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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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Psychiatry

On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820

Arnaud Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...

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Genetics

Gender Studies

Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

Richardson Sarah S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325613, ISBN: HB: 9780226084688, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 11 line drawings

Human genomes are 99. 9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking...

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Public Health

Risky Medicine Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty

Aronowitz Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226049717, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health?Not always, says Robert Aronowitz in "Risky Medicine". In fact...

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Genetics

General

Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening

Timmermans Stefan, Buchbinder Mara

ISBN: PB: 9780226273617, ISBN: HB: 9780226924977, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...

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Genetics

In Search of Cell History The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

Harold Franklin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226174280, ISBN: HB: 9780226174143, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With "In Search of Cell History", Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial ta...

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Genetics

General

Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Panofsky Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Discoveries in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226146096, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2014
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 figures, 128 tables

The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs' overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging...

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Oncology

Cancer on Trial Oncology as a New Style of Practice

Keating Peter, Cambrosio Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780226143040, ISBN: HB: 9780226428918, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 28 line illus.

Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy. Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic courses of chemotherapy as highly questionable. The randomized cl...

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Public Health

Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France

Osborne Michael A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226114521, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France" examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was i...

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