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The Sociology of Global Health

WEBSociology of Development (2019) 5 (1): 9–30. Over the past two decades, a sociology of global health has emerged. While this new subfield takes up some themes …

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Vaccination: A Public Health Intervention That Changed History

WEBOne of the most successful prophylactic interventions in the history of public health, vaccination helped control some of the deadliest and most debilitating infectious …

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Contested Illnesses

WEBThe politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the …

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Reimagining Global Health An Introduction

WEBBringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, …

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Global Health Priorities and the Neglect of Menstrual Health and

WEBComfortable management of menstruation is a fundamental need for all women of reproductive age, and its absence is a denial of their basic rights. Yet millions …

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Infections and Inequalities by Paul Farmer

WEBAbout the Author. Paul Farmer is cofounder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.His most …

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A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law

WEB3 The intersection of law and health has generated a rich body of aca-demic literature, statutes, and judicial opinions. Health law is widely taught (in schools of law, medicine, …

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Inside National Health Reform

WEBThis indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the …

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Advances in Global Health University of California Press

WEBAdvances in Global Health is an open-access, online-only journal from University of California Press and the UC Global Health Institute, which seeks to take a new …

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Hygienic Modernity by Ruth Rogaski

WEBPlacing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of …

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The Brain Book The American Biology Teacher University of

WEBThe Brain Book: Development, Function, Disorder, Health. The Brain Book. : Development, Function, Disorder, Health. By Ken Ashwell. (ISBN 978-0228100850). …

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Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture

WEBBy the 1980s, middle- class parents pre-sumed their children to be above average,57 and expectations have only increased since then. Indeed since the 1980s we have seen the …

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American Health Crisis by Martin Halliwell

WEBA history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last …

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Human and social values in agroecology Elementa: Science of the

WEBAddressing human and social values is a core element of agroecology, including questions of equity and social justice in food systems, supporting autonomy …

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Health Care Off the Books

WEBReviews "Raudenbush’s Health Care off the Books provides a compelling account and an indictment of the American health care system, one that simultaneously drives low …

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It’s in Your Control: Free Will Beliefs and Attribution of Blame to

WEBPeople’s belief in free will is shown to influence the perception of personal control in self and others. The current study tested the hypothesis that individuals who …

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Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Health Behaviors

WEBCurrent literature suggests that neuroticism is positively associated with maladaptive life choices, likelihood of disease, and mortality. However, recent research …

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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

WEBFrom the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman:Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, …

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Menstrual health during COVID-19: How water, sanitation, and …

WEBDespite the fact that over 800 million women, girls, transgender, and gender nonbinary persons menstruate, menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) remains a taboo …

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Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum by K. J. Dover

WEBE-Book: Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for clients involved in litigation and put into circulation written …

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An Aging World Relies on Migrant Care Workers Current History

WEBAround the world, societies are aging. Most governments have not prepared well for this demographic change, which requires a recalibration of existing social …

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