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Biochemistry

Biotechnology and Society An Introduction

Stevens Hallam

ISBN: PB: 9780226046013, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

With "Biotechnology and Society", Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, a...

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Geriatrics

Psychology

Diagnosed with Alzheimers or Another Dementia

Swaffer Kate, Low Lee-Fay

ISBN: PB: 9781742576442, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, September 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.3 cm

Dementia is never one person's illness. Its ripples spread wide, enveloping family, touching friends and bumping up against professional services and care. Dementia can be cruel – hard for those affected and sometimes even harder for care partners. W...

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History

Asia

Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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Public Health

Vaccine Nation America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

Conis Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780226378398, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and...

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Biochemistry

Madness and Memory The Discovery of Prions - A New Biological Principle of Disease

Prusiner Stanley B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216905, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award for achievement in physiology or medicine. That he was the sole recipient of the award for the year was entirely appropriate, for his struggle to identify the age...

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Sign Language

Psychiatry

Mental Health Services for Deaf People Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges

Estrada Aranda Benito, Sleeboom-van Raaij Ines

ISBN: HB: 9781563686542, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 tables, 2 figures

The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which...

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Public Health

Risk, Chance, and Causation Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease

Bracken Michael B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216837, Yale University Press, November 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Should we worry about an increased risk of illness when using certain carpet cleaners? How do we assess the benefits of dietary supplements? What is meant by increased risk in the first place? Dr. Michael Bracken, a leader and innovator in the field...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226262574, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2015
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 59 halftones, 229 line drawings, 136 tables

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability in...

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Biochemistry

Planet of Viruses Second Edition

Zimmer Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226294209, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 12 colour plates

The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest living things known t...

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Public Health

Philosophy

Politics of Pain Medicine A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry

Graham S. Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226264059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line drawings, 2 tables

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new fiel...

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