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Genetics

Mobilizing Mutations Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy

Navon Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226638096, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 tables

With every passing year, more and more people learn that they or their young or unborn children carries a genetic mutation. But what does this mean for the way we understand a person? Today, genetic mutations are being used to diagnose novel conditio...

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Public Health

Viral Economies Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam

Porter Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9780226648941, ISBN: HB: 9780226648804, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people l...

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Geriatrics

Law

Speaking for the Dying Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care

Shapiro Susan P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226615745, ISBN: HB: 9780226615608, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 13 tables

Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions – literally – will therefore be made by someone el...

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History

Synthesizing Hope Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery

Pollock Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780226629186, ISBN: HB: 9780226629049, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

"Synthesizing Hope" opens up the material and social world of pharmaceuticals by focusing on an unexpected place: iThemba Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2009 with a name taken from the Zulu word for hope, the small South African startup with an elite in...

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History

Contagious Cause The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine

Wolfe Scheffler Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780226628370, ISBN: HB: 9780226458892, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer "germ", inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that t...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine

Berndt Ernst R., Goldman Dana P., Rowe John

ISBN: HB: 9780226611068, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 line drawings, 67 tables

ersonalized and precision medicine (PPM) – the targeting of therapies according to an individual's genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics – is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The adva...

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Public Health

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Kaye Abraham Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226623702, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country".Mama Might Be Better Off D...

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Psychiatry

On the Heels of Ignorance Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

Whooley Owen

ISBN: PB: 9780226616384, ISBN: HB: 9780226616247, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley's sweeping new book tell us, the h...

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Public Health

Community Health Equity A Chicago Reader

De Maio Fernando, Shah Raj C., Mazzeo John, Ansell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226614625, ISBN: HB: 9780226614595, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones, 55 tables

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity".Community Health Equity" assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago's structural socioecono...

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Genetics

Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics

Rheinberger Hans-Jorg, Muller-Wille Staffan

ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...

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