| A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D. |
| Florence Ridlon |
| Biography of Edward Mazique, respected physician, contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr., and influential Civil Rights activist in Washington, D.C. |
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| Broken Glass: A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness |
| Robert V. Hine |
| The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness. |
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| Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine |
| Steven D. Hsi M.D. |
| Jim Belshaw , With |
| Beth Corbin-Hsi , With |
| "Every patient should read it, if only to be made aware that they are not alone with their thoughts. Every spouse of a patient should read it. . . . Every medical student and physician should read it to learn that the biology of the disease is really just a small part of the illness."--John Saiki, M.D., Medical Oncology, University of New Mexico |
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| Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power of Mvskoke Religion |
| David Lewis, Jr. |
| Ann T. Jordan |
| In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, Jordan traces the written accounts of Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the present in order to historically contextualize Lewis's story and knowledge. This book is a collaboration between anthropologist and medicine man that provides a rare glimpse of a living religious tradition and its origins. |
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| Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing |
| Eliseo "Cheo" Torres |
| Timothy L. Sawyer Jr. |
| Practices of traditional Mexican folk healers, "curanderos," in the American Southwest as well as their native country. |
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| Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 |
| Heather McCrea |
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| Diseases and Human Evolution |
| Ethne Barnes |
| Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers. |
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| Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth |
| Emily Mendenhall , Editor |
| This collection of narratives on health issues, told from the perspectives of young people from around the world, provides a valuable educational tool for teachers and parents alike. |
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| Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century |
| Wade Davies |
| Chronicles the advent of so-called "western" or "scientific" medicine in the modern era, and how Navajos adapted, but did not compromise their traditional healings ways. |
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| Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition |
| Eliseo "Cheo" Torres |
| Timothy L. Sawyer Jr., Editor |
| Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of herbalists as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. |
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