Emily Merchant, Meaghan O'Keefe (Department of Science and Technology Studies, Department of Religion, Culture and Society)

DNA, Race, and Reproduction helps readers inside and outside of academia evaluate and engage with the current genomic landscape. It brings together expertise in law, medicine, religion, history, anthropology, philosophy and genetics to examine how scientists, medical professionals and laypeople use genomic concepts to construct racial identity and make or advise reproductive decisions, often at the same moment.

Pam Houston (Department of English)

In Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood and Freedom, Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the U.S. and in her own life during the decades when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Houston guides us through the shifting landscapes of politics, law and self-determination in a country where access to medical care and the power to determine your own destiny are increasingly— and once again —dependent on geography and circumstance.

Colin Webster (Department of Classics)

Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine is the first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations. In it, Colin Webster makes the case for why telling the history of ancient Greco-Roman medical theories, from the Hippocratics to Galen, is still important when thinking about today's technologies. 

Chris Hanssmann (Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies)

In this transnational analysis of trans health, Chris Hanssmann examines how activists and care providers define the field and enact care as a public good. For Care Without Pathology: How Trans-Health Activists are Changing Medicine, Hanssmann worked collaboratively with researchers and activists in feminist, queer and trans feminist health and justice.

Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Yvette G. Flores, and Angie Chabram (Department of Chicana/o Studies)

Testimonios of Care: Feminist Latina/x and Chicana/x Perspectives on Caregiving Praxis is the first English-language collection of Latina/x caregiving testimonios. It gives voice to those who often are voiceless in histories of caregiving and is guided by Chicana and Latina feminist principles.

Scott Cutler-Shershow (Department of English)

The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out more recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-die Debate, Scott Cutler-Shershow, focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate.

Howard Chiang (Department of History)

In After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China, Howard Chiang explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality and the body in China.

Camelia E. Hostinar, Anna M. Parenteau, et al. (Department of Psychology)

Stress in Childhood focuses on important contexts that shape children's responses to stress and their coping capacities, including the family system, peers, schools, neighborhoods, the broader culture, as well as clinical settings.

The Critical Medical Humanities Program offers an immersive, cohesive learning experience looking at medical issues from multiple cultural and ethical perspectives, giving students a more well-rounded baseline to work from. 

Tucked away among green pathways, fruit trees and vineyards is a planned community ahead of its time in sustainability and intentional living. Fifty years after its groundbreaking, Village Homes still stands out as a model for sustainable, intentional living.