Beast of Main Street is a dazzling, original angle on how ordinary people are living in Covid times. Meet people on Amer......more
This book examines the history of the Victorian Cancer Registry (VCR) in Australia from its establishment in the late 19......more
Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic America’s opioid epidemic continues to ravage families a......more
Named a "Best Book of the Year" by Kirkus Reviews "Urgent and eye-opening, the book serves as a loud-and-clear alarm."―T......more
The full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemic Heroic science. Cha......more
After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and los......more
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The Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, syst......more
At the heart of Music are powerful examples from the lives of real individuals, families, and populations. These stories......more
This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platform......more
We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of ......more
We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of ......more
"Offers an overview of life and death under capitalism and argues for a new global left politics aimed at severing the t......more
An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African......more
Jeremy Schreiber was on top of the world-athletic, newly married, successful. And then something went terribly wrong. In......more
An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African......more
Does Hydroxychloroquine work? Does Ivermectin work? It seems that from 2020 and now with the variants, we are suffering ......more
For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a......more
The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improv......more
An in-depth, accessible study of school based intervention programs that affect girls in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabw......more
An eye-opening and compelling ethnography about how doctors make decisions The oath that doctors take to "do no harm" su......more
An eye-opening and compelling ethnography about how doctors make decisions The oath that doctors take to "do no harm" su......more
India has the third leading higher education system in the world, next to the United States and China. It has developed ......more
An exploration of the past, present and future of typhoid control using both literary and real-life figures Draws from t......more
While continuing to face seizures into adulthood, Sita Gaia had to find a way to express from the soul. The honest portr......more
The threats of emerging diseases have shaken certainties about health systems, the effectiveness of governance, lifestyl......more
Boccara analyzes the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on the large group unconscious defenses that were mobilized against t......more
This book investigates the impact of the United Nations General Assembly’s 2010 resolution that elevated rights to water......more
In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definition......more
Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for con......more
Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for con......more
A comprehensive examination of the connection between mass incarceration and health In an age when over two million peop......more
This book is a collection of essays from across Africa which highlight the roles of beliefs and traditions in health beh......more
Even as mental-health discussions become more common in everyday life, the enormous numbers of people with psychiatric i......more
Even as mental-health discussions become more common in everyday life, the enormous numbers of people with psychiatric i......more
Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of i......more
An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former pat......more
This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary......more
Breathless is a funny, honest and stylish exploration of the knife-edge of hoarding, from the joy of purchasing new fash......more
From the Middle-Ages onwards, London’s notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city’s ’mad’ locked away in dank cells,......more
*2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist for Health Learn how to take control of your health--and decrease ......more
With Different Eyes began as as a series of newspaper stories in the late winter of 2020 when the coronavirus began to s......more
"Jenkins has organized his book around themes, and as he explores them, he leads the reader back and forth through histo......more
"Next-level revelatory." --Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*......more
This critical research collection focuses on Eastern and Southern Africa providing timely and valuable insights and refl......more
This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in Sou......more
New York Times bestseller One of the top ten books of the year at The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journa......more
This book presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates the i......more
Hollywood’s Gene Tierney, the lasting impact of her wartime and postwar films, and her continuing legacy. Gene Tierney m......more
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This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans, coll......more
"This thought-provoking work examines how the relationships of organs, tissues, and cells transferred from one body to a......more
Algorithms-rules written into software-shape key moments in our lives: from who gets hired or admitted to a top public s......more
In this book author Michele P. Bratina demonstrates how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration of the......more
In this book author Michele P. Bratina demonstrates how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration of the......more
This book examines sexual fantasies and their influence on everyday life through the stories of twenty-two men who intro......more
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"Income, education, job security, food and housing, and gender and race are all examples of the social determinants of h......more
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How can we care so much about health care yet so little about public health? Before Covid-19, public health programs con......more
This guidance note is designed to help developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank strengthen their health......more
This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gap......more
Drawing together insights and provocations from diverse fields of inquiry, this important new book asks probing question......more
An ethnographic inquiry into how HIV screening is used in the Canadian immigration system. What happens when people with......more
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The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health a......more
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For readers of Dopesick and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a celebrated cannabis attorney’s personal look at the War on ......more
The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia. Regional studies on Central Asia to date have ......more
This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness - a condition associated with severe health conseq......more
This book explores the identity work and conflicted perspectives of general practitioner (GP) trainees working in hospit......more
Health rethought Do you sometimes worry about becoming seriously ill without knowing who or what can help you? And do yo......more
Depression, life satisfaction and coping strategies among coronary heart disease patients". Introduction: Coronary heart......more
As COVID-19 swept across the globe with merciless force, it was working people who kept the world from falling apart. De......more
For years, technologists and computer scientists have promised an AI revolution that would transform the very basis of h......more
Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a ......more
From "one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere" (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)--t......more
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Journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fight......more
A powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic--from feeling afraid and overwhelmed......more
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Since its first publication in 1933, Clay’s Handbook of Environmental Health (under its different names) has provided a ......more
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"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our ......more
"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our ......more
The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial syste......more
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Drawing on original research and extensive interviews with a diverse group of women, author Susan Stewart reveals women’......more
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Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preven......more
I share how my relationship with God, My Journey with God, brought me to joy and success. I share how His strength and g......more