Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
Editors: David J. Rothman and David Blumenthal
Afterword by Arthur Kleinman and Rachel Hall-Clifford
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: September 2010
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series



First Paperback Edition
Biofeedback for the Brain
Subtitle: How Neurotherapy Effectively Treats Depression, ADHD, Autism, and More
Author: Paul G. Swingle
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: February 2010


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


Black Dogs and Blue Words
Black Dogs and Blue Words
Subtitle: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care
Author: Kimberly K. Emmons
Edition:
Cloth
Publication Date: March 2010




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


Chronic Conditions, Fluid States
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States
Subtitle: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
Edited and with an Introduction by
Lenore Manderson and Carolyn Smith-Morris
Afterword by Arthur Kleinman and Rachel Hall-Clifford
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: May 2010
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology



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


Katrina's Imprint

Katrina's Imprint
Edited
by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, and Roland V. Anglin with an introduction from Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2010
Series: Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity


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: January 2010

  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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