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  • Useful Bodies

    Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century

    by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, Lara Marks ...
    A collection of essays that offers "a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of the state in human subjects research" ( Journal of the History of Biology).Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practiced in other countries, as well, both before and after the Nazi era. The use of unwitting or unwilling subjects in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engineering Health

    How Biotechnology Changed Medicine

    Edited by Lara Marks ...
    Biotechnology harnesses cellular and biochemical systems to advance knowledge of the molecular cause of disease and to provide new diagnostic tools and more precisely targeted drugs. Within a decade, global investment in medical biotechnology has increased more than ten-fold, resulting in therapies for previously untreatable conditions. But what exactly is biotechnology and what are its origins? ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals)

    International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945

    Edited by Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, Hilary Marland ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments, institutions and individuals in those countries. Contributors display how policy and practice have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Migrants, Minorities & Health

    Historical and Contemporary Studies

    Edited by Lara Marks, Michael Worboys ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world in order to examine the complex relations between health issues and ideas of ethnicity and race. The collection explores the historical origins and the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Public Health

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Virginia Berridge ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries or departments of public health, whilst international agencies such as the World Health Organisation promote public health policies, and regional organisations such as the European Union have public health funding and policies. But what do we mean when ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • SickKids

    The History of The Hospital for Sick Children

    by The Hospital for Sick Kids, David Wright ...
    Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation for clinical care and research that has influenced generations of health care practitioners across the country and around the world. In a very real sense, hospital staff have touched the lives of tens of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine

    Edited by W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Companion Encyclopedias
    This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine, both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The editors have assembled an international team of scholars to provide detailed and informative factual surveys with contemporary interpretations and historiographical debate.Special Features* Comprehensive: 72 ... Read more

    $750.00 USD

  • The Abortion Papers Ireland: Volume 2

    Edited by Aideen Quility, Catherine Conlon, Sinéad Kennedy ...
    The Abortion Papers is a unique edited collection that provides key reflections and scholarship on the Irish abortion regime generated in the period between the 1992 X case, the death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012 and the subsequent introduction in 2013 of limited abortion legislation. The ideas generated in the volume come from the different but complementary perspectives of activism and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Health In History

    by Virginia Berridge ...
    Part of the Understanding Public Health series, this book offers a critical overview of public health in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as critical and long-term perspectives on current issues. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Health and Healing

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    by Margaret Stacey ...
    "...It is well-written and well-referenced...this is an important, innovative, enjoyable textbook which can be highly recommended for use in undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses on health related subjects, and which will be of value in courses on women's studies and gender. It will also be of interest to inquiring health care practitioners of whatever persuasion." - Sociology "This ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Great Influenza

    The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

    by John M. Barry ...
    **#1 New York Times bestseller“Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates"Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune**The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Politics of Breastfeeding: when breasts are bad for business

    by Gabrielle Palmer ...
    As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nation and thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use of bottles, artificial milks and other risky products. In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer ... Read more

    $6.99 USD