Public health and preventive medicine Books
Bristol University Press Governance Commissioning and Public Health
Book SynopsisBy exploring the impact of different dimensions of governance on decision-making, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Relevant to students, practitioners, policy-makers and anyone interested in governance and decision-making for public health.Trade Review"This book is an excellent guide to understanding the complexities and interconnections of governance, commissioning and public health in the context of recent public health policy in the English NHS and local government." David Evans, Professor in Health Services Research, University of the West of England"A resource for all public health graduates and practitioners who are or will be working in the public health sector." Dr Krishna Regmi, University of BedfordshireTable of ContentsIntroduction; Dimensions of governance; Commissioning for health and wellbeing; Levers for change (1): governance arrangements; Levers for change (2): incentives; Prioritising public health investment; Public involvement in commissioning; Conclusions.
£28.49
Bristol University Press Governance Commissioning and Public Health
Book SynopsisBy exploring the impact of different dimensions of governance on decision-making, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Relevant to students, practitioners, policy-makers and anyone interested in governance and decision-making for public health.Trade Review"This book is an excellent guide to understanding the complexities and interconnections of governance, commissioning and public health in the context of recent public health policy in the English NHS and local government." David Evans, Professor in Health Services Research, University of the West of England"A resource for all public health graduates and practitioners who are or will be working in the public health sector." Dr Krishna Regmi, University of BedfordshireTable of ContentsIntroduction; Dimensions of governance; Commissioning for health and wellbeing; Levers for change (1): governance arrangements; Levers for change (2): incentives; Prioritising public health investment; Public involvement in commissioning; Conclusions.
£75.99
Bristol University Press PeopleCentred Public Health
Book SynopsisPeople-centred public health provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of policy, practice and research in how members of the public can be involved in delivering health improvement as volunteers or lay health workers, drawing on a major study of lay engagement in public health, and using case studies and real life examples.Trade Review"Acknowledging citizens are part of the solution, not the problem, could lead to a 21st century flourishing of Public Health as important as the first one in the 19th century." Trevor Hopkins, Asset Based Consulting & co-author of 'A glass half-full'“Participation is essential to health promotion action and people have to be at the centre of decision-making processes for it to be effective. This book offers a valuable, critical and timely analysis as government policy develops on active citizenship.” Jane Wills, Professor of Health Promotion, London South Bank University"I recommend this book to anyone interested in the future of public health. It offers a compelling guide to the policies, research and practice for anyone that is engaged in helping people and communities to become active citizens taking control of the factors that will radically improve their health." David Buck, Senior Fellow, Public health and health inequalities, Kings FundTable of ContentsForeword ~ Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Dr Mike Grady; Preface ~ Dr Stephen Peckham and Professor David Hunter; Introduction; The policy context; Lay health workers in practice; Benefits and value; The lay perspective; Walking for Health: a case study; Sexual health outreach: a case study; Community Health Educators: a case study; Citizen involvement in neighbourhood health: a case study; Commissioning and delivery; Dispelling the myths; Future directions.
£28.49
Bristol University Press PeopleCentred Public Health
Book SynopsisPeople-centred public health provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of policy, practice and research in how members of the public can be involved in delivering health improvement as volunteers or lay health workers, drawing on a major study of lay engagement in public health, and using case studies and real life examples.Trade Review"Acknowledging citizens are part of the solution, not the problem, could lead to a 21st century flourishing of Public Health as important as the first one in the 19th century." Trevor Hopkins, Asset Based Consulting & co-author of 'A glass half-full'“Participation is essential to health promotion action and people have to be at the centre of decision-making processes for it to be effective. This book offers a valuable, critical and timely analysis as government policy develops on active citizenship.” Jane Wills, Professor of Health Promotion, London South Bank University"I recommend this book to anyone interested in the future of public health. It offers a compelling guide to the policies, research and practice for anyone engaged in helping people and communities to become active citizens taking control of the factors that will radically improve their health." David Buck, Senior Fellow, Public Health and Health Inequalities, Kings Fund"A clear and lively presentation of the issues from the perspectives of paid staff and lay health workers...a good introduction to key theoretical and practical issues about lay involvement in health promotion." Sociology of Health and Illness"This book provokes thinking and discussion on how to help deliver effective public health initiatives in the community. It is relevant for people working in public health who wish to develop knowledge on how to influence future practice." Hannah Marriage, Leicestershire Partnership Trust, Nursing Times.netTable of ContentsForeword ~ Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Dr Mike Grady; Series editors' preface; Introduction; The policy context; Lay health workers in practice; Benefits and value; The lay perspective; Walking for Health: a case study; Sexual health outreach: a case study; Community Health Educators: a case study; Citizen involvement in neighbourhood health: a case study; Commissioning and delivery; Dispelling the myths; Future directions.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Reforming Healthcare
Book SynopsisReforming healthcare: What's the evidence? is the first major critical overview of the research published on healthcare reform in England from 1990 onwards by a team of leading UK health policy academics.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The NHS in 1990; Reorganising the NHS, 1990–2010; 'Central control' reorganisation in the NHS in the 2000s; Local dynamic reform in the NHS since 2000; The prospects for NHS reorganisation post-2010; Conclusion.
£27.54
Bristol University Press Reforming Healthcare
Book SynopsisReforming healthcare: What's the evidence? is the first major critical overview of the research published on healthcare reform in England from 1990 onwards by a team of leading UK health policy academics.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The NHS in 1990; Reorganising the NHS, 1990–2010; 'Central control' reorganisation in the NHS in the 2000s; Local dynamic reform in the NHS since 2000; The prospects for NHS reorganisation post-2010; Conclusion.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Health Divides
Book SynopsisClare Bambra examines the social, environmental, economic and political causes of health inequalities, how they have evolved over time and what they are like today. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you.Trade Review“This clearly written book, full of striking examples from around the world, shows that geography is as relevant for population health as ever” Professor Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands"This numerical journey through the geographies of health and disease drives home one vital message: inequalities of place create inequalities in health. As the book eloquently observes, the political economy and geography of inequality largely determines how well, and how long, one is likely to live." Professor Ronald Labonte, University of Ottawa, Canada"Bambra’s razor sharp, timely and comprehensive analysis should be read by anyone concerned about inequality." Mary O'Hara, Guardian Journalist and author“Drawing on current and historical data from the UK and the US, Clare Bambra brilliantly demonstrates how increasing geographical and social health inequities stem from policy decisions and how different political choices could reduce them” Professor Louise Potvin, Canada Research Chair, University of Montreal, Canada & Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences“A highly accessible text that provides a forensic investigation into how and why geography matters for health and inequalities.…Profoundly important and complemented with urgent and thought- provoking guidelines for what needs to be done to address this seemingly intractable societal problem.” Professor Jamie Pearce, University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Co-Editor, Health and Place"An excellent overview of the importance of geography for public health. A strong contribution to the health geography and public health literatures which highlights the importance of politics and policies for the unequal spatial distribution of health. I recommend it.” Dr Paul Norman, University of Leeds, England and Co-Editor, Population, Space and Place“Clare Bambra, a global leader in population health research who has been at the avant-garde in understanding how politics matters for life and death, has contributed a major, readable new statement that captures crucial insights from a new wave of political epidemiology. Health Divides will change the way you think about health and illness”. Professor Jason Beckfield, Harvard University, USA"A broad-ranging account of how place is implicated in large and growing health inequalities in some of the most affluent societies of the world. …squarely implicates policies of the neoliberal era in a compelling argument that, if heeded, could make for a healthier society" Professor James R. Dunn, McMaster University, Canada and Co-Editor, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health“I recommend this book strongly to health professionals and medical students as it provides a comprehensive overview of health inequalities and the multiple connections between where we live and how long we live” Professor Pali Hungin, President of the British Medical Association"A welcome supplemental text for courses in health policy and introductory epidemiology, as well as a valuable primer for policy-makers." Science"Clare Bambra provides a good, easy-to-understand introduction to the major causes of health inequality in rich countries." Socialist Party"Inequality in the UK is nothing to do with the poor being a hopeless underclass, destined for extinction in a Darwinian world where only the fittest survive. As Clare Bambra... spells out, it has everything to do with factors such as poor housing, poor nutrition and lack of educational and employment opportunities." Times Higher Education"[The book's] messages should be loudly broadcast and be compulsory reading for politicians." Doctors for the NHS Newsletter"A careful analysis of persistent geographical health inequalities." - Health Affairs“an important book that demonstrates the value of careful analysis of health inequities data and close examination of the factors that explain why the data show the patterns they do.” International Journal of Epidemiology"getAbstract recommends Bambra’s report to forwardthinking leaders and public health advocates." - getAbstract, Vietnam News“Bambra also ends the book with a rallying note to her readers: we need income redistribution, devolution of power and a resourcing of the regions to make economic growth work for all.” People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsForeword ~ Danny Dorling; Health Divides; From King Cholera to the C Word; In Sickness and In Health; Placing Life and Death; It’s the (Political) Economy; Too Little, Too Late; Past, Present, Future.
£13.99
Bristol University Press Religion and Health Care in East Africa
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in East Africa. Taking in to account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health outcomes.Trade Review"This book will fascinate scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and erudite readers alike. The authors leverage an impressive array of original evidence to present a persuasive argument about the relationship between spiritual and physical practices. This matters, and it makes for compelling reading." Ron E. Hassner, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface Religion, health care, and Africa Background knowledge, theorizing, and evidence Uganda Mozambique Ethiopia What have we learned? Conclusion
£77.39
Bristol University Press The NHS at 75
Book SynopsisIn its 75th anniversary year, this book examines the history, evolution and future of the NHS. With contributions from leading researchers and experts across a range of fields, it provides a long-term critical review of the NHS and key themes in health policy.Table of ContentsForeword by Simon Stevens 1. The NHS at 75: An Unfolding Story – Mark Exworthy, Russell Mannion and Martin Powell 2. NHS Governance: The Centre Claims Authority – Scott Greer 3. Health and Care Funding at 75 – Anita Charlesworth, Nihar Shembavnekar and George Stevenson 4. The Devolved Nations – John Stewart 5. NHS at 75: General Practice Through the Lens of Access – Kath Checkland, Jennifer Voorhees, Jonathan Hammond and Sharon Spooner 6. NHS Hospitals and the Bedpan Doctrine: The First 75 Years – Rod Sheaff and Pauline Allen 7. Quality and the NHS: Fair-Weather Friends or a Long-Standing Relationship? – Ross Millar, Justin Waring and Mirza Lalani 8. Improving Health and Tackling Health Inequalities: What Role for the NHS? – Martin Powell and Mark Exworthy 9. NHS Managers at a Crossroads: Part of the Problem or the Solution? – Ian Kirkpatrick 10. Forgotten, Neglected and a Poor Relation? Reflecting on the 75th Anniversary of Adult Social Care – Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby 11. The NHS at 75 in Comparative Perspective – Ian Greener 12. Our NHS? The Changing Involvement of Patients and the Public in England’s Health and Care System – Ellen Stewart, Amit Desai and Giulia Zoccatelli 13. After 75 Years, Whither the NHS? Some Conclusions – Martin Powell, Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion
£72.00
John Wiley & Sons 21st Century Global Mental Health
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£112.50
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. HACCP A Practical Approach Author S Mortimore
Book SynopsisForeword.- Acknowledgements.- About the Authors.- Disclaimer.- About this Book.- Prologue.- 1. An Introduction to HACCP and its role in food safety control.- 2. Preparation and planning to achieve effective food safety management.- 3. Hazards, their significance and control.- 4. Prerequisites for food safety PRPs and Operational PRPs.- 5. Designing food safety.- 6. How to do a HACCP Study.- 7. Implementation, Verification and Maintenance for Ongoing Risk Management.- 8. Considerations for HACCP application in different supply chain sectors.- Epilogue.- References, further reading and resource materials.- Appendices.- Index.Trade ReviewMortimore and Wallace point out that since they last updated the book there have continued to be many failures in the food supply chain. Some of these are world renowned, many were significant national failures, and many, many more were small, isolated, and sometimes tragic events occurring in local communities all around the world. So what has gone wrong? Is HACCP not working? Sadly, the answer to this question is that it hasn’t had a chance to work. Far from being “done,” HACCP has been poorly implemented and under-utilized in probably the majority of food companies. Twenty years ago developments in HACCP were fairly major, and some governments saw its implementation as a remedy for all of their country’s food safety issues. In reality, use of the HACCP approach does offer a practical and major contribution to the way forward, but only if the people charged with its implementation have the proper knowledge and expertise to apply it effectively. Whilst a new book isn’t by itself going to solve that problem, the authors hope that it may help some companies to do better.- Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, MNTable of ContentsForeword.- Acknowledgements.- About the Authors.- Disclaimer.- About this Book.- Prologue.- 1. An Introduction to HACCP and its role in food safety control.- 2. Preparation and planning to achieve effective food safety management.- 3. Hazards, their significance and control.- 4. Prerequisites for food safety – PRPs and Operational PRPs.- 5. Designing food safety.- 6. How to do a HACCP Study.- 7. Implementation, Verification and Maintenance for Ongoing Risk Management.- 8. Considerations for HACCP application in different supply chain sectors.- Epilogue.- References, further reading and resource materials.- Appendices.- Index.
£71.99
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Microbial Pathogenesis Infection and Immunity
Book SynopsisThe Complement System as a Viral Target for Immune Evasion.- Modulation of Type I Interferon Response by RNA Viruses.- Viroporins: Differential Functions at Late Stages of Viral Life Cycles.- Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Innate Immune Recognition and Persistence.- Candida and Candidiasis.- Mechanisms of Pathogenesis of Aspergillosis.- Airway Epithelium Interactions with Aspergillus fumigatus.- Anti-Fungal Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses.- Host-pathogen interaction in Malaria and Trypa nosomiasis.- The Host Pathogen Interaction and Immunomodulation During Leishmaniasis.- Immune responses induced by parasitic worms.- Pathogenic Persistence and Evasion mechanisms in Schistosomiasis.- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Passage from Gut to Brain.Table of Contents1. The Complement System as a Viral Ta rgetfor Immune Evasion................................................................................1Ajitanuj Rattan, Rewati Kasbe, Jayati Mullick and Arvind SahuAbstract......................................................................................................................................... 1Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 1Role of Complement in Combating Viruses............................................................................... 2Complement Evasion by Viruses: Diverse Strategies................................................................ 6Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 172. Modulation of Type I Interferon Responseby RNA Viruses..........................................................................................28Suchita BhattacharyyaAbstract....................................................................................................................................... 28Introduction................................................................................................................................ 28RNA Viruses............................................................................................................................... 29Type I Interferon System............................................................................................................ 31Modulation of Type I Interferon Response by RNA Viruses.................................................. 31Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 333. Viroporins: Differential Functions at Late Stagesof Viral Life Cycles.............................................................................38Francois Kien, Huailiang Ma, Stefan Díaz Gaisenband and Béatrice NalAbstract....................................................................................................................................... 38Introduction................................................................................................................................ 38Molecular Organizations and Ion Channel Activities of IAV M2,SARS‑CoV E, HCV p7 and HIV‑ 1 Vpu Viroporins......................................................... 42Differential Roles of Viroporins during Virus Morphogenesis and Release.......................... 46Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 53xviii Contents4. Mycobacterium tuberculosis:Innate Immune Recognitionand Persistence......................................................................................63Mycobacterium tuberculosis:Innate Immune Recognitionand Persistence......................................................................................63Munirah Abdul‑Aziz and Anthony G. TsolakiAbstract....................................................................................................................................... 63Introduction................................................................................................................................ 63Initial Stages of M. tuberculosis Infection................................................................................. 64Macrophage Involvement and M. tuberculosis Persistence..................................................... 69Granuloma Formation and M. tuberculosis Persistence......................................................... 70Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 73M. tuberculosis Infection................................................................................. 64Macrophage Involvement and M. tuberculosis Persistence..................................................... 69Granuloma Formation and M. tuberculosis Persistence......................................................... 70Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 73M. tuberculosis Persistence..................................................... 69Granuloma Formation and M. tuberculosis Persistence......................................................... 70Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 73M. tuberculosis Persistence......................................................... 70Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 735. Candida and Candidiasis............................................................................82Candida and Candidiasis............................................................................82Thomas HöfkenAbstract....................................................................................................................................... 82Introduction................................................................................................................................ 82Medically Important Candida Species...................................................................................... 83Pathogenicity Mechanisms......................................................................................................... 83Experimental Systems to Study Candidiasis............................................................................ 84Adherence................................................................................................................................... 85Invasion....................................................................................................................................... 86Secreted Hydrolytic Enzymes.................................................................................................... 87Polymorphism............................................................................................................................ 88Candida Species...................................................................................... 83Pathogenicity Mechanisms......................................................................................................... 83Experimental Systems to Study Candidiasis............................................................................ 84Adherence................................................................................................................................... 85Invasion....................................................................................................................................... 86Secreted Hydrolytic Enzymes.................................................................................................... 87Polymorphism............................................................................................................................ 88Biofilm Formation...................................................................................................................... 92Interaction with Bacteria........................................................................................................... 95Phenotypic Switching and Mating............................................................................................. 96Metabolic Flexibility and Nutrition Acquisition...................................................................... 96Stress Adaptation....................................................................................................................... 97Host Responses........................................................................................................................... 98Antifungal Drugs and Drug Resistance.................................................................................... 99Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 100...................................................................................................................... 92Interaction with Bacteria........................................................................................................... 95Phenotypic Switching and Mating............................................................................................. 96Metabolic Flexibility and Nutrition Acquisition...................................................................... 96Stress Adaptation....................................................................................................................... 97Host Responses........................................................................................................................... 98Antifungal Drugs and Drug Resistance.................................................................................... 99Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 1006. Mechanisms of Pathogenesisof Aspergillosis...................................................................................115Savneet Kaur, Kavita Kale, Taruna Madan and P. Usha SarmaAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 115Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 115Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis (IPA)................................................................................. 116Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA)................................................................ 127Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 132Contents xix7. Airway Epithelium Interactionswith ASPERGILLUS fumigatus.........................................................138ASPERGILLUS fumigatus.........................................................138Neelkamal ChaudharyAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 138Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 138Airway Epithelium Interaction with A. fumigatus................................................................. 139Toll‑Like Receptors................................................................................................................... 140Non‑TLR Receptors.................................................................................................................. 142Other Antimicrobial Mechanisms........................................................................................... 143Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 144A. fumigatus................................................................. 139Toll‑Like Receptors................................................................................................................... 140Non‑TLR Receptors.................................................................................................................. 142Other Antimicrobial Mechanisms........................................................................................... 143Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 1448. Anti‑Fungal Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses.............149Uday Kishore, Suhair M. Abozaid and Mohammed N. Al‑AhdalAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 149Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 150Innate Immune Mediated Defense against Fungi.................................................................. 151Adaptive Immunity and Fungal Pathogens............................................................................ 156Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 1599. Host‑pa thogen interaction in Malariaand Trypa nosomiasis.........................................................................167Janez Ferluga, Annapurna Nayak, and Uday KishoreAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 167Introduction: Malaria, Background and Life Cycle of the Parasite.................................... 168Malaria Immunity and Chronicity Development.................................................................. 170Complement Involvement........................................................................................................ 174PfEMP1: Virulence and Pathogenesis Modulation................................................................ 175Cerebral Malaria...................................................................................................................... 176Placental Malaria...................................................................................................................... 177EMP1: Virulence and Pathogenesis Modulation................................................................ 175EMP1: Virulence and Pathogenesis Modulation................................................................ 175Cerebral Malaria...................................................................................................................... 176Placental Malaria...................................................................................................................... 177P. falciparum Anaemia.............................................................................................................. 178A Role of Red Cell Blood Groups in Malaria Virulence Modulaton.................................... 179Merozoite Erythrocyte Invasion.............................................................................................. 179Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)................................................................................ 180Parasite Life Cycle.................................................................................................................... 181HAT Pathogenesis.................................................................................................................... 182Evasion of Innate and Adaptive Immunity by Trypanosome............................................... 184Potential Involvement of the Complement System................................................................ 185Genetic HAT and Host Diversity and Disease Phenotypes................................................... 186American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease)........................................................................ 187Anaemia.............................................................................................................. 178Anaemia.............................................................................................................. 178A Role of Red Cell Blood Groups in Malaria Virulence Modulaton.................................... 179Merozoite Erythrocyte Invasion.............................................................................................. 179Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)................................................................................ 180Parasite Life Cycle.................................................................................................................... 181HAT Pathogenesis.................................................................................................................... 182Evasion of Innate and Adaptive Immunity by Trypanosome............................................... 184Potential Involvement of the Complement System................................................................ 185Genetic HAT and Host Diversity and Disease Phenotypes................................................... 186American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease)........................................................................ 187T. cruzi Life Cycle...................................................................................................................... 188Cell Invasion............................................................................................................................. 188Pathogenesis of Chagas Disease............................................................................................... 188Chronic Chagas Disease........................................................................................................... 189Role of Adipose Tissue.............................................................................................................. 190Cytokine Expression and Regulaton....................................................................................... 190Complement and Immune Evasion......................................................................................... 191Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 192Life Cycle...................................................................................................................... 188T. cruzi Life Cycle...................................................................................................................... 188Cell Invasion............................................................................................................................. 188Pathogenesis of Chagas Disease............................................................................................... 188Chronic Chagas Disease........................................................................................................... 189Role of Adipose Tissue.............................................................................................................. 190Cytokine Expression and Regulaton....................................................................................... 190Complement and Immune Evasion......................................................................................... 191Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 192Life Cycle...................................................................................................................... 188Life Cycle...................................................................................................................... 188Cell Invasion............................................................................................................................. 188Pathogenesis of Chagas Disease............................................................................................... 188Chronic Chagas Disease........................................................................................................... 189Role of Adipose Tissue.............................................................................................................. 190Cytokine Expression and Regulaton....................................................................................... 190Complement and Immune Evasion......................................................................................... 191Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 192xx Contents10. The Host Pathogen Interactionand Immunomodulation During Leishmaniasis...............203Surajit Bhattacharjee and Arijit BhattacharyaAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 203Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 204Initial Interaction and Phagocytosis....................................................................................... 205Macrophage Functions Altered by Leishmania...................................................................... 206Microbicidal Free Radical Production.................................................................................... 207Impairment of Antigen Presentation....................................................................................... 208Modulation of Cytokine Production........................................................................................ 209Chemokine and Chemokine Receptors in Leishmaniasis..................................................... 211Cytokine–Chemokine Networks in Leishmaniasis................................................................ 213Leishmania...................................................................... 206Microbicidal Free Radical Production.................................................................................... 207Impairment of Antigen Presentation....................................................................................... 208Modulation of Cytokine Production........................................................................................ 209Chemokine and Chemokine Receptors in Leishmaniasis..................................................... 211Cytokine–Chemokine Networks in Leishmaniasis................................................................ 213Leishmania‑Induced Alteration of Host Cell Signaling......................................................... 214Toll‑Like Receptors (TLRs)..................................................................................................... 220Immune Responses against Leishmania Infection................................................................. 221Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 223‑Induced Alteration of Host Cell Signaling......................................................... 214Leishmania‑Induced Alteration of Host Cell Signaling......................................................... 214Toll‑Like Receptors (TLRs)..................................................................................................... 220Immune Responses against Leishmania Infection................................................................. 221Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 223‑Induced Alteration of Host Cell Signaling......................................................... 214‑Induced Alteration of Host Cell Signaling......................................................... 214Toll‑Like Receptors (TLRs)..................................................................................................... 220Immune Responses against Leishmania Infection................................................................. 221Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 223Leishmania Infection................................................................. 221Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 22311. Immune responses induced by pa rasitic worms....................233Janez Ferluga, Lubna Kouser and Uday KishoreAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 233Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 234Helminth Type‑2 Immunity and Allergy................................................................................. 235Hygiene Hypothesis on Allergies Increase.............................................................................. 237Examples of Type 2 Immunity................................................................................................. 237Tissue‑Parasite Variation in Type 2 Immunity....................................................................... 238Potential Complement Involvement in Helminth and Autoimmunity................................. 240Complement Evasion................................................................................................................ 242Trichinellosis............................................................................................................................. 243Filariasis.................................................................................................................................... 244Taeniasis.................................................................................................................................... 245Schistosomiasis......................................................................................................................... 246Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 24712. Pathogenic Persistence and Evasion mechanismsin Schistosomiasis...............................................................................255Annapurna Nayak and Uday KishoreAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 255Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 256Life Cycle into Intermediate and Vector Host........................................................................ 257Skin Penetration by Cercariae: Breaking the First Line of Defense.................................... 259Modulation of the Host’s Immune Response.......................................................................... 260Granulomas in Acute and Chronic Schistosomiasis.............................................................. 263Contribution of Various Immune Cells in the Immunopathology....................................... 265Complement Evasion by Schistosome Paramyosin............................................................... 265Immune Modulation of the Snail............................................................................................. 267Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 270Contents xxi13. TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES—Passage from Gut to Brain............................................................276Daniel A. MitchellAbstract..................................................................................................................................... 276Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 277The Replication of Infectious Prions....................................................................................... 277The Importance of the Gut in TSEs........................................................................................ 278Prion Proliferation in Lymphoid Tissues................................................................................ 279The Role of Dendritic Cells in Prion Trafficking................................................................... 279The Role of the Complement System in Prion Disease.......................................................... 280Prion Passage to the Brain and Neurocytoxicity.................................................................... 281Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 282................................................................... 279The Role of the Complement System in Prion Disease.......................................................... 280Prion Passage to the Brain and Neurocytoxicity.................................................................... 281Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 282
£80.99
John Wiley & Sons Investing in Reproductive Maternal Newborn Ch
Book SynopsisPresents the results of a three-year program instituted in Uganda to assess the status of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services, and to propose recommendations to improve their delivery and uptake.
£43.16
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina No Game for Boys to Play The History of Youth
Book SynopsisFrom the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boys who play the sport every year. Kathleen Bachynksi offers the first history of youth tackle football and the debates over its safety.
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Bioethics Reenvisioned A Path toward Health
Book SynopsisShows why the field of bioethics must embrace a broader and more meaningful view of justice, principally by incorporating the tools and insights of the social sciences, epidemiology, and public health. The authors make the case for a more social understanding of justice, and a deeper humility in assessing expertise in bioethics consulting.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Bioethics Reenvisioned A Path toward Health
Book SynopsisShows why the field of bioethics must embrace a broader and more meaningful view of justice, principally by incorporating the tools and insights of the social sciences, epidemiology, and public health. The authors make the case for a more social understanding of justice, and a deeper humility in assessing expertise in bioethics consulting.
£19.51
The University of North Carolina Press In Pursuit of Health Equity
Book SynopsisDrawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day.
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press In Pursuit of Health Equity
Book SynopsisDrawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day.
£18.86
Duke University Press The Social Medicine Reader Volume II Third
Book SynopsisThe extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.Trade Review"A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- B. A. D'Anna * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition ix Introduction 1 Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities / Sue E. Estroff and Gail E. Henderson 3 Part I. Defining and Experiencing Differences Beyond Medicalisation / Nikolas Rose 31 On Being a Cripple / Nancy Mairs 37 What You Mourn / Sheila Black 48 Physicians' Juries for Defective Babies / Helen Keller 50 Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller's Advice in Context / Raúl Necochea López 52 Tell Me, Tell Me / Irving Kenneth Zola 54 Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man / Raymond Luczak 61 I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? / Rivers Solomon 62 Part II. Sickness amid Relationships Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body / Sherri G. Morris 67 Raising a Woman / Mary Stainton 78 The Sick Wife / Jane Kenyon 83 The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver / Carol Levine 84 Fathers and Sons / David Mason 92 Parents Support Group / Dick Allen 93 Part III. Social Factors and Inequalities "Doctors Don't Know Anything": The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health / Seth M. Holmes 97 Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It / Arthur Kleinman and Peter Benson 116 Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings / Linda M. Hunt 127 The Racist Patient / Sachin H. Jain 132 The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age / Paul Braverman, Susan Egerter, and David R. Williams 134 Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine / Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshaviee 156 Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge / Jonathan M. Metzl and Dorthy E. Roberts 170 Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? / Lundy Braun, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, William Quivers, Susan M. Reverby, and Alexandra E. Shields 188 Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science / Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, and Sarah Tishkoff 204 Structural Racism and Health Inequalities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions / Zinzi D. Bailey, Nancy Krieger, Madina Agénor, Jasmine Graves, Natalia Linos, and Mary T. Bassett 209 America's Hidden HIV Epidemic / Linda Villarosa 235 Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? / Helena Hansen and Julie Netherland 254 Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health: Patterns and Prospects / David R. Williams, Naomi Priest, and Norman Anderson 258 Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick / Emily Underwood 268 Religion and Global Health / Peter J. Brown 275 Part IV. Politics, Institutions, and Care Thinking through the Pain / Keith Wailoo 297 Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States / Jonathan Oberlander 305 On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion / Rahul Vanjani 314 Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods / Peter Redfield 318 About the Editors 341 Index 343
£112.20
Duke University Press The Social Medicine Reader Volume II Third
Book SynopsisThe extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.Trade Review"A must-read for health care professionals, these readings are provocative and invite critical social and moral analysis among health care professionals. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- B. A. D'Anna * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition ix Introduction 1 Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differences, and Inequalities / Sue E. Estroff and Gail E. Henderson 3 Part I. Defining and Experiencing Differences Beyond Medicalisation / Nikolas Rose 31 On Being a Cripple / Nancy Mairs 37 What You Mourn / Sheila Black 48 Physicians' Juries for Defective Babies / Helen Keller 50 Blind, Deaf, and Pro-Eugenics: Helen Keller's Advice in Context / Raúl Necochea López 52 Tell Me, Tell Me / Irving Kenneth Zola 54 Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man / Raymond Luczak 61 I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? / Rivers Solomon 62 Part II. Sickness amid Relationships Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body / Sherri G. Morris 67 Raising a Woman / Mary Stainton 78 The Sick Wife / Jane Kenyon 83 The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver / Carol Levine 84 Fathers and Sons / David Mason 92 Parents Support Group / Dick Allen 93 Part III. Social Factors and Inequalities "Doctors Don't Know Anything": The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health / Seth M. Holmes 97 Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It / Arthur Kleinman and Peter Benson 116 Beyond Cultural Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings / Linda M. Hunt 127 The Racist Patient / Sachin H. Jain 132 The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age / Paul Braverman, Susan Egerter, and David R. Williams 134 Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine / Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshaviee 156 Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge / Jonathan M. Metzl and Dorthy E. Roberts 170 Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? / Lundy Braun, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, William Quivers, Susan M. Reverby, and Alexandra E. Shields 188 Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science / Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, and Sarah Tishkoff 204 Structural Racism and Health Inequalities in the United States of America: Evidence and Interventions / Zinzi D. Bailey, Nancy Krieger, Madina Agénor, Jasmine Graves, Natalia Linos, and Mary T. Bassett 209 America's Hidden HIV Epidemic / Linda Villarosa 235 Is the Prescription Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? / Helena Hansen and Julie Netherland 254 Understanding Associations between Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health: Patterns and Prospects / David R. Williams, Naomi Priest, and Norman Anderson 258 Can Disparities Be Deadly? Controversial Research Explores Whether Living in an Unequal Society Can Make People Sick / Emily Underwood 268 Religion and Global Health / Peter J. Brown 275 Part IV. Politics, Institutions, and Care Thinking through the Pain / Keith Wailoo 297 Unfinished Journey: The Struggle over Universal Health Insurance in the United States / Jonathan Oberlander 305 On Incarceration and Health: Reframing the Discussion / Rahul Vanjani 314 Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods / Peter Redfield 318 About the Editors 341 Index 343
£27.90
Duke University Press Blood Work
Book SynopsisJanet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia, showing how those meanings provide a gateway to understanding the social, political, and cultural dynamics of modern life.Trade Review“As Janet Carsten shows, blood is a thick moral substance: it can be bagged and tagged, but its powerful associations with vitality, connection, personhood, and life are not easily shed. Strikingly original, beautifully and often poetically written, Blood Work not only makes an important set of contributions to science and technology studies, anthropology, and Southeast Asian studies; it takes the long-standing themes in Carsten's career to a new level of conceptual innovation.” -- Sarah Franklin, author of * Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship *“Blood Work, based on fieldwork in hospital labs and surgeries, blood banks, and blood drives in Penang over ten years (2005–2015), draws on a deep well of insights springing from Janet Carsten’s innovative research on kinship, marriage, and migration in rural Malaysia in the 1980s. One of the most valuable contributions of Carsten’s distinctive sensitivity to the particulars of living and dying in this longtime global crossroads, combined with her keen comparative perspective, is her elucidation of the paradoxical capacity of blood everywhere to unite and divide simultaneously.” -- Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Michigan“Through a rich ethnographic portrait of medical labs and blood banks at hospitals in Penang, Malaysia, Janet Carsten successfully meets Blood Work’s twofold aim: to offer a fresh perspective on social and cultural lives in a modern Malay city and to explore the general nature of blood and its capacity for figurative elaboration. She reveals that, on the one hand, ethnic, religious, and kinship ties permeate the seemingly isolated techno-scientific environment of the labs in Penang, while on the other, it is the quality of animation that lies at the heart of blood’s aptness for symbolization and capacity for naturalization.” -- Jaehwan Hyun * Journal of Asian Studies *“With Blood Work, Carsten joins an important and expanding group of scholars extending work in the anthropology of science beyond the Western settings typically associated with what Donna Haraway identified as technoscience. Blood Work is distinctive even within this group in that Carsten’s focus on technoscience builds on deep familiarity with Malaysia rooted in her prior long-term ethnographic engagement in the country. She thus brings substantial nuance to her analysis, repeatedly drawing the reader’s attention to the tensions between assumptions about the universality of medical technologies and the distinctively Malaysian dimensions of the ways such technologies are taken up in the laboratories in which she works.” -- Karen-Sue Taussig * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Blood Work is a superbly written, thickly ethnographic exploration of those spaces in the multi-ethnic Malaysian state where human blood is collected, tested, processed and used…. One of Carsten’s major contributions, in my view, to the recent surge in anthropological literature on blood and blood economies lies in her insistence on collapsing the imagined dichotomy between the symbolic potential of blood and its material properties and uses, addressing both of these qualities in equal measure, while heeding to their ongoing effect on one another.” -- Ben Belek * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *“Carsten faithfully focuses on what people think, talk and do about blood and how such engagement indeed makes it so alive. Blood Work is indeed a call to attentiveness to human agency that transmutes the inert into the living and the technical into the social. It beautifully illustrates the animating force emerging from our everyday routine practices of working, eating and living together…. This will be an inspirational read for those interested in richer ethnographic accounts of science and technology and of Malaysia. It is also a work of theoretical mastery that will be an outstanding teaching resource on modernity, medical anthropology, material culture and the anthropology of work.” -- Bo Kyeong Seo * Sojourn *“Historians have in Carsten’s Blood Work a finely crafted ethnography that has far-reaching explanatory significance—like blood itself.... Her book should also serve as a model for anyone willing to consider that blood cultures may teach us as much about kinship as cultural analyses of organs, genes, or genomes.” -- Stephen Pemberton * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword / Thomas Gibson ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 The Public Life of Blood I: Donation in the News 35 1. Blood Donation 43 The Public Life of Blood II: Newspapers and Laboratory Life 75 2. Lab Spaces and People: Categories and Distinctions at Work 79 The Public Life of Blood III: Elections and Their Aftermath 116 3. The Work of the Labs 125 The Public Life of Blood IV: Medical, Supernatural, and Moral Matters 158 4. "Work is Just Part of the Job": Ghosts, Food, and Relatedness in the Labs 165 Conclusion 200 Notes 209 References 217 Index 233
£98.60
Duke University Press Blood Work
