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Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth centur...
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbre...
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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound...
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Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and...
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We'll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award by the Sons & Daug...
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Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Enriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive stud...
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The Lyme Letters: Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Lyme Letters is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir. R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery t...
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregat...
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.Imagine the astonishment felt b...
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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 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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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Priz...
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in b...
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Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also sho...
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The Handbook of Lgbtqia-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Hospice and palliative care professionals are experts at caring for individuals and families experiencing serious or life-limiting illnesses. Not e...
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The Handbook of Lgbtqia-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /Hospice and palliative care professionals are experts at caring for individuals and families experiencing serious or life-limiting illnesses. Not e...
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Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape Over the past two decades, medical and therap...
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In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing...
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Cardiovascular Systems: Mathematical and Numerical Modeling
HardcoverOriginal price $152.00Original price $152.00 - Original price $152.00Original price $152.00Current price $131.99$131.99 - $131.99Current price $131.99| /The cardiovascular system consists of the heart and a network of blood vessels. It is primarily involved in the distribution of nutrients and blood...
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Asthma: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment
HardcoverOriginal price $154.00Original price $154.00 - Original price $154.00Original price $154.00Current price $133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /Asthma is one of the several disorders that affect the lungs and their functions. There are three types of asthma, namely, exercise-induced asthma,...
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Developing a Local Currency Government Bond Market in an Emerging Economy after COVID-19: Case for the Lao People's Democratic Republic
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This publication explores how a local currency government bond market can strengthen economic recovery from COVID-19. It focuses on the Lao People'...
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Greater Mekong Subregion Gender Strategy
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This strategy outlines a regional approach for advancing gender equality and women's empowerment in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).The six GMS ...
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Caregiver Log Book: Medical Log Book to Record Daily Signs for Patients (Light Blue)
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Looking for a way to organize your caregiving journey and keep track of important details? Look no further than the Caregiver Log Book!Whether you'...
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Healthy Ageing in Singapore: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Singapore is the world's second-fastest ageing society and will become a super- aged society by 2030. This book fills an important research gap by ...
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Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Whether your body is small or large, aged or young, disabled or abled, toned or soft, lithe or stiff--or somewhere in-between--anti-fatness affects...
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