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  • - A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries
    av Janet Greenlees
    588,-

    Examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Janet 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.

  • - U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
     
    1 566,-

    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.

  • - Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
    av Gerald N. Grob, PhD Horwitz & Allan V.
    480,-

    Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, this title examines tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.

  • - U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
     
    488,-

    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.

  • - Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic
    av Sonja Mackenzie
    464,-

  • - A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation
    av Sarah B. Rodriguez
    548 - 1 770,-

  • - Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
    av Laura D. Hirshbein
    440 - 1 612,-

    Traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity. This book addresses gender issues in the construction of depression, explores key questions of how its diagnosis was developed, how it has been used, and how we should question its application in American society.

  • - Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era
    av Jennifer Lisa Koslow
    392,99 - 1 770,-

  • - Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America
    av Shannon Withycombe
    369 - 1 612,-

    The first book to utilize women's own writings about miscarriage to explore the individual understandings of pregnancy loss and the multiple social and medical forces that helped to shape those perceptions. What emerges from Shannon Withycombe's work is unlike most medicalization narratives.

  • - Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process
    av Ruth Horowitz
    488,-

  • - Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
    av Kylie Smith
    403 - 1 807,-

  • - Law Matters
    av Frank M. McClellan
    419 - 1 566,-

  • - Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families
    av Emily K. Abel
    241,-

    Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, this book expands our understanding of the history of US hospices.

  • - The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production
    av Claas Kirchhelle
    719 - 1 585,-

    Analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Kirchhelle's comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of antimicrobial resistance.

  • - Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era
    av Dena T. Smith
    371 - 1 622,-

    Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.

  • - Radical Reform or Incremental Change?
    av Gerald N. Grob
    735,-

    Traces how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned the community-based system of psychiatric services. This work shows how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change.

  • - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
    av Brittany Cowgill
    476 - 1 622,-

    Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives.

  • - Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
    av Cynthia A. Connolly
    510 - 1 622,-

    This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance--many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.

  • - Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America
    av Michelle L. McClellan
    424 - 1 566,-

    Medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role, particularly one that glorifies motherhood.

  • av Powel H. Kazanjian
    639,-

    At the turn of the twentieth century, Frederick Novy was the leader among a new breed of full-time bacteriologists at American medical schools. Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy's archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities during a formative period in modern medical science.

  • - Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
    av Patricia D'Antonio
    427,-

    Public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the US's health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This new book reveals the key role that these local health programs had in influencing how Americans perceived their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities.

  • av Charlene Galarneau
    412 - 1 622,-

    Makes a powerful ethical argument for treating communities as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Drawing together the key community dimensions of health care, and demonstrating their neglect in most prominent theories of health care justice, Charlene Galarneau postulates the ethical norms of community justice.

  • - Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
    av Laura L. Heinemann
    440 - 1 566,-

    The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.

  • - A Century of Changing Markets and Missions
    av Barbra Mann Wall
    464,-

    Chronicles changes in Catholic hospitals during the twentieth century, many of which are emblematic of trends in the US healthcare system. It explores the Church's struggle to safeguard its religious values, examines the power of women, and the gender disparity in these institutions. These critical transformations are situated within the context of changing Church policy during the 1960s.

  • - Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America
    av Laura D. Hirshbein
    488 - 1 566,-

    Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.

  • - Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century
    av Leo B. Slater
    464,-

    Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine - a natural cure - became harder to acquire. This historical study shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II.

  • - The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970
    av Cynthia A. Connolly
    464,-

    Offers an analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This book explains how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.

  • - Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940
    av James A. Schafer
    488 - 1 566,-

  • - Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment
    av Marianne Sullivan
    1 566,-

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