Book SynopsisWhat is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia. She tells the stories of blood donors, their varied motivations, and the paperwork, payment, and other bureaucratic processes involved in blood donation, tracking the interpersonal relations between lab staff and revealing how their work with blood reflects the social, cultural, and political dynamics of modern Malaysia. Carsten follows hospital workers into factories and community halls on blood drivesand brings readers into the operating theater as a machine circulates a bypass patient''s blood. Throughout, she foregrounds blood''s symbolic power, uncovering the processes that make the hospital, the blood bank, the lab, and science itselfwork. In this way, blood becomes a privileged lens for understanding the entanglements ofTrade Review“As Janet Carsten shows, blood is a thick moral substance: it can be bagged and tagged, but its powerful associations with vitality, connection, personhood, and life are not easily shed. Strikingly original, beautifully and often poetically written, Blood Work not only makes an important set of contributions to science and technology studies, anthropology, and Southeast Asian studies; it takes the long-standing themes in Carsten's career to a new level of conceptual innovation.” -- Sarah Franklin, author of * Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship *“Blood Work, based on fieldwork in hospital labs and surgeries, blood banks, and blood drives in Penang over ten years (2005–2015), draws on a deep well of insights springing from Janet Carsten’s innovative research on kinship, marriage, and migration in rural Malaysia in the 1980s. One of the most valuable contributions of Carsten’s distinctive sensitivity to the particulars of living and dying in this longtime global crossroads, combined with her keen comparative perspective, is her elucidation of the paradoxical capacity of blood everywhere to unite and divide simultaneously.” -- Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Michigan“Through a rich ethnographic portrait of medical labs and blood banks at hospitals in Penang, Malaysia, Janet Carsten successfully meets Blood Work’s twofold aim: to offer a fresh perspective on social and cultural lives in a modern Malay city and to explore the general nature of blood and its capacity for figurative elaboration. She reveals that, on the one hand, ethnic, religious, and kinship ties permeate the seemingly isolated techno-scientific environment of the labs in Penang, while on the other, it is the quality of animation that lies at the heart of blood’s aptness for symbolization and capacity for naturalization.” -- Jaehwan Hyun * Journal of Asian Studies *“With Blood Work, Carsten joins an important and expanding group of scholars extending work in the anthropology of science beyond the Western settings typically associated with what Donna Haraway identified as technoscience. Blood Work is distinctive even within this group in that Carsten’s focus on technoscience builds on deep familiarity with Malaysia rooted in her prior long-term ethnographic engagement in the country. She thus brings substantial nuance to her analysis, repeatedly drawing the reader’s attention to the tensions between assumptions about the universality of medical technologies and the distinctively Malaysian dimensions of the ways such technologies are taken up in the laboratories in which she works.” -- Karen-Sue Taussig * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Blood Work is a superbly written, thickly ethnographic exploration of those spaces in the multi-ethnic Malaysian state where human blood is collected, tested, processed and used…. One of Carsten’s major contributions, in my view, to the recent surge in anthropological literature on blood and blood economies lies in her insistence on collapsing the imagined dichotomy between the symbolic potential of blood and its material properties and uses, addressing both of these qualities in equal measure, while heeding to their ongoing effect on one another.” -- Ben Belek * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *“Carsten faithfully focuses on what people think, talk and do about blood and how such engagement indeed makes it so alive. Blood Work is indeed a call to attentiveness to human agency that transmutes the inert into the living and the technical into the social. It beautifully illustrates the animating force emerging from our everyday routine practices of working, eating and living together…. This will be an inspirational read for those interested in richer ethnographic accounts of science and technology and of Malaysia. It is also a work of theoretical mastery that will be an outstanding teaching resource on modernity, medical anthropology, material culture and the anthropology of work.” -- Bo Kyeong Seo * Sojourn *“Historians have in Carsten’s Blood Work a finely crafted ethnography that has far-reaching explanatory significance—like blood itself.... Her book should also serve as a model for anyone willing to consider that blood cultures may teach us as much about kinship as cultural analyses of organs, genes, or genomes.” -- Stephen Pemberton * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword / Thomas Gibson ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 The Public Life of Blood I: Donation in the News 35 1. Blood Donation 43 The Public Life of Blood II: Newspapers and Laboratory Life 75 2. Lab Spaces and People: Categories and Distinctions at Work 79 The Public Life of Blood III: Elections and Their Aftermath 116 3. The Work of the Labs 125 The Public Life of Blood IV: Medical, Supernatural, and Moral Matters 158 4. "Work is Just Part of the Job": Ghosts, Food, and Relatedness in the Labs 165 Conclusion 200 Notes 209 References 217 Index 233
£25.19
Duke University Press Enduring Cancer
Book SynopsisDwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.Trade Review“In this wonderful ethnography, Dwaipayan Banerjee shows how cancer in India exists across many relationships, aspirations, frustrations, gendered battles, caregiving gestures, medical sciences, and familial trials. In its lives far beyond the body, cancer is both concealed within the folds of secrecy and stigma and yet still able to reveal the hidden stories that only it can tell. Subtly written and ethnographically rich, this book will have a very wide reach.” -- Vincanne Adams, editor of * Metrics: What Counts in Global Health *“How do people navigate the uncertainties of cancer? Dwaipayan Banerjee's vivid ethnography shows how secrecy and silence are the currencies for knowing and managing cancer's diagnosis, treatment, pain, and survival in India. He demonstrates the profound implications this has for the ways people voice illness and forge connections with others in uncertain times. This timely and important book will be a landmark for thinking about survival and endurance in medical anthropology, science studies, public health, and South Asian studies.” -- Harris Solomon, author of * Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India *“In Banerjee’s paradigm-shifting Enduring Cancer, we learn of a politics of endurance and invention; we also see how the study of cancer in India offers a unique opening to critique structural failures and reimagine a collective politics of care.” -- Durba Mitra * Isis *“In his compelling book, Enduring Cancer, Dwaipayan Banerjee shuns common contemporary framings of cancer in India.... Banerjee’s book is a sensitive analysis of what it means to battle cancer and poverty at the same time in contemporary Delhi. As such, it will appeal for anthropologists interested in the politics of life and death, health and disease.” -- Éva-Rozália Hölzle * PoLAR *“This eloquently written ethnography sheds light on the social life of cancer not only in India but for humankind.... It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the anthropology of healthcare and medicine in India and for global and public health policymakers and practitioners.” -- Cecilia Coale Van Hollen * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A sensitive and insightful exploration of the fraught relational worlds within which cancer appears. . . . By juxtaposing hopeful aesthetic representations of cancer with its lived ethical dilemmas, Banerjee offers the analytic of endurance, showing how his interlocutors are responsive to the durability of pain, the intensity of social vulnerabilities, and the slow violence of incomplete medical care." -- Victoria Sheldon * Journal of Asian Studies *“A powerful book. . . . [Enduring Cancer] should be widely taught and read by medical anthropologists interested in noncommunicable diseases in the Global South, particularly South Asia, as well as by public health practitioners and bioethicists.” -- Saiba Varma * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Banerjee’s Enduring Cancer offers an ethnographically rich meditation on how cancer diagnoses amplify histories of embodied vulnerability, both interpersonal and infrastructural. . . . His use of eclectic source materials and a mixed-methodological approach gives EnduringCancer a rare analytic complexity.” -- Shireen Hamza & Kelsey Henry * Gender & History *“In a context where death is ever-present, state abandonment is all but assured, and radical social change is far from forthcoming, Banerjee gives voice to the quieter strategies of patients and caregivers who must find ways to endure, and to live and die ethically, in the present.” -- Gowri Vijayakumar * The Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Concealing Cancer 35 2. Cancer Conjugality 64 3. Researching Pain, Practicing Empathy 84 4. Cancer Memoirs 121 5. Cancer Films 142 6. 171Endurance Notes 183 Bibliography 205 Index 219
£90.10
Duke University Press Enduring Cancer
Book SynopsisDwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.Trade Review“In this wonderful ethnography, Dwaipayan Banerjee shows how cancer in India exists across many relationships, aspirations, frustrations, gendered battles, caregiving gestures, medical sciences, and familial trials. In its lives far beyond the body, cancer is both concealed within the folds of secrecy and stigma and yet still able to reveal the hidden stories that only it can tell. Subtly written and ethnographically rich, this book will have a very wide reach.” -- Vincanne Adams, editor of * Metrics: What Counts in Global Health *“How do people navigate the uncertainties of cancer? Dwaipayan Banerjee's vivid ethnography shows how secrecy and silence are the currencies for knowing and managing cancer's diagnosis, treatment, pain, and survival in India. He demonstrates the profound implications this has for the ways people voice illness and forge connections with others in uncertain times. This timely and important book will be a landmark for thinking about survival and endurance in medical anthropology, science studies, public health, and South Asian studies.” -- Harris Solomon, author of * Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India *“In Banerjee’s paradigm-shifting Enduring Cancer, we learn of a politics of endurance and invention; we also see how the study of cancer in India offers a unique opening to critique structural failures and reimagine a collective politics of care.” -- Durba Mitra * Isis *“In his compelling book, Enduring Cancer, Dwaipayan Banerjee shuns common contemporary framings of cancer in India.... Banerjee’s book is a sensitive analysis of what it means to battle cancer and poverty at the same time in contemporary Delhi. As such, it will appeal for anthropologists interested in the politics of life and death, health and disease.” -- Éva-Rozália Hölzle * PoLAR *“This eloquently written ethnography sheds light on the social life of cancer not only in India but for humankind.... It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the anthropology of healthcare and medicine in India and for global and public health policymakers and practitioners.” -- Cecilia Coale Van Hollen * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A sensitive and insightful exploration of the fraught relational worlds within which cancer appears. . . . By juxtaposing hopeful aesthetic representations of cancer with its lived ethical dilemmas, Banerjee offers the analytic of endurance, showing how his interlocutors are responsive to the durability of pain, the intensity of social vulnerabilities, and the slow violence of incomplete medical care." -- Victoria Sheldon * Journal of Asian Studies *“A powerful book. . . . [Enduring Cancer] should be widely taught and read by medical anthropologists interested in noncommunicable diseases in the Global South, particularly South Asia, as well as by public health practitioners and bioethicists.” -- Saiba Varma * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Banerjee’s Enduring Cancer offers an ethnographically rich meditation on how cancer diagnoses amplify histories of embodied vulnerability, both interpersonal and infrastructural. . . . His use of eclectic source materials and a mixed-methodological approach gives EnduringCancer a rare analytic complexity.” -- Shireen Hamza & Kelsey Henry * Gender & History *“In a context where death is ever-present, state abandonment is all but assured, and radical social change is far from forthcoming, Banerjee gives voice to the quieter strategies of patients and caregivers who must find ways to endure, and to live and die ethically, in the present.” -- Gowri Vijayakumar * The Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Concealing Cancer 35 2. Cancer Conjugality 64 3. Researching Pain, Practicing Empathy 84 4. Cancer Memoirs 121 5. Cancer Films 142 6. 171Endurance Notes 183 Bibliography 205 Index 219
£22.49
Duke University Press Virulent Zones
