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Wakelin Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781851244768, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
112 pp., 17x11 cm

"For a zitty face. Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night". In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some...

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Public Health

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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Finest Traditions of My Calling One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine

Nussbaum Abraham M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227048, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm

Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtfu...

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Business & Economics

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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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Surgery

Face/On Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other

Pearl Sharrona

ISBN: PB: 9780226461366, ISBN: HB: 9780226461229, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever – or replaced? In "Face/On", Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face-and the changing stakes for the face – in both...

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Oncology

Cancer Companion An Oncologist's Advice on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery

Srivastava Ranjana

ISBN: PB: 9780226479347, ISBN: HB: 9780226306643, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Cancer. It's the diagnosis no one wants to hear. Unfortunately though, these days most of us have known or will know someone who receives it. But what's next? With the diagnosis comes not only fear and uncertainty, but numerous questions, and a lot o...

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History

Life on Ice A History of New Uses for Cold Blood

Radin Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226417318, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

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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