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  • Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

    by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...
    The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer.The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close.In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An American Sickness

    How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    by Elisabeth Rosenthal ...
    **A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Deadly Spin

    An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

    by Wendell Potter ...
    That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information that the public needs. Potter quit his high-paid job as head of public relations at a major insurance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Health Gap

    The Challenge of an Unequal World

    by Michael Marmot ...
    In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and in other cities around the world.In Sierra Leone, one in 21 fifteen-year-old women will die in her ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • If I Betray These Words

    Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

    by Wendy Dean, Simon Talbot ...
    **An incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine“Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare system, illustrating the thumbscrews applied to medical professionals by their corporate overlords… Required reading for all stakeholders in healthcare.” — Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of When We Do ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Choice

    The Abortion Divide in America

    by Danielle D'Souza Gill ...
    See the debate on abortion from a new perspective as a young conservative discusses the effects that modern culture and politics have had on both sides of the argument.Danielle D'Souza Gill, in a pathbreaking new book, blows the lid off the abortion debate, which is radically different than it was when the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Technology has transformed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability

    Edited by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Yvonne Zurynski, Carolynn K-lynn Smith ...
    The Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Health System Sustainability takes the reader on a journey to understand the interconnectedness of human health, climate change, and healthcare systems.The book begins by exploring how climate change is affecting human health through the increasing frequency of natural disasters, such as bush fires, droughts and heatwaves, and the emergence of new ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Mistreated

    Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care -- and Why We're Usually Wrong

    by Robert Pearl, MD ...
    The biggest problem in American health care is usDo you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For example, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Medicare For You

    A Smart Person's Guide

    by Diane J. Omdahl, RN, MS ...
    “The decisions you make when you sign up for Medicare can impact your costs — and your quality of care — for the rest of your life. No one gives better advice about Medicare than Diane Omdahl. “ — Terry Savage, Author of The Savage Truth on Money and Nationally Syndicated Financial ColumnistGet the most out of Medicare. Get your maximum earned benefits for yourself and your family.Every day, over ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Some Kids Left Behind

    A Survivor's Fight for Health Care in the Wake of 9/11

    by Lila Nordstrom ...
    For the 20th anniversary of 9/11 comes an awe-inspiring account of the schoolchildren poisoned by the toxic air left in the wake of the Twin Towers’ destruction and the survivor who fought for health care for them in front of Congress and against the odds.On September 11, 2001, high school senior Lila Nordstrom watched from her classroom’s window as the Twin Towers, mere blocks away, fell. Weeks ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being Mortal

    Medicine and What Matters in the End

    by Atul Gawande ...
    **#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending**Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Food Pedagogies

    Edited by Rick Flowers, Elaine Swan ...
    Series series Critical Food Studies
    In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains, including schools, supermarkets, families, advertising and TV media. Illustrated ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Biopolitics

    An Advanced Introduction

    by Thomas Lemke, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica Casper ...
    Series Book 5 - Biopolitics
    The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of American Healthcare

    Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    Series Book 6 - The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality."For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Remedy and Reaction

    The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Preventing the Next Pandemic

    Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science

    by Peter J. Hotez ...
    The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post–COVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves?Modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as shifting ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • To Save Humanity

    What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

    by Julio Frenk, Steven Hoffman ...
    "The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." --Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Understanding Health Policy, 7E

    by Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach ...
    Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in itA Doody's Core Title for 2019!The Seventh Edition of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach remains the most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available and provides everything you need to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues. This concise and engaging textbook clearly explains ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Transformation of American Health Insurance

    On the Path to Medicare for All

    by Troyen A. Brennan ...
    Can American health insurance survive?In The Transformation of American Health Insurance, Troyen A. Brennan traces the historical evolution of public and private health insurance in the United States from the first Blue Cross plans in the late 1930s to reforms under the Biden administration. In analyzing this evolution, he finds long-term trends that form the basis for his central argument: that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Healing

    Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

    by Thomas Insel MD ...
    A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system.“Healing is truly one of the best books ever written about mental illness, and I think I’ve read them all." —Pete Earley, author of CrazyAs director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Obamacare: What's in It for Me?

    What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

    by Wendell Potter ...
    On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.Enter Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin and former health insurance executive. Obamacare: What's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Telling Genes

    The Story of Genetic Counseling in America

    by Alexandra Minna Stern ...
    The history of contemporary genetic counseling, including its medical, personal, and ethical dimensions.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLFor sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the United States work in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • TennCare, One State's Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

    by Christina Juris Bennett ...
    A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to Obamacare. In 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the proportion of residents with health insurance and curtail cost increases. It was guided by principles that nearly match those that guided the creation ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

    by Michael Lewis ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.**Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction ... Read more

    $12.99 USD