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Sounds Of Furious Living - Everyday Unorthodoxies In An Era Of Aids

by Matthew Kelly

50,28€ + 10% CARD

 The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the 19th and 20th centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era.
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Bishops And Bodies - Reproductive Care In American Catholic Hospitals

by Lori Freedman

43,66€ + 10% CARD

 One out of every six patients in the US is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Drawing on interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishopsâ€™ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice.
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Mammography Wars - Analyzing Attention In Cultural And Medical Disputes

by Asia Friedman

40,55€ + 10% CARD

 <b>Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Book Award, Social Problems Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems</b><br> <br> Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In <i>Mammography Wars</i>, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the "mammography wars," offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman’s analysis also suggests the sociology of attention’s unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine.<br>
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Dying Green - A Journey Through End-Of-Life Medicine In Search Of Sustainable Health Care

by Christine Vatovec

28,61€ + 10% CARD

 Through an engaging comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, this book shows how decisions made at the patient bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry.
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Embodied Politics - Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, And Health Promotion In California

by Rebecca J. Hester

43,66€ + 10% CARD

 Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California. Embodied Politics reconstructs how this initiative came to exist and describes how it operates. At the same time, it points out the conflicts, resistances, and counter-acts that emerge through the IHP's attempts to guide the health behaviors and practices of Triqui and Mixteco migrants. Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.
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Abortion Care As Moral Work - Ethical Considerations Of Maternal And Fetal Bodies

37,03€ + 10% CARD

 Brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death.
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Importing Care, Faithful Service - Filipino And Indian American Nurses At A Veterans Hospital

by Stephen M. Cherry

47,63€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, this study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses. Their stories provide insights into the roles race, religion and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare.
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Embodied Politics - Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, And Health Promotion In California

by Rebecca J. Hester

43,66€ + 10% CARD

 Illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project, a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California.
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Comrades In Health - U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad And At Home

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 Brings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays draws attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home.
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Carrying On - Another School Of Thought On Pregnancy And Health

by Brittany Clair

21,45€ + 10% CARD

 Investigates the origin stories of prevailing prenatal health norms by exploring the evolution of issues at the centre of pregnancy, ranging from morning sickness and weight gain to ultrasounds and induction. The book considers what history and medicine together can teach us about how and why we treat pregnancy - and pregnant women - the way we do.
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Bodies Unbound - Gender-Specific Cancer And Biolegitimacy

by Piper Sledge

47,63€ + 10% CARD

 A comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer.
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Pink And Blue - Gender, Culture, And The Health Of Children

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 In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. This volume seeks to understand the dialectical relationship between gender and the medical care of children by combining a historical perspective on gender and pediatrics with analyses of current debates and controversies in pediatric practice such as pediatric transgender medicine, HPV, neonatal intensive care, and more.
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Nursing The Nation - Building The Nurse Labor Force

by Jean C. Whelan

48,96€ + 10% CARD

 Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply of nurses was equal to demand. This book offers a historical analysis of the relationship between the development of nurse employment arrangements with patients and institutions and the appearance of nurse shortages from 1890-1950.
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From Residency To Retirement - Physicians'' Careers Over A Professional Lifetime

by Terry Mizrahi

70,16€ + 10% CARD

 Tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent and transformative changes to the US health care system. The cohort's experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as Presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services.
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Testing Baby - The Transformation Of Newborn Screening, Parenting, And Policymaking

by Rachel Grob

55,58€ + 10% CARD

 <div> <div> <p>Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving lives. Yet many lives are also <i>changed</i> by it in ways not yet recognized.</p> <p><i>Testing Baby</i> is the first book to draw on parents’ experiences with newborn screening in order to examine its far-reaching sociological consequences. Rachel Grob’s cautionary tale also explores the powerful ways that parents’ narratives have shaped this emotionally charged policy arena. Newborn screening occurs almost always without parents’ consent and often without their knowledge or understanding, yet it has the power to alter such things as family dynamics at the household level, the context of parenting, the way we manage disease identity, and how parents’ interests are understood and solicited in policy debates.</p> </div> </div>
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False Dawn - The Rise And Decline Of Public Health Nursing

by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

47,63€ + 10% CARD

 Since its initial publication in 1989, Karen Buhler Wilkerson's False Dawn: The Rise and Fall of Public Health Nursing has been the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States.
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Organ Of Murder - Crime, Violence, And Phrenology In Nineteenth-Century America

by Courtney E. Thompson

47,63€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century US, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. This work traces the influence of phrenological visual culture and language in culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.
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Love Surgeon - A Story Of Trust, Harm, And The Limits Of Medical Regulation

by Sarah B. Rodriguez

36,97€ + 10% CARD

 Dr. James Burt believed women's bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, he developed what he called â€œlove surgeryâ€, a procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother. It would be easy to dismiss Burt as a monstrous aberration, yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that's not the whole story.
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Exhibiting Health - Public Health Displays In The Progressive Era

by Jennifer Lisa Koslow

48,96€ + 10% CARD

 By using exhibits public health reformers in the early twentieth century believed they could make systemic issues visual. Embedded within these displays were messages about individual action. This book is an analysis of the logic of the production and the consumption of this technique for popular public health education between 1900 and 1930.
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American Catholic Hospitals - A Century Of Changing Markets And Missions

by Barbra Mann Wall

55,58€ + 10% CARD

 Chronicles changes in Catholic hospitals during the twentieth century, many of which are emblematic of trends in the American healthcare system. Barbra Mann Wall explores the Church's struggle to safeguard its religious values. She also examines the power of women and the gender disparity in these institutions which came to be run, for the most part, by men.
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From Pink To Green - Disease Prevention And The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement

by Barbara L. Ley

51,61€ + 10% CARD

 From the early 1980s, the US environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducing - even eliminating - exposure to chemicals and toxins. This work chronicles the movement's disease prevention philosophy from the beginning.
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Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers - Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, And The Birth Weight Paradox

by Alyshia Galvez

51,61€ + 10% CARD

 According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favourable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. This takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital's public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies.
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Talking Therapy - Knowledge And Power In American Psychiatric Nursing

by Kylie Smith

38,36€ + 10% CARD

 Traces the rise of psychiatric nursing in the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, this book demonstrates the inherently social construction of â€œmental healthâ€, and highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.
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When The Air Became Important - A Social History Of The New England And Lancashire Textile Industries

by Janet Greenlees

71,48€ + 10% CARD

 <div> <div>In <i>When the Air Became Important</i>, medical historian Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part. Such enclosed environments, where large numbers of people labored in close quarters, were ideal settings for the rapid spread of diseases including tuberculosis, bronchitis and pneumonia. When workers left the factories for home, these diseases were transmitted throughout the local population, yet operatives also brought diseases into the factory. Other aerial hazards common to both the community and workplace included poor ventilation and noise. Emphasizing the importance of the peculiarities of place as well as employers’ balance of workers’ health against manufacturing needs, Greenlees’s pioneering book sheds light on the roots of contemporary environmentalism and occupational health reform. Her work highlights the complicated relationships among local business, local and national politics of health, and community priorities.</div> </div>
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