Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself.

Uploaded July 2026

Turnock’s Public Health: What It Is and How It Works takes a clear, systems-based approach to examining the modern U.S. public health system—its structure, functions, operations, and significance.

Uploaded July 2026

An accessible introduction to how yoga and meditation affect the brain. Each chapter will guide the reader through the latest yoga and meditation research and break down complex topics into easily digestible points. The book also explores the current limitations in studying these practices and offers tools for interpreting scientific literature.

Uploaded July 2026

This textbook provides clear, accessible coverage of the key topics required by instructors, including legacy content from traditional environmental health syllabi and new competency-based standards. Students will explore environmental exposure assessment, toxicology, epidemiology, air and water pollution, food safety, occupational health, and risk assessment.

Uploaded July 2026

This newly revised edition of the classic text is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health. Across chapters from experts in health and medicine, readers learn to recognize both the threads of inequity and the health impacts they produce.

Uploaded July 2026

Scott M. Youngstedt asserts that nuanced analysis of the interplay between mistrust and trust is key to understanding the decisions that health-seeking Nigériens make among the multiple options available to them, while recognizing that in one of the world's very poorest countries, many forms of biomedical care--and some traditional and Islamic medicine--are unaffordable to most people.

Uploaded July 2026

Leininger's Transcultural Healthcare: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practice offers the first edition of a comprehensive presentation of transcultural healthcare in global settings, which is applicable to providers, educators and researchers working in varied health care settings with patients and/or clients from diverse cultures and religious backgrounds.

Uploaded July 2026

Drawing on cultural history and interviews with scientists, policymakers, and activists (many of whom suffer from chronic conditions), Mendenhall argues for transforming the health care system by recognizing the experiences of complex patients as "legitimate sources of knowledge."

Uploaded July 2026

Inescapable reveals how ordinary people are tackling the toxic impacts from this sprawling class of industrial compounds―long used in consumer products, building supplies, and firefighting foam and still widely produced.

Uploaded July 2026

Health as Property shows how responses to racism can be predatory, harmful, and dangerous to poor people of color. Nic John Ramos examines a Black-led academic medical center known as King-Drew that was built in response to the 1965 Watts Uprising.

Uploaded July 2026