Public Health & Preventive Medicine

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...

This book provides an overview of the social, economic, and political impact of AIDS around the world. The sudden appearance and rapid spread of AI...

This first-of-its kind encyclopedia based on original research offers in-depth profiles showing how a broad spectrum of 121 important nongovernment...

It is estimated that there are 60,000 excess Black American deaths annually compared with White Americans. Not only do Black babies die earlier tha...

For the first time, the sad story of America's uranium miners and the duplicity of our government is revealed. This expert study examines, in micro...

This broadly-framed bibliography deals with the many complex and diverse issues related to chronic illness and chronic care services. Following a b...

This edited collection shows how the spread of HIV infection has been followed, represented, and managed in nine countries between 1982 and 1988. T...

Kloos and Zein's excellent bibliography provides a thorough guide to an amazing amount of information. . . . With 4,614 entries, it is more than tw...

For decades, educators, historians, and social commentators accorded major responsibility for the reform of medical education in the United States ...

The Vital and Health Statistics Series, or what documents and medical librarians call The Rainbow Series, includes four series published by the U.S...

Multiple Sclerosis continues to be one of the most baffling and destructive diseases of our time, disabling a multitude of people around the globe....

This book presents a comprehensive and scientific review of the research during the past fifty years on the relationship between religion and healt...

The Tuberculosis Movement presents a detailed description of the evolution of the American tuberculosis movement from its inception in the late 19t...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

In American politics, medical innovation is often considered the domain of the private sector. Yet some of the most significant scientific and heal...

In American politics, medical innovation is often considered the domain of the private sector. Yet some of the most significant scientific and heal...

Media reports on environmental cancer are frequent and frightening. Public policy—and public spending—reflect widespread concern over the presence ...

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and...

Drunk driving is most often viewed as criminal behavior that is best addressed through the justice system. However, in this new book H. Laurence Ro...

Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire, air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, ...

Did food poisoning cause the Black Plague, the Salem witch-hunts, and other significant events in human history? In this pathbreaking book, histori...

The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the sick at every level of...

Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These clean living cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a...