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Resisting Jim Crow: The Autobiography of Dr. John A. McFall
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /John McFall was born in Charleston, S.C. in 1878-the year after the disputed South Carolina gubernatorial election that marked the end of Reconstru...
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My Epidemic: An AIDS Memoir of One Man's Struggle as Doctor, Patient and Survivor
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A captivating true story of courage in the face of near-hopeless odds, My Epidemic fills a gap in the staggering history of AIDS. Here is a perspe...
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The Broken Boy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn look...
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A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam's Age of Anxiety Volume 17
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520392168 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 09-12-2023 Pages: 177 Serie...
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Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racis...
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Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racis...
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Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys' experiences of circumcision. In Turkey, circumcision is...
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Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coher...
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Histories of the Transgender Child
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and cul...
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Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to tra...
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Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Winner of the 2019 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library AssociationWinner of the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for History-...
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified t...
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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling...powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core...
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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling...powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Black ReadsThe story of Henrietta Lacks is a shocking, engrossing, and thought-provoking read. Skloot chronicles how scientists took ...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Black ReadsThe story of Henrietta Lacks is a shocking, engrossing, and thought-provoking read. Skloot chronicles how scientists took ...
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experiment...
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and ch...
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A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only one hundred years ago, in even the world’s wea...
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White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretchin...
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The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologies Since 2010 it has been possibl...
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Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short deca...
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Healing with Cannabis: The Evolution of the Endocannabinoid System and How Cannabinoids Help Relieve PTSD, Pain, MS, Anxiety, and More
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Named a 2023 TOP BOOK ON CANNABIS by CBD Oracle 2020 GOLD MEDAL WINNER of the Nonfiction Book Awards (Nonfiction Authors Association) An Informat...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /New York Times Bestseller "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor."...
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