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11 produkter
Living Healthy with Hepatitis C
Natural and Conventional Approaches to Recover Your Quality of Life
E-bok, 2008
224 kr
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As many as four million Americans suffer from the hepatitis C virus (HCV), but most don''t even know they''re infected. Here at last is the unprecedented book that smashes the myths about the disease as it offers authoritative, lifesaving information you won''t find anywhere else. Living Healthy …
Infectious Madness
The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness
Häftad, 2016
188 kr
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Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, Harriet Washington, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Medical Apartheid, reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental …
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Inbunden, 2019
362 kr
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A powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ gap and explains what can be done to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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A powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ gap and explains what can be done to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.The 1994 publication of the The Bell Curve and its …
Renaissance Men
Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity
Inbunden, 2026
327 kr
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The gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Medical Apartheid.Between 1847 and 1952, three New York City doctors transformed medicine, …
Deadly Monopolies
The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.
E-bok, 2011
130 kr
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From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid , an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes …
Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
E-bok, 2008
79 kr
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction) PEN/Oakland Award Winner BCALA Nonfiction Award Winner Gustavus Meyers Award Winner From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at …
Notorious Dr. Flippin
Abortion and Consequence in the Early Twentieth Century
Av Jamie Q. Tallman, Harriet A. Washington
Inbunden, 2011
415 kr
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In 1910 a central Nebraska newspaper, the Aurora Sun, printed an editorial condemning a physician it dubbed “the notorious Dr. Flippin.” Dr. Charles Flippin’s reputation came under siege throughout the state as another newspaper editor alleged that the African American physician had committed “that …
Carte Blanche
The Erosion of Medical Consent
E-bok, 2021
180 kr
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“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential.” —Ibram X. Kendi Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients'' right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research …
Carte Blanche
The Erosion of Medical Consent
Häftad, 2021
165 kr
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“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential.” —Ibram X. KendiCarte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients' right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research has …
