Books – Health – Research & theory
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Culture and Cancer Care by Simon Dein
Covers topics such as the disparity of rates of cancer among different ethnic groups; cultural variability in cancer treatments and prognosis; complementary and alternative medicine for cancer patients; and, palliative care across cultures
Paperback, 200 pp, $57.00. Buy
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Culture and Cancer Care by Simon Dein
Examines a number of cultural themes in relation to cancer, including the disparity of rates of cancer among different ethnic groups; culture and screening; and others. This book focuses on culture, race and ethnicity and their relationship to cancer; the cultural context of sickness and help-seeking behaviour; and, the shift from biomedicine
, 200 pp, $169.00. Buy
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Viral Sex, The Nature of AIDS by Jaap Goudsmit
‘Viral Sex’ provides an eyewitness account of science’s effort to understand and control the spread of this deadly virus, in a journey that reaches from the deepest recesses of the African rainforest, to ancient Egypt and the mummified remains of Barbary apes, to pioneering research labs in the USA and Europe
Paperback, 282 pp, $35.95. Buy
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Viral Sex, The Nature of AIDS by Jaap Goudsmit
Viral Sex illuminates the origins and nature of the world’s most lethal disease. It provides an eyewitness account of science’s effort to understand and control the spread of this deadly virus
, 282 pp, $62.95. Buy
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Menopause, A Midlife Passage by Joan Callahan
Offers perspectives on menopause and the position of women in midlife. This volume provides women with a female-defined perspective on menopause and the passage to new physical, social, and cultural development. It covers aspects: cultural and personal perspectives; the physiology of menopause, the medicalization of a natural process; and more
Paperback, 240 pp, $32.00. Buy
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The Menopause Industry, How the Medical Establishment Exploits Women by Sandra Coney
Veteran health investigator Sandra Coney presents compelling evidence that how we perceive menopause is shaped and, in large measure, distorted by those who have transformed this natural process into a wildly lucrative enterprise. Coney examines the true motivations behind the medical industry’s highly publicized depiction of the hardships of menopause
Paperback, 16 pp, $20.95. Buy
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