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Tornado of Life
A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER
ISBN: 9780262548427
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2024
Stories from the ER: a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care.
Death and Dying
ISBN: 9780262542425
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2021
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge death's existential and emotional realities.
The Science of Sadness
A New Understanding of Emotion
ISBN: 9780262547772
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2024
An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general.
Data Paradoxes
The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare
ISBN: 9780262545419
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.
Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints
The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science
ISBN: 9780262551847
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
A rich account of the world's leading science prize told through the lives it has changed, the controversies it has generated, and the impact it has made on the public.
The Long Haul
How Long Covid Survivors Are Revolutionizing Health Care
ISBN: 9780262548151
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
How survivors of the COVID-19 pandemic battling long-term disabling conditions are fighting for recognition and research—and helping to transform healthcare for many overlooked diseases.
The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine
The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine
Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain, and Behavior
ISBN: 9780262692656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 8, 2001
A compilation of current scientific knowledge about psychoactive herbal drugs.
Building Genetic Medicine
Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
ISBN: 9780262517478
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
A comparative study of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain that shows the importance of national context in the development and use of science and technology even in an era of globalization.
Cognitive Science in Medicine
Biomedical Modeling
ISBN: 9780262519021
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 3, 1989
Cognitive Science in Medicine presents current research that focuses on issues and results in applying techniques from cognitive science to problems in biomedicine.

Tornado of Life
A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER
ISBN: 9780262548427
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2024
Stories from the ER: a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care.
Death and Dying
ISBN: 9780262542425
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2021
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge death's existential and emotional realities.
The Science of Sadness
A New Understanding of Emotion
ISBN: 9780262547772
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2024
An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general.
Data Paradoxes
The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare
ISBN: 9780262545419
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.
Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints
The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science
ISBN: 9780262551847
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
A rich account of the world's leading science prize told through the lives it has changed, the controversies it has generated, and the impact it has made on the public.
The Long Haul
How Long Covid Survivors Are Revolutionizing Health Care
ISBN: 9780262548151
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
How survivors of the COVID-19 pandemic battling long-term disabling conditions are fighting for recognition and research—and helping to transform healthcare for many overlooked diseases.
The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine
The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine
Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain, and Behavior
ISBN: 9780262692656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 8, 2001
A compilation of current scientific knowledge about psychoactive herbal drugs.
Building Genetic Medicine
Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
ISBN: 9780262517478
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
A comparative study of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain that shows the importance of national context in the development and use of science and technology even in an era of globalization.
Cognitive Science in Medicine
Biomedical Modeling
ISBN: 9780262519021
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 3, 1989
Cognitive Science in Medicine presents current research that focuses on issues and results in applying techniques from cognitive science to problems in biomedicine.