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Big Med Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226668079, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures, 3 tables
There is little debate that healthcare in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we're overlo...
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£28,00
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How to Make a Vaccine An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9780226792514, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
As the COVID-19 pandemic has affected every corner of the world, changing our relationship to our communities, to our jobs, and to each other, the most pressing question has been – when will it end? Researchers around the globe are urgently trying to...
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£12,00
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Creating Culture through Health Leadership
ISBN: HB: 9781947602601, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...
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£30,00
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Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780226718767, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago – and, by inference, the state of Illinois – than any other physician. As a family physician, he trained to care for patients from birt...
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£16,00
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Above the Fray The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector
ISBN: PB: 9780226680248, ISBN: HB: 9780226680101, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
From Lake Chad to Iraq, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide relief around the globe, and their scope is growing every year. Policymakers and activists often assume that humanitarian aid is best provided by these organizations, which are gene...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Working Longer
ISBN: HB: 9780226619293, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables
Developed countries during the last two decades have seen a long-term decline in men's labor force participation at older ages, followed by a more recent pattern of sharply rising participation rates. Participation rates for women at older ages have...
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£98,00
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Human Voices of Tomorrow's Doctors
ISBN: PB: 9781512603330, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
200 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm
Medical professionals are often viewed as a special breed of stoic figures whose tough grace allows them to stay strong as they confront human frailty and tragedy on a daily basis. "Human" is a new anthology that aims to dispel this unhelpful line of...
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£19,00
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Limited by Body Habitus An American Fat Story
ISBN: PB: 9781938769405, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
208 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm
Jennifer Renee Blevins's debut memoir, "Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story", sheds light on her experiences living with the emotional and psychological struggles of taking up space in a fat-phobic world. Bringing together experiences of p...
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£14,00
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Viral Economies Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam
ISBN: PB: 9780226648941, ISBN: HB: 9780226648804, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people l...
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£62,00
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Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine
ISBN: HB: 9780226611068, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 line drawings, 67 tables
ersonalized and precision medicine (PPM) – the targeting of therapies according to an individual's genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics – is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The adva...
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£98,00
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