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Geriatrics

My Parent's Keeper The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving

Gastfriend Jody

ISBN: PB: 9780300221350, Yale University Press, May 2018
352 pp., 21x14 cm

When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. Uses the latest research and draws on...

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Gynecology

Tangled Diagnoses Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

Lowy Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9780226534091, ISBN: HB: 9780226534121, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus...

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Genetics

Visions of Cell Biology Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology"

Matlin Karl, Maienschein Jane, Laubichler Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9780226520513, ISBN: HB: 9780226520483, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances – in particular, the electron microscope and cell fractionation – its origins actually date to the...

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Psychiatry

Genetics

Model Behavior Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders

Nelson Nicole C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226546087, ISBN: HB: 9780226545929, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today – but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow s...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs

Aizcorbe Ana, Baker Colin, Berndt Ernst R., Cutler David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226530857, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 line drawings, 113 tables

Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U. S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health...

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History

Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages

Wakelin Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781851244768, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
112 pp., 17x11 cm

"For a zitty face. Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night". In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some...

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Public Health

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

McKay Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226063959, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

The search for a "patient zero" – popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic – has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the eme...

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Public Health

Insider Trading How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts

Pfeffer Naomi

ISBN: HB: 9780300118551, Yale University Press, June 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits. Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to...

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History

Finest Traditions of My Calling One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine

Nussbaum Abraham M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227048, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm

Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtfu...

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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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