- Comparative Studies and the Right to Health
- Edited by Stephen P. Marks
- Foreword by Paul Hunt
- Contributions by Raul Pangalangan
- The right to health has been acknowledged as one of the most important human rights for economic and social development, but few efforts have been made to assess the problems and prospects for the realization of this right across national health systems. This book examines, in comparative perspective, how health and the right to health have been dealt with in six countries: the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Ghana, and Peru.
- Paperback 2008
- The Denial of Aging
- Muriel R. Gillick
- Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes
- Stephanie A. Eisenstat
- Ellen Barlow
- David M. Nathan, Consulting Editor
- Women have long needed a book devoted to their unique issues with diabetes. This up-to-date and practical guide advocates simple lifestyle changes that can help women reduce their risk of getting diabetes or, if already diagnosed, prevent the disease's most serious complications.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Global Health Challenges for Human Security
- Edited by Lincoln C. Chen
- Edited by Jennifer Leaning
- Edited by Vasant Narasimhan
- The goals of health and human security are fundamentally valued in all societies, yet the breadth of their interconnections are not properly understood. This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for global health action.
- Paperback 2004
- The Health Care Mess
- Julius B. Richmond
- Rashi Fein
- Foreword by Jimmy Carter
- In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s, showing how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care. As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insurance is poised to unravel, American leaders must again take up the question of health care. This book brings the voice of reason and the promise of compromise to that debate.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Is It Me or My Meds?
- David A. Karp
- In this book, David Karp explores the relationship between pills and personhood by listening to a group of experts who rarely get the chance to speak on the matter--those who are taking the medications. Through their honest and vivid stories, this book provides unflinching portraits of people attempting to make sense of a process far more complex and mysterious than doctors or pharmaceutical companies generally admit.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- The Smoking Puzzle
- Frank A. Sloan
- V. Kerry Smith
- Donald H. Taylor
- How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their longevity and future health if they quit later in life. Smokers over fifty revise their risk perceptions only after experiencing a major health shock. If smokers are informed of long-term consequences of a disease, and if they are told that quitting can indeed come too late, they are able to evaluate the risks of smoking more accurately, and act accordingly.
- Hardcover 2003