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Plague Doctors highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way each system constructs the interaction between disease and the human body.

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Focusing on activity devoted to the discovery, investigation, containment, and prevention of disease in the population at large, Christopher Foreman shows how uncertainty and politics complicate crucial stages of policy response, and why that response is easily misinterpreted.

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Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian Daniel Wilson help readers understand the sheer terror that gripped parents of young children every spring and summer during the first half of the 20th century as polio epidemics ran rampant.

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The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation.

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Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South explores the conditions of extreme poverty in the American South that allow Neglected Tropical Diseases to infect 12 million people in the richest country in the world.

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Prenatal testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood. Using sociological research, this book analyzes the social-psychological and ethical implications of invasive prenatal testing, particularly CVS and amniocentesis.

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Testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood, and the recent discoveries by the Human Genome Project affect us all. Among the issues discussed in the new Afterword are the spread of prenatal testing, the changing meanings of pregnancy, and the perils and promises of the Human Genome Project.

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In general, the contributors challenge the fundamental relationships of authority that exist between patients and health care practitioners, question the tradition of using classical ethical theories within the domain of health care, and suggest a set of different directions in which health care should develop.

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Presents and assesses a variety of socio-cultural and behavioral factors that shape and influence lay and professional cancer prevention and control beliefs and actions.

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Mental health policy in the United States has involved varying approaches, often reflecting the social and economic conditions of the times.

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Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism provides ethnographic accounts of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people in Guatemala. This volume will greatly interest scholars in anthropology, global health, and public policy by offering insight into the challenges, opportunities, and inequalities the Maya people face.

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A holistic view of the factors affecting the health of a patient beyond the illness itself, this work examines the experiences of the patient. The author argues that terminal illness may not be a tragedy, but an opportunity for emotional growth, and discusses the inadequacies of modern health care.

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This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .

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A fascinating investigation into a very strange episode of scientific history. P.W. Barber tells the story of the invention, practice and downfall of psychedelic psychiatry, revealing how it shaped twentieth century understanding of mental health.

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A fascinating investigation into a very strange episode of scientific history. P.W. Barber tells the story of the invention, practice and downfall of psychedelic psychiatry, revealing how it shaped twentieth century understanding of mental health.

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Provides an account of the battle against cholera. This work is based on documents in the naval towns of south-west England. The author's account exposes the struggles between local and national government, and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention.

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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.

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Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health How does this change over time and place Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of problem publics and their relationship with public health authorities.

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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.

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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.

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This collection of six papers on the role of quantitative risk assessment in the promulgation of recent regulatory standards represents the latest contribution to a series of volumes published by Lester Lave and the Brookings Institution on regulatory decisionmaking.