This book reexamines the "standard" procedures used to "manage" American childbirth, identifying non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals enacting core values of the American technocracy. This new edition brings together new data with Davis-Floyd's insights into the ritualization and models of labor and birth.

This accessible textbook introduces a wide spectrum of ideas, approaches and examples that make up the emerging field of implementation science, including implementation theory, processes and methods, data collection and analysis, brokering interest on the ground, and sustainable implementation.

This accessible textbook introduces a wide spectrum of ideas, approaches and examples that make up the emerging field of implementation science, including implementation theory, processes and methods, data collection and analysis, brokering interest on the ground, and sustainable implementation.

Talking Health is a practical and powerful resource to help public health and allied professionals communicate about public health more effectively to reach policymakers, community partners, the media, or the public.

This third edition features a new chapter on 'Publishing systematic reviews' and numerous new case studies covering the latest developments in the field, including umbrella reviews, reviews of test accuracy, qualitative evidence and prognostic studies, and practice guidelines.

Not in the hands of of Italian food and low-carb specialists Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi. With a combined ninety-three years of cooking experience and several bestsellers between them, Katie and Giancarlo have become leading advocates for the health benefits of a low-carb diet.

How Covid-19 vaccines went from the laboratory to people's arms - the inside story of an extraordinary national campaign against all odds

Orchestrating and coordinating contributions from more than 75 selected public health specialists and environmental scientists, the editors have developed a concise and comprehensive book that represents a core curriculum on climate change and public health, including key strategies for adaptation and mitigation.

How can we create a more rigorous and effective epidemiology? Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health invites readers to the next great paradigm in public health by promoting a progressive, transdisciplinary, intercultural, community-building approach-one that is radically divergent from the presiding object-based, empiricist mode of thinking.