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Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
Current public health promotion of breastfeeding relies heavily on health messaging and individual behavior change. Women are told that “breast is best” but too little serious …

Tainted Earth
Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore—including arsenic, lead, and cadmium—may be released from smoke …

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 …

Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and …

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, …

Doctors Serving People
Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy, genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans, and see the human …