Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Scott Youngstedt
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828825
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. Author Scott M. Youngstedt offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and biomedical.
By analyzing ethnographic interviews with the youth of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Susanna Trnka reveals the emotional, financial, and deeply personal ideas at stake as understandings of health shift in the minds of young people, who are often at the vanguard of new trends in mental health, physical fitness, and digital health technologies.
In How to Be Depressed, essayist George Scialabba collects decades of his own mental health records—along with an introduction, an interview, and a glossary of terms—to form an unusual, searching, and poignant hybrid of essay and memoir that strives to make sense of the baffling disease that is clinical depression.
Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy
Guy Geltner
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812251357
Pub Date: August 2019
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Reconstructing the mandates and activities of urban "healthscapers" between roughly 1250 and 1500, Roads to Health contends that preventive healthcare emerged from a steady concern for populations' wellbeing. It challenges the view of the Black Death, let alone the Industrial Revolution, as a unique trigger in public health history.
Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.
Before AIDS chronicles the development of gay health services in the 1970s as gay men faced public health challenges stemming from both their political marginalization and disease. Activists using tools and tactics from across their era's political landscape built a nationwide gay medical system, changing ideas about sexuality and health.
Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter
Alicia Ely Yamin
Contributions by Paul Farmer
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812223989
Pub Date: March 2017
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for greater justice in health it entails.
The Battle for Algeria offers a new interpretation of the Algerian War (1954-1962) that highlights the social dimensions of the National Liberation Front's winning strategy, specifically its health care and humanitarianism programs, which targeted the local and international arenas and directly contributed to Algerian sovereignty.
Medical Humanitarianism provides comparative ethnographies of the moral, practical, and policy implications of modern medical humanitarian practice. It offers twelve vivid case studies that challenge readers to reach a more critical and compassionate understanding of humanitarian assistance.
Now in its fifth edition, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures provides healthcare workers with a frame of reference for understanding cultural difference and sound alternatives for providing the best possible care to multicultural communities.
