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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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