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Book SynopsisFaith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels. Trade Review"Hardin’s gripping ethnography of food and faith offers a beautifully-composed analysis of the lived experience of obesity in a Pacific Island community. By connecting religious and metabolic conversions, Hardin shows us how health in Samoa becomes a 'matter of faith' as faith, in turn, comes to physically matter. The stories of how people grapple with cardio-metabolism in this moving account of living and dying in 21st century Samoa will work their way into your heart and stay there." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * author of The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala *“This superb ethnography of Samoa represents a landmark integration of medical anthropology and the anthropology of Christianity. In the light of Hardin’s original analysis, established topics in both fields having to do with individualism, the body and social relations, and with temporality and cultural change, appear in a strikingly new light. This book is a major contribution that deserves a wide readership.” -- Joel Robbins * author of Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society *"This illuminating ethnography provides compelling evidence of Pentecostal Christianity’s appeal for women. A powerful synthesis of medical anthropology and the anthropology of Christianity, the analysis is written in a style that combines the subtleties of them both. The chapter on research methods is a gift to health practitioners and anthropologists undertaking their own studies." -- Shirley Lindenbaum * co-editor of Knowledge, Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life *"Hardin’s ethnography advances anthropology’s significant contribution to our understanding of the spirit, body and soul in health and illness, in a setting characterised by cardiometabolic ambivalence." * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Glossary Note on Pronunciation Map Foreword Chapter 1: Salvation and Metabolism Chapter 2: Ethnography between Clinic and Church Chapter 3: Discerning Ambiguous Risks Chapter 4: Freedom and Health Responsibility Chapter 5: Embodied Analytics Chapter 6: Well-being and Deferred Agency Chapter 7: Support Synergies Chapter 8: Integrating Faith into Healthcare Practice Acknowledgements Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Pathogenic Policing, Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially the ways in which policy can reinforce ‘race’ as a vehicle of social division.Trade Review“Pathogenic Policing tells an important story that we all need to hear. The pipeline from local policing to deportation does not just remove unauthorized immigrants for petty traffic offenses. It frightens them, their families, and neighborhoods—indeed, this is a major cause of family separation—leading to self-denial of needed health care, a serious burden on communities. Kline’s explanation of these connections is clear, well-supported, and passionate; this is a vital book.” -- Josiah Heyman * co-editor of The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions *“Attrition through enforcement has become the dominant response to the presence of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Nolan Kline, through careful ethnographic exploration of the situation in Georgia, reveals the many negative impacts of this approach, not just on immigrants, but on American society as a whole. Told from the first-hand perspective of a participant observer, this book is a cri de coeur.” -- Doris Marie Provine * co-author of Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines *"This ethnography compels us to pay close attention to the multiple layers of immigration enforcement that mark the current moment, to recognize how policing reaches beyond any one encounter, and to consider what forms of community we hope to foster. Kline reveals how policing directly threatens the health and well-being of immigrants and their loved ones, and, in the end, erodes rights for all." -- Deborah A. Boehm * author of Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation *"Recommended." * Choice *Cohesively argued and well-written, Pathogenic Policing will make a valuable addition to courses in medical anthropology, public health, and migration, among others. More broadly, its timely lessons on the public health consequences of racist policing have important implications for anti-racist social movements and public policy alike. As the controversial relationship between policing and public safety (or endangerment) commands international attention, Pathogenic Policing advances a prescient and robustly evidenced argument for the incompatibility of racist law enforcement and community well-being." * Journal of Latin and American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction: “They Will Stop You” How Did We Get Here? Immigrant Policing in the United States Inside the Statehouse: Legislators’ Perspectives on Georgia’s Immigration Laws “We Live Here in Fear:” Policing, Trauma, and a Shadow Medical System Immigrant Policing and Interpersonal Relationships “A Death by a Thousand Little Cuts:” Health Providers and Immigrant Policing Patient Dumping, Immigrant Policing, and Health Policy “Stand Up, Fight Back!” Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America.Trade Review“This global health collection is wide-ranging topically and geographically. New works from South America are a welcome counterbalance to available sources. Remarkably fresh sourcebook of broad interdisciplinary interest.” -- Janis H. Jenkins * Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Director, Center for Global Mental Health, UCSD *This innovative book reviews what is known while telling the story of efforts to fill gaps in services and science in global mental health in Latin America and Spanish-speaking groups. While reviewing epidemiology and services research, they describe recent issues including even political abuses, and new studies highlighting growth of this field. -- Kenneth Wells * Director of UCLA Semel Institute Center for Health Services and Society *Table of ContentsA brief review of global mental health: challenges, developments, and needs / Stanley Nkemjika, Javier I. Escobar, and Humberto Marin Looking at cultural aspects of global mental health: The culturally infused engagement model in Latin American and Asian populations / Miwa Yasui and Kathleen J. Pottick The abuse of psychiatry globally: A focus on a little-known historical example from Francoist Spain / Ethan Pearlstein and Javier I. Escobar Task-shifting strategies in Latin America: The key role of primary care health agents in mental health policy and research in northern Argentina / Maria Calvo, Gabriel de Erausquin, Mariana Figueredo Aguiar, Eduardo Padilla, and Javier I. Escobar Genetic research on chronic, severe mental disorders in the Paisa population in Latin America: A review of past and current research / Carrie E. Bearden, Carlos Lopez Jaramillo, and Javier I. Escobar A brief rejoinder and future projections / Javier I. Escobar

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Book SynopsisAIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. Reed shows that in Africa, superimposing a Western idea of what activism should look like actually hampers the success of these groups.Trade Review“Landscapes of Activism is a remarkable, eye-opening examination of the realities of HIV activism in the global South – what fuels it, what undermines it, and most importantly, the uses to which it has been put by powerful global health players. Reed offers a beautifully written but unsettling ethnographic account of the marred, and at times dysfunctional, forms of civic life that have evolved alongside increasingly biomedical and technocratic HIV treatment efforts.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *“Landscapes of Activism is a rich and nuanced ethnography. Its real strength lies in the quality of Reed’s research material and the social analysis generated from it. Of all the texts dealing with AIDS activism in Africa, this book offers a fresh critique, and its Mozambican-focus makes it particularly interesting.” -- Mandisa Mbali * author of South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics, Senior Lecturer in Historical Stud *“A thoughtful and timely account, this book examines the efforts of HIV support groups to become part of the HIV story in Mozambique -- and their struggle to do so amid the political demands of the state and the overwhelming presence of transnational organizations. Charting the “rise and fall” of HIV activism in Mozambique’s northernmost province, the book movingly describes the everyday challenges facing support group members, from the politics of affiliation to efforts at remaking the self. Well-written and evocative, this book will speak to readers interested in the challenges of providing care in complex landscapes of support and politics.” -- Ramah McKay * Department of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania *“A thoughtful and timely account, this book examines the efforts of HIV support groups to become part of the HIV story in Mozambique - and their struggle to do so amid the political demands of the state and the overwhelming presence of transnational organizations. Charting the “rise and fall” of HIV activism in Mozambique’s northernmost province, the book movingly describes the everyday challenges facing support group members, from the politics of affiliation to efforts at remaking the self. Well-written and evocative, this book will speak to readers interested in the challenges of providing care in complex landscapes of support and politics.” -- Ramah McKay * department of history & sociology of science, University of Pennsylvania *"Chronicle of Higher Education 'New Scholarly Books' Weekly Book List, August 31, 2018," compiled by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction - The Eye of Fátima 1 - Studying HIV and HIV Positive Persons 2 - “Movements” of the Past – Mozambique, Caridade, and Treatment in Africa 3 - AIDS Associations in Cabo Delgado Province 4 - Challenges to HIV/AIDS Activism in the “Sub-universe” of Cabo Delgado 5 - The (Dis)Integration of the Day Hospitals 6 - Biosocial Governmentality References About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisConsultant and long-time FDA food and dietary supplement labeling expert James Summers offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and complying with the dietary supplement labeling requirements of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Dietary Supplement Labeling Compliance Review, Third Edition. Available in book or searchable CD-ROM (view CD-ROM version) formats, this updated review is composed of three essential parts: Sections I through V consist of the introduction and how-to information. Sections VI through IX consist of the compliance step-by-step review procedure (in the form of questions and responses,) and other labeling requirements. Sections X through XV consist of guidance and information for decision making. Clearly illustrated with dozens of charts, sample label panels, and supplement facts boxes, this manual is the straightforward, no-nonsense toTable of ContentsI. Introduction. II. Overview of Dietary Supplements Labeling. III. Definitions. IV. Need for Specific Regulations Governing Dietary Supplements. V. Outline for Compliance Review of Dietary Supplement Labels. VI. Compliance Label Review. VII. Exemptions from FDA Requirements. VIII. Compliance Provisions. IX. Dietary Supplement labeling Issues. X. Listing of Charts, Graphics, Guidelines, Illustrations, and Regulations. XI. The Office of Dietary Supplements. XII. Conforming Amendments. XIII. Notices and Proposed, Interim Final, and Final Rules Related to Dietary Supplements. XIV. Index to the September 23, 1997, Federal Register Preambles and the Final DSHEA Regulations. XV. Index to the June 22, 1998, Federal Register Preambles to the Interim Health Claims Final Rules. Index. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHome health care is an important aspect of community health and a growing area of healthcare services. Clinical Case Studies in Home Health Care uses a case-based approach to provide home healthcare professionals, educators, and students with a useful tool for thoughtful, holistic care. The book begins with a thorough and accessible introduction to the principles of home health care, including a discussion of supporting theoretical frameworks and information on managing complexities, transitioning patients to home care, and preparation for the home visit. Subsequent sections are comprised entirely of case studies organized by body system. Though cases are diverse in content, each is presented in a consistent manner, incorporating relevant data about the patient and caregivers and the approach to patient care and promoting a logical approach to patient presentation. Cases also include helpful tips aboutreimbursement practices, cultural competence, community resourTable of ContentsContributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Section 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 1 Theoretical Frameworks That Support Home Care 5By Leslie Neal-Boylan, PhD, RN, CRRN, APRN-BC, FNP Chapter 2 Managing the Complexities of Home Health Care 13By Mary Curry Narayan, MSN, RN, HHCNS-BC, COS-C Chapter 3 Transitioning 23By Jeanie Stoker, MPA, RN, BC Chapter 4 The Home Visit 33By Pamela Teenier, RN, BSN, MBA, CHCE, HCS-D, COS-C, and Lelah R. Marzi, RN, MBA, BSN, COS-C, HCS-D Section 2 Cardiac 43 Case 2.1 Congestive Heart Failure 45By Jeanie Stoker, MPA, RN, BC Case 2.2 Atrial Fibrillation 55By Jeanie Stoker, MPA, RN, BC Case 2.3 Wound following a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) 65By Jeanie Stoker, MPA, RN, BC Section 3 Peripheral Vascular Disease 75 Case 3.1 Peripheral Vascular Disease 77By Linda Royer, PhD, RN Section 4 Pulmonary 87 Case 4.1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) 89By Lisa A. Gorski, MS, HHCNS, BC, CRNI, FAAN Case 4.2 Pneumonia 99By Leigh Ann Howard, RN, MSN Case 4.3 Tuberculosis 107By Leigh Ann Howard, RN, MSN Section 5 Gastrointestinal 113 Case 5.1 Stomach Cancer 115By Sharron E. Guillett, PhD, RN Case 5.2 Malnutrition/Anemia 123By Linda Royer, PhD, RN Section 6 Genitourinary 135 Case 6.1 Neurogenic Bladder 137By Kathleen Francis, RN, MSN, CWOCN Case 6.2 Urostomy Care 151By Kathleen Francis, RN, MSN, CWOCN Case 6.3 Urinary Tract Infection and Functional Incontinence 163By Kathleen Francis, RN, MSN, CWOCN Section 7 Psychiatric/Mental Health 173 Case 7.1 Bipolar Disorder 175By Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, APRN Case 7.2 Personality Disorders 185By Debra Riendeau, MN, APRN, BC, PMHNP-BC Case 7.3 Schizophrenia 195By Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, APRN Case 7.4 Schizoaffective Disorder 203By Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, APRN Section 8 Musculoskeletal 215 Case 8.1 Muscular Dystrophy 217By Sharron E. Guillett, PhD, RN Case 8.2 Cerebral Palsy 225By Sharron E. Guillett, PhD, RN Case 8.3 Osteomyelitis, Decubitus Ulcer, and Paraplegia 235By Linda Royer, PhD, RN Section 9 Neurological 247 Case 9.1 Brain Stem Infarct 249By Shelia Spurlock-White, MSN, RN Case 9.2 Multiple Sclerosis 259By Leslie Neal-Boylan, PhD, RN, CRRN, APRN-BC, FNP Section 10 Maternal Health 267 Case 10.1 Antepartum Care 269By Ruth Smillie, RN, MSN Case 10.2 Postpartum Care following Uncomplicated Delivery 281By Ruth Smillie, RN, MSN Case 10.3 Postpartum Care following Complicated Delivery 291By Ruth Smillie, RN, MSN Section 11 Pediatrics 299 Case 11.1 Premature Infant with Apnea and Reflux 301By Teresa LaMonica, PhD, MSN, RN, CPNP Case 11.2 Asthma 311By Teresa LaMonica, PhD, MSN, RN, CPNP Case 11.3 Adolescent with Neurodevelopmental Disability 319By Teresa LaMonica, PhD, MSN, RN, CPNP Section 12 Pediatric Intensive Care 329 Case 12.1 Alpha-Thalassemia X-Linked Mental Retardation Syndrome 331By Lannette Johnston, RN, BSN, MS, CPST Case 12.2 Anoxic Brain Damage/Achondroplasia 341By Lannette Johnston, RN, BSN, MS, CPST Case 12.3 Cerebral Palsy/Acute Respiratory Failure 353By Lannette Johnston, RN, BSN, MS, CPST Section 13 Infectious Disease 365 Case 13.1 Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease (CDAD) 367By Debra Riendeau, MN, APRN, BC, PMHNP-BC Case 13.2 Community-Associated, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 377By Debra Riendeau, MN, APRN, BC, PMHNP-BC Case 13.3 Influenza 387By Sharon D. Martin, RN, MSN, PhD(c) Section 14 Endocrine 399 Case 14.1 Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 401By Caryl Ann O’Reilly, CNS, CDE, MBA Case 14.2 Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 411By Caryl Ann O’Reilly, CNS, CDE, MBA Section 15 End-of-Life Care 421Case 15.1 Grief 423By Debra Riendeau, MN, APRN, BC, PMHNP-BC Case 15.2 Palliative Care 437By Susan Breakwell, APHN-BC, DNP Case 15.3 Hospice 447By Susan Breakwell, APHN-BC, DNP Case 15.4 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 459By Susan Breakwell, APHN-BC, DNP Index 467

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Book SynopsisHealth Behavior Change in the Dental Practice presents an overview of health behavior change, focusing on the spirit of motivational interviewing. Targeting the clinical application of the principles, the book applies lessons learned from the field of general and behavioral medicine to the dental practice.Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Contributors 1. Introduction to Health Behavior Change for the Dental Practice Health Care in the Twenty-first Century The Opportunity in the Dental Setting Adop tion and Integration of Health Behavior Change The Role and Responsibility of the Dental Professional Collaborative Care Toward Whole Health References 2. The Challenge of Behavior Change Introduction Behavior Change: Some Key Concepts The Patient’s Perspective The Clinician’s Perspective Understanding Health Behavior Change Social Cognitive Theory and Self-Efficacy Theory The Health Belief Model Theory of Planned Behavior The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Self-Determination Theory Summary References 3. Communication and Health Behavior Change Counselling Introduction The Relationship between the Clinician and the Patient Styles of Communication Directing Following Guiding Key Skills for Communicating about Health Behavior Change Question 1: Is the patient happy to talk with you about behavior change? Question 2: How are you asking questions? Question 3: How do you provide support? Question 4: How do you convey understanding? Question 5: How do you get information across? Question 6: How do you bring it all together? Summary Acknowledgments References 4. Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Its Basic Tools Introduction What Is Motivational Interviewing? Research Evidence for MI What Triggers Behavior Change? Motivation and the Clinician-Patient Relationship Definition of MI “Spirit” of MI Major Principles Express Empathy Develop Discrepancy Roll with Resistance Support Self-Efficacy OARS: Basic Tools for Building Motivation to Change Use Open-Ended Questions Affirm Patients Use Reflective Listening Use Summaries Elicit Change Talk Evocative Questions Decisional Balance or Pros and Cons Matrix The Importance Ruler Elaborating, Querying Extremes, and Looking Back and Forward Exploring Goals and Values Responding to Change Talk Responding to Resistance Enhancing Confidence Strengthening Commitment Negotiating a Plan for Change Summary References 5. Brief Interventions in Promoting Health Behavior Change Introduction Using a Patient-Centered Approach Righting Reflex Goals of Brief Interventions Assessing Motives Health History Form Open-Ended Questions Readiness Scales Raising Awareness Giving Information versus Raising Awareness Conveying Understanding Supporting Change Encouraging Patient Problem Solving Offering a Set of Strategies Planning for the Change Use of the Telephone for Brief Interventions Use of Computers for Brief Interventions Giving Brief Advice When Brief Interventions Are Not Appropriate Bringing It All Together Summary References 6. Implementation of Health Behavior Change Principles in Dental Practice Introduction Content of Change (the Objectives) Context of Change (the Environment) Process of Change (the Implementation Plan) Micro-Environment: The Dental Visit Easier than You Think Patient Activation Fabric for the Dental Visit (Implementation Model) “Your Patient Is Here,” Single Behavior Patient Scenario Multiple Behavior Patient Scenario Macro-Environment: The Practice Setting Importance of Support Overcoming Potential Obstacles to Practice Implementation Practical Guidance for Beginners (or Non-Beginners) Summary References 7. Health Behavior Change Education Introduction History of Medical and Dental Education In Medicine In Dentistry In Dental Hygiene Currents Trends in Dental Care and Education The Need for Change in Dental Education Public Health Goals and Responsibilities New Educational Initiatives and Methods Theoretical Education Pathology and Epidemiology of Diseases Behavior as a Determinant of Health and Disease Practical Education Students Continuing Education Clinicians Assessment of Health Behavior Change Education Faculty Students Clinicians Summary References Index

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Book SynopsisThis single, convenient reference deals with the role of eggs in diet, nutrition, and disease. Key chapters include: the health implications and benefits of egg consumption; production of antibodies in eggs for medical use; egg safety; and egg and health myths and misconceptions.Trade Review'Eggs and Health Promotion is a useful reference for any academic or health professional interested in the role of eggs in diet and health.' Nutrition BulletinTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Contributors. Section 1. Functional Uses of Eggs. 1. Functional Uses of Eggs-An Overview. (W.J. Stadelman and Hubert Schmieder). 2. The Role of Eggs in American Diets: Health Implications and Benefits. (Jean M. Kerver, Yikyung Park, Won O. Song). 3. Designer Eggs: Nutritional and Functional Significance. (Jeong S. Sim and Hoon H. Sunwoo). 4. Specialty Eggs: n-3 Fatty Acid-Enriched Eggs. (Elizabeth H. Sheppard). 5. Vitamin E Enrichment of Chicken Eggs. (Xeina Makhoul). 6. Reducing Infection in Infants with Egg Phospholipids. (Yingying Liu and Ronald Ross Watson). 7. Generation of Polyclonal Antibodies in the Egg Yolk. (Max Gassman). Section 2. Cholesterol and Health: Role of Eggs. 8. Eggs, Plasma Cholesterol, and Heart Disease Risk. (Donald J. McNamara). 9. Eggs and Health: Myths and Misconceptions. ( Simin Bolourchi Vaghefi). 10. Effects of Dietary Eggs on Human Serum Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease. (Yinghond Chen and Ronald Ross Watson). 11. Eggs and Saturated Fats: Role in Atherosclerosis as Shown by Animal Models. (Thomas A. Wilson and Robert J. Nicolosi). 12. Health Effects of Docosahexanoic Acid (DHA)-Enriched Eggs. (Jin Zhang and Ronald Ross Watson). 13. The Correlation between Cholesterol Oxidation Products and Eggs. (Jennifer J. Ravia and Ronald Ross Watson). Section 3. Eggs and Disease: Health Promotion. 14. Whole Eggs: The Magic Bullet? (H.L. “Sam” Queen). 15. Enriched Eggs for Human Consumption and the Feeding Pattern of Layers. (Carola Garcia, Sergio Cornejo, and Cecilia Albala). 16. Predictability of Respiratory Atopy from Egg Hypersensitivity in Children. (Kelly Blackstock). 17. Effects of Cooking and Storage on the Nutritional Value of Eggs. ( Giorgio Bedogni and Nino Carlo Battistini). 18. The Potential Use of Eggs for the Protein Requirements of Endurance Exercise. (Jaclyn Maurer). Index.

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Book SynopsisThe state of medicine and public healthcare today is still a work in progress, but these founders played a significant role in beginning the conversation that shaped the contours of its development.Trade Review"Five case studies demonstrate the new nations state of medical practice, the founders bouts of illness and the republican ideal that individual and national health were connected-the roots, Abrams argues, of repeated attempts to rationalize our national health-care system." * American History *"In addition to the broad yet intensely personal health concerns Abrams describes, a key strength ofRevolutionary Medicineis the humanization of the Founders. For denizens of the twenty-first century, the Founders often seem frozen as portraits on currency or entombed forever as inanimate, superhuman monuments and statues. Abrams reminds us that they were flesh-and-blood souls navigating lives in many ways similar to ours." * North Carolina Historical Review *"One of the "Top Books for Docs" in 2013." * Medscape *"[Revolutionary Medicine] is a solid descriptive account of the medical world of our founding fathers." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Using the prism of public health, Jeanne E. Abrams, in her book Revolutionary Medicine, examines how the health of the founding mothers and fathers affected both the individuals concerned and the nation as a whole. Looking at the lives of such luminaries as George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John and Abigail Adams, James and Dolley Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, Abrams examines how illness impacted the lives of these individuals, and how their reaction to theses illnesses mirrored those of the nation as a whole. Most important, in this compelling work, Abrams shows how the personal experiences of these leading citizens encouraged them to advocate for a governmental role in the nation's developing healthcare systemA combination of medical and political history, Revolutionary Medicine provides a keen overview of the state of medical science during the revolutionary period. She writes in an engaging narrative style that makes this work accessible to both academics and lay readers with an interest in American history, or the history of medicine and public health in the 18th century." * History in Review *"Abrams paints a picture of an era in medical history that is at once humorous, horrific and fascinating." * Intermountain Jewish News *"Abrams tells the founders stories in a lucid and engaging narrative voice. She renders their pains and pleasures with sensitivity and insight. Its pages will hold few surprises for the specialist, but any reader interested in the revolutionary era or the lives of the American founders will surely learn a great deal from Abramss study." -- Simon Finger * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Revolutionary Medicine fills a significant niche. Its subject is not entirely pristine, but Abrams adds much and synthesises masterfully. Her book deserves to be a source of reference and of reading pleasure for years to come." -- Paul Kopperman * Social History of Medicine *"Revolutionary Medicine is a 'must-read' for anyone interested in the birth of America. Upon closing Jeanne E. Abrams's wonderful book about the illnesses and health experiences of the nation's founders, you will never be able to look at Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and their peers the same way again." -- Howard Markel,author of An Anatomy of Addiction"As America enters a new era of health care, this timely volume recalls what medicine was like in the days of the Founding Fathers. Everything from Washington's dental woes to Jefferson's troublesome headaches and Dolley Madisons tragic encounter with yellow fever finds its way into this lively and well-researched book. In recounting battles over vaccinations, herbal remedies, the efficacy of blood-letting, and the appropriate role for government intervention in medical issues, Revolutionary Medicine reminds us that debates over health care are nothing new in America. They go back to our founders." -- Jonathan D. Sarna,author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews"Contemporary debates over medical research budgets and guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans echo conversations about the necessity of good health to the well-being and prosperity of the citizenry that began at the dawn of our national history. In lucid, accessible prose, historian Jeanne E. Abrams turns to the lives and experiences of George and Martha Washington, John and Abigail Adams, James and Dolly Madison, as well as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to illuminate conversations about health, public and private, in our republics early years. Abrams's fine volume is a tonic for the frequent neglect of health and disease in so many histories of the early republic." -- Alan M. Kraut,author of Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader"A University of Denver professor takes an in-depth look at the American medical landscape during the 18th century, a pre-antibiotic time of the epidemics and infectious diseases when Americans were also dealing with little projects like fighting the British for independence and establishing the United States." * The Denver Post *"The strength of the book is Abramss compilation of fascinating, gruesome, and often-tragic details of the lives of these founders, which lends them a corporeal presence that is absent from most histories." * The Journal of American History *"Revolutionary Medicine...is a readable and eye-opening account. We know so much about the Founders, but we rarely pause to think just how difficult 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' can be when you lack a good doctor or science-based care." * The Wall Street Journal *"Written in an engaging style and largely based on the personal letters and papers of the founding families, Abrams sheds new light on how republican ideals were shaped by encounters with disease." * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction:Health and Medicine in the Era of America's Founders 11George and Martha Washington: Health, Illness, and the First Family 332Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father of American Medicine 793Abigail and John Adams: Partners in Sickness and Health 1194Thomas Jefferson: Advocate forHealthy Living 1695Thomas Jefferson: The Healthof the Nation 199Epilogue:Evolutionary Medicine 231Notes 241Bibliography 277Index 289About the Author 306

