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Food Politics: What Everyone Needs To Know, carefully examines and explains the most important issues on today’s global food landscape. Politics in this area have become polarized and Robert Paarlberg helps us map this contested terrain, challenging myths and critiquing more than a few of today’s fashionable beliefs about farming and food. In the excerpt below we learn about the organic food.
A tidal wave of high drug prices has recently crashed across the U.S. economy. One of the primary culprits: agreements by which brand-name drug manufacturers pay generic firms to stay off the market. This issue has been raging in the halls of Congress, the courts, and the government agencies.
Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia, traces the enthusiasm of biological efforts to solve the mystery of melancholia and proposes that a useful, and a potentially life-saving, connection between medicine and psychiatry has been lost. Below we have excerpted the preface which explains why endocrine psychiatry deserves a second look.
An excerpt from Social Injustice and Public Health.
An excerpt from Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work.
When is it okay to include a child in a medical research study?
An excerpt from Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World.
The Fundamentalist Mindset sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. The collection is edited by Charles B. Strozier, a Professor of History at John Jay College, CUNY, and a practicing psychoanalyst, David M. Terman, Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, James W. Jones, a Professor of Religion and adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University and Katharine A. Boyd a doctoral student at John Jay College, CUNY.
An excerpt from Blindspots: The May Ways We Cannont See.
Goodwin and Guze’s Psychiatric Diagnosis gives us a historical background to panic disorders and hysteria.
Leslie Martin looks at how we should tackle America’s obesity problem.
Elvin Lim looks at health-care reform.
An excerpt from The Oxford Companion to the Bible.
Is there really such a thing as beauty sleep?
An excerpt from Worst Case Bioethics.
An excerpt from Ethics in Nursing.