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  • The Epidemic

    A Global History of Aids

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    This "perceptive and concise" history chronicles humanity's relationship with the AIDS virus ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand—noting the excesses ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Therapy

    The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American PsychotherapyFifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, but the origins of the field are rarely known to patients. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense debates within this community of healers.American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Transforming American Science

    Universities, the Government, and the Cold War

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and the broader system of American higher education during the post-World War II decades.The events of the book lie within the context of the Cold War, when pressure to maintain parity with the Soviet Union impelled more generous government spending and a willingness ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Poor People's Medicine

    Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    Poor People’s Medicine is a detailed history of Medicaid since its beginning in 1965. Federally aided and state-operated, Medicaid is the single most important source of medical care for the poorest citizens of the United States. From acute hospitalization to long-term nursing-home care, the nation’s Medicaid programs pay virtually the entire cost of physician treatment, medical equipment, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fat Nation

    A History of Obesity in America

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    The diet and weight-loss industry is worth $66 billion – billion!! The estimated annual health care costs of obesity-related illness are 190 billion or nearly 21% of annual medical spending in the United States. But how did we get here? Is this a battle we can’t win? What changes need to be made in order to scale back the incidence of obesity in the US, and, indeed, around the world? Here, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Coming Plague

    Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    by Laurie Garrett ...
    A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize**–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett**"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious diseas... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Wild

    From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

    by Cheryl Strayed ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Mountain Story

    A Novel

    by Lori Lansens ...
    Four lost hikers are about to discover they’re capable of something extraordinary.Nola has gone up the mountain to commemorate her wedding anniversary, the first since her beloved husband passed. Blonde, stick-thin Bridget is training for a triathalon. Vonn is working out her teenage rebellion at eight thousand feet, driven by family obligation and the urge to escape her mistakes. Still reeling ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Noonday Demon

    An Atlas Of Depression

    by Andrew Solomon ...
    The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide prevention and anti-depressants including SSRIs, pregnancy and postpartum depression, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Trauma and Recovery

    The Aftermath of Violence-—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

    by Judith Lewis Herman, MD ...
    **In this landmark work, a preeminent scholar establishes a revolutionary model for understanding and treating trauma survivors“One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” ―New York Times**Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Triumphs of Experience

    The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

    by George E. Vaillant ...
    At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers welcome news for old age: our lives evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling. Among the surprising findings: people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. ... Read more

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  • The Story of Psychology

    by Morton Hunt ...
    Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD