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Health Rights Are Civil Rights — University of Minnesota …
WebHealth Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women’s movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that …
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Imagining Illness — University of Minnesota Press
WebImagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributors examine historical and contemporary visual practices—Chinese health fairs, documentary films from the World Health Organization, illness maps, fashions for nurses, and live surgery on the Internet—delving …
Breathtaking — University of Minnesota Press
WebBreathtaking is a sweeping ethnographic account of asthma and its treatments that expertly traverses questions of lived experience, medical technology, and critical ecology as they bear on the epidemic of disordered breathing. Beautifully written and poignant, this book makes a robust contribution to our understanding of the health effects of environmental …
Health Colonialism — University of Minnesota Press
WebHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment.
Medical Necessity — University of Minnesota Press
WebSkinner ultimately contends that a major shift is needed, one in which health care administrators, doctors, and patients admit that medical necessity is, at its base, a contestable political concept. $28.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0377-0. $112.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0376-3. 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, December 2019.
Care without Pathology — University of Minnesota Press
WebBased on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology shows how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization. Christoph Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place—with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers …
Subprime Health — University of Minnesota Press
WebFrom race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. Utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume moves the discussion beyond …
Blood Sugar — University of Minnesota Press
WebBlood Sugar makes a key contribution to our understanding of the evolution of racial health disparities. —. Alondra Nelson, author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome *. A highly readable account of the emergence and import of “metabolic syndrome,” a biomedical category of risk designed to
Rebirth of the Clinic — University of Minnesota Press
WebFrom physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic’s central activity has changed since Michel Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has …
Medicine by Design — University of Minnesota Press
WebMedicine by Design examines how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrates the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture.Annmarie Adams uses the “Royal Vic”—along with other hospitals—to explore issues in architecture and medicine, including the role of gender and class in …
Food Allergy Advocacy — University of Minnesota Press
WebExamining the politics of protecting children with food allergies in the United States, Food Allergy Advocacy opens up a conversation between food allergy, whiteness, and disability to untangle contemporary health politics. It importantly brings feminist STS and disability studies to this understudied but widely cared about concern.
Agriculture, Environment, and Health
WebOffers an interdisciplinary exploration of the implications of changes in institutional design and policy reform now underway at the global level. Ultimately, these changes will provide sustainable growth in agricultural production. Particular attention is given to the institutions that conduct research and implement changes in technology and practice in the fields of …
Sickening — University of Minnesota Press
WebA crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine.. From the spike in chronic …
Therapy Tech — University of Minnesota Press
WebTherapy Tech is the first book to give readers a large-scale analysis of mental health technologies and the cultural changes they have enabled. Both a sobering dissection of the current state of mental healthcare and a necessary warning of where things are headed, it makes an important assertion about how to help those in need of mental health services …
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Body and Soul — University of Minnesota Press
WebIn Body and Soul, Alondra Nelson combines careful research, deep political insight, and passionate commitment to tell the little-known story of the Black Panther Party's health activism in the late 1960s. In doing so, and in showing how the problems of poverty, discrimination, and access to medical care remain hauntingly similar more than forty …
City of Plagues — University of Minnesota Press
WebEnvironment and Planning A. Susan Craddock explores the institutional and administrative responses to smallpox, plague, cholera, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases in the rapidly growing city of San Francisco from 1860 through the 1940s. A fascinating perspective on medical geography in a historical context. —. Historical Geography.
MMPI-3 Overview — University of Minnesota Press
WebFeaturing new English- and Spanish-language norms and updated items and scales, the 335-item MMPI-3 builds on the history and strengths of the MMPI instruments to provide an empirically-validated, psychometrically up-to-date standard for psychological assessment. The MMPI-3 provides a contemporary assessment for mental health, …
MMPI®-2 Overview — University of Minnesota Press
WebThe MMPI-2 is a self–report instrument designed to aid in the assessment of a wide range of clinical conditions. It is used in nonclinical settings to assess persons who are candidates for high-risk public safety positions (police officers, nuclear power plant personnel, firefighters, pilots, and air-traffic controllers), and in criminal and
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