Global Health

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    Growing Older in World Cities
    New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo
    Edited by Victor G. Rodwin
    Edited by Michael K. Gusmano
    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
    Edited by Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera
    Edited by Dorothy E. Vawter
    Edited by Phua Xiong
    Edited by Barbara Babbitt
    Edited by Mary M. Solberg
    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
    Anibal Faundes
    Jose S. Barzelatto
    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
    Edited by Mark B. Padilla
    Edited by Jennier S. Hirsch
    Edited by Miguel Munoz-Laboy
    Edited by Robert Sember
    Edited by Richard G. Parker
    Edited by Jennifer S. Hirsch
    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
    Lara M. Knudsen
    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
    Richard F. Mollica
    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
    Richard G. Parker
    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
    Jennifer S. Hirsch
    Holly Wardlow
    Daniel Jordan Smith
    Harriet M. Phinney
    Shanti Parikh and Constance A. Nathanson
    For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they are supposed to have sex: their spouse. The Secret situates ma...
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    Chasing Polio in Pakistan
    Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail
    Svea Closser
    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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