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Ending Epidemics

Ending Epidemics

Ending Epidemics

A History of Escape from Contagion

by Richard Conniff

ISBN: 9780262047968

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 11, 2023

How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
How Not to Study a Disease

How Not to Study a Disease

How Not to Study a Disease

The Story of Alzheimer's

by Karl Herrup

ISBN: 9780262546010

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 7, 2023

An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure.
Sounding Bodies

Sounding Bodies

Sounding Bodies

Music and the Making of Biomedical Science

by Peter Pesic

ISBN: 9780262046350

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 11, 2022

The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present.
Placebos

Placebos

Placebos

by Kathryn T Hall

ISBN: 9780262544252

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

The biological power of the placebo effect.
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.
Cultures of Contagion

Cultures of Contagion

Cultures of Contagion

Edited by Béatrice Delaurenti and Thomas Le Roux

Afterword by Thomas Piketty

ISBN: 9780262045919

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 19, 2021

Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
Mad by the Millions

Mad by the Millions

Mad by the Millions

Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization

by Harry Yi-Jui Wu

ISBN: 9780262045384

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 13, 2021

The World Health Organization's post–World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a “world psyche.”
Contraception

Contraception

Contraception

A Concise History

by Donna J. Drucker

ISBN: 9780262538428

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 7, 2020

The development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
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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.
The Genealogy of a Gene

The Genealogy of a Gene

The Genealogy of a Gene

Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race

by Myles W. Jackson

ISBN: 9780262533782

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 24, 2017

The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through which to view such issues as intellectual property, Big Pharma, personalized medicine, and race and genomics.
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