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  • Exceptional Lifespans

    Edited by Heiner Maier, Bernard Jeune, James W. Vaupel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The chapters in this book contribute substantial advances in rigorously checked facts about exceptional ... Read more

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  • Risk Savvy

    How to Make Good Decisions

    by Gerd Gigerenzer ...
    An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal livesIn the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Limits to Medicine

    Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Epidemiology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rodolfo Saracci ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is epidemiology? What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented? Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of disease and its main aim is to improve the health of populations. It's a vital field, central to the health of society, to the identification of causes of disease, and to their management and prevention. Epidemiology has had an impact on many areas of ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Your Money or Your Life

    Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System

    by David M. Cutler ...
    The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one in five Americans thinks the medical system works well. Enter David M. Cutler, a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

    Europe, America, and the Third World

    by Robert William Fogel ...
    Series Book 38 - Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
    Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics

    Edited by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Christine C. Grady, Robert A. Crouch, Franklin G. Miller, David D. Wendler, Reidar K. Lie ...
    Series series Oxford Textbook
    The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics. Under the editorship of experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health of the United States, the book's 73 chapters offer a wide-ranging and systematic examination of all aspects of research with human beings. Considering the historical triumphs of research as well ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • We've Got You Covered

    Rebooting American Health Care

    by Amy Finkelstein, Liran Einav ...
    From a MacArthur Genius MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reformFew of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point.As ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe

    Edited by Gabriele Doblhammer, Jordi Gumà ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes ... Read more

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  • The Changing Body

    Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

    by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, Sok Chul Hong ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram

    by Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Magdalena M. Muszyńska, James W. Vaupel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the underlying dynamics, enabling readers to better understand whether period- or cohort-effects were ... Read more

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  • Sample Surveys: Design, Methods and Applications

    by Danny Pfeffermann, C.R. Rao ...
    Series Book 29 - Handbook of Statistics
    This new handbook contains the most comprehensive account of sample surveys theory and practice to date. It is a second volume on sample surveys, with the goal of updating and extending the sampling volume published as volume 6 of the Handbook of Statistics in 1988. The present handbook is divided into two volumes (29A and 29B), with a total of 41 chapters, covering current developments in almost ... Read more

    $264.99 CAD