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| 1. |  | Title: Understanding heart disease  Author: Selzer, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Medicine | Science Publisher's Description: Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported prema . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Medicine | History | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 4. |  | Title: Sentinel for health: a history of the Centers for Disease Control Author: Etheridge, Elizabeth W Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Medicine Publisher's Description: In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit during World War II through the mid-1980s . The eradication of smallpox, the struggle to identify an effective polio vaccine, the unraveling of the secret . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: AIDS: the making of a chronic disease Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to return. By the middle 1980s, however, it . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Susto, a folk illness Author: Rubel, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to be a sickness caused by the separation of soul and body which is precipitated by a supernatural force. Most studies of culture-bound diseases have re . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: AIDS: the burdens of history Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine | Science Publisher's Description: The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 Policy Publisher'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 |
| 9. |  | Title: Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge Author: Koplow, David A 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | Disease Publisher's Description: Though smallpox was eradicated from the planet two decades ago, recent terrorist acts have raised the horrific possibility that rogue states, laboratories, or terrorist groups are in possession of secret stockpiles of the virus that causes the disease, and may be preparing to unleash it on target po . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: White plague, black labor: tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa Author: Packard, Randall M 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Medicine | Medical Anthropology | African Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Illness and culture in the postmodern age Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Medicine | Technology and Society | Anthropology | American Studies Publisher's Description: We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: High anxieties: cultural studies in addiction Author: Brodie, Janet Farrell Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Media Studies | Gender Studies | Cognitive Science | Social and Political Thought | Art | Sociology Publisher's Description: High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: a disease, a cause, and a cure Author: Carpenter, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John) 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | Medicine Publisher's Description: In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B1 in the diet, beriberi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare Author: Briggs, Charles L 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Disease | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and C . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Ethics in an epidemic: AIDS, morality, and culture Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Sociology | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems Publisher's Description: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India Author: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | History Publisher'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 |
| 17. |  | Title: When walking fails: mobility problems of adults with chronic conditions Author: Iezzoni, Lisa I Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Sociology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults who . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Promoting human wellness: new frontiers for research, practice, and policy Author: Jamner, Margaret Schneider Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Medicine | Public Policy | Anthropology | Aging | Education Publisher's Description: This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and disease prevention. Based on award-winning lectures by University of California faculty on nine campuses as part of the Wellness Lectures Program jointly . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | Medicine Publisher'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 |
| 20. |  | Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmology Author: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | China | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice o . . . [more] Similar Items |