Stories from the Surgical Life
Richard C. Karl
In the tradition of Lewis Thomas' The Lives of a Cell, a beautiful book on what it's like to be a surgeon
160 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
David Baronov
How Western medicine has transformed—and been transformed by—African culture
264 pages
| 6 x 9
An Interdisciplinary Reader
edited by Lawrence A. Frolik
A compilation of leading articles on the myriad issues of "elder law"
690 pages
| 7 x 10
| 5 tables, 9 figures
Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas
Stephanie C. Kane
A fresh, astute means for debating the issues connecting the AIDS pandemic to government policy and crime in the Americas
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 4 figures, 3 halftones
Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage?
Michael S. Goldstein
What is alternative medicine? Why is it so popular? What's its future in American health care?
280 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Hysterectomy and Gender Identity
Jean Elson
What makes a woman a woman?
264 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 7 tables
Edited by Barry Hoffmaster
Arguing for—and against—the value and practice of ethnography in medicine
248 pages
| 6 x 9
Professional Intimacy in Hospital Nursing
Lisa C. Ruchti
A detailed ethnography exploring the professional skill of intimate care in nursing.
226 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 tables, 1 figure, 1 halftone
Reflections on Cancer and an Abbreviated Life (Marianne A. Paget)
Edited by Marjorie L. DeVault
The last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her work
176 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 3 halftones
Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
Liberty Walther Barnes
Shining a light on the world of male infertility and how clinics bolster and protect men's notions of masculinity
228 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 1 table
Observing Tuberculosis at Century's End
Paul Draus
How the new tuberculosis epidemic and urban life collide
304 pages
| 6 x 9
Women Living with Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Adina Nack, Ph.D.
How living with a chronic, stigmatizing, and contagious disease transforms women's lives
264 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 1 table
The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence
Constance A. Nathanson
Adolescent pregnancy as a public policy issue
304 pages
Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics
Susan E. Bell
How a DES catastrophe created the feminist health movement
232 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 halftones
From Badness to Sickness
Peter Conrad, and Joseph W. Schneider
A classic text on deviance is updated and reissued
352 pages
| 7 x 10
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