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Lan A Li
Body Maps

A historical and cultural study of how representing invisible anatomical structures has reshaped our understanding of human anatomy.In Body Maps , Lan A. Li unveils a rich history of the hidden landscapes…

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Faye Sayer
Heritage and Wellbeing

Heritage and Wellbeing examines what role heritage can play in creating healthier societies, exploring how heritage can improve people's wellbeing through a range of international case studies. Faye Sayer…

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Karen Bloom Gevirtz
The Apothecary's Wife

"Trenchant, witty, and erudite, The Apothecary's Wife is a timely reminder that the profit-driven commodification of healthcare and medicine in our society is neither natural nor preordained, but rat…

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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 histor…

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Richard Conniff
Ending Epidemics

How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases---and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard …

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Susan Armstrong-Reid
Behead and Cure

Behead and Cure explores the ethics of humanitarianism during the Vietnam War through the experiences of medical teams from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. It brings civilian women, who…

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Beth Linker
Slouch

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America---from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture"In 1995, a scandal erupt…

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Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century

This book examines the lively and complex nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates about the meaning of fat and its varied implications for health, beauty, and status.

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Ketil Slagstad
Standardizing Sex

"A history of trans medicine that uses Scandinavian sources to tell a global story. Standardizing Sex traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia in the twentieth century, exploring the con…

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Christian Warren
Starved for Light

"Rickets, a disease that causes softening and distorting of the bones of children, was, until a few centuries ago, an infrequent threat affecting relatively few. But in the mean streets of the Indust…

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Powel H Kazanjian
Persisting Pandemics

Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID disprove any belief that scientific discoveries have ended the period of acute epidemic diseases that once defined 19th century life and replaced them with chronic cardiovascular…

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The Health Humanities in German Studies

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work …

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João Costa
The Construction of Social Health Systems

Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft - Band 9

Despite governmental and international funding as well as numerous publications on health systems, questions remain. João Costa offers new insight into health systems thinking by emphasizing the social na…

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Meredith Reifschneider
The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare

In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that…

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Jason Rodriquez
On the Frontlines of Crisis

On the Frontlines of Crisis by Jason Rodriquez is a powerful and deeply human account of the experiences of healthcare workers during one of the most harrowing periods in modern history---the COVID-19 pan…

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The Nursing Clio Reader

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade , stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of in…

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The Nursing Clio Reader

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade , stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of in…

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Elizabeth Comen
All in Her Head

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller"All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about…

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Powel H Kazanjian
Persisting Pandemics

Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID disprove any belief that scientific discoveries have ended the period of acute epidemic diseases that once defined 19th century life and replaced them with chronic cardiovascular…

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Martin Halliwell
Transformed States

Transformed Statesoffers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications and cultural representations of the biotechnological revolution, from the Human Genome Project to the Covid-19 pande…

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