"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our understanding of personal responsibility, risk, and safety"--
'Development' promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social justice, and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left hill communities in Northern Thailand with high rates of drug addiction and poverty, and a loss of traditional knowledge and values. A former volunteer and development specialist who spent much of her childhood in ......
"This book centers on story as a means of making disability available for noticing. The framework of signs of disability forwarded in this book is drawn from the author's lived experience of disability and deafness as well as rhetoric, feminist materialist scholarship, and critical disability studies"--
We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we're hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms but also from our self-blame. We want from our doctors kindness under any of its many names: empathy, caring, compassion, humanity. We look for ......
An Introduction to Global Health presents a broad yet detailed overview of population health in developing countries. This text carefully examines the factors that influence a community's health status and determine the effectiveness of modern aid solutions against war, governance, and contamination. Essential for university-level students, this ......
Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists: the cesarean section. While c-section births pose a higher risk of maternal death and medical complications, can have negative future reproductive consequences for the mother, increase the recovery time for mothers after birth, ......
The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
Examining the routine activities of epidemiology - grant applications, data collection, representations of research findings, and post-publication discussions of the interpretations and implications of study results, this book shows how social differences of race, social class, and gender are upheld by the scientific community.
Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project
Situates contemporary genomics within a history of genetics research yet is attentive to the new ways in which knowledge claims about heredity, race, and gender emerge and are articulated
To help families manage an intense medical-related event, this title proposes that a family-oriented life and living perspective should be combined with a family intervention philosophy. This book explores issues relevant to treatment, family adaptation, quality of life, and family survival. It is useful for health and allied health professionals.
