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  • Killer Commodities

    Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm

    by Roberto Abadie, Arachu Castro, Ann M. Cheney, Alexa S. Dietrich, Pamela I. Erickson, Martine Hackett, Jeff Howard, Martha Livingston, Terence Love, Brian McKenna, Michael Oldani, Joan Paluzzi, Michael Westerhaus, Edward J. Woodhouse ...
    Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between corporate production of goods for profit and for public health. This collection analyzes the nature and public health impact of a wide range of dangerous commercial products from around the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be changed ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Unhealthy Health Policy

    A Critical Anthropological Examination

    by Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Francisco Armada, Hans A. Baer, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Philippe Bourgois, David Buchanan, Claudia Chaufan, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Alice Desclaux, Paul Farmer, Didier Fassin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, Salmaan Keshavjee, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Cathy Hodge McCoid, Carles Muntaner, Joan E. Paluzzi, James Pfeiffer, Imrana Qadeer, Susan Shaw, Tom Stopka, Wei Teng, Graham A. Tobin, Fouzieyha Towghi, Nalini Visvanathan, William Wagner, Howard Waitzkin, Wayne Warry, Linda M. Whiteford, Cathleen Willging ...
    This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • Deadly Choices

    How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

    by Paul A Offit, MD ...
    In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Disease-Free Revolution

    by Ron Garner ...
    This is the health book we have all been waiting for. Easy-to-understand, timely and transformational, it gives you the keys to gain personal power over your health and shows you how you can live a disease-free life. In The Disease-Free Revolution you are presented with research-based facts that show how our reliance on conventional health care systems is not working. This reliance is making us ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Second Chances

    True Stories of Living with Addison's Disease

    by Carol Mckay ...
    How does it feel to be diagnosed with a life-threatening health condition?Addison's disease is a rare auto-immune condition which can be fatal. Diagnosis is often made in an emergency.In this book, sixteen people describe the impact Addison's disease has had on their lives. Drawn from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, South Africa, Belgium and South Korea, these men and women describe in their own ... Read more

    $6.33 USD

  • Drugs and Drug Policy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Mark A.R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Angela Hawken ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • RefluxMD's Recipe for Relief

    A GERD Friendly Meal Plan and Diet Program for Acid Reflux

    by RefluxMD ...
    The natural and healthy solution for relief of acid reflux disease! OK, YOU HAVE GERD...NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? If you have been told to take antireflux medications to treat your disease, then its time you learn about the potential consequences of long-term daily use of those powerful medications - and about your alternatives. It’s your disease and it’s your life…get started ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Heart Mafia

    Bold Exposure of the Shameful Truth of India's Celebrated Cardiologists

    by Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury ...
    If you or any of your family member is suffering from Diabetes, High B.P., High Cholesterol, Obesity or a Heart disease ................................................................ just imagine one morning you wake up to know that you are no more on those drugs and are just as healthy as you were few years back.............................................. To know this read "Heart Mafia" A ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • How to Cure and Get Arthritis Pain Relief Naturally and FAST

    acne no more, acne treatment, acne scar, acne cure, ... clear skin, sunshine hormone, skincare, #1

    by L.W. Wilson ...
    Series Book 1 - acne no more, acne treatment, acne scar, acne cure, ... clear skin, sunshine hormone, skincare
    A Proven, Step-By-Step System To Rid Arthritis From Your Life FASTToday only, get this bestseller for less than a cup of coffee! Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or other device.Hello Friend,My name is L.W. Wilson and I'm about to reveal to you my proven, step-by-step system that will help you to control your arthritis, master every kind of arthritis, and eliminate it from your life ... Read more

    $2.22 USD

  • Fresh Medicine

    How to Fix, Reform, and Build a Sustainable Health Care System

    by Phil Bredesen ...
    An authoritative, engaging, and nonpartisan look at what is wrong with American health care and how we can fix it—"told with skill and grace" (Jon Meacham, author of American Lion).Former Governor of Tennessee and CEO of HealthAmerica Corporation, Phil Bredesen "knows the American health care system inside and out. He knows both the theory and, more importantly, how things really work." In Fresh ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hospital

    Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids

    by Julie Salamon ...
    Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on SteroidsA warts-and-all exploration of the struggles suffered and triumphs achieved by America's health-care professionals, Hospital follows a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, which serves a diverse multicultural demographic. Unraveling the financial, ethical, technological, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Health of Nations

    Towards a New Political Economy

    by Gavin Mooney ...
    Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism.Mooney analyses how power ... Read more

    $26.49 USD