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...
Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy
G. Geltner
Price: $65.00
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...
The AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical...
Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter
Alicia Ely Yamin
Contributions by Paul Farmer
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812223989
Pub Date: March 2017
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean...
In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who—France...
Edited by Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick
Contributions by Peter Piot
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812247329
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Medical humanitarianism—medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster —has a prominent and growing presence in international development,...
Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room. To provide optimal...
The transmission of Buddhism from India to China was one of the most significant cross-cultural exchanges in the premodern world. This cultural encounter involved more than the spread of religious...
A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
Elizabeth W. Mellyn
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812246124
Pub Date: April 2014
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena...
