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AIDS And Accusation: Haiti And the Geography of Blameby Paul FarmerISBN 0520248392 (0-520-24839-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Anthropology in Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Societyby Robert A. Hahn, Kate W. HarrisISBN 019511955X (0-19-511955-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeastby Patricia M. LambertISBN 081731007X (0-8173-1007-X)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast'Book summary:[via]Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the
Southeast.The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed
within communities that had made this transition. This new collection draws on the rich bioarchaeological record of the Southeastern United States
to explore variability in health and behavior within the age of agriculture. It offers new perspectives on human adaptation to various geographic and
cultural landscapes across the entire Southeast, from Texas to Virginia, and presents new data from both classic and little-known sites.The contributors question the reliance on simple cause-and-effect relationships in human health and behavior by addressing such key bioarchaeological issues as disease history and epidemiology, dietary composition and sufficiency, workload stress, patterns of violence, mortuary practices, and biological consequences of European contact. They also advance our understanding of agriculture by showing that uses of maize were more varied than has been previously supposed.
Representing some of the best work being done today by physical anthropologists, this volume provides new insights into human adaptation for both archaeologists and osteologists. It attests to the heterogeneous character of Southeastern societies during the late prehistoric and early historic periods while effectively detailing the many factors that have shaped biocultural evolution.
Contributors include: Patricia S. Bridges, Elizabeth Monaham Driscoll, Debra L. Gold, Dale L. Hutchinson, Keith P. Jacobi, Patricia M. Lambert, Clark Spencer Larsen, Lynette Norr, Mary Lucas Powell, Marianne Reeves, Lisa Sattenspiel, Margaret J. Schoeninger, Mark R. Schurr, Leslie E. Sering, David S. Weaver, and Matthew A. Williamson
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Black Death: AIDS in Africaby Susan HunterISBN 1403967172 (1-4039-6717-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Body in Questionby Jonathan MillerISBN 0394747461 (0-394-74746-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebookby Henry Scammell, Douglas H. UbelakerISBN 0871319047 (0-87131-904-7)
Softcover, M Evans & Co
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The Calling of Katie Makanyaby Margaret McCordISBN 0471246913 (0-471-24691-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Coming Plagueby Laurie GarrettISBN 0140250913 (0-14-025091-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming Plague'Book summary:Where's your next disease coming from? From anywhere in the world--from overflowing sewage in Cairo, from a war zone in Rwanda, from an energy-efficient office building in California, from a pig farm in China or North Carolina. "Preparedness demands understanding" writes Pulitzer-winning journalist Laurie Garrett, and in this precursor to Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health she shows true understanding of the patterns lying beneath the new diseases in the headlines (AIDS, Lyme) and the old ones resurgent (tuberculosis, cholera). As the human population explodes, ecologies collapse and simplify, and disease organisms move into the gaps. As globalisation continues, diseases can move from one country to another as fast as an aeroplane can fly.
While the human race battles itself... the advantage moves to the microbes' court. They are our predators and they will be victorious if we, Homo sapiens, do not learn how to live in a rational global village that affords the microbes few opportunities.
