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26. Cover image for 'What Do Gay Men Want?'
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
David M. Halperin

A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts

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26. Cover image for 'What Do Gay Men Want?'
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
David M. Halperin

A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts

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26. Cover image for 'What Do Gay Men Want?'
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
David M. Halperin

A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts

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27. Cover image for 'The German Patient'
Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
Jennifer M. Kapczynski

A fascinating study of disease as a trope in German debates about the Nazi past

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27. Cover image for 'The German Patient'
Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
Jennifer M. Kapczynski

A fascinating study of disease as a trope in German debates about the Nazi past

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Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
Jennifer M. Kapczynski

A fascinating study of disease as a trope in German debates about the Nazi past

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28. Cover image for 'Beyond Sputnik'
U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Homer A. Neal, Tobin L. Smith, and Jennifer B. McCormick
A timely introduction to all facets of U.S. national science policy
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U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Homer A. Neal, Tobin L. Smith, and Jennifer B. McCormick
A timely introduction to all facets of U.S. national science policy
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29. Cover image for 'The Cult of Statistical Significance'
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense
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29. Cover image for 'The Cult of Statistical Significance'
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense
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29. Cover image for 'The Cult of Statistical Significance'
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense
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30. Cover image for 'Deep'
Real Life with Spinal Cord Injury
Marcy Epstein and Travar Pettway, Editors
Essays plumbing the depths of life with spinal cord injury
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Real Life with Spinal Cord Injury
Marcy Epstein and Travar Pettway, Editors
Essays plumbing the depths of life with spinal cord injury
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31. Cover image for 'Student Bodies'
The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine
Heather Munro Prescott

Explores the fascinating connections between university health centers and the evolution of American health and medicine

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32. Cover image for 'Discovering Addiction'
The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research
Nancy D. Campbell
Groundbreaking study of the history and ethics of addiction science
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Web 2007 Open Access Available Read Online
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The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research
Nancy D. Campbell
Groundbreaking study of the history and ethics of addiction science
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Web 2007 Open Access Available Read Online
33. Cover image for 'Project Care'
Health Care Case Studies, Multimedia, and Projects for Practicing English
Steve Quann and Diana Satin
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34. Cover image for 'Understanding Assisted Suicide'
Nine Issues to Consider
John B. Mitchell
A personal journey into the issues surrounding assisted suicide that covers the widest range of topics and positions on the subject
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35. Cover image for 'Opposition and Intimidation'
The Abortion Wars and Strategies of Political Harassment
Alesha E. Doan
The first systematic study of the extralegal tactics employed by the American anti-abortion movement
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35. Cover image for 'Opposition and Intimidation'
The Abortion Wars and Strategies of Political Harassment
Alesha E. Doan
The first systematic study of the extralegal tactics employed by the American anti-abortion movement
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36. Cover image for 'Ordinary Life'
A Memoir of Illness
Kathlyn Conway
A searingly honest account of one woman's ordeal with cancer that offers insights into all the emotions and reactions that illness evokes---sometimes noble, sometimes selfish, often despairing
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37. Cover image for 'Stories as Equipment for Living'
Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff
Barbara Myerhoff
Takes us deeper into Barbara Myerhoff's examination of the place of narrative in human life, providing a treasury of reflection, experience, and wisdom as colorful as any collection of tales
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38. Cover image for 'White Coat, Clenched Fist'
The Political Education of an American Physician
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
A doctor tells his own behind-the-scenes story of the making of a medical man and the disintegration of an American myth
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39. Cover image for 'Suing the Gun Industry'
A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts
Timothy D. Lytton
The first comprehensive analysis of recent lawsuits against gun makers
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39. Cover image for 'Suing the Gun Industry'
A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts
Timothy D. Lytton
The first comprehensive analysis of recent lawsuits against gun makers
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40. Cover image for 'Inside/Outside'
A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer
Janet R. Gilsdorf, M.D.
A memoir of a physician with breast cancer, Inside/Outside tells the unforgettable story of when a doctor becomes a patient
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A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer
Janet R. Gilsdorf, M.D.
A memoir of a physician with breast cancer, Inside/Outside tells the unforgettable story of when a doctor becomes a patient
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41. Cover image for 'Deadly Dust'
Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health
New and expanded edition
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
A new and expanded edition of the authors' pivotal examination of the national silicosis crisis
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42. Cover image for 'Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry'
The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Bradley Lewis
A spirited critique of the practice of psychiatry in the United States that argues for the democratization of psychiatric knowledge
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42. Cover image for 'Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry'
The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Bradley Lewis
A spirited critique of the practice of psychiatry in the United States that argues for the democratization of psychiatric knowledge
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43. Cover image for 'Fractured Borders'
Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Mary K. DeShazer
Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing
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Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Mary K. DeShazer
Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing
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44. Cover image for 'Beyond Pain'
Making the Mind-Body Connection
Angela Mailis-Gagnon and David Israelson
With its gripping first-hand stories of patients and their ailments, Beyond Pain opens the door to our understanding of the mysteries of pain
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45. Cover image for 'The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine'
New and expanded edition
Jerome Lowenstein
Focusing on the human interaction of the industry this collection of essays asks, "Can you teach compassion?"
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46. Cover image for 'Companions for the Passage'
Stories of the Intimate Privilege of Accompanying the Dying
Marjorie Ryerson
Stories of people who have been with and cared for a loved one at the moment of death
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47. Cover image for 'Universal Coverage'
The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance
Rick Mayes
Examines why the U.S. is the only industrialized nation without universal health insurance coverage
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48. Cover image for 'Revels in Madness'
Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Allen Thiher
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
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48. Cover image for 'Revels in Madness'
Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Allen Thiher
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
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48. Cover image for 'Revels in Madness'
Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Allen Thiher
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
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49. Cover image for 'Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk'
Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania
Denise Roth Allen
An investigation of the consequences resulting from fertility-related development interventions in Tanzania
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49. Cover image for 'Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk'
Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania
Denise Roth Allen
An investigation of the consequences resulting from fertility-related development interventions in Tanzania
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50. Cover image for 'The DNA Mystique'
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee
Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture
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The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee
Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture
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