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the visual culture of public health from the nineteenth century to the present.Trade Review"Imagining Illness fills a significant gap in terms of the visual culture of public health...the images are abundant and beautifully reproduced by the press. Given that this book is devoted to the image, it is heartening to see them reproduced here with such detail and expertise." —International Journal of Communication Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction. Toward a Visual Culture of Public Health: From Broadside to YouTube David Serlin I. Tracing the Visual Culture of Public Health Campaigns 1. Image and the Imaginary in Early Health Education: Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the Hookworm Campaigns of Australia and Asia Lenore Manderson 2. Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W.W. Peter and Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912-1926 Liping Bu 3. The Color of Money: Campaigning for Health in Black and White America Gregg Mitman 4. Empathy and Objectivity: Health Education Through Corporate Publicity Films Kirsten Ostherr II. Mapping a Visual Genealogy of Public Health 5. Contagion, Public Health, and the Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century Skin Katherine Ott 6. Maps as Graphic Propaganda for Public Health Mark Monmonier 7. "Some One Sole Unique Advertisement": Public Health Posters in the Twentieth Century William H. Helfand 8. Nursing the Nation: The 1930s Public Health Nurse as Image and Icon Shawn Michelle Smith III. Building New Public Spheres for Public Health 9. Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth Century Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein 10. The Image of the Child in Postwar British and U.S. Psychoanalysis Lisa Cartwright 11. Performing Live Surgery on Television and the Internet Since 1945 David Serlin 12. Imagining Mood Disorders as a Public Health Crisis Emily Martin Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by industry professionals for warehouse operators and designers, this book offers a performance-based approach to hazards such as health effects, environmental pollution, fire, and explosion. It also presents practical means to minimize the risk of these hazards to employees, the surrounding population, the environment, and property.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgment. Acronyms. Chapter 1. Introduction. 1.1. Background. 1.2. Scope. 1.3. Purpose. Chapter 2. Commodity Hazards. 2.1. Synopsis. 2.2. Identification of Chemicals. 2.3. Properties and Hazard Identification of Chemicals. 2.4. Systems for Commodity Classification. 2.4.1. Environmental Protection Agency. 2.4.2. National Fire Protection Association. 2.4.3. National Paint and Coating s Association's Hazardous Materials Identification System. 2.4.4. United nations (UN) and Department of Transportation (DOT) Hazardous Materials Classes. 2.5. Container and Packaging Systems. 2.6. Commodity Compatibility and Separation. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 3. Administrative Controls. 3.1. Synopsis. 3.2. Safety and Risk Management Policies. 3.3. Hazard and Risk Management. 3.4. Control of Ignition Sources. 3.5. Regulatory Compliance. 3.6. Risk Management Organization. 3.7. Employee Hiring, Training and Operations. 3.7.1. Employee Hiring. 3.7.2. Training. 3.7.3. Operations. 3.8. Housekeeping. 3.9. Inventory Management. 3.10. Management of Change. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 4. Employee Safety and Health. 4.1. Synopsis. 4.2. Policy. 4.3. Administrative and Engineering Controls. 4.3.1. Administrative Controls. 4.3.2. Engineering Controls. 4.4. Hazard Communication. 4.4.1. Labels. 4.4.2. Material Safety Data Sheets. 4.4.3. Employee Information and Training. 4.5. Personal Protective Equipment. 4.5.1. Implementing a PPE Program. 4.5.2. Selecting PPE Program. 4.5.3. Chemical Protective Clothing. 4.5.4. Foot Protection. 4.5.5. Head Protection. 4.5.6. Eye and Face Protection. 4.5.7. Hand Protection. 4.5.8. Respirators. 4.5.9. Respirator Selection. 4.5.10. Respirator Usage. 4.5.11. Training. 4.5.12. Maintenance and Inspection. 4.6. Safety Equipment. 4.7. Emergency Response Training. 4.7.1. Emergency Spill Response. 4.7.2. Manual Fire Fighting. 4.7.3. First Aid. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 5. Site Considerations. 5.1. Synopsis. 5.2. Health and Environmental Exposure. 5.2.1. Baseline Environmental Assessment. 5.2.2. Population Proximity, Density, and Sensitivity. 5.2.3. Warehouse Truck Traffic. 5.2.4. Highly Sensitive Environments. 5.2.5. Surface Water, Ground water, and Soil Permeability. 5.3. Natural Peril Exposures. 5.3.1. Earthquake. 5.3.2. Flood. 5.3.3. Hurricanes. 5.3.4. Tornadoes. 5.3.5. Lightning. 5.3.6. Arctic Freeze. 5.4. Exposures from Surrounding Activities. 5.4.1. Adjacent Facilities, Airports, Highways, and Railroads. 5.4.2. High Pressure Flammable Gas and Liquid Transmission Lines. 5.4.3. Riot and Civil Commotion. 5.5. Emergency Responders. 5.6. Adequacy and Reliability of Public Utilities. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 6. Design and Construction. 6.1. Synopsis. 6.2. Construction Documents-Approvals and Permits. 6.3. Means of Egress. 6.3.1. travel Distance. 6.4. Environmental Protection. 6.4.1. Containment and Drainage Capacity Considerations. 6.4.2. Warehouse Floor System. 6.4.3. Concrete Criteria. 6.4.4. Surface Preparation. 6.4.5. Coating and Sealers. 6.4.6. Maintenance and Repair of the Floor. 6.4.7. Airborne Effluent. 6.5. Fire Mitigation Construction Features. 6.5.1. Fire-Rated Separations. 6.5.2. Protection of Openings and Penetrations. 6.5.3. Through-Penetrations. 6.5.4. Heat and Smoke Venting. 6.5.5. Powered Ventilation Systems. 6.5.6. Emergency and Standby Power Systems. 6.6. Deflagration Prevention and Mitigation. 6.1.1. Temperature Control. 6.6.2. Gas and Vapor Control. 6.6.3. Sources of Ignition. 6.6.4. Spatial Separation. 6.6.5. Damage Limiting Construction. 6.7. Natural Peril Mitigation. 6.7.1. Earthquake. 6.7.2. Flood. 6.7.3. Lightning. 6.7.4. Windstorm, Hurricane, and Tornado. 6.8. Security Features. 6.9. Outdoor Storage. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 7. Fire Protection Systems. 7.1. Synopsis. 7.2. Storage Considerations. 7.3. Fire Control, Suppression, and Extinguishing Systems. 7.3.1. Fire Control. 7.3.2. Fire Suppression. 7.3.3. Fire Extinguishment. 7.3.4. Fire Extinguishers. 7.4. Fire Detection and Alarm Systems. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 8. Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance Programs. 8.1. Synopsis. 8.2. Inspection and Test Programs. 8.2.1. Program Objectives. 8.2.2. Critical Equi9pment and Construction Features. 8.2.3. Inspection and Test Program Elements. 8.2.5. Maintenance Procedures. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 9. Emergency Planning. 9.1. Synopsis. 9.2. Loss Scenarios. 9.3. Plan Objectives. 9.3.1. Employees. 9.3.2. Surrounding Population. 9.3.3. Environment. 9.3.4. Property Protection and Business Interruption. 9.4. Plan Development. 9.5. Plan Elements. 9.5.1. Policy Statement. 9.5.2. Scope and Objectives. 9.5.3. Pre-Incident Planning. 9.5.4. Incident Response. 9.6. Emergency Spill Response. 9.6.1. Planning. 9.6.2. Responding to a Hazardous Material Spill. 9.6.3. Cleanup. 9.6.4. Reporting. 9.6.5. Public Response. 9.7. Regulations and Resources. 9.7.1. U.S. Regulations. 9.7.2. CMA Responsible Care Program. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 10. Selected research and Discussion Topics. 10.1. Synopsis. 10.2. Commodity Hazards and Fire Protection Systems. 10.3. Design and Construction. Appendix A. Summary of NFPA 704 Marking System. Appendix B. Summary of HMIS. Appendix C. United Nations and U.S. Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Classes. Appendix D. Additional Resources. Glossary of Terms. Index.

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Book SynopsisMalaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local.Trade Review“This is one of the most important books written on Africa in the last ten years—indeed, in any ten years. If this book does not win a prize, then there is truly no justice.…A superb topic, handled here by an accomplished historian at the peak of his powers…The epilogue is simply magnificent. Sparse, almost curt, it makes the case with blinding clarity…The past lives with us. The future is about adaptability, not progress.”“McCann’s work is truly a must-read for experts in many fields, from public health, agriculture, and history, to politics and development. This book is a brilliant demonstration of the deeply local and highly adaptable nature of disease and mortality, and the ways in which the historical ecology of disease effects household decision-making and trends in food production and economic development on a national scale.” * Focus on the Horn *“This thorough country history … explores malaria’s etiology, effects, and the challenges of minimizing, if not controlling, its impact. Historian McCann draws on decades of Ethiopian field experience and familiarity with its historical sources. … Fascinating anecdotes reveal local disease understandings, often blaming malign spirits (hence the subtitle). …Malaria severely challenges public health, but this study will aid the struggle. Summing Up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *“Amid renewed calls for global malaria eradication, historian James C. McCann delivers a timely reminder of the complexity and resilience of malaria. His argument concerns interdisciplinarity, humility and scale. … McCann’s unique accomplishment is the incorporation of a sophisticated and complex biomedical hypothesis of modern malaria epidemiology into a nuanced historical and cultural narrative. … It will be useful for students of public health and its history.” * Social History of Medicine *“McCann writes history with an ethnographic sensibility and a solid grasp of the science. His delightful turn of phrase and accessible writing style make this work an enjoyable read for specialists and non-specialists alike. … [He] eloquently describes the social, economic and political disturbances central to malaria’s success, beautifully explains the distinctiveness of this infectious disease, and sensitively links science with illness narratives. …Readers will be left not just knowing more about Ethiopia and malaria, but with an analytical framework with which to enquire about malaria in other locations as well.” * Human Ecology *

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Book SynopsisThe Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian.Trade Review“Graboyes’ arguments are critical for contemporary researchers who must understand how the ‘residue’ of each experiment alters the course of the next. … [Her] book, which does not presume knowledge of the history and ethnography of medical research in Africa, is written in engaging and jargon-free prose. …[It] is certain to prompt lively classroom discussions about global health, African medical research in colonial and postcolonial times, and the history of medicine.” * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“[The Experiment Must Continue] will be of great interest to medical historians and anthropologists, East African historians, and global health researchers and bioethicists engaged in research in the Global South today … [The book] is to be applauded as a pathbreaking, engaging historical analysis of the practices, ethics, and implications of experimental medical research in one African postcolony.” * African Studies Review *“This is a remarkable contribution—scrupulously researched, innovatively organized, engagingly written, and passionately argued. To my knowledge, there is nothing published that can match the scope, temporal depth, or ethnographic finesse of this work. The manuscript is a superb example of how rigorous historical research opens up reflections on the unresolved ethical problems of contemporary global health research.”“Graboyes’s book reads like a mystery, elegantly weaving history, science, bioethics and public health into a compelling story. A profoundly important contribution to the challenges of conducting medical research in the developing world.”“Graboyes’ innovative approach pushes boundaries of conventional medical history, adds badly needed historical depth to ethnographies of medical research, and revitalizes bioethics thinking in an entertaining and accessible way. Her investigation of the ways medical research lingers in East Africa will contribute to historical and anthropological scholarship for years to come, and one hopes it will be read by ethicists and scientists as well.”“Graboyes has the gift of drawing the reader into small stories and then showing how these relate to wider practical and ethical dilemmas… [The Experiment Must Continue] has a strong central message and is beautifully crafted: a model of how to make the local stories come alive in a way that contributes to the painting of a much broader picture.” * Isis *“A beautiful ethnographic history of medical experiments in East Africa from the colonial period to the present. …Graboyes doesn’t just caution us to look to the past; she also persuades us to think about the future.” * Washington Post online *“With its grounded and spirited engagement with the practical ethics of research science, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on the history and ethics of medical research.… [Graboyes] never allows the analysis to rest in the easy moral high ground of damning critique.…This is responsible and meaningful scholarship.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisSituating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, Webel prioritizes local histories to understand the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—in dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.Trade Review“Rather than examining sleeping sickness controls relational (or reactive) to colonial interventions, Weber instead puts Africans’ understandings of the problem, in all their complex diversity, at centre stage…. The result is a book which is both sensitive and remarkable. Setting the bar to new heights, this book does an excellent job of effectively decentralising the western historical narratives that so many of us have tacitly absorbed, and perpetuated, for so long.” * European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health *“Striking a deft balance between historical analysis and training historical attention to contemporary global health endeavors in Africa, Webel makes a substantial, original contribution to the history of science and medicine in Africa, the relationship between public health and politics in early colonial Africa, and African history more broadly.”“Reading Mari Webel’s history of sleeping sickness control in German colonial East Africa in a time of global pandemic feels disturbingly relevant.” * H-Net/H-Africa *

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic.Trade Review“The most comprehensive account yet published of HIV’s emergence and dispersal across the African continent, this richly detailed, multidisciplinary collection traces the varied origins of the multiple strains of HIV. This superb book adds new understanding to the ecological, medical, and sexual contexts within which AIDS epidemics first developed.” -- Shane Doyle, professor of African history, University of LeedsThe Histories of HIVs sets the tone for how collaborative science can and should tackle the emergent pandemics of our time. In combining epidemiology, virology, history, and anthropology, the contributors demonstrate powerfully how the origin and spread of epidemics can be uncovered: causes must not be isolated to viral fragments moving between simians and humans but should instead encompass the social and cultural history of the people whose lives and illnesses generated this history. Required reading for anyone interested in epidemic disease. -- Catherine E. Bolten, author of Serious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection“The Histories of HIVs provides a balanced examination of the emergence of HIV viruses. This impressive volume, which combines historical epidemiology and anthropology with the main achievements of virology and immunology, contributes to our understanding of the ways some HIV viruses provoked epidemics or became pandemic. The Histories of HIVs is a brilliant achievement that is a pleasure to read.” -- Kalala Ngalamulume, coeditor of Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives"Compared to conclusions based solely on biomedical/molecular analyses, this multidisciplinary approach offers a perspective not readily available through conventional epidemiologic paradigms. Adding another layer to ongoing investigations of the many mysteries surrounding HIV/AIDS, this multiauthored text highlights multiple potential pathways of viral spillover and continued transmission. Schneider … has edited an informative, well-written book that will be of considerable interest to students of epidemiology, infectious diseases, and the history of medicine. Highly recommended. * Choice *“I particularly admire the authors’ collective ability to distill such a breadth of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research into language that is accessible to newcomers to the field, including undergraduate students. The methodical approach, the ways authors refer back and forth to each other’s work, and their fair-minded treatment of various claims including those that lack evidentiary support, build steam…. [For the ] many readers who have legitimate worries about the integrity of scientific research and Western health interventions in African history … the way authors acknowledge those concerns and take the time to walk us through critique and countercritiques will be profoundly eye-opening and likely convincing.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[T]his book makes a convincing argument that any history of HIV must account for the fact that this virus emerged multiple times, in multiple geographic locations, and from two different types of primates. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic.Trade Review“The most comprehensive account yet published of HIV’s emergence and dispersal across the African continent, this richly detailed, multidisciplinary collection traces the varied origins of the multiple strains of HIV. This superb book adds new understanding to the ecological, medical, and sexual contexts within which AIDS epidemics first developed.” -- Shane Doyle, professor of African history, University of LeedsThe Histories of HIVs sets the tone for how collaborative science can and should tackle the emergent pandemics of our time. In combining epidemiology, virology, history, and anthropology, the contributors demonstrate powerfully how the origin and spread of epidemics can be uncovered: causes must not be isolated to viral fragments moving between simians and humans but should instead encompass the social and cultural history of the people whose lives and illnesses generated this history. Required reading for anyone interested in epidemic disease. -- Catherine E. Bolten, author of Serious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection“The Histories of HIVs provides a balanced examination of the emergence of HIV viruses. This impressive volume, which combines historical epidemiology and anthropology with the main achievements of virology and immunology, contributes to our understanding of the ways some HIV viruses provoked epidemics or became pandemic. The Histories of HIVs is a brilliant achievement that is a pleasure to read.” -- Kalala Ngalamulume, coeditor of Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives"Compared to conclusions based solely on biomedical/molecular analyses, this multidisciplinary approach offers a perspective not readily available through conventional epidemiologic paradigms. Adding another layer to ongoing investigations of the many mysteries surrounding HIV/AIDS, this multiauthored text highlights multiple potential pathways of viral spillover and continued transmission. Schneider … has edited an informative, well-written book that will be of considerable interest to students of epidemiology, infectious diseases, and the history of medicine. Highly recommended. * Choice *“I particularly admire the authors’ collective ability to distill such a breadth of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research into language that is accessible to newcomers to the field, including undergraduate students. The methodical approach, the ways authors refer back and forth to each other’s work, and their fair-minded treatment of various claims including those that lack evidentiary support, build steam…. [For the ] many readers who have legitimate worries about the integrity of scientific research and Western health interventions in African history … the way authors acknowledge those concerns and take the time to walk us through critique and countercritiques will be profoundly eye-opening and likely convincing.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[T]his book makes a convincing argument that any history of HIV must account for the fact that this virus emerged multiple times, in multiple geographic locations, and from two different types of primates. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisThis collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.Trade Review“The ‘story’ of rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic is best examined by looking at the response of an underresourced and poorly designed system of care, providing care for a population most at risk for the pandemic.”

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Book SynopsisThis collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.Trade Review“The ‘story’ of rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic is best examined by looking at the response of an underresourced and poorly designed system of care, providing care for a population most at risk for the pandemic.”

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Book SynopsisA history and theorization of the representation of public health concerns in commercial cinema and educational filmTrade Review“Cinematic Prophylaxis offers a very sophisticated and original interpretation of a fascinating topic: the emergence of the logic of contagion in world health ‘education’ practices and in U. S. mainstream cinema. Kirsten Ostherr links the discourse of contagion and public health with the development of cinema and the rise of visuality, problems of modernity, and the logic of conspiracy, ultimately tying all of these to the problem of globalization. Her argument is utterly original; I haven’t seen anything else like it.”—Melani McAlister, author of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U. S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945“My copy of Cinematic Prophylaxis will quickly be well worn with use in teaching and research consultation. It is a valuable and much-needed contribution to the intersecting histories of U.S. cinema and public health.”—Lisa Cartwright, author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture“Cinematic Prophylaxis is a powerful and very timely exploration of new and familiar forms of media. . . .[A]n exciting and useful addition to syllabi in a variety of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses including those in medical anthropology, visual anthropology, film studies, history of medicine, science and technology studies, and critical public health.” -- Summer Wood * Visual Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Cinema and Hygiene 1 1. Public Sphere as Petri Dish; or, “Special Case Studies of Motion Picture Theaters which are Known or Suspected to be Foci of Moral Infection” 18 2. “Noninfected but Infectible”: Contagion and the Boundaries of the Visible 47 3. From Inner to Outer Space: World Health and the Postwar Alien Invasion Film 79 4. Conspiracy and Cartography: Mapping Globalization though Epidemiology 121 5. Indexical Digital: Representing Contagion in the Postphotographic Era 155 Conclusion 192 Notes 197 Bibliography 225 Filmography 249 Index 259

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Book SynopsisA collection exploring public health policies and implementation in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present; many of the contributors are based in Taiwan.Trade Review“This volume, edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, exemplifies the diverse social science approaches at work in the study of medical/health history. The book offers a fascinating investigation of the health and hygiene developments in twentieth-century Chinese East Asia, with insightful findings.” - Liping Bu, Social History of Medicine“[T]his book provides many solid case studies to examine the intersections between governments, culture and science. Anyone interested in the history of Chinese medicine, colonial medicine and public health in East Asia will find it helpful.” - Wen-Ching Sung, The China Review“This volume skillfully highlights the importance of a holistic view of medicine and an understanding of the ‘web of biological relationships’ between humans and the environment in managing and understanding disease and health (271).” - Tina Phillips Johnson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“This timely and diverse volume brings together exemplary scholarship on the history of colonial medicine and public health in China and Taiwan from the late nineteenth century to the present. . . . [T]his invaluable volume commands not only the attention of East Asianists, but all scholars interested in the global circulations of scientific knowledge, medical technologies, and practices of governance.” - Leon Antonio Rocha, Journal of Asian Studies“This book should be of interest to scholars who want to see a more cosmopolitan approach to the history of medicine. . . . This book departs from earlier scholarship on public health in East Asia in two important aspects. First is the shift in focus to geographical regions that are far from the center of state power, such as Manchuria and the Pearl River delta, as well as the focus on the countryside rather than urban centers. Second, studying the embedded local practices and traditions and their interactions with international and transnational influences allow the authors to break out of the narrative based on imperialism or nation-building as the shaper of public health.” - Yüan-ling Chao, Bulletin of the History of Medicine“This collection of essays brings together in one volume cutting-edge scholarship on the history of hygiene and public health in East Asia, from the tenth century to the twenty-first. It willed be welcomed not only by researchers on the history of medicine but also by those interested in topics as diverse as imperialism, demography, diet, and gender studies.”—Carol Benedict, author of Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China“This imaginatively conceived volume sets the agenda for an entirely new history of public health. Moving deftly between the local and the global, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia demonstrates that public health is best understood as a series of relationships rather than as a closed project in nation- or empire-building. As the contributors to this fine book show, there was more than one ‘China’ and certainly more than one ‘public health.’”—Mark Harrison, University of Oxford“[T]his book provides many solid case studies to examine the intersections between governments, culture and science. Anyone interested in the history of Chinese medicine, colonial medicine and public health in East Asia will find it helpful.” -- Wen-Ching Sung * China Review *“This book should be of interest to scholars who want to see a more cosmopolitan approach to the history of medicine. . . . This book departs from earlier scholarship on public health in East Asia in two important aspects. First is the shift in focus to geographical regions that are far from the center of state power, such as Manchuria and the Pearl River delta, as well as the focus on the countryside rather than urban centers. Second, studying the embedded local practices and traditions and their interactions with international and transnational influences allow the authors to break out of the narrative based on imperialism or nation-building as the shaper of public health.” -- Yüan-ling Chao * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“This timely and diverse volume brings together exemplary scholarship on the history of colonial medicine and public health in China and Taiwan from the late nineteenth century to the present. . . . [T]his invaluable volume commands not only the attention of East Asianists, but all scholars interested in the global circulations of scientific knowledge, medical technologies, and practices of governance.” -- Leon Antonio Rocha * Journal of Asian Studies *“This volume skillfully highlights the importance of a holistic view of medicine and an understanding of the ‘web of biological relationships’ between humans and the environment in managing and understanding disease and health (271).” -- Tina Phillips * Johnson Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“This volume, edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, exemplifies the diverse social science approaches at work in the study of medical/health history. The book offers a fascinating investigation of the health and hygiene developments in twentieth-century Chinese East Asia, with insightful findings.” -- Liping Bu * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Hygienic Modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth 1 Part I. Tradition and Transition The Evolution of the Idea of Chuanran Contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung 25 The Treatment of Night Soil and Waste in Modern China / Yu Zinzhong 51 Sovereignty and the Microscope: Constituting Notifiable Infectious Disease and Containing the Manchurian Plague (1910–11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei 73 Part II. Colonial Health and Hygiene Eating Well in China: Diet and Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century Treaty Ports / Shang-Jen Li 109 Vampires in Plagueland: The Multiple Meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski 132 Have Someone Cut the Umbilical Cord: Women's Birthing Networks, Knowledge, and Skills in Colonial Taiwan / Wu Chia-Ling 160 Part III. Campaigns for Epidemic Control A Forgotten War: Malaria Eradication in Taiwan, 1905–65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung 183 The Elimination of Schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining Counties, 1948–58: Public Health as Political Movement / Li Yushang 204 Conceptual Blind Spots, Media Blindfolds: The Case of SARS and Traditional Chines Medicine / Marta E. Hanson 228 Governing Germs from Outside and Within Borders: Controlling 2003 SARS Risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling 255 Afterword: Biomedicine in Chinese East Asia: From Semicolonial to Postcolonial? / Warwick Anderson 273 Timeline 279 Glossary 283 Bibliography 287 Contributors 323 Index 327

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Book SynopsisIn Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease.Trade Review“Fevered Measures is an engaging and multi-layered historical narrative that underscores the centrality of public health to daily life, social relations and power dynamics along the TexasMexico border over one century. . . . What makes this story particularly compelling is that Mckiernan-González frames it with a compassionate and informed plea for greater awareness of Latina/o health disparities.” -- Alexandra Minna Stern * Global Public Health *"Fevered Measures remaps the border as a space in which ideas of race and nation take on new meanings in relation to the development of the state and science. The book serves as a superior model for analyzing and narrating the transnational flow of people, ideas, and policies."—Raúl A. Ramos, author of Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821–1861“Mckiernan-Gonzalez . . . adds substantially to the large literature on the history of public health, particularly its role in controlling immigration into the United States.” -- Stephen J. Kunitz * American Historical Review *"In Fevered Measures, through dramatic case studies, John Mckiernan-González brings exciting new insights to the intersection of state formation, racial formations, and medical discourse. Using archives on both sides of the border, he complicates our analysis of federal and local dynamics, earning a place among the best of the new borderlands historians."—Sarah Deutsch, author of No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940“Mckeirnan-González provides a sophisticated and fine-grained analysis of the work of overzealous public health officials on the border, but he also places these efforts in a global imperial context.” -- Elliott Young * Journal of American History *“Fevered Measures is a wonderful and significant contribution to Latina/o studies, medical history, and borderlands history.” -- Mark Allan Goldberg * Pacific Historical Review *“Fevered Measures gives us a penetrating view of the intersections between race and public health policies, bringing new insights to the history of both the borderlands and US public health. It will be valuable to students and researchers in Chicano/Latino studies, in social sciences and humanities. Appealing also to a broader audience, this welcome book contributes significantly to the current debates about Latinos and American public health. . . .” -- Ana I. Ugarte * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsNotes on Labeling Places, Peoples, and Diseases ix Introduction 1 1. From the U.S.-Mexican War to the Mexican-Texas Epidemic: Fevers, Race, and the Making of a Medical Border 18 2. The Promise of Progress: Quarantines and the Medical Fusion of Race and Nation, 1890-1895 59 3. The Appearance of Progress: Black Labor, Smallpox, and the Body Politics of Transnational American Citizenship, 1895 78 4. The Power of Progress: Laredo and the Limits of Federal Quarantines, 1898-1903 123 5. Domestic Tensions at an American Crossroads: Bordering on Gender, Labor, and Typhus Control, 1910-1920 165 6. Bodies of Evidence: Vaccination and the Body Politics of Transnational Mexican Citizenship, 1910-1920 198 7. Between Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Border: Race, Citizenship, and National Identities, 1920-1942 236 Epilogue. Moving between the Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands 274 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 363 Index 403

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Book SynopsisFocused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.Trade Review“Improvising Medicine is a luminous book by a highly respected Africanist whose work creatively bridges anthropology and history. A product of intense listening and observation, deep care, and superb analytical work, it will become a canonical ethnography of medicine in the global south and will have a big impact across the social sciences and medical humanities.”—João Biehl, author of Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival and Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment"Improvising Medicine is as good as it gets. It is a book that will be read for decades to come. I have always thought that great ethnography transcends the specificities of time and place, of the particular, to offer a glimpse of the universal. This gripping book does just that, and the subtle and grounded way that it speaks to global health and debates in medical anthropology makes it a major addition to both fields."—Vinh-Kim Nguyen, M.D., author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS“This book will find a ready readership among Africanists and medical anthropologists. I envision its wider use in g'lobal health' courses, where it will challenge aspiring health workers accustomed to locating hope for medical development in scalable technical interventions... Cancer care, Livingston shows us—like medicine, like development—often requires starting over, usually entails improvisation, and always calls for hard labor by particular individuals in the face of destructive political and economic forces. Improvising Medicine reminds us effectively, sometimes devastatingly, how intractably human this thing called 'health care' is.” -- Claire Wendland * American Ethnologist *“This is an excellent ethnography that should (and undoubtedly will) be read and taught by anthropologists, historians, science studies scholars, and interdisciplinary scholars of Africa…. students and practitioners of global health should be reading Improvising Medicine, in which African cancer is made visible and the clinical science of oncology is never divorced from the moral labor and political conditions of care.” -- Johanna Crane * African Studies Review *“Improvising Medicine is best suited to those who are interested in global health or who provide medical care across cultures. While its primary subject is cancer, the points the author makes regarding the view of medical care priorities in resource-poor countries, as well as the culture-dependent experience of disease, are well taken and can be applied to work in other areas of the world.” -- Holly Salzman * Family Medicine *“In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston presents a vivid ethnography of cancer management in an African hospital ward...This book is rich in textual and visual data and is theoretically well informed. It is a model of ethnographic work and an excellent monograph in global medicine and health systems research.” -- Benson Mulemi * Social History of Medicine *“Although this scholarly work explores a harsh and distressing reality, it is well written, with a warmth and compassion that will make it accessible and appealing to a broad readership… This book will have a direct and sustained impact across fields of social sciences and medical humanities – as it can provide an important perspective often lacking within the paternalistic global health debates.” -- Karen Barnes * Journal of Southern African Studies *“Improvising Medicine is an exquisite ethnography, replete with both specific, richly observed encounters at a cancer ward in Botswana and broader, urgent arguments for anthropology and global health. . . . Drawing on beautifully rendered ethnographic evidence, Improvising Medicine tells a compelling story that is relevant for anthropology and beyond.” -- Anne Pollock * Journal of Anthropological Research *“That Improvising Medicine is at times difficult to read is a testament to Livingston’s observational and storytelling skills, her ability to allow us to imagine what it might feel like to be a patient, caregiver, nurse, or doctor in an African hospital. This is a remarkable book that deserves and will surely attract a wide readership.” -- Neil Kodesh * Journal of African History *"Improvising Medicine is a brilliant and groundbreaking hospital ethnography, one that grips the reader with its narratives of an institution characterized by constant precarity, where supplies, medications, procedures, and staff are never assured.... Improvising Medicine should interest diverse audiences. These include medical anthropologists, sociologists, social historians of Africa, public health specialists, and scholars across disciplines with interest in the cultures and practices of biomedicine, the morality of care, and the comparative analysis of medical ethics." -- Carolyn Sargent * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. The Other Cancer Ward 1 2. Neoplastic Africa: Mapping Circuits of Toxicity and Knowledge 29 3. Creating and Embedding Cancer in Botswana's Oncology Ward 52 Interlude. Amputation Day at Princess Marina Hospital 85 4. The Moral Intimacies of Care 93 5. Pain and Laughter 119 6. After ARVs, During Cancer, Before Death 152 Epilogue. Changing Wards, Further Improvisations 174 Notes 183 Bibliography 205 Index 221

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Book SynopsisIn Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups have not supplanted the primacy of the nation-state in Africa. Although not necessarily stable or responsive, national governments remain crucial in medical care, both as employers of health care professionals and as sources of regulation, access, and – albeit sometimes counterintuitively - trust for their people. “The state” has morphed into the “para-state&rdquoTrade Review“Para-States and Medical Science is an exceptional and engaging book that will be of interest to anthropologists, Africanists and historians as well as those interested in science and technology, post-colonial and development studies.” -- Mary-Anne Decatur * Anthropology Book Forum *"Individual chapters focus specifically on processes of medical research, not health care delivery, but in so doing provide an often overlooked perspective on the types of medical work undertaken in Africa.... Summing up: Recommended." -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *"I highly recommend this volume for anyone interested in the social relations of biomedicine, and particularly biomedical research, in Africa. As an interdisciplinary anthropologist who works on this topic, I found the book’s provocation to pay attention to the persistence of the African state extremely useful—suddenly, I am seeing the state in places in my work that I had formerly overlooked. I also appreciated this volume’s empirical documentation of the numerous ways in which, despite persistent inequalities, African actors—states, institutions, and individuals—shape global health partnerships and the knowledge they produce." -- Johanna Crane * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Para-States and Medical Science is an impressive volume and a welcome addition to work on critical global health in Africa. The collection provides a much needed re-reading of contemporary biopolitical regimes in Africa, which neither fit old models of biopower nor conform to neoliberal forms found elsewhere. ... this work makes an original and innovative contribution to scholarship on the shifting relations between state, public, private and corporate interests in health care in Africa, and makes inroads for anthropologists, historians and STS scholars to move beyond standard narratives of 'development' and 'neoliberalism' in African contexts." -- Michelle Pentecost * New Genetics and Society *"The volume should become mandatory reading for scholars and students interested in the new configurations and possibilities that emerge on the African continent in the context of medical globalization, and which demonstrate (once more) that rigid distinctions between the global, national and local, public and private, state and non-state have become untenable, if not useless." -- Hansjörg Dilger * Africa *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State / P. Wenzel Geissler 1 Part I: Rupture, Continuity 1. Treating to Prevent HIV: Population Trials and Experimental Societies / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 47 2. Trialing Drugs, Creating Publics: Medical Research, Leprosy Control, and the Construction of a Public Health Sphere in Post-1945 Nigeria / John Manton 78 Part II: Pasts, Futures 3. Lessons in Medical Nihilism: Virus Hunters, Neoliberalism, and the AIDs Crisis in Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal 103 4. What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science / P. Wenzel Geissler 142 Part III: State Remains 6. International Health and the Proliferation of "Partnerships": (Un)Intended Boost for State Institutions in Tanzania? / Rene Gerrets 179 6. Working and Surviving: Government Employees on ART in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte 207 Part IV: Affective Wholes 7. Molecular and Municipal Politics: Research and Regulation in Dakar / Branwyn Poleykett 237 8. The Work of the Virus: Cutting and Creating Relations in an ART Project / Lotte Meinert 257 Part V: Struggling Nation 9. The Blue Warriors: Ecology, Participation, and Public Health in Malaria Control Experiments / Ulrike Beisel 281 10. The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest State / Ann H. Kelly 303 11. Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet / Didier Fassin 333 Contributors 355 Index 357

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Para-States and Medical Science is an exceptional and engaging book that will be of interest to anthropologists, Africanists and historians as well as those interested in science and technology, post-colonial and development studies.” -- Mary-Anne Decatur * Anthropology Book Forum *"Individual chapters focus specifically on processes of medical research, not health care delivery, but in so doing provide an often overlooked perspective on the types of medical work undertaken in Africa.... Summing up: Recommended." -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *"I highly recommend this volume for anyone interested in the social relations of biomedicine, and particularly biomedical research, in Africa. As an interdisciplinary anthropologist who works on this topic, I found the book’s provocation to pay attention to the persistence of the African state extremely useful—suddenly, I am seeing the state in places in my work that I had formerly overlooked. I also appreciated this volume’s empirical documentation of the numerous ways in which, despite persistent inequalities, African actors—states, institutions, and individuals—shape global health partnerships and the knowledge they produce." -- Johanna Crane * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Para-States and Medical Science is an impressive volume and a welcome addition to work on critical global health in Africa. The collection provides a much needed re-reading of contemporary biopolitical regimes in Africa, which neither fit old models of biopower nor conform to neoliberal forms found elsewhere. ... this work makes an original and innovative contribution to scholarship on the shifting relations between state, public, private and corporate interests in health care in Africa, and makes inroads for anthropologists, historians and STS scholars to move beyond standard narratives of 'development' and 'neoliberalism' in African contexts." -- Michelle Pentecost * New Genetics and Society *"The volume should become mandatory reading for scholars and students interested in the new configurations and possibilities that emerge on the African continent in the context of medical globalization, and which demonstrate (once more) that rigid distinctions between the global, national and local, public and private, state and non-state have become untenable, if not useless." -- Hansjörg Dilger * Africa *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State / P. Wenzel Geissler 1 Part I: Rupture, Continuity 1. Treating to Prevent HIV: Population Trials and Experimental Societies / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 47 2. Trialing Drugs, Creating Publics: Medical Research, Leprosy Control, and the Construction of a Public Health Sphere in Post-1945 Nigeria / John Manton 78 Part II: Pasts, Futures 3. Lessons in Medical Nihilism: Virus Hunters, Neoliberalism, and the AIDs Crisis in Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal 103 4. What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science / P. Wenzel Geissler 142 Part III: State Remains 6. International Health and the Proliferation of "Partnerships": (Un)Intended Boost for State Institutions in Tanzania? / Rene Gerrets 179 6. Working and Surviving: Government Employees on ART in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte 207 Part IV: Affective Wholes 7. Molecular and Municipal Politics: Research and Regulation in Dakar / Branwyn Poleykett 237 8. The Work of the Virus: Cutting and Creating Relations in an ART Project / Lotte Meinert 257 Part V: Struggling Nation 9. The Blue Warriors: Ecology, Participation, and Public Health in Malaria Control Experiments / Ulrike Beisel 281 10. The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest State / Ann H. Kelly 303 11. Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet / Didier Fassin 333 Contributors 355 Index 357

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Book SynopsisThis ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is complicated by the attempts of doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to others—kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons.Trade Review"Street’s work is a welcome intervention that nuances our understandings of personhood, materiality and the everyday workings of biomedicine in a postcolonial context. A clear and articulate ethnography, Biomedicine in an Unstable Place will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, history of medicine and global health." -- Gabriela Elisa Morales * Social Anthropology *“Scholars of Papua New Guinea and Melanesia will naturally welcome this extraordinary book. It should also be read by those with an interest in ontology, post-colonial science, the anthropology of infrastructure, and the anthropology of the state." -- Barbara Andersen * Anthropological Quarterly *“This valuable ethnography will interest anthropologists of biomedicine, scholars of Melanesia, and the many social scientists and students involved in global health. It helps readers move beyond global/local, universal/particular binaries to understand how biomedicine functions in a world full of unstable places.” -- Claire L. Wendland * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is an important text of impressive quality. The volume makes a valuable contribution to Melanesian studies, medical anthropology, and postcolonial studies. More importantly, as Street notes in her introduction, most of the world’s people now encounter biomedicine in ‘peripheral institutions’ like Madang Hospital; more attention to the forces at work in such places is warranted.” -- Courtney Addison * Medicine Anthropology Theory *“Street’s contribution to medical anthropology and science and technology studies lies in her skilful analysis of the multiplicity of hospital spaces. She offers one of the finest examples of how to write hospital ethnography by articulating spatial and temporal frictions, overlaps and shifts in medical knowledge and practice. By contextualising the contradictions and paradoxes running through public health development in a poor part of the world, Street is able to provide crucial insight into people’s hopes and disappointments as they are invested in biomedical care. Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is not only instructive for anthropologists interested in the improvised nature of medicine and care in contexts of economic scarcity but also for public health workers and development aid providers who work or are planning to work in Papua New Guinea.” -- Bo Kyeong Seo * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Anyone interested in understanding the challenges faced by public hospitals will profit from the incisive, empathic, and compelling insights of this superb study." -- John Barker * Pacific Affairs *"This excellent book is a compelling and often moving ethnography. It makes an original contribution to medical anthropology and the anthropology of the state, institutions, and infrastructure. Biomedicine in an Unstable Place also advances the anthropological study of personhood, Christianity, race, and class. The elegance of Street’s prose together with her satisfying and succinct analysis of so many complex and urgent issues will make Biomedicine in an Unstable Place an outstanding teaching resource." -- John Cox * American Anthropologist *"Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is fresh, nuanced, and well written; it reinvigorates the hospital as a crucial research site. It is written with a keen eye toward continuities and transformations over space and time." -- Cristina T. Bejarano * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue 1 Part I. Place 1. Making a Place for Biomedicine 11 2. Locating Disease 39 3. Public Buildings, Building Publics 59 Part II. Technology 4. Doctors without Diagnosis 89 5. The Waiting Place 115 6. Technologies of Detachment 143 Part III. Infrastructure 7. The Partnership Hospital 169 8. Research in the Clinic 194 Conclusion: Biomedicine in a Fragile State 223 Notes 237 Bibliography 261 Index 281

