Politics of Health Care
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder  
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells...
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The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
by Robert N., M.d. Butler Publisher Comments Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life...
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Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
by David (edt) Michaels Publisher Comments "Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose,...
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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...
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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescri
by Melody Petersen Publisher Comments In the last thirty years, the big pharmaceutical companies have transformed themselves into marketing machines selling dangerous medicines as if they were Coca-Cola or Cadillacs. They pitch drugs with video games and soft cuddly toys for children...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Medical Care for the Uninsured (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Mark L. Friedman Publisher Comments How anyone can get healthcare. At a time when healthcare costs are skyrocketing, approximately 47 million Americans are without medical insurance. Setting aside the debate over healthcare in the U.S., this guide explores the best options for those...
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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by Shannon Brownlee Publisher Comments A groundbreaking critique of the American health care system's addiction to overtreatment. Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in...
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Rebel Without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf
by Marc Vachon Publisher Comments This is a true story. Marc Vachon was born in Montreal in 1963. He went from one foster home to another. He knows the injustices that the weak must suffer in any society. He knows the violence, the abuse, and the emptiness that life can offer in so...
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Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Suicide
by Mary Warnock Publisher Comments For decades assisted dying and euthanasia have sparked fierce public debate. The recent case of Terri Schiavo, and the firestorm of controversy it provoked, placed the issue in dramatic fashion before the American people once again, raising a host of...
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New Ethics for the Public's Health
by Dan E Beauchamp Publisher Comments Most books about ethics and health focus on issues arising from individual patients and their relationships with doctors and other health professionals. More and more, however, ethical issues are challenges that face entire communities, not just...
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The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim Its Moral Legacy?
by John Geyman Publisher Comments The medical profession and healthcare in the United States are in trouble. Healthcare is unaffordable for a growing part of the population, 46 million Americans are uninsured, tens of millions are underinsured, quality of care is unpredictable, and these...
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Body in Pain : the Making and Unmaking of the World (85 Edition)
by Elaine Scarry Publisher Comments Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the...
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Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by R. Barker Bausell Publisher Comments Millions of people worldwide swear by such therapies as acupuncture, herbal cures, and homeopathic remedies. Indeed, complementary and alternative medicine is embraced by a broad spectrum of society, from ordinary people, to scientists and physicians...
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistance of the Product That Defined America
by Allan M. Brandt Publisher Comments The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been...
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Mountains beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com 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...
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Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis: Who Gets It, Who Profits and How to Stop It
by David Spero Publisher Comments Type 2 diabetes is a social pandemic caused by toxic environments-high in stress and sugar, low in opportunities to exercise or feel good about yourself-and a lack of power. Millions are suffering and being blamed for it, communities are being devastated,...
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
by Devra Davis Publisher Comments From the National Book Award finalist and author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer. The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things...
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Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Infants First
by Marsden Wagner
Publisher Comments In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to...
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
by Gail A. Eisnitz Publisher Comments You may be getting more than just beef in that burger. This shocking book shows what USDA Approved really means. I'd been documenting and exposing animal abuse for nearly 15 years. But nothing -- not the grisly cockfights nor the pathetic puppy mills...
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Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
by Institute Of Medicin Synopsis Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised...
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