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Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B. Morris
epub |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:David B. Morris [Неизвестный]

POSTMODERNISM AND THE OBSCENE Henry Miller is a useful guide to a biocultural version of the obscene as created at the crossroads of culture and human neurobiology. In 1961 Grove ...
( Category: Pathology March 4,2020 )
Dealing Death and Drugs by Beto O'Rourke
epub |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Beto O'Rourke

In a time of increasing debate over almost every penny spent by the feds—a debate that almost shut down the government in 2011—it seems strange that law enforcement programs, unlike ...
( Category: Social Policy March 3,2020 )
Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan by Walker Brett L
epub |eng | | Author:Walker, Brett L.

Bioaccumulation What fishers had come to understand through their dead cats, even without the help of scientists, was bioaccumulation. In aquatic environments, toxins such as methylmercury and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) ...
( Category: Ecology March 3,2020 )
Toxic Injustice by Bohme Susanna Rankin
epub |eng | | Author:Bohme, Susanna Rankin

SIX National Law, Transnational Justice? IN NOVEMBER 1999, THE MANAGUA daily El Nuevo Diario reported that hundreds of DBCP-affected agricultural workers were protesting in the capital: “Under the torrid sun ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 2,2020 )
The Health of People: How the social sciences can improve population health by Campaign for Social Science
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Campaign for Social Science, [Campaign for Social Science,]

Social Science and Dat a Policy organisations, such as the King’s Fund, and research funders, such as the Wellcome Trust, the Health Foundation, the ESRC and MRC, along with health ...
( Category: Public Health March 1,2020 )
Social Causes of Health and Disease by Cockerham William C.;
epub |eng | | Author:Cockerham, William C.;

Income Inequality Another class-based but controversial explanation of health differences emerging from research in Britain is Wilkinson’s (1992, 1996; Wilkinson and Pickett 2006) income inequality or relative income thesis. Wilkinson ...
( Category: Pathology February 29,2020 )
Diet and the Disease of Civilization by Adrienne Rose Bitar
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rose Bitar [Неизв.]

FIGURE 4.1. Socialite and author Merla Zellerbach wrote one of the first detox diets in 1984. Detox combined environmentalist concerns with new concepts of food addiction. Pictured here in her ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies February 29,2020 )
Fighting Sleep by Franny Nudelman
epub |eng | | Author:Franny Nudelman

PART II: EXPERIMENTS IN ACTIVISM On April 21, 1971, members of the VVAW defied the Supreme Court by falling asleep on the National Mall. In the second half of Fighting ...
( Category: Asian February 28,2020 )
Literature and Medicine by Ronald Schleifer & Jerry B. Vannatta
epub |eng | | Author:Ronald Schleifer & Jerry B. Vannatta

Character, Ethics, and Mystery In Chekhov’s writing—we’ve seen it already in Chap. 4—his characters confront particular crises in life, which is precisely where a career in healthcare frequently positions those ...
( Category: Modern February 28,2020 )
The Clean Body by Peter Ward
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Peter Ward

PART THREE Cleanliness as Commodity One of the nineteenth-century West’s greatest legacies to the twentieth was a technology of water management. It supplied great cities and small dwellings alike, making ...
( Category: Medicine February 27,2020 )
Health Care Under the Knife by Howard Waitzkin
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Howard Waitzkin [Waitzkin, Howard]

RESISTANCE TO PRIVATIZATION OF WATER IN BOLIVIA Although clean water remains a fundamental goal of public health, the world’s declining supplies of fresh water have emerged as a new frontier ...
( Category: Social Policy February 27,2020 )
To Heal Humankind by Gaffney Adam;
epub |eng | | Author:Gaffney, Adam;

6 Postwar Health and Death in the Cold War Nestled in the foothills of the stunning Trans-Ili Alatau mountain range, Alma-Ata—the capital of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic—had some practical ...
( Category: Health Policy February 27,2020 )
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings;
epub |eng | | Author:Sabrina Strings;

Figure 6.1. Eleanor Waddle, “Side Glances at American Beauty,” Cosmopolitan, June 1890, 193. Evidently, Bisland was only one of the Cosmopolitan’s contributors to wax poetic about tall, slim Nordic American ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 27,2020 )
The Atlas of Disease by Sandra Hempel
epub |eng | 2018-02-19 | Author:Sandra Hempel

Illustration of a woman with malaria, from a German publication on diseases, 1929. In 1740, the English politician Horace Walpole wrote to a friend to explain why he had left ...
( Category: Epidemiology February 20,2020 )
The Truth About Fat by Anthony Warner
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Warner [Warner, Anthony]

CHOLESTEROL Perhaps the second great misstep that nutrition science made when it comes to fat regards cholesterol. In 1984, Time magazine carried the headline ‘Cholesterol is Proved Deadly – and ...
( Category: Medicine February 18,2020 )

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