Published May, 2021
By Leslie Anne Hadfield
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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In rural South African clinics, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations, and increasing educational and economic opportunities for South Africa's Black middle class. Leslie Anne Hadfield demonstrates how these women were able to reshape notions of health and healing.

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Published May, 2021
By John M. Janzen
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Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Published September, 2020
By Charles Monroe-Kane
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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In a memoir that blends engaging charm with unflinching frankness, Charles Monroe-Kane gives his testimony of mental illness, drug abuse, faith, and love. By the end of Lithium Jesus there may be a voice in your head, too, saying 'Do more, be more, live more. And fear less.'

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Published June, 2020
By Bo Kyeong Seo
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In 2001, Thailand introduced universal health care reforms that have become some of the most celebrated in the world. Drawing on two years of fieldwork at a district hospital in northern Thailand, Bo Kyeong Seo examines how people in marginal and dependent social positions negotiate the process of obtaining care.

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Published June, 2020
By Dagmar Herzog
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Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. Dagmar Herzog documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights canon, came to be seen as competing - with unexpected consequences.

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Published December, 2019
By John M. Janzen
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Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Published June, 2019
By Megan Hershey
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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Drawing on deep fieldwork, this political study of HIV-prevention NGOs in Kenya serves as a much-needed case study for understanding the web of political and economic pressures local development programs must navigate--and why that matters when "success" is based on prioritizing donor-set goals over locally identified needs.

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Published November, 2018
By Dagmar Herzog
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Bringing together the latest findings in Holocaust studies, the history of religion, and the history of sexuality in postwar - and now also postcommunist - Europe, Unlearning Eugenics shows how central the controversies over sexuality, reproduction, and disability have been to broader processes of secularization and religious renewal.

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Published April, 2018
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This text shows how healthcare professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent holistic healthcare, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. It investigates the need to rethink healthcare practices to bring the art and science of medicine back into balance.

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Published February, 2018
By Jonathan Engel
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Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Unaffordable covers, in a conversational style punctuated by apt examples, topics ranging from health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician training to health maintenance organizations and hospital networks.

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