Book SynopsisScientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China''s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health Trade Review“Readers will come away with a newly visceral understanding of the phrase One Health, as they journey with scientists and epidemiologists through the bodies and ecologies of animal viruses in China. This is a book that rearranges one's sense of scale and time, with a slow and massive build to the sharpness of crisis and the paradoxical enormous scale of the microscopic at play in every scene.” -- Hannah Landecker, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles“Virulent Zones tells an intricate story about ways the sciences interlace with geopolitics, with profound impacts on public health at many scales. Lyle Fearnley also provides new perspective on how the sciences advance, both geographically and conceptually, through displacement rather than discovery. This important book will be of critical interest to anthropologists and historians of science, scientists, and those working to build transnational scientific and governance capacity.” -- Kim Fortun, author of * Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones offers a gripping anthropological account of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in China…. Virulent Zones is an outstanding scholarly work as it unmasks the mechanism of virus hunting and disease control in China at a time of marketization and globalization. It allows for an alternative understanding of the interplay of science and everyday life. It is highly recommended reading not only for anthropologists but also for anyone interested in public health in contemporary China.” -- Qiliang He * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"[A] compelling argument for the move away from older microevolutionary theories of pathogenesis, based on competition of hosts and parasites, toward a more systemic and rigorous reckoning—a dynamic configuration—of how environments and animal populations (human and nonhuman) connect up to promote viral innovation. . . . We can read [it] with profit to learn more about our current predicament, to see how historical perceptions and responses are repeated or modified as we come to terms with the pandemic that confronts us today." -- Warwick Anderson * Public Books *“Virulent Zones reads like a detective novel uncanny in its timeliness to collective conditions today, as it follows the travails of scientists across continents, trying to locate the origins of viral pandemics.” -- Emily Ng * Somatosphere *“Virulent Zones would make an excellent addition to any course covering topics in global health, medical anthropology, the production of scientific knowledge, networks, and expertise, or the history of medicine and public health.... Those who want to know more about pandemic planning and viral surveillance in the wake of COVID-19 will also find this an invaluable resource.” -- Theresa MacPhail * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Virulent Zones shows how science and geopolitics intersect and how this has an important impact on global health. As such, it is a key text for medical anthropologists and sociologists, historians of science, STS researchers, and those working in global health.” -- Giulia De Togni * New Genetics and Society *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones . . . is a timely and reflexive ethnographic account of global focus on China as the ‘epicenter’ of new zoonotic diseases. . . . This book kicks off an important and enthusiastic discussion about global health and China.” -- Shao-hua Liu * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Virulent Zones is an impressively timely book. . . . [Some remaining] questions indicate the rich potential of the ideas articulated so lucidly by Fearnley in this excellent book.” -- Mary Augusta Brazelton * Journal of Asian Studies *“Virulent Zones is an excellent, informative book that serves as a welcome and valuable addition to the growing literature on the anthropology of epidemics. . . . It also serves as an important contribution to the anthropology of science, human-animal interactions, the environment, agriculture, and China.” -- Katherine A. Mason * Anthropological Quarterly *“[Fearnley’s] analysis goes beyond a classic medical anthropology approach; he navigates between different areas and topics of social studies (sciences, expertise, international relations, rurality, etc.) to forge alliances between different fields of knowledge, and to work across the classic divisions. This is crucial to address the complexity of emerging diseases.” -- Muriel Figuié * Review Of Agriculatural Food And Environmental Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Ecology 1. The Origins of Pandemics 27 2. Pathogenic Reservoirs 48 Part II. Landscape 3. Livestock Revolutions 65 4. Wild-Goose Chase 97 Part III. Territory 5. Affinity and Access 125 6. Office Vets and Duck Doctors 156 Conclusion. Vanishing Points 191 Notes 213 Bibliography 249 Index 271
£72.25
Duke University Press The ACA at 10 Part One
Book SynopsisThe ACA at 10 marks the tenth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act with essays from prominent analysts of US health policy and politics. Its contributors, an interdisciplinary roster of scholars, policymakers, and health policy researchers, explore critical issues and themes in the ACA's evolution. Topics include the role of race in US health politics, the ACA's surprising economic impacts, the history of ACA litigation and its implications for future health reform, the paradoxes of post-ACA Medicaid, shifting directions in public opinion, and much more. Offering a comprehensive accounting of the signal event in US health policy of the last half-century, this issue constitute a landmark contribution to the health politics literature. Contributors. Daniel Béland, Linda Blumberg, Andrea Louise Campbell, Sherry Glied, Sarah Gordon, Scott Greer, Colleen Grogan, Michael Gusmano, Allison Hoffman, Jon Holahan, Nicole Huberfeld, Lawrence Jacobs, Holly Jarman, David Jones, Timothy Stolzfus
£12.34
Duke University Press The ACA at 10 Part Two
Book SynopsisThe ACA at 10 marks the tenth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act with essays from prominent analysts of US health policy and politics. Its contributors, an interdisciplinary roster of scholars, policymakers, and health policy researchers, explore critical issues and themes in the ACA&'s evolution. Topics include the role of race in US health politics, the ACA's surprising economic impacts, the history of ACA litigation and its implications for future health reform, the paradoxes of post-ACA Medicaid, shifting directions in public opinion, and much more. Offering a comprehensive accounting of the signal event in US health policy of the last half-century, this issue constitute a landmark contribution to the health politics literature. Contributors. John Benson, Robert Blendon, Lawrence Brown, Marc Cohen, Mary Findling, Erika Franklin Fowler, Austin Frakt, Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Bowen Garrett, Sarah Gollust, Simon Haeder, Paula Lantz, Adrianna McIntyre, Edward Miller, James Morone, Pa
£12.34
Duke University Press The Pandemic Divide
Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Pandemic Divide analyze and explain the myriad racial disparities that came to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate its impact.Trade Review"Required, essential reading for Americans trying to reconcile their pandemic experiences." (starred review) -- Tina Panik * Library Journal *"The Pandemic Divide should appeal to anyone with an interest in social and cultural politics, and moreover policy. In a world that is continually racialised and then derided for being so, this book is an urgent reminder of how deep rooted systems operate in sinister ways to continually exploit, undermine, and undervalue whole swathes of the population." -- Georgia Bisbas * Lancet Infections Diseases *"Disturbing but proactive...." -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *"Wright, Hubbard, and Darity offer compelling sociological, economic, and epidemiological data to show that that structural racism has undeniable consequences on the health and mortality of racial and ethnic minorities. The Pandemic Divide is a useful text for students, educators, and researchers to understand why the COVID-19 pandemic impacted certain populations more than others." -- Gwenetta Curry * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology ix Foreword / Mary T. Bassett xi Introduction. Six Feet and Miles Apart: Structural Racism in the United States and Racially Disparate Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Lucas Hubbard, Gwendolyn L. Wright, and William A. Darity Jr. 1 Section I: COVID-19 in Context 1. How Systemic Racism and Preexisting Conditions Contributed to COVID-19 Disparities for Black Americans / Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Melissa J. Scott, and Paul A. Robbins 29 2. Labor History and Pandemic Response: The Overlapping Experiences of Work, Housing, and Neighborhood Conditions / Joe William Trotter Jr. 46 Section II: COVID-19 and Institutions 3. “God Is in Control”: Race, Religion, Family, and Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Sandra L. Barnes 69 4. COVID-19, Race, and Mass Incarceration / Arvind Krishnamurthy 87 Section III: COVID-19 and Financial Disparities 5. Housing, Student Debt, and Labor Market Inequality: COVID-19, Black Families/Households, and Financial Insecurity / Fenaba R. Addo and Adam Hollowell 111 6. Race, Entrepreneurship, and COVID-19: Black Small-Business Survival in Prepandemic and Postpandemic America / Henry Clay McKoy Jr. 129 7. COVID-19 Effects on Black Business-Owner Households / Chris Wheat, Fiona Greig,and Damon Jones 186 8. Closing Racial Economic Gaps during and after COVID-19 / Jane Dokko and Jung Sakong 210 Section IV: COVID-19 and Educational Disparities 9. Latinx Immigrant Parents and Their Children in Times of COVID-19: Facing Inequities Together in the “Mexican Room” of the New Latino South / Marta Sánchez, Melania DiPietro, Leslie Babinski, Steve Amendum, and Steven Knotek 231 10. COVID-19, Higher Education, and Social Inequality / Adam Hollowell and N. Joyce Payne 256 11. The Rebirth of K-12 Public Education: Postpandemic Opportunities / Kristen R. Stephens, Kisha N. Daniels, and Erica R. Phillips 276 Postscript: COVID-19 and the Path Forward / Eugene T. Richardson 295 Contributors 301 Index 307
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Duke University Press The PrescriptiontoPrison Pipeline
Book SynopsisMichelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug use is criminalized.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Quick Fixes to Enduring Problems 1 1. The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain 27 2. Prescription: Getting Hooked 45 3. Pipeline: Sorting Use from Abuse 63 4. Prison: From Medicalization to Criminalization 79 Conclusions: When Medicine Becomes a Drug 93 Appendix: Methodological Note 111 Notes 121 Bibliography 135 Index 153
£67.15
Duke University Press Arc of Interference
Book SynopsisThe radically humanistic essays inArc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human/nonhuman, self/other, us/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book’s multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today’s world and a badly needed moral perch from which to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, SalmaaTrade Review“This is a book about life and death and about the aftermath of death. That alone makes it relevant to our species and to others, but Arc of Interference is also a book about the possibility of something more and something wonderful: across the continents, people struggle to care for one another.” -- Paul Farmer, from the Foreword“In this rich collection, leading medical anthropologists demonstrate ethnography as care. Attending to intimate realities and to the productive power of narrative, they use anthropology for collective healing.” -- Helena Hansen, coauthor of * Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America *“Arc of Interference is essential reading for anyone who cares about our troubled times. Its ethnographic creations mend what is broken by asking us to listen, care, and act.” -- Angela Garcia, author of * The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *“A major undertaking of humanist anthropology, this volume insists on the necessity of medical anthropology for facing the great challenges of our time, from pandemics and structural violence to climate change and political oppression. Arc of Interference is a milestone in medical anthropology.” -- Susan Reynolds Whyte, editor of * Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda *“Biehl, Adams, and their contributors have . . . penned a classic in Arc of Interference. . . . In our current times of reckoning–both global and disciplinary–contributions like Arc of Interference are a good place to start.” -- Evelyn Hoon * LSE Review of Books *"As a family physician who treats patients, not disease states, I found this book both reinvigorating and challenging. ... The book is a worthwhile read for physicians who care for their patients, whether domestically or globally." -- Mark K. Huntington * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer xi Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1 Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures 1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet / Vincanne Adams 23 2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42 3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna 65 Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts 4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91 5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones 112 6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133 Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power 7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161 8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187 9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210 Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed) 10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239 11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257 12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff 287 Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman 305 In Memoriam 327 Acknowledgments 329 Bibliography 331 Contributors 371 Index 373
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Duke University Press Racism Health and Politics
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Duke University Press Glyphosate and the Swirl
Book SynopsisIn Glyphosate and the Swirl Vincanne Adams explores the chemical glyphosate-the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide-as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate's invention and its multiple uses as activists, regulators, scientists, clinicians, consumers, and sick people try to determine its safety and harm. Scientific and political debates over glyphosate's toxicity are agitated into a swirl-a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. This movement replicates the chemical's movement in soils, foods, bodies, archives, labs, and legislative bodies, settling in some places here and in other places there, its potencies changing and altering what it touches with different scales and kinds of impact. The swirl is both an artifact of academic capitalism, activist tactics, and contested scientific facts and a way to capture the complexity of contemporary life with chemicals.Trade Review"This book could be used in the disciplines of food studies, anthropology, government, environmental studies, and social justice studies. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." * Choice *"Adams’ latest book is a beautifully written, provocative foray into re-thinking the ever-swirling sources of, and possible responses to, chemical injury, urging critical scholars of toxicity to shepherd the swirl towards tangible and embodied forms of environmental justice." -- Melina Packer * Science as Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. From Blossoms 1 2. Building the Food Chemosphere 16 3. Ontological Multiplicity & Glyphosate’s Safety 37 4. Chemical Life, Clinical Encounters 51 5. The Scientific Consensus & the Counterfactual 73 6. Consensuses, Academic Capitalism & the Swirl 97 7. Glyphosate Becomes an Activist 114 8. Chemicals as Agents of Care 130 Notes 139 References 145 Index 167
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Duke University Press The PrescriptiontoPrison Pipeline
Book SynopsisMichelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug use is criminalized.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Quick Fixes to Enduring Problems 1 1. The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain 27 2. Prescription: Getting Hooked 45 3. Pipeline: Sorting Use from Abuse 63 4. Prison: From Medicalization to Criminalization 79 Conclusions: When Medicine Becomes a Drug 93 Appendix: Methodological Note 111 Notes 121 Bibliography 135 Index 153
£17.99
New York University Press Uninsured in Chicago
Book SynopsisWhy millions of Latinx people don't access the healthcare system, even in times of needMore than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, around eleven million Latinx citizens around the country remain uninsured. In Uninsured in Chicago, Robert Vargas explores the roots of this crisis, showing us why, despite their eligibility, Latinx people are the racial group least likely to enroll in health insurance. Following the lives of forty uninsured Latinx people in Chicago, Vargas provides an up-close look at America's broken healthcare system, and how it impacts marginalized groups. From excruciatingly long waits and expensive medical bills, to humiliating interactions with health navigators and emergency room staff, he shows us why millions of Latinx people avoid the healthcare system, even in times of need. With a compassionate eye, Vargas highlights the unique struggles Latinx people face as the largest racial group without health insuranTrade ReviewRobert Vargas, once again, distinguishes himself as one of the preeminent urban ethnographers, showing how racialized systems of inequality shape the so-called choice of Latinos to become insured. He turns the lens away from conventional explanations of Medicaid participation, that too often blame the uninsured population, and exposes those who create the violent conditions of healthcare exclusion. -- Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal CourtA moving and revealing book, Uninsured in Chicago offers a critical analysis of the complex social forces that have kept Latinas and Latinos uninsured, neglected or underserved within the U.S. health care system. This inspirational ethnographic study will be a priceless source of information to public intellectuals examining the inadequacies of the U.S. health care system and anyone interested in looking to truly transform it from its complex foundations. Uninsured in Chicago will contribute to the collective healing of the bodies in pain of Latinas, Latinos, and anyone who does not have access to health care. -- Gloria González-López, author of Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in MexicoVargas takes us to the everyday worlds that Latino millennials inhabit and navigate as they seek medical care. In rich ethnographic detail, he shows us why and how young Latinos make health insurance decisions, revealing a complex web of bureaucracies of neglect, criminalized health care economies, family obligations, and informal networks. But his contributions go beyond enriching our theoretical understandings of health insurance decisions; he outlines policies that will bring hope to those who struggle for the human right to health care. -- Cecilia Menjivar, co-author of Immigrant FamiliesRobert Vargas’s rich ethnographic study probes deeply into the forces that conspire to disadvantage Latinos within the U.S. healthcare system and shape difficult choices. Poignant, insightful, and persuasively argued, Uninsured in Chicago shines a bright light on one of the most vexing problems of our generation. Timely and policy relevant. This is of the most important books you will read this year. -- Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
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New York University Press Uninsured in Chicago
Book SynopsisWhy millions of Latinx people don't access the healthcare system, even in times of needMore than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, around eleven million Latinx citizens around the country remain uninsured. In Uninsured in Chicago, Robert Vargas explores the roots of this crisis, showing us why, despite their eligibility, Latinx people are the racial group least likely to enroll in health insurance. Following the lives of forty uninsured Latinx people in Chicago, Vargas provides an up-close look at America's broken healthcare system, and how it impacts marginalized groups. From excruciatingly long waits and expensive medical bills, to humiliating interactions with health navigators and emergency room staff, he shows us why millions of Latinx people avoid the healthcare system, even in times of need. With a compassionate eye, Vargas highlights the unique struggles Latinx people face as the largest racial group without health insuranTrade ReviewRobert Vargas, once again, distinguishes himself as one of the preeminent urban ethnographers, showing how racialized systems of inequality shape the so-called choice of Latinos to become insured. He turns the lens away from conventional explanations of Medicaid participation, that too often blame the uninsured population, and exposes those who create the violent conditions of healthcare exclusion. -- Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal CourtA moving and revealing book, Uninsured in Chicago offers a critical analysis of the complex social forces that have kept Latinas and Latinos uninsured, neglected or underserved within the U.S. health care system. This inspirational ethnographic study will be a priceless source of information to public intellectuals examining the inadequacies of the U.S. health care system and anyone interested in looking to truly transform it from its complex foundations. Uninsured in Chicago will contribute to the collective healing of the bodies in pain of Latinas, Latinos, and anyone who does not have access to health care. -- Gloria González-López, author of Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in MexicoVargas takes us to the everyday worlds that Latino millennials inhabit and navigate as they seek medical care. In rich ethnographic detail, he shows us why and how young Latinos make health insurance decisions, revealing a complex web of bureaucracies of neglect, criminalized health care economies, family obligations, and informal networks. But his contributions go beyond enriching our theoretical understandings of health insurance decisions; he outlines policies that will bring hope to those who struggle for the human right to health care. -- Cecilia Menjivar, co-author of Immigrant FamiliesRobert Vargas’s rich ethnographic study probes deeply into the forces that conspire to disadvantage Latinos within the U.S. healthcare system and shape difficult choices. Poignant, insightful, and persuasively argued, Uninsured in Chicago shines a bright light on one of the most vexing problems of our generation. Timely and policy relevant. This is of the most important books you will read this year. -- Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
£19.94
New York University Press Personalized Medicine
Book SynopsisInside today''s data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a realityMedicine has been personal long before the concept of personalized medicine became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for themselves and for each other, contributed to medical research, and advocated for new treatments. Given this history, why has the notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the beginning of the new millennium? Personalized Medicine investigates the recent movement for patients' involvement in how they are treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive, well-informed participants in their own healthcare.While it is often the case that participatory practices in medicine are ceTrade ReviewIn Personalized Medicine, Prainsack brings together a ton of recent research—much of it her own—using a variety of methodologies to study a wide range of topics. (Two thirds of her nearly seven hundred sources were published since 2010.) Prainsack states very clearly at the outset of a chapter what she is going to do and, at the end, what she has done. -- Hastings Center ReportA thoughtful, thorough, and philosophical discussion of the many possible obstacles to the successful, equitable implementation of personalized medicine and its potential for unintended consequences. * Genome Magazine *Prainsacks rigorous review and synthesis of evidence on [patient] engagement from the fields of medicine, ethics, social science, technology, informatics, and law is quite compelling and makes this book a unique contribution. * Health Affairs *Barbara Prainsack raises deep questions about the ethics and politics of personalized medicine. In this rigorous and engaging book, she explores the cutting edge of health care, critiques several popular visions of patient empowerment, and offers a novel and compelling account of what truly democratic, responsive, and fair deployment of new health technologies would require. Displaying a mastery of diverse literatures in social science, law, and health services research, Personalized Medicine is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of patient participation in health and wellness initiativesranging from self-tracking to biohacking, and well beyond. -- Frank Pasquale,Author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and InformationPrainsack accessibly unpacks the complexities of & patient-centered personalized medicine, revealing startling redistributions of responsibility, diagnostic capacities, costs and profits. Providers lose autonomy as & algorhythmically supported diagnoses and care based on & health maps displace clinical judgement. Patients awash in information are increasingly responsible, and high costs make such care impossible for most. Prainsack envisions a personalized medicine for all the people, not for profit. -- Adele E. Clarke,Co-author of BiomedicalizationIt is apparent from what Prainsack writes elsewhere in her clear and powerful analysis that we need to attend to these mushrooming responsibilities for being engaged and empowered with and by our data and how social and economic inequalities differentiate who is able or required to enact these responsibilities and benefit from the choices that they invokePrainsack provides us with an invaluable guide to set us off in the right direction along this path. * New Genetics and Society *This is a great read for scholars of medicine, ethics, science and technology studies. It is an ambitious book that raises important and provocative questions that I look forward to scholars addressing in the future. * Social Forces *
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New York University Press Mining the Heartland