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Book SynopsisThis ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is complicated by the attempts of doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to others—kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons.Trade Review"Street’s work is a welcome intervention that nuances our understandings of personhood, materiality and the everyday workings of biomedicine in a postcolonial context. A clear and articulate ethnography, Biomedicine in an Unstable Place will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, history of medicine and global health." -- Gabriela Elisa Morales * Social Anthropology *“Scholars of Papua New Guinea and Melanesia will naturally welcome this extraordinary book. It should also be read by those with an interest in ontology, post-colonial science, the anthropology of infrastructure, and the anthropology of the state." -- Barbara Andersen * Anthropological Quarterly *“This valuable ethnography will interest anthropologists of biomedicine, scholars of Melanesia, and the many social scientists and students involved in global health. It helps readers move beyond global/local, universal/particular binaries to understand how biomedicine functions in a world full of unstable places.” -- Claire L. Wendland * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is an important text of impressive quality. The volume makes a valuable contribution to Melanesian studies, medical anthropology, and postcolonial studies. More importantly, as Street notes in her introduction, most of the world’s people now encounter biomedicine in ‘peripheral institutions’ like Madang Hospital; more attention to the forces at work in such places is warranted.” -- Courtney Addison * Medicine Anthropology Theory *“Street’s contribution to medical anthropology and science and technology studies lies in her skilful analysis of the multiplicity of hospital spaces. She offers one of the finest examples of how to write hospital ethnography by articulating spatial and temporal frictions, overlaps and shifts in medical knowledge and practice. By contextualising the contradictions and paradoxes running through public health development in a poor part of the world, Street is able to provide crucial insight into people’s hopes and disappointments as they are invested in biomedical care. Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is not only instructive for anthropologists interested in the improvised nature of medicine and care in contexts of economic scarcity but also for public health workers and development aid providers who work or are planning to work in Papua New Guinea.” -- Bo Kyeong Seo * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Anyone interested in understanding the challenges faced by public hospitals will profit from the incisive, empathic, and compelling insights of this superb study." -- John Barker * Pacific Affairs *"This excellent book is a compelling and often moving ethnography. It makes an original contribution to medical anthropology and the anthropology of the state, institutions, and infrastructure. Biomedicine in an Unstable Place also advances the anthropological study of personhood, Christianity, race, and class. The elegance of Street’s prose together with her satisfying and succinct analysis of so many complex and urgent issues will make Biomedicine in an Unstable Place an outstanding teaching resource." -- John Cox * American Anthropologist *"Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is fresh, nuanced, and well written; it reinvigorates the hospital as a crucial research site. It is written with a keen eye toward continuities and transformations over space and time." -- Cristina T. Bejarano * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue 1 Part I. Place 1. Making a Place for Biomedicine 11 2. Locating Disease 39 3. Public Buildings, Building Publics 59 Part II. Technology 4. Doctors without Diagnosis 89 5. The Waiting Place 115 6. Technologies of Detachment 143 Part III. Infrastructure 7. The Partnership Hospital 169 8. Research in the Clinic 194 Conclusion: Biomedicine in a Fragile State 223 Notes 237 Bibliography 261 Index 281

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Book SynopsisDuring the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.Trade Review“The stories are compelling, and the analytical chapters do a good job connecting contemporary developments with the existing anthropology of HIV/AIDS…. Recommended.” -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *“Second Chances is recommended reading for anyone interested in the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. This is also a good book for anyone who is thinking about health systems. One of Whyte’s points that I found particularly important is that people do not simply access treatment, but achieve it.” -- Anita Chary * Global Health Hub *“This is a unique study because it focuses on individuals and how disease and health care affects them. It provides a glimpse at a culture that is rarely covered, as well. Academic libraries supporting social sciences and health sciences programs will want to add this fascinating look at HIV/AIDS from a singular perspective to their collections." -- Barbara Bibel * Library Journal *“Readers familiar with the work of Susan Reynolds Whyte and her colleagues will not be disappointed in this compelling book. In the end, the lesson of Second Chances is that reliance on ‘contingent sociality’ means that not everyone who needs ARTs can get them. The chance for a second chance, therefore, is inherently fragile and unequal. Reynolds Whyte and colleagues offer no solutions, but the moving stories of survival and striving for both a living and a life remind us of the work that remains” -- Janet W. McGrath * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Second Chances is an excellent source of health narratives about negotiating HIV status in Uganda. Second Chances will naturally interest anthropologists of East Africa, HIV and biosociality." -- Jason Johnson Peretz * Somatosphere *"Second Chances offers a rigorous and vivid look at the first generation of Ugandans with AIDS to have relatively wide access to antiretroviral therapy . . . . The book is a compelling chronicle of the terms of this 'life sentence'." -- Tyler Zoanni * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPolygraphy vii Introduction. The First Generation 1 Case I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters 25 1. Connections 34 Case II. Saddam: Treatment Programs 47 2. Clientship 56 Case III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel 71 3. Mobility 80 Case IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters 95 4. Families 104 Case V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man 119 5. Partners 128 Case VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents 143 6. Children 152 Case VII. John: Working Contingencies 167 7. Work 176 Case VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life 191 8. Food 200 Case IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers 215 9. Bodies 223 Case X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine 237 10. Medicine 245 Case XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities 259 11. Life 268 Acknowledgments 285 Bibliography 287 Contributors 299 Index 301

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Book SynopsisDuring the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.Trade Review“The stories are compelling, and the analytical chapters do a good job connecting contemporary developments with the existing anthropology of HIV/AIDS…. Recommended.” -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *“Second Chances is recommended reading for anyone interested in the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. This is also a good book for anyone who is thinking about health systems. One of Whyte’s points that I found particularly important is that people do not simply access treatment, but achieve it.” -- Anita Chary * Global Health Hub *“This is a unique study because it focuses on individuals and how disease and health care affects them. It provides a glimpse at a culture that is rarely covered, as well. Academic libraries supporting social sciences and health sciences programs will want to add this fascinating look at HIV/AIDS from a singular perspective to their collections." -- Barbara Bibel * Library Journal *“Readers familiar with the work of Susan Reynolds Whyte and her colleagues will not be disappointed in this compelling book. In the end, the lesson of Second Chances is that reliance on ‘contingent sociality’ means that not everyone who needs ARTs can get them. The chance for a second chance, therefore, is inherently fragile and unequal. Reynolds Whyte and colleagues offer no solutions, but the moving stories of survival and striving for both a living and a life remind us of the work that remains” -- Janet W. McGrath * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Second Chances is an excellent source of health narratives about negotiating HIV status in Uganda. Second Chances will naturally interest anthropologists of East Africa, HIV and biosociality." -- Jason Johnson Peretz * Somatosphere *"Second Chances offers a rigorous and vivid look at the first generation of Ugandans with AIDS to have relatively wide access to antiretroviral therapy . . . . The book is a compelling chronicle of the terms of this 'life sentence'." -- Tyler Zoanni * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPolygraphy vii Introduction. The First Generation 1 Case I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters 25 1. Connections 34 Case II. Saddam: Treatment Programs 47 2. Clientship 56 Case III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel 71 3. Mobility 80 Case IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters 95 4. Families 104 Case V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man 119 5. Partners 128 Case VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents 143 6. Children 152 Case VII. John: Working Contingencies 167 7. Work 176 Case VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life 191 8. Food 200 Case IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers 215 9. Bodies 223 Case X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine 237 10. Medicine 245 Case XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities 259 11. Life 268 Acknowledgments 285 Bibliography 287 Contributors 299 Index 301

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Metrics use ethnographic evidence from around the globe to evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and the consequences of applying metrics to global health. Now the standard in measuring global health program success, metrics has far implications that extend beyond patients to the political and financial realms. Trade Review"[T]his volume is insightful, engaging and impressive. . . . I highly recommend this enlightening and ethnographically rich book. It is a must read for both medical anthropologists and global health practitioners, and would make an excellent addition to the reading list for graduate classes in medical anthropology or global health." -- Lauren Wallace * Anthropology Book Forum *"[T]his volume will hopefully help stimulate policymakers and researchers to think seriously about whether playing the numbers game is sufficient, either for patients or their clinicians." -- Thomas Christie Williams * LSE Review of Books *"Metrics is a thoughtful book that powerfully maps some of the problems that accompany the effort to ground GH in metrics. It is obligatory reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary world health." -- Tobias Rees * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Metrics offers a lucid, revealing, and sometimes unnerving tour of global health’s quantitative terrain. Its authors take pains to emphasize that they are not opposed to measurement. Rather, they argue for the need to recognize the limits of numbers and the continuing significance of other forms of knowing. From the perspective of medical anthropology this is a vital book." -- Peter Redfield * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Adams’ edited book makes a crucial contribution not only to those debates but also to the anthropology and sociology of evidence and measurement and to the social studies of science and medical humanities. Quite importantly, Metrics opens up a new field of inquiry and prompts us to think about how other kinds of metrics and ‘storied numbers’ are produced, experienced and valued and how they could be (re)imagined in the future." -- Angela Marques Filipe * Sociology of Health & Illness *"Taken together, this volume offers a useful primer on the role of metrics in shaping the work of global health actors at the macro, meso, and micro levels. The individual case studies offer theoretically and empirically rich examples that would be useful for scholars working in this area and for inclusion in an upper-level undergraduate class." -- J. Lynn Gazley * Contemporary Sociology *“Metrics is a call to preserve the spaces and experiences that exceed numerical data and counting, and to remain committed to methods and representations that might amplify them.... Metrics is crucial reading for those who eschew and embrace numbers alike.” -- Cal Biruk * PoLAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Vincanne Adams 1 1. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health / Vincanne Adams 19 Part I. Getting Good Numbers 2. Estimating Death: A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland 57 3. The Obligation ot Count: The Politics of Monitoring Maternal Mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan 82 Part II. Metrics Politics 4. The Power of Data: Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike / Marlee Tichenor 105 5. Native Sovereignty by the Numbers: The Metrics of Yup'ik Behavioral Health Programs / Molly Hales 125 Part III. Metrics Economics 6. Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health / Susan Erikson 147 7. When Good Works Count / Lily Walkover 163 Part IV. Storied Metrics 8. When Numbers and Stories Collide: Randomized Controlled Trials and the Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris 181 9. The Tyranny of the Widget: An American Medical Aid Organization's Struggles with Quantification / Pierre Minn 203 Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? / Vincanne Adams 225 References 231 Contributors 253 Index 255

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Metrics use ethnographic evidence from around the globe to evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and the consequences of applying metrics to global health. Now the standard in measuring global health program success, metrics has far implications that extend beyond patients to the political and financial realms. Trade Review"[T]his volume is insightful, engaging and impressive. . . . I highly recommend this enlightening and ethnographically rich book. It is a must read for both medical anthropologists and global health practitioners, and would make an excellent addition to the reading list for graduate classes in medical anthropology or global health." -- Lauren Wallace * Anthropology Book Forum *"[T]his volume will hopefully help stimulate policymakers and researchers to think seriously about whether playing the numbers game is sufficient, either for patients or their clinicians." -- Thomas Christie Williams * LSE Review of Books *"Metrics is a thoughtful book that powerfully maps some of the problems that accompany the effort to ground GH in metrics. It is obligatory reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary world health." -- Tobias Rees * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Metrics offers a lucid, revealing, and sometimes unnerving tour of global health’s quantitative terrain. Its authors take pains to emphasize that they are not opposed to measurement. Rather, they argue for the need to recognize the limits of numbers and the continuing significance of other forms of knowing. From the perspective of medical anthropology this is a vital book." -- Peter Redfield * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Adams’ edited book makes a crucial contribution not only to those debates but also to the anthropology and sociology of evidence and measurement and to the social studies of science and medical humanities. Quite importantly, Metrics opens up a new field of inquiry and prompts us to think about how other kinds of metrics and ‘storied numbers’ are produced, experienced and valued and how they could be (re)imagined in the future." -- Angela Marques Filipe * Sociology of Health & Illness *"Taken together, this volume offers a useful primer on the role of metrics in shaping the work of global health actors at the macro, meso, and micro levels. The individual case studies offer theoretically and empirically rich examples that would be useful for scholars working in this area and for inclusion in an upper-level undergraduate class." -- J. Lynn Gazley * Contemporary Sociology *“Metrics is a call to preserve the spaces and experiences that exceed numerical data and counting, and to remain committed to methods and representations that might amplify them.... Metrics is crucial reading for those who eschew and embrace numbers alike.” -- Cal Biruk * PoLAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Vincanne Adams 1 1. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health / Vincanne Adams 19 Part I. Getting Good Numbers 2. Estimating Death: A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland 57 3. The Obligation ot Count: The Politics of Monitoring Maternal Mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan 82 Part II. Metrics Politics 4. The Power of Data: Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike / Marlee Tichenor 105 5. Native Sovereignty by the Numbers: The Metrics of Yup'ik Behavioral Health Programs / Molly Hales 125 Part III. Metrics Economics 6. Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health / Susan Erikson 147 7. When Good Works Count / Lily Walkover 163 Part IV. Storied Metrics 8. When Numbers and Stories Collide: Randomized Controlled Trials and the Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris 181 9. The Tyranny of the Widget: An American Medical Aid Organization's Struggles with Quantification / Pierre Minn 203 Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? / Vincanne Adams 225 References 231 Contributors 253 Index 255

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Book SynopsisThis gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities. Trade Review"Briggs and Mantini-Briggs do more than shed light on a tragedy—they give voice to the grieving parents and offer examples of innovative ways to combat health disparities around the world, such as examining the 'relational division of the labor of producing and circulating health knowledge.'” -- Tracy Gnadinger * Health Affairs *“There are no easy explanations in this book, but it serves a valuable role by reminding us that lofty ideological claims and even passionate practical commitment are, in themselves, insufficient for eradicating deep structural inequalities, the real solutions to which can sometimes only be found among the people themselves.” -- Eugene Carey * Latin American Review of Books *"It is in this combination of ambitious scope and gut-wrenching intimacy that Tell Me Why My Children Died really shines. This book is a model not just for anthropologists interested in epidemics (Ebola and Zika were frequently on my mind while I was reading, and they are occasionally invoked in the text), but, just as importantly, for readers interested in a first-hand account of the messy, frustrating and ambivalent work of communicating calls for justice." -- Alex Nading * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This ethnography will undoubtedly be embraced by scholars and graduate students in the fields of medical and linguistic anthropology, Latin American Studies and Indigenous Studies. Nevertheless, in my opinion, a book like this is most needed to encourage critical approaches to communication, global health and public health disciplines, as well as engaging lower level students in sophisticated discussions around contemporary American societies." -- Nicole S. Berry * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"The book will be useful and provocative for researchers, students, and faculties in the social sciences, medicine, and science and technology studies. I strongly recommend it." -- Linda M. Whiteford * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Prologue xiii Preface xvii Introduction 1 Part I. 1. Reliving the Epidemic: Parents' Perspectives 29 2. When Caregivers Fail: Doctors, Nurses, and Healers Facing an Intractable Disease 76 3. Explaining the Inexplicable in Mukoboina: Epidemiologists, Documents, and the Dialogue That Failed 109 4. Heroes, Bureaucrats, and Millenarian Wisdom: Journalists Cover an Epidemic Conflict 127 Part II. 5. Narratives, Communicative Monopolies, and Acute Health Inequities 159 6. Knowledge Production and Circulation 179 7. Laments, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning 205 8. Biomediatization: Health/Communicative Inequities and Health News 225 9. Toward Health/Communicative Equities and Justice 245 Conclusion 260 Acknowledgments 275 Notes 279 References 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisThis gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities. Trade Review"Briggs and Mantini-Briggs do more than shed light on a tragedy—they give voice to the grieving parents and offer examples of innovative ways to combat health disparities around the world, such as examining the 'relational division of the labor of producing and circulating health knowledge.'” -- Tracy Gnadinger * Health Affairs *“There are no easy explanations in this book, but it serves a valuable role by reminding us that lofty ideological claims and even passionate practical commitment are, in themselves, insufficient for eradicating deep structural inequalities, the real solutions to which can sometimes only be found among the people themselves.” -- Eugene Carey * Latin American Review of Books *"It is in this combination of ambitious scope and gut-wrenching intimacy that Tell Me Why My Children Died really shines. This book is a model not just for anthropologists interested in epidemics (Ebola and Zika were frequently on my mind while I was reading, and they are occasionally invoked in the text), but, just as importantly, for readers interested in a first-hand account of the messy, frustrating and ambivalent work of communicating calls for justice." -- Alex Nading * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This ethnography will undoubtedly be embraced by scholars and graduate students in the fields of medical and linguistic anthropology, Latin American Studies and Indigenous Studies. Nevertheless, in my opinion, a book like this is most needed to encourage critical approaches to communication, global health and public health disciplines, as well as engaging lower level students in sophisticated discussions around contemporary American societies." -- Nicole S. Berry * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"The book will be useful and provocative for researchers, students, and faculties in the social sciences, medicine, and science and technology studies. I strongly recommend it." -- Linda M. Whiteford * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Prologue xiii Preface xvii Introduction 1 Part I. 1. Reliving the Epidemic: Parents' Perspectives 29 2. When Caregivers Fail: Doctors, Nurses, and Healers Facing an Intractable Disease 76 3. Explaining the Inexplicable in Mukoboina: Epidemiologists, Documents, and the Dialogue That Failed 109 4. Heroes, Bureaucrats, and Millenarian Wisdom: Journalists Cover an Epidemic Conflict 127 Part II. 5. Narratives, Communicative Monopolies, and Acute Health Inequities 159 6. Knowledge Production and Circulation 179 7. Laments, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning 205 8. Biomediatization: Health/Communicative Inequities and Health News 225 9. Toward Health/Communicative Equities and Justice 245 Conclusion 260 Acknowledgments 275 Notes 279 References 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City and the various ways that this event profoundly reshaped multiple spheres of City life.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1 Susan Opotow and Zachary Baron Shemtob Conflict and Change: New York City’s Rebirth after 9/11, 14 Zachary Baron Shemtob, Patrick Sweeney, and Susan Opotow Mirrored Reflections: (Re)Constructing Memory and Identity in Hiroshima and New York City, 41 Hirofumi Minami and Brian R. Davis Memory Foundations, 67 Daniel Libeskind Building the 9/11 Memorial, 86 Michael Arad Urban Security in New York City after 9/11: Risk and Realities, 106 Charles R. Jennings Managing Fire Emergencies in Tall Buildings: Design Innovations in the Wake of 9/11, 128 Norman Groner Health Impacts of 9/11, 145 Michael Crane, Kimberly Flynn, Roberto Lucchini, Guille Mejia, Jacqueline Moline, David Prezant, Joan Reibman, and Micki Siegel de Hernandez, with Cristina Onea and Susan Opotow Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following 9/11: What We Know Now, 180 Ari Lowell, Ariel Durosky, Anne Hilburn, Liat Helpman, Xi Zhu, and Yuval Neria Living in Houses Without Walls: Muslim Youth in New York City in the Aftermath of 9/11, 206 Diala Shamas Memory, Site, and Object: The September 11 Memorial Museum, 230 Susan Opotow and Karyna Pryiomka Acknowledgments, 253 List of Contributors, 255 Index, 263

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City and the various ways that this event profoundly reshaped multiple spheres of City life.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1 Susan Opotow and Zachary Baron Shemtob Conflict and Change: New York City’s Rebirth after 9/11, 14 Zachary Baron Shemtob, Patrick Sweeney, and Susan Opotow Mirrored Reflections: (Re)Constructing Memory and Identity in Hiroshima and New York City, 41 Hirofumi Minami and Brian R. Davis Memory Foundations, 67 Daniel Libeskind Building the 9/11 Memorial, 86 Michael Arad Urban Security in New York City after 9/11: Risk and Realities, 106 Charles R. Jennings Managing Fire Emergencies in Tall Buildings: Design Innovations in the Wake of 9/11, 128 Norman Groner Health Impacts of 9/11, 145 Michael Crane, Kimberly Flynn, Roberto Lucchini, Guille Mejia, Jacqueline Moline, David Prezant, Joan Reibman, and Micki Siegel de Hernandez, with Cristina Onea and Susan Opotow Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following 9/11: What We Know Now, 180 Ari Lowell, Ariel Durosky, Anne Hilburn, Liat Helpman, Xi Zhu, and Yuval Neria Living in Houses Without Walls: Muslim Youth in New York City in the Aftermath of 9/11, 206 Diala Shamas Memory, Site, and Object: The September 11 Memorial Museum, 230 Susan Opotow and Karyna Pryiomka Acknowledgments, 253 List of Contributors, 255 Index, 263

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Book SynopsisFood safety is currently one of the most important issues confronting consumers, producers and distributors. It cannot be dealt with as just a physical problem but must be considered as a multi-dimensional one, affected by politics, economics and social influences. This book focuses on the specific example of food safety in the beef industry in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia. It outlines the experience of a number of countries with food safety problems (such as BSE) and examines:drivers for change and institutional arrangements within the four countrieswhether there is a socially optimal approach to food safetyhow much consumers can rely on the industry to police itself and governments to look after their interestsIt also examines the implications for competitiveness and world trade.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: International Institutional Arrangements 3: The United States 4: Canada 5: The United Kingdom 6: Australia 7: Towards an Optimal Food Safety System 8: How are they Doing? 9: Epilogue 10: Bibliography/References

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Book SynopsisNitrate is ubiquitous. It is present in water, soil, plants and food, and is also a normal human metabolite. The main external sources of nitrate are vegetables and drinking water. This book examines the relationship between nitrates and human health. During the last 50 years or so, nitrate has been feared as the source of the rare condition called methaemoglobinaemia, or "blue baby syndrome", for young infants. Nitrate has also been implicated with causing cancer, through increased formation of carcinogenic compounds. Both claims are based on dubious evidence. This book sets out research results to disprove these assumptions, and goes on to explore the beneficial effects of nitrate in preventing infections, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. It is essential reading for researchers in medicine, and those in agriculture and food industries.Table of Contents1: The history of nitrates in medicine 2: Nitrate, the nitrogen cycle and the fertility of nature 3: The nitrogen cycle 4: The increasing fertility of nature 5: The metabolism of nitrate 6: The basic features 7: The two sources of nitrate: dietary intake and endogenous synthesis 8: The metabolic conversions of nitrate in the body and its fate 9: Nitrate excretion with saliva and its transformation to nitrite in the mouth 10: Nitrate and nitrite in the stomach 11: Nitrate metabolism: a summary 12: Nitrate in body fluids 13: Healthy humans 14: Pathological conditions 15: Conclusions 16: The case against nitrate - a critical examination 17: The risk of methaemoglobinaemia in infants 18: The risk of cancer 19: Other grievances 20: Conclusions 21: Nitrate regulations: presentation and discussion 22: Maximum nitrate levels in drinking water 23: Maximum nitrate levels in food 24: The acceptable daily intake and the reference dose for nitrate in man 25: Concluding comments 26: The beneficial effects of nitrate 27: The anti-infective effects of nitrate 28: Nitrate, blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases 29: Dietary nitrate and gastric cancer 30: Other beneficial effects 31: Conclusion 32: Summary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisTaenia solium cysticercosis is a parasitic disease caused by the dissemination of the larval form of the pork tapeworm and affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide. It is endemic in several developing countries, including many in Central and South America, Africa and South Asia. Through increased immigration and international travel, it is also of emerging significance in developed countries such as the USA.This book, written by international leading experts in the field, covers the basic science and clinical aspects of Taenia solium, its pathology, investigational aspects of neurocysticercosis, and therapy and preventionTable of ContentsSection i: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: Basic Science 1: Taenia solium: Basic Biology and Transmission, Z S Pawlowski 2: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: New and Revisited Immunological Aspects, A Flisser, D Correa and C A W Evans 3: Molecular Determinants of Host-Parasite Interactions: Focus on Parasite, J L Molinari and P Tato 4: Animal Models of Taenia solium Cysticercosis: Role in Understanding Host-Parasite Interactions, A E Cardona and J M Teale 5: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Taenia solium: From Basic to Applied Science, A Ito, M Nakao, M Okamoto, Y Sako and H Yamasaki 6: Hereditary Factors in Neurocysticercosis with Emphasis on Single, Small Enhancing CT Lesions (SSECTLs), V Padma, S Jain, A Srivastava, M Tripathi and M C Maheshwari Section ii: Epidemiology 7: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: An Overview of Global Distribution and Transmission, P M Schantz 8: What Have We Learnt From Epidemiological Studies of Taenia solium Cysticercosis in Peru? H H Garcia and R H Gilman, A E Gonzalez, M Verastegui, V C W Tsang and The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru 9: Epidemiology of Taeniasis-Cysticercosis in Mexico, E Sarti 10: Taenia solium Taeniasis and Cysticercosis in Central America, J Garcia-Noval, A L Sanchez and J C Allan 11: Neurocysticercosis in Brazil: Epidemiological Aspects, S Agapejev 12: Taenia solium Taeniasis and Cysticercosis in Asia, G Singh, S Prabhakar, A Ito, S Yull Cho and Dong-Chuan Qiu 13: Taenia solium Cysticercosis in Africa, M Druet-Cabanac, B Ramanankandrasana, S Bisser, L Dongmo, G Avode, L Nzisabira, M Dumas and P M Preux 14: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: The Special Case of the United States, W X Shandera, P M Schantz and A Clinton White, Jr 15: Porcine Cysticercosis, A E Gonzalez, P P Wilkins and T Lopez 16: Taenia solium: A Historical Note, N H Wadia, G Singh Section iii: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: Clinical Aspects 17: Neurocysticercosis: An Overview of Clinical Presentations, Sudesh Prabhakar, Gagandeep Singh 18: Meningeal Cysticercosis, O H Del Brutto 19: Heavy Multilesional Cysticercotic Syndromes, O H Del Brutto, H H Garcia, S Prabhakar 20: Intraventricular Neurocysticercosis, A C Cuetter, R J Andrews 21: Neurocysticercosis and Epilepsy, A Carpio, W Allen Hauser 22: Cerebrovascular Manifestations of Neurocysticercosis, F Barinagarrementeria and C Cantu 23: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: Uncommon Manifestations, G Singh and I S Sawhney 24: The Story Behind Solitary Cysticercus Granuloma (SCG), V Rajshekhar 25: Seizures Due to Solitary Cysticercus Granuloma (SCG), J M K Murthy 26: Pediatric Neurocysticercosis, S Prabhakar and G Singh 27: Psychiatric Manifestations of Neurocysticercosis, O V Forlenza 28: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: Ophthalmic Aspects, A Kumar and N Sharma 29: Neurocysticercosis: Diagnosis and Treatment in Special Situations, R Kumar Garg and A Mohan Kar Section iv: Cysticercosis: Pathology 30: The Pathology of Neurocysticercosis, A Escobar, K M Weidenheim 31: Single Small Enhancing Computed Tomogram Lesions (SSECTLs) - Pathological Correlates, G Chacko Section v: Neurocysticercosis: Investigational Aspects 32: Imaging and Spectroscopy of Neurocysticercosis, D Sharda, S Chawla and R K Gupta 33: Taenia solium Cysticercosis: Immunodiagnosis of Neurocysticercosis and Taeniasis, P P Wilkins, M Wilson, J C Allan and V C W Tsang 34: Antigen Based Immunoassays in the Diagnosis of Taenia solium Cysticercosis, D Correa, R Tapia-Romero, A Meza-Lucas, O Mata-Ruiz 35: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in the Diagnosis of Taenia solium Cysticercosis, T Meri and S Meri 36: Immunodiagnosis in Single, Small Enhancing Computed Tomography Lesions (SSECTLs), A Oomen Section vi: Taeniasis-Cysticercosis: Therapy and Prevention 37: Pharmacology of Anticysticercal Therapy, H Jung and D F González-Esquivel 38: Controversies in the Drug Treatment of Neurocysticercosis, B S Singhal and R A Salinas 39: Neurocysticercosis: Neurosurgical Perspective, B S Sharma and S P Chandra 40: Endoscopic Management of Intraventricular Cysticercosis, M Bergsneider and J H Nieto 41: Control of Taenia solium with Emphasis on Treatment of Taeniasis, J C Allan, P S Craig and Z S Pawlowski 42: Taenia solium Vaccination: Present Status and Future Prospects, C A W Evans 43: Control of Taenia solium with Porcine Chemotherapy, A E Gonzalez 44: Use of a Simulation Model to Evaluate Control Programmes against Taenia Solium Cysticercosis, A E Gonzalez, R H Gilman, H H Garcia, T Lopez

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Book SynopsisLyme borreliosis commonly known as lyme disease is now acknowledged as the most highly prevalent arthropod-borne human disease in northern temperate regions of the world. This book describes the basic characteristics of the disease, the biology of the pathogens in their vectors and vertebrate hosts, their ecology in different regions of the world and the global epidemiology of the disease. The final chapters address the prevention and control measures that have resulted from this knowledge.Table of ContentsI: History and Characteristics of Lyme Borreliosis 2: Ecological Research on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: Terminology and Some Methodical Pitfalls 3: Molecular and Cellular Biology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato 4: Vectors of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato 5: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Vertebrate Host 6: Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Europe 7: Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Russia 8: Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Japan and East Asia 9: Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in North America 10: Epidemiology of Lyme Borreliosis 11: Vaccination against Lyme Borreliosis 12: Environmental Management for Lyme Borreliosis Control

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Book SynopsisThe importance of food safety for human health has been widely recognized. The safety of foods of animal origin is particularly relevant because the large majority of foodborne diseases come from poultry, eggs, meat, milk and dairy products and fish. This textbook covers an integrated approach to this type of food production, hygiene and safety and shows how it results in concurrent benefits to animal well being, human health, protection of the environment and socioeconomics.Table of ContentsPart 1: On-farm phase in the context of the food chain 1: Food chain and health hazards 2: On-farm factors and health hazards Part 2: Hygiene of meat production-processing and meat inspection 3: Meat industry 4: Pre-slaughter phase 5: Slaughter and dressing 6: Post-mortem meat inspection 7: Meat preservation and processing 8: Meat safety management at abattoir 9: Food hygiene and safety at retail-consumer phase Part 3: Hygiene of production-processing of other foods and retail-consumerfood safety 10: Hygiene of production-processing of other foods 11: Food hygiene and safety at retail-consumer phase Part 4: Stable-to-table concept 12: Principles of longitudinal and integrated food safety assurance

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Book SynopsisThe expert chapters focus on patents as well as an array of regulatory instruments, including pricing and drug registration policies.Trade Review‘. . . this book will appeal strongly to a wide range of professionals, academics and students with interest in and involvement in public health issues worldwide, specifically the pharmaceutical industry. . . the book is timely, topical, and packed with carefully researched information which puts a number of major issues relating to pharmaceuticals in perspective. Of great value to researchers are the copious footnotes and extensive bibliographies which follow most of the articles. . . this book certainly provides you with an impressive mine of information if you find yourself having to argue your corner on any number of legal, economic and ethical issues in this complex field of study.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘Since the 1970s the pharmaceutical industry has undergone significant changes in its research and development paradigm, trade and production. Regulatory frameworks have also changed substantially, particularly in the area of intellectual property rights. This book provides much needed empirical evidence on the impact of these and other changes on the pharmaceutical sector and on access to medicines in developing countries. The studies, conducted with a common methodology, on nine developing countries (including major producers of pharmaceuticals such as China and India) and on Canada, make an outstanding contribution to the literature in the field. The data and analysis in the book are of immediate interest to policy makers and to scholars in various fields, including innovation economics, industrial policy, health systems and intellectual property.’ -- Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina‘This impressive collection offers fascinating new perspectives on the impact of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines in developing countries. The volume’s editors have put together an important book that sets out clearly the challenges to public health in a wide range of national contexts. The book will be a valuable text for all scholars and decision-makers interested in the global politics of intellectual property rights and public health.’ -- Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals: Meeting the Challenges to Addressing Health Gaps in the New International Environment Kenneth C. Shadlen, Samira Guennif, Alenka Guzmán and N. Lalitha 2. Pharmaceutical Production and Access to Essential Medicines in South Africa Heinz Klug 3. Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines: Paradoxes in Moroccan Policy Gaëlle Krikorian 4. The Invisible Threat: Trade, Intellectual Property, and Pharmaceutical Regulations in Colombia Tatiana Andia 5. The Challenges of Constructing Pharmaceutical Capabilities and Promoting Access to Medicines in Mexico under TRIPS Alenka Guzmán 6. Corporate Power and State Resistance: Brazil’s Use of TRIPS Flexibilities for its National AIDS Program Matthew Flynn 7. The Politics of Patents and Drugs in Brazil and Mexico: The Industrial Bases of Health Policies Kenneth C. Shadlen 8. Pharmaceutical Patent Policy in Developing Countries: Learning from the Canadian Experience Jean-Frédéric Morin and Mélanie Bourassa Forcier 9. Access to Indian Generic Drugs: Emerging Issues N. Lalitha 10. Sufficient but Expensive Drugs: A Double-Track System that Facilitated Supply Capability in China Mariko Watanabe and Luwen Shi 11. Access to Essential Drugs in Thailand: Intellectual Property Rights and Other Institutional Matters Affecting Public Health in a Developing Country Samira Guennif 12. The TRIPS Agreement and Health Innovation in Bangladesh Padmashree Gehl Sampath Index

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Book SynopsisThis sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale's considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease prevention. It follows directly from her understanding of social science and broader social reform activities.Trade Review"The Nightingale project ranks with both the Gladstone diaries and the Disraeli letters as a major undertaking in the field of Victorian-era scholarship, and therefore is of surpassing value to historians of the period, as well as to general readers." -- C. Brad Faught, Tyndale University College, Toronto -- Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 81 (1), 20120301"There are gems in this huge volume that will help us rethink Nightingale. She emerges as a more critical statistician than is often recognized; her conceptions of disease and etiology appear more ambiguous than they are sometimes presented; and one gets a clearer sense of her concept of `administration,' which, more than any other element of nursing practice or training, appears here as the keystone of nursing reform, and the aspect in which it most seriously intersected with the reform of public medical services." -- Christopher Hamlin -- Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 200511"The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale is an extremely ambitious project that is a great service to scholarship. Every general academic library should own the complete set. It pulls together material that has been hitherto diffused across more than 150 collections, some of them private ones, in places ranging from Germany to India and Japan, as well as numerous English-speaking countries." -- Timothy Larsen -- Books and Culture, 200811"The details and explications of her views...are presented in carefully annotated and insightful editorial discussions....[These volumes] provide a more complete understanding of this complex woman, extending our appreciation of her much beyond the `The Lady with the Lamp' legend.... The product of rigorous scholarship, of meticulous historical research--and a labour of love." -- Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 21/1, 200510``[I]t is clear that this is an academic project of the highest importance and integrity. It will have an impact on the work of scholars far beyond the immediate field of health history. Nightingale's interests were wide-ranging and her correspondence included some of the leading thinkers of her day....The editing of these volumes is exemplary. Every reference has been followed up, including the identification of minor dramatis personae. Important personalities are accorded short biographies. On every page there are biblical allusions, which are faithfully identified. Each thematic section has an introductory essay and these are amplified by a full outline of Nightingale's life and thought in volume 1. This project makes a major contribution to scholarship which will be of permanent value.'' -- Helen Mathers, University of Sheffield, Ecclesiastical History"Lynn McDonald and her collaborators have taken on a mammoth task: that of collating and organizing ``all the available surviving writing of Florence Nightingale''. The work is a remarkable collective effort....Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care is...a very useful resource for scholars in the fields of history of nursing and history of medicine. As well as providing the reader with carefully edited critical editions of some of Nightingale's most important works, it makes available to future scholarship in these fields a vast array of correspondence, notes and other unpublished material, which will enable a more thorough and complete understanding of Nightingale and her work." -- Christine Hallett, University of Manchester -- Medical History, 50 (3), 200608"The Collected Works will allow us to see for the first time the full complexity of this extraordinary and multifacted woman. It will be a tool of enormous value not only to Nightingale scholars and biographers, but also to historians of a wide variety of aspects of Victorian society: war, the army, public health nursing, religion, India, women's issues and so on." -- Mark Bostridge -- Times Literary Supplement, 20030110"In...the ambitious Collected Works of Florence Nightingale project, series editor Lynn McDonald demonstrates why one of the best-known women of the Victorian Era continues to fascinate, one hundred and fifty years after her initial rise to fame. Until now, the most widely available literature has been written about rather than by Florence Nightingale. Delivering on the promise of convenient access to all the available surviving writing of Florence Nightingale, McDonald offers readers a meticulously transcribed, categorized, and indexed record of Nightingale's major published books, articles, and pamphlets, as well as herefore unpublished correspondence and notes. In Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care and Florence Nightingale's European Travels, Nightingale emerges as a brilliant and politically astute woman who, from her youth, was driven by intellectual mischief, unquenchable curiosity, stubborn resistance to the status quo, and an unrelenting desire to improve the living conditions of the sick poor....Lynn McDonald's extensive yet unobtrusive editorial analyses and comments are invaluable, and serve to contextualize and anchor the disparate documents that follow....Public Health Care and European Travels are invaluable reference texts for scholars interested in Nightingale and her contemporaries, the Victorian era, and the evolution of health care, illness care, and professional nursing. By providing unprecedented access to Nightingale's writings, Lynn McDonald offers readers a unique opportunity to understand Florence Nightingale, in her own words." -- Sonya Grypma -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2004, Volume 75, number 1, 200606Table of Contents Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6, edited by Lynn McDonald Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae List of Illustrations Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works Introduction to Volume 6 Public Health Care as a System Key to Editing Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes Editor's Introduction Preface Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not Chapter 1. Ventilation and Warming Chapter 2. Health of Houses Chapter 3. Petty Management Chapter 4. Noise Chapter 5. Variety Chapter 6. Taking Food Chapter 7. What Food? Chapter 8. Bed and Bedding Chapter 9. Light Chapter 10. Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls Chapter 11. Personal Cleanliness Chapter 12. Chattering Hopes and Advices Chapter 13. Observation of the Sick Chapter 14. Convalescence Chapter 15. What Is a Nurse? Chapter 16. ""Minding Baby"" Conclusion Note Upon Employment of Women Appendix Revisions for a Proposed 1875 Edition Colonial Sanitary Statistics and Aboriginal Depopulation ""Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals"" ""Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing"" The Reform of Workhouse Infirmaries Workhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale's Day The Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary The Appointment of Agnes Jones as Superintendent Death of and Memorials to Agnes Jones Later Superintendents and Difficulties The Extension of Workhouse Nursing to Metropolitan London Brief to the Cubic Space Comittee Training Pauper Girls to Become Workhouse Nurses The Metropolitan Poor Bill of 1867 Workhouse Infirmary for St Pancras, Highgate Training School for Workhouse Nurses Other Workhouse Infirmaries The Extension of Nursing to Workhouse Infirmaries in Ireland Public Health Issues, Rural Health and Nightingale's ""Caseload"" Nature, Disease, Germs and Contagion Rural Health ""Rural Hygiene"" Medical Care of Employees, Former Employees and Tenants Appendix Appendix: Biographical Sketches (Dr) John Sutherland (1808-91) William Rathbone (1802-1902) Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-68) Bibliography Index

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