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“ilana zelmanowicz”

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  • Viruses and Reproductive Injustice

    Zika in Brazil

    by Ilana Zelmanowicz ...
    Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines.Shortlisted, William H. Welch Medal Book Prize of the American Association for the History of MedicineBrazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Preventive Strikes

    Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery

    by Ilana Zelmanowicz ...
    Winner, 2011 Best Book in the History of Medicine, European Association for the History of Medicine and HealthModern scientific tools can identify a genetic predisposition to cancer before any disease is detectable. Some women will never develop breast or ovarian cancer, but they nevertheless must decide, as a result of genetic testing, whether to have their breasts and ovaries removed to avoid ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Imperfect Pregnancies

    A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis

    by Ilana Zelmanowicz ...
    How has prenatal testing, once offered only for high-risk pregnancies, become standard medical care for pregnant women today?In the 1960s, thanks to the development of prenatal diagnosis, medicine found a new object of study: the living fetus. At first, prenatal testing was proposed only to women at a high risk of giving birth to an impaired child. But in the following decades, such testing has ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

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  • Infections and Inequalities

    The Modern Plagues

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • A History of Immunology

    by Arthur M. Silverstein ...
    Written by an immunologist, A History of Immunology traces the concept of immunity from ancient times up to the present day, examining how changing concepts and technologies have affected the course of the science. It shows how the personalities of scientists and even political and social factors influenced both theory and practice in the field. With fascinating stories of scientific disputes and ... Read more

    $94.39 CAD

  • Cancer Virus

    The discovery of the Epstein-Barr Virus

    by Dorothy H. Crawford, Alan B. Rickinson, Ingólfur Johannessen ...
    The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is ... Read more

    $19.39 CAD

  • Multiple Sclerosis

    The History of a Disease

    by T. Jock Murray, MD ...
    Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal!The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of young adults, usually beginning with episodic attacks of neurologic symptoms, then entering a progressive phase some years later. Its onset has an average age of 30, and occurs in about 1 in 500 ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • CCSVI as the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis

    The Science Behind the Controversial Theory

    by Marie A. Rhodes ...
    Series series McFarland Health Topics
    Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community. The disease, which has always been considered autoimmune, may be related to vascular problems, in which circulation in the cerebrospinal system is impaired, thereby preventing the proper drainage of venous blood from the brain. This timely book includes a history of MS, an explanation of autoimmunity, and examines the recent research ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Abortion Beyond the Law

    Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion

    by Naomi Braine ...
    How feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe are making self-managed abortion available to all–and the strong transnational feminist movement they have built along the wayThe feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe making self-managed abortion available to all - and the transnational movement they have built along the wayDrawing on years of research with activists around the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Stillbirth

    Prediction, Prevention and Management

    Edited by Catherine Y. Spong ...
    Stillbirth remains a major and tragic obstetric complicationThe number of deaths due to stillbirth are greater than those due to preterm birth and sudden infant death syndrome combined.Stillbirth: Prediction, Prevention and Management provides a comprehensive guide to the topic of stillbirth. Distilling recent groundbreaking research, expert authors consider:The epidemiology of stillbirth ... Read more

    $195.99 CAD

  • Surgery and Salvation

    The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

    by Elizabeth O'Brien ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of modernity and identity ... Read more

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  • A Woman's Disease

    The history of cervical cancer

    by Ilana Lowy ...
    Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this disease was identified with the most dreaded aspects of malignancies: prolonged invalidity and chronic pain, but also physical degradation, shame and ... Read more

    $14.89 CAD