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  • Aids and maternity in India

    From public health to social sciences perspectives. Emerging themes and debates

    Edited by Patrice Cohen, Suniti Solomon ...
    Series series Collection Sciences Sociales
    At a time when the number of people, and in particular women, living with HIV/AIDS in India is increasing, the aim of this publication is to contribute to the understanding of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) and of its prevention. Indian and French specialists (medical practitioners, social scientists, activists) have been brought together to elucidate different aspects of this transmission ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective

    by Kaye Wellings, Larry Bencze, Erminia Pedretti ...
    This key textbook provides a firm grounding in theoretical and practical aspects of the study of sexual health for both undergraduates and post-graduates. ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Negotiating the Pandemic

    Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

    Edited by Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Series Book 19 - Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences ... Read more

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  • Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe

    Edited by Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis, Gail Bolan ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Handbook of HIV and Social Work

    Principles, Practice, and Populations

    by Cynthia Cannon Poindexter ...
    Praise for Handbook of HIV and Social Work"Cynthia Cannon Poindexter has given us a remarkable edited volume that contains much information on HIV that every professional social worker needs to know in order to practice competently in today's complex world."—From the Foreword by Vincent J. Lynch, MSW, PhD, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work"This comprehensive handbook assembles a group ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care

    by Joyceen S. Boyle, John W. Collins, Margaret Andrews, Patti Ludwig-Beymer ...
    Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care, 9th Edition, provides a contemporary framework for the safe, ethical, and effective care of diverse cultures and populations and cultivates the communication and collaboration skills essential to students’ success in today’s changing clinical nursing environment. Reflecting the expertise of established pioneers in the transcultural nursing field and ... Read more

    $106.09 CAD

  • Public Health in the Age of Anxiety

    Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada

    by Centre for Studies in Religion & Society ...
    Controversies and scepticism surrounding vaccinations, though not new, have increasingly come to the fore as more individuals decide not to inoculate themselves or their children for cultural, religious, or other reasons. Their personal decisions put the rights of the individual on a collision course with public and community safety.Public Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Family-Centred Perinatal Care

    Improving Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Care

    by Beverley Chalmers ...
    Since childbirth became a medicalized - and usually hospitalized - event a century ago, women's and families' psychosocial needs have been relegated to a somewhat peripheral role within the clinically focussed hierarchy of medical care. This text reinstates psychosocial issues as a primary focus of care, together with clinical excellence. Family-centred care is a familiar phrase in today's ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

    by Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Health Studies

    An Introduction

    by Louise Warwick-Booth, Ruth Cross, Diane Lowcock ...
    Contemporary Health Studies provides an accessible introduction to current issues and key debates in understanding and promoting health. Its up-to-date, global focus places a strong emphasis on the social, political and environmental dimensions of health.Part One sets the scene by looking closely at the definition of ‘health’ and outlining the aims and purpose of health studies. Part Two explores ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Women's Global Health

    Norms and State Policies

    by Lyn Boyd-Judson, Darshi Thoradeniya, Katherine Ba Thike, Ayushi Gummadi, Nadejda Marinova, Kathryn Roberts, Karen L. Baird, Leah R. Perlman, Patrick James, Laura Sjoberg1 ...
    For many women around the globe, health has become the central intersection of the personal and the political; women's bodies are the arena for policy debates about population, poverty, reproduction, and morality. Women's Global Health: Norms and State Policies is a comprehensive assessment of health for women around the globe that will inform debates underway in a wide range of disciplines. These ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD