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  • The Right to Try

    How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Life-Saving Treatments They Need

    by Darcy Olsen ...
    Why should you need the government’s permission to save your own life?Jenn McNary’s two sons, Max and Austin, were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal disorder that leads to muscle degeneration and eventually death. In a cruel and unnecessary twist, Max received access to a clinical trial; Austin didn’t. As a result, Max was able to get out of his wheelchair and play on his school ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Thrive

    How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money

    A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Deadly Spin

    An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

    That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information that the public needs. Potter quit his high-paid job as head of public relations at a major insurance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Choice

    The Abortion Divide in America

    See the debate on abortion from a new perspective as a young conservative discusses the effects that modern culture and politics have had on both sides of the argument.Danielle D'Souza Gill, in a pathbreaking new book, blows the lid off the abortion debate, which is radically different than it was when the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Technology has transformed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Critical Condition

    How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine

    Award-winning journalists expose the horrific practices within America’s health care system, profiling patients and doctors and offering startling personal stories to illuminate what’s gone wrong.“Every American ought to read this book.”—The Plain DealerTens of millions of people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . dirty examination and operating rooms in doctors’ offices and hospitals . ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mistreated

    Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care -- and Why We're Usually Wrong

    The biggest problem in American health care is usDo you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For example, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Medicare For You

    A Smart Person's Guide

    “The decisions you make when you sign up for Medicare can impact your costs — and your quality of care — for the rest of your life. No one gives better advice about Medicare than Diane Omdahl. “ — Terry Savage, Author of The Savage Truth on Money and Nationally Syndicated Financial ColumnistGet the most out of Medicare. Get your maximum earned benefits for yourself and your family.Every day, over ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An American Sickness

    How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    **A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Food Pedagogies

    Edited by Rick Flowers, Elaine Swan ...
    Series series Critical Food Studies
    In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains, including schools, supermarkets, families, advertising and TV media. Illustrated ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Biopolitics

    An Advanced Introduction

    Series Book 5 - Biopolitics
    The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of American Healthcare

    Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    Series Book 6 - The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality."For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Remedy and Reaction

    The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

    by Paul Starr ...
    In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Preventing the Next Pandemic

    Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science

    The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post–COVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves?Modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as shifting ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • To Save Humanity

    What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

    "The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." --Dag Hammarskj?ld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Understanding Health Policy, 7E

    Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in itA Doody's Core Title for 2019!The Seventh Edition of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach remains the most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available and provides everything you need to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues. This concise and engaging textbook clearly explains ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Healing

    Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

    A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system.“Healing is truly one of the best books ever written about mental illness, and I think I’ve read them all." —Pete Earley, author of CrazyAs director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Hippocratic Myth

    Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise their Promise to Heal

    When we're ill, we trust in doctors to put our well-being first. But medicine's expanding capability and soaring costs are putting this promise at risk. Increasingly, society is calling upon physicians to limit care and to use their skills on behalf of health plan bureaucrats, public officials, national security, and courts of law. And doctors are answering this call. They're endangering patients, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Alternative Models of Sports Development in America

    Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health

    Series series Ohio University Sport Management Series
    In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions’ presidents, psychological and educational tolls on student-athletes, and high-profile academic scandals are just symptoms of a system that has come under increasing fire. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Obamacare: What's in It for Me?

    What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

    On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.Enter Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin and former health insurance executive. Obamacare: What's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Within Reason

    A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

    by Sandro Galea ...
    A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots.The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health—a volatile combination that produced predictably bad results. As scientific expertise became entangled with political motivations, the public-health establishment found itself mired in political encampment.It was, as Sandro Galea argues, a crisis of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Telling Genes

    The Story of Genetic Counseling in America

    The history of contemporary genetic counseling, including its medical, personal, and ethical dimensions.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLFor sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the United States work in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • TennCare, One State's Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

    A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to Obamacare. In 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the proportion of residents with health insurance and curtail cost increases. It was guided by principles that nearly match those that guided the creation ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being Mortal

    Medicine and What Matters in the End

    by Atul Gawande ...
    **#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending**Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

    by Michael Lewis ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.**Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction ... Read more

    $12.99 USD