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“sandra lane”

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  • Why are Our Babies Dying?

    Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America

    by Sandra Lane ...
    Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even today, in this "all American city," infants of color die more than two times as often as white babies. Infant mortality is too often addressed as if it were an isolated problem, rather than part of a systemic and repeating pattern of embedded racism and structural violence. The clearing of whole ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

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  • Doing Harm

    The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

    by Maya Dusenbery ...
    Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at the widespread gender bias in healthcare and how sexism in medicine harms women today.In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • In the Kingdom of the Sick

    A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

    by Laurie Edwards ...
    Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Vaccine Epidemic

    How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children

    Edited by Louise Kuo Habakus, Mary Holland, Kim Mack Rosenberg ...
    Public health officials state that vaccines are safe and effective, but the truth is far more complicated. Vaccination is a serious medical intervention that always carries the potential to injure and cause death as well as to prevent disease. Coercive vaccination policies deprive people of free and informed consent—the hallmark of ethical medicine. Americans are increasingly concerned about ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Cigarette Century

    The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

    by Allan M. Brandt ...
    The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Book of Odds

    From Lightning Strikes to Love at First Sight, the Odds of Everyday Life

    by Amram Shapiro, Louise Firth Campbell, Rosalind Wright ...
    From the popular Book of Odds website, this stylish and accessible reference book offers a fascinating peek at the probabilities that govern every aspect of human lifeDid you know that your odds of dying from drowning are higher than the odds of meeting your mate on a blind date? That the odds a child has seen Internet porn are the same as the odds a person is right-handed? That nearly one in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Breast Best?

    Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

    by Joan B. Wolf ...
    Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the population relied on commercial formula to at least supplement a breastfeeding routine. So how is it ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Handbook of HIV and Social Work

    Principles, Practice, and Populations

    by Cynthia Cannon Poindexter ...
    Praise for Handbook of HIV and Social Work"Cynthia Cannon Poindexter has given us a remarkable edited volume that contains much information on HIV that every professional social worker needs to know in order to practice competently in today's complex world."—From the Foreword by Vincent J. Lynch, MSW, PhD, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work"This comprehensive handbook assembles a group ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Within Our Reach

    by Lisbeth Schorr ...
    In this solidly researched book, the authors demonstrate that the knowledge and techniques exist to decrease the incidence of welfare dependency, poor single-parent families and alienated, uneducated youth. In addition to providing a detailed account of the problem, they describe twenty-four programs that have proved successful in changing the lives of seriously disadvantaged children. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    by John C. Moskop ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Alzheimer's Disease: a Growing Health Care Issue Among the Elderly

    by Celestina Akbar ...
    This book has highlighted significant issues and needs of people afflicted with Alzheimers disease and the understanding of the occurrence of AD. Many studies, services and programs were reviewed concerning the diagnostic work up of patients with the Alzheimers disease. Hopefully, these and other studies will help future researchers to disentangle the genetic and environmental factors associated ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD