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Human Voices of Tomorrow's Doctors

Kehinde Tolu

ISBN: PB: 9781512603330, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
200 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm

Medical professionals are often viewed as a special breed of stoic figures whose tough grace allows them to stay strong as they confront human frailty and tragedy on a daily basis. "Human" is a new anthology that aims to dispel this unhelpful line of...

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Biography & Memoires

Limited by Body Habitus An American Fat Story

Renee Blevins Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9781938769405, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
208 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm

Jennifer Renee Blevins's debut memoir, "Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story", sheds light on her experiences living with the emotional and psychological struggles of taking up space in a fat-phobic world. Bringing together experiences of p...

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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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Business & Economics

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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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Pandemic Century One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

Honigsbaum Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781787381216, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us b...

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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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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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Biography & Memoires

Public Health

No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World

Sasakawa Yohei, Muroji Rei

ISBN: HB: 9781787381377, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure – a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment,...

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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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