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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

lieferbar ab 15.7.2025.

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Gordon B Moskowitz
Introduction to Social Cognition

This engaging text delves into social cognition by exploring major questions in the field through an everyday lens. Students are introduced to core concepts, processes, and findings pertaining to how peop…

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Gordon B Moskowitz
Introduction to Social Cognition

This engaging text delves into social cognition by exploring major questions in the field through an everyday lens. Students are introduced to core concepts, processes, and findings pertaining to how peop…

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Christine Herbert
Digestion, the Key to Good Health

A guide examining one of the most important, yet often most neglected, organ systems in the body - from the mouth, to the stomach, to the pancreas and liver - and how to keep it healthy with herbal medici…

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Edna Bonhomme
A History of the World in Six Plagues

"Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, ou…

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Carina Heckert
Birth in Times of Despair

"Birth in Times of Despair delves into the various forms of maternal harm on the US-Mexico border as they relate to longstanding unjust immigration, health, and social policies both before and during the …

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Katherine A Foss
Capturing Covid

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three …

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Katherine A Foss
Capturing Covid

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three …

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Ernesto Che Guevara
Che and Medicine

Che Guevara’s passion for public health contributed to his a legacy of social medicine in Latin America, and this book explores and reveals his thoughts on the role of a doctor. Features an introduction …

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Jing Luo
The Geography of Disease

Discover the field of health geography, which seeks to better understand the causes, spread, and mitigation of disease through the study of geographic factors.

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Brodie Ramin
Written in Blood

Written in Blood, by physician and author Brodie Ramin, draws on lessons from past disasters to argue that proactive, preventative strategies can reduce risks and help avert crises - in our personal lives…

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Amanda Becker
You Must Stand Up

The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement during the pivotal first year after Dobbs.

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Social Capital and Health

Social Capital and Health builds on the existing literature in establishing the effect of social capital on health. With contributions from scholars in the field, this book covers different aspects of soc…

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Jenny Goodman
Getting Healthy in Toxic Times

How can we protect ourselves from the pollution, chemicals, and toxins that pervade our environment? Dr. Jenny Goodman connects the health of our planet with our own well-being, addressing the questions t…

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Josephine Ensign
Way Home

"This is a work of narrative nonfiction set in Seattle-King County, Washington, that explores the contemporary landscape of homelessness with an emphasis on innovative local solutions"--

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Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter wi…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

This book examines how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness in Jordan's capital city of Amman. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for …

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Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter wi…

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Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

"Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS available in one volume. Sontag destigmatizes both illnesses by removing the metaphorical thinking that has made these among the most feared diseases of the …

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Seth Berkley
Fair Doses

"Fair Doses is an unflinching and insightful account of the global effort to deliver vaccines at a time of unprecedented crisis. Dr. Seth Berkley takes readers inside the high-stakes decisions, political …

lieferbar ab 28.10.2025.

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