Published December, 2014
By Alexander Mercer
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition from acute infectious diseases to chronic diseases as the predominant causes of death, presenting a new theory on how chronic diseases have developed.

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Published November, 2014
By Maria-Isabel Porras-Gallo and Ryan A. Davis
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Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to thepandemic.

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Published October, 2014
By Sarah B. Rodriguez and Sarah B. M. Webber Rodriguez
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision and clitoridectomy tells us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality.

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Published February, 2014
By David Cantor, Edmund Ramsden and Dr. David Cantor
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s.

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Published February, 2014
By Rose Holz and Rose Rose Holz
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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An examination of the complex interrelationship between charity birth control clinics and the commercial marketplace in the United States through the 1970s.

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Published January, 2014
By L. Stephen Jacyna, Stephen T. Casper and Professor Stephen Casper
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Essays from noted contributors trace the evolution of the neurological patient's role, treatment, and place in the history of medicine.

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Published October, 2013
By Jonathan Reinarz, Leonard Schwarz, Alannah Tomkins, Kevin Siena, Alistair Ritch, Angela Negrine, Jeremy Boulton and K80169 King
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Published September, 2013
By Jules Cohen, Diane S. Morse, Katherine R. Johnson and Diane Morse
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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This follow-up to Meliora Press/URP's 2010 biography of John Romano and George Engel explores the enduring impact of the biopsychosocial approach to medicine they pioneered at University of Rochester Medical Center.

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Published September, 2013
By Kristy Wilson Bowers
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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This study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with repeated epidemics of plague.

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Published April, 2013
By Mical Raz
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
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Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and neurologist Walter Freeman, The Lobotomy Letters gives an account of the widespread acceptance of this controversial procedure.

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