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“andreas opitz”

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  • Ecologies of Disease Control

    Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz, Andrea Wiegeshoff ...
    Series series
    Ecologies of Disease Control explores the relationship between ecological conceptions of epidemics and forms of infectious disease control. Bringing historical, sociological, anthropological, and geographical case studies from the late eighteenth century to the present into dialogue, contributors unearth a multiplicity of spatial configurations in governing epidemics, putting contemporary health ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • The Misinformation Age

    How False Beliefs Spread

    by Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall ...
    "Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy." — Kirkus ReviewsEditors' choice, The New York Times Book ReviewRecommended reading, Scientific AmericanWhy should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequenc... ... Read more

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  • Why Trust Science?

    by Naomi Oreskes ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Public Health

    A Very Short Introduction

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

    $7.99 USD

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  • Partner to the Poor

    A Paul Farmer Reader

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Series Book 23 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients—and worked to address the root causes of their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dead Epidemiologists

    On the Origins of COVID-19

    by Rob Wallace ...
    A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • The Lancet: Zoonoses

    Global Health Series

    Edited by The Lancet ...
    Endemic and enzootic zoonoses cause about a billion cases of illness in people and millions of deaths every year, and emerging zoonoses are a rising threat to global health. Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we share with animals – cause more than 60% of human infectious diseases, and have been responsible for some of the most devastating disease outbreaks in recent ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Geography of Health

    by Helen Hazen, Peter Anthamatten ...
    In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The book’s focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Health and Medical Geography

    by Michael Emch, PhD, Elisabeth Dowling Root, PhD, Margaret Carrel, PhD ...
    Why are rainfall, carcinogens, and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space? The fourth edition of the leading text in the field has been updated and reorganized to cover the latest developments in disease ecology and health promotion across the globe. The book accessibly introduces the core questions and perspectives of health and medical geography and presents cutting-edge ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy

    Beyond the Neglectful State

    by James Wilson ...
    Public health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we are able to lead. Putting public health first would allow improvements to the health of everyone, especially the worst off. Yet many citizens actively oppose state interference to improve population health, complaining that it encroaches on personal ... Read more

    $27.59 USD