Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
Showing results 1-10 of 10
Filter Results OPEN +
The Day after Yesterday
Resilience in the Face of Dementia
ISBN: 9780262048606
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 26, 2023
A deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.
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.
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.
Epidemic Illusions
On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
ISBN: 9780262045605
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 22, 2020
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices—from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment—help perpetuate global inequities.
Anti-vaxxers
How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
ISBN: 9780262539326
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2020
From science advocate and March on Science National Co-Chair Jonathan M. Berman, an essential takedown of the anti-vaccination movement, from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today's Facebook activists, offering strategies for refuting false claims of friends and family.
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780262039529
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2019
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
Fracking the Neighborhood
Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
ISBN: 9780262534628
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
Diseases and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780262015660
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 30, 2011
The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and American history.
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Implications for Global Health
ISBN: 9780262016735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 16, 2011
Experts explore the biological, social, and economic complexities of eradicating disease.
Health and Disease in Human History
Health and Disease in Human History
A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader
ISBN: 9780262681223
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2000
For more than thirty years, interdisciplinary historians have studied how groups and individuals in the past progressed despite food scarcities, nutritional deficiencies, exposure to virulent disease...

The Day after Yesterday
Resilience in the Face of Dementia
ISBN: 9780262048606
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 26, 2023
Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
ISBN: 9780262047968
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 11, 2023
Cultures of Contagion
ISBN: 9780262045919
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
Epidemic Illusions
On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
ISBN: 9780262045605
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 22, 2020
Anti-vaxxers
How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
ISBN: 9780262539326
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2020
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780262039529
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2019
Fracking the Neighborhood
Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
ISBN: 9780262534628
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
Diseases and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780262015660
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 30, 2011
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Implications for Global Health
ISBN: 9780262016735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 16, 2011
Health and Disease in Human History
Health and Disease in Human History
A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader
ISBN: 9780262681223
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2000