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

BACK TO ALL BOOKS ON SALE

 

Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State 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
Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes 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
Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring
The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State 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
Mediating Alzheimer’s: Cognition and Personhood 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
Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States 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
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring
A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics 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
Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy 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
Histories of the Transgender Child Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall
A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine 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
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America 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