Sociology books: Health policy
Sociology books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MN89560. Code expires Nov. 1, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // RACE AND ETHNICITY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HISTORY OF MEDICINE // HEALTH POLICY // DISABILITY STUDIES
CRIMINAL JUSTICE // EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT // ANIMAL STUDIES
URBAN STUDIES // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GLBT STUDIES
NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // LITERATURE AND POETRY
THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // LABOR STUDIES
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Opioid Reckoning
Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State
Amy C. Sullivan
2022 Fall
- Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
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Viral Cultures
Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
Marika Cifor
2022 Spring
- Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
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Mediating Alzheimer’s
Cognition and Personhood
Scott Selberg
2022 Spring
- An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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Food Allergy Advocacy
Parenting and the Politics of Care
Danya Glabau
2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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Commodities of Care
The Business of HIV Testing in China
Elsa L. Fan
2021 Fall
- How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve
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Therapy Tech
The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare
Emma Bedor Hiland
2021 Fall
- A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
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Sickening
Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
Anne Pollock
2021 Fall
- An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
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Brave Enough
Jessie Diggins
2021 Fall
- Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter
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Sweetness in the Blood
Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes
James Doucet-Battle
2021 Spring
- A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
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Fix What You Can
Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son
Mindy Greiling
2020 Fall
- One mother’s fight to support her son and change a broken system
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Medical Necessity
Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making
Daniel Skinner
2019 Fall
- How the politics of “medical necessity” complicates American health care
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Deadly Biocultures
The Ethics of Life-Making
Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar
2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
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What God Is Honored Here?
Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color
Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors
2019 Fall
- Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
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Breathtaking
Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change
Alison Kenner
2018 Fall
- People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
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Body and Soul
The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
Alondra Nelson
2013 Fall
- The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice