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Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
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The prevalence of insanity, which was once considerably less than one case per 1,000 total population, has risen beyond five cases in 1,000. Why has insanity reached epidemic proportions? What are the causes of severe mental illness? Why do we continue to deny the rising numbers, and how does this denial affect our ability to help those who are afflicted? In “The Invisible Plague”, E. Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller examine the records on insanity in England, Ireland,… More >>
Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
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Health Policy: Understanding Our Choices From National Reform To Market Forces
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HEALTH POLICY provides a rare glimpse into frank exchanges that occurred between proponents of quite different solutions to the dilemma of health care reform. These discussions, which took place during a critical period in U.S. health policy formation, 1994-1996, shed new light on the nature of health care reform, the political process, and realistic choices…. More >>
Health Policy: Understanding Our Choices From National Reform To Market Forces
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Building a Healthy Black Harlem: Health Politics in Harlem, New York, from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression
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Using a sociological, historical, and psychological approach, this work offers a multidisciplinary perspective and fills the research gap about the Harlem community and urban black life during the Jazz Age and the Great Depression. This book proposes that Harlem was an intricate domain of competing ideologies, needs, and interests wherein there were many cross-cutting forms of power and exclusion. Such competition placed the community at the intersection of complica… More >>
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