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Outstanding Publication Award, given by the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationA riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota's Iron RangeOn an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their state. The crowd eagerly listened to speeches on how the project would bring long-term risks and potentially pollute the drinking water for current and future generations. A year later, another proposed mining project became the subject of a public hearing in a small town near the proposed site. But this time, local politicians and union leaders praised the mine proposal as an asset that would strengthen working-class communities in Minnesota. In many rural American communities, there is profound tension around the preservation and protection of wiTrade ReviewKojola tells a fascinating story in a geography that is often ignored by the rest of the country. In doing so, he reveals the fundamental importance of culture and white identity for conflicts that appear to be all about policy or economics. An impressive analysis. * Justin Farrell, author of Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West *Emphasizing community dynamics and the political-economic, cultural, and symbolic power of mining as an extractive economy, Kojola offers skillful analysis of complex conflicts over land use, rights, and access related to emergent copper-nickel mining in northeast Minnesota’s Iron Range. Revealing the voices of stakeholders and tensions linked to emotions, class, race, gender, masculinity and femininity, the narrative offers nuance and insight into a community divided. Kojola’s work provides expert sociological insight into ways of understanding, experiences of nature, identity, and sense of place in a space uniquely rich with collective history with a complicated past and an uncertain future. * Tamara L. Mix, author of Meet the Food Radicals *Erik Kojola offers a deeply engaging, multi-methodological study that reveals the complex relationships among place, emotion, and collective memory in the formation of rural, white cultural identity and how they influence political decisions around environmentally risky development. Mining the Heartland skillfully explores how environmental, cultural, and class politics can be understood more fully if we pay attention to how nonhuman elements and species are mobilized through efforts to promote change and defend collective identity formation. This book speaks directly to the heart of what is driving political polarization in the U.S. today. * David N. Pellow, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice? *In this engaging and grounded book, Kojola vividly portrays how conflicts around extractivism represent complex intersections between race and racism, settler colonialism, histories of place, and systems of inequality. Kojola's ethnographic account takes on deep social fissures that transcend this case, contributing to vital conversations on equity and justice. * Stephanie A. Malin, co-author of Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change *
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New York University Press Mining the Heartland
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Outstanding Publication Award, given by the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationA riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota's Iron RangeOn an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their state. The crowd eagerly listened to speeches on how the project would bring long-term risks and potentially pollute the drinking water for current and future generations. A year later, another proposed mining project became the subject of a public hearing in a small town near the proposed site. But this time, local politicians and union leaders praised the mine proposal as an asset that would strengthen working-class communities in Minnesota. In many rural American communities, there is profound tension around the preservation and protection of wiTrade ReviewKojola tells a fascinating story in a geography that is often ignored by the rest of the country. In doing so, he reveals the fundamental importance of culture and white identity for conflicts that appear to be all about policy or economics. An impressive analysis. * Justin Farrell, author of Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West *Emphasizing community dynamics and the political-economic, cultural, and symbolic power of mining as an extractive economy, Kojola offers skillful analysis of complex conflicts over land use, rights, and access related to emergent copper-nickel mining in northeast Minnesota’s Iron Range. Revealing the voices of stakeholders and tensions linked to emotions, class, race, gender, masculinity and femininity, the narrative offers nuance and insight into a community divided. Kojola’s work provides expert sociological insight into ways of understanding, experiences of nature, identity, and sense of place in a space uniquely rich with collective history with a complicated past and an uncertain future. * Tamara L. Mix, author of Meet the Food Radicals *Erik Kojola offers a deeply engaging, multi-methodological study that reveals the complex relationships among place, emotion, and collective memory in the formation of rural, white cultural identity and how they influence political decisions around environmentally risky development. Mining the Heartland skillfully explores how environmental, cultural, and class politics can be understood more fully if we pay attention to how nonhuman elements and species are mobilized through efforts to promote change and defend collective identity formation. This book speaks directly to the heart of what is driving political polarization in the U.S. today. * David N. Pellow, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice? *In this engaging and grounded book, Kojola vividly portrays how conflicts around extractivism represent complex intersections between race and racism, settler colonialism, histories of place, and systems of inequality. Kojola's ethnographic account takes on deep social fissures that transcend this case, contributing to vital conversations on equity and justice. * Stephanie A. Malin, co-author of Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change *
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New York University Press Therapeutic Inequalities
£66.75
New York University Press Managing Diabetes
Book SynopsisA critical study of diabetes in the popular imaginationOver twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined in public culture. Bennett argues that popular anecdotes, media representation, and communal myths are as meaningful as medical and scientific understandings of the disease. In focusing on the public character of the disease, Bennett looks at health campaigns and promotions as well as the debate over public figures like Sonia Sotomayor and her management of type 1 diabetes. Bennett examines the confusing and contradictory public depictions of diabetes to demonstrate how management of the disease is not only clinical but also cultural. Bennett also has type 1 diabetes and speaks from personal experience about the many misunderstandings and myths that are alive in the popular imagination. Ultimately, Managing DiTrade ReviewManaging Diabetes represents the best that medical humanities has to offer and is relevant to health care professionals, humanities and arts scholars, social scientists, medical educators, and patients. Bennett offers an analysis of a chronic disease that intersects with many socio-cultural practices and beliefs about individualization, governmentality, medicalization, and epidemiology while being attentive to the stratification systems (i.e., race, class, gender) that organize all social life. Given that half the population of the US experiences diabetes, it is conceivable that this disease touches everyones life. -- Monica J. Casper,co-editor of Critical Trauma StudiesReaders of Jeffrey A. Bennett's Managing Diabetes will find an astute analysis animated by buoyant prose and captivating images that illuminates the lived experience of diabetes by explicating how that experience is mediatedand, in many ways, made indecipherableby bio-politically articulated public discourses. Bennett wisely focuses his gaze beyond the clinic toward 'management' rhetoric as it circulates across mainstream contexts, and the result is an invigorating intervention lighting the way forward for critical health communication scholarship. -- Robin E. Jensen,author of Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative TermIf you’re at all interested in themes like TV and movie portrayal of diabetes, blame and shame in society, and how celebrity messaging impacts perception of the disease … check this book out. It certainly gets the mind going. * Healthline *The content of this book is relevant to strategic communication in terms of shaping public discourse on the topic and the ways in which we, as professionals of the field, can facilitate that. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Managing Diabetes complements a now growing anthropological literature that extends beyond the domain of the clinic to explore the impact of public narratives, racialized capitalism, legacies of coloniality, and the exigencies of global health science on the meaning and experience of diabetes and closely related conditions like obesity. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
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New York University Press Revolutionary Medicine
Book SynopsisTrade 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
£22.79
University of Toronto Press Newfoundland and Labrador
Book SynopsisCombining a historical account with a current analysis, Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile is the first comprehensive study of the province's health institutions, policies, and outcomes.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword List of Acronyms 1. Introduction and overview 1.1 Geography and socio-demography 1.2 Political context 1.3 Economic context 1.4 Health status of the population 1.5 Summary 2. Organization and regulation 2.1 History 2.2 Current organization of the provincial health system 2.3 Health system planning 2.4 Coverage and benefits 2.5 Regulation 2.6 Patients 2.7 Summary 3. Health spending and financing 3.1 Expenditures and trends 3.2 Public revenue 3.3 Private revenue 3.4 Public financial flows 3.5 Summary 4. Physical infrastructure 4.1 Hospitals and rehabilitation facilities 4.2 Long-term care facilities and personal care homes 4.3 Medical and diagnostic facilities 4.4 Public health services 4.5 Information and communications technology infrastructure 4.6 Research and evaluation infrastructure 4.7 Summary 5. Health human resources 5.1 Main workforce challenges 5.2 Physicians 5.3 Nurses 5.4 Other health professionals 5.5 Health workforce planning, education and training 5.6 Summary 6. Services and Programs 6.1 Public and population health services 6.2 Primary Care 6.3 Acute care 6.4 Long-term care 6.5 Public Prescription Drug Program 6.6 Workers’ compensation programs 6.7 Rehabilitation care 6.8 Mental health care 6.9 Dental health care 6.10 Complementary and alternative medicine 6.11 Targeted services 6.12 Palliative care 6.13 Summary 7. Reforms 7.1 Regional health system restructuring 7.2 Some incremental changes 7.3 Future prospects 7.4 Analysis 8. Assessment of the health system 8.1 Stated objectives of the health system 8.2 Financial protection and equity in financing 8.3 Equity of access 8.4 Outcomes 8.5 User experience and satisfaction 8.6 Efficiency 8.7 Transparency and accountability 8.8 Summary 9. Conclusion References
£52.70
University of Toronto Press Health Matters
Book SynopsisIn Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contributTable of Contents1. Introduction Eric Mykhalovskiy, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Pat Armstrong, and Hugh Armstrong SECTION 1—What Counts as Evidence?: Managerial Knowledge, Visibility and Experience 2. Dematerialization of Fundamental Nursing Care in an Era of Managerial Reforms Craig Dale 3. From “Making a Decision” to “Decision Making”: A Critical Reflection on a Discursive Shift Mary Ellen Macdonald and David K. Wright 4. Code Work: RAI-MDS, Measurement, Quality and Work Organization in Long-term Care Facilities in Ontario Tamara Daly, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, and Hugh Armstrong 5. Disputing Evidence: Canadian Health Professionals’ Responses to Evidence About Midwifery Vicki Van Wagner RM, PhD and Elizabeth Darling RM, PhD 6. “Tell Me Where It Hurts:” A Case Study of the Impacts of Structural Violence, Syndemic Suffering, and Intergenerational Trauma on Indigenous People’s Health Christianne V. Stephens 7. Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Broadening the Discourse on Quality Improvement in the Home Care System Alisa Grigorovich SECTION 2— Health Markets, Individualization and Commodification 8. Cigarette Packaging Legislation in Canada and the Smoking Subject Kirsten Bell 9. Public Good, or Goods for the Public: The Commercialization of Academic Health Research Kelly Holloway and Matthew Herder 10. Making Sense of Vaginal Mesh Ariel Ducey, with Barry Hoffmaster, Magali Robert, and Sue Ross 11. Seeking Disability Politics in Disability and Health-Related Non-Profit Organizations Christine Kelly 12. Medical Laboratories: For-Profit Delivery and the Disintegration of Public Health Care Ross Sutherland 13. Nail Salons, Toxics and Health: Organizing for a Better Work Environment Anne Rochon Ford 14. Conclusion. Health Matters: Research in Practice Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Eric Mykhalovskiy About the Authors
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Newfoundland and Labrador
Book SynopsisCombining a historical account with a current analysis, Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile is the first comprehensive study of the province's health institutions, policies, and outcomes.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword List of Acronyms 1. Introduction and overview 1.1 Geography and socio-demography 1.2 Political context 1.3 Economic context 1.4 Health status of the population 1.5 Summary 2. Organization and regulation 2.1 History 2.2 Current organization of the provincial health system 2.3 Health system planning 2.4 Coverage and benefits 2.5 Regulation 2.6 Patients 2.7 Summary 3. Health spending and financing 3.1 Expenditures and trends 3.2 Public revenue 3.3 Private revenue 3.4 Public financial flows 3.5 Summary 4. Physical infrastructure 4.1 Hospitals and rehabilitation facilities 4.2 Long-term care facilities and personal care homes 4.3 Medical and diagnostic facilities 4.4 Public health services 4.5 Information and communications technology infrastructure 4.6 Research and evaluation infrastructure 4.7 Summary 5. Health human resources 5.1 Main workforce challenges 5.2 Physicians 5.3 Nurses 5.4 Other health professionals 5.5 Health workforce planning, education and training 5.6 Summary 6. Services and Programs 6.1 Public and population health services 6.2 Primary Care 6.3 Acute care 6.4 Long-term care 6.5 Public Prescription Drug Program 6.6 Workers’ compensation programs 6.7 Rehabilitation care 6.8 Mental health care 6.9 Dental health care 6.10 Complementary and alternative medicine 6.11 Targeted services 6.12 Palliative care 6.13 Summary 7. Reforms 7.1 Regional health system restructuring 7.2 Some incremental changes 7.3 Future prospects 7.4 Analysis 8. Assessment of the health system 8.1 Stated objectives of the health system 8.2 Financial protection and equity in financing 8.3 Equity of access 8.4 Outcomes 8.5 User experience and satisfaction 8.6 Efficiency 8.7 Transparency and accountability 8.8 Summary 9. Conclusion References
