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1	Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients more books like this by Ray Moynihan, Alan Cassels Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. It had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people so that Merck could "sell to everyone." Gadsden's dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $8.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System more books like this by Charlene Harrington, Dr. Carroll L Estes see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| SVS
3	Understanding Health Policy more books like this by Thomas S Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach The number 1 text on health policy, this well-known book provides a short introduction to U.S. health care policy by two leading experts who are themselves practicing physicians. The Fourth Edition features the latest information on cost containment, health insurance, managed care, hospital payment, and the new two-tier model of physician ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.98!
4	Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health more books like this by Laurie Garrett Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett challenges policy makers to create high-quality public health programs that are accessible to all populations. In this argument, she points out several historical events in which plagues broke out in nations where governments suddenly denied their citizens access to health care, such as India's 1994 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care more books like this by David Gratzer The American health care system is in crisis. Skyrocketing costs and increasing bureaucracy have traumatized consumers and doctors alike. In "The Cure", Dr. David Gratzer brings a dose of common sense to this over-regulated area of the American economy. see all copies from $3.76! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Jonas & Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States more books like this by Anthony R Kovner, Ph.D. (Editor), Steven Jonas, M.D. (Editor) How do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the population, the cost of care, and access to care? "Health Care Delivery in the United States, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.68! \| SVS
7	Health Economics more books like this by Charles E Phelps In this market-leading text, Phelps combines current economic thinking and research in health economics with real health policy problems. New to the heavily revised Third Edition is a chapter on Managed Care and additional coverage of pharmaceutical industries, as well as an appendix for review of the Math and Microeconomics concepts used in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $59.64! \| SVS
8	Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach more books like this by Thomas S Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach This is the most clinically applicable textbook on the subject of healthcare. With a brand-new, two-color design that complements the already lucid writing style, this new edition of "Understanding Health Policy" makes the subject of healthcare principles, structures, and financial underpinnings more accessible than ever. Ideal for anyone involved ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies more books like this by Michael H Merson, M.D. Now there is a textbook that reflects both the scope and depth of challenges in global health and the dynamic nature of the field. By emphasizing diseases, programs, health systems, and health policies, "International Public Health" helps students understand the wide range of global public health issues and the various approaches nations adopt to ... see all copies from $11.55! new only from $41.85! \| first editions \| SVS
10	At Risk in America: The Health and Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations in the United States more books like this by Lu Ann Aday At a time when the incidence of homelessness, AIDS, drug addiction and other social problems continue to increase throughout the USA, the country's health care system faces a deepening financial crisis. While these trends affect everyone, many groups are confronting disproportionate risks of poor health and inadequate medical care. The author has ... see all copies from $2.48! new only from $52.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America more books like this by William H Colby It often seems that medical technology is a never-ending string of miracles. But it is also a double-edged sword. More often than not, death today happens because of a decision to stop doing something, or to not do it at all. As the tragic life and death of Terri Schiavo so poignantly illustrated, universal definitions of life, death, nature, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Accidental System: Health Care Policy in America more books like this by Michael D Reagan An insightful policy study that shows that in the American political context, health care is neither exclusively a public right nor a private privilege.. With the demise of the Clinton health care reform plan, the debate on health care changed but did not subside. From opinion pieces in newspapers to dinner-table conversations, the debate over ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.88! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System more books like this by Lonny Shavelson A powerful critique of the current drug-rehab system, through the stories of the addicts inside it. "Hooked" offers a provocative, honest look at the seemingly intractable issue of drug addiction and offers powerful alternatives to current policies. 24 photos. see all copies from $3.37! new only from $6.30! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy more books like this by Professor Carol S Weissert, Dr. William G Weissert In the first edition of the acclaimed Governing Health, Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert examined health care policy making from a long-term political perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy, and state governments helped define health policy problems and find politically feasible solutions ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.13! \| SVS
15 view cover	Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity more books like this by Susan Starr Sered, Rushika Fernandopulle Reaching beyond statistics and prevalent assumptions, Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic more books like this by J Eric Oliver Over the past twenty years, obesity has risen in the United States to epidemic proportions. Today, over sixty percent of Americans are overweight, and over one in four is obese. This book examines the cultural contradictions that underlie this massive transformation. Oliver's highly readable yet carefully documented book addresses the meaning of ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $2.49! \| first editions
17 view cover	Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government more books like this by Professor Theda Skocpol Skocpol (government and sociology, Harvard U.) explores the changing currents of domestic U.S. politics through the prism of the defeat of President Clinton's comprehensive health care plan. She argues that the defeat reflected the success of Reaganite conservative tactics which switched from direct attacks on social programs to a fiscal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.60! \| SVS
18 view cover	Introduction to Global Health more books like this by Kathryn H Jacobsen see all copies from $52.80! new only from $52.80! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health more books like this by Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P Kennedy Applying to the United States the kind of scrutiny that Nobel -- prize winning economist Amartya Sen has devoted to developing countries, The Health of Nations demonstrates that growing inequality is undermining health, welfare, and community life in America. Harvard professors Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy review the social costs of ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $5.64! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time more books like this by Greg Behrman "The Invisible People" is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known -- the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while the pandemic constitutes a profound threat to U.S ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Western attitudes toward death : from the Middle Ages to the present more books like this by Philippe Ariès "AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret." -- Newsweek see all copies from $3.09! new only from $11.73!
22 view cover	The Nazi War on Cancer more books like this by Robert N Proctor Collaboration in the Holocaust, murderous and torturous medical experiments, the "euthanasia" of hundreds of thousands of people with mental or physical disabilities, widespread sterilization of "the unfit." Nazi doctors committed these and countless other atrocities as part of Hitler's warped quest to create a German master race. Robert Proctor ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $32.63! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care? more books like this by Richard A Epstein Most Americans assume that universal access to health care is a desirable and humane political goal. Not so, says distinguished legal scholar Richard Epstein. In this seminal work, he explodes the unspoken assumption that a government-administered, universal health-care system would be a boon to America. Basing his argument in our common law ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly more books like this by Norman Daniels In this new book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key questions: What is the special moral importance of health? When are health inequalities unjust? How can we meet health needs fairly when we cannot meet them all? Daniels' theory has ... see all copies from $10.98! new only from $10.98! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City Since 1900 more books like this by Sandra Opdycke "No One Was Turned Away" is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what this particular set of public institutions has meant to this particular city over the last hundred ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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