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Psychology

Western Disease Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora

Laurier Decoteau Claire

ISBN: PB: 9780226772257, ISBN: HB: 9780226545752, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Because autism is an increasingly common diagnosis, North Americans are familiar with its symptoms and treatments. But what we know and think about autism is shaped by our social relationship to health, disease, and the medical system. In The Western...

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History

Culture Studies

Virus in the Age of Madness

Levy Bernard-Henri

ISBN: PB: 9780300257373, Yale University Press, July 2020
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Be...

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Neurology

Think Tank Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience

Linden David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248524, Yale University Press, January 2020
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind collection of popular scien...

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Gynecology

Tangled Diagnoses Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

Lowy Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9780226534091, ISBN: HB: 9780226534121, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus...

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Nutrition

Sport

Weight Management for Triathletes When Training is Not Enough

Loos Miller Ingrid

ISBN: PB: 9781782550891, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2016
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 2 colour illus., 45 black&white illus., 16 charts

Every triathlete wants to be leaner, faster, and more successful. But for most athletes, training is not enough. You need to focus on diet as well as training volume to achieve your optimal weight. "Weight Management for Triathletes" provides detaile...

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Philosophy

Public Health

Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing

Leder Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226396101, ISBN: HB: 9780226396071, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditi...

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Endocrinology

Toxic Bodies Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

Langston Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300171372, Yale University Press, March 2011
256 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.

In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor – a chemical that mimics hormones. Although...

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