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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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Pharmacy

White Market Drugs Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America

Herzberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226731889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 4 line drawings

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fue...

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Biochemistry

Welcome to the Microbiome Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes in, on, and Around You

DeSalle Rob, Perkins Susan L., Wynne Patricia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223507, Yale University Press, February 2017
264 pp., 20.3x13 cm, 51 black&white illus.

<p>Revolutionary research is revealing how the trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies can keep us healthy... or make us sick Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Proj...

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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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History

Wounded Storyteller Body, Illness, and Ethics (Second Edition)

Frank Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004976, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
260 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability an...

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History

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Cooter Roger, Stein Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...

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Geriatrics

Winning Strategies for Successful Aging

Pfeiffer Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300184020, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm

For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for – and learned from – elderly people, addresses wi...

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Evolution

Genetics

Wetware A Computer in Every Living Cell

Bray Dennis

ISBN: PB: 9780300167849, Yale University Press, February 2011
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book off...

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Genetics

Woman Who Walked into the Sea Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease

Wexler Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300158618, Yale University Press, January 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This title presents a groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease". When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made...

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