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Genetic twists of fate
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the nex…
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- 9780262289382
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Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, …
The origin of modern science is often located in Europe and the West. This Euro/West-centrism relegates emergent practices elsewhere to the periphery, undergirding analyses of contemporary transnational science and technology with traditional but now untenable hierarchical categories. In this book, Amit Prasad examines features of transnationality in science and technology through a study of ma…
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- 9780262322065
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Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence
Explores the philosophical and practical ethical implications of a definition of health as a state that allows us to reach our goals.Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This de…
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- 9780262282383
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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 1
This volume contains papers presented at "Frontiers in Health Policy Research", a conference held in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 1997"--Page xi.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273503
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 180 pages) :illustrations
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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 6
On cover: National Bureau of Economic Research.This important series presents timely economic research on health care and health policy issues. Each volume contains papers from an annual conference of researchers, government officials, and policy experts held in Washington, D.C. Topics include the effects of health policy reforms, changes in health care organization and management, measurement …
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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…
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- 9780262271059
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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…
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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…
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- 9780262356299
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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.
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- 9780262347228
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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…
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