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Better Health Economics

WebBetter Health Economics is a warts-and-all introduction to a field that is more exceptions than rules. Economists Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo offer readers an …

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Economic Aspects of Health, Fuchs

WebUnlike earlier work in medical economics, which has focused on medical care, these ten papers stress the production and consequences of health itself. They reveal a serious …

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The City and the Hospital

WebA surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities. An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals …

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How Healthy Are We

WebThe culmination of a decade and a half of research by leading scholars, How Healthy Are We? will dramatically alter the way we think about health in middle age and the factors …

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Developing to Scale

WebThe first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical …

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The Doctor Who Wasn’t There

WebThis gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn’t There traces the long arc of enthusiasm …

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Migration and Health, Galea, Ettman, Zaman

WebA new introduction to a timeless dynamic: how the movement of humans affects health everywhere. International migrants compose more than three percent of the world’s …

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Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine, Stegenga

WebThe philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent …

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Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time, Galea

WebA provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots. The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health—a volatile combination …

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Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan

WebRecent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross …

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The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges

WebA timely investigation of the potential economic effects, both realized and unrealized, of artificial intelligence within the United States healthcare system. In sweeping …

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Creating Culture through Health Leadership, Svedin

WebThe challenges to health, wellness, and health equity in the United States are massive. No matter what side of the discussion health care leaders are on, insufficient mental health …

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Immunization: How Vaccines became Controversial, Blume

WebIt tells the history of immunization from the work of early pioneers such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch through the eradication of smallpox in 1980, to the recent introduction of …

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Looking through the Speculum

WebJennifer Nelson, University of Redlands. “ Looking through the Speculum is a gripping account of the women’s health movement and the institutions women’s health activists …

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, McKay

Web“The truth takes a long time coming. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic is a counterpart to David France's award-winning How To Survive A Plague (2016), which …

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Creating Mental Illness, Horwitz

WebIn this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most …

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Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations

WebFew large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of …

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The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

WebWith Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and …

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Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with

WebIn the first book about the U.S. government’s problematic role in promoting fast food in inner-city America, Jou tells a riveting story of the food industry, obesity, and race relations in …

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