Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Books

Book SynopsisCurrently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this region in the near future. This book extends the frontiers of research on the economics of substance use and abuse in a variety of extremely significant ways. It focuses on the determinants and consequences of the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, betel quid, and illicit drugs in the United States, Great Britain and Taiwan. The authors use a variety of empirical techniques to examine the roles of price, advertising, risk perception, time preference and forward-looking behaviour in consumption decisions and the effects of these decisions on labour market outcomes, unintended pregnancies and criminal violence.Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse will be required reading for scholars of economic development and health economics.Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Rational Addiction Part II: Risk Perception and Time Preference Part III: Costs of Substance Use Part IV: Criminal Violence and Substance Use Part V: Demand Analysis Index

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Book SynopsisThe effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical community. This book is not about obesity as a medical condition, nor does it offer a wide-ranging discussion on the health effects of obesity or the role of the 'right' diet. To this end, the contributors present a multidisciplinary portrait of this complex problem. They explore the rising trend in obesity of the US in terms of its significant economic and social consequences. The web of underlying causes of the 'infrastructure of obesity', they explain, lies with public policy decisions, economic factors and profit opportunities as well as the more obvious nutrition and health choices of individuals. Prevention and treatment of this now global pandemic are then tackled from the perspectives of businesses, governments, society and the individual. The taxation, marketing, cultural, ethical and institutional dimensions of obesity are also addressed.Obesity, Business and Public Policy is unique in its broad social science approach, exploring the obesity epidemic from economic, business, legal, social and public policy perspectives. As such, this truly multidisciplinary study will make fascinating reading for academics and professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds including: business, economics, public and social policy, medicine and nutrition.Trade Review'This collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the complex issue of obesity. . . The book provides an excellent overview of the obesity problem in the US, and does an excellent job of suggesting potential solutions, along with the difficulties we will likely encounter when trying to implement these solutions. It is written for the lay person and is an enjoyable read.' -- Inas Rashad, Eastern Economic Journal'The book brings together an impressive group of contributors, and the table of contents covers a range of issues from a discussion of culture, obesity and institutions, to discussions of obesity and the individual, and then sections on obesity and business, and obesity and government.' -- Linda Botterill, Australian Journal of Political Science'As numerous major American cities propose and implement bans on trans fats in prepared foods, a book examining the causes, consequences, and solutions to the rising incidence of obesity could not be timelier. This work provides important insights into the economic and policy issues associated with obesity. Recognizing the complex interrelationships between medical and economic aspects of both causes and treatments, and the conflicts between personal and public policy considerations, the editors offer a richly comprehensive approach. . . . Although this volume focuses on the causes of, and responses to, obesity in the US, its general discussion and framework provide a useful introduction to analyzing obesity internationally. Highly recommended.' -- E. Magenheim, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Former Governor Michael Huckabee Preface 1. Introduction Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles PART I: CULTURE, OBESITY AND INSTITUTIONS 2. The Spread of Obesity David B. Audretsch and Dawne DiOrio PART II: OBESITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL 3. The Economics of Childhood Obesity Policy John Cawley 4. Obesity, Poverty and Diversity: Theoretical and Strategic Challenges Lenneal J. Henderson 5. The Labor Market Impact of Obesity John Cawley PART III: OBESITY AND BUSINESS 6. Mixed Messages in Marketing Communications about Food and Obesity Stephen J. Gould and Fiona Sussan 7. Weight Control, Private Health Insurance and Public Policies Alan Lyles and Ann Cotten PART IV: OBESITY AND GOVERNMENT 8. The Infrastructure of Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Ann Cotten and Kenneth R. Stanton 9. Federal Communication about Obesity in the Dietary Guidelines and Checkoff Programs Parke E. Wilde 10. Tax Solutions to the External Costs of Obesity Julie Ann Elston, Kenneth R. Stanton, David T. Levy and Zoltan J. Acs PART V: LESSONS FROM THE PAST 11. Tobacco Control as a Model for Trimming the Obesity Problem David T. Levy and Marilyn Oblak 12. Perspectives on the Economic and Cultural Effects of Obesity Litigation: Lessons from Pelman v McDonald’s José Felipé Anderson PART VI: POLICY CONCLUSIONS 13. A Policy Framework for Confronting Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Lenneal J. Henderson, David T. Levy, Alan Lyles and Kenneth R. Stanton Index

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Book SynopsisPsychotherapy and ethnography are jointly employed to produce an account of HIV-positive children's lives (and deaths) in Zimbabwe that is sensitive to emotions and their social contexts. The study explores the lives of children growing up HIV-positive in the eastern Zimbabwean town of Mutare at a time of severe crisis in the state, marked by impoverishment, organized violence and mass death. This ethnography grewout of a psychotherapeutic engagement with a group of children living with HIV. The study examines children's experiences through the institutional domains of family and kin, clinics and other forms of healing, churches and religious practices, and experiences of dying and bereavement. Against patrilineal norms, much daily caring occurs in mothers' families. Clinics continue to offer partial western medical care despite daunting resource constraints. Western medicine sits on older templates of 'traditional' and 'spiritual' healing. Anti-retrovirals and other basic medicines are available but may exacerbate domestic discord and fail to meet more obvious physical symptoms. Children and their families appear to prefer spiritual alternatives to medical care, perhaps partly as a result of the severe limitations placed on the latter. A wide variety of religious practices, primarily Christian in a plethora of forms, flourish in the context. Dying may come to be seen by children as preferable to continued struggle against severe adversity. Child deaths are deeply imbued with religious practice and given voice through religious idioms. Ross Parsons has extensive experience as a psychotherapist, a writer and a social researcher. He lives in Mutare and teaches anthropology and psychology at Africa University. Weaver Press: Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia)Trade ReviewProvides a detailed and painfully engaging portrayal of the lives of HIV-positive children, with insights essential for assessing existing treatment and care programs. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: growing up with HIV in urban, eastern Zimbabwe In this vale of tears: an ethnography of suffering and sorrow Who cares? Family, kin and other forms of caring Visible secrets: illnesses, exposure and disclosure If I had faith: churches, spirits and healing One day this will all be over: dying, death and grief The heart remains: an epilogue

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Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost?benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated. This book argues that HIV/AIDS policies need to be evidence based and that CBA is the best way to assemble and summarize the evidence. The work explains why CBA is needed and highlights a number of myths, misinformation and counterintuitive results in the field, and critiques the Millennium Development Goals approach. It also presents HIV/AIDS as a hunger issue in sub-Saharan Africa and as a sexual transmission problem in the US. The roles of nutrition, income, education, religion, agricultural policy, concurrency and sexual networks are all examined. Robert Brent explains the main cost?benefit methods and applications, including threshold analysis, willingness to pay, cost minimization, cost-effectiveness, human capital theory and the value of a statistical life. Applications cover female education, possible vaccines, condoms, and various forms of treatment. He concludes by explaining how CBA incorporates social considerations such as equity.With timely and controversial discussions, this book will be read with interest by AIDS activists, NGO members, policy-makers and public officials, as well as being accessible to non-economists interested in the subject of HIV/AIDS.Trade Review‘Professor Brent’s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost–benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach.’ -- William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WHY COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES 1. Introduction to the Book 2. Why Not Just Simply do What is Right and Try to Save Lives? 3. Myths and Misinformation 4. Counterintuitive Results 5. What is Wrong with Setting any Targets? 6. What is Wrong with Setting the Particular MDG Targets? 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis 101 8. Cost–Benefit Analysis 201 PART II: HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE 9. Introduction to Part II 10. HIV and Hunger 11. Nutrition and HIV at the Individual Level 12. Nutrition and HIV at the Country Level 13. Income as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 14. Education as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 15. Islam as a Factor Lowering HIV Rates 16. Impact of HIV on Agricultural Households 17. Agricultural Policy and HIV Interventions 18. Sex and HIV I: The Role of Transmission 19. Sex and HIV II: The Role of Concurrency 20. Sex and HIV III: The Role of Networks PART III: COST–BENEFIT METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Threshold Analysis Theory 23. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Effectiveness of HIV Education 24. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Benefits of Avoiding HIV 25. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Costs of a Possible HIV/AIDS Vaccine 26. Willingness to Pay Theory 27. Willingness to Pay Practice: The Benefits of Condoms 28. Cost Minimization Theory 29. Cost Minimization Practice: The Costs of Treating TB 30. Cost-Effectiveness Theory 31. Cost-Effectiveness Practice: The Benefits of ARVs 32. Human Capital Theory 33. Human Capital Practice: The Benefits of Female Primary Education 34. Value of a Statistical Life Theory 35. Value of a Statistical Life Practice: The Benefits of VCT PART IV: SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CBA 36. Introduction to IV 37. Commodification: Everything is Seen as a Commodity to be Bought and Sold 38. What is So “Social” About CBA? Fundamentals of CBA 39. Social and Private Perspectives in CBA 40. CBA and Equity I: Allowing for Ability to Pay 41. CBA and Equity II: Allocating by Time and Other Non-Price Methods 42. Conclusions I: How Not to Set Priorities for HIV 43. Conclusions II: Using CBA to Set Priorities for HIV References Index

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Book SynopsisThe issue of universal and free access to treatment is now a fundamental goal of the international community. Based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa under the aegis of ANRS (the French nationalagency for research on Aids and viral hepatitis, this timely and significant book both assesses the progress made in achieving this objective and presents a rigorous diagnosis of the obstacles that remain. Placing particular emphasis on the constraints imposed by TRIPS as well as the poor state of most public health systems in Southern countries, the contributing authors provide a comprehensive analysis of the huge barriers that have yet to be overcome in order to attain free access to care and offer innovative suggestions of how they might be confronted. In doing this, the book renews our understanding of the political economy of HIV/AIDS in these vast regions, where the disease continues to spread with devastating social and economic consequences.This volume will be a valuable addition to the current literature on HIV/AIDS in developing countries and will find widespread appeal amongst students and academics studying economics, sociology and public health. It will also be of interest to international organizations and professional associations involved in the fight against pandemics.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Jean François Delfraissy Introduction: A New Stage in the Fight Against the HIV/AIDS Pandemic – An Economic Perspective Benjamin Coriat PART I: TRIPS, GENERIC DRUGS AND ACCESS TO CARE: THE POST-2005 ISSUES 1. New Antiretroviral Treatments and Post-2005 TRIPS Constraints: First Moves Towards IP Flexibilization in Developing Countries Cristina d’Almeida, Lia Hasenclever, Gaëlle Krikorian, Fabienne Orsi, Cassandra Sweet and Benjamin Coriat 2. New Trends in IP Protection and Health Issues in FTA Negotiations Gaëlle Krikorian 3. Evolution of Prices and Quantities for ARV Drugs in African Countries: From Emerging to Strategic Markets Julien Chauveau, Constance Marie Meiners, Stéphane Luchini and Jean-Paul Moatti PART II: SECURING FREE AND UNIVERSAL ACCESS: LESSONS FROM BRAZIL 4. The Brazilian Experience of ‘Scaling-up’: A Public Policy Approach Guillaume Le Loup, Andreia Pereira de Assis, Maria Helena Costa-Couto, Jean-Claude Thoenig, Sonia Fleury, Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr and Bernard Larouzé 5. Technology Transfer Agreements and Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs: The Brazilian Case Amélie Robine 6. Scaling Up and Reverse Engineering: Acquisition of Industrial Knowledge by Copying Drugs in Brazil Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa 7. Compulsory Licensing in the Real World: The Case of ARV Drugs in Brazil Cristina de Albuquerque Possas PART III: FIGHTING AIDS IN THE HEART OF THE PANDEMIC: SUB-SAHARAN AND LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES 8. HIV Prevalence Estimates: The New Deal in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 2000 Joseph Larmarange 9. Cost-effectiveness of HIV Antiretroviral Therapies in Resource-limited Settings Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Caroline E. Sloan and Kenneth A. Freedberg 10. ‘Fragility’: A Macro-dynamic Motive to Offer Quick and General Access to ART in LDC Bruno Ventelou, Yann Videau and Jean-Paul Moatti 11. Procurement Policies, Governance Models and ARV Availability in French-speaking African Countries: An Overview Mamadou Camara, Cristina d’Almeida, Fabienne Orsi and Benjamin Coriat PART IV: BUILDING THE FUTURE: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS AND THE FREE ACCESS CHALLENGE 12. The Public Health Approach to Antitretroviral Treatment: The Case of Cameroon Sinata Koulla-Shiro and Eric Delaporte 13. The Cost of Universal Free Access for Treating HIV/AIDS in Low-Income Countries: The Case of Senegal Bernard Taverne, Karim Diop and Philippe Vinard 14. Implementing Funding Modalities for Free Access: The Case for a ‘Purchasing Fund System’ to Cover Medical Care for PLWHA Philippe Vinard, Karim Diop and Bernard Taverne Index

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Book SynopsisThe effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical community. This book is not about obesity as a medical condition, nor does it offer a wide-ranging discussion on the health effects of obesity or the role of the 'right' diet. To this end, the contributors present a multidisciplinary portrait of this complex problem. They explore the rising trend in obesity of the US in terms of its significant economic and social consequences. The web of underlying causes of the 'infrastructure of obesity', they explain, lies with public policy decisions, economic factors and profit opportunities as well as the more obvious nutrition and health choices of individuals. Prevention and treatment of this now global pandemic are then tackled from the perspectives of businesses, governments, society and the individual. The taxation, marketing, cultural, ethical and institutional dimensions of obesity are also addressed.Obesity, Business and Public Policy is unique in its broad social science approach, exploring the obesity epidemic from economic, business, legal, social and public policy perspectives. As such, this truly multidisciplinary study will make fascinating reading for academics and professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds including: business, economics, public and social policy, medicine and nutrition.Trade Review'This collection of essays provides a thorough overview of the complex issue of obesity. . . The book provides an excellent overview of the obesity problem in the US, and does an excellent job of suggesting potential solutions, along with the difficulties we will likely encounter when trying to implement these solutions. It is written for the lay person and is an enjoyable read.' -- Inas Rashad, Eastern Economic Journal'The book brings together an impressive group of contributors, and the table of contents covers a range of issues from a discussion of culture, obesity and institutions, to discussions of obesity and the individual, and then sections on obesity and business, and obesity and government.' -- Linda Botterill, Australian Journal of Political Science'As numerous major American cities propose and implement bans on trans fats in prepared foods, a book examining the causes, consequences, and solutions to the rising incidence of obesity could not be timelier. This work provides important insights into the economic and policy issues associated with obesity. Recognizing the complex interrelationships between medical and economic aspects of both causes and treatments, and the conflicts between personal and public policy considerations, the editors offer a richly comprehensive approach. . . . Although this volume focuses on the causes of, and responses to, obesity in the US, its general discussion and framework provide a useful introduction to analyzing obesity internationally. Highly recommended.' -- E. Magenheim, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Former Governor Michael Huckabee Preface 1. Introduction Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles PART I: CULTURE, OBESITY AND INSTITUTIONS 2. The Spread of Obesity David B. Audretsch and Dawne DiOrio PART II: OBESITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL 3. The Economics of Childhood Obesity Policy John Cawley 4. Obesity, Poverty and Diversity: Theoretical and Strategic Challenges Lenneal J. Henderson 5. The Labor Market Impact of Obesity John Cawley PART III: OBESITY AND BUSINESS 6. Mixed Messages in Marketing Communications about Food and Obesity Stephen J. Gould and Fiona Sussan 7. Weight Control, Private Health Insurance and Public Policies Alan Lyles and Ann Cotten PART IV: OBESITY AND GOVERNMENT 8. The Infrastructure of Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Ann Cotten and Kenneth R. Stanton 9. Federal Communication about Obesity in the Dietary Guidelines and Checkoff Programs Parke E. Wilde 10. Tax Solutions to the External Costs of Obesity Julie Ann Elston, Kenneth R. Stanton, David T. Levy and Zoltan J. Acs PART V: LESSONS FROM THE PAST 11. Tobacco Control as a Model for Trimming the Obesity Problem David T. Levy and Marilyn Oblak 12. Perspectives on the Economic and Cultural Effects of Obesity Litigation: Lessons from Pelman v McDonald’s José Felipé Anderson PART VI: POLICY CONCLUSIONS 13. A Policy Framework for Confronting Obesity Zoltan J. Acs, Lenneal J. Henderson, David T. Levy, Alan Lyles and Kenneth R. Stanton Index

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Book SynopsisContaining over 50 activities (exercises, worksheets and games) which can be used in working with children, adolescents or families, this text aims to encourage creativity in therapy and assist in talking with children to facilitate change.Trade Review"a simple resource book packed with many therapeutic activities and ideas." Kate Kirk, Isle of Man Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, May 2004Table of ContentsGetting to know you feelings increasing motivation to change becoming less stressed learning new skills improving coping skills coming to terms with loss understanding my family promoting positive self-esteem reviewing progress. (Part contents)

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Book SynopsisThe guide gives the practitioner an understanding of why children and adolescents may come to play fruit machines/video games to excess and includes knowledge about the risk factors involved in this. It includes practical and common-sense interventions that may be beneficial for such children and adolescents and also includes practical advice to give to parents facing their child’s behavioural addiction.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... there are a couple on behaviours that are less commonly covered in other places, including Avoiding Risky Sex, and Gambling. Its is very welcome to have these issues addressed in such a pragmatic way ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Behavioural Addictions. Part II: Technological Addictions. Part III: Adolescent Gambling. Part IV: Gambling on Fruit Machines. Part V: Videogames and Fruit Machines – Commonalities. Part VI: Adolescent Videogame Playing. Part VII: Fruit Machines and Videogames – Some Final Comments. References. Further Reading. Appendices. Hints for Parents.

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Book SynopsisIt aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence. In addition, it aims to provide a framework for the assessment and management of adolescence that have threatened or attempted suicide.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The one on Depression and Attempted Suicide is by Alan Carr and, again, is thorough and broad in its approach, not shying away from medication if this is required in addition to psychological therapy ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Depression. Part II: Attempted Suicide. References. Further Reading. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis guide provides information about aggression and its development during childhood and adolescence. It introduces bullying as a subset of aggressive behaviour, highlights research on the nature and extent of bullying in schools and outlines some of the characteristics of children involved in bullying. It helpfully suggests common signs of bullying that Parents and practitioners need to be aware of and offers interventions and resources for those dealing with this behaviour.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Aims. Objectives. Part I: Aggression:. 1. What is Aggression?. 2. The Changing Nature of Aggression. 3. Are Boys More Aggressive Than Girls?. 4. When is Aggressive Behaviour a Problem?. 5. Factors Relating to Aggression. 6. Individual Differences in Aggression. 7. Tackling Aggression. Part II: Bullying:. 8. What is Bullying?. 9. Where Does Bullying Take Place?. 10. Types of Bullying. 11. How Common is Bullying?. 12. Effects of Bullying. 13. Who is Involved in Bullying?. 14. Tackling Bullying. Conclusion. References. Appendices:. Appendix A: Assessing Aggression. Appendix B: Bullying Resources. Hints for Parents.

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Book SynopsisGuiding the reader through definitions, causation, assessment and treatment, the book offers a useful insight into this complex area whilst offering practical advice on how to deal with panic disorder and anxiety.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The one on panic disorders has Tom Ollendick as a co-author and is up to date in using the latest cognitive and behavioural approaches ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Aims. Objectives. PART I: PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. What Are Panic Attacks?. Non-Clinical Panic Attacks. Prevalence of Panic Attacks and Symptoms. What is Panic Disorder?. PART II: OTHER ANXIETY DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. Social Phobia. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Specific Phobia. PART III. THE THREE COMPONENTS OF ANXIETY. The Physical Component (‘What I Feel’). The Cognitive Component (‘What I Think’). The Behaviroural Component (‘What I Do’). The Cycle of Panic. PART IV: UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. A Model of the Aetiology of Panic. Temperament, Attachment and Separation: Implications for the Development of Panic. PART V: ASSESSING ADOLESCENTS WITH PANIC AND ANXIETY. The Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV, Child Version (ADIS-IV, Child Version). Panic Attributional Checklist. Self-Report Measures of Panic, Anxiety and Fear. Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index. Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale. Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised. Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children. Behavioural Assessment: A Behavioural Approach Task for an Adolescent with Panic Disorder. PART VI: TREATING ADOLESCENTS WITH PANIC AND ANXIETY. Panic Control Treatment for Adolescents. Sessions 1 and 2. Sessions 3-5. Sessions 6-8. Sessions 9-11. How helpful is PCT for adolescents? The case of Beth. Treating Other Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents. PART VII: WORKING WITH PARENTS. PART VIII: HELPING ADOLESCENTS WITH ANXIETY: SOME FINAL THOUGHTS. References. Further Reading. Sources of Instruments. APPENDICES. Appendix 1. Brief Screening Instrument for Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder in Adolescents. Appendix 2. Panic Attributional Checklist. Appendix 3. Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index. Appendix 4. Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised. Appendix 5. Treating My Teenager’s Panic Disorder: A Guide for Parents.

