The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
With a New Introduction by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D., author of Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign ......
Activities for Memory-Challenged Adults and Their Caregivers
Dementia and related disorders impact the lives of those affected in countless ways, making it difficult to remain independent at work, at home, and in the wider world. But recent studies have shown that structured activities can make a significant, positive difference by stimulating mental engagement while improving interactions between ......
A Social History of Leprosy in U.S.-Occupied Philippines
In the early twentieth century, the colonial government of the United States in the Philippines confined people with leprosy on the island of Culion. Febe D. Pamonag examines claims that the policy protected public health while telling the stories of the affected men, women, and children. As Pamonag shows, Filipinos responded in many ways to the ......
A Social History of Leprosy in U.S.-Occupied Philippines
In the early twentieth century, the colonial government of the United States in the Philippines confined people with leprosy on the island of Culion. Febe D. Pamonag examines claims that the policy protected public health while telling the stories of the affected men, women, and children. As Pamonag shows, Filipinos responded in many ways to the ......
Christine Dolan exposes how modern medicine, corporate greed, and systemic failures exploit the vulnerable. Using whistleblowers and decades of reporting, she reveals shocking truths about vaccine injuries, medical trafficking, and institutional complicity. Urban Legends is a fearless call to confront injustice and demand accountability. Expose. ......
Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies
How urgency-driven public health communication perpetuates inequities Global public health systems necessarily approach emergent threats with great urgency. As Julie Gerdes argues in Infectious Urgency: Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies, that urgency itself functions as a rhetorical logic. And this logic shapes ......
Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies
How urgency-driven public health communication perpetuates inequities Global public health systems necessarily approach emergent threats with great urgency. As Julie Gerdes argues in Infectious Urgency: Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies, that urgency itself functions as a rhetorical logic. And this logic shapes ......
Applying Classical Texts to Modern Diseases including SARS and COVID-19
Based on the Classical literature on one of the major diagnostic methods in Chinese Medicine, this key resource has been created in response to the growing need for clear and practical guidance on how to apply tongue diagnosis in clinical practice in a post-antibiotic era at high risk of epidemy. This hands-on guide breaks the theory of Chinese ......
Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated-and were exacerbated by-the spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a smallpox epidemic that would plague the city for the next year. Of its 12,000 inhabitants, nearly fifty percent were ......
