Formative Years

• Paperback | Engels | Conversations in Medicine and Society
• Much has changed in the lives of children, and in the health care provided to them, over the past century. Formative Years explores how children's liv... Lees meer

Ordinary Life

Kathlyn Conway

• Paperback | Engels | Conversations in Medicine and Society
• Praise for Ordinary Life: "It reads like a novel, but Kathy Conway's journal of three cancers is the smartest kind of self-help: it gives us permissio... Lees meer

White Coat, Clenched Fist

Fitzhugh Mullan

• Paperback | Engels | Conversations in Medicine and Society
• In the sixties, Fitzhugh Mullan was an activist in the civil rights struggle. While in medical school, Mullan was shocked by gaps in what the students... Lees meer

Deadly Dust

David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Conversations in Medicine and Society
• During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of wor... Lees meer

Universal Coverage

Rick Mayes

• Paperback | Engels | Conversations in Medicine and Society
• Universal health coverage has become the Mount Everest of public policy in the United States: the most daunting challenge on the political landscape. ... Lees meer

The Midnight Meal

Jerome Lowenstein

• Paperback | Engels | Conversations in Medicine and Society
• In this expanded edition, an accomplished physician and teacher of medicine discusses the importance of being a caring doctor, especially now that the... Lees meer