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“wendy e wagner”

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  • Bending Science

    How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

    by Thomas O. McGarity, Wendy E. Wagner ...
    What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows, ideological or economic attacks on research are part of an extensive pattern of abuse.Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner reveal the range of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    by Anne Case, Angus Deaton ...
    A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America... ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Lethal But Legal

    Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

    by Nicholas Freudenberg ...
    Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Treating Health Care

    How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

    by Raisa Deber ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A Taylor ...
    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Playbook

    How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World

    by Jennifer Jacquet ...
    **From an astute observer of business behavior and expert in climate denial comes a thought-provoking explanation of how corporations delay, distract, and deflect blame and spread disinformation surrounding health issues, pollution, and climate change.“Brilliantly subversive and witty. If you want to be a vile, greedy capitalist, this how-to book will be a great help. And if you want to identify ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Political Determinants of Health

    by Daniel E. Dawes ...
    How do policy and politics influence the social conditions that generate health outcomes?Reduced life expectancy, worsening health outcomes, health inequity, and declining health care options—these are now realities for most Americans. However, in a country of more than 325 million people, addressing everyone's issues is challenging. How can we effect beneficial change for everyone so we all can ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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  • America, Compromised

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    An analysis of "the Trump era, but not about Trump. . . . but on how incentives across a range of institutions have created corruption" ( New York Times Book Review)."There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are."So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of modern-day American institutions and the corruption that besets them—from the selling of ... Read more

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  • At What Cost

    Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health

    by Nicholas Freudenberg ...
    An incisive and powerful investigation of corporate impact on human and planetary well-being Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Every day, individuals decide what to eat, which doctors to see, who to connect with online, and where to educate their children. Yet, many Americans don't realize that these choices are illusory at best. By the start of the 21st century, every major ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Commercial Determinants of Health

    Edited by Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, Sandro Galea ...
    An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Toward the Healthy City

    People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... Read more

    $25.99 USD