This innovative text introduces and illustrates case study methodology for nursing research by exploring how it can be u......more

Disabled people s mobility, movement and access into and around the built environment is often constrained by physical a......more

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Provides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction. A ......more

Reporting from the front lines of the pandemic, Hugh Pym takes readers on a gripping journey through the UK’s COVID-19 c......more

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative peo......more

When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the U......more

When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the U......more

Malaria on the Move explores the socioeconomic aspects of endemic malaria in the southeastern lowveld of Zimbabwe. The b......more

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shi......more

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shi......more

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A ground breaking study of how access to water grows more precarious while non-profit solutions grow more ineffective A ......more

A powerful and important exploration of how addiction functions on social, psychological, and physological levels, integ......more

A forceful critique of how and why states failed to protect marginalized communities in their responses to the COVID-19 ......more

A forceful critique of how and why states failed to protect marginalized communities in their responses to the COVID-19 ......more

The late David K. Jones spent four years visiting the Mississippi Delta conducting primary research with residents and l......more

The late David K. Jones spent four years visiting the Mississippi Delta conducting primary research with residents and l......more

Drawing on the perspectives of women and children displaced from Ukraine, as well as local authority policy makers and s......more

Life expectancy is about more than just health - it’s about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, afte......more

Life expectancy is about more than just health - it’s about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, afte......more

Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UV......more

A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment--and exposes the bac......more

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, ......more

Crucible of the Incurable concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis s......more

Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications and cultural representations of......more

Persisting Pandemics explores the history of syphilis and AIDS to provide insights into the limits of biomedicine and ou......more

Persisting Pandemics explores the history of syphilis and AIDS to provide insights into the limits of biomedicine and ou......more

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Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the fie......more

An assessment of contemporary global preparedness monitoring. This book presents an encompassing understanding of the pr......more

The riveting account of how asymptomatic transmission drove COVID-19’s global spread and catalyzed interventions to cont......more

Healthcare for transgender people is in crisis. Many of the problems stem from bureaucracies within the health system, l......more

Fat girl problems. Derided by her high-school peers for being overweight, Rachel finally found a sense of purpose and be......more

In 2015, Ben Miller and his wife, the poet Anne Pierson Wiese, moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to......more

In 2015, Ben Miller and his wife, the poet Anne Pierson Wiese, moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to......more

Can society be healthy, and how? Is Britain a ’healthy society’ in the 21st century? When people ponder health, they usu......more

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In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, motherhood in Canada, as elsewhere in the western world, became......more

This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers......more

A guide examining one of the most important, yet often most neglected, organ systems in the body -- from the mouth, to t......more

Investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is faili......more

Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s mo......more

Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s mo......more

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key er......more

FEATURES A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR An incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicia......more

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What is health? What does health mean to people? How do we make sense of health and experience it? There are no simple a......more

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An urgent call to action on a rising--and preventable--trend. Each year in the United States alone, nearly 50,000 indivi......more

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Drawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemi......more

This ambitious and insightful book provides a unique regional perspective on health policy across South Asia, focussing ......more

This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions.......more

Examining popular media portrayals of various health topics, this book offers a critical analysis of how those mediated ......more

Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic analyses the phenomena of moral panics surrounding so-called ’folk......more

Fighting an Invisible Enemy narrates the founding in 2002 and growth of the internationally renowned centre of excellenc......more

A history of the establishment and role of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the public health or......more

Originally published in 1974, and written by paediatricians, social workers, nurses and a parent who cared for her dying......more

When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country’s historical demograph......more

Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropolo......more

A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health--the part of wel......more

An examination of how novice psychiatrists come to understand the workings of the mind--and the nature of medical expert......more

An examination of how novice psychiatrists come to understand the workings of the mind--and the nature of medical expert......more

As the predominant form of birth control in Soviet society, abortion reflected key paradoxes of state socialism: women h......more

Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to......more

Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to......more

Now with an afterword exclusive to the paperback edition: science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelec......more

This book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reas......more

This book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reas......more