One of our most anticipated titles for Spring, Changing Planet, Changing Health is an eye-opening book that looks at the ways climate change is altering patterns of disease. It’s scary—and pressing—stuff. Before …
Read More >Just in time for holiday feasting, pumpkin spice lattes and New Year’s resolutions: Toni Yancey’s approach to fitness, Instant Recess, was the focus of Jane Brody’s recent New York Times article on …
Read More >Saying that Dr. Paul Farmer is a busy guy would be an understatement. In this live interview from the 2010 Miami International Book Fair, Farmer talks about his “day job” as a …
Read More >Toni Yancey’s Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time is the subject of our latest UC Press Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yancey addresses some cultural and gender …
Read More >Instant Recess author Toni Yancey appeared on the Tavis Smiley program to discuss how our country’s culture of inactivity affects everything from worker productivity to childhood brain development to the ratio of …
Read More >Out of the tens of millions of pilgrims who have sought healing at Lourdes since the 19th century, there have been 66 official miracles, says Robert Scott in this UC Press podcast. …
Read More >Medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer and graduate student Jeff Schonberg spent 12 years among homeless heroin users on the streets of San Francisco, embedded in a world that is usually invisible …
Read More >On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted 500 chefs from all over the country on the White House lawn for the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of her larger campaign to …
Read More >“People sometimes refer to [Dr. Paul Farmer] as a hero, saint, madman, or genius….but the essential thing about him is that he listens to his patients”, writes Haun Saussy, editor of Partner …
Read More >UC Press author Sam Walker said he was aiming to go into academia when he landed a job with the federal government as historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “For …
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