Sup.org

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

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 …

Actived: Just Now

URL: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2120

The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance

WEBHealth insurance is substantially more valuable to the consumer under the new theory. The new theory moreover implies that copayments and managed care—central health …

Category:  Health Go Health

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

WEBBeing and Well-Being explores this health culture, detailing the biomedical, countercultural, and immigrant-based beliefs and practices that shape ideas about working, care-giving, …

Category:  Medical Go Health

Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics …

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 …

Category:  Health Go Health

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. …

Category:  Health Go Health

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. …

Category:  Health Go Health

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation …

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 …

Category:  Medical Go Health

Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family …

WEBIn Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health, editors Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos bring together …

Category:  Health Go Health

Helping Low Birth Weight, Premature Babies: The Infant …

WEB"The Infant Health and Development study showed that participation in intensive intervention services during the first three years of life can have significant and positive …

Category:  Health Go Health

Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese …

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 …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

Start reading Infectious Change Katherine A. Mason

WEBThough many scholars have rejected these terms in favor of “Global North,” I found it more appropriate in this case to use the terms that my informants used ( xifang, or xifang …

Category:  Health Go Health

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 …

Category:  Health Go Health

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 …

Category:  Health Go Health

SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being

WEBIn 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in …

Category:  Food Go Health

Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

WEBAirway health will give the most added value for this generation's overall wellness." —Michael Gelb DDS, MS "Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic is a well-researched …

Category:  Health Go Health

Market Menagerie: Health and Development in Late Industrial

WEBMarket Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan. …

Category:  Health Go Health

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Str

WEBWhen Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely …

Category:  Health Go Health

Start reading Epidemic Orientalism Alexandre I. R. White

WEBThrough interviews with health experts involved in the PHEIC assessment process, this chapter explains why certain diseases receive more attention from global health actors. …

Category:  Health Go Health

Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq

WEBIraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical …

Category:  Medical Go Health

War and the Health of Nations

WEBAssessments of the costs of war generally focus on the financial, political, military, and territorial risks associated with involvement in violent conflict. Often overlooked are the …

Category:  Health Go Health

Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public He

WEBBiosecurity comprehensively analyzes the dramatic transformations that are reshaping how the international community addresses biological weapons and infectious diseases. The …

Category:  Health Go Health

America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the M

WEBAmerica's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military …

Category:  Health Go Health