Filter by
Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7
"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262271059
- Collation
- 1 online resource (1 volume) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity. Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for s…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262370592
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanism…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262356299
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Methuselahs :the ethics of life extension
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262347228
- Collation
- 1 online resource (ix, 354 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications
While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently has health's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the explicit mechanisms by which a population's individual and collective health status affects a nation's economic development and perfo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262290586
- Collation
- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 330 HEA
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility :the New Language of Global B…
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 11, 2012)."'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clea…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262305815
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Medical malpractice / Medical Malpractice
Economist Frank Sloan and lawyer Lindsey Chepke examine the U.S. medical malpractice process from legal, medical, economic & insurance perspectives, analyse past efforts at reform, & offer policy recommendations.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 1 online resource (viii, 458 pages) :
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the world. In From Darwin to Derrida, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world. The key to this…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262358026
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Mining the biomedical literature / Structured Data
A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xi, 138 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Life Support: The Environment and Human Health
A solutions-oriented examination of the connections between environmental degradation and human health.Life Support brings together the best medical information available on the implications for human health of the global environmental crisis. Written by prominent physicians and public health experts who see environmental degradation as a serious threat to public health, it provides essential i…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262279338
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography