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  • 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

  • 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

  • Living Well with Hypothyroidism, Revised Edition

    What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...that

    by Mary J Shomon ...
    The Most Comprehensive Resource Available on the Diagnosis and Treatment of HypothyroidismFor millions of Americans, hypothyroidism often goes untreated ... or is treated improperly. This book, thoroughly researched by the nation's top thyroid patient advocate—a hypothyroidism patient herself—provides you with answers to all your questions, including:What is hypothyroidism?What are the warning ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Genomic Messages

    How the Evolving Science of Genetics Affects Our Health, Families, and Future

    Two leaders in the field of genetics—a bioethicist-health lawyer and an obstetrician-gynecologist geneticist—answer the most pressing questions about the application of new genetics to our universal medicine and what personalized medicine means for individual healthcare.Breakthroughs in genetic research are changing modern medicine and pharmaceuticals. But what are these changes and how do they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) w/full table of contents

    by Barack Obama ...
    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the hottest issues heading into President Barack Obama's second term as president. Passed in early 2010 amidst extreme controversy and general public negativity, the bill still has yet to be fully understood by laypeople and legal experts alike.Because of President Obama's re-election, the focus of supporters and detractors alike has quickly ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Escape

    Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

    by Angus Deaton ...
    The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Political Determinants of Health

    How do policy and politics influence the social conditions that generate health outcomes?Reduced life expectancy, worsening health outcomes, health inequity, and declining health care options—these are now realities for most Americans. However, in a country of more than 325 million people, addressing everyone's issues is challenging. How can we effect beneficial change for everyone so we all can ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Reducing Gun Violence in America

    Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThe staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize relevant research and recommend policies that are both ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tapping into The Wire

    The Real Urban Crisis

    Story lines from The Wire challenge public perceptions about the deadly, real-world connections between drugs, crime, and poverty.Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Greed on Trial

    Doctors and Patients Unite to Fight Big Insurance

    by Theresa Barta ...
    A trial attorney recounts her fight against insurance companies who put profit before patients—and wrongfully terminate doctors who don’t comply.In the modern world of American medicine, insurance companies call the shots. Their policies often require cutting corners on patient care in pursuit of profit. These policies often reduce the amount of time doctors spend with patients, push older and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toxic Legacy

    How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment

    Named a “Best Book of the Year” by Kirkus Reviews“Urgent and eye-opening, the book serves as a loud-and-clear alarm.”―The Boston GlobeNamed an "Outstanding Academic Title" by ChoiceFrom an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world’s most commonly used weedkiller is contributing to skyrocketing rates of chronic disease.Glyphosate is th... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ending Medical Reversal

    Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

    Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them—sometimes too late.Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sometimes Brilliant

    The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History

    When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human history. His story, of what happens when love, compassion and determination meet the right ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • One Nation, Uninsured

    Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance

    by Jill Quadagno ...
    Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Skimmed

    Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice

    Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood, became the mother of America's first surviving set of identical quadruplets. They were instant celebrities. Their White doctor named them after his own family members. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Second Amendment

    An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    For many years, some groups have claimed that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution stands as an obstacle to most gun control laws. Lawrence E. Rosenthal and Adam Winkler debunk this myth with careful legal analysis of recent court decisions, including District of Columbia v. Heller. This selection from Reducing Gun Violence in America tackles the most fundamental question at hand: How do ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Ten Lessons in Public Health

    Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders

    A riveting personal tale of the rise of public health.There are occasions when a story told from a personal viewpoint can illuminate a profession. Alfred Sommer’s epidemiological memoir is such a book. Adventurous, illuminating, and thought provoking, Ten Lessons in Public Health is more than the story of one man’s work. It tells the tale of how epidemiology grew into global health. The book is ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Health Disparities in the United States

    Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health

    Challenging students to think critically about the complex web of social forces that leads to health disparities in the United States.The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Law in the Health and Human Services

    Professor Dickson provides students with examples of a legal way of thinking about significant issues in social policy. This book can be used in policy and practice courses in the fields of mental health, child welfare, the family, developmental and physical disabilities, and professional ethics. Provides excellent selection of relevant court decisions along with clearly articulated questions and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Health Care Fraud Enforcement and Compliance

    Health Care Fraud: Enforcement and Compliance is the most complete, essential and up-to-date guide for criminal and civil lawyers, law enforcement officials, health care providers and anyone interested in the health care industry. You'll find discussion of: the latest anti-fraud initiatives from Congress, enforcement agencies and the private bar; advice on criminal law and procedures that health ... Read more

    $657.99 USD

  • Pain

    A Political History

    by Keith Wailoo ...
    Pain touches sensitive nerves in American liberalism, conservatism, and political life.In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how pain has defined the line between liberals and conservatives from just after World War II to the present. From disabling pain to end-of-life pain to fetal pain, the battle over whose pain is real and who deserves relief has created stark ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Malignant

    How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer

    How hype, money, and bias can mislead the public into thinking that many worthless or unproven treatments are effective.Each week, people read about new and exciting cancer drugs. Some of these drugs are truly transformative, offering major improvements in how long patients live or how they feel—but what is often missing from the popular narrative is that, far too often, these new drugs have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Regulating Gun Sales

    An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America, Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    This excerpt from the “masterful, timely, data-driven” study of the gun control debate examines the potential of stronger purchasing laws (Choice).As the debate on gun control continues, evidence-based research is needed to answer a crucial question: How do we reduce gun violence? One of the biggest gun policy reforms under consideration is the regulation of firearm sales and stopping the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus