Health Policy
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
$30.00 Read moreFortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilli
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881555
- Language: English
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God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
$18.00 Add to cartVictoria Sweet’s new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now
For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence o- Author: Sweet, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1594486549
- Language: English
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Dying to be Seen: The Race to Save Medicare in Canada
$24.99 Add to cartCanada’s public health care system is under attack. Defunding, deregulating, defrauding, and deliberate disintegration have manipulated Canadians into despising their once-beloved system as unsustaina… [more below]
- Author: MacNeil, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1039161243
- Language: English
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Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care
$14.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence, Why We Revolt peels back the curtain to expose the corruption and negligence present in the modern American healthcare system-and how, with f
- Author: Montori, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1893005623
- Language: English
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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartWhile there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies–regulations, taxes, and prohibitions–designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Tho… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Kleiman, Mark A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 13 2011
- ISBN10: 199764506
- Language: English
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017
“This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of h- Author: Rosenthal, Elisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 143110853
- Language: English
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Box of Birds: What New Zealand taught me about life and the practice of medicine
$15.99 Add to cartIn this fascinating memoir, cardiologist Stephen Stowers eloquently captures the various changes that he has lived through over a lifetime spent as a caring and ethical medical professional. With sadn
- Author: Stowers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987144206
- Language: English
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Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System
$30.00 Read moreAn empowering, soul-baring personal account and guide from a two-time cancer survivor and healthcare disrupter that shows anyone how to deal with a frightening medical diagnosis in America today, prov
- Author: Giusti, Kathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063282178
- Language: English
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
$32.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0805095152
- Language: English
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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
$19.95 Add to cartThe modern penchant for transforming human problems into “diseases” and judicial sanctions into “treatments,” replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of governme… [more below]
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 1, 2003
- ISBN10: 0815607636
- Language: English
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The Hpv Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice for a Generation Betrayed
$19.99 Add to cartA Groundbreaking Guide to the HPV Vaccine and the science, safety, and business Behind It
Cancer strikes fear in people’s hearts around globe. So the appearance of a vaccine to prevent cancer-as we ar- Author: Holland, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: 2-Oct-18
- ISBN10: 1510710809
- Language: English
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We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care
$29.00 Read moreFrom a MacArthur Genius MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform
Few of us need convincing that the American- Author: Einav, Liran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 059342123X
- Language: English
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
$18.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – “A stunning expos? of why Black people in our society ‘live sicker and die quicker’–an eye-opening game changer.”–Oprah Daily
From an award-winning writer at the New York Ti… [more below]- Author: Villarosa, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0525566228
- Language: English
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
$18.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guide
Medicine has triumphed in modern times,- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250076226
- Language: English
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Maximize Your Medicare: 2024-2025 Edition: Qualify for Benefits, Protect Your Health, and Minimize Your Costs
$14.99 Read more“Jae Oh’s Maximize Your Medicare is the best book I’ve read on understanding all of the Medicare options and how Medicare intersects with other health insurance options.” –Wade Pfau, Professor of Ret… [more below]
- Author: Oh, Jae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1621538303
- Language: English
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Ending the Crisis: Mayo Clinic’s Guide to Opioid Addiction and Safe Opioid Use
$21.99 Add to cartWhat if we could help loved ones misusing opioids and support them as they seek treatment?
In Ending the Crisis, addiction medicine specialist Dr. Holly Geyer goes beyond the science of addiction to- Author: Geyer, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1945564563
- Language: English
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Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
$30.00 Read moreA revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicine
The United States is embarking on a medical revol- Author: Tabery, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0525658203
- Language: English
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If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
$29.00 Add to cartAn incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine
“Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare syste- Author: Dean, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1586423541
- Language: English
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
$30.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – “A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society ‘live sicker and die quicker’–an eye-opening game changer.”–Oprah Daily
From an award-winning writer at the New York T… [more below]- Author: Villarosa, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 038554488X
- Language: English
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Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
$19.99 Add to cartNOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in U- Author: Benedict, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1982190175
- Language: English
