INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Overeating comes an illuminat......more

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Learn how to fight COVID corruption from the lawyer who sued the government over unlawful actions taken during the COVID......more

Discover the surprising connection between our gut microbiome and the health of the planet--and learn how you hold human......more

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection is one of the first scholarly books in the world to address the impact......more

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This groundbreaking edited collection examines the ’dark side’ of care: social and governance infrastructures that both ......more

Exposes the hidden risks faced by Canada’s mobile workers and calls for stronger protections and fair access to compensa......more

Suddenly, everything seems up for grabs about the medicines we take: Do they really work as advertised? Do some of them ......more

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Challenges the idea of anxiety as an individual flaw and highlights its roots in social, economic, and political structu......more

An examination of the links between power, inequality, and time in health governance. This interdisciplinary collection ......more

This open access book draws on unique ethnographic fieldwork carried out in four Quebec courts to examine the role court......more

Health care workers are burned out. Health care leaders know that workers are burned out, but do not yet have the right ......more

This special issue of WSQ takes the contemporary phenomenon of long COVID as its point of departure to consider the soci......more

An inside look at the culture of surveillance that pits healthcare providers against their patients Doctors and pharmaci......more

Argentina has been one the most important destinations for international labor migrants in the modern world. But while i......more

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The American criminal justice system was in flux in 2020, a clash of possibilities for reform, retrenchment, and radical......more

The American criminal justice system was in flux in 2020, a clash of possibilities for reform, retrenchment, and radical......more

Side effects are common, but their origins and consequences remain unclear. Medications that target a disease can produc......more

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psych......more

When did we start trusting influencers over doctors? You used to see a doctor. Now you go online. ’Uncomfortable but ess......more

Compassionate Communities in Action: Global stories of care, loss and connection. ’brings together practical examples of......more

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A deeply moving narrative of a decade-long personal struggle by a loving husband to care for a wife with dementia. Micha......more

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control pla......more

A sobering encounter with lives transformed by gun violence and an urgent call to build more comprehensive systems of ca......more

The anthropological work on care has sought to diversify conceptualizations of the concept, to challenge how we recogniz......more

In the US, the most common contraceptive methods rely on women’s time, labor, and vulnerability to risk. Comparatively f......more

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, method......more

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, method......more

India’s population is rapidly aging, with the number of elderly people expected to double by 2050, representing approxim......more

India’s population is rapidly aging, with the number of elderly people expected to double by 2050, representing approxim......more

Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these inte......more

Examines the surge of anti-Asian racism in Canada during COVID-19 and the community strategies to resist discrimination ......more

This practical textbook uses case studies to highlight how emotional labour can arise and be managed in a range of setti......more

This practical textbook uses case studies to highlight how emotional labour can arise and be managed in a range of setti......more

Patchwork Pandemic is the first ever history of how individual American states responded to the HIV/AIDS crisis--and an ......more

A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of--and solutions to--one of the most daunting public health challenges facing t......more

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This insightful volume examines how the principles and practice of person-centred care can extend to operate at the leve......more

This insightful volume examines how the principles and practice of person-centred care can extend to operate at the leve......more

"Wade’s attention to how personal change can contribute to societal shifts elevates this above other titles that focus o......more

Dementia and Graphic Medicine explores how graphic medicine--through memoirs by caregivers and families--offers nuanced ......more

This book explores the under-researched theoretical and empirical intersection between organization studies and the medi......more

Examines the deep connections between human activities, emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity. Drawing on cuttin......more

The War on Drugs is now a century old. The question isn’t why aren’t we winning, it’s why are we fighting? Dr. Henry Smi......more

How dominant patriarchal structures permeated the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic--and women’s multiple and var......more

A personable, story-driven explanation of how the systems around us--where we live, work, learn, and connect--shape our ......more

The fourth edition of Social Injustice and Public Health, a completely updated edition of the classic text, is a compreh......more

The field of Global Health can be complex and challenging. This fascinating set of case studies not only illustrates the......more

The field of Global Health can be complex and challenging. This fascinating set of case studies not only illustrates the......more

Increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of today’s greatest threats to public health. Yet a possible solut......more

Increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of today’s greatest threats to public health. Yet a possible solut......more

The inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlo......more

When this book was originally published in 1990, the policy of ’community care’ occupied a central place in the developm......more

This book presents a political view of medical education based on dialectical analysis of a range of practice. This appr......more

This book presents public health as a method-driven integrative discipline, a dynamic field of science and practice, sha......more

From alchemy to wellness culture, from antisemitism to disposable plastic, a gripping account of how getting sick has sh......more

This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ’addiction’ and ’addicts’. It examines the proliferati......more

How is care coordinated when the course is uncertain, the work distributed, and the patient constantly redefined? In thi......more

This book explores the undernutrition situation in India and its repercussions on the country’s human capital, from a pu......more

First published in 1988, Living with Chronic Illness presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illnes......more

In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, motherhood in Canada, as elsewhere in the western world, became......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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In the last decade, access to AIDS treatment has rapidly increased across Sub-Saharan Africa. Saving Africans with AIDS ......more