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When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's …
Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized …
The debate over health care policy in the U. S. did not end when President Obama signed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on March 23, 2010. Since …
For more than a decade, gay men have faced a terrible crisis—the HIV epidemic and its consequence for many, AIDS. The epidemic coincided with the development of visible gay …
Doing business in China can be hazardous to your health. Occupational Hazards follows a group of Chinese businessmen and government officials as they conduct business in Beijing …
Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and …
Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors and public health officials regard …
The author looks back over a lifetime, over half of which has been spent as a medical practitioner. Part biographical, part educational and part anecdotal, it gives some insight …
"Will there be a doctor—a good doctor—when I need one?" This is the bedrock health care concern for Americans, encompassing as it does additional concerns about affordability, …
In February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—a novel flu-like virus—to over a …