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        Drugs and the FDA

        Drugs and the FDA

        Drugs and the FDA

        Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust

        by Mikkael A. Sekeres

        ISBN: 9780262548397

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin.
        More Than a Health Crisis

        More Than a Health Crisis

        More Than a Health Crisis

        Securitization and the US Response to the 2013–⁠2016 Ebola Outbreak

        by Jessica Kirk

        ISBN: 9780262545693

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 3, 2023

        How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives—establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response to epidemics such as COVID-19.
        The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

        The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

        The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

        How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

        by Chikako Takeshita

        ISBN: 9780262547840

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 9, 2023

        The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.
        Good Ethics and Bad Choices

        Good Ethics and Bad Choices

        Good Ethics and Bad Choices

        The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics

        by Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby

        ISBN: 9780262542487

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        An analysis of how findings in behavioral economics challenge fundamental assumptions of medical ethics, integrating the latest research in both fields.
        Cannabis

        Cannabis

        Cannabis

        Global Histories

        Edited by Lucas Richert and James H. Mills

        ISBN: 9780262045209

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day.
        Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

        Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

        Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

        by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw

        ISBN: 9780262542388

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 16, 2021

        How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work.
        ʿAṣfūriyyeh

        ʿAṣfūriyyeh

        ʿAṣfūriyyeh

        A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East

        by Joelle M Abi-Rached

        ISBN: 9780262044745

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 17, 2020

        The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region.
        The Pandemic Information Gap

        The Pandemic Information Gap

        The Pandemic Information Gap

        The Brutal Economics of COVID-19

        by Joshua Gans

        ISBN: 9780262539128

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 10, 2020

        Why solving the information problem should be at the core of our pandemic response: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current crisis.
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        OD

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        Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose

        by Nancy D. Campbell

        ISBN: 9780262043663

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 3, 2020

        The history of an unnatural disaster—drug overdose—and the emergence of naloxone as a social and technological solution.
        Heat Advisory

        Heat Advisory

        Heat Advisory

        Protecting Health on a Warming Planet

        by Alan H. Lockwood

        ISBN: 9780262534482

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 11, 2017

        How climate change can affect our health, from heat-related illnesses to extreme weather events.
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