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Big Med Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226668079, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures, 3 tables
There is little debate that healthcare in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we're overlo...
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£28,00
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Blood Relations Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226740034, ISBN: HB: 9780226739977, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human...
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£32,00
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£96,00
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Bodies in Flux Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty
ISBN: PB: 9780226450667, ISBN: HB: 9780226450520, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 11 line drawings, 16 tables
Medical professionals, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of medical "certainty" regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of disease states. Constructing certainty requires reductions and deductions. It requires...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Biotechnology and Society An Introduction
ISBN: PB: 9780226046013, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
With "Biotechnology and Society", Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, a...
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£24,00
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Brain Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
ISBN: PB: 9780300205725, ISBN: HB: 9780300175226, Yale University Press, April 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 68 black&white illus.
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so. In this delight...
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£15,99
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£25,00
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