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Health, Illness, and Society

Health, Illness, and Society, Updated Second Edition provides a comprehensive yet concise introduction to medical sociology.In his accessible style, Steven Barkan covers health and illness behaviors, the social determinants of health problems, the health professions and health care system in the U.S., and how the U.S. system compares to that of other countries.

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Introduction to the Anthropology of Health 1

WEB1 1 Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system. —Mildred Blaxter (2004:43) Introduction and Overview I n this chapter, we begin the process of …

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Combating Online Health Misinformation

WEBEdited by Alla Keselman; Catherine Arnott Smith and Amanda J. Wilson. Danger of health misinformation online, long a concern of medical and public health professionals, has come to the forefront of societal concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of their motives, creators and sharers of misinformation promote non-evidence-based

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The Anthropology of Health and Healing

WEB978-0-7591-1861-4 • eBook • September 2009 • $83.50 • (£64.00) Subjects: Health & Fitness / Healing, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural. The Anthropology of Health …

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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept

WEBWell-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This …

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Health and Behavior: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

WEBHealth and Behavior: A Multidisciplinary Approach recognizes that health is impacted by multiple systems–ranging from the individual to the international. While providing current information in common areas addressed in health psychology such as stress, chronic pain, cigarette smoking and sleep disorders, the book examines cross-cultural dimensions in …

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Engaging Diverse Voices on Health, Communication, and the …

WEBDiversity plays an important role in how people experience illness and healthcare as patients. Listening carefully to stories of how race, class, age, gender, sexuality, and …

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Health Literacy and Libraries

WEBThis book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of health literacy work in libraries. This engaging resource presents a practical and …

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Writing Blackgirls' and Women's Health Science: Implications for

WEBJameta Nicole Barlow’s Writing Blackgirls' and Women's Health and Science: Implications for Research and Praxis embodies womanist health empowerment by providing a …

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Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness, …

WEBGrace Budrys. Unequal Health examines the reasons why stark differences in health and well-being persist, even as the health care industry and access to health care grow. …

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The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement

WEBThis book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike …

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Globalization, Health, and the Environment

WEBThis collection boasts a remarkably cohesive set of readings on the unwieldy theme of globalization and health. Collectively, contributors cross local-global, ecological, …

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Theories of Health Justice: Just Enough Health

WEBHealth justice concerns the justified use of publicly funded resources in medicine, health care, and public health. Theories of Health Justice explores the philosophical …

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Righting Health Policy: Bioethics, Political Philosophy, and the

WEBIn Righting Health Policy, D. Robert MacDougall argues that bioethics needs but does not have adequate tools for justifying law and policy.Bioethics’ tools are mostly theories about what we owe each other. But justifying laws and policies requires more; at a minimum, it requires tools for explaining the legitimacy of actions intended to control or influence others.

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Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health

WEB978-1-4422-4319-4 • eBook • October 2017 • $33.00 • (£25.00) Subjects: Health & Fitness / Healthy Living, Science / Environmental Science, Self-Help / Green Lifestyle. While the subject of climate change is often in the news and social media, and its realities debated in various arenas of science and government, the health impacts are

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Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care

WEB""Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care is a first-rate analysis, skillfully tracing the political, social, and economic forces that, for nearly a century, thwarted efforts to enact …

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Our Unsystematic Healthcare System, Fifth Edition

WEBThis fifth edition of Our Unsystematic Healthcare System explores important debates and offers a comprehensive synopsis of health care delivery in the US. Chapter 1 begins by …

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Framing Health Care Instruction

WEBFraming Healthcare instruction: An Information Literacy Handbook for the Health Sciences is a step-by-step guide to integrating the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy into …

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The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy

WEBThis book offers mental health providers a much-needed exploration of consensual non-monogamy (CNM), viewed through the wider lens of intersectionality. It begins by examining how monogamy-centrism, or mononormativity, is based on white supremacist and heterosexual ideals.

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