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Public Health

Polio The Odyssey of Eradication

Abraham Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9781849049566, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs

Aizcorbe Ana, Baker Colin, Berndt Ernst R., Cutler David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226530857, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 line drawings, 113 tables

Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U. S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health...

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Europe

Psychiatry

On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820

Arnaud Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...

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Public Health

Risky Medicine Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty

Aronowitz Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226049717, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health?Not always, says Robert Aronowitz in "Risky Medicine". In fact...

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Women Studies

Nutrition

Food Guide for Womens Soccer Tips & Recipes from the Pros

Averbuch Gloria, Clark Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781782550518, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, June 2015
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 41 tables

This handy "how-to" food guide addresses the nutrition questions and concerns of soccer athletes of all ages and abilities to help them achieve success with energy to spare. Soccer athletes are hungry for good nutrition information. They have lots of...

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Asia

History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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