Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 9781135894825

The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media [9404]

If you’ve ever sneezed while driving your car, did you immediately think, “Cars Cause the Common Cold!”? No, of course n

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Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health 9780814760352

An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of

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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture 9780231508919

What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to

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Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States

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Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions 9780812200539

In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions

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A Right to Health: Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil 9780292766631

In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally establish

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Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity: New Conversations for Health Humanities (Religion, Medicine and Health in in Late Antiquity) [1 ed.] 9780367521004, 9780367531188, 9781003080534

Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, med

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The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition: Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine 9780822387343

A collection of readings--for medical students and students of public health-- that deal with social and cultural issues

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Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities 9781350248618, 9781350248649, 9781350248625

Charting shared advances across the medical humanities and health humanities through a transdisciplinary prism, this boo

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Bleeding, blistering, and purging : health and medicine in the 1800s 9781422217757, 1422217752, 9781422218488, 1422218481

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