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Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota
ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Tangled Diagnoses Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk
ISBN: PB: 9780226534091, ISBN: HB: 9780226534121, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus...
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£28,00
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£84,50
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Visions of Cell Biology Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology"
ISBN: PB: 9780226520513, ISBN: HB: 9780226520483, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables
Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances – in particular, the electron microscope and cell fractionation – its origins actually date to the...
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£34,00
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£101,00
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Model Behavior Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders
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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£24,00
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£67,50
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Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs
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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£97,50
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
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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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Capacity to Work at Older Ages
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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£104,00
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Face/On Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
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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£84,00
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Cancer Companion An Oncologist's Advice on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery
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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Life on Ice A History of New Uses for Cold Blood
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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