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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

McKay Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226063959, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

The search for a "patient zero" – popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic – has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the eme...

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Insider Trading How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts

Pfeffer Naomi

ISBN: HB: 9780300118551, Yale University Press, June 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits. Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to...

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Capacity to Work at Older Ages

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226442877, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2017
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 188 line drawings, 127 tables

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between...

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Insights in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426679, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 63 line drawings, 114 tables

The fraction of the population over age sixty-five in many developed countries is projected to rise, in some cases sharply, in coming decades. This has drawn growing interest to research on the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they...

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Bodies in Flux Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

Teston Christa

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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Philosophy

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Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing

Leder Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226396101, ISBN: HB: 9780226396071, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditi...

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Vaccine Nation America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

Conis Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780226378398, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and...

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Risk, Chance, and Causation Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease

Bracken Michael B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216837, Yale University Press, November 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Should we worry about an increased risk of illness when using certain carpet cleaners? How do we assess the benefits of dietary supplements? What is meant by increased risk in the first place? Dr. Michael Bracken, a leader and innovator in the field...

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226262574, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2015
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 59 halftones, 229 line drawings, 136 tables

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability in...

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Philosophy

Politics of Pain Medicine A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry

Graham S. Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226264059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line drawings, 2 tables

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new fiel...

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