Published February, 2022
By Carlos S. Dimas
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucuman, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.

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Published February, 2022
By Carlos S. Dimas
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Rating:
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Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucuman, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.

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Published September, 2021
By Margaret Pollak
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Margaret Pollak explores experiences, understandings, and care of diabetes in a Native urban community in Chicago made up of individuals representing more than one hundred tribes from across the United States and Canada.

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Published November, 2020
By Carla Joinson
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Vanished in Hiawatha is a harrowing look into the mistreatment of Native Americans at the Canton (South Dakota) Asylum for Insane Indians from 1902 to 1934.

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Published November, 2020
By Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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From Back Alley to the Border examines the history of illegal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California's anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century.

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Published May, 2020
By Cheryl Savageau
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Out of the Crazywoods is the insightful and riveting story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder and personal journey toward the acceptance and management of this lifelong illness.

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Published January, 2020
By Mark G. Kortepeter
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Offers an insider's account of one of the most dangerous workplaces on earth: the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mark Kortepeter recounts his journey from the lecture hall to the role of department chief, to the battlefield, to the Biosafety Level-4 maximum containment lab, and finally, to the corner office.

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Published August, 2019
By Rangira Bea Gallimore, Gerise Herndon and Patricia Anne Simpson
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Explores the possibility of art as therapeutic, capable of implementation by mental health practitioners crafting mental health policy in Rwanda. This anthology of scholarly, personal, and hybrid essays was inspired by scholar and activist Chantal Kalisa (1965-2015).

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Published April, 2019
By Jonathan M. Weber
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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In 1876 one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time. Jonathan Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Diaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city.

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Published April, 2019
By Jonathan M. Weber
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Rating:
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In 1876 one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time. Jonathan Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Diaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city.

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