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Identity and health / edited by David Kelleher and Gerard Leavey.

Cultural diversity in health & illness / Rachael E. Spector.

Life style and health research / Meridith R. Blakely and Sarah M. Timmons, editors.

Autistic people speak out because there is nothing wrong with us. We are complete, complex, human beings leading rich and meaningful existences and deserving dignity, respect, human rights, and the primary voice in the conversation about us. This anthology, and the Loud Hands Project as a whole, serves to document and explore that.

408 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Loud hands : autistic people, speaking / [ASAN, Autistic Self Advocacy Network].

7 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 11 cm

Stormy weather : it will pass!.

Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine

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Vaccinations and public concern in history : legend, rumor, and risk perception / Andrea Kitta.

Les médications anti-goutteuses

1 photomechanical reproduction : half-tone, printed in colour ; image 14.7 x 12.2 cm.

A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.

"Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor, it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden rice, which was developed in the hopes of combating that problem by a team of European scientists in the late '90s, was genetically modified to provide an essential nutrient that white rice lacks: beta carotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the body. But twenty years later, this potentially sight- and lifesaving miracle food still has not reached the populations most in need, and tens of millions of people in India, China, Bangladesh, and throughout South and Southeast Asia have gone blind or have died waiting. Supporters claim that the twenty-year delay in Golden Rice's introduction is an unconscionable crime against humanity. Critics have countered that the rice is a "hoax", that it is "food's gold" and "propaganda for the genetic engineering industry". Here, science writer Ed Regis argues that Golden Rice is the world's most controversial, maligned, and misunderstood GMO. Regis tells the story of how the development, growth, and distribution of Golden Rice was delayed and repeatedly derailed by a complex but outdated set of operational guidelines and regulations imposed by governments, and sabotaged by anti-GMO activists in the very nations where the rice is most needed. Regis separates hyperbole from facts, overturning the myths, distortions, and urban legends about this uniquely promising superfood. Anyone interested in GMOs, social justice, or world hunger will find "Golden rice" a compelling, sad, and maddening true-life science tale"--Provided by publisher

xvii, 234 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Golden rice : the imperiled birth of a GMO superfood / Ed Regis.

"Stigma is a dehumanizing process, a method of shaming and blaming that is embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society. In Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting, medical anthropologists Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore another side of the issue: the startling fact that well-intentioned public health campaigns can create new and sometimes damaging stigma, even when they are successful. Brewis and Wutich present a novel, synthetic argument about how stigmas act as a massive driver of global disease and suffering, killing or sickening billions every year. They focus on three of the most complex, difficult-to-fix global health efforts: bringing sanitation to all, treating mental illness, and preventing obesity. They explain how and why humans so readily stigmatize, how this derails ongoing public health efforts, and why this process invariably hurts people who are already at risk. They also explore how new stigmas enter global health so easily and consider why destigmatization is so very difficult. Finally, the book offers potential solutions that may be able to prevent, challenge, and fix stigma. Stigma elimination, Brewis and Wutich conclude, must be recognized as a necessary and core component of all global health efforts. Drawing on the authors' keen observations and decades of fieldwork, Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting combines a wide array of ethnographic evidence from around the globe to demonstrate conclusively how stigma undermines global health's basic goals to create both health and justice."--From book jacket.

ix, 270 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Lazy, crazy, and disgusting : stigma and the undoing of global health / Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich.

"In spite of the success of the childhood inoculation movement, questions have persisted about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Arguments such as the relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism have led to an alarming increase in the number of parents choosing to not vaccinate their children. Yet the evidence in favor of vaccination is very strong if one examines the recent inoculation history of countries such as Great Britain, Sweden, and Japan. A decline in the numbers of children vaccinated in these countries has had immediate effects. In Great Britain for example, over 10,000 cases of pertussis and thirty-six deaths were reported following a decrease in vaccination rates in 1974-1978. These studies, taken as a group, present a powerful argument for the need to understand reasons for vaccination reluctance. Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate, with the primary aim of providing concrete recommendations for improving inoculation promotion programs and guidelines for physician interaction with inoculation resistant patients. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book explores the vernacular explanatory models used in inoculation decision-making. The research on which the book draws was designed to help create public health education programs and promotional materials that respond to patients fears, understandings of risk, concerns, and doubts. Exploring the nature of inoculation distrust and miscommunication, Andrea Kitta identifies areas that require better public health communication and greater cultural sensitivity in the handling of inoculation programs"--Provided by publisher.

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Identity and health / edited by David Kelleher and Gerard Leavey.

Cultural diversity in health & illness / Rachael E. Spector.

Life style and health research / Meridith R. Blakely and Sarah M. Timmons, editors.

Loud hands : autistic people, speaking / [ASAN, Autistic Self Advocacy Network].

Stormy weather : it will pass!.

Vaccinations and public concern in history : legend, rumor, and risk perception / Andrea Kitta.

A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.

Golden rice : the imperiled birth of a GMO superfood / Ed Regis.

Lazy, crazy, and disgusting : stigma and the undoing of global health / Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich.

Vaccinations and public concern in history : legend, rumor, and risk perception / Andrea Kitta.

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Cultural diversity in health & illness / Rachael E. Spector.

Life style and health research / Meridith R. Blakely and Sarah M. Timmons, editors.

Loud hands : autistic people, speaking / [ASAN, Autistic Self Advocacy Network].

Stormy weather : it will pass!.

Vaccinations and public concern in history : legend, rumor, and risk perception / Andrea Kitta.

A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.

Golden rice : the imperiled birth of a GMO superfood / Ed Regis.

Lazy, crazy, and disgusting : stigma and the undoing of global health / Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich.

Vaccinations and public concern in history : legend, rumor, and risk perception / Andrea Kitta.

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