Harvard University Press - MEDICAL

Healing Spaces

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Esther M. Sternberg
If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety or instill peace.
Hardcover May 2009

Interrogations, Forced Feedings, and the Role of Health Professionals

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Ryan Goodman
Mindy Jane Roseman
The involvement of health professionals in human rights and humanitarian law violations has again become a live issue as a consequence of the U.S. prosecution of conflicts with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Iraq. In this volume, a wide range of prominent practitioners and scholars explore these issues. Their insights provide significant potential for reforming institutions to assist health professionals maintain their legal and ethical obligations in times of national crisis.
Paperback May 2009

Access

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Laura Frost
Michael R. Reich
Foreword by Tadataka Yamada
Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries? This book answers those questions by developing a comprehensive analytical framework for access and examining six case studies to explain why some health technologies achieved more access than others.
Paperback March 2009

A Line Drawn in the Sand

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Phyllis J. Kanki
Richard G. Marlink
A Line Drawn in the Sand captures the determination of several African nations, including Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania, in providing lifesaving antiretroviral therapies to their citizens. By emphasizing the dramatic results that investments in AIDS treatments in Africa can bring, the book provides lessons to nations about scaling up their own treatment responses, hope to individuals and communities confronted with the often devastating impact of AIDS, and inspiration to the international HIV/AIDS community.
Paperback March 2009

Medicating Children

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Rick Mayes
Catherine Bagwell
Jennifer Erkulwater
Mayes and his coauthors argue that a unique alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder. This book is unique in that it integrates analyses of the clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economic, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulant pharmacotherapy.
Hardcover January 2009

The Accidental Mind

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

David J. Linden
A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.
Paperback December 2008

Hysterical Men

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Mark S. Micale
Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity—the basis for patriarchal rule—in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. This book boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.
Hardcover November 2008

Total Cure

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Harold S. Luft
Proposals to reform the health care system typically focus on either increasing private insurance or expanding government-sponsored plans. Guaranteeing that everyone is insured, however, does not create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility clinicians need, and the internal dynamics to continually improve the value of health care. Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, SecureChoice, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.
Hardcover October 2008