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Better Health Economics

WEBBetter Health Economics is a warts-and-all introduction to a field that is more exceptions than rules. Economists Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo offer readers an …

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Health Care for Some

WEBIn Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health …

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The City and the Hospital

WEBA surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities. An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed …

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Economic Aspects of Health, Fuchs

WEBUnlike earlier work in medical economics, which has focused on medical care, these ten papers stress the production and consequences of health itself. They reveal a serious concern with real-world health problems in …

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How Healthy Are We

WEBThe culmination of a decade and a half of research by leading scholars, How Healthy Are We? will dramatically alter the way we think about health in middle age and the factors that influence it. Researchers, …

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Developing to Scale

WEBThe first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical …

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The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges

WEBA timely investigation of the potential economic effects, both realized and unrealized, of artificial intelligence within the United States healthcare system. In sweeping …

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Migration and Health, Galea, Ettman, Zaman

WEBA new introduction to a timeless dynamic: how the movement of humans affects health everywhere. International migrants compose more than three percent of the world’s population, and internal migrants—those …

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Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of …

WEBThe philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies …

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Creating Culture through Health Leadership, Svedin

WEBThe challenges to health, wellness, and health equity in the United States are massive. No matter what side of the discussion health care leaders are on, insufficient mental health care, adverse childhood experiences, …

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Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations

WEBFew large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of …

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Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time, Galea

WEBA provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots. The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health—a volatile combination …

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Creating Mental Illness, Horwitz

WEBIn this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that …

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Looking through the Speculum

WEBJennifer Nelson, University of Redlands. “ Looking through the Speculum is a gripping account of the women’s health movement and the institutions women’s health activists …

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Applied Arts and Health

WEBFresh insights into research approaches within the arts, in and for health and well-being. This forward-thinking collection documents diverse approaches to creative arts …

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The Quest for Sexual Health

WEBOffering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and …

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The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

WEBWith Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and …

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Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and

WEBSociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. In 2022, Los Angeles …

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The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, Ansell, MD, Lightfoot

WEBWe hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when …

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