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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: September 19, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press
Families on the Edge

Families on the Edge

Families on the Edge

Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England

by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song

ISBN: 9780262546188

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press
Drugs and the FDA

Drugs and the FDA

Drugs and the FDA

Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust

by Mikkael A. Sekeres

ISBN: 9780262047319

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 27, 2022

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.
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.
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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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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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