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The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age

WebIn this important new book, Hans-Georg Gadamer discusses the transformation in human self-understanding wrought by the scientific worldview, focusing in particular on the …

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Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System

WebThe debate over health care policy in the U. S. did not end when President Obama signed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on March 23, 2010. …

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Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reve

WebThe health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we …

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Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silic

WebAs the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There's no question work …

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The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pan

WebWe are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that …

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Is There a Doctor in the House

WebWill there be a doctor—a good doctor—when I need one? This is the bedrock health care concern for Americans, encompassing as it does additional concerns about affordability, …

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Caring for Patients: A Critique of the Medical Model

WebSee your patient as a person, not a disease. This is the essential message of an experienced and compassionate physician who questions the prevailing medical model …

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The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance

WebWhy do people buy health insurance? Conventional theory holds that people purchase insurance because they prefer the certainty of paying a small premium to the risk of …

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Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After a

WebIn February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—a novel flu-like …

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Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Ri

WebCentral American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, …

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Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing

WebOur Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a …

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One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of

WebRadical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy …

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Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine

WebAround the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil …

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Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt

WebEach year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children …

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Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural Indi

WebEach year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 …

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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

WebThere's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic …

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Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Build

WebSouth Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery …

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