Global Health
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- Growing Older in World Cities
- New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo
- Population aging often provokes fears of impending social security deficits, uncontrollable medical expenditures, and transformations in living arrangements, but public policy could also stimulate ...
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- Healing by Heart
- Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers
- Healing by Heart is a book of stories--stories of people's search for culturally responsive health care from U.S. providers. It offers resources to providers and institutions committed to de...
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- The Human Drama of Abortion
- A Global Search for Consensus
- Abortion 101, an accessible account of abortion practices and ethical issues around the globe, for students, activists, and policymakers
Deeply touched by the tragedies of botched abor... -
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- Love and Globalization
- Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World
- Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most ...
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- Reproductive Rights in a Global Context
- South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, Jordan
- A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2006
Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five deve... -
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- Healing Invisible Wounds
- Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World
- In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica...
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- Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions
- Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil, Second Edition
- Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists.
Originally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became a clas...
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- The Secret
- Love, Marriage, and HIV
- A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2010
For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they a... -
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- Chasing Polio in Pakistan
- Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail
- The number of global polio cases has fallen dramatically and eradication is within sight, but despite extraordinary efforts, polio retains its grip in a few areas. Anthropologist Svea Closser follo...
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- Family Secrets
- Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique
- Behind a thatched hut, a birthing woman bleeds to death only minutes from "life-saving" maternity care. Chapman begins with the deceptively simple question, "Why don't women in Mozambique use exis...
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- Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe
- HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers
- As sub-Saharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in prevention and education efforts. The terms of this collaborat...
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