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Discovering Tuberculosis A Global History, 1900 to the Present

McMillen Christian W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300190298, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year, now more than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across mu...

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Geriatrics

Caregiving in Alzheimer's and Other Dementias

Pfeiffer Eric, Sierens Gayle

ISBN: PB: 9780300207989, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Practical. Easy to read. Comprehensive. Encouraging. Accurate. All of these words describe this indispensable book that belongs in the hands of all family members and other caretakers of people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or othe...

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Genetics

Life's Blueprint The Science and Art of Embryo Creation

Shilo Benny

ISBN: HB: 9780300196634, Yale University Press, October 2014
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

In the span of just three decades, scientific understanding of the formation of embryos has undergone a major revolution. The implications of these new research findings have an immediate bearing on human health and future therapies, yet most nonscie...

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Neurology

Brain Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

DeSalle Rob, Tattersall Ian, Wynne Patricia J.

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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Biochemistry

Science of Human Perfection Heredity, Health, and Human Improvement in American Biomedicine

Comfort Nathaniel C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198195, ISBN: HB: 9780300169911, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a...

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History

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Cooter Roger, Stein Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...

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Neurology

Fatal Flaws How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Ingram Jay

ISBN: HB: 9780300189896, Yale University Press, April 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challenge...

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History

Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911 The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

Summers William C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300183191, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japa...

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Geriatrics

Winning Strategies for Successful Aging

Pfeiffer Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300184020, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm

For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for – and learned from – elderly people, addresses wi...

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Gynecology

Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine A New Framework

Strong Carson

ISBN: PB: 9780300182989, Yale University Press, November 2011
258 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Advances in reproductive and perinatal medicine have given rise to difficult ethical issues. Do all women have the right to choose whether to reproduce? What is the moral status of the fetus during various stages of gestation and what obligations do...

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