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  • AIDS

    The Politics of Survival

    by Nancy Krieger, Glen Margo ...
    Series series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
    In one short decade, the politics of AIDS has become the politics of survival. In a world whose social order is changing before our eyes, AIDS insistently brings new meaning to the age-old question of what it is we must do to survive-as individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as members of an interdependent world. This book brings together a collection of articles that frankly ... Read more

    $120.99 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

    $30.99 USD

  • The Epidemic

    A Global History of Aids

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    This "perceptive and concise" history chronicles humanity's relationship with the AIDS virus ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand—noting the excesses ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tinderbox

    How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It

    by Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin ...
    In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best ways to fight it ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Human Right to Health (Norton Global Ethics Series)

    by Jonathan Wolff ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    “A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”—Kirkus ReviewsFew topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture. Detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical over-reach. Jonathan ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Social Injustice and Public Health

    by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman ...
    Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textbook of Global Health

    by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, Timothy H. Holtz ...
    THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED "This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health problems emerge and the forces that underlie and propel them." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these health problems is rooted in a confluence of social, political, economic, and biomedical factors that together ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Scrambling for Africa

    AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

    by Johanna Tayloe Crane ...
    Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    Anthropologist Crane (Univ. of Washington-Bothell) presents a solidly documented and well-reasoned discussion of AIDS and its far-reaching effects. An excellent overview deals with resistance to treatment.. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals.―ChoiceA work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • HIV & AIDS

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Whiteside ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Contagion and Chaos

    Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

    by Andrew T. Price-Smith ...
    An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Global Health

    Edited by Ann Allen, Judy McKimm, Brian D Nicholson ...
    The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating guide for healthcare students and practitioners introduces the major themes, challenges and debates relevant to global health that will equip the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD