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Health and the Rise of Civilization
Mark Nathan Cohen
Paperback - $52.95
Civilized nations popularly assume that 'primitive' societies are poor, ill, and malnourished and that progress through civilization automatically implies improved health. In this provocative book, Mark Nathan Cohen challenges this belief. Using find ...
State of Immunity : The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
James Keith Colgrove
Hardcover - $96.95
This first comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. One hundred years ago ...
Risk Assessment Methods : Approaches for Assessing Health and Environmental Risks
Vincent T. Covello
Hardcover - $336.95
This volume fills the need for a comprehensive guidebook and reference for risk assessment techniques. Within a generalized conceptual framework the authors clarify and integrate basic concepts; critique current methodologies; and teach the selection ...
City of Plagues : Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco
Susan Craddock
Paperback - $49.95
An absorbing look at the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class and in urban development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco.
"Craddock's provocative work offers an invaluable perspective on ...
Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease : A Comparative Perspective
Caroline Currer
Hardcover - $216.95
Both health care practitioners and health planners are beginning to recognize the importance of differences between lay and professional concepts of health and illness. The editors of this volume, having themselves worked in this field for many years ...
Death by Migration : Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century
Philip D. Curtain
Paperback - $75.95
From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange "climate." Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every tradin ...
Manual of Infection Control Procedures
N. N. Damani
Paperback - $128.95
The prevention of infection in the health care setting remains a key goal for all health care personnel. All health care establishments also have a need to continually improve the quality of care they provide and ensure a safe working environment. He ...
Scientific and Technical Means of Distinguishing Between Natural and Other Outbreaks of Disease
Malcolm Dando
Hardcover - $267.95
Easy Interpretation of Biostatistics : The Vital Link to Applying Evidence in Medical Decisions
Gail F. Dawson
Paperback - $65.95