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  • Medical Outcasts

    Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants' Emergency Health Care

    by Roxane Richter ...
    As witnessed through the firsthand experiences of a frontline activist and international medical aid practitioner, this biosocial political study gives voice to the inequities in undocumented Mexican and Zimbabwean women’s emergency healthcare access and treatment in Houston, United States of America, and Johannesburg, South Africa. As a construct of feminist transdisciplinary fieldwork, this ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Traditional African Bonesetters and Western Medical Practitioners

    Fractured Patient Care Systems in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Zimbabwe

    by Roxane Richter, Thomas Max Flowers, Elias Kifon Bongmba, Ananya Kassahun Admasu ...
    Traditional bone setting (TBS) has long held a prominent sway in African healthcare, particularly in the more remote and pastoral expanses of Africa. This unique interdisciplinary religious, human rights, and sociological study of medicine manuscript is an examination of not only generationally inherited ethnobotanical, pharmacognosy TBS traditions but also direct observations on how current ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis

    Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health

    by Roxane Richter, Thomas Flowers, Elias Bongmba ...
    This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon 1,714 patient interventions and 95 personal interviews, exposing the inherent challenges of separating ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Immersive Learning Research Network

    5th International Conference, iLRN 2019, London, UK, June 23–27, 2019, Proceedings

    Edited by Dennis Beck, Anasol Peña-Rios, Todd Ogle, Daphne Economou, Markos Mentzelopoulos, Leonel Morgado, Christian Eckhardt, Johanna Pirker, Roxane Koitz-Hristov, Jonathon Richter, Christian Gütl, Michael Gardner ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2019, held in London, UK, in June 2019.The 18 revised full papers and presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); disciplinary ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times

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    A field guide to survival medicine, improvisation, and emergency care when professional help is unavailable. When There Is No Doctor by Dr. Gerald S. Boyle is a practical guide to emergency and improvised medical care for situations where professional treatment is delayed or unavailable. Drawing on clinical experience and disaster-preparedness knowledge, Boyle outlines basic principles of first ... Read more

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  • The Formula for Better Health

    How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own

    by Tom Frieden ...
    **The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.Gold Medal, 2025 Foreword INDIES Awards, Health (Adult Nonfiction) Category**In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor ... Read more

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    A Global Threat

    by Professor Dame Sally Davies, Dr Jonathan Grant, Mike Catchpole ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Drugs Don't Work - A Penguin Special by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England'If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections and injuries will kill once again' David Cameron, Prime MinisterResistance to our current range of ... Read more

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  • The New Public Health

    An Introduction for the 21st Century

    by Theodore H. Tulchinsky, Elena A. Varavikova ...
    The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, The New Public Health distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting. Following the gold ... Read more

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  • Epidemiology For Dummies

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    Become a disease detective with this easy-to-understand resourceEpidemiology For Dummies is packed with key concepts, practical applications, and real-life examples in the study of disease transmission and control. It's a must-have for students in all public-health-related fields, and for curious learners, too. This Dummies guide will help you conquer even the trickiest epidemiological concepts. ... Read more

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  • ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

    Edited by David Snashall, Dipti Patel ...
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  • One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance

    by Laura H. Kahn ...
    Does the use of low-dose antibiotics in livestock put human health at risk?Zoonoses—infectious diseases, such as SARS and mad cow, that originate in animals and spread to humans—reveal how intimately animal and human health are linked. Complicating this relationship further, when livestock are given antibiotics to increase growth, it can lead to resistant bacteria. Unfortunately, there are few ... Read more

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