Bøger i Studies in Social Medicine serien
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533,95 kr. Offers a piercing view of the role of science in nineteenth-century women's rights movements and provides historical perspective on the debates about gender and science. This title presents a full-length biography of Jacobi, the most significant woman physician of her era and an outspoken advocate for women's rights.
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- 533,95 kr.
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- The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
518,95 kr. From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but unsuccessful crusade for compulsory health insurance in New York State. Beatrix Hoffman shows that this first health insurance campaign was a crucial moment in the creation of the American welfare state and health care system.
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- 518,95 kr.
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- Abortion after Legalization
478,95 kr. Chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing political environment have meant for abortion providers and their patients. Johanna Schoen sheds light on the little-studied experience of performing and receiving abortion care from the 1970s to the rise of the antiabortion movement and the escalation of antiabortion tactics in the 1980s to the 1990s and beyond.
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- 478,95 kr.
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- The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis
398,95 - 1.333,95 kr. From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boysusome as young as five years olduwho play the sport every year. In this book, Kathleen Bachynksi offers the first history of youth tackle football and debates over its safety.
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- 398,95 kr.
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- Feminist Ethics, Personal Choice, and the Use of Reproductive Technologies
398,95 kr. Combining attention to lived experience with the critical tools of ethics, this book explores why many women who use the tools of high-tech assisted reproduction tend to use them repeatedly, even when the results are unsuccessful. This book offers a humanistic account of infertility and its resolution in a twenty-first-century American context.
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- 398,95 kr.
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- The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.
553,95 kr. Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.
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- 553,95 kr.
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- How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
573,95 kr. In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular - and largely unexamined - idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time.
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- 573,95 kr.