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Care without Pathology — University of Minnesota Press

WEBBased on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology shows how trans- health activists have taken on the project of …

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Imagining Illness — University of Minnesota Press

WEBImagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributors examine historical and …

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Breathtaking — University of Minnesota Press

WEBBreathtaking is a sweeping ethnographic account of asthma and its treatments that expertly traverses questions of lived experience, medical technology, and critical ecology as they …

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Medical Necessity — University of Minnesota Press

WEBSkinner ultimately contends that a major shift is needed, one in which health care administrators, doctors, and patients admit that medical necessity is, at its base, a …

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Health Colonialism — University of Minnesota Press

WEBHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the …

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Precarious Prescriptions — University of Minnesota Press

WEBPrecarious Prescriptions brings together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between …

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Sickening — University of Minnesota Press

WEBA crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality …

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Subprime Health — University of Minnesota Press

WEBFrom race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime …

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Gut Anthro — University of Minnesota Press

WEBGut Anthro tells the fascinating story of how a sociocultural anthropologist developed a collaborative “anthropology of microbes” with a human microbial ecologist to address …

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Body and Soul — University of Minnesota Press

WEBIn Body and Soul, Alondra Nelson combines careful research, deep political insight, and passionate commitment to tell the little-known story of the Black Panther Party's health …

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Blood Sugar — University of Minnesota Press

WEBThe first sustained social and political inquiry of metabolic syndrome, this provocative and timely book is a crucial contribution to the emerging literature on race and medicine. …

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Commodities of Care — University of Minnesota Press

WEBCommodities of Care is a forceful examination of how global health is working to transform patients from biomedical entities into market commodities. Elsa L. Fan’s ethnography is …

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Rebirth of the Clinic — University of Minnesota Press

WEBFrom physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic’s central …

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Therapy Tech — University of Minnesota Press

WEBTherapy Tech is the first book to give readers a large-scale analysis of mental health technologies and the cultural changes they have enabled. Both a sobering dissection of …

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MMPI-3 Overview — University of Minnesota Press

WEBFeaturing new English- and Spanish-language norms and updated items and scales, the 335-item MMPI-3 builds on the history and strengths of the MMPI instruments to provide …

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Agriculture, Environment, and Health

WEBOffers an interdisciplinary exploration of the implications of changes in institutional design and policy reform now underway at the global level. Ultimately, these changes will …

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City of Plagues — University of Minnesota Press

WEBEnvironment and Planning A. Susan Craddock explores the institutional and administrative responses to smallpox, plague, cholera, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases …

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MMPI-3 Scales — University of Minnesota Press

WEBPSYC. Psychoticism — Disconnection from reality. DISC. Disconstraint — Under-controlled behavior. NEGE. Negative Emotionality / Neuroticism — Anxiety, insecurity, worry, and …

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