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Physiology

Science of Walking Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mayer Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780226328355, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

"The Science of Walking" recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific study of an activity that seems utterly trivial in its everyday performance and yet essential to our hum...

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Public Health

Sick to Debt How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care

Ubel Peter A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238464, Yale University Press, January 2020
216 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high-deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amoun...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Working Longer

Coile Courtney, Milligan Kevin, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226619293, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables

Developed countries during the last two decades have seen a long-term decline in men's labor force participation at older ages, followed by a more recent pattern of sharply rising participation rates. Participation rates for women at older ages have...

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Nutrition

Health & Wellbeing

Smart Plants Power Foods & Natural Nootropics for Optimized Thinking, Focus & Memory

Morris Julie

ISBN: HB: 9781454933427, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2020
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, colour illus.

This book can change the way you think. Literally. If you struggle with focus and memory lapses, mental fog, or stress – or if you simply want to optimize your mental performance and protect your brain health – Smart Plants is a must read. Written by...

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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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Public Health

Sick-Note Britain How Social Problems Became Medical Issues

Massey Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9781787381223, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot "fix", while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medi...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Capacity to Work at Older Ages

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226442877, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2017
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 188 line drawings, 127 tables

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between...

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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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Genetics

Gender Studies

Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

Richardson Sarah S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325613, ISBN: HB: 9780226084688, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 11 line drawings

Human genomes are 99. 9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking...

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