Published July, 2008
By William Bynum and William F. Bynum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Very Short Introductions
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This Very Short Introduction explores the history of Western medicine, examining the key turning points, discoveries, and controversies in its rich history from classical times to the present.

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Published April, 2008
By Veronique Mottier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Very Short Introductions
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Is our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have views of sexual norms changed over time? And how have feminism, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? This Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our sexuality shapes us.

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Published January, 2008
By Alan Whiteside and Alan Whiteside OBE
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP Oxford)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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Though first identified in 1981, by 2004 an estimated 40 million people were living with HIV/AIDS and about 20 million had died - numbers which continue to rise as scientists race to find a cure for the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. This book explains the science, the international and local politics, the fascinating demographics, and the devastating consequences of the disease, and explores how we have — and must — respond.

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Published September, 2006
By Tom Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP Oxford)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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With diagnoses based on thoughts, behaviour, and emotions, psychiatry has always aroused strong feelings. This book explains what psychiatry is and what it does. It looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.

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