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  • Philanthropy for Health in China

    by Bronwyn Carter, Deng Guosheng, Fan Li, David Faure, Susan A. Jolly, Joan Kaufman, Jeffrey P. Koplan, Vivian Lin, Pam Redmon, Caroline Reeves, Mark Sidel, Darwin H. Stapleton, Wang Zhenyao, Zhang Lu, Zhang Xiulan, Zhao Yanhui, Ray Yip, Mary Brown Bullock, Zhao Xiaoping, Zi Zhongyun, Xu Yongguang, Eve Lee, Mary Ann Burris ...
    Series series
    Drawing on the expertise of Chinese and Western academics and practitioners, the contributors to this volume aim to advance the understanding of philanthropy for health in China in the 20th century and to identify future challenges and opportunities. Considering government, NGO leaders, domestic philanthropists, and foreign foundations, the volume examines the historical roots and distinct stages ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

    Edited by Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe and the United States to several Asian countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

    by Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu ...
    Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them—sometimes too late.Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic ... Read more

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  • Ninety Days

    A Memoir of Recovery

    by Bill Clegg ...
    The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse, and the ... Read more

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  • How Everyone Became Depressed

    The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

    by Edward Shorter ...
    About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a term for what they have," writes Edward Shorter, "and it's a good old-fashioned term that has gone out of ... Read more

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  • The Colony

    The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

    by John Tayman ...
    In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is “an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter” (Booklist) in American history and a moving tale of the extraordinary people who endured it.Beginning in 1866 and continuing ... Read more

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  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Colin Jones CBE ...
    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... Read more

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  • Showing Up for Life

    Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

    by Mary Ann Mackin, Bill Gates Sr. ...
    A heartfelt, deeply personal book that shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”: lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Through the course of several dozen ... Read more

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  • Frederick Banting

    by Stephen Eaton Hume ...
    Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world. ... Read more

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  • With Charity for All

    Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give

    by Ken Stern ...
    Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight and prescribes a whole new way for Americans to make a difference.Each year, ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    A Medical History of Humanity

    by Roy Porter ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of ... Read more

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  • House M.D. vs. Reality

    Fact and Fiction in the Hit Television Series

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    Solve the puzzles of TV's smartest doctor.Brilliant diagnostician Gregory House solves puzzles every day-using not just his vast medical knowledge but his razor-sharp instincts about human behavior. This new volume explores some of the questions raised by the hit TV drama-and does the detective work to get the answers.For any fascinated fan, it's a compelling journey into the real-world medicine ... Read more

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