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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol Publisher Comments What if your cell phone could detect cancer cells circulating in your blood or warn you of an imminent heart attack? Mobile wireless digital devices, including smartphones and tablets with seemingly limitless functionality, have brought about radical... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Partner To the Poor (10 Edition) by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments "Paul Farmer is a deep scholar of Haitian society, a formidable medical anthropologist, an implacable theorist of structural violence and health as a human right, and an ethicist for whom the place of social justice in medicine and in the world is an... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Tom L Beauchamp Publisher Comments This edition represents a thorough-going revision of what has become a classic text in biomedical ethics. Major structural changes mark the revision. The authors have added a new concluding chapter on methods that, along with its companion chapter on... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death by Dick Teresi Publisher Comments Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how this problem has been further complicated by the business... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T R Reid Publisher Comments Important and powerful...a rich tour of health care around the world." -Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times How is it that all other industrialized democracies provide health care for their citizens as a reasonable cost-something the United States has... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Food Inc.: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer -- And What You Can Do about It: A Participant Guide by Karl Weber Publisher Comments Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—its an important movie.”... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle by Stuart Altman PW Review "In this level-headed look at health care policy, Altman (a major player in reform efforts since the 1970s) and freelance writer Shactman tease out the paradoxes from the politics, arguing that there can be no functioning health care system without... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Critical Issues in Global Health by C Everett Koop Publisher Comments Critical Issues in Global Health is an outstanding compAndium of knowledge and thought--from a distinguished panel of internationally renowned medical and public health experts--that offers insight into the most important health issues facing our world's... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments How Doctors Think is a window into the mind of the physician and an insightful examination of the all-important relationship between doctors and their patients. In this myth-shattering work, Jerome Groopman explores the forces and thought processes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Community Organizing and Community Building for Health by Meredith (edt) Minkler Publisher Comments As public health problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and environmental toxins become an ever greater part of our national landscape, grassroots public health work has become all the more important. This updated and revised edition of a... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew by Samuel Fromartz Publisher Comments Business writer Fromartz traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. Then he follows it forward again, casting a spotlight on the innovators who created an alternative way of producing food that took root and grew... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments A New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the ultimate medical mystery: how doctors figure out the best treatments — or fail to do so. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Const by Marie Grace Publisher Comments Most people initially had high hopes for health reform. There clearly are problems that must be fixed. The president had promised that if reform passed, everyone would be able to get health insurance, costs would go down, and we would be able to keep... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments Making the right medical decisions is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information from all sides—whether our doctors’ recommendations, dissenting experts, confusing statistics, or testimonials on the Internet. Now Doctors Groopman and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Safety in Numbers: Nurse-To-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) by Suzanne Gordon Synopsis This work shows how hospital cost-cutting and layoffs in the 1990s have created larger workloads and deteriorating conditions for both nurses and their patients--leading nursing organizations to embrace staffing level regulation.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh Publisher Comments Whether you are an ardent believer in alternative medicine, a skeptic, or are simply baffled by the range of services and opinions, this groundbreaking analysis lays to rest doubts and contradictions with authority, integrity, and clarity. Over thirty of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Suppression of the Hoxsey Treatment and the Rise of Alternative Cancer Therapies by Ken Ausubel Publisher Comments A companion to the author's award-winning documentary about Harry Hoxsey, who treated thousands of cancer patients with his herbal formulas despite relentless persecution by the AMA. As alternative medicine finally regains its rightful place and enters... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids by Julie Salamon Publisher Comments A bestselling author and award winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height by Susan Cohen Publisher Comments A fascinating story of medical experimentation, parental love, and the extreme measures taken to make children fit within ?the norm.? Most people rarely think about their height beyond a little wishing and hoping. But for the parents of children who are... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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