Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This book comprehensively reviews the 10 most influential epidemics in history, going beyond morbid accounts of symptoms and statistics to tell the...

Canadians view their healthcare – recognized throughout the world as an exemplary system – as iconic and integral to their identity. In Toward the ...

Only one hundred years ago, even in the world’s wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers—of diarrhea, diphtheria and measles, of scarlet ...

Correctly understanding and using medical statistics is a key skill for all medical students and health professionals.In an informal and friendly s...

On March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, o...

All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the ...

The landmark case Roe v. Wade redefined family: it is now commonplace for Americans to treat having children as a choice. But the historic decision...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEA...

This timely history of the neglected figure of Daniel Sutton—the medical revolutionary who paved the way for present-day vaccination—was named a be...

Six original essays reflect the growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood and youth, particularly issues affecting child health and we...

Showing that economic development and public health, often thought of as distinct, are both interdependent and dependent on social and political co...

This authoritative guide is quite unique in how it covers sources dealing with injury prevention for the elderly in a comprehensive manner. This su...

Cogent, concise, and up-to-date, this comprehensive and multidisciplinary one-volume encyclopedia written by experts from many fields covers all th...

As a sociological specialty, medical sociology has a distinct history and literature spanning more than four decades. Since its inception in the ye...

With the emergence of fertility declines in the greater part of the developing world, study of the phenomenon has increased profoundly over the las...

A professor of nursing, expert in multicultural health care and social services, describes the basic attitudes and beliefs of 15 important ethnic a...

In a series of case studies of sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS from around Africa, contributors examine the social, cultural, and politic...

Unintentional injuries, including car crashes, drowning, burns, poisoning, and suffocation, are a leading cause of death to young children. Child a...

Health communication research examines the role of communication in health professional/client relationships and in promoting patient adherence, th...

Intravenous drug users account for nearly one-third of the current AIDS cases in the United States--second only to gay males--and are responsible f...

This work identifies significant factors influencing, on the one hand, the historical pattern of sexually acquired diseases in 12 countries in Asia...