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Recent Ebola outbreaks have focussed the world's attention on disease and quarantine. In this first global history of quarantine, an international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce.

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Recent Ebola outbreaks have focussed the world's attention on disease and quarantine. In this first global history of quarantine, an international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce.

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Queen of the Professions: The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America is a colorful yet authoritative work of social history offering readers a sturdy platform from which to confront looming issues about the future of American medical care. Its unique perspective brings crucial context to current debates about modern medicine.

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The governor of Arkansas promotes his new 12-step program for people who wantto end bad habits and begin a healthy lifestyle.

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The most fatal virus known to science, rabies - a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans - kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. This book charts four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies.

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Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

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Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

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Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare in America but not on how to do it. In Reforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate. They identify and analyse the three leading approaches to reform.

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This book presents a comprehensive and scientific review of the research during the past fifty years on the relationship between religion and health in later life. Next investigated are the impacts on health of private religious activity, community religious involvement, and personal religious experience.

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This revealing book tackles the daunting problem of increasing chronic illness in America, offering fresh ideas for the ways in which the challenge can be successfully managed.

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This volume focuses on a study of the trends in disaster and health risk reporting and offers guidelines on how to report the dangers of these risks more accurately.

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This volume focuses on a study of the trends in disaster and health risk reporting and offers guidelines on how to report the dangers of these risks more accurately.

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Thousands of American service members are returning from their tours of duty with physical and/or psychological disabilities.

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This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

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This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

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An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however, had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans' efforts to acquire it and to master its special botanical and chemical properties. H

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This book tries to explain and justify a woman's moral and legal rights in pregnancy and explores the extent of her moral duties toward the fetus.

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A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants.

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These four multi-disciplinary studies focus on sexual and reproductive health advocacy and programs in Latin America.