Pills, Power, and Policy

Dominique Tobbell

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 23
• Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug saf... Lees meer

State of Immunity

James Colgrove

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 16
• This first comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States tells the story of how vaccination became a w... Lees meer

Inside National Health Reform

John E McDonough

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 22
• This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and... Lees meer

Lead Wars

Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 24
• In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious an... Lees meer

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

James Wooten

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 11
• This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress... Lees meer

Are We Ready?

David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 15
• A contemporary history of a critical period, Are We Ready? analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed, and preparations for a poss... Lees meer

Searching Eyes

Amy L Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 18
• This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of ... Lees meer

Deceit and Denial

Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 6
• Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present t... Lees meer

Experiencing Politics

John E McDonough

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 2
• John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political ... Lees meer

House on Fire

William H Foege

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 21
• A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human his... Lees meer

The Health Care Revolution

Carl F Ameringer

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 19
• America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolution... Lees meer

Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!

Joanne Lynn

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 10
• Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this ... Lees meer

When Walking Fails

Lisa Iezzoni

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 8
• Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases,... Lees meer

Real Collaboration

Mark L Rosenberg, Elisabeth Hayes, Margaret McIntyre, Nancy Wall Neill

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 20
• Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty ye... Lees meer

House on Fire

William H Foege

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 21
• A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human his... Lees meer

Disease and Democracy

Peter Baldwin

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 13
• Disease and Democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of diverge... Lees meer

Real Collaboration

Mark L Rosenberg, Elisabeth Hayes, Margaret McIntyre, Nancy Wall Neill

• Boek | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 20
• Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty ye... Lees meer

Public Health Law and Ethics

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 4
• Now revised and expanded to cover today's most pressing health threats, Public Health Law and Ethics probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart ... Lees meer

Medicare Matters

Christine Cassel

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 14
• Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assess... Lees meer

What Price Better Health?

Daniel Callahan

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 9
• The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative ... Lees meer

Pills, Power, and Policy

Dominique Tobbell

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 23
• Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug saf... Lees meer

Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health

James C Riley

• Hardcover | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 17
• This book studies the experience of twelve countries that have broken through the limits that low incomes so often impose on human survival: China, Co... Lees meer

Death Is That Man Taking Names

Robert A Burt

• Paperback | Engels | California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public | nr. 7
• The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rationa... Lees meer