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Mapping "Race"
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has …
Mammography Wars
Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with …
Abortion Care as Moral Work
Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and …
Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional …
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman
Winner of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender 2013 Outstanding Book Award ? Winner of the 2013 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the Feminist and …
Healthcare and Human Dignity
The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are …
An Alternative History of Hyperactivity
In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood …
Broadcasting Birth Control
Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations, and legislation that shaped the campaign. Recently, …
Dying Green
The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet …
The Morning After
Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-million industry in the United …
Comrades in Health
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often …