New Books In Public Health
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Interviews with scholars of public health about their new books
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Sarah Cassella, "Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Change and Pandemics" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2023)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Ryan Reft, "Heroin and Chocolate City: Black Community Responses to Drug Addiction in the Nation’s Capital, 1967-1973" (2024)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Kate Morgan, "The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History" (Mudlark, 2024)
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May 19, 2024 |
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Marina Welker, "Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia" (U California Press, 2024)
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May 18, 2024 |
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The Contagion of Covid Policy: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Freedom of Speech
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May 03, 2024 |
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Susan Partovi, "Renegade M.D.: A Doctor's Stories from the Streets" (Bookbaby, 2024)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Lawson R. Wulsin, "Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice" (FSG, 2021)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Kris Butler, "Drink Maps in Victorian Britain" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Reducing Barriers to Language Assistance in Hospital
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Charlie Hertzog Young, "Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future" (Footnote Press, 2023)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Benjamin J. Pauli, "Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Christy Spackman, "The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Kristine M. McCusker, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Taste of Water: A Conversation with Christy Spackman
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Brian H. Williams, "The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Nessette Falu, "Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Adrienne E. Strong, "Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania" (U California Press, 2020)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Talking to Strangers: A Discussion with Psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Jenny Trinitapoli, "An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, "Body Art" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Astra Taylor, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart" (House of Anansi Press, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Linda L. Michaels et al.. "Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation: Humanizing Mental Health Policy and Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Katherine Mason, "The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Hyun Bang Shin et al., "COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World" (Ubiquity Press, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, "Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream" (Routledge, 2023)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" (U California Press, 2022)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Jennifer Moss, "The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It" (HBRP, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Sharada Sugirtharajah, "Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Donovan X. Ramsey, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era" (One World, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now" (Routledge, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Cathy-Mae Karelse, "Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Methadone and Covid-19
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Doctor Ex Machina: AI in Medicine and its Pitfalls
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Marius Wamsiedel, "The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania" (Lexington, 2023)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin, "Decolonize Self-Care" (OR Books, 2022)
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May 24, 2023 |
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Matthew Remski et al., "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
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May 21, 2023 |
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The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
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May 19, 2023 |
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Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
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May 17, 2023 |
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America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers
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May 16, 2023 |
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Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2023 |
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Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2023 |
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Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone
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May 09, 2023 |
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Rapid Reviews: COVID-19
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May 08, 2023 |
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Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)
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May 04, 2023 |
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Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942" (SEA Program Publications, 2022)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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The History of Contraception
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Tracy Livecchi and Liza Morton, "Healing Hearts and Minds: A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Derek Hanley, "Photos from the Front Lines: A Year on the Streets of Alameda County" (2022)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Lee Trepanier, "Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID" (Routledge, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Melanie Heath et al., "Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions" (Routledge, 2022)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Arthur Kleinman, "Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine" (U California Press, 1997)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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The History of Teletherapy
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Roger D. Blackwell and Roger A. Bailey, "Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, and Your Nation (Rothstein Publishing, 2022)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic:
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Is China's Communist Party Threatened by the Protests?
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Margaret S. Chisolm, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Michael Stein, "Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Rustom Bharucha, "The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture" (Seagull Books, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Ayan S. Mandal, "A Stethoscope for the Brain: Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind" (New Degree Press, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Observations about the Hard-Won Wisdom of Old Age
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, "Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Suicide Prevention: Grassroots Intervention for High-Risk Groups
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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The Heroin Clinic
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Marika Cifor, "Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Gonçalo Santos, "Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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“Vaccine: The Human Story”: A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Bharat Jayram Venkat, "At the Limits of Cure" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Andrew Doig, "This Mortal Coil: A History of Death" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
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May 25, 2022 |
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Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
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May 18, 2022 |
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Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, "Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission" (2022)
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May 17, 2022 |
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Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
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May 12, 2022 |
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Guy Beiner, "Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Morteza Mahmoudi, "A Brief Guide to Academic Bullying" (Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2021)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Christopher Donoghue, "The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents" (NYU Press, 2022)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
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May 11, 2022 |
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Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
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May 04, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
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May 04, 2022 |
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Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Rod Tanchanco, "First Patients: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients" (First Hawk, 2022)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Pauline Boss, "The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic" (W.W. Norton, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Understanding the Drivers of Vaccine Acceptance in Southeast Asia
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi, "Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 1: A Conversation with Miguel Nicolelis
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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John Zerzan, "When We Are Human: Notes from the Age of Pandemics" (Feral House, 2021)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Charles Vidich, "Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine" (Praeger, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Keith Wailoo, "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh, "Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Peter A. Swenson, "Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Amy C. Sullivan, "Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Alison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Priya Fielding-Singh, "How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America" (Little Brown Spark, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Noémi Tousignant, "Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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David A. B. Murray, "Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Julia Bahner, "Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Diego Armus and Pablo Gómez, "The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky, "The Opioid Epidemic in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Rocio Gomez, "Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Anne Pollock, "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Stepping in to Improve Women’s and Babies’ Lives in Southeast Asia
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Donald A. Barr, "Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Gowri Vijayakumar, "At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Chris A. Barcelos, "Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Martin Halliwell, "American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Nicholas Freudenberg, "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 25, 2021 |
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Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Mary A. Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Tales of Unsung Heroes: How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov, "The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society" (Routledge, 2021)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Charley E. Willison, "Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Siobhán Hearne, "Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris, "Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mitchell L. Hammond, "Epidemics and the Modern World" (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Xiaoping Fang, "China's Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Seema Yasmin, "Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Jacob Steere-Williams, "The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Combating African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste with Associate Professor Paul Hick
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Ethan Lou, "Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" (Signal, 2020)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Saiba Varma, "The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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M. Nestle and K. Trueman, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Nicholas Bartlett, "Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Devadas Krishnadas, "Confronting Covid-19: A Strategic Playbook for Leaders and Decision Makers" (MCIA, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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47 Glimpsing COVID: Gael McGill on Data Visualization (GT, JP)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia: A Discussion with Emeritus Professor Philip Hirsch
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It" (HarperVia, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of Covid-19" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Japanese Civil Society: Responding to COVID -19 at Home and Abroad with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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The Fight Against COVID-19: Humanities Matter Amidst a Pandemic Too
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Rene Almeling, "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health" (U California Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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John Whysner, "The Alchemy of Disease" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Jennifer J. Carroll, "Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Jennifer Lisa Koslow, "Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Charles Allan McCoy, "Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Fay Bound Alberti, "A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Elisheva A. Perelman, "American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Impacts of Covid-19 on Japanese society with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Controlling the Scientific Narrative: Randomized Controlled Trials and The Manipulation of “Control”
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
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May 27, 2020 |
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Dealing with COVID-19: The Perils of Using Previous Crises as a Reference Point
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May 20, 2020 |
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Epidemic Management in China with Lauri Paltemaa
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May 14, 2020 |
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30 In Focus: Nir Eyal on (the deontology of) “Challenge Testing” a Covid Vaccine
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May 07, 2020 |
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Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger" (U California Press, 2015)
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction" (Arsenal, 2108)
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic" (Lexington, 2019)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Penn Press, 2018)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Susan Opotow, "New York After 9/11" (Fordham UP, 2019)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine" (Encounter Books, 2019)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social History" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945" (U Texas Press, 2016)
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good" (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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William Caferro, "Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Jonathan Marks, "The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 02, 2019 |
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James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth from America's Opioid and Suicide Epidemic" (Radius Books, 2018)
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Joseph Jarvis, "The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care" (Scrivener Books, 2018)
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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Peter Hotez, "Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Leigh Goodmark, "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence" (U California Press, 2018)
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Dave Chase, "The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back" (Health Rosetta Media, 2018)
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Joshua Sharfstein, “The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams, “What’s Making Our Children Sick?” (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017)
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Matthew R. Pembleton, “Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug Wars” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017
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May 25, 2018 |
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Martha Few, “For All Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala” (U Arizona Press, 2015)
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May 18, 2018 |
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Laura Spinney, “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World” (PublicAffairs, 2017)
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May 09, 2018 |
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Jonathan Engel, “Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Urmi Engineer Willoughby, “Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteeth-Century New Orleans” (LSU Press, 2017)
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Jonathan D. Quick, “The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It” (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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Anita Hannig, “Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
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Jul 10, 2017 |
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Travis Linnemann, “Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power” (NYU Press, 2016)
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Mar 15, 2017 |
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Anthony M. Petro, “After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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Robert Peckham, “Epidemics in Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Nov 06, 2016 |
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Daniel Amsterdam, “Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State” (Penn Press, 2016)
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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Sam Quinones, “Dreamland: The True Tale of American’s Opiate Epidemic” (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Mark Navin, “Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Epistemology, Ethics, and Health Care” (Routledge, 2016)
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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Richard C. Keller, “Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Sep 23, 2015 |
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Elena Conis, “Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization” (University of Chicago, 2014)
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Feb 02, 2015 |
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John P. DiMoia, “Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Sep 27, 2013 |
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Kate Brown, “Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Sep 11, 2013 |
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Mark A. Largent, “Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
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Sep 06, 2013 |
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Marian Moser Jones, “The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
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Jul 26, 2013 |
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Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick, “Reducing Gun Violence in America” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
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May 15, 2013 |
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Marta Hanson, “Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China” (Routledge, 2011)
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Eric C. Schneider, “Smack: Heroin and the American City” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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Elizabeth Pisani, “The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS” (Norton, 2008)
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Apr 24, 2011 |
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Paul Offit, “Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All” (Basic Books, 2011)
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Mar 25, 2011 |