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  • 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

  • Viruses: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Viruses are everywhere, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, cannot be ignored. From their discovery to the unravelling of their intricate structures, this Very Short Introduction provides a rounded and concise account of the nature of viruses, how they attack their hosts, and the efforts to control them. In this new edition, Dorothy H. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pathogenic Policing

    Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South

    by Nolan Kline ...
    Series series Medical Anthropology
    The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially how policy can reinforce ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know?

    Series series WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
    Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decade, this compact and authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape. The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Certification in Public Health (CPH) Q&A Exam Review

    Contains more than 600 practice questions and answers!Certification in Public Health (CPH) Q&A Exam Review provides the ultimate resource for all students and practitioners seeking the professional credential and committed to lifelong learning and career growth in public health. Chapters are organized by all ten core competency domain areas, beginning with Evidence-Based Approaches to Public ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Sociology for Health Professionals

    by Lani Russell ...
    Sociology is a key topic for all trainee health professionals, but many struggle to see what sociology has to offer. Based on years of experience teaching sociology to healthcare students, Lani Russell has written a truly introductory text which explains the main sociological concepts without jargon or becoming too advanced. Using carefully chosen examples, she shows how health issues are ... Read more

    $41.99 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

  • Key Concepts in Public Health

    Edited by Frances Wilson, Andi Mabhala ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "This is a very good text for undergraduate students as it gives a broad overview of the concept of public health, utilising case studies to illustrate practical application. This book would be also be an excellent way for practitioners to increase their own knowledge of public health and could inform their own continuing professional development."Julie Lemprière, University of GloucestershireKey ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • We Wait for a Miracle

    Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced

    The story of how we treat refugees is a story about our own moral failings, and the barriers that refugees face in accessing health care can be as difficult to overcome as any other adversity in their path to stability.Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are displaced within their own ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cosmetic and Toiletry Formulations, Vol. 8

    This book contains hundreds of cosmetic and toiletry formulations based on information received from numerous industrial companies and other organizations. Each formulation is indentified by a description of end use. The formulations contains a listing of each raw material, processing procedure, and source of the formula. ... Read more

    $211.99 USD

  • Epidemics and Society

    From the Black Death to the Present

    Series series The Open Yale Courses Series
    As seen on “60 Minutes”: a “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksThe World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak"Well-written, highly entertaining and relevant."—Financial Times, "Best Books of 2020: Readers' Choice"This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic dis... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Smart Mice, Not So Smart People

    An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics

    What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart People and you'll know what Art Caplan thinks. But this assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind—it also invites and even dares you to make up your own mind. In his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • HIV & AIDS: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • Medical Illuminations

    Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare

    by Howard Wainer ...
    Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree? The answers to these questions are not as black and white as they may first appear. Medical Illuminations presents thirteen contemporary medical topics, from ... Read more

    $31.99 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

  • WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR

    A Village Healthcare Handbook

    WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR is a book of methods, aids, and ideas for village health workers, pharmacist, rural teachers, mothers and midwives. It describes a people-centered approach to health care and presents successful strategies for effective community involvement ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Forget and How To Remember Better

    The Science Behind Memory

    Remember things better by understanding how your memory works. If memory is a simple thing, why does it so often go awry? Why is forgetting so common? How can you be certain about something you remember--and be wrong about it? Why is it so difficult to remember people's names? How can you study hard for an exam but not be able to recall the material on the test? In Why We Forget, Dr. Andrew Budson ... Read more

    $20.99 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

  • A Mighty Force

    Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health

    In the last half of 1945, news of the war’s end and aftermath shared space with reports of a battle on the home front, led by a woman. She was Elizabeth O. Hayes, MD, doctor for a coal company that owned the town of Force, PA, where sewage contaminated the drinking waters, and ambulances sank into muddy unpaved roads while corrupt managers, ensconced in Manhattan high-rises, refused to make ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Lyme

    The First Epidemic of Climate Change

    "Superbly written and researched." —Booklist"Builds a strong case." —KirkusLyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia.Mary B... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    by David Quammen ...
    A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues

    How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health

    Series series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
    Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues—anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio—were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, ... Read more

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