Published April, 2019
By Jonathan M. Weber
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In 1876 one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time. Jonathan Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Diaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city.

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Published April, 2019
By Jonathan M. Weber
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In 1876 one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time. Jonathan Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Diaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city.

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Published January, 2019
By Jacek L. Mostwin, Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy and Renee K. Nicholson
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"Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we tell ourselves" writes contributor Madaline Harrison. Bodies of Truth continues this tradition through a variety of narrative approaches by writers representing all facets of health care.

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Published October, 2018
By Kim Adrian
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Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Kim Adrian tries to make peace with a troubled past by cataloguing memories, anecdotes, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary.

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Published October, 2017
By Lisa Riggin
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Published October, 2017
By Richard C Parks
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Published March, 2017
By Sonya Huber
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Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain.

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Published June, 2016
By Alyson O'Daniel
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Anthropologist Alyson O'Daniel analyses the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans, as well as the services designated to help them, by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV disease at the advent of the 2006 Treatment Modernization Act.

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Published August, 2015
By Jonathan Fineberg and James B Milliken
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Published April, 2015
By Mojie Crigler
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