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  • The Truth in Small Doses

    Why We're Losing the War on Cancer-and How to Win It

    de Clifton Leaf ...
    A “brilliant” (Fortune), eye-opening history of the war on cancer, The Truth in Small Doses asks why we are losing this essential fight and charts a path forward.Over the past half century, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and so many other killers have fallen dramatically. But cancer continues to kill with abandon. In 2013, despite a four-decade “war” against the disease that has cost hundreds ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Antifragile

    Things That Gain from Disorder

    de Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Libro 3 - Incerto
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Remedy and Reaction

    The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

    de Paul Starr ...
    In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Professionalism

    de Alan Cribb, Sharon Gewirtz ...
    Series series Key Themes in Health and Social Care
    Professionalism is a complex and highly disputed idea of crucial importance in a range of fields, not least health and social care. It can inspire people by reminding them of workplace ideals and the value of occupational expertise. But it can also feel threatening and de-motivating; for example, if it is used to demand ever more from people working in very challenging circumstances. The language ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD

  • 2030 - The Future of Medicine

    Avoiding a Medical Meltdown

    de Richard Barker ...
    It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance? This book tackles these questions, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from the uncomfortable challenges that lie ahead, as ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Code Red

    An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It

    de David Dranove ...
    The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate

    The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues

    Edición de Kristen Renwick Monroe, Ronald Miller, Jerome Tobis ...
    Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tissue of the body heralds the advent of an extraordinary new field of medicine. Controversy arises, however, because current techniques required to harvest stem cells involve the destruction of the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Fixing Medical Prices

    How Physicians Are Paid

    de Miriam J. Laugesen ...
    Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians performing services such as minor surgeries and endoscopies. Fixing Medical Prices goes to the heart of the U.S. ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century

    A History

    de George Weisz ...
    How the evolving concept of chronic disease has affected patients and politics in the United States and Europe.Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Bioscience - Lost in Translation?

    How precision medicine closes the innovation gap

    de Richard Barker ...
    Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable. There is a widening gap between what biomedical research promises and the impact that it is currently achieving, in terms of patient benefit and health system improvement. This book highlights the global problem of the ineffective translation of bioscience innovation into health system improvements and its consequences, analyses ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Health Communication

    Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs

    Edición de Do Kyun Kim, Arvind Singhal, Gary L. Kreps ...
    Series Libro 5 - Health Communication
    Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book represents a concrete step in that direction by establishing a strategic framework for guiding global and ... Leer más

    $185.99 USD

  • Toward Equity in Health

    A New Global Approach to Health Disparities

    Edición de Barbara C. Wallace, PhD ...
    This essential collection presents a state-of-the-art framework for how workers in public health and related disciplines should conceptualize health disparities and how they should be addressed worldwide. The contributors, who are leading public health professionals, educators, and practitioners in complimentary fields advance new evidence-based models designed to mobilize and educate the next ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD