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61. | | Title: Public health law and ethics: a readerAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Health CarePublisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | Title: The worth of a childAuthor: Murray, Thomas H 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a c . . . [more]Similar Items | 64. | | Title: Tobacco war: inside the California battles Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Public Policy | Politics | Social Problems | Economics and Business | Medicine | Environmental Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton . . . [more]Similar Items | 65. | | Title: Life without disease: the pursuit of medical utopia Author: Schwartz, William B 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Economics and Business | History and Philosophy of Science | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Drug war politics: the price of denialAuthor: Bertram, Eva Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law | Sociology | Medicine | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: When abortion was a crime: women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973 Author: Reagan, Leslie J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | United States History | MedicinePublisher's Description: As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time wh . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: FACT OR FICTION? *A white male earning over $35,000 a year has a better chance of surviving most types of cancer than an unemployed African-American male.*Psychological factors predispose people to contracting cancer and improved emotional health promotes recovery.*Early detection is useless in curi . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest NigeriaAuthor: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | Psychology | African History | Medicine | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmat . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | Title: What I learned in medical school: personal stories of young doctorsAuthor: Takakuwa, Kevin M Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Anthropology | Health CarePublisher's Description: Like many an exclusive club, the medical profession subjects its prospective members to rigorous indoctrination: medical students are overloaded with work, deprived of sleep and normal human contact, drilled and tested and scheduled down to the last minute. Difficult as the regimen may be, for those . . . [more]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: A flourishing Yin: gender in China's medical history, 960-1665Author: Furth, Charlotte Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | Women's Studies | China | MedicinePublisher's Description: This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition of fuke , or medicine for women, over the seven hundred years between the Song and the end of the Ming dynasty. Using medical classics, po . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century IndiaAuthor: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | HistoryPublisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more]Similar Items | 73. | | Title: Reproducing empire: race, sex, science, and U.S. imperialism in Puerto RicoAuthor: Briggs, Laura 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | Medicine | United States History | Women's Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, fe . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark: reconstructing life after brain injuryAuthor: Johansen, Ruthann Knechel 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Autobiographies and Biographies | Medical Anthropology | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | Title: Disciplining reproduction: modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex" Author: Clarke, Adele Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | American Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle. Adele Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge across the . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic painAuthor: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Medical Anthropology | Physical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more]Similar Items |
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