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With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American children now receive more vaccines than any previous generation, and laws requiring their immunization against a litany of diseases are standard. Yet, while...
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Based on the NPT three-part mini series, Do No Harm: The Opioid Epidemic follows author and director, Harry Wiland as he works to unearth the history and truth behind America's rampant opioid crisis, and investigates how this crisis ballooned into an epidemic fueled by Big Pharma's ploys, the medical community's obliviousness, and policymakers lack of oversight.
The Opioid Epidemic is the worst man-made drug epidemic in the history of our nation....
3) The path to a livable future: a new politics to fight climate change, racism, and the next pandemic
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"An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism. "An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be."-Naomi Klein 2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but it took...
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Desde hace muchos años, las epidemias han tenido repercusión en la vida social, cultural y política de los peruanos. Este libro nos presenta una perspectiva histórica original de este dramático impacto y una interpretación clara de su significado durante el pasado reciente del Perú. Publicado ahora con un nuevo prólogo que discute el Covid-19, El regreso de las epidemias es un clásico que no ha perdido su vigencia. El autor nos hace reflexionar,...
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From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand-noting the excesses of the more radical edges of the ACT UP movement as well as the conservative religious leaders who thought AIDS victims deserved what they got.
The story of AIDS is one of the most...
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Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments in biomedical technology and injustices in clinical care and research. Since then, bioethics has predominantly focused on respect for autonomy, beneficence and nonmaleficence, and the zero-sum "lifeboat" ethics of distributive justice, applying these principles almost exclusively within the walls of medical institutions. It is now...
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Public Health and the Environment presents a timely pathway articulating the connections between the social, ecological, and economic factors that impact population health. This book aims to engage the reader in a sound understanding of the fundamental determinants that significantly impact the environment and people's health. The Second Edition features updated web links to online availability, editing more than ten images, including Tables and Figures,...
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Despite efforts to redress the prejudice and discrimination faced by people with mental illness, a pervasive stigma remains. Many well-meant programs have attempted to counter stigma with affirming attitudes of recovery and self-determination. Yet the results of these efforts have been mixed. In The Stigma Effect, psychologist Patrick W. Corrigan examines the unintended consequences of mental health campaigns and proposes new policies in their place....
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At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis - and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young physician named Richard Doll concluded in a research paper that smoking cigarettes was 'a cause and an important cause' of the rapidly increasing epidemic of lung cancer. His historic and contentious finding marked the beginning...
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"Drawing on vast source materials, and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day"--
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Each year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children living in poverty. But as global medical aid can often overlook the local economic and political systems that cause bodily suffering, it can also unintentionally prolong the very conditions that hurt children and undermine local aid givers. Investigating medical humanitarian...
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À l'heure o les lobbies et les médias veulent promouvoir le suicide assisté et l'euthanasie, le signal d'alarme est lancé par un ancien Franc-maçon...
Serge Abad Gallardo, bien connu pour son témoignage sur la franc-maçonnerie, est aussi bénévole en aumnerie d'hpital depuis six ans. Il s'alarme de la volonté des lobbies et des médias de promouvoir le suicide assisté et l'euthanasie active sous couvert d'humanité.
Son expertise lui permet...
13) Transforming Communities: Lessons Learned from More Than 30 Years of Healthy Communities Efforts
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Minimum Specifications and Fundamental Shifts for Transforming Communities
The amount of new and developing evidence and knowledge that has been generated across the Healthy Communities movement and other key community change efforts in the past few decades has been transformative. Although this timeframe represents a period of major advances and notable efforts, the progress has been significantly outpaced by social and environmental issues facing...
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"Public health expert Leana Wen gives an insider's account of public health and its crucial role--from opioid addiction to global pandemic--and tells an inspiring story of her journey from homeless immigrant to being named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People."--
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This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the importance of ethics in medical documents addressed to...
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What will it take to get an entire generation to care about the well-being of their brains?
Be a Neuro-Advocate is all about the cultural and historical shift of how our society has come to understand and interact with the human brain. In it, author Melody Chang focuses on framing research, medicine, and diseases in a relevant and relatable way to directly, reach those, who inaccurately assume brain health has no relevance to them.
Be a Neuro-Advocate...
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America is suffering from two public health crises. One is caused by a virus. The other, a brutal economic shutdown, is something we have brought on ourselves. Both the virus and the shutdown are deadly. But many more Americans will likely die from getting laid off than from the virus.
The shutdown wasn't caused by the virus. It was a frantic response to America's unpreparedness. For more than two decades, a dozen official reports sounded the alarm....
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In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofit's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive, global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS. This riveting story highlights the motivations behind AHF's life-saving...
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Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and celebration? Or is it new and disabling, triggered by something in the environment that is damaging more children every day? Authors Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted believe autism is new, that the real rate...
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