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Table of Contents “.... : consumption and subjectification in U.S. lesbian reproductive practices / Laura Mamo -- The body as image : an examination of the economic and political dynamics of magnetic resonance imaging and the construction of difference / Kelly Joyce -- The stratified biomedicalization of heart disease : expert and lay perspectives on racial and class inequality / Janet K. ...”

Table of Contents “...Recovering gender and health in history -- Making connections: feminism, sociology, and health -- Women and health status -- Women and reproduction -- Thinking again about sex, gender and health -- The making of women's health: diversity and difference -- Health in transition....”
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Table of Contents “...-- Were it physically safe, would human reproductive cloning be acceptable? -- Is the deliberately induced abortion of a human pregnancy ethically justifiable? ...”
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Table of Contents “...1: The doctor–patient relationship 2: Consent and refusal: competent adults 3: Treatment without consent: incapacitated adults and compulsory treatment 4: Consent and refusal: children and young people 5: Confidentiality 6: Health records 7: Contraception, abortion, and birth 8: Assisted reproduction 9: Genetics 10: Caring for patients at the end of life 11: Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide 12: Responsibilities after a patient’s death 13: Prescribing and administering medication 14: Research and innovative treatment 15: Emergency care 16: Doctors with dual obligations 17: Doctors working in custodial settings 18: Education and training 19: Multidisciplinary teams and relationships with colleagues 20: Public health dimensions of medical practice 21: Reducing risk, clinical error, and poor performance....”
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Table of Contents “..."Disorders peculiar to the Negroes" ; Sickness and accidents ; Patterns of mortality ; Malnutrition and diseases of infants and children ; Diseases of children and adults -- The problem of reproduction. Patterns of reproduction ; Debate on the population failure ; "To multiply and rear the human species" ' Pro-natalist policies frustrated ; The victimization of black youngsters ; Black women as "work units" and "breeding units" -- Smallpox and slavery. ...”
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Table of Contents “...The delivery of controversial services : reproductive health and ethical and religious directives /...”

Table of Contents “...Life span health issues. Global health in reproduction and infants -- Global health of children -- Global health of the older adult -- Section IV. ...”

Table of Contents “...Human epigenome -- Considerations in the design, conduct, and interpretation of studies in epigenetic epidemiology -- Laboratory methods in epigenetic epidemiology -- Biostatistical methods in epigenetic epidemiology -- Epigenome changes during development -- Role of epigenetics in the development origins of health and disease -- Epigenetics and assisted reproductive technology -- Imprinting disorders of early childhood -- Utility of twins for epigenetic analysis -- Age-related variation in DNA methylation -- Influence of environmental factors on the epigenome -- Epigenetic epidemiology of cancer -- Epigenetic epidemiology of infectious diseases -- Epigenetic epidemiology of inflammation and rhematoid arthritis -- Asthma epigenetics : emergnece of a new paradigm? ...”
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Table of Contents “...Kidney and urinary function -- 10. Reproductive function -- 11. Immunological function -- 12. ...”

Table of Contents “...Anglin -- Resistance and resilience, the Sojourner syndrome and the social context of reproduction in central Harlem / Leith Mullings -- Intersections of race, class, and gender in public health interventions / Amy J. ...”

Table of Contents “...The making of an international health establishment -- The birth of the World Health Organization, 1945 -- 1948 -- The start-up years 1948 -- 1955 -- The Cold War and eradication -- Overcoming the warming of the Cold War : smallpox eradication -- The transition from family planning to sexual and reproductive rights -- The vicissitudes of primary health care -- The response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic -- An embattled Director-General and the persistence of the WHO -- The competitive world of global health -- The World Health Organization in the second decade of the 21st century....”
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Table of Contents “...Getting to know menopause (or, everything your doctor forgot to mention about menopause : The three end stages of reproductive change: perimenopause, menopause, and opst menopause ; What is happening to your body during menopause ; Everything you wanted to know about hormone therapy ; Preparing for your appointment -- Part three. ...”

Table of Contents “...Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu -- Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono -- Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino -- Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. ...”
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