- The Denial of Aging
- Muriel R. Gillick
- Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture
- Bruce Haley
- The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas.
- Hardcover 1978
- The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health
- Karen J. Carlson
- Stephanie A. Eisenstat
- Terra Ziporyn
- This exhaustive resource offers information on everything from adolescent acne to menopause in the belief that better-informed women can have better partnerships with their physicians.
- Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004