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Merchants of Medicines The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century

Dorner Zachary

ISBN: HB: 9780226706801, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 5 tables

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century – the so-called long eighteenth century of English history – was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long distance trade, and huma...

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Pharmacy

Law

Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry

Gabriel Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226710228, ISBN: HB: 9780226108186, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized...

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Psychiatry

Psychology

Mental Traveler A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226695938, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 18 halftones

How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell...

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Genetics

Mobilizing Mutations Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy

Navon Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226638096, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 tables

With every passing year, more and more people learn that they or their young or unborn children carries a genetic mutation. But what does this mean for the way we understand a person? Today, genetic mutations are being used to diagnose novel conditio...

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Public Health

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Kaye Abraham Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226623702, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country".Mama Might Be Better Off D...

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Neurology

Psychology

Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

McGilchrist Iain

ISBN: PB: 9780300245929, Yale University Press, February 2019
616 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is this...

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Psychology

Geriatrics

My Parent's Keeper The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving

Gastfriend Jody

ISBN: PB: 9780300221350, Yale University Press, May 2018
352 pp., 21x14 cm

When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. Uses the latest research and draws on...

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Psychiatry

Genetics

Model Behavior Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders

Nelson Nicole C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226546087, ISBN: HB: 9780226545929, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today – but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow s...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs

Aizcorbe Ana, Baker Colin, Berndt Ernst R., Cutler David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226530857, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 line drawings, 113 tables

Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U. S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health...

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Biochemistry

Madness and Memory The Discovery of Prions - A New Biological Principle of Disease

Prusiner Stanley B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216905, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award for achievement in physiology or medicine. That he was the sole recipient of the award for the year was entirely appropriate, for his struggle to identify the age...

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