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Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights : Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940 / by Rosen, Robyn L.

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Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine : Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It / by Leap, Terry L., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Health care fraud and its facilitating crimes -- The major health care fraud laws -- Fraud in fee-for-service and managed care : different sides of the same coin -- Fraud at major hospitals : profits at any cost, part 1 -- Fraud in the pharmaceutical, medical equipment, and supply industries : profits at any cost, part 2 -- Fighting health care fraud and abuse.…”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

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The Challenge to Change : Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom / by Givan, Rebecca Kolins, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Health care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: a lifetime of change -- Turbulence in the two systems -- Measuring and rewarding performance: imposing change from above in the United Kingdom -- Regulating the frontline from above: the joint commission and hospital regulation in the United States -- Pushing back from the frontline: staff responses to privatization in the National Health Service -- Building a safety culture from the frontline in the United States -- From the health care workplace to the health care system: learning from the United States and United Kingdom.…”
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Curing Medicare : A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It / by Lazris, Andrew

“…The culture and politics of health care work…”
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The Pandemic Divide : How COVID Increased Inequality in America /

Table of Contents: “…Wright, and William A. Darity Jr. -- Health equity : impact of preexisting conditions on COVID-19 outcomes / Keisha L. …”
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Dying to Be Beautiful : The Fight for Safe Cosmetics / by Kay, Gwen

Table of Contents: “…"A victory of the women of this country" -- "The arts and crafts of the modern flapper" -- "Marring the fair face of nature" -- "Some protection to our health, our looks and our pocketbooks" -- "The big cosmetic houses aren't sorry that the regulation has come."…”
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Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / by Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

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Litigation as Lobbying : Reproductive Hazards and Interest Aggregation / by Gonen, Julianna S.

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Workers' Compensation : Analysis for Its Second Century / by Hunt, H. Allan, Dillender, Marcus

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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

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Children and Drug Safety : Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America / by Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne)

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Science at the White House : A Political Liability / by Burger, Edward J., Jr., 1933-2020

Table of Contents: “…Science advice for the President: a perspective -- National health policy -- Health-related research and development -- The environment, health, and regulation to protect health -- Population and family planning.…”
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COVID-19 and World Order : The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation /

Table of Contents: “…Greene and Dora Vargha ; The world after COVID: A perspective from history / Margaret MacMillan ; Future scenarios: "We are all failed states, now" / Philip Bobbitt -- Part II: Global public health and mitigation strategies. Make pandemics lose their power / Tom Inglesby ; Origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the path forward: A global public health policy perspective / Lainie Rutkow ; Bioethics in a post-COVID world: Time for future-facing global health ethics / Jeffrey P. …”
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The Fabulous Future? : America and the World in 2040 /

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Nurse-Midwifery : The Birth of a New American Profession / by Ettinger, Laura Elizabeth, 1968-

“…Women, gender, and health…”
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Unlikely Entrepreneurs : Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 / by Wall, Barbra Mann

“…Women, gender, and health…”
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Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production / by Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987-

“…Critical Issues in Health and Medicine…”
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Green Voices : Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse /

Table of Contents: “…: The Aesthetics of Environmental Exceptionalism / Anne Marie Todd -- A Call to Partnership, Health, and Pure Fire : A Vital Vision of the Future in Aldo Leopold's "The Farmer as a Conservationist" Address / Melba Hoffer -- "Conserving Not Scenery, But the Human Spirit" : The Environmental Oratory of Sigurd Olson / C. …”
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Black Disability Politics / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

Table of Contents: “…"We have a right to rebel" : Black disability politics in the Black Panther Party -- Fighting psychiatric abuse : the BPP and the Black disability politics of mental and carceral institutions -- Praxis interlude one : anti-ableist approaches to fighting disabling violence -- Empowerment through wellness : Black disability politics in the National Black Women's Health Project -- More than just prevention : the NBWHP and the Black disability politics of HIV/AIDS -- Praxis interlude two: Approaches to disability identity in Black disability politics -- Black disability politics now.…”
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