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Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language. As nutritional studies proliferate, producing more and more knowledge about connection between diet and health, Americans seem increasingly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. In Measured Meals, Jessica J. Mudry looks at language used in the United States to communicate about health and nutrition, and reveals its effects on reframing,...
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Morality and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides a compelling assessment of the powerful role moral systems play in addressing matters of health and disease. Encompassing a wide range of academic disciplines, the essays draw on the fields of psychology, medicine, history, sociology, political science, anthropology, sociology, and law. Contributors focus on the history of attitudes and values associated with diseases and disease-related...
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As an object of scrutiny, the medicalized body occupies center stage in the work of doctors, nurses, medical examiners, and other medical professionals who mediate broader cultural understandings of pathology, illness, and the various physical transformations associated with life and death. This book explores how the body functions within medical culture and examines the metaphors and models of the body used to understand medical phenomena, including...
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Because women have different health needs than men, they experience the health care system differently. Women have higher morbidity, experiencing more disease and disability throughout the life span. At the same time, because women live longer, they are more susceptible to late-on-set disease, such as osteoporosis and dementia. Yet until recently, the question of gender equity in U.S. health care has received little attention.
Using a sociological...
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Writing for any health care practitioner who spends time encouraging patients to consider behavior change, Rollnick, (health care communication, Cardiff University, Wales) presents communication tools for guiding patients in making choices about weight loss, safe sex practices, smoking cessation, medication adherence, and other health matters. Part I of the book overviews motivational interviewing and its evidence base, then describes three communication...
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"What is a healthy life? What is it to live well? How do our contemporary ways of thinking about health compare to the ways in which a healthy life was understood by our predecessors? In this authoritative new book, Klaus Bergdolt offers a panoramic overview of health and healthy living from the ancient world through to the middle of the nineteenth century, when scientific medicine began to gain ascendancy. He shows that the doctrine of dietetics...
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"Fat Blame is a book about how the war on obesity is, in many ways, shaping up to be a battle against women and children, especially women and children who are marginalized via class and race. While conceding that fatness can be linked to certain conditions, or that some populations might be heavier than others, Herndon is more interested in the ways women and children are blamed for obesity and the ways interventions aimed at preventing obesity are...
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