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A Life in Medicine The New Press

WEBA Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession, who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Organized around the central themes of altruism, knowledge, skill, and duty, the book includes contributions from well-known …

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The Society and Population Health Reader: Volume I

WEBThe first volume in the groundbreaking and controversial two-volume reader on the connections between social structure and public health. “An explosion of research is demonstrating that social class is one of the most powerful predictors of health, more powerful than genetics, exposure to carcinogens, even smoking.”. — New York Times.

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10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care The New Press

WEBImagine a health care program that is publicly funded and covers all basic medical services from doctor visits, hospitalization, and long-term care to prescription drugs, dental care, and mental health. 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care offers an array of powerful arguments for why and how this could become a reality.

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Universal Health Care The New Press

WEBClear and convincing, Universal Health Care shows that health care can be funded from the public purse without eliminating choice and without bankrupting government, and it proves that a public, single-payer system can deliver high quality care at much less cost to many more people than one based on market forces. Topics: Current Affairs.

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On the Job The New Press

WEBOn the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country’s most vulnerable—but essential—workers. Noted public health expert Celeste Monforton and award-winning journalist Jane M. Von Bergen crisscrossed the country, speaking with workers of all backgrounds and

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Mary O’Brien The New Press

WEBMary O’Brien is a board-certified attending physician at Columbia University Health Services and a faculty member at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is on the board of directors of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program and is the chair of its media committee. She lives in New York.

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The Impact of Inequality The New Press

WEBComparing the United States with other market democracies and one state with another, this book offers irrefutable evidence that unequal societies create poor health, more social conflict, and more violence. Richard Wilkinson, a pioneering social scientist, addresses the growing feeling—so common in the United States—that modern societies, despite their …

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Mary Otto The New Press

WEBMary Otto is the oral health topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She began writing about oral health at the Washington Post, where she worked for eight years covering social issues including health care and poverty. The author of Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America (The New Press), she …

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Cindy Zeldin The New Press

WEBCindy Zeldin is the executive director of Georgians for a Healthy Future, a nonprofit organization that advocates for access to quality, affordable health care for all Georgians through public education and outreach, coalition building, and public policy advocacy. She is a co-author (with José García and James Lardner) of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady …

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Teeth The New Press

WEBIn this brilliant debut book, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “a call for sweeping, radical change,” veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America’s mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society. Teeth takes readers on a disturbing journey into the role teeth play in our health and our social mobility.

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Another World Is Possible The New Press

WEBA new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. Where might different answers lie? Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to Uganda, and Estonia to Singapore, …

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Martha Livingston The New Press

WEBMartha Livingston. Martha Livingston is a professor and the chair of the department of public health at State University of New York Old Westbury. She is the vice chair of the board of directors of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. She lives in New York. Author topics:

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Mary Otto at the Virginia Oral Health Summit The New Press

WEBMary Otto is the oral health topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She began writing about oral health at the Washington Post, where she worked for eight years covering social issues including health care

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Mary Otto at the Delta Dental of Minnesota Symposium

WEBMary Otto is the oral health topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She began writing about oral health at the Washington Post, where she worked for eight years covering social issues including health care

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The Case for Make Believe The New Press

WEBIn The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world.Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative …

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Ecology/Health The New Press

WEBThe New Press is a nonprofit public-interest book publisher. Your gift will support The New Press in continuing to leverage books for social change.

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Rural Oral Health Summit The New Press

WEBMary Otto, the oral health topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists, reporter at the Washington Post, and the author of Teeth will keynote the Rural Oral Health Summit at Campbell University.. The conference is a full day centered around understanding the oral health needs of rural communities.

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Priceless The New Press

WEBThis is a vividly written book, punctuated by striking analogies, a good deal of outrage, and a nice dose of humor” (Cass Sunstein, The New Republic ). Essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of human health and environmental protection, Priceless “shines a bright light on obstacles that stand in the way of good government

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African American The New Press

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Arts/Culture/Film The New Press

WEBThe New Press is a nonprofit public-interest book publisher. Your gift will support The New Press in continuing to leverage books for social change.

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Hooked The New Press

WEB“Deeply felt, deftly rendered, stunningly informative and often enraging” (Publishers Weekly), Hooked appears as we are finally waking up to the inadequacies of our current drug-rehab policies.With court-mandated rehab being debated across the country, Shavelson’s in-depth look at the struggles of five addicts as they travel through the …

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