COVID-19 took the world by storm beginning in the closing months of 2019. The world was simply not prepared for a natural disaster of such magnitude. The true toll in terms of lives lost, long-term social and economic impacts, and opportunities to live full and productive lives taken from many hundreds of millions may never be known. The devastation has been profound enough that the COVID-19 pandemic will affect our lives for many years to come.

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Over a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis, this book provides the first book-length, comprehensive framework for this emerging subdiscipline of medical sociology. Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates social order, explains illness, identifies treatments, and predicts outcomes.

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The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture imaginations worldwide. Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating the ways in which pandemic disease-including plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, HIV/AIDS, and Covid 19-has shaped history and how human history has shaped pandemic disease.

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This inspiring book offers a history of the Little Sisters of Assumption (LSA), an association of religious women.

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In this profound study, Meredith B. Linn explores three kinds of afflictions--typhus fever, tuberculosis, and work-related injuries--that disproportionately affected Irish immigrants, tracing how existing medical ideas and technologies intersected with American prejudices to further conspire against this once culturally distinct group.

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Explores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who volunteer

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This valuable resource for public health students and professionals examines the impact of COVID-19 on underserved and resource-limited communities, sheds light on important social justice issues, and provides insight into the challenges and opportunities associated with vaccine distribution and the pandemic's environmental impact.

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This book examines a number of controversies involving medical treatment from the time of the American Revolution to the present.

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Physical Rehabilitation focuses on the rehabilitation management of adult patients, integrating basic surgical, medical, and therapeutic concepts to explain how to select appropriate examination procedures and to develop treatment goals and plans.

The authors takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains; emphasize the complex interchanges between heredity and environment; and provide exceptional attention to culture.
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