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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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Community Health Equity A Chicago Reader

De Maio Fernando, Shah Raj C., Mazzeo John, Ansell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226614625, ISBN: HB: 9780226614595, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones, 55 tables

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity".Community Health Equity" assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago's structural socioecono...

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Christianity

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Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota

Halvorson Britt

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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Business & Economics

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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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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

McKay Richard A.

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

Wise David A.

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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Insights in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426679, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 63 line drawings, 114 tables

The fraction of the population over age sixty-five in many developed countries is projected to rise, in some cases sharply, in coming decades. This has drawn growing interest to research on the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they...

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Public Health

Bodies in Flux Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

Teston Christa

ISBN: PB: 9780226450667, ISBN: HB: 9780226450520, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 11 line drawings, 16 tables

Medical professionals, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of medical "certainty" regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of disease states. Constructing certainty requires reductions and deductions. It requires...

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Philosophy

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Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing

Leder Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226396101, ISBN: HB: 9780226396071, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditi...

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Vaccine Nation America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

Conis Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780226378398, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and...

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