An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country.

Kraut (history, American U.) found that new immigrant populations--made up of impoverished laborers living in urban America's least sanitary conditions--have been victims of illness rather than its progenitors, yet the medical establishment ...

"This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority.

This book discusses the scientific basis for marijuana’s use in cases of pain, nausea, anorexia, and cachexia.

His treatment of smoking and cancer will be a revelation. This book troubles the politics and ethics of historical interpretation in the very best ways.

In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan, and he describes the practical, emotional and moral aspects of ...

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.

After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system.

It is the object of this book to raise this question seriously, with all due consideration for the difficulties involved.

Annotation Reports Nightingale's accomplishments in developing a public heath care system based on disease prevention. Includes papers, letters and "Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes."