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  • Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

    by Nancy Krieger ...
    Series series Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health
    From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health justice and the embodied truths of lived experience. Since the 1700s, fierce debates in medicine and public health have centered around whether sources of ill health can be attributed to either the individual or the surrounding body politic. But what if instead health researchers measure--and policies address- ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Epidemiology and the People's Health

    Theory and Context, Second Edition

    by Nancy Krieger ...
    Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities and ideas, data, and disinformation about the people's health are dynamic, not static. The first edition, published in 2011, addressed a major problem: although epidemiology is often referred to as the science of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health

    by Jaime Breilh, Nancy Krieger ...
    Series series Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health
    An indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and global human health and environmental crises The widespread growth of monopolies and big business has led to a fourth industrial revolution focused on producing fast, living fast, and dying fast for the sole benefit of accelerated profit. Despite unprecedented accumulations of wealth and industry, the world has ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Women's Health, Politics, and Power

    Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health

    Edited by Elizabeth Fee, Nancy Krieger ...
    Series series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
    This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women's health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women's health movement in the 1970s. The papers in both volumes are selected from the "International Journal of Health ... Read more

    $190.99 USD

  • 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

  • Climate Change and the People's Health

    by Sharon Friel, Nancy Krieger ...
    Series series Small Books Big Ideas in Population Heal
    Climate change and social inequity are both sprawling, insidious forces that threaten populations around the world. It's time we start talking about them together. Climate Change and the People's Health offers a brave and ambitious new framework for understanding how our planet's two greatest existential threats comingle, complement, and amplify one another -- and what can be done to mitigate ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Embodying Inequality

    Epidemiologic Perspectives

    by Nancy Krieger ...
    Series series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
    To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" between 1990 and 2000. Framed by ecosocial theory, it employs ecosocial constructs of "embodiment"; ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Political Sociology and the People's Health

    by Jason Beckfield, Nancy Krieger ...
    Series series Small Books Big Ideas in Population Heal
    A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of institutions that unequally allocate power and social goods. Neither is wrong -- but can the two talk to one another? In a stirring new synthesis, Political Sociology and the People's Health advances the debate over social ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics

    Edited by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Christine C. Grady, Robert A. Crouch, Reidar K. Lie, Franklin G. Miller, David D. Wendler ...
    Series series Oxford Textbook
    The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics. Under the editorship of experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health of the United States, the book's 73 chapters offer a wide-ranging and systematic examination of all aspects of research with human beings. Considering the historical triumphs of research as well ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Medical Anthropology at the Intersections

    Histories, Activisms, and Futures

    Edited by Emily A. Wentzell, Marcia C. Inhorn ...
    In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD