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  • America's New Vaccine Wars

    California and the Politics of Mandates

    Bioethicist Mark Navin and policy scholar Katie Attwell explore the evolution of American childhood vaccination policy through the prism of political history, contemporary parenthood, and diverse governance strategies. America's New Vaccine Wars focuses on the origins and the outcomes of America's recent efforts to eliminate nonmedical exemptions to school and daycare vaccine mandates. These ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Turnaway Study

    The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion

    “If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria SteinemThe “remarkable” (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological—of receiving versus being denied an abortion that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Pro

    Reclaiming Abortion Rights

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFrom noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Lactivism

    How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

    by Courtney Jung ...
    Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given riseIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • New Handbook for a Post-Roe America

    The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support

    by Robin Marty ...
    Get the health care you need — by any means necessary.Featuring a new introduction by Amanda PalmerThe New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and navigating recent cataclysmic changes to reproductive rights law, to help you get the health care you need— by any means necessary. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through a post ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to develop effective and ethical public health interventions. Because it relies on the natural and universal appeal of stories, the book also serves to ... Read more

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  • HIV & AIDS

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • About Abortion

    Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

    by Carol Sanger ...
    One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility has stifled women’s willingness to talk about ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Generation Roe

    Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement

    Inextricably connected to issues of autonomy, privacy, and sexuality, the abortion debate remains home base for the culture wars in America. Yet, there is more common ground than meets the eye in favor of choice. Sarah Erdreich’s Generation Roe delves into phenomena such as "abortion-recovery counseling," "crisis pregnancy centers," and the infamous anti-choice "black children are an endangered ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Scarlet A

    The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

    by Katie Watson ...
    Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD