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The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific …

WEBIn this important new book, Hans-Georg Gadamer discusses the transformation in human self-understanding wrought by the scientific worldview, focusing in particular on the …

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Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System

WEBThe debate over health care policy in the U. S. did not end when President Obama signed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on March 23, 2010. …

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The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance

WEBWhy do people buy health insurance? Conventional theory holds that people purchase insurance because they prefer the certainty of paying a small premium to the risk of …

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When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human …

WEBWhen Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely …

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Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of …

WEBDisorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. …

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Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health …

WEBIn February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—a novel flu-like …

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Caring for Patients: A Critique of the Medical Model

WEBSee your patient as a person, not a disease. This is the essential message of an experienced and compassionate physician who questions the prevailing medical model …

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Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies

WEBZygmunt Bauman's book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the taboo subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of …

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War and the Health of Nations

WEBAssessments of the costs of war generally focus on the financial, political, military, and territorial risks associated with involvement in violent conflict. Often overlooked are the …

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The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID …

WEBWe are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that …

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Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public He

WEBBiosecurity comprehensively analyzes the dramatic transformations that are reshaping how the international community addresses biological weapons and infectious diseases. The …

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Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice

WEBThis is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. By integrating insights …

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Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine

WEBAround the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden …

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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

WEBThere's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic …

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Transmedia Stories: Narrative Methods for Public Health and

WEBTransmedia Stories is an experiment in multimedia publication and collaboration that explores storytelling-based research methods. With the growth of digital media, narrative …

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Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt

WEBEach year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children …

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America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the M

WEBAmerica's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military …

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The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America

WEBThis book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global …

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