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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 …
An Organ of Murder
Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize?An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing …
Structural Intimacies
One of the most relevant social problems in contemporary American life is the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population. With vivid ethnographic detail, this book brings …
In the Public Interest
Winner of the American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section 2013 Outstanding Book Award How do we know when physicians practice medicine safely? Can we trust doctors …
Prelude to Hospice
Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as …
Toxic Exposures
Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, …
Prelude to Hospice
Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as …
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine
The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient’s perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for …
American Melancholy
As American Melancholy reveals, if you read about depression anywhere today—medical journal, popular magazine, National Institute of Mental Health pamphlet, or pharmaceutical …
American Catholic Hospitals
“Wall traces the nursing and management roles of nuns and brothers in church-related US health care institutions. This well-documented volume will be a useful addition for …