An Innovative Approach to Treating Tobacco Dependence
Frank T. Leone and Sarah Evers-Casey
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781512824780
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
People have been using tobacco in a variety of forms for centuries. Remarkably, it was originally seen as something that could promote vigor and health. Of course, now we all know that tobacco use causes...
Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care
Guian A. McKee
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823936
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and...
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the...
Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
David Vaughn
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225273
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In Discovery and Healing: Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, David Vaughn describes the history of the Perelman...
In the spring of 1576, the Health Office of Venice, fearful of a growing outbreak of plague, imposed a quarantine upon the city. The move was controversial, with some in power questioning the precise...
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,...
Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy
G. Geltner
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,...
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...
