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Aboujaoude, Elias, MD
A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25567-8
Alecson, Deborah Golden
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08870-2
Altman, Lawrence K., M.D.
The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21281-7
Ameringer, Carl F.
From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition
$49.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25480-0
Anspach, Renée R.
Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21213-8
Arnold, David
State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India
$27.50 paperback; 978-0-520-08295-3
Ashcroft, Frances
The Science of Survival
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23420-8
Barnes, David S.
Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08772-9
Baur, Susan
Woeful Imaginings
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-06751-6
Becker, Gay
How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20914-5
Becker, Gay
How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22431-5
Bertram, Eva, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe, and Peter Andreas
The Price of Denial
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20598-7
Blanc, Paul D., MD
Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24881-6
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24882-3
Braslow, Joel
Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-20547-5
Briggs, Laura
Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22255-7
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23258-7
Brown, Phil, and Edwin J. Mikkelsen
Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21248-0
Buckley, Thomas, and Alma Gottlieb, edited & introduction
The Anthropology of Menstruation
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06350-1
Callahan, Daniel
Hazards of the Research Imperative
$40.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22771-2
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24664-5
Carpenter, Kenneth
A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22053-9
Carter, Rita
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23737-7
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24325-5
Carter, Rita
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22461-2
Cassel, Christine K.
What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care
$27.50 hardcover; 978-0-520-24624-9
Cassel, Christine K.
What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25156-4
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22873-3
Clarke, Edwin, and L.S. Jacyna
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07879-6
Cohen, Shirley
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24838-0
Colgrove, James
The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24749-9
Crandon-Malamud, Libbet
Social Change, Political Process, and Medical Pluralism in Bolivia
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08430-8
Davis, Robert J., PhD
Cutting through the Hype about Your Health
$21.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24918-9
Davis, Robert J., PhD
Cutting through the Hype about Your Health
$21.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24918-9
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E., and Carolyn F. Sargent
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
$28.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20785-1
Epstein, Steven
AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21445-3
Estroff, Sue E.
An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-05451-6
Etheridge, Elizabeth W.
A History of the Centers for Disease Control
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07107-0
Fairchild, Amy L., Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove
Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-25202-8
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25325-4
Farmer, Paul
Haiti and the Geography of Blame
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24839-7
Farmer, Paul
The Modern Plagues
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22913-6
Fassin, Didier
Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24467-2
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25027-7
Fee, Elizabeth, and Daniel M. Fox, editors
The Making of a Chronic Disease
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07778-2
Feinsilver, Julie M.
Cuban Health Politics at Home and Abroad
$27.50 paperback; 978-0-520-08298-4
Fingarette, Herbert
The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06754-7
Foner, Nancy
Work in an American Nursing Home
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-20337-2
Fox, Daniel M.
The Failure and Future of American Health Policy
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-20151-4
Furth, Charlotte
Gender in China's Medical History: 960–1665
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20829-2
Gelbart, Nina Rattner
A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22157-4
Glantz, Stanton A., and Edith D. Balbach
Inside the California Battles
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22286-1
Glantz, Stanton A., John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes, editors
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21372-2
Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio
The Quest for Competence
$22.50 paperback; 978-0-520-21653-2
Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio, Paul E. Brodwin, Byron J. Good, and Arthur Kleinman, editors
An Anthropological Perspective
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07512-2
Goozner, Merrill
The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs
$70.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23945-6
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24670-6
Gostin, Lawrence O.
Power, Duty, Restraint
$39.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22648-7
Gostin, Lawrence O., editor
A Reader
$39.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23175-7
Greene, Gayle
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24630-0
Greenhalgh, Susan
Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22398-1
Hine, Robert V.
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-20891-9
Hoberman, John
Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping
$40.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22151-2
$15.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24822-9
Iezzoni, Lisa I.