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Book SynopsisOne of the first books on abstinence based treatment structurally to integrate psychoanalytic and cognitive/behavioural models, Containing the Uncontainable is a highly practical account of establishing and maintaining treatment with problem drinkers who might otherwise fail to achieve their stated aims. The programme described is particularly relevant for those who are unable to make attachments, or otherwise make use of AA, yet need an intensive, supportive, abstinence based treatment experience.The treatment model described will be of interest to professionals working in the alcohol misuse field who find their psycho/social, cognitive/behavioural programmes are ineffective yet do not see the AA/12 Step approach as an option. The model has direct applications to working with a wide range of substance misusers, eating disorders and those diagnosed with personality disorders as well as the dually diagnosed.The book begins by reviewing the pro?s and con?s of the most common treatment interventions for alcohol problems and then defines the features that lead to treatment resistance. The practice section of the book is straightforward and is easily replicated in most outpatient settings. The section on relevant psychoanalytic theory is at the heart of the book, though the author, a social worker and group analyst, hopes the ideas underpinning her model make a case for keeping most substance misuse away from the analytic consulting room and most interpretation away from the alcohol misuse service.Table of ContentsForeword - Philip J. Flores. Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 How do we define substance misues? Chapter 3 How does the PCCP model compare to other interventions? Chapter 4 Evidence for the effectiveness of treatment. Chapter 5 The features of treatment-resistant clients. Chapter 6 Psychoanalytic theory and some of its applications. Chapter 7 The Monday to Friday programme. Chapter 8 How the day programme works. Chapter 9 Practical issues. Chapter 10 Final thoughts. Appendix A - Alcohol-related statistics. Appendix B - Handouts from ACCEPT. Appendix C - Preliminary outcome data. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels themselves and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists. It also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. Following an historical overview, the book comprises individual chapters on: Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes towards leisure changed. It is essential reading for all those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Gambling occurred in all strata of society and was a national pastime. The pursuit of gambling took many forms: from after-dinner cards to pugilism, and indeed Stock Exchange transactions were considered by many to be gambling at its worst.

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Book SynopsisPharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally, yet deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific. The first section of this timely book —which includes a foreword by Michael Reich of Harvard University —addresses pharmaceutical policy in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. The second section focuses on two crosscutting themes: differences in "prescribing cultures," especially among physicians, who are the primary dispensers of medicine in Asia, and the challenge of balancing access to drugs with incentives for innovation. The book's contributors discuss important issues for U.S. policy, notably drug imports from Asia, regulation of global supply chains to assure drug safety and quality, and new legislation to encourage development of drugs for neglected diseases. In Prescribing Cultures, pharmaceutical policy serves as a window into the economic trade-offs, political compromises, and cultural legacies that shape regional and global health systems.

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Book SynopsisLife expectancy in Japan, South Korea, and much of urban China has now outpaced that of the United States and other high-income countries. With this triumph of longevity, however, comes a rise in the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and hypertension, reducing healthy life years for individuals in these aging populations, as well as challenging the healthcare systems they rely on for appropriate care. The challenges and disparities are even more pressing in low- and middle-income economies, such as rural China and India. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the vulnerability to newly emerging pathogens of older adults suffering from NCDs, and the importance of building long-term, resilient health systems. What strategies have been tried to prevent NCDs—the primary cause of morbidity and mortality — as well as to screen for early detection, raise the quality of care, improve medication adherence, reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and increase “value for money” in health spending? Fourteen concise chapters cover multiple aspects of policy initiatives for healthy aging and economic research on chronic disease control in diverse health systems — from cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong to large economies such as Japan, India, and China. Table of Contents 1.Introduction. Karen Eggleston. 2. Inequality in Age of Death: Comparing Trends in Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the U.S. Victor Fuchs, Karen Eggleston, Daejung Kim, Zhi Ping Teo. 3. Healthy Aging and Economics Research on the Net Value of Noncommunicable Disease Management in Japan Chiyo Hashimoto and Karen Eggleston. 4. The Political Economy of Precision Health: The Case of Japan Minori Ito. 5.Personalized and Precision Medicine in Japan Hokuto Asano. 6. Policies for Healthy Aging in Korea Hongsoo Kim. 7. Noncommunicable Disease Management in Hong Kong: Current Policies and the Potential Role of Economics Research. Janet Tin Kei Lam, Sabrina Wong, Jianchao Quan. 8.Constructing National Demonstration Areas for Integrated Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Disease in China. Jianqun Dong and colleagues from China National CDC. 9. Promoting Local Innovation for Healthy Aging in China: Selection of NCD Control National Demonstration Areas Yiqun Chen, Maigeng Zhou, Yichong Li, Shiwei Liu, Kate Bundorf, Grant Miller, Kim Babiarz, Karen Eggleston, Helen Chen. 10. Avoidable Admission Rates for Diabetes Patients and Associated Medical Spending in Rural China Haibin Wu, Yiwei Chen, Hui Ding, Jieming Zhong, Ruying Hu, Chunmei Wang, Kaixu Xie, Xiangyu Chen, Pedro Gallardo, Karen Eggleston, Min Yu. 11. Exploring and Promoting the Family Doctor System in Aging China Hai Fang. 12. Hypertension Control after Health Insurance Expansion: Empirical Evidence from China Jason Li. 13. Private Roles for Public Goals in China's Social Services Jack Donahue, Karen Eggleston, Yijia Jing, Richard J. Zeckhauser. 14. Cancer, Disparities, and PublicPrivate Roles: Views from China and Taiwan Karen Eggleston, Rachel Lu, Christina Ping, Nancy Zhang. 15. Policies for Healthy Aging in India Kavita Singh. 16. Net value methods (appendix)

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Book SynopsisAuthored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Global Health, shows what works—and what doesn’t—in global health. In a foreword to the book, Bill Gates says, “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution—one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive.Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health chronicles the global health revolution from the ground up, showcasing twenty-two local, national, and regional health programs that have been part of this global change. The book profiles eighteen remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries succeeded, and four examples of promising interventions that fell short of their health targets when scaled-up in real world conditions. Each case demonstrates how much effort—and sometimes luck—is required to fight illness and sustain good health.The cases are grouped into four main categories, reflecting the diversity of strategies to improve population health in low-and middle-income countries: rolling out medicines and technologies; expanding access to health services; targeting cash transfers to improve health; and promoting population-wide behavior change to decrease risk. The programs covered also come from various regions around the world: seven from sub-Saharan Africa, six from Latin America and the Caribbean, five from East and Southeast Asia, and four from South Asia.Trade Review“This is one of the most uplifting volumes on global health that I have come across. Solid evidence of cost-effective health interventions at scale gives us hope that millions more lives of the poorest and most vulnerable among us can be saved.”—Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former Finance Minister, Nigeria “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”—Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “This book serves as both an inspiration and as a practical tool—it reminds us that our work is constantly evolving and that our investments yield tangible change. These stories are proof that we are making a difference.”—Jimmy Kolker, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, United States Department of Health and Human Services“Positive deviance is usually thought of as finding the successful examples in a community, learning what they do best, and then scaling up those behaviors. This book is about global positive deviance. The authors have found examples of exceptional success in global health that serve as lessons for all of us working in the field.”—Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health“As we look forward, and begin the work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the chronicles of global health presented in this and previous editions of Millions Saved provide us with documented evidence on what works and does not work in global public health. The studies from Latin America showcase that targeted interventions addressing the needs of vulnerable and marginal populations can yield enormous dividends in health, social and economic development.”—Carissa Etienne, Director, Pan American Health Organization “I applaud the book’s range of major categories of interventions for improving health, its learnings from programs that disappointed at scale, and its incorporation of costs in the discussion about program effectiveness and impact. Importantly, the book draws conclusions about common features and key lessons, rather than only offering a compilation of interesting case studies, which is essential for the volume to be effective.”—Jere Behrman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisThe Opioid Epidemic and US Culture brings a new set of perspectives to one of the most pressing contemporary topics in Appalachia and the nation as a whole. A project aimed both at challenging dehumanizing attitudes toward those caught in the opioid epidemic and at protesting the structural forces that have enabled it, this edited volume assembles a multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners to consider the ways that people have mobilized their creativity in response to the crisis. From the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia to the role of cough syrup in mumble rap, and from a queer Appalachian zine to protests against the Sackler family's art-world philanthropy, the essays here explore the intersections of expressive culture, addiction, and recovery.Written for an audience of people working on the front lines of the opioid crisis, the book is essential reading for social workers, addiction counselors, halfway house managers, and people with opioid use disorder. It will also appeal to the community of scholars interested in understanding how aesthetics shape our engagement with critical social issues, particularly in the fields of literary and film criticism, museum studies, and ethnomusicology.Table of Contents Introduction: The Opioid Crisis and Expressive Culture Travis D. Stimeling Part I. On the Outside Looking In: The Opioid Crisis from Without 1. ""Something Too Pure / Is Killing Us"": Opioid-Addiction Porn, Endurance, and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Resilience Jordan Lovejoy 2. ""Snort Pills on My Head"": The Visual Rhetoric of Addiction, Abjection, and White Trash in The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia Christopher Garland 3. The Pill: Aesthetics, Addiction, and Gender in Jennifer Weiner's All Fall Down Ashleigh Hardin 4. Prince, Tom Petty, and Pain: Projections of Authenticity in Popular Music Leigh H. Edwards 5. ""Maybe If I'd Stayed"": Appalachian Outmigration and Narratives of Loss in Nate May's Dust in the Bottomland Travis D. Stimeling Part II. If You Lived Here: Representing the Opioid Epidemic from Within 6. Pretty Lil Azzie Crystal Good 7. The Way the World Is: From Maggie Boylan Michael Henson 8. Finding Maggie Boylan Michael Henson 9. You Talkin' about Me? Turning the Blood of Appalachia's Opioid Epidemic into Ink Jacqueline Yahn 10. Remediating the Opioid Crisis in Museums Ethan Sharp 11. A Hole Is Not a Void: Extraction, Addiction, and Aesthetics Jonas N. T. Becker 12. Narrative Engagement with the Opioid Epidemic: From Personal Story to Personal Reflection Amanda M. Caleb and Susan McDonald 13. Recovering from Addiction in Sobriety: Narrating Disability/Mental Illness through the Medium of Comic Art Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad 14. ""Hey, Let's Have a Very Good Time"": The Opioid Aesthetics of Post-Verbal Rap Austin T. Richey Part III. New Day Dawning: Recovery, Sobriety, and Post-Opioid Futures 15. Queer Addiction and Queer Harm Reduction in Appalachia Gina Mamone 16. Healing Open Wounds Chelsea Jack 17. Pain Is One Dance Partner: Move with It Anne Lloyd Willett 18. Images of Opioid Addiction, Recovery, and Privilege in Mainstream Hip Hop Paige Zalman 19. The Voices of Hope A Recovery Community Choir: Redefining Self, Community, and Success Natalie Shaffer Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the twenty-first century, expecting parents are inundated with information and advice from every direction, but are often strapped for perspective on how to think through it. Unlike traditional pregnancy guidebooks that offer recommendations, Carrying On helps expecting parents make sense of the overwhelming amount of counsel available to them by shedding light on where it all came from. How and why did such confusing and contradictory guidance on pregnancy come to exist? Carrying On investigates the origin stories of prevailing prenatal health norms by exploring the evolution of issues at the center of pregnancy, ranging from morning sickness and weight gain to ultrasounds and induction. When did women start taking prenatal vitamins, and why? When did the notion that pregnant women should “eat for two” originate? Where did exercise guidelines come from? And when did women start formulating birth plans? A learning project with one foot in the past and the other in the present, Carrying On considers what history and medicine together can teach us about how and why we treat pregnancy–and pregnant women–the way we do. In a world of information overload, Carrying On offers expecting parents the context and background they need to approach pregnancy and prenatal health from a new place of understanding.Trade Review"Carrying On dives deep into science to clarify all of the open questions around pregnancy. Clair's writing is clear, personal, and relatable....Carrying On is an original concept that is well written, well researched, much needed, and offers indigenous and midwifery perspectives alongside the traditional 'science.'" -- Tina Cassidy * author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born *"Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines: Where Did They Come From, Anyway?," by Brittany Clair * Pregnant Chicken *"The Truth About the 'Right' Pregnancy Diet," by Brittany Clair * Amara *"This book is part-science, part-history, a dash of memoir, and it lives in the weeds. It’s nine chapters that follow some sort of rough chronological logic, but all stand in relative isolation (i.e., you could jump around, skip a chapter, or read in whatever order suits you) and dive into one key question or topic. For example: How has medicine (not) managed morning sickness over time? When did we start using obstetric ultrasound, and what is it doing for us? When the hell — and why — did prenatal weight gain recommendations gain any traction? What about exercise guidelines? " * Lucie's List, The Best Pregnancy Books *Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: On Carrying On 1 Provide 2 Endure 3 Grow 4 Eat 5 Watch 6 Move 7 Sleep 8 Plan 9 Commence About the Author Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. The stories are terrific, the analysis pitched just right, and the underlying themes of fair treatment, dignity, and inequality of treatment based on race are well-developed." -- Barry R. Furrow * Director, the Health Law Program, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University *"Engaging, conversational, thought-provoking...McClellan's writing blends ethical arguments, a lay person's understandings of dignity, and legal frameworks very well. I felt as I was reading that someone was clearly and carefully walking me through stories about human dignity, medicine, and the law. His is a very humanistic legal gaze." -- Nora L. Jones * Director of Bioethics Education, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy, Temple University *"McClellan...maintains that violation of the trust between physician and patient may result from conscious or unconscious bias against a specific group of people. Such violations repeat themselves in part due to the short memory of the public. Within this context, McClellan also stresses that the rule of law is central to protecting human dignity when patients are seeking health care. The negative influence on human dignity of racism, limited access, high cost, and power relationships in health care is at the heart of McClellan's argument. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPART ONE: FIGHTING FOR ACCESS TO CARE Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity: Law Matters: Law Matters: Introduction to the Powers and Limitations of American Law 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor: Defining Dignity: Law Matters. 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality and Ethics “I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?”: Economic vs. Moral Decision-Making: Seeking Help From Strangers: A Pregnant Woman: Reflections on Law, Morality and Ethics: The Wallet Biopsy: Patient Dumping PART TWO: POWER AND TRUST 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power: Emotional Distress: Abuse of Power, Intentional Torts and Dignitary Harms: Tort Law and Patient Autonomy 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power: Medical Ethics and Professional Power: Law matters 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children?: Law Matters: Legal Cases: Lessons Learned: Legal Regulation of Professional Medical Care: Trying a New Approach with a New Device: The Legal Rules Governing Medical Malpractice Claims: Medical Research, Ethics and Law: Lessons Learned PART THREE: RACISM IN HEALTHCARE: PRACITCE, POLICY AND LAW 7 Introduction: Perspectives on Racism: “Black People Just Don’t Understand”– the Botched Hysterectomy: Race, Healthcare, and Human Dignity 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience: One Family’s Story: Unequal Community Access 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity: The Lawsuit That Lasted Ten Years: Life After A Catastrophic Injury: Reflections on Healthcare, Law and Catastrophic Injuries 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors that Affect Health and Healthcare: Being Human: Joint and Bone Health: Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making: Toward Patient-Centered Care: Revisiting Kathy Jones 11 Paying for Healthcare Costs: Lessons From a 50-Year-Old Government Program Called Medicare: Sustainability Issue: Payment Models and Human Dignity: A Personal Story: Lessons from Managed Care: Setting Limits: Medicare for All?: The Fight Over Obamacare: 12 Health Care and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World the Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion and Humility: Humility: Empathy: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. The stories are terrific, the analysis pitched just right, and the underlying themes of fair treatment, dignity, and inequality of treatment based on race are well-developed." -- Barry R. Furrow * Director, the Health Law Program, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University *"Engaging, conversational, thought-provoking...McClellan's writing blends ethical arguments, a lay person's understandings of dignity, and legal frameworks very well. I felt as I was reading that someone was clearly and carefully walking me through stories about human dignity, medicine, and the law. His is a very humanistic legal gaze." -- Nora L. Jones * Director of Bioethics Education, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy, Temple University *"McClellan...maintains that violation of the trust between physician and patient may result from conscious or unconscious bias against a specific group of people. Such violations repeat themselves in part due to the short memory of the public. Within this context, McClellan also stresses that the rule of law is central to protecting human dignity when patients are seeking health care. The negative influence on human dignity of racism, limited access, high cost, and power relationships in health care is at the heart of McClellan's argument. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPART ONE: FIGHTING FOR ACCESS TO CARE Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity: Law Matters: Law Matters: Introduction to the Powers and Limitations of American Law 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor: Defining Dignity: Law Matters. 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality and Ethics “I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?”: Economic vs. Moral Decision-Making: Seeking Help From Strangers: A Pregnant Woman: Reflections on Law, Morality and Ethics: The Wallet Biopsy: Patient Dumping PART TWO: POWER AND TRUST 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power: Emotional Distress: Abuse of Power, Intentional Torts and Dignitary Harms: Tort Law and Patient Autonomy 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power: Medical Ethics and Professional Power: Law matters 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children?: Law Matters: Legal Cases: Lessons Learned: Legal Regulation of Professional Medical Care: Trying a New Approach with a New Device: The Legal Rules Governing Medical Malpractice Claims: Medical Research, Ethics and Law: Lessons Learned PART THREE: RACISM IN HEALTHCARE: PRACITCE, POLICY AND LAW 7 Introduction: Perspectives on Racism: “Black People Just Don’t Understand”– the Botched Hysterectomy: Race, Healthcare, and Human Dignity 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience: One Family’s Story: Unequal Community Access 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity: The Lawsuit That Lasted Ten Years: Life After A Catastrophic Injury: Reflections on Healthcare, Law and Catastrophic Injuries 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors that Affect Health and Healthcare: Being Human: Joint and Bone Health: Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making: Toward Patient-Centered Care: Revisiting Kathy Jones 11 Paying for Healthcare Costs: Lessons From a 50-Year-Old Government Program Called Medicare: Sustainability Issue: Payment Models and Human Dignity: A Personal Story: Lessons from Managed Care: Setting Limits: Medicare for All?: The Fight Over Obamacare: 12 Health Care and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World the Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion and Humility: Humility: Empathy: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLosing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell’s palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over one hundred people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger misfeel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be.Trade Review“Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.”— Travers, author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution “Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.”— Kathleen Bogart, director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1 When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons 2 Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face 3 Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain 4 It's My Face—Why That Matters 5 Disrupted Selves 6 Someone I Would Rather Be 7 Walking Away: The Challenge of Change Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFinalist for the 2021 American Book Fest Best Book AwardsAging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors over sixty-five worldwide. Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines a diverse array of cultural works including films, literature, and even art that represent this time of life, often made by people who are seniors themselves. These works, focusing on important topics such as housing, memory loss, and intimacy, are analyzed in dialogue with recent research to explore how “stories” illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination. Gray Matters also incorporates the life experiences of seniors gathered from over two hundred in-depth surveys with a range of questions on growing old, not often included in other age studies works. Combining cultural texts, gerontology research, and observations from older adults will give all readers a fuller picture of the struggles and pleasures of aging and avoids over-simplified representations of the process as all negative or positive. Trade Review“Creative, wide-ranging and well-written, Gray Matters offers a many-sided, complex understanding of late-life. It demonstrates that this period of our lives interweaves our past and present, takes grit, and offers opportunities for positive experiences. For some, learning becomes more enjoyable, as the phrase ‘senior college’ indicates. Gray Matters also skillfully shows that aging occurs in a social context, a fact often overlooked when the process is understood as solely an individual matter.” -- Margaret Cruikshank * from the foreword *"Gray Matters invites readers to reexamine what they think they know about growing old. Offering succinct close readings of richly diverse cultural texts, Lem’s book presents literature as a resource for dealing with the practical and existential concerns of aging. With its interdisciplinary grounding in age studies theory and sociological data, Gray Matters is itself a valuable resource for readers ready to reorient their view of later life." -- Erin Lamb * co-editor of Research Methods in Health Humanities *"Lem draws examples from literature, film, television, and a survey of older people to support a wide-ranging and accessible examination of contemporary culture. Especially helpful to those who are new to the field, this book is a welcome addition to age-studies scholarship." -- Valerie Lipscomb * author of Performing Age in Modern Drama *"A savvy analysis of films, books, and studies undermining Philip Roth’s contention that 'Old age is not a battle. It is a massacre.'" -- Susan Gubar * author of Late-Life Love: A Memoir *"The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics: Ellyn Lem on Works by Shakespeare, Lauren Fox, and Others" https://lithub.com/the-literature-of-elder-care-is-often-about-shifting-power-dynamics/ * Literary Hub *"Drawing on literature, movies and TV as well as her survey research with 200 seniors, Lem explores the diversity of experiences of older people and pushes back against negative stereotypes about aging. Sexuality, housing, memory loss, adult children and death are among the topics." * Milwaukee Journal Sentinel *"Often, the elderly handle the pandemic very well. Here’s why," by Ellyn A. Lem https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/elderly-coping-pandemic-despite-isolation/2020/09/18/f397dea8-f763-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html#comments-wrapper * Washington Post *"Gray Matters increases readers’ knowledge about contemporary literature, media, and research focused on lived experiences of older adults. The content and insights can be introduced into gerontology courses and social work practice, human behavior, policy, and research courses, as well as informing direct practice with critical perspectives." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"Just How Well Is Popular Culture Portraying Older Adults?" by Ellyn Lem * Next Avenue *"This illuminating book will be appreciated by anyone who is growing old, or who is committed to social changes that ensure a pleasant and productive old age for all. Recommended." * Choice *"What the New Movie 'Old' Gets Right About Aging," by Ellyn Lem * Next Avenue *Table of ContentsForeword by Margaret Cruikshank Introduction: “Where Do I Begin?” Senior Parents and Their Adult Children: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Surveying the Housing Options: “No Place like Home”? Understanding Memory Loss: “Am I Losing my Mind?” Intimacy: “Love is All You Need”? Women and Men: “Separate But Equal”? Money, Work and Retirement: “Are We There Yet?” Death: “The Final Frontier”? Afterword Acknowledgments Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisMedical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medical intervention. Using a series of case studies – sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments for sexual dissatisfaction, and weight loss interventions – the book argues that, because of systemic inequality, most mainstream medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce social inequality and alleviate some individual suffering. The book demonstrates that there is no way to think ourselves out of this conundrum as the contradictions are a product of unjust systems. Thus, Gupta argues that feminist activists and theorists should allow individuals to choose whether to use a particular intervention, while directing their social justice efforts at dismantling systems of oppression and at ensuring that all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class, or ability, have access to the basic resources required to flourish. Trade ReviewMedical Entanglements is required reading for anyone interested in the feminist stakes of biomedical interventions. Provocatively insisting that “medicine isn’t special,” Gupta reimagines the terrain of sexual pharmaceuticals, gender affirmation procedures, and weight loss technologies, providing fresh insights about how all three can be sites of survival, well-being, and even flourishing. Gupta’s writing is clear, her arguments comprehensive, and her suggestions for how we get from A to B are a sensible companion in these urgent times. -- Chrstine Labuski * author of It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain *"Modern biomedicine presents us with a growing number of socially and ethically troubling situations, where there is always a temptation to seek a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ solution. In this important book, and with theoretical sophistication and supported by detailed case studies, Gupta shows the most ethical way forward may be acceptance that difficulties are only imperfectly resolvable, entangled as they are in broader systems of injustice. She argues with skill and imagination for a different approach, framed by a different language, to feminist thinking about healthcare." -- Jackie Leach Scully * co-editor of Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins *Table of Contents1. Introduction: No Safe Ground 2. Feminist Critiques of Medicine (and Some Responses) 3. Theorizing from Transition-Related Care: Analytical Tools for Complexity 4. Sexuopharmaceuticals: Queering Medicalization 5. Constructing Fat, Constructing Fat Stigma: Rethinking Weight-Reduction Interventions 6. Conclusion: Medicine Without Eugenics? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosque. We come to know Ansha’s experiences as revolutionary and migrant, her religious trajectories, family, the healers who cured her, the spirits who possessed her, and her declining health. We follow Ansha’s shifts in her life and work in the mosque as these intersect with the visible and invisible borders of Mozambique and of its fraught history. Confronting events in her life and in the mosque between 2009 and 2016, Ansha invites us to make meaning with her, as we sit in her mosque, and engage with her family, spirits, friends, patients, and world.Trade Review"This vivid, richly woven ethnographic account of healing practice in Mozambique offers valuable insights into the fluidity and flexibility of cultural and religious boundaries. The book captures the dynamics of agency and power in its focus on a healer’s spiritual border-crossing, revealing alternative visions of experiences of culture and religion as continually re-constructed and emergent."— Susan Rasmussen, author of Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective "Through this ethnographic account of one healer in northern Mozambique, Daria Trentini evokes the contours of an entire social world. As Ansha works the borders between health and illness, tradition and modernity, good and evil—even life and death—Trentini shows how lives are defined by tensions and contradictions as well as attempts to ease them. By providing such an accessible and compelling narrative, Trentini herself works ontological borders between her readers and those she meets in Ansha’s compound."— Harry G. West, author of Ethnographic Sorcery "This ethnography is well written and offers much comparative material for medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and the social science of medicine. I recommend it highly for both undergraduate and graduate students. Daria Trentini has made a very important contribution to the understanding of the personal and professional life and development of a spiritual healer." — Patricia Barker Lerch, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations Ansha’s Family Note on Languages Prologue Introduction Part I: Ansha and the Spirits 1 Rural and Urban 2 Health and Healing 3 Wives and Husbands 4 Demons and Spirits 5 Insiders and Outsiders 6 Mountains 7 Coast 8 Rivers and Bridges Part II: Outside the Mosque 9 Makhuwa and Maka 10 Books and Roots 11 Muslims of the Spirits and Muslims of the Mosque 12 Healers and the Governo 13 Healers and Nurses 14 Knowing and Not-Knowing Part III: Patients 15 Good and Evil 16 Closed and Opened 17 The Dead and the Living 18 Juniors and Seniors 19 Tradition and Modernity 20 Spirits and Women Part IV: Returns 21 Life and Death Epilogue Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisUnder Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha’aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha’aliya. The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country’s crucible.Trade Review"With uncompromising care and sensitivity, Rhona Seidelman unpacks the 'great story' of 'Aliah to the newly created Israel and puts the medical dimension of migration at the center. An essential chapter in the history of the Mizrahim." -- Zvi Ben-Dor Benite * author of The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History *"An important contribution to the ever-growing body of Jewish and Israeli studies literature, Jewish immigration studies, and health and immigration scholarship. In particular, it facilitates a broader multidimensional perspective on a specific locus in its historical as well as current contexts." * AJS Review *"Immigrants and Quarantine at Israel’s Founding with Rhona Seidelman" * Infectious Historians Podcast *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Barbed Wire 1 Confines 2 Structure 3 Meaning 4 Memory Conclusion: Under Quarantine Epilogue: The Shaar Ha’aliya Memorial for Migrants and Medicine Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1978 the world’s first “test-tube baby” was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty—an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law. Trade Review“Undoing Motherhood is fascinating and unique; there is really no other published work that empirically examines the issues, debates, and contestations about maternity from the meso-level/organizational level that shape definitions about maternity and ensuing contestations when assisted reproductive technologies are involved.” — Susan Markens, author of Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Motherhood “Undoing Motherhood beautifully weaves together the worlds of reproductive medicine and the law to explore how technology has complicated the meaning of motherhood. The book is a compelling story of how new reproductive technologies have profoundly affected our conceptions of parenthood.” — Naomi R. Cahn, author of The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived FamiliesTable of Contents1. A New Maternity Uncertainty? 2. Conceiving Motherhood and the Repronormative Family 3. Losing My Genetics: Paternal versus Maternal Concerns 4. Contingent Maternities? Maternal Claims Making in Collaborative Reproduction 5. Designating Maternity: Contested Motherhood and the Courts 6. Adopting or Resisting New Maternities? 7. Concluding Thoughts: Maternity Somewhere in Between Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWho are the children in child health policy? How do they live and see the world, and why should we know them? A journey into the lives of children coping in a world compromised by poverty and inequality, The Children in Child Health challenges the invisibility of children’s perspectives in health policy and argues that paying attention to what children do is critical for understanding the practical and policy implications of these experiences. In the unique context of indigenous Māori and migrant Pacific children in postcolonial New Zealand, Julie Spray explores the intertwining issues of epidemic disease, malnutrition, stress, violence, self-harm, and death to address the problem of how scholars and policy-makers alike can recognize and respond to children as social actors in their health. The Children in Child Health innovatively combines perspectives from childhood studies, medical anthropology, and public health and policy together with evocative ethnography to show how a deep understanding of children’s worlds can change our approach to their care. Trade Review“This is a beautifully written book that sheds light on children’s understandings of public health messages and practices. It is enlivened by the words of children, at times quirky and at other times heartrending, and by Dr Spray’s critical analysis which situates the children’s experiences within peer ecologies and the landscape of health and social inequities of Aotearoa, New Zealand.” -- Karen Witten * co-editor of Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments *“At last, a book about child health that puts children at the center: as actors, as co-producers and most importantly as human beings. It should be compulsory reading for health professionals, social workers and anyone else anyone else who takes child health and wellbeing seriously.” -- Kate Hampshire * co-author of Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving Young Lives *"Writing from an anthropological standpoint, this exceptionally well-written book, enriched by an array of beautiful illustrations of life at Tūrama School realized by the author, makes an important contribution to the scarce body of Aotearoa New Zealand school ethnographies." * Aotearao New Zealand Journal of Social Issues *"The Children in Child Health is a needed, well-written book that offers thorough analyses and elaborate theoretical discussions, with a storyline almost as exciting as a detective novel. In the best of worlds, it would be read and reflected upon by decision-makers and professionals around the globe and would inform the New Zealand government’s (2019) current initiative: the program of action for child and youth well-being." * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The World of Tūrama School Chapter Three: Negotiating Generational Differences in Ethical Research Chapter Four: Coproducing Health at the School Clinic Chapter Five: Responsibilizing Care Chapter Six: Embodying Inequality Chapter Seven: Practicing Resilience Chapter Eight: Talking with Death Chapter Nine: Conclusion Appendix: Drawing Child Ethnography Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBodies Unbound is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer who elect to undergo prophylactic mastectomies. Bodies Unbound is a story about how the relationship between bodies and gender becomes socially intelligible as well as how medical professionals use their position of relative authority over bodies to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations for gynecological and breast cancer care, Sledge unravels the taken-for-granted alignment of bodies and gender that provide the foundation of medical care in the United States. Trade Review"Sledge’s fieldwork has led to a rich and vibrant analysis of how gender is enacted, resisted, performed, and policed in medical settings. Her accessible writing style and complex sociological analysis make this a powerful and unique contribution to the field."— Lisa Jean Moore, author of Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee "Bodies Unbound has many strengths and is written for scholars, students, and health practitioners who are interested in learning about how medicine normalizes and legitimizes gender and body and how patients and providers alike can resist and change the gendered health care system. Bodies Unbound makes important contributions to the scholarships of medical sociology, gender, and embodiment through addressing critical questions with careful analysis and compelling evidence."