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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.
Rebel Health
A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care
ISBN: 9780262048897
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
An action-oriented and radically hopeful field guide to the underground, patient-led revolution for better health and health care.
The Day after Yesterday
Resilience in the Face of Dementia
ISBN: 9780262048606
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
A deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Implications for Global Health
ISBN: 9780262549196
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Experts explore the biological, social, and economic complexities of eradicating disease.
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.
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.
Rebel Health
A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care
ISBN: 9780262048897
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
An action-oriented and radically hopeful field guide to the underground, patient-led revolution for better health and health care.
The Day after Yesterday
Resilience in the Face of Dementia
ISBN: 9780262048606
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
A deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Disease Eradication in the 21st Century
Implications for Global Health
ISBN: 9780262549196
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Experts explore the biological, social, and economic complexities of eradicating disease.
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.