Published August, 2020
By Daniel A. Rodriguez
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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This history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the US occupation focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba they evolved into important expressions of anticolonial nationalism as Cuba struggled to establish itself as a modern state.

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Published June, 2020
By Susan M Reverby
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Using Alan Berkman's unfinished prison memoir, FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, Susan Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary transformation from doctor to co-conspirator for justice.

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Published February, 2020
By Carla Bittel
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Offers the first full-length biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi, the most significant woman physician of her era and an outspoken advocate for women's rights. Jacobi rose to national prominence in the 1870s and went on to practice medicine, teach, and conduct research for over three decades.

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Published November, 2019
By Kathleen Bachynski
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boys who play the sport every year. Kathleen Bachynksi offers the first history of youth tackle football and the debates over its safety.

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Published November, 2019
By Kathleen Bachynski
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boysusome as young as five years olduwho play the sport every year. In this book, Kathleen Bachynksi offers the first history of youth tackle football and debates over its safety.

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Published August, 2019
By Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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The current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like.

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Published May, 2019
By Jennifer Thomson
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.

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Published May, 2019
By Jennifer Thomson
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.

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Published March, 2019
By Wendy Gonaver
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the US only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments.

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Published March, 2019
By Ira Helderman
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Provides the first comprehensive study of the surprisingly diverse ways that psychotherapists have related to Buddhist traditions. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, many of whom have been formative to the therapeutic use of Buddhist practices, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves.

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