Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies by Renee Chelian, Glenna Boyd, Thomas Cunningham, Curtis Boyd, Shelley Sella, Marc Heller, Sarah Dubow, Colin Partridge, Shannon Withycombe, Amy Hagstrom Miller, Johanna Schoen

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Renee Chelian, Glenna Boyd, Thomas Cunningham, Curtis Boyd, Shelley Sella, Marc Heller, Sarah Dubow, Colin Partridge, Shannon Withycombe, Amy Hagstrom Miller, Johanna Schoen

202 pages • paperback • 2022

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Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children by Sandra Eder, Aimee Medeiros, Elena Conis

Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Sandra Eder, Aimee Medeiros, Elena Conis

238 pages • paperback • 2021

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Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy by Piper Sledge

Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Piper Sledge

184 pages • paperback • 2021

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The Business of Private Medical Practice: Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940 by James A. Schafer Jr.

The Business of Private Medical Practice: Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

James A. Schafer Jr.

256 pages • paperback • 2013

nonfiction health history
Dying Green: A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care by Christine Vatovec

Dying Green: A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Christine Vatovec

186 pages • paperback • 2023

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Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-­Century America by Brittany Cowgill

Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-­Century America

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Brittany Cowgill

250 pages • digital • 2018

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An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America by Courtney E. Thompson

An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Courtney E. Thompson

278 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction crime health history
Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals by Lori Freedman

Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Lori Freedman

228 pages • paperback • 2023

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Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing by Kylie Smith

Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Kylie Smith

192 pages • paperback • 2020

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Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox by Alyshia Gálvez

Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Alyshia Gálvez

230 pages • paperback • 2011

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