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Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety
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Marion Nestle |
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Now in a new edition!
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"—only adds to the general sense of unease. Fina...
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Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
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Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff |
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In a landmark investigation that's been compared to Silent Spring, two veteran journalists definitively show how, why, and where industrial toxins are causing rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, and other serious illnesses to soar in children. Philip and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers-the first to be raised in a truly toxified world-are the first generation to be sicker a...
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A Cooperative Method of Natural Birth Control
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Margaret Nofziger |
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Presented here is a safe, non-invasive, and effective method of birth control based on the recording and interpretation of signs and signals from a woman's own body. Observing the natural signs of fertility (charting temperatures, noting cervical changes, keeping a mentstrual calendar), couples can cooperate in a safe, noninvasive, and effective alternative to the typical medical approach of hormone treatmen...
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Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
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Paul Farmer and Haun Saussy (Editor) |
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For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients--and worked to address the root causes of their disease--in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere in the d...
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Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS
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Celia Farber |
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At an April 1984 press conference, government researchers announced that the cause of AIDS—the disease then terrifying the nation as if it were a Biblical scourge—was a "retrovirus" called HIV.
Many scientists, including two Nobel winners, said it wasn't possible. But they were quickly drowned out by the ecstatic response from activists, government-funded researchers, a relieved public...
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Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?
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Paul Armentano, Steve Fox, and Mason Tvert |
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Nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert compare and contrast the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world—marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the two drugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose a simple yet rarely considered question...
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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #5: Sickness and Health
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Joe Biel |
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This issue details over fifteen years of Joe Biel's improving and declining physical health as he battles doctors, naturopaths, and weirdos to try and figure out what exactly is wrong with him. Aimed at anyone who has experienced any kind of mysterious hardship, the story is a great metaphor for all kinds of complicated and technical problems.
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Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
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Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English |
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Citing vivid examples, including numerous "treatments" and "rest cures" perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture. Ever since Hippocrates, male medics have treated women as the "weaker" sex. Complaints and Disorders reveals this history and asserts the need for a new substance and style...
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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich |
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"Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of western history. They were abortionists, nurses and counselors. They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were midwives, travelling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from eac...
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