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Negotiating Mistrust
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828825
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Healthization
Turning Life into Health
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828160
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
How To Be Depressed
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812252019
Pub Date: March 2020
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
An unusual, searching, and poignant memoir of one man's quest to make sense of depressionGeorge Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literature,...
Roads to Health
Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812251357
Pub Date: August 2019
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water,...
Culture and PTSD
Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780812224450
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic...
Before AIDS
Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812250138
Pub Date: March 2018
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
The AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals...
Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity
Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812223989
Pub Date: March 2017
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and...
The Battle for Algeria
Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812247718
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who—France or the National...
Medical Humanitarianism
Ethnographies of Practice
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9780812247329
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Medical humanitarianism—medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster —has a prominent and growing presence in international development,...
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812223118
Pub Date: December 2014
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room. To provide optimal care...
Negotiating Mistrust
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828825
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Healthization
Turning Life into Health
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828160
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
How To Be Depressed
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812252019
Pub Date: March 2020
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Roads to Health
Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812251357
Pub Date: August 2019
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Culture and PTSD
Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780812224450
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
Before AIDS
Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812250138
Pub Date: March 2018
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity
Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812223989
Pub Date: March 2017
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
The Battle for Algeria
Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812247718
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Medical Humanitarianism
Ethnographies of Practice
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9780812247329
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812223118
Pub Date: December 2014
Format: Paperback
384 Pages