Sociology books: History of medicine
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MN89460. Code expires October 15, 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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Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State Christopher Perreira 2023 Fall
- A major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality
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Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring
- A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
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Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring
- The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
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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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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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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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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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Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring
- How race became embedded in a medical instrument
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Acid Revival The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort 2020 Fall
- A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science
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Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
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Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors 2017 Fall
- Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine
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Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring
- How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase