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  • Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries

    Law, Ethics, and Public Health

    A timely look at the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding brain injury and collision sports.American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a product that is dangerous to those who use it—or, in this case, those who play it. In Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries, Daniel S. Goldberg explores the connections among traumatic brain injury, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Bioethics of Pain Management

    Beyond Opioids

    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. The book begins from the position that the overwhelming focus on opioid analgesics as a means for improving the undertreatment of ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • The Death of the Income Tax

    A Progressive Consumption Tax and the Path to Fiscal Reform

    The Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex, contains perverse incentives against saving and investment, fails to use modern technology to ease compliance and collection burdens, and is subject to micromanaging and mismanaging by Congress. Daniel Goldberg proposes that the solution to the problems of the current income tax is completely replacing it with a ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic inequities, and the cumulative effect of compound disadvantages. This moral approach to collective ... Leer más

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    Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries

    Law, Ethics, and Public Health

    Narrado por Brian Wiggins ...

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    7 hora 57 minutos

    American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a product that is dangerous to those who use it—or, in this case, those who play it. Daniel S. Goldberg explores the connections among traumatic brain injury, collision sports, and the industry's continuing efforts to manufacture doubt. Focusing especially on youths and adolescents—the most vulnerable ... Leer más

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    The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

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  • The Cult of Smart

    How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice

    Named one of Vulture's Top 10 Best Books of 2020!Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform.Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula ... Leer más

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  • Irrationality in Health Care

    What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why

    The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make us better off?" Drawing on behavioral economics as an alternative to the standard tools of health economics, ... Leer más

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  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Leer más

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  • The Inequality Reader

    Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

    Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti ... Leer más

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    In this landmark volume, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing how—in a time of spiraling inequality—strategically targeted interventions and supports can help schools significantly improve the life chances of low-income children.The authors offer a brilliant synthesis of recent research on inequality and its effects on families, children, and schools ... Leer más

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  • Metrics

    What Counts in Global Health

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