Making the Impossible Possible My Work for Leprosy Elimination and Human Rights
ISBN: HB: 9781787389472, Hurst Publishers, July 2023
536 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The incredible story of a lifetime dedicated to the global eradication of leprosy. Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Left untreated, it can cause progressive and perman...
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£50.00
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Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa Culture, Healthcare and the State
ISBN: PB: 9781787385733, Hurst Publishers, June 2022
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Reveals how, in South Africa's villages, heavy-handed pandemic policies and governmental communication failures have clashed with culture and tradition. This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockd...
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£22.00
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Pandemic India From Cholera to Covid-19
ISBN: HB: 9781787387096, Hurst Publishers, May 2022
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! One of the world's leading historians of colonial medicine recounts how mass outbreaks of disease have shaped the Indian subcontinent over several hundred years. Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to "the pandemic" a...
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£35.00
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International Campaign Against Leprosy 1948-2005
ISBN: HB: 9781787385498, Hurst Publishers, December 2021
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Examines how humanity has responded to the disease in the crucial second half of the twentieth century. This book may offer a cautionary tale in the age of Covid-19. The narratives we shape around disease in society are so oft...
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£25.00
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Last and Longest Mile Yohei Sasakawa's Struggle to Eliminate Leprosy
ISBN: HB: 9781787383401, Hurst Publishers, August 2021
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The inspiring story of one man's global campaign to eradicate leprosy from all corners of the earth, and end the discrimination suffered by its victims. This book offers a compelling account of the two-pronged fight against bo...
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£25.00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 37 Virus
ISBN: PB: 9781787384866, Hurst Publishers, March 2021
236 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Critical Muslim" is a quarterly magazine of ideas and issues showcasing ground breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. The coronavirus has upended the post-Worl...
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£14.99
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Pandemic Century One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
ISBN: HB: 9781787381216, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us b...
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£20.00
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No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World
ISBN: HB: 9781787381377, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure – a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment,...
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£25.00
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Sick-Note Britain How Social Problems Became Medical Issues
ISBN: HB: 9781787381223, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot "fix", while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medi...
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£25.00
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Polio The Odyssey of Eradication
ISBN: HB: 9781849049566, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each...
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£30.00
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