Public health and preventive medicine Books

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Book SynopsisThis book helps in Achieving food safety success which requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. It requires a better understanding of the human dimensions of food safety. In the field of food safety today, much is documented about specific microbes, time/temperature processes, post-process contamination, and HACCP-things often called the hard sciences. There is not much published or discussed related to human behavior-often referred to as the "soft stuff." However, looking at foodborne disease trends over the past few decades and published regulatory out-of-compliance rates of food safety risk factors, it''s clear that the soft stuff is still the hard stuff. Despite the fact that thousands of employees have been trained in food safety around the world, millions have been spent globally on food safety research, and countless inspections and tests have been performed at home and abroad, food safety remains a significant public health challenge. Why is that? Because to improve food safety, we must realize that it''s more than just food science; it''s the behavioral sciences, too. In fact, simply put, food safety equals behavior. This is the fundamental principle of this book. If you are trying to improve the food safety performance of a retail or food service establishment, an organization with thousands of employees, or a local community, what you are really trying to do is change people''s behavior. The ability to influence human behavior is well documented in the behavioral and social sciences. However, significant contributions to the scientific literature in the field of food safety are noticeably absent. This book will help advance the science by being the first significant collection of 50 proven behavioral science techniques, and be the first to show how these techniques can be applied to enhance employee compliance with desired food safety behaviors and make food safety the social norm in any organization.Table of ContentsChapter 1: 48 Million Verses OneChapter 2: Getting Your Foot in the Door for Food SafetyChapter 3: Enclothed Food Safety?Chapter 4: Does What You See Influence What You Do?Chapter 5: Priming the Pump for Enhanced Food SafetyChapter 6: Influence Values to Change AttitudesChapter 7: Broken Windows and Food SafetyChapter 8: Learning from the Right Way or Wrong Way?Chapter 9: Make Food Safety the Social NormChapter 10: Shining a Light on Food SafetyChapter 11: What Nouns, Verbs, & Voting Can Teach Us About Food SafetyChapter 12: Birds of a Feather Might Influence Food Safety for BetterChapter 13: Keep Food Safety in Mind by Making It RhymeChapter 14: Making Scents of Food SafetyChapter 15: Font Style & Food SafetyChapter 16: Can SOPs Actually Hinder Food Safety?Chapter 17: Which One is Better, Written or Verbal?Chapter 18: Three Degrees of Food SafetyChapter 19: Food Safety @ the Speed of Thought Chapter 20: Do Text Based Warning Labels Work?Chapter 21: Enhancing Food Safety by MelodyChapter 22: Can the Words We Use Influence Risk Perception?Chapter 23: Don’t Be a Food Safety BystanderChapter 24: To Checklist or Not to Checklist?Chapter 25: The Most Powerful Word in Food SafetyChapter 26: Food Safety in Mind through Building DesignChapter 27: Does How You Make a Food Safety Request Matter?Chapter 28: Is the Sum of Food Safety Efforts Greater Than In Parts?Chapter 29: Making Food Safety FunChapter 30: Role Modeling Food Safety

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Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are. Jennifer J. Carroll''s ethnography is a story about public health and international efforts to quell the spread of HIV. Carroll focuses on Ukraine where the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs is higher than in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and unpacks the arguments and myths surrounding medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in Ukraine. What she presents in Narkomania forces us to question drug policy, its uses, and its effects on normal citizens.Carroll uses her findings to explore what people who use drugs can teach us about the contemporary societies emerging in post-Soviet space. With examples of how MAT has been politicized, how drug use has been tied to ideas of good citizenTrade ReviewViolence and war are inevitably entangled with public health crises. Jennifer Carroll's book vividly shows how those crises are made even worse when unfounded assumptions lead to the condemnation of certain groups * Current History *Carroll efficiently explores how the term addiction allows for all kinds of contradictory and composite meanings. * The Lancet *Jennifer Carroll has done a magistral job in helping the rest of us understand the global and local processes that have produced the current predicament of Ukrainian injecting drug users. The single most cautionary aspect of this book lies in its warning against the use of dismissive presence in society. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Narkomania is an important contribution to the field of medical anthropology, but the author's unique perspective and extensive fieldwork make it relevant across Ukrainian studies. Carroll creates a tapestry in which drug use and addiction are seamlessly interwoven with political changes that are resonant far beyond Ukraine's borders. * Harvard Ukrainian Studies *This book is a novel, poignant, and sincere contribution to anthropology and to Ukrainian studies. It will make a thought-provoking read for anyone researching or interested in contemporary Ukraine and its vulnerable population, including students, policymakers, and government employees. * Anthropologica *

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Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are. Jennifer J. Carroll''s ethnography is a story about public health and international efforts to quell the spread of HIV. Carroll focuses on Ukraine where the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs is higher than in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and unpacks the arguments and myths surrounding medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in Ukraine. What she presents in Narkomania forces us to question drug policy, its uses, and its effects on normal citizens.Carroll uses her findings to explore what people who use drugs can teach us about the contemporary societies emerging in post-Soviet space. With examples of how MAT has been politicized, how drug use has been tied to ideas of good citizenTrade ReviewViolence and war are inevitably entangled with public health crises. Jennifer Carroll's book vividly shows how those crises are made even worse when unfounded assumptions lead to the condemnation of certain groups * Current History *Carroll efficiently explores how the term addiction allows for all kinds of contradictory and composite meanings. * The Lancet *Jennifer Carroll has done a magistral job in helping the rest of us understand the global and local processes that have produced the current predicament of Ukrainian injecting drug users. The single most cautionary aspect of this book lies in its warning against the use of dismissive presence in society. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Narkomania is an important contribution to the field of medical anthropology, but the author's unique perspective and extensive fieldwork make it relevant across Ukrainian studies. Carroll creates a tapestry in which drug use and addiction are seamlessly interwoven with political changes that are resonant far beyond Ukraine's borders. * Harvard Ukrainian Studies *This book is a novel, poignant, and sincere contribution to anthropology and to Ukrainian studies. It will make a thought-provoking read for anyone researching or interested in contemporary Ukraine and its vulnerable population, including students, policymakers, and government employees. * Anthropologica *

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Medicine, Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than their European counterparts. Dutton argues that Europeans are healthier than Americans because beginning in the late nineteenth century European nations began construction of health systems that focused not only on medical care but the broad social determinants of health: where and how we live, work, play, and age. European leaders also created social safety nets that became integral to national economic policy. In contrast, US leaders often viewed investments to improve the social determinants of health and safety-net programs as a competing priority to economic growth. Beyond Medicine compares the US to three European social democraciesFrance, Germany, and Swedenin order to explain how, in differing ways, each protects the health of infants and children, working-age adults, and the eldeTrade ReviewPaul Dutton provides an insightful read that every American should take time to review. * Choice *[A] rich and satisfying read. Paul Dutton conveys his personal connection to four health systems, with well-referenced and convincing descriptions and analyses of three areas of health systems. * Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Relative Decline Is Decline All the Same 1. Infant and Child Health in the United States and France 2. Workers' Health in the United States and Germany 3. After Work in the United States and Sweden Conclusion: Beyond Medicine

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Medicine, Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than their European counterparts. Dutton argues that Europeans are healthier than Americans because beginning in the late nineteenth century European nations began construction of health systems that focused not only on medical care but the broad social determinants of health: where and how we live, work, play, and age. European leaders also created social safety nets that became integral to national economic policy. In contrast, US leaders often viewed investments to improve the social determinants of health and safety-net programs as a competing priority to economic growth. Beyond Medicine compares the US to three European social democraciesFrance, Germany, and Swedenin order to explain how, in differing ways, each protects the health of infants and children, working-age adults, and the eldeTrade ReviewPaul Dutton provides an insightful read that every American should take time to review. * Choice *[A] rich and satisfying read. Paul Dutton conveys his personal connection to four health systems, with well-referenced and convincing descriptions and analyses of three areas of health systems. * Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Relative Decline Is Decline All the Same 1. Infant and Child Health in the United States and France 2. Workers' Health in the United States and Germany 3. After Work in the United States and Sweden Conclusion: Beyond Medicine

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Book SynopsisWhere They Need Me examines the work of Haitian health professionals in humanitarian aid encounters. Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular framework of global health. Pierre Minn illustrates the divergent criteria that actors involved in global health use to evaluate interventions'' efficacy.Haitian physicians, nurses, and administrative staff are hired to carry out these global health programs, distribute or withhold resources, and produce accounts of interventions'' outcomes. In their roles as intermediaries, Haitian clinicians are expected not only to embody the humanitarian projects of foreign funders and care for their impoverished patients but also to act as sources of support for their own kin networks, while negotiating their future prospects in a climate of pronounced scarcity and insecuritTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Logic of Uncoordination 2. "Working Together for Health" at the Hôpital Universitaire Justinien 3. Between a Fund and a Hard Place 4. Components of a Moral Economy 5. Saints, Villains, and Champions Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhere They Need Me examines the work of Haitian health professionals in humanitarian aid encounters. Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular framework of global health. Pierre Minn illustrates the divergent criteria that actors involved in global health use to evaluate interventions'' efficacy.Haitian physicians, nurses, and administrative staff are hired to carry out these global health programs, distribute or withhold resources, and produce accounts of interventions'' outcomes. In their roles as intermediaries, Haitian clinicians are expected not only to embody the humanitarian projects of foreign funders and care for their impoverished patients but also to act as sources of support for their own kin networks, while negotiating their future prospects in a climate of pronounced scarcity and insecuritTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Logic of Uncoordination 2. "Working Together for Health" at the Hôpital Universitaire Justinien 3. Between a Fund and a Hard Place 4. Components of a Moral Economy 5. Saints, Villains, and Champions Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardEnriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fighting it. The book is at once a study of Soviet tobacco deeply enmeshed in its social, political, and cultural context and an exploration of the global experience of the tobacco epidemic. Starks examines the Soviet antipathy to tobacco yet capitulation to market; the development of innovative cessation techniques and clinics and the late entry into global anti-tobacco work; the seeming lack of cultural stimuli alongside massive use; and the expansion of smoking without the conventional prompts of capitalist markets. She tells the story of Philip Morris''s Mission to Moscow campaign for the Trade ReviewEnlightening and thought-provoking. * Toward Freedom *Cigarettes and Soviets makes two important and original contributions to the existing public health literature: it recounts an episode of the history of tobacco different from the much more studied one in the West, and it is the liveliest history I know of the evolution of public health in the USSR. The illustrations are esthetically compelling, and Starks excels in describing their content, hidden meaning, and even taste and feel for the smoker. * American Journal of Public Health *Cigarettes and Soviets makes important contributions to recent work on the global history of tobacco use, along with adding to our understanding of socialist consumption and everyday life. Most delightfully, Starks's book demonstrates a keen understanding of Soviet visual culture in all its unex- pected and paradoxical dimensions, and her beautiful prose evokes the sights and smells of ordinary places in the USSR. * Russian Review *Tricia Starks tells the story of tobacco and smoking during the Soviet period. But perhaps it is more accurate to say that she tells part of the history of the Soviet Union through the prism of smoking * Moscow Times *a beautifully written and jargon free account. * New Books Network *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: The Revolutionary Soviet Smoker 1. ATTACKED: Commissar Semashko and Tobacco Prohibition 2. RESURRECTED: Nationalized Factories and Revitalized Industry 3. SOLD: Revolutionary Advertising and Communist Consumption 4. TREATED: Individual Will and Collective Therapy 5. UNFULFILLED: Commissar Mikoian and Stalinized Production 6. MOBILIZED: Frontline Provision and Factory Evacuations 7. RECOVERED: Women's Kingdoms and Manly Habits 8. PARTNERED: Space Cigarettes and Soviet Marlboros 9. PRESSURED: Demographic Crisis and Popular Discontent 10. OVERWHELMED: The Post-Soviet Smoker

