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  • Typhoid Mary

    Captive to the Public's Health

    by Judith Walzer Leavitt ...
    Discover the forgotten story of Mary Mallon—the real Typhoid Mary—in this humanizing portrait offering a window into the ethical dilemmas of public health policy that continue to haunt us in the COVID era.She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected 22 New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Sexual Alarm System

    Women's Unwanted Response to Sexual Intimacy and How to Overcome It

    by Judith Leavitt ...
    The Sexual Alarm System: Women’s Unwanted Response to Sexual Intimacy and How to Overcome It by Judith Leavitt explores the shield that develops around many women’s bodies to protect them from real and perceived sexual intrusions and dangers. From a young age, women are socialized to regard their sexuality as something that puts them in danger. However, the Sexual Alarm System interferes with a ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • The Anatomy of a Couples Therapy Session

    The 50 Minute Hour in Eight Stages

    by Judith P. Leavitt ...
    How does a couples’ therapist actually run a 50–minute session? What needs to happen? What must happen? Managing this time and knowing how to guide a couple through what can be a rocky roller coaster ride is a critical skill. This volume breaks down the entire 50 minutes of a couple’s therapy session from beginning to end. It divides the 50 minutes into eight time period stages that may overlap. ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Common Dilemmas in Couple Therapy

    by Judith P. Leavitt ...
    Common Dilemmas in Couple Therapy addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices – problems that leave therapists exhausted, drained, challenged, alive, racing, and on edge. These dilemmas encompass not only the difficult challenges therapists face everyday, but also the passions and profound disappointments of human intimate partnerships. The purpose of this ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Make Room for Daddy

    The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room

    by Judith Walzer Leavitt ...
    Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s. She shows how, as men moved first from the hospital waiting room to the labor room in the 1960s, and then on to the delivery and birthing rooms in ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Brought to Bed

    Childbearing in America, 1750-1950

    by Judith Walzer Leavitt ...
    Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present. Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Nursing Clio Reader

    Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice

    by Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Emily Beckman, Cassandra Berman, Ciara Breathnach, Scottie Hale Buehler, John A. Carranza, Sara Collini0, Kathleen Crowther1, Cara Delay2, Catherine Denial3, Nora Doyle4, Michelle Drew5, Averill Earls6, Lea Eisenstein7, Mary Fissell8, Gillian Frank9, Lara Freidenfelds0, Joseph Gamble1, Evan Elizabeth Hart2, Sharon Folkenroth Hess3, Katrina Kimport4, Rebecca M. Kluchin5, Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich6, Modupe Labode7, Judith Walzer Leavitt8, Ian Lekus9, Kirsten Leng0, Amanda Mahoney1, Elizabeth Garner Masarik2, Michelle Moravec3, Lina-Maria Murillo4, Elizabeth Nelson5, W. Jake Newsome6, P. Mimi Bhatt7, Ayah Nuriddin8, Kelly S. O'Donnell9, Udodiri Okwandu0, Sarah Pripas-Kapit1, Elizabeth Reis2, Susan M. Reverby3, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez4, J. Nalubega Ross5, Ronit Stahl6, Sarah Swedberg7, Brianna Theobald8, Lauren MacIvor Thompson9, Stephanie Tillman0, Felicity M. Turner1, Theresa Ventura2, Maggie Vinter3, Anna Weerasinghe4, Karen Weingarten5, Caitlin Reed Wiesner6, Samantha M. Williams7, Shannon Withycombe8, Cookie Woolner9, Professor Janet Golden0, Dr. Kylie Smith, Ph.D1, Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine2, Dr. Nina Studer, Ph.D3 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays ... Read more

    $39.09 CAD

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    The Untold Story of Chinatown's Most Powerful Crime Boss

    by Peter Chin, Everett De Morier ...
    A never-before-seen glimpse into the rarefied world of the Ghost Shadows, New York’s powerful Chinese crime organization of the 1970s and '80s—written by the young leader who ran it: reformed gangster Peter Chin.Only in fairy tales can a poor orphan become royalty. But in New York City’s Chinatown, one street kid managed to rise to the top ranks of a criminal gang dynasty.This is no fairy tale. ... Read more

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  • The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women

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  • The Teacup Poisoner

    Murder and Mayhem, #4

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  • Chasing History

    A Kid in the Newsroom

    by Carl Bernstein ...
    The New York Times BestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of ... Read more

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    Dispatches from a Quarantined City

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