Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health 0815625073, 9780815625070

Epidemics and the Health of African Nations 0639995594, 9780639995595

News footage of disease in Africa is a familiar sight. Yet these outbreaks are often presented out of context, with no r

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Who's in Charge?: Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises [2 ed.] 0275994856, 9780275994853

A detailed exploration of leadership problems that can develop during public health crises such as the anthrax attacks,

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The Annals of the Terf Wars and Other Writing 9781399922951

The Annals of the Terf Wars brings together essays, speeches, Twitter threads, poetry, and one Star Wars inspired satiri

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Biopolitical Surveillance and Public Health in International Politics 0230619959, 9780230619951

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The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada 9781442686625

In The Last Plague, Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal epidemic disease management strategies developed before

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The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada 9781442698284, 9781442641112, 9781442610446

The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. C

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Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance, 1911-1966 9780773561113

Current debates over the role of doctors in a state-run health insurance program are nothing new to Canadians. Since 191

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Women's Health, Politics, and Power: Essays on Sex/gender, Medicine, and Public Health 0895031205, 9780895031204

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Cities and the Health of the Public 0826515118, 0826515126, 2005031075

The essays commissioned for this book analyze the impact of city living on health, focusing primarily on conditions in t

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Land Wars: The Politics of Property and Community 9781626373778

Raising the question of what rights “owners”—community, as well as individual—in fact “have,” the authors offer a sophis

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