— Gender & Society "In a system that renders some relationships between bodies and gender identities legitimate and others illegitimate, Sledge employs an innovative research design that compares the experiences of patients with the ‘wrong body’ for gynecological and breast cancers. Each of these groups of patients disrupts normative expectations about gendered bodies. Conceptually integrating well-known but limiting 'doing gender' perspectives with more recent work on bio-citizenship, Sledge vividly illustrates how gendered biolegitimacy offers a powerful new theoretical framework for the study of gender and health."— Asia Friedman, associate professor of sociology, University of DelawareTable of ContentsContents List of Tables List of Images Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Entering Enemy Territory 2. Choosing Mastectomy 3. Returning to Normal 4. Ideologies of Gender in Surgical Cancer Care Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the United States, the “right to choose” an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn’t really have a choice? What if state laws, federal policies, stigma, and a host of other obstacles push that choice out of her reach? Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice punctures the myth that American women have full autonomy over their reproductive choices. Focusing on the experiences of a predominantly Black and low-income group of women, sociologist Katrina Kimport finds that structural, cultural, and experiential factors can make choosing abortion impossible–especially for those who experience racism and class discrimination. From these conversations, we see the obstacles to “choice” these women face, such as bans on public insurance coverage of abortion and rampant antiabortion claims that abortion is harmful. Kimport's interviews reveal that even as activists fight to preserve Roe v. Wade, class and racial disparities have already curtailed many women’s freedom of choice. No Real Choice analyzes both the structural obstacles to abortion and the cultural ideologies that try to persuade women not to choose abortion. Told with care and sensitivity, No Real Choice gives voice to women whose experiences are often overlooked in debates on abortion, illustrating how real reproductive choice is denied, for whom, and at what cost. Trade Review"The Femtastic Podcast with Katie Breen: interview with Katrina Kimport"— The Femtastic Podcast "Kimport’s discovery of women receiving prenatal care who have not 'chosen' to have a baby offers a revelatory corrective to the way we talk about abortion, childbirth, and choice in America."— Katie Watson, author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion "Kimport’s book will be of interest to scholars of reproduction, social movements, legal studies, and social inequalities. It is written in accessible prose that makes the book a suitable text for both graduate and undergraduate courses as well as the broader public. As the United States stands at the precipice of a dramatic change to laws governing the right of pregnant people to reproductive autonomy, No Real Choice is a must-read." — Gender & Society "No Real Choice marks the definitive end of arguing for a 'pro-choice' America by proving how policies, assumptions, and histories of medical injustice often make abortion utterly unchooseable. Collecting voices from those who considered abortion but went to term anyway, Katrina Kimport charts the logistical obstacles to terminating unwanted pregnancies and illustrates the need for promoting the right to parent for low income individuals and people of color. The lived reality of racism shapes these ethnographic stories of struggle over reproductive possibilities and impossibilities to affirm abortion not as an option but as a necessary element of a just society."— Carol Mason, author of Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics "Chocolate Opera Cake and No Real Choice with Prof. Katrina Kimport"— Proofing and Lies podcast "No Real Choice offers important insights into the reproductive experiences of women, especially poor women of color. The result is a reframing of the choice for women, from one of deciding between abortion and the continuation of pregnancy to one of deciding whether or not to have an abortion."— Nazli Kibria, author of Becoming Asian American "For those skeptical that there’s anything new to say about abortion, Kimport’s book is a must-read. Her careful analysis shows—startlingly—that many women give birth because abortion is 'unchoosable.'" — Lisa Harris, MD, University of Michigan "I came away from the book appreciative that Kimport had collected and shared so many moving and important stories of women whose voices are otherwise unlikely to be heard." — Nursing Clio "We Need to Do More Than “Protect Roe'" by Katrina Kimport— The NationTable of Contents1. No Real Choice 2. Policies, Poverty, and the Organization of Abortion Care 3. Privileging the Fetus 4. Seeing Irresponsibility and Harm 5. Fearing the Experience of Abortion 6. Choosing a Baby 7. Toward Reproductive Autonomy Methodological Appendix Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the United States, the “right to choose” an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn’t really have a choice? What if state laws, federal policies, stigma, and a host of other obstacles push that choice out of her reach? Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice punctures the myth that American women have full autonomy over their reproductive choices. Focusing on the experiences of a predominantly Black and low-income group of women, sociologist Katrina Kimport finds that structural, cultural, and experiential factors can make choosing abortion impossible–especially for those who experience racism and class discrimination. From these conversations, we see the obstacles to “choice” these women face, such as bans on public insurance coverage of abortion and rampant antiabortion claims that abortion is harmful. Kimport's interviews reveal that even as activists fight to preserve Roe v. Wade, class and racial disparities have already curtailed many women’s freedom of choice. No Real Choice analyzes both the structural obstacles to abortion and the cultural ideologies that try to persuade women not to choose abortion. Told with care and sensitivity, No Real Choice gives voice to women whose experiences are often overlooked in debates on abortion, illustrating how real reproductive choice is denied, for whom, and at what cost. Trade Review"The Femtastic Podcast with Katie Breen: interview with Katrina Kimport"— The Femtastic Podcast "Kimport’s discovery of women receiving prenatal care who have not 'chosen' to have a baby offers a revelatory corrective to the way we talk about abortion, childbirth, and choice in America."— Katie Watson, author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion "Kimport’s book will be of interest to scholars of reproduction, social movements, legal studies, and social inequalities. It is written in accessible prose that makes the book a suitable text for both graduate and undergraduate courses as well as the broader public. As the United States stands at the precipice of a dramatic change to laws governing the right of pregnant people to reproductive autonomy, No Real Choice is a must-read." — Gender & Society "No Real Choice marks the definitive end of arguing for a 'pro-choice' America by proving how policies, assumptions, and histories of medical injustice often make abortion utterly unchooseable. Collecting voices from those who considered abortion but went to term anyway, Katrina Kimport charts the logistical obstacles to terminating unwanted pregnancies and illustrates the need for promoting the right to parent for low income individuals and people of color. The lived reality of racism shapes these ethnographic stories of struggle over reproductive possibilities and impossibilities to affirm abortion not as an option but as a necessary element of a just society."— Carol Mason, author of Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics "Chocolate Opera Cake and No Real Choice with Prof. Katrina Kimport"— Proofing and Lies podcast "No Real Choice offers important insights into the reproductive experiences of women, especially poor women of color. The result is a reframing of the choice for women, from one of deciding between abortion and the continuation of pregnancy to one of deciding whether or not to have an abortion."— Nazli Kibria, author of Becoming Asian American "For those skeptical that there’s anything new to say about abortion, Kimport’s book is a must-read. Her careful analysis shows—startlingly—that many women give birth because abortion is 'unchoosable.'" — Lisa Harris, MD, University of Michigan "I came away from the book appreciative that Kimport had collected and shared so many moving and important stories of women whose voices are otherwise unlikely to be heard." — Nursing Clio "We Need to Do More Than “Protect Roe'" by Katrina Kimport— The NationTable of Contents1. No Real Choice 2. Policies, Poverty, and the Organization of Abortion Care 3. Privileging the Fetus 4. Seeing Irresponsibility and Harm 5. Fearing the Experience of Abortion 6. Choosing a Baby 7. Toward Reproductive Autonomy Methodological Appendix Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisNear Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care unit, extremely premature infants prompt questions about whether they are too fragile to save or, if they survive, whether they will face a life of severe disability. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen shows that practices of substitution redirect the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human. The near humanness of preterm infants and research piglets becomes an avenue to unravel how neonatal life is imagined, how societal belonging is evaluated, and how the Danish welfare state is forged. This courageous multi-sited and multi-species approach cracks open the complex ethical field of valuating life and making different kinds of pigs and different kinds of humans belong in Denmark. Trade Review"Near Human examines the moral sensibilities and substitution practices through which human and non-human lives come to be valued, sustained, and included within the collectivity – or killed and excluded. In Svendsen’s masterful account, vivid stories from Denmark – about piglets and preemies, scientists and migrants, global exchanges and border closures – speak to fundamental questions about how human lives and societies get shaped, alongside the lives of animals. A breathtaking achievement!" -- Janelle S. Taylor * author of The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram *"In this pathbreaking book, Mette Svendsen shows the ways in which Denmark relies upon pigs as fodder for its welfare state. Expanding the frames of translational medicine, Svendsen shows how the pig figures as a source of health and wealth that sustains the Danish population. The human-animal nexus becomes a prism to explore the boundaries of the nation, its citizenry and the politics of (non)belonging. This compelling and beautifully written book shows just how much can be learned by making other-than-human animals central to medical anthropology." -- Carrie Friese * author of Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals *"Near Human examines the moral sensibilities and substitution practices through which human and non-human lives come to be valued, sustained, and included within the collectivity – or killed and excluded. In Svendsen’s masterful account, vivid stories from Denmark – about piglets and preemies, scientists and migrants, global exchanges and border closures – speak to fundamental questions about how human lives and societies get shaped, alongside the lives of animals. A breathtaking achievement!" -- Janelle S. Taylor * author of The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram *"In this pathbreaking book, Mette Svendsen shows the ways in which Denmark relies upon pigs as fodder for its welfare state. Expanding the frames of translational medicine, Svendsen shows how the pig figures as a source of health and wealth that sustains the Danish population. The human-animal nexus becomes a prism to explore the boundaries of the nation, its citizenry and the politics of (non)belonging. This compelling and beautifully written book shows just how much can be learned by making other-than-human animals central to medical anthropology." -- Carrie Friese * author of Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson Prologue Introduction 1 Feeding: Cows, Pigs, and Humans in Interspecies Kinship 2 Killing: Pigs as Sacrificeable Beings 3 Treating: Infants at the Margins of Life 4 Metabolizing: Humans and Nonhumans in a Global Field Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTies that Enable is written for students, providers, and advocates seeking to understand how best to improve mental health care – be it for themselves, their loved ones, their clients, or for the wider community. The authors integrate their knowledge of mental health care as researchers, teachers, and advocates and rely on the experiences of people living with severe mental health problems to help understand the sources of community solidarity. Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity. The authors argue that mental health reform efforts need to move beyond a focus on individual recovery to more complex understandings of the meaning of community care. In addition, mental health care needs to move from a medical model to a social model which sees the roots of mental illness and recovery as lying in society, not the individual. It is our society’s inability to provide inclusive supportive environments which restrict the ability of individuals to recover. This book provides insights into how communities and system level reforms can promote justice and the higher ideals we aspire to as a society.Trade Review“Ties that Enable provides an excellent qualitative complement to the quantitative research on recovery and mental illness. The authors’ detailed accounts of client relationships and experiences are excellent.” — Fred E. Markowitz, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University "Scheid and Smith shed light on the ways that, over time, changes in policy and trends in mental health care have actually left people stranded in 'the community.' This is a welcome and unique addition to the work on people with serious mental illness, and I enthusiastically look forward to seeing, using, and citing it."— Kerry Dobransky, author of Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health CareTable of ContentsPreface 1 The Current Impasse over Mental Health Care 2 Looking Back: Reflections on the Reality of Community-Based Mental Health Care 3 Being a “Right Person”: Social Acceptance in a Faith-Based Program 4 Doing the “Best” We Can: Developing Social Relationships and Overcoming Isolation 5 Us and Them: Confronting Recovery in the Face of Marginalization 6 Going Backward: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Failures of the Past? 7 Working toward Community Solidarity and Social Justice Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAll My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people do when they go online after they have suffered a trauma. It offers in-depth academic analysis alongside deeply personal stories and case studies to take the reader on a journey through rapidly changing digital/social worlds. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and All My Friends Live in My Computer explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering. Through its attention to personal stories and application of media theory to new contexts, this book highlights how, when given the tools, people will make meaning in creative, novel, and healing ways. Trade Review"An emotionally intense, imaginative journey into the way our online lives mediate the experience and definition of the suffering subject. This book should appeal to a general audience as well as to specialists in media and communication and health communication who are intensely interested in how the new online world has shaped the most fundamental of human emotions and experiences." -- Andrea L. Press * co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms *"An emotionally intense, imaginative journey into the way our online lives mediate the experience and definition of the suffering subject. This book should appeal to a general audience as well as to specialists in media and communication and health communication who are intensely interested in how the new online world has shaped the most fundamental of human emotions and experiences." -- Andrea L. Press * co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Plat *Table of ContentsPrologue Part I Trauma and Media Theory 1 Introduction: Seeing through Suffering: Digital Mediation and the Suffering Subject 2 There Are Many Ways to Suffer 3 Putting It Out There: Tactics of Meaning Making in Digital Media Part II Meaning Making Online 4 The Battle We Didn’t Choose: Angelo Merendino and Mediations of Grief, Disease, and the Trauma of Bearing Witness 5 Nothing Can Stop You: CrossFit, Trauma, and the Digital Remaking of Ability 6 Bullied by the Nation: The Symbolic Trauma of Iranians Living in the United States 7 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisViral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems.Trade Review"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson PrefaceAcronyms and Abbreviations Introduction 1 Uneven Anthropological and Epidemiological Stories in Historical HIV Context2 “The Postelection Violence Has Brought Shame on Us All”: HIV and Legacies of Racism, Political Violence, and Ethnic Conflict 3 Stigma and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty 4 “We Call HIV a Sex Worker Disease”: Economic Inequalities, Social Change, and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality 5 (Re)Imagining Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Mental Health Statuses6 “What Has Happened to You?” HIV and the (Re)Making of Moral Personhood Conclusion AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior that makes successful treatment of people affected by tuberculosis extremely difficult. People affected don’t get healthy, healthcare providers are frustrated, and families seek to balance love and care for those who are ill with self-protection. How are we to understand this? Where does the responsibility for poor health and healing lie? What are the possibilities for an effective healthcare response? Through a close look at lives and care, Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health shows how patterns of substance use, tuberculosis disease, and their interaction are shaped by history, social context, and political economy. This, in turn, generates new perspectives on what makes poor health, and what good care might look like.Trade Review"This is an outstanding ethnography that makes important contributions to medical anthropology specifically in relation to infectious diseases, substance use, and anthropological studies of global health practices and interventions. The nuanced anthropological focus on the intersections of substance use and tuberculosis among marginalized and impoverished persons that Versfeld analyzes in relation to historical legacies of colonialism and Apartheid is both in-depth and accessible. Critical reading for medical anthropologists, global public health scholars, and those interested in health inequalities in Africa and the Global South." -- Erin Koch * author of Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Postsocialist Georgia *"South Africa has among the highest tuberculosis rates in the world, related to indoor residential crowding, occupational hazards like mining, and high background HIV prevalence. Drug resistance and active TB resurgence magnify the original problem, increasing costs of care and reducing survival. I recommend this important contribution for anyone seeking deeper insights into the healthcare and community challenges facing the syndemic of substance use and TB, often complicated by HIV co-infection. Only a multifaceted response is likely to succeed for a disease too often addressed with limited “vertical” programs." -- Sten Vermund * the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson 1 Returners 2 The Stickiness of Moral Opinion 3 Co-constitutions: Makers and Maskers 4 Salience and Silence: Data, Evidence, and the Making of Figure Facts 5 The Challenge of “Unruly” Patients 6 Care to Cure 7 Catching Breath: The Hospital as Restricted Respite 8 Anthropology in Action Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource countries have experienced increasing privatization and dysfunction of public sector institutions such as hospitals, and growing withdrawal of funding for non-profit organizations. Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary? This collection of ethnographies demonstrates how hospital administrators, clinicians, and other staff in hospitals around the world confront innumerable risks in their commitment to deliver health care, including civil unrest, widespread poverty, endemic and epidemic disease, and supply chain instability. Ultimately, The Work of Hospitals documents a vast gulf between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice. Hospitals thus become “contested space” between policy and practice. Trade Review"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *Table of ContentsIntroductionWilliam C. Olsen and Carolyn SargentPart I Global Medicines in Local Cultures1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian ClinicMorgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian HospitalAnita Hannig3 The Cosmopolitan HospitalCheryl Mattingly4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in AsanteWilliam C. Olsen5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases ComparedJohn M. JanzenPart II Care Giving and Hospital Labor6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital BeninMark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in GuatemalaAnita Chary and Peter Rohloff8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, TanzaniaAdrienne E. Strong9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in MexicoVania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. HurdPart III Hospitals and the Patient10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, FranceCarolyn Sargent11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone WrongElisa J. Sobo12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public HospitalsEugenia Georges13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani HospitalEmma VarleyAfterwordClaire WendlandReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource countries have experienced increasing privatization and dysfunction of public sector institutions such as hospitals, and growing withdrawal of funding for non-profit organizations. Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary? This collection of ethnographies demonstrates how hospital administrators, clinicians, and other staff in hospitals around the world confront innumerable risks in their commitment to deliver health care, including civil unrest, widespread poverty, endemic and epidemic disease, and supply chain instability. Ultimately, The Work of Hospitals documents a vast gulf between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice. Hospitals thus become “contested space” between policy and practice. Trade Review"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *Table of ContentsIntroductionWilliam C. Olsen and Carolyn SargentPart I Global Medicines in Local Cultures1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian ClinicMorgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian HospitalAnita Hannig3 The Cosmopolitan HospitalCheryl Mattingly4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in AsanteWilliam C. Olsen5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases ComparedJohn M. JanzenPart II Care Giving and Hospital Labor6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital BeninMark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in GuatemalaAnita Chary and Peter Rohloff8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, TanzaniaAdrienne E. Strong9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in MexicoVania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. HurdPart III Hospitals and the Patient10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, FranceCarolyn Sargent11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone WrongElisa J. Sobo12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public HospitalsEugenia Georges13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani HospitalEmma VarleyAfterwordClaire WendlandReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn disease cluster communities across the country, environmental contamination from local industries is often suspected as a source of disease. But civic action is notoriously hampered by the slow response from government agencies to investigate the cause of disease and the complexities of risk assessment. In Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town, Laura Hart examines another understudied dimension of community inaction: the role of emotion and its relationship to community experiences of social belonging and inequality. Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging, disconnect, and disruption in the wake of suspected industrial pollution. Her research points to a fear driven not only by economic anxiety, but also by a fear of losing security within the community—a sort of pride that is not only about status, but connectedness. Hart reveals the importance of this social form of risk—the desire for belonging and the risk of not belonging—ultimately arguing that this is consequential to how people make judgements and respond to issues. Within this context where the imperative for self-protection is elusive, affected families experience psychosocial and practical conflicts as they adapt to cancer as a way of life. Considering a future where debates about risk and science will inevitably increase, Hart considers possibilities for the democratization of risk management and the need for transformative approaches to environmental justice.Trade Review“Hart does an excellent job weaving local community narratives in with sociological insights and theories of risk and belonging. Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town offers a clear and important contribution to in-depth community studies of industrial risks and environmental health disaster.” -- Peter Little * author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks *“Hart’s account of Clyde, Ohio leaves the reader feeling as though they’ve come to know the residents of this town, and it skillfully captures the complexity underlying a community’s response to chronic contamination and illness. It is an important contribution to the literature on risk, disasters, and the sociology of emotions.” -- Norah MacKendrick * author of Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate their Exposure to Everyday Toxics *Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Town of Whirlpool 1 The Deregulation of Toxic Chemicals 2 Cancer in Clyde and “Will-o’-the-Wisp Things” 3 Emotion, Risk, and Othering 4 Embodied Risk 5 Toward Transformative Movements of Theory and Practice Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them. Also included are study questions for use in the classroom. Many of the book’s contributors are leaders in their academic fields, from public health and social work, to community psychology and urban and regional planning, and to social and political science. One author was the 44th president of the United States, himself a former community organizer in Chicago, who reflects on his earlier vocation and its importance. Other contributors are inspiring community leaders whose work on-the-ground and in partnership with us “outsiders” highlights both the power of collaboration, and the cultural humility and other skills required to do it well. Throughout this book, and particularly in the case studies and examples shared, the role of context is critical, and never far from view. Included here most recently are the horrific and continuing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a long overdue, yet still greatly circumscribed, “national reckoning with systemic racism,” in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of yet another unarmed Black person, and then another and another, seemingly without end. In many chapters, the authors highlight different facets of the Black Lives Matter movement that took on new life across the country and the world in response to these atrocities. In other chapters, the existential threat of climate change and grave threats to democracy also are underscored.View the Table of Contents and introductory text for the supplementary instructor resources. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/04143046/9781978832176_optimized_sampler.pdf)Supplementary instructor resources are available on request: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/communityorganizingTrade Review"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them." -- Louise Simmons * professor of social work, University of Connecticut *"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." -- Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, * Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University *"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them." -- Louise Simmons * professor of social work, University of Connecticut *"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." -- Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, * Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Antony B. Iton PART ONE: Introduction 1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building in a New Era MEREDITH MINKLER AND PATRICIA WAKIMOTO 2 Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City BARACK OBAMA PART TWO: Contextual Frameworks and Approaches 3 Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work MEREDITH MINKLER, NINA WALLERSTEIN, AND CHERYL A. HYDE 4 Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity DEREK M. GRIFFITH AND HEATHER CAME 5 Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches MARTY MARTINSON, CELINA SU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 6 It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi MAKANI N. THEMBA PART THREE: Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges 7 Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead RONALD LABONTÉ 8 Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building MEREDITH MINKLER, CHERI A. PIES, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND CHERYL A. HYDE 9 Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity ROXANA CHEN, KIRSTEN WYSEN, BLISHDA LACET, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND STEPHANIE A. FARQUHAR PART FOUR: Community Assessment and Issue Selection 10 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? TREVOR HANCOCK AND MEREDITH MINKLER 11 Mapping Community Capacity JOHN L. MCKNIGHT, JOHN P. KRETZMANN, AND LIONEL J. BEAULIEU 12 Selecting the Issue LEE STAPLES AND RINKU SEN PART FIVE: Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures 13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color LORRAINE M. GUTIÉRREZ AND EDITH A. LEWIS 14 Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic LAURA A. LINNAN, STEPHEN B. THOMAS, AND SUSAN R. PASSMORE 15 Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study CHARLOTTE CHANG, ALICIA L. SALVATORE, PAM TAU LEE, SHAW SAN LIU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER PART SIX: Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building 16 Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet NICKIE BAZELL AND EVAN VANDOMMELEN-GONZALEZ 17 Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies CARICIA CATALANI, ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, MARÍA ELENA TORRE, AND MEREDITH MINKLER PART SEVEN: Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts 18 Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER 19 Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, SUSANA HENNESSEY LAVERY, MEREDITH MINKLER, AND JESSICA ESTRADA 20 Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment R. DAVID REBANAL 21 Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change CHRIS M. COOMBE, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND ZACHARY ROWE PART EIGHT: Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy 22 Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community Organizing LISA CACARI STONE, MANUEL PASTOR, JOSEPH GRIFFIN, RACHEL MORELLO-FROSCH, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 23 Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change AMBER AKEMI PIATT, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, WAYLAND COLEMAN, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 24 Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy LORI DORFMAN, PRISILA GONZALEZ, AND SHADDAI MARTINEZ CUESTAS Appendixes 1 Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege CHERYL A. HYDE 2 Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers JASON CORBURN, MARISA RUIZ ASARI, AND JOSH KIRSCHENBAUM 3 Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure EUGENIA ENG AND LYNN BLANCHARD 4 Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS 5 Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, NANCY EPSTEIN, AND CLARA PINSKY 6 Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health JENNIFER LIFSHAY AND MARY ANNE MORGAN 7 Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes TOM WOLFF 8 Issue-Development Worksheet RINKU SEN 9 Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questions and Considerations for Getting It Right MARK S. HOMAN 10 Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline MAGDALENA AVILA, SHANNON SANCHEZ-YOUNGMAN, REVA HINES, LESLIE GROVER, AND NINA WALLERSTEIN 11 Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing MEREDITH MINKLER, ANGELA NI, CHRIS M. COOMBE, AND JENNIFER FALBE 12 Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels BARBARA A. ISRAEL, AMY J. SCHULZ, EDITH A. PARKER, AND ADAM B. BECKER Epilogue by Kathleen M. Roe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEvery year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses in the face of these challenges, while working at a Veterans hospital. Their stories provide unique insights into the often-unseen roles race, religion and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare. In many ways, these nurses find themselves foreign in more ways than just their nativity. Seeing nursing as a religious calling, they care for their patients, both at the hospital and in the wider community, with a sense of divine purpose but must also confront the cultural tensions and disconnects between how they were raised and trained in another country and the legal separation of church and state. How they cope with and engage these tensions and disconnects plays an important role in not only shaping how they see themselves as Catholic nurses but their place in the new American story. Trade ReviewThis book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *This book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsChapter One: Veterans and a Crisis of Care Chapter Two: Colonialism, Christian Culture and Nursing Care Chapter Three: New American Battlefields Chapter Four: Understanding and Coping with the Trauma of War Chapter Five: Faith and the Practice of Care Chapter Six: Extending Health and Care to Community Chapter Seven: Who Will Care for America?

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Book SynopsisCancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the "state of the nation".Trade Review"Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Tørring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare." -- Ayo Wahlberg * professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen *"Cancer Entangled explores how the miasma of the potential of cancer infiltrates and weighs on people’s ordinary lives as well as clinical experiences. The impact of anticipatory cancer within a welfare state is at the core of each of the chapters, yet each individual chapter contributes a contextually different perspective, contributing to our understanding of the broader context. This is a conversation well worth joining!" -- M. Cameron Hay-Rollins * author of Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indones *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times Marie Louise Tørring Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness Camilla Hoffmann Merrild Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic Benedikte Møller Kristensen Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work Rikke Aarhus Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty Michal Frumer Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions Stine Hauberg Nielsen Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care Lenore Manderson Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisGlobal Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.Trade Review"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute, The New School *"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China In *Table of ContentsPrologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang Periodization A Field and What Else? The Game of Scales Standardization What’s Neoliberal in Global Health? Multi-scalar methodologies Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié Grounding localization The Local as Site of Innovation SkyCare and the Virtual Global Community: The Discursive Local The Local as Hub of Global Circulations Conclusion Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Introduction Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National Investments in Health Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation Challenging GBD 2 Crises of ownership and counting Conclusion Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and its Eclipse Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the “Selective” Primary Health Care The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global Health Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman Distributed Political Triage in Kerala Conclusion Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials in Ghana The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia Conclusion Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture The Launching of a Depression Technopack A Sliding Scale: TB GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack Conclusion Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia Lang Introduction Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India Conclusion Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over” The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s–2000s Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the WHO’s Guiding Principles A Road to Africa – China and Global Health Conclusion Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.Trade Review"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute, The New School *"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China In *Table of ContentsPrologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang Periodization A Field and What Else? The Game of Scales Standardization What’s Neoliberal in Global Health? Multi-scalar methodologies Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié Grounding localization The Local as Site of Innovation SkyCare and the Virtual Global Community: The Discursive Local The Local as Hub of Global Circulations Conclusion Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Introduction Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National Investments in Health Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation Challenging GBD 2 Crises of ownership and counting Conclusion Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and its Eclipse Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the “Selective” Primary Health Care The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global Health Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman Distributed Political Triage in Kerala Conclusion Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials in Ghana The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia Conclusion Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture The Launching of a Depression Technopack A Sliding Scale: TB GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack Conclusion Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia Lang Introduction Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India Conclusion Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over” The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s–2000s Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the WHO’s Guiding Principles A Road to Africa – China and Global Health Conclusion Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients’ rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops’ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church’s stance on sex, reproduction, and “life” itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.Trade Review"Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, horrific stories began to emerge from hospitals across the country. To many, these denials of emergency medical care seemed to be an alarming new consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision. Lori Freedman, however, has documented such stories for well over a decade. We would do well to study her work carefully — including her book Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals — in this critical moment. * Catholics for Choice *“It’s a recipe for disaster—the Catholic Church wants the most births possible, and most American women want to limit their childbearing and protect their health with modern advances in contraception and abortion. Yet in the name of corporate conscience, our anachronistic laws allow Catholic healthcare to require physicians of all faiths to do things that violate medical ethics and often constitute malpractice. Freedman’s compelling research, rich storytelling, and incisive analysis reveal how outrageous Bishop-knows-best medicine really is.” -- Katie Watson * author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Ordinary Abortion *"Bishops and Bodies is poised to make a significant impact not just in social science and medical humanities circles, but in broader public conversations about health care, reproductive rights, and the place of religion in society." -- Jessica Martucci * author of Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America *Table of ContentsForeword by Debra Stulberg Prologue: Unsafe and Unequal Introduction: Doctrinal Iatrogenesis 1 Growth: How Catholic Health Care Expanded 2 Inferior: How Catholic Directives Contradict Medical Standards 3 Consumer Medicine? Patients and the Illusion of Choice 4 Emergencies: Patient Loss and Suffering 5 Mostly Above-Board Workarounds 6 Under the Radar Workarounds 7 Separation of Church and Hospital 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Appendix Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care. Cervical cancer prevention – and especially the HPV vaccination – provided Romanians a legitimate instance to express their conflicting views of post-communist medicine. What sets Romania apart is that pronatalism, patriarchy, lived religion, medical reforms, and moral contestation of preventive medicine bring into line systemic contingencies that expose the historical, social, and cultural trajectories of cervical cancer. Trade Review"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceausescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *"Beautifully written and theoretically inspired, this vivid and pathbreaking ethnography shows how history continues to haunt Romanian women’s sexual and reproductive lives, and how post-socialist healthcare provides no panacea for a cervical cancer crisis and accompanying HPV vaccine hesitancy. The Cancer Within is a must-read for those interested in gender, sexuality, and reproductive health, as well as medicine in the post-socialist era." -- Marcia Inhorn * author of America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins *"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceauşescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson Note on Terminology Introduction: Systemic Contingencies Part I: Women’s, Men’s and God’s Will 1. ”We All Descend from Communism” 2. Reproductive Invisibility Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part One. 3. Beyond Rationalities Part II: Medicine and Its Moralities 4. Dismantling Medicine Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part Two. 5. The Other Hospital 6. Locating Corruption Conclusion: The Space between Informed and Non-informed Refusal Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars,” offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman’s analysis also suggests the sociology of attention’s unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine. Trade Review“Friedman is a thorough researcher with a clear, engaging style. Her focus on patterns of attention as the organizing analytical framework is fresh and unusual: a fascinating read.” -- Kelly Joyce * professor of sociology, Drexel University *“Mammography Wars is an insightful intervention into deeply entrenched conflict surrounding mammography screening standards in the United States. Friedman deftly blends together empirical analysis of the narratives driving disagreements among professionals and patients alike with a clear and accessible take on the power of the sociology of attention, breaking through seemingly intractable ideological battles to resolve conflict.” -- Piper Sledge * author of Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy *Table of Contents Introduction: The Mammography Wars Chapter 1: Skepticism and Interventionism as Attentional Types Chapter 2: Attentional Diversity—The Cognitive Structure of Patients’ Narratives of Mammography Chapter 3: Attentional Battles over Mammography Chapter 4: Attentional Weight—Relevance, Risk, and Expertise in Mammography Chapter 5: Mammography and Time Conclusion: Attentional Flexibility Appendix Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhile New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey. Trade Review“Toward a Healthier Garden State is a wonderful resource for decision makers and educators, and an entertaining read for everyone who loves the Garden State. This book should be required reading for all elected and appointed officials throughout the state–a truly unique read.” -- Thomas A. Burke * Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University *Table of Contents Preface 1 Defining, Measuring, and Improving Health 2 The Winding Path to Better Health in New Jersey 3 Transportation Drives Population Shifts 4 Fixing Environmental Inequities: Cancer Alley 5 Health Disparities and the COVID-19 Pandemic 6 Housing and Education Interventions 7 Acute Natural and Man-Made Hazard Events 8 Reshuffling Health Care Epilogue: Confronting Challenges to a Healthier New Jersey—The Next 25 Years Acknowledgments Index

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