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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 )
False Premise, False Promise by Sally C. Pipes
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Sally C. Pipes

CHAPTER SEVEN THE HORRORS OF SINGLE-PAYER INSURANCE—OUTCOMES Eventually the combination of long wait times, low-quality care, overworked physicians, and barriers to treatment takes a toll on people’s health. Life under ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 15,2020 )
A Family History of Illness by Brett L. Walker
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Brett L. Walker [Walker, Brett L.]

I first discovered the power of historical context in understanding the world when I took a Western Civilization course at the College of Idaho, a wonderful liberal arts college that ...
( Category: Medicine January 19,2020 )
A Fraught Embrace by Swidler Ann; Watkins Susan Cotts;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Swidler, Ann; Watkins, Susan Cotts; [Swidler, Ann; Watkins, Susan Cotts;]

FIGURE 8.1. Village women socializing. Malawians spend a great deal of time gossiping about the moral and immoral behavior of their neighbors. Here, a group of women are laughing and ...
( Category: Medicine January 19,2020 )
Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics by Catherine Bliss
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Catherine Bliss [Bliss, Catherine]

CHAPTER 7 APPLIED SCIENCE The team had been working with these miniscule variations in DNA for some time now. They had found success with a variety of mutations and were ...
( Category: Medicine January 19,2020 )
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health by Jennifer Thomson
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Jennifer Thomson

Conclusion This book opened by weaving together two claims. First, there is no way to think about our present environment without also thinking about health. Second, health and environmental activism ...
( Category: Environmental Policy January 19,2020 )
The Strength of Bone by Lucie Wilk
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Lucie Wilk [Wilk, Lucie]

* Henry leans against a tree and catches his breath. He looks down at his trouser legs, dark with sweat and dusty with the red-brown dirt of the mountain. His ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 17,2020 )
No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880 (Oxford Paperbacks) by Allan M. Brandt
epub |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Allan M. Brandt

5 According to the American Social Hygiene Association, the disruption in traditional family roles created by the Great Depression generated criminal and juvenile delinquency, immorality, and higher rates of venereal ...
( Category: Pathology December 28,2019 )
Fat by Christopher E. Forth
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher E. Forth

Stories of fat-stealing witches circulated widely in early modern Europe. In this detail from the title page of Peter Binsfeld’s Tractatus de Confessionibus Maleficorum et Sagarum (1591), a witch boils ...
( Category: Food Science December 12,2019 )
Condition Critical by Rothchild Alice
epub |eng | 2016-10-23 | Author:Rothchild, Alice

Medicine: If It Doesn’t Kill You, It Makes You Strong June 25, 2014 The tone of the meeting with the medical students is not that positive. Now I will grant ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 24,2019 )
The Pelvic Floor Bible by Jane Simpson
epub |eng | 2019-05-01 | Author:Jane Simpson

Stress Incontinence You may have had a bit of stress incontinence over the last twenty or so years but if it wasn’t bad enough to be wearing a pad I ...
( Category: Curriculum & Lesson Plans September 28,2019 )
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Kolata Gina
epub |eng | 2008-04-29 | Author:Kolata, Gina [Kolata, Gina]

6 Insatiable, Voracious Appetites So what does make you want to eat? What makes you unable to stop? If nothing else, the annals of medicine reveal that at least for ...
( Category: Weight Loss September 25,2019 )
Fentanyl, Inc. by Ben Westhoff
epub |eng | 2019-09-04 | Author:Ben Westhoff [Westhoff, Ben]

Sixteen At his apartment, Dowson handed me a computer printout listing his company’s latest drugs. He enclosed it in a plastic sleeve and asked me not to remove it from ...
( Category: Medicine September 5,2019 )

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