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How to Be Healthy Princeton University Press

WEBFeaturing an introduction, brief commentaries that connect ancient medical practices to modern ones, and the original Greek on facing pages, How to Be Healthy …

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Health, Luck, and Justice Princeton University Press

WEBHealth, Luck, and Justice. “Luck egalitarianism”—the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck—has gained ground in …

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Galen and health: Inspiration, caution, and some useful advice

WEBStudying Galen is useful for many reasons, not least because he draws attention to limitations in our own paradigms and ways of thinking. He encourages us to …

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When People Come First Princeton University Press

WEBA people-centered approach to global health. When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international …

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The Economic Evolution of American Health Care:

WEBDavid Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management and Professor of Management and Strategy at Northwestern …

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Priced Out Princeton University Press

WEB"With the posthumous publication this month of his final work, a book entitled Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care, …

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Healthcare Finance Princeton University Press

WEBAn introductory finance textbook for the healthcare industry. We are living in a golden age of biomedical innovation, yet entrepreneurs still struggle with the so-called …

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Realism and Moralism in Political Theory

WEBThe paradigm of such a theory is Rawls’s. In A Theory of Justice (TJ) itself, the theory also implied a certain amount about the ends of political action, because of implications of …

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The Balanced Brain Princeton University Press

WEBIn this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental …

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The Great Escape Princeton University Press

WEBThe Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Angus Deaton. A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown …

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The Enculturated Gene Princeton University Press

WEBThe Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa. In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several …

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The Normal and the Pathological Princeton University Press

WEBThe Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden …

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Applications of Modern Physics in Medicine

WEBIntended for science and engineering students with one year of introductory physics background, this textbook presents the medical applications of fundamental …

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The Urban Brain Princeton University Press

WEBDrawing on the social and life sciences, The Urban Brain takes an ecosocial approach to the vital city, in which humans live and thrive but too often get sick and …

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The Medical Messiahs Princeton University Press

WEBThe Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Century America. James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in …

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Teaching your mind to fly: The psychological benefits of …

WEBTeaching your mind to fly: The psychological benefits of birdwatching. It is now a matter of common knowledge—bolstered by significant and growing scientific …

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Unhealthy Politics Princeton University Press

WEBUnhealthy Politics sheds new light on why the government’s response to this troubling situation has been so inadequate, and why efforts to improve the evidence …

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Michelangelo Gave Me a New Perspective on Aging

WEBI needed to pass age sixty before I could write a book about the artist Michelangelo Buonarroti in his seventies and eighties. How else could one understand …

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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

WEB"An excellent book."—Nicholas Kristof, New York Times "This book is of the highest importance."—Martin Wolf, Financial Times "Deaths of Despair is on a short list of the …

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The Politics of Precaution Princeton University Press

WEBThe Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, …

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Slouch Princeton University Press

WEBBy 1970, student protests largely brought an end to school posture exams and photos, but many efforts to fight bad posture continued, despite a lack of scientific …

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