Category - Social Science
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Having Your Baby: For the Special Needs of Black Mothers-To-Be, from Conception to Newborn Care
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /African-American women face unique challenges during pregnancy. Here is a they can turn to for medical information, health advice, and emotional su...
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People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates...
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Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Black Health dispels any notion that ...
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Teaching Inpatient Medicine: Connecting, Coaching, and Communicating in the Hospital
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Teaching Inpatient Medicine, Second Edition equips physician-educators with proven, practical strategies to ease their learners' journey toward bec...
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If Memory Serves: Gay Men, Aids, and the Promise of the Queer Past
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academic...
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The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honored and val...
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In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for i...
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In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for i...
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A "powerful and indispensable" look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) and what we can do to remedy its t...
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerAcclaimed journalist Linda Villarosa makes a powerful and guardedly hopeful case for our need to acknowledge and addres...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now with a new Afterword from the author Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Do...
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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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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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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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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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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Bl...
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The Pandemic Divide: How Covid Increased Inequality in America
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /As COVID-19 made inroads in the United States in spring 2020, a common refrain rose above the din: "We're all in this together." However, the full ...
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Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than th...
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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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Taking Health to the Streets in Puerto Rico: Resisting Gastronomic, Psychiatric, and Diabetes Colonialism
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book investigates the role of colonization on diabetes, depression, and food insecurity in Puerto Rico and highlights the role of health activ...
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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 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 Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, a...
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Can't Someone Fix What Ails Me?: 21 Stories of Chronic Illness
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The two people who compiled (and contributed) their own stories have over a dozen chronic illnesses between them. They and the other 19 writers wan...
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