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Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
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
The Story of Alzheimer's
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
Music and the Making of Biomedical Science
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.
Drugs and the FDA
Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
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
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
Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization
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
A Concise History
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.
The Genealogy of a Gene
Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
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.
Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
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
The Story of Alzheimer's
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
Music and the Making of Biomedical Science
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.
Drugs and the FDA
Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
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
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
Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization
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
A Concise History
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.
The Genealogy of a Gene
Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
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.