Published August, 2017
By Andrew Lakoff
Publisher: University of California Press
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Published August, 2017
By Andrew Lakoff
Publisher: University of California Press
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Published January, 2017
By Brian King
Publisher: University of California Press
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Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. This book advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the possibilities for health justice.

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Published January, 2017
By Brian King
Publisher: University of California Press
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Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. This book advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the possibilities for health justice.

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Published November, 2016
By Paul U. Unschuld and Paul D. Buell
Publisher: University of California Press
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Compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, this title is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works.

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Published November, 2016
By Shari L. Dworkin, Monica Gandhi and Paige Passano
Publisher: University of California Press
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What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? This book presents thirteen multidisciplinary case studies that demonstrate how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of women.

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Published July, 2016
By Paul U. Unschuld
Publisher: University of California Press
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Compiled in China during the first century CE, marking both an apex and a conclusion to the initial development stages of Chinese medicine, this edition provides insights into the processes of reception and transmission of ancient Chinese concepts from the Han era to the present time.

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Published June, 2016
By Tom Crook
Publisher: University of California Press
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When and how did public health become modern? This book offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health.

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Published June, 2016
By Tom Crook
Publisher: University of California Press
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When and how did public health become modern? This book offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. It is of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain.

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Published June, 2016
By Jason Corburn and Lee Riley
Publisher: University of California Press
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Urban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. This book exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy and reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents.

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