Published January, 2017
By Adam S. Wilkins, Illustrator Sarah Kennedy and Sarah Kennedy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Adam Wilkins draws on studies of nonhuman species, the fossil record, genetics, and molecular and developmental biology to reconstruct the evolution of the human face and its inextricable link to our species' evolving social complexity. The neural and muscular mechanisms that allowed facial expressions also led to speech, which is unique to humans.

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Published November, 2016
By Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Andre B. Lalonde, Nawal M. Nour, L. Lewis Wall, Suellen Miller, Jai K. Das, Khady Diouf, Christin Price, Sigal Yawetz and Blair Wylie
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring quality care to women in locations where facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and medical staff are few. This reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.

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Published November, 2016
By Miriam J. Laugesen
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Miriam Laugesen goes to the heart of U.S. medical pricing: to a largely unknown committee of organizations affiliated with the American Medical Association. Medicare's ready acceptance of this committee's advisory recommendations sets off a chain reaction across the American health care system, leading to high-and disproportionate-rate setting.

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Published September, 2016
By Giamila Fantuzzi and Hannah Landecker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Whether classified as regulators of inflammation, metabolism, or other functions, a distinctive set of molecules enables the body to convey information from one cell to another. Giamila Fantuzzi offers a primer on molecular mediators that coordinate complex bodily processes, and explores the consequences of their discovery for modern medicine.

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Published September, 2016
By Ritch C. Savin-Williams
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Proud, happy, grateful gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising a generation ago. Yet many adults, including parents, are skeptical of this sea change coming out is supposed to involve struggle. This is the kind of thinking, say the honest, humorous young men in Ritch Savin-Williams's new book, that needs to change.

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Published June, 2016
By Lucie Laplane
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A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology, biomedical history, and philosophy.

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Published May, 2016
By Henry T. Greely
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Within 40 years many people will stop having sex for reproduction. After IVF and preimplantation genetic diagnosis, parents will pick embryos for implantation, gestation, and birth. It will be easy, safe, lawful, and free, Henry Greely predicts. He explains the new technologies and sets out the deep ethical and legal challenges facing humanity.

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Published March, 2016
By Ari Berkowitz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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From simple reflexes to complex movements, all animal behavior is governed by a nervous system. But what kind of government is it-a dictatorship or a democracy? Ari Berkowitz explains the variety of structures and strategies that control behavior, while providing an overview of thought-provoking debates and cutting-edge research.

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Published February, 2016
By Robert B. Campenot
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Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions moving in and out of cells, result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking-the things we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers an accessible overview of animal electricity.

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Published January, 2016
By Ian Johnston and Galen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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In the three works in this volume, On the Constitution of the Art of Medicine, The Art of Medicine, and A Method of Medicine to Glaucon, the physician, philosopher, scientist, and medical historian Galen of Pergamum covers fundamental aspects of his practice in a lucid and engaging style.

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