Published April, 2023
By Gregory S. Wilson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. Gregory Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison long after 1975.

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Published April, 2023
By Gregory S. Wilson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. Gregory Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison long after 1975.

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Published October, 2021
By Sarah Handley-Cousins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins expands our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and both physical and mental conditions.

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Published July, 2019
By Sarah E. Handley-Cousins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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An innovative look at all of the disabling experiences to which northern soldiers were subjected - physical and mental, in camp and on the battlefield

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Published April, 2019
By Vlad Kravtsov, William W. Keller and Scott A. Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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In this study, Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa have resulted in a set of unique ideas on the cardinal goals of the state. This is the first book to explore how these consensual ideas have shaped health governance and impinged on norm diffusion processes.

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Published July, 2018
By Deirdre Cooper Owens
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynaecologists disseminated medical fictions about their patients. Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races.

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Published November, 2017
By Deirdre Cooper Owens
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynaecologists disseminated medical fictions about their patients. Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races.

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Published December, 2015
By David Chanoff, Louis W. Sullivan and Andrew Young
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Tells the extraordinary life of Louis J. Sullivan. His life - from Morehouse to the White House and his ongoing work with medical students in South Africa - is the embodiment of the hopes and progress that the civil rights movement fought to achieve. His story should inspire future generations - of all backgrounds - to aspire to great things.

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Published July, 2015
By Vlad Kravtsov
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Published March, 2015
By Brian Craig Miller, Amanda and Greg Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era Stephen Berry and Amy Taylor
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The US Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche. Brian Craig Miller shows in Empty Sleeves, the hospital emerged as the first arena where southerners faced the stark reality of what amputation would mean in southern society after the war.

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