Mobility Problems of Adults with Chronic Conditions
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23742-1
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23819-0
Inhorn, Marcia C., and Frank van Balen, editors
New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23137-5
Jamner, Margaret Schneider, and Daniel Stokols, editors
New Frontiers for Research, Practice, and Policy
$34.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22609-8
Jesilow, Paul, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis
How Doctors Defraud Medicaid
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07614-3
Johansen, Ruthann Knechel
Reconstructing Life after Brain Injury
$25.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23114-6
Jonsen, Albert R., and Stephen Toulmin
A History of Moral Reasoning
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06960-2
Kayser-Jones, Jeanie Schmit
Care of the Aged in Scotland and the United States
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-06961-9
Kleinman, Arthur
Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20965-7
Kudlick, Catherine J.
A Cultural History
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-20273-3
Kunitz, Stephen J.
The Navajo Experience
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-06789-9
Laderman, Carol
Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-08258-8
Lindenbaum, Shirley, and Margaret Lock, editors
The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07785-0
Lock, Margaret M.
Varieties of Medical Experience
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-05231-4
Lynn, Joanne
Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24300-2
Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner
The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24063-6
Marks, Jonathan
Apes, People, and Their Genes
$40.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22615-9
Marks, Jonathan
Apes, People, and Their Genes
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24064-3
Mattingly, Cheryl, and Linda C. Garro, editors
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21825-3
McCabe, Linda L., and Edward R. B. McCabe
Promise and Peril
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25187-8
McDonough, John E.
A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22411-7
Miller, Barbara Stoler
Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-20190-3
Monroe, Kristen Renwick, Ronald B. Miller, and Jerome S. Tobis, editors
The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-25210-3
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25212-7
Morris, David B.
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22689-0
Mullan, Fitzhugh, M.D.
Profiles in Primary Care
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22670-8
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24331-6
Murphy, Timothy F.
AIDS, Morality, and Culture
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08636-4
Murray, John F., M.D.
A Doctor's Journal
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23467-3
Murray, Thomas H.
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-08836-8
Neugeboren, Jay
New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22875-7
O'Donovan, Diarmuid
Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-25410-7
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25411-4
Packard, Randall M.
Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-06575-8
Reagan, Leslie J.
Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21657-0
Resnik, Susan
Hemophilia, AIDS, and the Survival of a Community, Updated Edition With a New Preface
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-21195-7
Rhodes, Lorna A.
The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20351-8
Rhodes, Lorna A.
Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22987-7
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24076-6
Riley, James C.
A History of Twelve Countries
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-25286-8
Robertson, A. F.
The Social Organization of Human Reproduction
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07721-8
Robinson, James C.
Competition and Innovation in Health Care
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22076-8
Roseman, Marina
Temiar Music and Medicine
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08281-6
Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz
Public Health since 9/11
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24920-2
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25038-3
Rousseau, G.S., editor
Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07119-3
Russell, Louise B.
Making Policy about Medical Screening Tests
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08366-0
Sachs, Albie
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22019-5
Sadowsky, Jonathan
Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21617-4
Schwartz, Maxime
$35.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23531-1
Schwartz, Maxime
Unlocking the Mysteries of Mad Cow Disease
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24337-8
Sered, Susan Starr, and Rushika Fernandopulle
Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24442-9
Shatzmiller, Joseph
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08059-1
Smith, Roger
History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07580-1
Squiers, Carol
Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24733-8
Stevens, Rosemary
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21009-7
Suzuki, Akihito
The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England, 1820-1860
$49.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24580-8
Takakuwa, Kevin M., Nick Rubashkin, and Karen E. Herzig, editors
Personal Stories of Young Doctors
$35.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23936-4
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24681-2
Teunis, Niels, and Gilbert Herdt, editors
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24614-0
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24615-7
Unschuld, Paul U.
A History of Pharmaceutics
$95.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-05025-9
Unschuld, Paul U.
A History of Ideas
$27.50 paperback; 978-0-520-06216-0
Veith, Ilza, translator and introductory study by
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22936-5
Vines, Gail
Do They Rule Our Lives?
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-08777-4
Wagner, Marsden, MD, MS
How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24596-9
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25633-0
Welch, H. Gilbert, M.D., M.P.H.
Maybe Not and Here's Why
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23976-0
$12.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24836-6
Wolbarst, Anthony Brinton
How X-Ray, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, and Other Medical Images Are Created, and How They Help Physicians Save Lives
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21182-7
Woloshin, Steven, MD, MS, Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, and H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
Understanding Health Statistics
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25222-6