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Book SynopsisBorn into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood, became the mother of America's first surviving set of identical quadruplets. They were instant celebrities. Their White doctor named them after his own family members. He sold the rights to use the sisters for marketing purposes to the highest-bidding formula company. The girls lived in poverty, while Pet Milk's profits from a previously untapped market of Black families skyrocketed. Over half a century later, baby formula is a seventy-billion-dollar industry and Black mothers have the lowest breastfeeding rates in the country. Since slavery, legal, political, and societal factors have routinely denied Black women the ability to choose how to feed their babies. In Skimmed, Andrea Freeman tells the riveting story of the Fultz quadruplets while uncovering how feeding America's youngest citizens is awash in social, legal, and cultural inequalities. This book highlights the making of a modern public health crisis, the four extraordinary girls whose stories encapsulate a nationwide injustice, and how we can fight for a healthier future.Trade Review"Skimmed provides a powerful portrait of how racism fuels the disparity between who breastfeeds in the U.S. Freeman shows that race continues to matter, even when it comes down to our children's first food, despite many Americans' belief that we are beyond race."—Khiara M. Bridges, University of California, Berkeley"Recovering the remarkable story of the Fultz quadruplets, Andrea Freeman brilliantly reveals how racism, economic inequality, and an unholy alliance between corporations and federal programs create the racial disparity in breastfeeding. Skimmed connects longstanding stereotypes to structural impediments that deny Black mothers the ability to decide for themselves how to feed their babies. This urgent book reveals the deadly consequences of a health crisis that implicates race, gender, economic, food, and reproductive justice."—Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty"This book blew me away. In prose that is equally rigorous and lush, Andrea Freeman walks us into the making of an engineered health crisis through the lives of four Black girls. Skimmed patiently explores the nexus between Blackness and Indigeneity, engineered terror and liberatory possibilities. It is the rare book that my heart will never forget, and my head will always wonder how on earth Freeman pulled this off."—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir"Skimmed weaves together the story of the Fultz family with history and legal scholarship to explain how medical coercion and white supremacy have shaped Black communities' access to first food. Offering solutions from food justice organizers, Andrea Freeman shows us a path to supporting families who want to breastfeed."—Dani McClain, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood"'Wow!' is my understated expression while reading, pausing and writing notes [on Skimmed]. It is a defining read alongside Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy....Anyone who will listen to me, I am telling about Skimmed."—Wenonah Valentine, MBA, Founder in Residence and Executive Director, iDREAM for Racial Health Equity, a project of Community PartnersTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Formula for Discrimination 1. The Famous Fultz Quads 2. Black Breastfeeding in America 4. The Bad Black Mother 5. When Formula Rules 6. Legalizing Breast Milk 7. The Fultz Quads after Pet Milk Conclusion: "First Food" Freedom

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Book SynopsisEach year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children living in poverty. But as global medical aid can often overlook the local economic and political systems that cause bodily suffering, it can also unintentionally prolong the very conditions that hurt children and undermine local aid givers. Investigating medical humanitarian encounters in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care illustrates how child aid recipients and local aid experts grapple with global aid's shortcomings and its paradoxical outcomes. Rania Kassab Sweis examines how some of the world's largest aid organizations care for vulnerable children in Egypt, focusing on medical efforts with street children and out-of-school village girls. Her in-depth ethnographic study reveals how global medical aid fails to "save" these children according to its stated aims, and often maintains—or produces new—social disparities in children's lives. Foregrounding vulnerable children's responses to medical aid, Sweis moves past the unquestioned benevolence of global health to demonstrate how children must manage their own bodies and lives in the absence of adult care. With this book, she challenges readers to engage with the question of what medical caregivers and donors alike gain from such global humanitarian transactions.Trade Review"Medical humanitarianism has become the most prominent form of global health intervention. Based on the ethnographic study of several projects conducted with vulnerable children in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care uncovers, with tact and discernment, the complex and ambiguous effects of these benevolent actions as experienced by local aid workers as well as young recipients."—Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study and Collège de France"This lucidly written book brings the robust anthropological critiques of global medical humanitarianism to bear on international organizations' attempts to help children in Egypt. Rania Kassab Sweis' clear analysis demonstrates the inherent paradoxes of seeking to save the 'vulnerable,' while leaving unchanged the structural conditions that produce those very vulnerabilities."—Sherine Hamdy, University of California, Irvine"This vivid and groundbreaking ethnography elevates the voices of Egypt's at-risk children, while deftly portraying the struggles of humanitarian actors to deliver aid amidst precarity. Paradoxes of Care is a must-read for those interested in medical humanitarianism, gender activism, and childhood studies in the Middle East and beyond."—Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University"In [Paradoxes of Care]'s detaied ethnography of three nongovernmental organizations dedicated to providing medical care and health services to Egyptian children... Sweis illuminates both the global humanitarian industry and the lives of children in Egypt."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs"[Paradoxes of Care] is a valuable contribution to the field of charity and medical aid and to the cross-cultural study of children. Recommended."—M. L. Russell, CHOICE

