Medicine: General Issues

In this engagingly written book Thomas Bonner unveils the dramatic story of women’s long struggle to become physicians. Focusing both on internatio...

How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embar...

A time-tested, landmark approach to health promotion and communication projects and everything that goes into making them successful.For more than ...

This book describes medieval Islamic medicine and to explore a specific medical text, On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt by 'Ali ibn Ridwan ...

What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health...

Disease processes among American Indians and Alaska Natives often have distinct manifestations that need to be considered by clinicians and health ...

In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize...

“I’m covered—why should I foot the bill for somebody who isn’t?”This question, unspoken but simmering at the center of the debate over universal he...

A riveting account of the medical sleuthing that led to the discovery of Lyme disease In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr. Jonathan A...

Runaway medical costs, long-term care, market competition, for-profit medicine, nursing shortages—these are but a few of the issues that swirl arou...

Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, ...

When scientists proved in 1984 that HIV causes AIDS, a vaccine race spun into action. But the sprint to develop an AIDS vaccine now more closely re...

How is medicine doing at the end of the twentieth century? While there has been no end of studies of our health care system and proposals for chang...

A Stanford University Press classic.

Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fr...

The reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the Am...

John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victori...

First published in 1978, Helen Caldicott's cri du coeur about the dangers of nuclear power became an instant classic. In the intervening sixteen ye...

Through engaging narratives of illness, medical work, and nursing in which people choose to act in ways that affirm their humanity, "The Renewal of...

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious...

Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly—and legally—carri...