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Drugs and the FDA
Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
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
Securitization and the US Response to the 2013–2016 Ebola Outbreak
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
How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies
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
The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics
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.
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
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
A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East
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 Brutal Economics of COVID-19
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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Protecting Health on a Warming Planet
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.
Drugs and the FDA
Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
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
Securitization and the US Response to the 2013–2016 Ebola Outbreak
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
How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies
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
The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics
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.
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
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
A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East
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 Brutal Economics of COVID-19
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.
Heat Advisory
Protecting Health on a Warming Planet
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.