Published August, 2024
By Carmen Huckel Schneider
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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Moving beyond a focus on the larger organizations such as the World Health Organization, this book examines the transformation of the landscape of global health policy over the last decade. It argues that closer attention needs to be paid to the inner workings of individual organizations to understand the shaping of today's global health agenda.

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Published January, 2024
By Brandon Zimmerman
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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Featuring previously unseen images, stories and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death and the gross anatomy lab through the tradition of dissection photography, examining its historical aspects from both photographic and medical perspectives.

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Published September, 2023
By Miquel Domenech, Nuria Valles-Peris, Anamika Gulati, Stephan Struve, Ana Tomicic, Anto Cartolovni, Anamaria Malesevic, Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko and Tina Sikka
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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Drawing from a range of disciplines and case studies, this volume examines the latest health and genetic technologies, explores the representation, communication, and internalization of health knowledge and reveals the economic and cultural inequalities that result from these technologies.

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Published October, 2022
By Pippa Morgan
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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This book unpacks the political economy of China's COVID-19 vaccine supplies to the Global South. Examining the political and economic forces at play, the book demonstrates how China's vaccine provisions have been determined by a complex set of commercial interests, domestic politics, and geopolitical relationships.

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Published October, 2022
By Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Padraig Carmody
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic's effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues.

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Published July, 2022
By Sunera Thobani
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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This book showcases the impact of state responses to COVID-19 on marginalized communities. The authors analyse the lockdowns, immigration and border controls, vaccine trials, income support and access to healthcare across eight countries in Australasia, North America, Asia and Europe to reveal the internal inequities within and between countries.

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Published June, 2022
By Yohann Aucante
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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This short book explores Sweden's response to the global pandemic and the wave of controversies it triggered. It helps to make sense of the response by defining 'a Swedish model' that incorporates the country's value system and offers a case study for understanding the ways in which different national approaches to the pandemic have been compared.

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Published June, 2022
By Andrew Skotnicki
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple re-framings of the question-theological, socioeconomic, and psychological- Andrew Skotnicki diagnoses a "persecution of the prophetic" at the heart of the contemporary penal system and society more broadly.

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Published June, 2022
By Amy Chandler and Baptiste Brossard
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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Can the social sciences explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or in individuals? This book presents a critical look at sociological explanations of mental illnesses, making the case for their renewal.

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Published June, 2022
By Amy Chandler and Baptiste Brossard
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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Can the social sciences explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or in individuals? This book presents a critical look at sociological explanations of mental illnesses, making the case for their renewal.

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