Over the last two decades, growing numbers of parents in the industrialized world are
choosing not to have their children vaccinated. Trying to explain why this is occurring, public …

Compulsory vaccination has contributed to the success of immunisation programmes in the
USA and Australia, yet the benefits from compulsory vaccination are not universally …

19. Jahrhunderts by CH Beck publishers in Munich in January 2009. it rapidly went through
five editions and two unnumbered special editions and is now being translated into Chinese …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen US states
and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames …

In the new millennium, the centuries-old strategy of quarantine is becoming a powerful
component of the public health response to emerging and reemerging infectious diseases …

Este libro trata acerca de los márgenes, aquellos lugares desde donde intentamos
comprender el estudio válido del estado en antropología. Esta colección de artículos …

Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to legitimate paid employment and
a decline in the 'double standard'would eliminate the reasons behind women's participation …

In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King
Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings …

The Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and
place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II …