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  • The Trillion Dollar Revolution

    How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America

    Ten years after the landmark legislation, Ezekiel Emanuel leads a crowd of experts, policy-makers, doctors, and scholars as they evaluate the Affordable Care Act's history so far.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act officially became one of the seminal laws determining American health care. From day one, the law was challenged in court, making it to the Supreme Court four separate times. It ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Law and the 100-Year Life

    Transforming Our Institutions for a Longer Lifespan

    Law and the 100-Year Life addresses the growing trend of Americans living longer and healthier lives, with many reaching the age of 100. An aging nation presents new challenges for society, which must be reimagined to accommodate longer and more varied careers, multiple marriages, and defining moments of education. This volume explores the possibility of a 'third demographic dividend', a new ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    The Trillion Dollar Revolution

    How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    Ten years after the landmark legislation, Ezekiel Emanuel leads a crowd of experts, policy-makers, doctors, and scholars as they evaluate the Affordable Care Act's history so far.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act officially became one of the seminal laws determining American health care. From day one, the law was challenged in court, making it to the Supreme Court four separate times. It ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • COVID-19 and the Law

    Disruption, Impact and Legacy

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enduring effect across the entire spectrum of law and policy, in areas ranging from health equity and racial justice, to constitutional law, the law of prisons, federal benefit programs, election law and much more. This collection provides a critical reflection on what changes the pandemic has already introduced, and what its legacy may be. Chapters evaluate how ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • A New Deal for Cancer

    Lessons from a 50 Year War

    An unprecedented constellation of experts—leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more—explore the legacy and the shortcomings from the fifty-year war on cancer and look ahead to the future.The longest war in the modern era, longer than the Cold War, has been the war on cancer. Cancer is a complex, evasive enemy, and there was no quick victory in the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    A New Deal for Cancer

    Lessons from a 50 Year War

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    An unprecedented constellation of experts—leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more—explore the legacy and the shortcomings from the fifty-year war on cancer and look ahead to the future.The longest war in the modern era, longer than the Cold War, has been the war on cancer. Cancer is a complex, evasive enemy, and there was no quick victory in the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Bending Science

    How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

    What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows, ideological or economic attacks on research are part of an extensive pattern of abuse.Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner reveal the range of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Pharmaceutical Freedom

    Why Patients Have a Right to Self Medicate

    If a competent adult refuses medical treatment, physicians and public officials must respect her decision. Coercive medical paternalism is a clear violation of the doctrine of informed consent, which protects patients' rights to make medical decisions even if a patient's choice endangers her health. The same reasons for rejecting medical paternalism in the doctor's office are also reasons to ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Bad Pharma

    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    We all feel uncomfortable about the role of profit in healthcare, we all have a vague notion that the global $600bn pharmaceutical industry is somehow evil and untrustworthy, but that sense rarely goes beyond a flaky, undifferentiated new age worldview. Bad Pharma puts real flesh on those bones, revealing the rigged evidence used by drug companies. Bad information means bad treatment decisions, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Truth About the Drug Companies

    How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

    by Marcia Angell ...
    During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD