Published September, 2016
By Michael S Kinch
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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In spite of past successes in the introduction of new medicines, our ability to deliver new medicines may be coming to an end. Moving from the twentieth century to the present, A Prescription for Change reveals how changing business strategies combined with scientific hubris have altered the way new medicines are discovered, with dire implications for both health and the economy.

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Published September, 2016
By Robert Alan McNutt and Robert A. Mcnutt
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Published June, 2016
By Elena Del Rio Parra and Elena Del Raio Parra
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Explores the intersection of the sciences and humanities in Spanish sixteenth- and seventeenth century representations of the extraordinary within the larger scheme of the Baroque. This title maps, among other notions, the imagination, the spectacular, the legendary, and the "novelesque" in scientific writing and examines the influence of the theatrical in representations of medical cases.

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Published May, 2016
By Mark E. Williams
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Published March, 2016
By Nortin M. Hadler
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Places current efforts to reform medical education-from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education-in historical context. In doing so, Nortin Hadler traces the evolution of medical school curricula, residency and fellowship programs, and the clinical practices they promoted.

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Published February, 2016
By Gretchen Long
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Gretchen Long tells the stories of African Americans who fought for access to both medical care and medical education, showing the important relationship between medical practice and political identity.

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Published January, 2016
By Nancy Tomes and Author Nancy Tomes
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular - and largely unexamined - idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time.

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Published September, 2015
By Bob H. Reinhardt
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Published August, 2015
By Kathryn Shively Meier
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Published April, 2015
By Melanie Beals Goan
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In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. In this first comprehensive biography of the FNS founder, Melanie Beals Goan provides a revealing look at the challenges Breckinridge faced as she sought reform.

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