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Big Med Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

Dranove David, Burns Lawton Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226668079, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures, 3 tables

There is little debate that healthcare in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we're overlo...

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Genetics

Heredity under the Microscope Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome

de Chadarevian Soraya

ISBN: PB: 9780226685113, ISBN: HB: 9780226685083, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

By focusing on chromosomes, "Heredity under the Microscope" offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twe...

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History

Merchants of Medicines The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century

Dorner Zachary

ISBN: HB: 9780226706801, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 5 tables

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century – the so-called long eighteenth century of English history – was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long distance trade, and huma...

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Political Science

Above the Fray The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector

Dromi Shai M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226680248, ISBN: HB: 9780226680101, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

From Lake Chad to Iraq, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide relief around the globe, and their scope is growing every year. Policymakers and activists often assume that humanitarian aid is best provided by these organizations, which are gene...

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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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Biochemistry

Welcome to the Microbiome Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes in, on, and Around You

DeSalle Rob, Perkins Susan L., Wynne Patricia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223507, Yale University Press, February 2017
264 pp., 20.3x13 cm, 51 black&white illus.

<p>Revolutionary research is revealing how the trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies can keep us healthy... or make us sick Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Proj...

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Neurology

Brain Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

DeSalle Rob, Tattersall Ian, Wynne Patricia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205725, ISBN: HB: 9780300175226, Yale University Press, April 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 68 black&white illus.

After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so. In this delight...

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