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Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one's life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the founding fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the Founders occupied a unique position...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A memoir-expose of the health-care system by a cardiologist and much-praised author"--Provided by publisher.
A timely industry exposé and memoir calls for the reestablishment of moral practices in patient care while revealing how liability- and profit-driven practices in American healthcare are subjecting patients to unnecessary tests and high fees.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
An investigation into how racial inequality has shaped the heart transplant race describes how in 1968 an injured black man checked into a hospital before his heart was removed and donated without his family's knowledge or consent.
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
ix, 366 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to America, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 304 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.
Description
"The inside story of how Big Pharma's relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge, misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health"--Book jacket flap.
11) Sicko
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the United States health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on the how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
Author
Publisher
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Curing Medicare demonstrates which medical interventions (medicines, tests, procedures) work and which can be harmful in many common conditions in the elderly; the harms and benefits of hospitalization; the current culture of long-term care; and how Medicare often promotes care that is ineffective, expensive, and contrary to what many elderly patients and their families really want."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In Prepare to Defend Yourself . . . How to Navigate the Healthcare System and Escape with Your Life, Matthew Minson, a physician and disaster medicine and healthcare policy expert, pulls back the examination room curtain on the healthcare system, empowering patients and their families to become proactive and knowledgeable users of medical services.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"From one of the fiercest skirmishes of the Vietnam War to years of seclusion in a mountain cave, Medal of Honor recipient, Gary Beikirch has faced more than his fair share of battles and overcome each of them through perseverance and faith. He inspires readers to do the same"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
269 pages
Description
In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 277 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"We live in an age of medical miracles. Never in the history of humankind has so much talent and energy been harnessed to cure disease. So why does it feel like it's getting harder to live our healthiest lives? Why does it seem like "experts" can't agreeon anything, and why do our interactions with medical professionals feel less personal, less honest, and less impactful than ever? Through stories from his own practice and historical case studies,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 16 cm
Description
"From the author of On Tyranny comes an urgent diagnosis of an American malady: our heartless system of commercial medicine and our politics of pain. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window,...
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