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Women, Health, and Nation
Authors provide a much-needed analysis of the dynamic decades after 1945, when both Canada and the United States began using federal funds to expand health-care access, and biomedical research and authority reached new heights. Focusing on a wide range of issues - including childbirth, abortion and sterilization, palliative care, pharmaceutical regulation, immigration, and Native health care - these essays illuminate the ironic promise of biomedicine, postwar transformations in reproduction, the varied work and belief-systems of female health-care providers, and national differences in women's health activism. Contributors include Aline Charles (Laval University), Barbara Clow (independent s...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Biographies of Remedies
At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social circumstances from which they sprang, and the social effects that remedies engendered are treated in depth in this collection of essays. They address the historical variety of remedies as economic, social, and cultural objects and discuss their particular forms of production and distribution. Drawing predominantly on British and Dutch cases, the curious ‘biographies’ of modern drugs like streptomycin, taxol and interferon are reviewed, the shifting boundaries between medicines and toxic substances are explored, and remedial strategies such as contraceptives are scrutinised. This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in 1998, explores cultures of remedies from a comparative perspective.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
East Plays West
The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked. However, this assumption underestimates the extent to which sport was an important symbol for both power blocs in their ongoing ideological struggle. This collection of essays from leading international authorities on sport, culture and ideology brings together an impressive body of work organized around key political themes and outstanding moments in sport, and is at once a political history of sport and an illuminating new perspective on the forces that shaped this unsettled time.
The Politics of Global Regulation
"Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level ... This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or 'regulatory capture' happens, and how it can be averted."--P. [iv] of cover.
Dark Remedy
In this riveting medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, from the epidemic of birth defects in the 1960's to the present day, as scientists work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel side effects. A parable about compassion-and the absence of it-Dark Remedy is a gripping account of thalidomide's extraordinary impact on the lives of individuals and nations over half a century.
Ships and Friendships
Captivated by a memorable childhood voyage from Sweden to Poland, a shy and awkward young boy leaves school at sixteen determined to make a career in shipping...Fired from the family firm by a father resentful of his success, Arne Larsson built a shipbroking empire from a small loan, a strong liver, considerable good luck and that most precious commodity -- a world-wide network of friends. Six decades riding the waves of both failure and triumph leaves his passion for shipping undiminished and his cable address 'FRIENDSHIP' more appropriate than ever...
The Courts of Babylon
No sport has gone through the seismic changes that rocked tennis when the game, long a holdout against professionalism and creeping commercialism, abandoned its roots as a genteel, amateurs-only enterprise and became a pro sport, vying for the heart of the public with rivals like soccer, NFL football, or NBA basketball. Peter Bodo, who has covered tennis since the dawn of this "Open" era as the chief writer for TENNIS magazine, was there to witness this transition and what it promised, what it delivered. He has covered the game on every continent since the early 1970s. THE COURTS OF BABYLON is more than a collection of essays, most of them growing out of a deep familiarity and, often, relati...
Till mitt försvar
Till mitt försvar är berättelsen om hur Sargon De Basso, trots bottenbetyg på juristlinjen och ett åtal som kunde ge honom fängelse, nådde toppen och blev en av landets mest kontroversiella försvarsadvokater. I dag företräder han kända skådespelare, yrkeskriminella och toppskiktet i den nazistiska organisationen NMR. I boken berättar han om varför han väljer att försvara de som samhället föraktar och om en lång rad fall som gått in i svensk rättshistoria, som Joy Rahman, Mikael Persbrandt mot tidningen Expressen och livsödet Samir Sabri. Till mitt försvar är en djupdykning in i advokatyrket och skildrar rättegångarnas inre skådespel. Boken är skriven tillsammans med journalisten Peter Johansson som varit chefredaktör för flera branschtidningar om juridik, till exempel Legally yours och Dagens Juridik.
