Conversations in Medicine and Society (Series)

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Launching Global Health

The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation

By Steven Palmer
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, History, American History
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

An in-depth look at the Rockefeller Foundation's earliest ventures in international health

The DNA Mystique

The Gene as a Cultural Icon

By Dorothy Nelkin & M. Susan Lindee
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture

Formative Years

Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000

Edited by Alexandra Minna Stern & Howard Markel
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, History, American History
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Sheds light on the development of the fields of pediatrics and child health during the last century

Student Bodies

The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine

By Heather Munro Prescott
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Explores the fascinating connections between university health centers and the evolution of American health and medicine

Ordinary Life

A Memoir of Illness

By Kathlyn Conway
Subjects: Memoir, Health & Medicine
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

A searingly honest account of one woman's ordeal with cancer that offers insights into all the emotions and reactions that illness evokes---sometimes noble, sometimes selfish, often despairing

White Coat, Clenched Fist

The Political Education of an American Physician

By Fitzhugh Mullan
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Memoir
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

A doctor tells his own behind-the-scenes story of the making of a medical man and the disintegration of an American myth

Inside/Outside

A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer

By Janet R. Gilsdorf
Subjects: Memoir, Health & Medicine, Gender Studies
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

A memoir of a physician with breast cancer, Inside/Outside tells the unforgettable story of when a doctor becomes a patient

Deadly Dust

Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health

New and expanded edition

By David Rosner & Gerald Markowitz
Subjects: Health & Medicine, History, American History, Political Science, Public Policy
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

A new and expanded edition of the authors' pivotal examination of the national silicosis crisis

The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine

New and expanded edition

By Jerome Lowenstein
Foreword by Howard Markel & Alexandra Minna Stern
Subjects: Health & Medicine
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Focusing on the human interaction of the industry this collection of essays asks, "Can you teach compassion?"

Universal Coverage

The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance

By Rick Mayes
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Examines why the U.S. is the only industrialized nation without universal health insurance coverage

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