Published January, 2021
By Douglas H. Powell and Dean K. Whitla
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Along with the criteria for mild cognitive impairment and normal cognitive ageing, this text addresses the question of optimal cognitive ageing, identifying its characteristics and searching out their implications for the maintenance of intellectual abilities in the post-retirement years.

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Published January, 2021
By Nicholas L. Tilney
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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A pioneering organ transplant surgeon narrates in gripping detail the revolutions that have transformed modern surgery, and the turmoil in medical education and health care reform as new capacities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. Tilney's stage is the famous Boston teaching hospital, Brigham and Women's.

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Published January, 2021
By Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Employs the tools of economic analysis to reassess the orthodox approach to AIDS by the public health community. It examines measures and proposals such as testing, criminal punishments and immigration controls, as well as AIDS education, medical research and the social and fiscal costs of AIDS.

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Published January, 2021
By R. Haven Wiley
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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We think of noise as background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. But noise is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. Whatever its cause, the consequence of noise is error by receivers, and these errors are the key to understanding how noise shapes the evolution of communication.

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Published October, 2020
By O. Carter Snead
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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American law assumes that individuals are autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose, and not obligated to each other. But our bodies make us vulnerable and dependent, and the law leaves the weakest on their own. O. Carter Snead argues for a paradigm that recognizes embodiment, enabling law and policy to provide for the care that people need.

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Published September, 2020
By Peter R. Huttenlocher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. This book is a unique contribution to research and to the literature on clinical neuroscience.

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Published September, 2020
By Deborah HAAS-WILSON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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In this timely book, Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases to limit the growth of health care sector monopoly power. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of antitrust laws in health care markets, she provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.

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Published August, 2020
By James L Nolan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Physicians were essential to the Manhattan Project, keeping participants and Americans near test sites safe from radiation. But they also downplayed the risks when military exigency demanded. James Nolan tells the story of these conflicted healers, who used their medical authority to enable the most lethal form of warfare humanity has yet devised.

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Published July, 2020
By A. S. Barwich
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli "sparking" regions of the brain. But this view has a key flaw: odors don't line up consistently with the neural map. A. S. Barwich explores the new science of smell and urges us to rethink theories of mind and brain inspired by the mapping model.

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Published May, 2020
By James Danckert and John D. Eastwood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Usually when we're bored, we try to distract ourselves. But soon enough, boredom returns. James Danckert and John Eastwood argue that we can learn to handle boredom more effectively by recognizing what research shows: boredom indicates unmet psychological needs. Boredom, therefore, can motivate us to change what isn't working in our lives.

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