£22.49
Springer Viral Infections of Humans
Book SynopsisI. Concepts & Methods.- 1.Concepts in Viral Disease Epidemiology & Control.- 2.Virologic Detection & Characterization.- 3.Immunologic Detection & Characterization.- 4.Surveillance & Epidemiologic Investigation.- 5.Viral Dynamics & Mathematical Models.- II. Viruses Causing Acute Syndromes.- 6.Adenoviruses.- 7.Alphaviruses:Equine Encephalitis & Others.- 8.Arenaviruses:Lassa Fever, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis & Others.- 9.Bunyaviruses:Hantavirus & Others.- 10.Coronaviruses: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome & Others.- 11.Enteroviruses &Parechoviruses: Echoviruses, Coxsackieviruses, & Others.- 12.Enteroviruses:Enterovirus 71.- 13.Enteroviruses:Polio.- 14.Filoviruses: Marburg & Ebola.- 15.Flaviviruses: Dengue.- 16.Flaviviruses: Yellow Fever, Japanese B, West Nile & Others.- 17.Hepatitis A Virus.- 18.Hepatitis E Virus.- 19.Influenza Viruses.- 20.Noroviruses, Sapoviruses, & Astroviruses.- 21.Orthopoxviruses: Variola, Vaccinia, Cowpox & Monkeypox.- 22.Paramyxoviruses: Henipaviruses.- 23.Paramyxoviruses: Measles.- 24.Paramyxoviruses: Mumps.- 25.Paramyxoviruses Parainfluenza Virus.- 26.Paramyxoviruses: Respiratory Syncytial Virus & Metapneumovirus.- 27. Parvoviruses.- 28.Rhabdovirus: Rabies.- 29. Rhinoviruses: Colds.- 30. Rotaviruses.- 31. Rubella Virus.-III. Viruses Causing Acute & Chronic Syndromes &/or Malignancy.- 32. Hepatitis viruses: Hepatitis B & Hepatitis D.- 33.Hepatitis viruses: Hepatitis C.- 34. Hepatitis viruses: Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- 35. Human Herpesviruses: Cytomegalovirus.- 36.Human Herpesviruses: Herpes Simplex Types 1 & 2.- 37.Human Herpesvirus: Human Herpesvirus 6.- 38.Human Herpesviruses: Infectious Mononucleosis & Other Non-Malignant Diseases.- 39.Human Herpesviruses: Kaposi Sarcoma & Other Malignancies.- 40.Human Herpesviruses: Malignant Lymphoma.- 41.Human Herpesviruses: Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma & Other EpithelialTumors.- 42.Human Herpesviruses: Varicella & Zoster.- 43.Human Immunodeficiency Viruses Types 1 & 2.- 44.Human Papillomaviruses: Cervical Cancer & Warts.- 45.Human T Cell Leukemia Viruses Types 1 & 2.- 46.Polyomaviruses: Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy & Other Diseases.- IV Other Transmissible Agents.- 47.Prions & Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy.Table of ContentsI. Concepts & Methods.- 1.Concepts in Viral Disease Epidemiology & Control.- 2.Virologic Detection & Characterization.- 3.Immunologic Detection & Characterization.- 4.Surveillance & Epidemiologic Investigation.- 5.Viral Dynamics & Mathematical Models.- II. Viruses Causing Acute Syndromes.- 6.Adenoviruses.- 7.Alphaviruses:Equine Encephalitis & Others.- 8.Arenaviruses:Lassa Fever, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis & Others.- 9.Bunyaviruses: Hantavirus & Others.- 10.Coronaviruses: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome & Others.- 11.Enteroviruses & Parechoviruses: Echoviruses, Coxsackieviruses, & Others.- 12.Enteroviruses:Enterovirus 71.- 13.Enteroviruses:Polio.- 14.Filoviruses: Marburg & Ebola.- 15.Flaviviruses: Dengue.- 16.Flaviviruses: Yellow Fever, Japanese B, West Nile & Others.- 17.Hepatitis A Virus.- 18.Hepatitis E Virus.- 19.Influenza Viruses.- 20.Noroviruses, Sapoviruses, & Astroviruses.- 21.Orthopoxviruses: Variola, Vaccinia, Cowpox & Monkeypox.- 22.Paramyxoviruses: Henipaviruses.- 23.Paramyxoviruses: Measles.- 24.Paramyxoviruses: Mumps.- 25.Paramyxoviruses Parainfluenza Virus.- 26.Paramyxoviruses: Respiratory Syncytial Virus & Metapneumovirus.- 27. Parvoviruses.- 28.Rhabdovirus: Rabies.- 29. Rhinoviruses: Colds.- 30. Rotaviruses.- 31. Rubella Virus.- III. Viruses Causing Acute & Chronic Syndromes &/or Malignancy.- 32. Hepatitis viruses: Hepatitis B & Hepatitis D.- 33.Hepatitis viruses: Hepatitis C.- 34. Hepatitis viruses: Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- 35. Human Herpesviruses: Cytomegalovirus.- 36.Human Herpesviruses: Herpes Simplex Types 1 & 2.- 37.Human Herpesvirus: Human Herpesvirus 6.- 38.Human Herpesviruses: Infectious Mononucleosis & Other Non-Malignant Diseases.- 39.Human Herpesviruses: Kaposi Sarcoma & Other Malignancies.- 40.Human Herpesviruses: Malignant Lymphoma.- 41.Human Herpesviruses: Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma & Other Epithelial Tumors.- 42.Human Herpesviruses: Varicella & Zoster.- 43.Human Immunodeficiency Viruses Types 1 & 2.- 44.Human Papillomaviruses: Cervical Cancer & Warts.- 45.Human T Cell Leukemia Viruses Types 1 & 2.- 46.Polyomaviruses: Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy & Other Diseases.- IV Other Transmissible Agents.- 47.Prions & Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy.
£269.99
Springer Pathways to Illness Pathways to Health
Book SynopsisPart 1: Basic Concepts of Health and Illness.- Introducing the Pathways Model.- Genetic Etiology of Illness.- Psychosocial Etiology of Illness.- Psychophysiological Etiology of Illness.- Assessment in the Pathways Model.- Interventions in the Pathways Model.- Part 2: Applications to Common Illnesses.- Substance Abuse Disorders.- Depression and Anxiety.- Diabetes and Obesity.- Hypertension and Syncope.- Headache and Back Pain.- Fibromyalgia.- Gastrointestinal Disorders.- Sleep Disorders.- Part 3: Personalizing the Path to Health and Wellness.- Simple Pathways to Health and Wellness.- Developing a Wellness Plan.- Seeking Professional Help.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health provides a broad overview of the past research on complementary and alternative health techniques for both mental and physical illnesses. … The organization and outline of the book may provide a starting point for lifestyle coaches and alternative health care practitioners to find evidence for treatments … .” (Patrick L. Hill and Robin K. Young, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (4), January, 2014)Table of ContentsPart 1: Basic Concepts of Health and Illness.- Introducing the Pathways Model.- Genetic Etiology of Illness.- Psychosocial Etiology of Illness.- Psychophysiological Etiology of Illness.- Assessment in the Pathways Model.- Interventions in the Pathways Model.- Part 2: Applications to Common Illnesses.- Substance Abuse Disorders.- Depression and Anxiety.- Diabetes and Obesity.- Hypertension and Syncope.- Headache and Back Pain.- Fibromyalgia.- Gastrointestinal Disorders.- Sleep Disorders.- Part 3: Personalizing the Path to Health and Wellness.- Simple Pathways to Health and Wellness.- Developing a Wellness Plan.- Seeking Professional Help.
£71.99
Human Kinetics Publishers Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs
Book SynopsisAn all-in-one resource that synthesizes the research, theory, and practice on comprehensive school physical activity programs. Also delves into assessment, evaluation, advocacy, policy, partnerships, technology, and more. Suitable for K-12 teachers, PETE faculty and students, and researchers.Table of ContentsPart I. Foundations and Contemporary PerspectivesChapter 1. CSPAPs: History, Foundations, Possibilities, and BarriersHans van der Mars and Kent A. Lorenz Emergence of CSPAPs History and Emergence of CSPAPs CSPAP’s Roots Within Public Health and National Physical Activity Recommendations CSPAP’s Theoretical Roots Why CSPAPs: A Critical (and Final?) Opportunity to Thrive Possibilities of CSPAPs Barriers to Overcome Learning AidsChapter 2. Emerging Policy Landscape Surrounding CSPAPsJustin B. Moore, Abigail Gamble, David Gardner, Alexandra Peluso, and Danny Perry Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplePart II. Conceptual Models for CSPAP ImplementationChapter 3. Internal Capacity Building: The Role of the CSPAP Champion and Other School ProfessionalsRussell L. Carson, Catherine P. Abel-Berei, Laura Russ, Jessica Shawley, Tanya Peal, and Cyrus Weinberger Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesChapter 4. Capitalizing on Internal–External Partnerships to Maximize Program SustainabilityCollin A. Webster, Cate A. Egan, and Kevin Brabham Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 5. Social Psychological and Motivational Theoretical Frameworks for CSPAP InterventionMegan Babkes Stellino, Spyridoula Vazou, Lyndsie M. Koon, and Katie Hodgin Review of Theoretical Frameworks for CSPAP Research and Intervention Description of Theoretically Guided Efforts Across CSPAP Components Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesPart III. Research on Program EffectivenessChapter 6. Quality Physical EducationKim C. Graber, Chad M. Killian, and Amelia Mays Woods Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 7. Physical Activity During SchoolAaron Beighle, Heather Erwin, Collin A. Webster, and Michelle A. Webster Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesChapter 8. Physical Activity Programs Before and After SchoolBrian Dauenhauer, Megan Babkes Stellino, Collin A. Webster, and Chuck Steinfurth Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesChapter 9. Staff InvolvementCollin A. Webster, R. Glenn Weaver, Martha Carman, Lee Marcheschi, Athanasios (Tom) Loulousis, Spyridoula Vazou, Tan Leng Goh, and Russell L. Carson Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesChapter 10. Family and Community EngagementGregory J. Welk and Joey A. Lee Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 11. Multicomponent Optimization Strategy and CSPAP ImplementationAshley Phelps, Yeonhak Jung, and Darla M. Castelli Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidenced-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesPart IV. Contextual ConsiderationsChapter 12. CSPAPs in Urban ContextsSarah Doolittle, Paul Rukavina, and Kevin Mercier Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 13. CSPAPs in Rural SettingsPamela Hodges Kulinna, Michalis Stylianou, Kent A. Lorenz, Shannon C. Mulhearn, Tom Taylor, Shawn Orme, and Alan Everett Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 14. International Perspectives and InitiativesJaimie M. McMullen, Déirdre Ní Chróinín, Michalis Stylianou, and Tuija Tammelin Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesChapter 15. Implementation of CSPAPs in Nontraditional SettingsTimothy A. Brusseau and James C. Hannon Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplePart V. Developing, Measuring, and Promoting CSPAPsChapter 16. Conducting a Systematic Needs Assessment for CSPAP SuccessEloise Elliot, Sean Bulger, Emily Jones, and Alfgeir Kristjansson Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 17. Assessing School Physical Education and Physical Activity Programs: Selected ToolsThomas L. McKenzie Systematic Observation Tools Self-Report Tools A Summary Score and an Advocacy Tool Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesChapter 18. Evaluating CSPAPs: Measuring Implementation and ImpactErin E. Centeio and Nate McCaughtry Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 19. Advocating for CSPAPsHeather E. Erwin and Erin E. Centeio Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExamplesPart VI. Looking to the FutureChapter 20. Preparing Preservice Physical Education Teacher Educators for CSPAP ImplementationGrace Goc Karp, Helen Brown, Ja Youn Kwon, and Pamela Hodges Kulinna Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidenced-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 21. Progress and Possibilities for Technology Integration in CSPAPsZan Gao, Zachary Pope, Nan Zeng, Daniel McDonough, and Jung Eun Lee Review of Research Knowledge Claims Knowledge Gaps and Directions for Future Research Evidence-Based Recommendations and Applications Learning Aids Case ExampleChapter 22. A Synergized Strategy Guide for Advancing the FieldRussell L. Carson and Collin A. Webster How Does the Policy Landscape Reflect the Evolving Values and Traditions of the CSPAP Model? What Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches Could Guide CSPAP Practice and Collaboration? How Does Context Factor Into Best Practices for CSPAPs? What Are Some Promising Strategies for Planning, Evaluating, and Promoting CSPAPs? What Are the Potential Contributions of Preservice Education and Technology Integration in CSPAP Research and Practice? Advancement Strategies Summary
£48.45
Human Kinetics Publishers Active Living Every Day
Book SynopsisRegular physical activity is an important key to a healthy, happy lifestyle. The many benefits of daily physical activity include more energy; less stress; better sleep; reduced risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes; stronger bones, joints, and muscles; and an overall healthier and longer independent life. If you''re ready to become active, fit, and healthy, Active Living Every Day, Third Edition With Web Resource, provides all the tools you need to get moving and make physical activity part of your everyday life. More than a book, Active Living Every Day presents a scientifically tested step-by-step program with evidence-based behavior change strategies for becoming more physically active. Designed to make active lifestyles available to people everywhere, it offers updated research showing the need to be physically active and demonstrates the proven effectiveness of this program. Practical and accessible, this third edition oTable of ContentsSession 1. Ready, Set, GoSession 2. Finding Opportunities for ActivitySession 3. Overcoming ChallengesSession 4. Setting Goals and RewardsSession 5. Gaining ConfidenceSession 6. Enlisting SupportSession 7. Avoiding PitfallsSession 8. Step by StepSession 9. Defusing StressSession 10. Finding New Opportunities to Be ActiveSession 11. Positive PlanningSession 12. Making Lasting ChangesAppendix A. Stages on the Way to Becoming ActiveAppendix B. 2020 PAR-Q+Appendix C. Energy Expenditure ChartAppendix D. Forms for Progressing Toward an Active Lifestyle
£33.15
