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  • - An Intimate History of Fatigue
    by Emily K. Abel
    £19.99

    Offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by Emily Abel's own experiences as a cancer survivor. With her engaging and informative style, Abel gives us a synthetic history of fatigue and outlines how it has been ignored or misunderstood by medical professionals and American society as a whole.

  • - Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families
    by Emily K. Abel
    £17.49

    Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, this book expands our understanding of the history of US hospices.

  • - A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
    by Emily K. Abel
    £28.49

    Provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the US response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic. This book shows how the association of the disease with ""tramps"" during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups.

  • - American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
    by Emily K. Abel
    £27.49

    Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.

  • - The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors
    by Emily K. Abel & Saskia K. Subramanian
    £19.49 - 97.49

    Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. This book is filled with portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer.

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