Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Today we are on the brink of a much-needed transformative moment for health care. The U.S. health care system is designed to be reactive instead o...

Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native p...

The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine ...

Like other dangerous but pleasurable activities, such as downhill skiing and mountain climbing, engaging in unprotected sex implicitly involves the...

Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the twentieth century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette ...

We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls i...

This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined. From the essays in it, it is abundantly clear that medicine is a gendered and cla...

Most public controversies about the effects of chemicals on human health revolve around the risk of cancer—hardly surprising, considering that it i...

This revised volume, originally published in Sweden, consolidates multidisciplinary research on gender inequalities in health. Reviewing previous r...

Chronic Condition provides a compelling analysis of the causes of the current health care crisis and of the shortcomings of reform proposals. It al...

This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and ...

You are old, ill, in pain, and your doctor asks you what you want to do about it. You may be uncertain but you're definitely not alone. By the year...

How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book c...

In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit d...

In this abridged and revised edition of their 1989 text, the authors focus on the what and how of effective community mental health. Following the ...

Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to mode...

Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax ...

Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account...

When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, ...

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

Twenty years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outb...

This collection of Michael Grossman's most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic-based determinants of publi...

A seminal work in health economics, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status o...

A seminal work in health economics, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status o...

At a moment when the world's population increasingly lives in urban settings, the public health of cities-or the intersection of stress and wellnes...

Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year—more now than at any other time in h...

Practical advice from an award-winning specialist nurse. Highly Commended, British Medical Association Book Awards Designed to help determine wha...

Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer—that some law defines our status as living (or not) for...

The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communitie...

A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of huma...

So many women who do everything right to stay healthy still wind up with breast cancer, heart disease, or osteoporosis. In The Fragile Wisdom, Graz...