Her picture is not entirely bleak: epidemics grow when a disease outbreak is amplified--by contaminated water supplies, by shared needles, by recirculated air, by prostitution--and controlling disease amplifiers is within our power, a matter of money, people and will. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via] 
Cultural Diversity in Health and Illnessby Rachel E. SpectorISBN 0838513964 (0-8385-1396-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspectiveby Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. StewartISBN 0890899428 (0-89089-942-8)
Softcover, Carolina Academic Pr
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Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africaby Katherine DettwylerISBN 088133748X (0-88133-748-X)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Centuryby Ellen LeopoldISBN 0807065129 (0-8070-6512-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Disease in Populations in Transition : Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectivesby Alan C. Swedlund, George J. ArmelagosISBN 0897891759 (0-89789-175-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic Worldby Gay BeckerISBN 0520209141 (0-520-20914-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Evolution and Healing: The New Science of Darwinian Medicineby George C. Williams, Randolph M. NesseISBN 1857995066 (1-85799-506-6)
Hardcover, Phoenix
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Evolution of Sickness and Healingby Horacio FabregaISBN 0520206096 (0-520-20609-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Evolutionary Medicineby Wenda R. Trevathan, James J. McKenna, Euclid O. SmithISBN 0195103564 (0-19-510356-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healingby Edith TurnerISBN 0812213661 (0-8122-1366-1)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Foundations of Medical Anthropology: Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology in Cultural Contextby Michael R. ZimmermanISBN 0721697127 (0-7216-9712-7)
Hardcover, Saunders
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Fundamenatals of Complementary and Alternative Medicineby Marc S. MicozziISBN 0443065764 (0-443-06576-4)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Handbook of Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Methodby Thomas M. Johnson, Carolyn Fishel Sargent, Carolyn F. SargentISBN 0313296588 (0-313-29658-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professionsby Bonnie Blair O'ConnorISBN 081221398X (0-8122-1398-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Health and the Rise of Civilizationby Mark Nathan CohenISBN 0300050232 (0-300-05023-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbsby John HeinermanISBN 0133858405 (0-13-385840-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Direct
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plaguesby Paul FarmerISBN 0520229134 (0-520-22913-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions--remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.More editions of Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues:
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Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologiesby Marcia Claire Inhorn, Frank Van BalenISBN 0520231376 (0-520-23137-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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With infertility as the lens through which a wide range of social issues is explored, the contributors address a far-reaching array of topics: why infertility has been neglected in population studies, how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame squarely on women's shoulders, how infertility and its treatment transform family dynamics and relationships, and the distribution of medical and marital power. The chapters present informed and sophisticated investigations into cultural perceptions of infertility in numerous countries, including China, India, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Egypt, Israel, the United States, and the nations of Europe.
Poised to become the quintessential reference on infertility from an international social science perspective, Infertility around the Globe makes a powerful argument that involuntary childlessness is a complex phenomenon that has far-reaching significance worldwide.More editions of Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies:
The Island of the Colorblindby Oliver SacksISBN 0679451145 (0-679-45114-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island: And, Cycad Islandby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0375700730 (0-375-70073-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Drawn to the Micronesian island of Pingelap by reports of a community of people born totally colorblind, Dr. Sacks set up a clinic in a one-room dispensary. There he listened to patients describe their colorless world in terms rich with pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. Then, in Guam, he investigated a puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis, making housecalls amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture. The experience affords Sacks an opportunity to elaborate on such personal passions as botany and history and to explore the meaning of islands, the dissemination of species, the birth of disease, and the nature of deep geologic time. [via]
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Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Lifeby Shirley Lindenbaum, Margaret LockISBN 0520077857 (0-520-07785-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlandsby Shirley LindenbaumISBN 0874843626 (0-87484-362-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hatby Oliver SacksISBN 1555042651 (1-55504-265-1)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Talesby Oliver SacksISBN 0684853949 (0-684-85394-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales'Book summary:In his most extraordinary book, one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sackss The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; patients no longer able to recognize people and common objects; patients stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; patients whose limbs have become alien; patients who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sackss splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicines ultimate responsibility: the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject. [via]
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Medical Anthropology and the World Systemby Ida Susser, Merrill Singer, Hans A. BaerISBN 089789846X (0-89789-846-X)
Softcover, Praeger Pub Text
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspectiveby Ida Susser, Merrill Singer, Hans A. BaerISBN 0897895398 (0-89789-539-8)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Methodby Carolyn F. Sargent, Thomas M. JohnsonISBN 0275952657 (0-275-95265-7)
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Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspectiveby Ann McElroy, Patricia K. TownsendISBN 0813338212 (0-8133-3821-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective'Book summary:The third edition of this classic text in medical anthropology has been revised to reflect new developments in theory and research. In theory, it addresses new thinking about political ecology and critiques older theoretical approaches. AIDS is a prominent topic in this new edition, as are other timely issues such as disability, medical pluralism, and health care seeking behavior. The authors have also expanded the number of health profiles to include migrant worker health, famine in the Horn of Africa, and paleopathology in the southwestern United States.[via]More editions of Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective:
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Softcover, Perseus Books - Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective: ISBN 0878722165 (0-87872-216-5)
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Medical Assisting: A Commitment to Service-Administrative and Clinical Competenciesby Warren, Margaret Townsend, Ph.DISBN 0763812935 (0-7638-1293-5)
Softcover, Emc Pub
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Medical Choice in a Mexican Villageby Linda C. Garro, James Clay YoungISBN 0881337854 (0-88133-785-4)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medical Choice in a Mexican Village'Book summary:The people of Pichataro, a Tarascan Indian village in the highlands of west-central Mexico, use Western medicine as well as native curing specialists and folk treatment practices. In this study, the authors examine why residents choose one type of health care over another, setting the analysis within the broader context of the Pichatara medical system. Villagers generally are poor and have limited access to sources of Western health care. They use their medical knowledge--which the authors describe in depth--to evaluate the meaning, severity, and potential consequences of an illness. When an illness is considered grave, alternatives are ordered on the basis of probability of cure, so a physician is generally preferred; when an illness is not considered life threatening, alternatives are ordered on the basis of cost, so self-help or use of a local curer is most likely. These preferences have resulted in the development of a comprehensive set of "rules" for making decisions about treatment. The authors' firsthand experience with the community and their understanding of the role of illness in the lives and thoughts of its residents form the substance of this well-known work. [via]
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Medicine & Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and Franceby Lynn PayerISBN 0805048030 (0-8050-4803-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Mountains Beyond Mountainsby Tracy KidderISBN 0375506160 (0-375-50616-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the Worldby Tracy KidderISBN 0812973011 (0-8129-7301-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World'Book summary:Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer-brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti-blasts through convention to get results. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.'s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. [via]
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Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healingby Cheryl Mattingly, Linda C. GarroISBN 0520218256 (0-520-21825-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Natures Healing Arts: From Folk Medicine to Modern Drugsby Lonnelle AikmanISBN 0870442325 (0-87044-232-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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No Aging in India: Alzheimer'S, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Thingsby Lawrence CohenISBN 0520224620 (0-520-22462-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in Americaby Norman GevitzISBN 0801837103 (0-8018-3710-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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In "Other Healers" Norman Gevitz and eight other authors explore the most significant alternatives to orthodox medicine to have gained a place in American society from the early 19th century to the present. Neither advocating nor debunking these alternatives, they explore phenomena that range from Thomsonism, the early botanical system that was progenitor of the first native American sects,to the faith-healing of contemporary pentecostals and charasmatics; from the Water Cure Movement, which provided important support for the efforts of early feminist reformers, to osteopathy, whose practitioners are now licensed to offer the same range of services as M.D.'s. [via]
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Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernaturalby Barbara WalkerISBN 0874211964 (0-87421-196-4)
Softcover, Utah State Univ Pr
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poorby Paul Farmer, Martha SenISBN 0520243269 (0-520-24326-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.More editions of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor:
Paths to Asian Medical Knowledgeby Charles Leslie, Allan YoungISBN 0520073185 (0-520-07318-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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The Performance of Healingby Marina Roseman, Carol LadermanISBN 0415912008 (0-415-91200-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Personalities and Cultures: Readings in Psychological Anthropologyby Robert Cushman HuntISBN 0292764294 (0-292-76429-4)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identityby Joseph DumitISBN 069111398X (0-691-11398-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailmentsby Paul W. EwaldISBN 0684869004 (0-684-86900-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotanyby Michael J. Balick, Paul Alan CoxISBN 0716760274 (0-7167-6027-4)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Purple Secret: Genes, 'madness' and the Royal Houses of Europeby David Hunt, Martin Warren, John C. G. RohlISBN 0552145505 (0-552-14550-5)
Hardcover, Corgi Books
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Rats, Lice and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deby Hans ZinsserISBN 0316988960 (0-316-98896-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rats, Lice and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, De'Book summary:When Rats, Lice and History appeared in 1935, Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events. Although he had published under a pseudonym, virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format. Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats, Lice, and History, which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership.
To Zinsser, scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease, a field of battle. Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy. His goal in Rats, Lice and History was to bring science, philosophy, and literature together to establish the importance of disease, and especially epidemic infectious disease, as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the "biography" of a disease. In his view, infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive. From a human perspective, an invading pathogen was abnormal; from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal.
This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs. Zinsser begins by pointing out that the louse was the constant companion of human beings. Under certain conditionsto wash or to change clothinglice proliferated. The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings, who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human.
Rats, Lice and History is a tour de force. It combines Zinsser's expertise in biology with his broad knowledge of the humanities
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Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Disease, Plagues, and Pestilenceby Hans ZinsserISBN 1884822479 (1-884822-47-9)
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The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV And AIDSby Edward HooperISBN 0316371378 (0-316-37137-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV And AIDS'Book summary:For all the devastation and suffering AIDS has caused worldwide, we have devoted surprisingly little attention to its beginnings. Former UN official and BBC correspondent Edward Hooper hopes to find the source of AIDS in The River, a stunningly comprehensive yet deeply engaging scientific history of the disease. Through more than 10 years of research comprising over 600 interviews and untold hours of library work, Hooper has uncovered a complex, interlocking set of stories--of scientific research, of medical assistance to the Third World, of political and economic exigencies that drive the courses of our lives--and brought them together in over 1,000 pages of text, footnotes, references, and illustrations.
His thesis, that HIV made the jump from simians to humans via the administration of oral polio vaccine in Africa in the 1950s, is still controversial, but his arguments are powerful, broad, and undeniable--all that is lacking is conclusive proof. Like a good scientist (and, sad to say, unlike any HIV researcher to date), he offers several easy tests of his hypothesis. His tales of brilliant epidemiological deductions, biochemical comparisons, and physiological insights ought to convince the medical establishment that the answer can and should be found, both to help us deal with the current crisis and to keep us from creating new ones of its ilk. In a litigation-weary world, though, it seems that it will take the kind of tireless, impartial research found in The River to show us--and our leaders--that blame should take a back seat to truth when extreme circumstances demand it. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Shamans Through Timeby Jeremy NarbyISBN 1585423629 (1-58542-362-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledgeby Francis Huxley, Jeremy NarbyISBN 1585420913 (1-58542-091-3)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women-individuals with the power to summon spirits. These writings by priests, explorers, adventurers, natural historians, and anthropologists express the wonder of strangers in new worlds. Who were these extraordinary people, men who imitated the sounds of animals in the night, or drank tobacco juice through funnels, or wore collars filled with stinging ants?
Shamans Through Time is a rare chronicle of changing attitudes toward that which is strange and unfamiliar. With essays by such acclaimed thinkers as Claude L}vi-Strauss, Black Elk, Carlos Castaneda, and Franz Boas, it provides an awesome glimpse into the incredible shamanic practices of cultures around the world. Bibliography. Index. [via]More editions of Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge:
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Culturesby Anne FadimanISBN 0374525641 (0-374-52564-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprenticeby Mark J. PlotkinISBN 014012991X (0-14-012991-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice'Book summary:A century ago, malaria was killing Washingtonians, Londoners, Parisians. Today HIV, along with various cancers, has taken its place among worldwide epidemics. Quinine, extracted from the cinchona tree of the Amazonian rainforest, quelled malaria; alkaloids taken from trees in the West African rainforest may well yield a cure for AIDS. Yet those woods, Mark Plotkin tells us, are fast disappearing, along with the native peoples who know the powers of the plants that dwell there. His account of wandering through the Amazonian jungles focuses on local knowledge about plants, whose uses range from the mundane to the magical. The rainforests of the world, Plotkin notes, are our greatest natural resource, an intercultural pharmacy that can cure woes both known and yet unvisited. [via]
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice : An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forestby Mark J. PlotkinISBN 0670831379 (0-670-83137-9)
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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in Americaby Rayna RappISBN 0415916453 (0-415-91645-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseasesby Mark Roberts, Jeff Vandermeer, Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, K. J. BishopISBN 0553383396 (0-553-38339-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembledeach disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isnt heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.
Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that cant go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you dont have Pentzlers Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection. [via]More editions of The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases:
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Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseasesby Jeff VanderMeer, Mark Roberts, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Alan MooreISBN 1892389541 (1-892389-54-1)
Hardcover, Night Shade Books
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The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Diseaseby Robert KlitzmanISBN 030645792X (0-306-45792-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropologyby Peter J. BrownISBN 1559347236 (1-55934-723-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Walkin' over Medicineby Loudell F. SnowISBN 0814327575 (0-8143-2757-5)
Softcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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What They Saw...at the Hour of Death: A New Look at Evidence for Life After Deathby Karlis Osis, Erlendur HaraldssonISBN 0803893868 (0-8038-9386-8)
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Why We Get Sickby George C. Williams, Randolph M. NesseISBN 0679746749 (0-679-74674-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Why We Get Sick : The New Science of Darwinian Medicineby Randolph M. Nesse, George C. WilliamsISBN 0812922247 (0-8129-2224-7)
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Witch Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazonby Nicole MaxwellISBN 1567313035 (1-56731-303-5)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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