Published February, 2015
By Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Virginia M. Brennan and Ruth Enid Zambrana
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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The obesity epidemic has a disproportionate impact on communities that are hard-hit by social and economic disadvantages. This book explores effective models for treating and preventing obesity in such communities.

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Published January, 2015
By Peter Conrad and Annemarie Goldstein Jutel
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Jutel's innovative, open approach and engaging arguments will find support among medical sociologists and practitioners and across much of the medical system.

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Published January, 2015
By Scott Kahan, Andrea Carlson Gielen, Lawrence W. Green, Andrea C. Gielen and Peter J. Fagan
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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The single greatest way to improve health and quality of life is not by developing new medical approaches, but by addressing harmful personal behaviors. This book is designed to teach students and practitioners strategic principles for creating positive behavioral change on a population level.

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Published January, 2015
By A. Townsend Peterson
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Anyone working in the area of disease transmission, particularly those employing predictive maps, will find Peterson's book both inspiring and indispensable.

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Published January, 2015
By Cathy Caruth
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to the Grady Nia Project for abused, suicidal, and low-income African American women.

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Published January, 2015
By Cathy Caruth
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to the Grady Nia Project for abused, suicidal, and low-income African American women.

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Published January, 2015
By S. D. Lamb
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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The first historian ever granted access to these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer.

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Published January, 2015
By Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, Intolerant Bodies reveals how doctors and patients have come to terms, often reluctantly, with this novel and puzzling mechanism of disease causation.

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Published December, 2014
By Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Broad in scope and sweep, Hamlin's study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often our ability to survive.

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Published December, 2014
By E.F.Shaw Wilgis and E. F. Shaw Wilgis
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Throughout, the authors explore how medical science restores bones, tendons, nerves, muscles, and blood vessels in hands injured through disease, accident, and combat-ever aware of how the form and function of the human hand combine harmoniously in everyday activities and Herculean efforts alike.

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