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  • Bodily Subjects

    Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000

    by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, Wendy Mitchinson ...
    Series Book 42 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s*, Bodily Subjects* explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose meanings we too often assume to understand - are embedded in assumptions about femininity ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • 19th AND UNIVERSITY

    A TALE OF 1968 AUSTIN

    by barbara light lacy, l.k. siga ...
    1968.  The University of Texas at Austin. Five Baby Boomers with a vision of a better world come together believing they could do it all.  Breaking the rules set by the repressive Fifties and making new ones, the residents of the house at 19th and University shed the heritage of the past and take the ideals and indulgences of the times as their own. This story, woven into the lifestyles, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Complaints & Disorders

    The Sexual Politics of Sickness

    by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ...
    Series series Contemporary Classics
    The classic work on women's health and how the medical establishment helped to justify sexism, by the authors of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses.From Barbara Ehrenrich, New York Times-bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Bright-Sided, and other titles, and Deirdre English, former editor of Mother Jones, this book delves into the history of how women have been diagnosed, defined, and often ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Search for an Abortionist

    The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

    by Nancy Howell Lee ...
    Series Book 2 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    This eye-opening look at the abortion process prior to the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 is now more relevant than ever, with a new introduction by the author revisiting history that is still salient half a century laterIn the years before Roe v. Wade, women seeking to end their unwanted pregnancies had limited options—many of them dangerous, even potentially fatal, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • Divided

    Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

    by Dr Annabel Sowemimo ...
    WINNER OF THE BREAD & ROSES PRIZE FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023'Important and ambitious' Observer, Book of the Day'An illuminating and powerful intersectional a... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Medical History

    by Ian Miller ...
    Series series Theory and History
    This introductory textbook presents medical history as a theoretically rich discipline, one that constantly engages with major social questions about ethics, bodies, state power, disease, public health and mental disorder. Providing both instructors and students with an account of the changing nature of medical history research since it first emerged as a distinct discipline in 19th century ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Second Sexism

    Discrimination Against Men and Boys

    by David Benatar ...
    Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriouslyThis book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking, it examines controversial issues such as sex-based affirmative action, gender roles, and charges of anti-feminism. ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    by Maya Goldenberg ...
    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States

    From Margins to Mainstream

    Edited by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green, Kyan Lynch ...
    The most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists from trans, gender-diverse, and allied medical communities.Finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Health categoryArriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the Un... ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Eugenics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed to using the principles of heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage unhealthy ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gender Hurts

    A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

    by Sheila Jeffreys ...
    It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is increasing acceptance by governments and many other organisations and actors of the legitimacy of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD