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Field Guide to a New Meta-Field Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
ISBN: PB: 9780226770550, ISBN: HB: 9780226770543, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 80 halftones
Barbara Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In "A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field", she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a ground...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Explorations in the Economics of Aging
ISBN: HB: 9780226903378, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
400 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 105 tables, 73 line illus.
The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, "Explorations in the Economi...
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£102,00
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Economic Aspects of Obesity
ISBN: HB: 9780226310091, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
408 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 98 tables, 4 halftones, 30 line illus.
In the past three decades, the number of obese adults in the United States has doubled and the number of obese children almost tripled, which may lead to increased medical expenditures, productivity loss, and stress on the health care system. Economi...
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£95,50
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Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.
During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...
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£34,50
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£88,50
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Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease
ISBN: HB: 9780226059013, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
112 pp., 21.8x14.8 cm, 26 halftones
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help – not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, b...
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£13,50
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Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate
ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.
Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...
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£47,00
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Research Findings in the Economics of Aging
ISBN: HB: 9780226903064, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 106 line illus.
The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of leading rese...
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