Health & Medicine

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Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights

The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana

By Ellie Gore
Subjects: African Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examining the impacts of global development processes and HIV response on queer politics and activism in Ghana

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Ohio under COVID

Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis

Edited by Katherine Sorrels, Lora Arduser, Danielle Bessett, Vanessa Carbonell, Michelle McGowan, and Edward Wallace
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Sociology, Disability Studies

The human story of Covid, from America's bellwether state

Principles of Corporate Renewal

3rd Edition

By Harlan D. Platt
Subjects: Business, Economics, Industrial Organization, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management

A comprehensive approach to renewing troubled companies

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

The Washing Away of Wrongs

Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China

By Tz'u Sung & Tz'u Sung
Translated by Brian McKnight
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Health & Medicine
Series: Science, Medicine, and Technology in East Asia

An English translation of the oldest extant book on forensic medicine in the world

Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital

By Suzanne Gottschang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine

The first long- term anthropological study of China’s Baby- Friendly Hospital Initiative, closely examining our assumptions about motherhood and childbirth

Communicative Biocapitalism

The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

By Olivia Banner
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Scrutinizes dominant models of health and ability, race, and gender and the structure of digital health

Medicine at Michigan

A History of the University of Michigan Medical School at the Bicentennial

By Joel D. Howell & Dea Boster
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Health & Medicine

An insightful look at the University of Michigan’s groundbreaking Medical School

Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed.

New Edition

By David Hemenway
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Political Science, American Politics

A new edition of a classic: the first complete picture of the public-health approach to gun violence

 

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.

Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

2nd Edition

By Gayle Greene
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, Health & Medicine

The life story of the epidemiologist who discovered the harmful effects of fetal X rays and other radiation exposure

The War in Their Minds

German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany

By Svenja Goltermann
Translated by Philip Schmitz
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Disability Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War

Paralyzing Summer

The True Story of the Ann Arbor V.A. Hospital Poisonings and Deaths

By S. Martin Lindenauer & Elizabeth Oneal
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, True Crime, Health & Medicine

Gripping account of the Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital poisonings and the controversial investigation and trial of two nurses

The Corrigible and the Incorrigible

Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany

By Greg Eghigian
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Disability Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores how the social sciences and clinical medicine contributed to the understanding and treatment of offenders in three disparate political regimes

American Lobotomy

A Rhetorical History

By Jenell Johnson
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

Financing Medicaid

Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net

By Shanna Rose
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Health & Medicine

Medicaid has grown to be the largest intergovernmental grant program in the United States, thanks in part to the efforts of state governors

Mammographies

The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives

The Chief Concern of Medicine

The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices

By Ronald Schleifer & Jerry Vannatta
Subjects: Health & Medicine

An interdisciplinary project that aims at demonstrating the importance of humanistic understanding in the intellectual and everyday practices of medicine

Physician Communication with Patients

Research Findings and Challenges

By Jon Christianson, Louise H. Warrick, Michael Finch, and Wayne B. Jonas
Subjects: Reference, Health & Medicine

An analysis of the body of research into physician-patient communication

Disabled Veterans in History

Enlarged and Revised Edition

Edited by David A. Gerber
Subjects: Disability Studies, History, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The history of disabled veterans, from Ancient Greece to the conflict in Afghanistan

Disabled Veterans in History

Enlarged and Revised, Afterword by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.

Edited by David A. Gerber
Subjects: Disability Studies, History, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The history of disabled veterans, from Ancient Greece to the conflict in Afghanistan

Viral Mothers

Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS

By Bernice L. Hausman
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises

Playing Doctor

Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power

New and expanded edition

By Joseph Turow
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio

A classic look at doctors in television, updated with two decades of new shows and research

Beyond Sputnik

U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century

By Homer Alfred Neal, Tobin Smith, and Jennifer McCormick
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources

A timely introduction to all facets of U.S. national science policy

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