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The Human Disease
How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
ISBN: 9780262048859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves.
Drugs and the FDA
Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
ISBN: 9780262548397
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin.
Expanding Mindscapes
A Global History of Psychedelics
ISBN: 9780262546935
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.
The Global Biopolitics of the IUD
The Global Biopolitics of the IUD
How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies
ISBN: 9780262547840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.
Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
ISBN: 9780262047968
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 11, 2023
How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
How Not to Study a Disease
The Story of Alzheimer's
ISBN: 9780262546010
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 7, 2023
An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure.
Sounding Bodies
Music and the Making of Biomedical Science
ISBN: 9780262046350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 11, 2022
The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present.
Cultures of Contagion
ISBN: 9780262045919
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
Mad by the Millions
Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization
ISBN: 9780262045384
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 13, 2021
The World Health Organization's post–World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a “world psyche.”
The Human Disease
How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
ISBN: 9780262048859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves.
Drugs and the FDA
Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
ISBN: 9780262548397
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin.
Expanding Mindscapes
A Global History of Psychedelics
ISBN: 9780262546935
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.
The Global Biopolitics of the IUD
The Global Biopolitics of the IUD
How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies
ISBN: 9780262547840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.
Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
ISBN: 9780262047968
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 11, 2023
How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
How Not to Study a Disease
The Story of Alzheimer's
ISBN: 9780262546010
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 7, 2023
An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure.
Sounding Bodies
Music and the Making of Biomedical Science
ISBN: 9780262046350
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 11, 2022
The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present.
Cultures of Contagion
ISBN: 9780262045919
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
Mad by the Millions
Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization
ISBN: 9780262045384
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 13, 2021
The World Health Organization's post–World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a “world psyche.”