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Book SynopsisFor many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two centuries, starting with International Sanitary Conferences in 1851 and culminating in the present with the International Health Regulations, which organize epidemic responses through the World Health Organization. Unlike other equity-focused global health initiatives, their mission—to establish "the maximum protections from infectious disease with the minimum effect on trade and traffic"—has remained the same since their founding. Using this as his starting point, Alexandre White reveals the Western capitalist interests, racism and xenophobia, and political power plays underpinning the regulatory efforts that came out of the project to manage the international spread of infectious disease. He examines how these regulations are formatted; how their framers conceive of epidemic spread; and the types of bodies and spaces it is suggested that these regulations map onto. Proposing a modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism, White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern epidemic disease control.Trade Review"White writes critically and necessarily on the historical actions taken to prevent the spread of infectious disease. With great care, he deftly unpacks the racial and economic costs of global health initiatives and examines the ideals behind their genesis. The book is a remarkable and necessary re-thinking of medical history through the lens of 'epidemic orientalism'."—Hollie Sherwood-Martin, The Lancet Infectious DiseasesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Epidemic Orientalism 2. The International Sanitary Conventions at a Colonial Scale 3. Epidemics under the WHO 4. The Battle to Police Disease 5. Epidemics, Power, and the Global Management of Disease Risk 6. Pricing Pandemics Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSearching the internet for health information or using health apps on mobile devices has become part of our daily routine, yet can be just as disempowering as empowering. This engaging overview critically examines the theoretical underpinning of digital health promotion and the use of digital tools and strategies to promote health. Ivy O’Neil investigates how modern technologies can enhance health services provision and increase the accessibility and efficiency of health communication and promotion. She also looks at the challenges they bring to the social model of health, as they often focus on the individual and neglect the many social, environmental and economic determinants of health. Digital technologies, O’Neil argues, can have negative as well as positive implications and may be contributing to the ever-widening health inequality gap, thereby failing to be compatible with health promotion principles and values. Offering a critical, practical and thoughtful overview of the application and usefulness of digital technology, this book will appeal to students of public health and health promotion, communication and policy. Trade Review‘This book addresses a significant need, exploring health promotion strategies in light of new digital technologies and advances in communications. I particularly appreciate the incorporation of values-based and ethical considerations, with emphasis on health inequities and a more critical health promotion practice – perspectives of key importance in our current communications climate.’Charlotte Lombardo, Program Director, MPH–Health Promotion, University of Toronto ‘Digital technologies have major implications for healthcare and public health. This book offers a necessary critical look at the ways in which digital health not only views responsibility for health but also offers new forms of surveillance and social inequalities.’Jane Wills, London South Bank University and author of Foundations for Health Promotion Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 - Recent Development in Digital Technology relating to Public Health Chapter 3 – The alignment of digital health promotion to health promotion principles and values Chapter 4 – Behaviour change approach and behaviour theories in digital health promotion Chapter 5 - Big Data and Public Health management Chapter 6 – Digital technology and Health Inequality Chapter 7 – Looking to the future

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Book SynopsisCOVID-19 has made us all aware of the fact that we live in a world full of invisible enemies. Normally, we don’t even realize they’re there, but from time to time one of these microscopic creatures becomes powerful enough to turn everything upside down. What are these invisible enemies, and how can we prepare ourselves for the pandemics of the future? A specialist in the cellular biology of diseases, Salvador Macip explains, in a language everyone can understand, what it means to share the planet with millions of microbes – some wonderful allies, others terrible foes. He provides a concise account of epidemics that changed history, and focuses on the great modern plagues that are still causing millions of deaths every year, from influenza, TB and malaria to COVID-19. Macip also examines the methods we have used – from vaccines to improved sanitation and social distancing – to try to control these invisible enemies. This authoritative overview of modern epidemics and the pathogens that cause them will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand our world today, a world in which some of the greatest threats to the human species come from the invisible microbes with which we share this planet.Trade Review'A timely, authoritative and reader-friendly overview of pandemics past and present. This broad and balanced account, which is devoid of Anglo-American bias, provides fascinating insights into the important events associated with, for example, the defeat of the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa, Chagas disease in Bolivia and the Mexican origin of the 2009 influenza pandemic, as well as explaining the latter’s malignant effects on our preparedness for COVID-19.'Hugh Pennington, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen'Well written and informative and relevant for this difficult era of covid.'British Society for the History of Medicine'An important book for understanding a world in which some of the greatest threats are invisible.'Climate & Capitalism'This authoritative overview of modern epidemics and the pathogens that cause them will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand our world today.'Midwest Book Review'An excellent basis for class discussion about the history of epidemics, equity of resources, and COVID-19, providing many examples of needed improvements.'ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: Sharing the World with Microorganisms 1. Travel Companions 2. The Story of a Never-Ending Struggle 3. Our Arsenal 4. The Danger of Knowing Too Much 5. Forgotten Diseases and New Diseases 6. Coronaviruses and Future Pandemics PART TWO: Great Modern Epidemics 7. Influenza 8. AIDS 9. Tuberculosis 10. Malaria Epilogue Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThe study of public health aims to protect and promote the wellbeing of the public as well as reduce health inequalities. Public health ethics asks how far we should go to achieve these goals, balancing the rights and needs of individuals against those of the community. But what are these and how much weight should be given to each of them? In the third edition of his well-loved textbook, Stephen Holland shows how philosophy is key to evaluating the suitability of public health interventions. Holland explores the key goals of public health ethics in relation to both moral and political philosophy, reflecting on our everyday intuitions about which public health policies are justified. In light of recent developments, he includes new content exploring equity and health inequalities, and on how public health information is gathered and used. The book is updated throughout with material on contemporary cases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health Ethics continues to provide a lively, accessible and philosophically informed introduction. As well as being an ideal student text, Holland’s systematic discussion will engage the more advanced reader and inform scholarship in the field.Trade Review‘This book is a “must read” and key reference work for all students, scholars, practitioners and decision makers in public health.’Peter Schröder-Bäck, University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration, Germany‘The third edition of Public Health Ethicsretains the strengths of previous editions – it is a well-written and accessible introduction to ethics in population-level approaches to health promotion and governance – and it incorporates ample, useful new material, including substantial content about COVID-19 and health equity. With the new edition, Public Health Ethicswill continue to be a go-to book for teachers and scholars of ethics and justice issues in public health.’Mark Navin, Oakland UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: Moral and Political Philosophy Introduction to Part I 1 Consequentialism 2 Non-consequentialism 3 Liberal Political Philosophy 4 Beyond Traditional Liberalism Part I Summary PART II: Fundamental Aspects of Public Health Introduction to Part II 5 Epidemiology and Public Health Information 6 Health Concepts PART III: Public Health Activities Introduction to Part III 7 Health Promotion as Behaviour Modification 8 Harm Reduction 9 Immunization 10 Screening Concluding Remarks References Index

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Book SynopsisThe study of public health aims to protect and promote the wellbeing of the public as well as reduce health inequalities. Public health ethics asks how far we should go to achieve these goals, balancing the rights and needs of individuals against those of the community. But what are these and how much weight should be given to each of them? In the third edition of his well-loved textbook, Stephen Holland shows how philosophy is key to evaluating the suitability of public health interventions. Holland explores the key goals of public health ethics in relation to both moral and political philosophy, reflecting on our everyday intuitions about which public health policies are justified. In light of recent developments, he includes new content exploring equity and health inequalities, and on how public health information is gathered and used. The book is updated throughout with material on contemporary cases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health Ethics continues to provide a lively, accessible and philosophically informed introduction. As well as being an ideal student text, Holland’s systematic discussion will engage the more advanced reader and inform scholarship in the field.Trade Review‘This book is a “must read” and key reference work for all students, scholars, practitioners and decision makers in public health.’Peter Schröder-Bäck, University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration, Germany‘The third edition of Public Health Ethicsretains the strengths of previous editions – it is a well-written and accessible introduction to ethics in population-level approaches to health promotion and governance – and it incorporates ample, useful new material, including substantial content about COVID-19 and health equity. With the new edition, Public Health Ethicswill continue to be a go-to book for teachers and scholars of ethics and justice issues in public health.’Mark Navin, Oakland UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPART I: Moral and Political PhilosophyIntroduction to Part I1 Consequentialism2 Non-consequentialism3 Liberal Political Philosophy4 Beyond Traditional LiberalismPart I SummaryPART II: Fundamental Aspects of Public HealthIntroduction to Part II5 Epidemiology and Public Health Information6 Health ConceptsPART III: Public Health ActivitiesIntroduction to Part III7 Health Promotion as Behaviour Modification8 Harm Reduction9 Immunization10 ScreeningConcluding RemarksReferencesIndex

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