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"Worried Sick: A Prescription For Health In An Overtreated America" [6/2008] by Nortin M. Hadler
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"Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet" [] by Carol Off
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	"The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear"   [2011] by Seth Mnookin The author puts forward the concept of 'cognitive relativism', wherein fear & suspicion are unmoved by facts or experience; the immediate focus is the dubious link between vaccines containing thimerosal and the rise of autism, but unreasoned mob thinking permeates modern Western culture. Simon & Schuster pb [DUE Jan 2012] for $10.80 Simon & Schuster 9½x6 hardcover [1/2011] for $15.38
	"Son of A Farmer, Child of The Earth: A Path To Agriculture's Higher Consciousness" [2010] by Eric Herm Dreamriver Press 8½x5½ pb [8/2010] for $16.95
	"Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How To Sort Through The Noise Around Global Warming, The Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies" [2009] by Sherry Seethaler F.T. Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2009] for $15.74
	"Why Survive?: Being Old In America" [1975 classic] by Dr. Robert N. Butler [1927-2010] book won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Johns Hopkins Univ Press 8¼x6 pb [11/2002] for $22.28 author entry at Wikipedia
	"Sick and Sicker: Essays On Class, Health & Health Care" [2010] by Susan Rosenthal, MD Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [4/2010] for $9.99 hardcover not listed on Amazon or B&N • available at author's book site
	"Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of A Modern Disease" [2010] by Gary Greenberg S&S 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $17.82

Health Care Industry

	"Merchants of Doubt: How A Handful of Scientists Obscured The Truth On Issues From Tobacco Smoke To Global Warming" [2010] by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway Bloomsbury Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [5/2010] for $17.82
	"The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding The Antidepressant Myth" [2009] by Irving Kirsch, PhD Bodley Head 8½x5¼ pb [10/2009] imported/new-used Basic Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2010] for $16.29
	"Heart of Power: Health and Politics In The Oval Office" [2009] by David Blumenthal & James A. Morone A study of the personal and political health care concerns of U.S. Presidents from F.D.R. to Barack Obama. Sen. Ted Kennedy called the book 'essential reading'. Univ CA Press hardcover [6/2009] for $17.79
	"Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay For Health Care" [2008] by Arnold Kling While author Kling is described as 'an M.I.T.-trained economist', the real clue to this book's stance against single-payer healthcare is the publisher – the right-wing Libertarian-Republican think tank Cato Institute  — DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK
	"Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault On Science Threatens Your Health" [2008] by David Michaels Oxford Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [4/2008] for $18.45
	"America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage For Everyone" [2008] by J. Patrick Rooney & Dan Perrin Co-author Perrin claims credit for backing (lobbying?) all federal health care legislation over the last ten years. Hmmm. So the guys who made the gigantic mess in health care also want further deregulation of the greed-driven 'health care' industry? Bad idea! Wiley & Sons should be ashamed for publishing this bilge.   — DO NOY BUY THIS BOOK
	"The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance For All Americans" [2007] by Laurence J. Kotlikoff M.I.T. Press 8x5½ hardcover [10/2007] for $12.21
	"Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths & Fixing Our Failing System" [orig 2003, rev 2007] by Robert H. LeBow MD, revised & updated by C. Rocky White MD Alan C. Hood & Co. 9x6 pb [7/2007] for $10.20
	"Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and The Consumer-Driven Cure" [2007] by Regina Herzlinger McGraw-Hill 9x6¼ hardcover [6/2007] for $16.47
	”Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - and The People Who Pay The Price” [2007] by Jonathan Cohn Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [5/2008] for $10.17 HarperCollins 9x6 hardcover [4/2007] for $17.13
	"How Doctors Think" [2007] by Jerome Groopman, MD Mariner Books 8&frac4x5½ pb [3/2008] for $10.85 Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [3/2007] for $15.60
	”The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care” [2006] by David Gratzer "A must read for all students of health care policy." — Milton Friedman Encounter Books 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $17.13
	"One Nation, Uninsured: Why The U.S. Has No National Health Insurance" [2005] by Jill Quadagno Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $10.85 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2005] out of print/used
	"Uninsured In America: Life and Death In The Land of Opportunity" [2005] by Susan Starr Sered & Rushika Fernandopulle MD Univ CA Press 9x5 pb [10/2006] for $16.15 Univ CA Press hardcover [4/2006] out of print/many used
	"Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business - and Bad Medicine" [2004] by Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele Broadway Books 7¾x5¼ pb [10/2005] for $10.17 Doubleday 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2004] out of print/used
	"Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine" [2004] by John Abramson, MD Harper Perennial 8x6¾ pb [6/2005] for $11.16 HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2004] for $16.47
	”Lives At Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around The World” [2004] by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave & Devon M. Herrick Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $26.95 Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 hardcover [8/2004] for $85.00
	"The Doctor's Case Against The Pill" [1969 classic] by Barbara Seaman [1935-2008] Hunter House 8½x5½ pb [7/95] out of print/used Doubleday mass pb [1/80] out of print/used

Farming & Food Health

	"Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All-American Meal" [2001] by Eric Schlosser a hundred years after Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", and here we go again ... HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $10.19 HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [1/2002] out of print/hundreds used Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [1/2001] for $17.16 feature film [Fox Searchlight 2006] Fox widescreen color DVD [3/2007] for $6.79 full credits at IMDb • official movie site
	"Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis & What We Can Do About It" [2003] by Kelly D. Brownell & Katherine Battle Horgen "a ferocious manifesto" — Publishers Weekly Contemporary Books hardcover [8/2003] for $17.47
	"From The Farm To The Table: What All Americans Need To Know About Agriculture" [2007] by Gary Holthaus Univ Press KY 8¾x6 pb [2/2009] for $20.71 Univ Press KY 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2007] out of print/used
	"Poisons On Our Plates: The Real Food Safety Problem In The United States" [2008] by Michele Morrone Praeger 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2008] for $44.95
	"Bringing It To The Table: On Farming and Food" [2009] Essays by Wendell Berry, Introduction by Michael Pollan Counterpoint 9x6 pb [8/2009] for $9.30
	"Food Inc.: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer - and What You Can Do About It" [2009] Edited by Karl Weber PublicAffairs 9x6 pb [5/2009] for $9.96
	"Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy & Poultry Farms To Humans & The Environment" [2010] by David Kirby St. Martin's Press 9¼x6 hardcover [3/2010] for $17.81
	"Poisoned; The True Story of The Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That   Changed The Way Americans Eat" [2011] by Jeff Benedict Inspire 9x6 hardcover [5/2011] for $15.39
	"Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most   Alluring Fruit" [2011] by Barry Estabrook Andrews McMeel Publng 9x6 hardcover [6/2011] for $11.57

History

	"America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918" [1997] by Alfred W. Crosby listed in Los Angeles Times 100 Most Important Books of 1997 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [7/2003] for $22.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2003] for $64.40
	"The Great Influenza: The Story of The Deadliest Pandemic In History" [2004 New York Times bestseller] by John M. Barry Penguin 8½x5½ pb [10/2005] for $11.56 Viking 9x6½ hardcover [2/2004] for $29.95 the paperback has an Afterword on avian flu
	"Pox: An American History" [2011]   by Michael Willrich Penguin pb [DUE March 2012] for $12.24 Penguin Press 9½x6 hardcover [3/2011] for $15.63

Fiction About Healthcare

Health Care Film Festival on the WM/Worry 'Health Care' Page

"The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel" [1987] by Walker Percy A psychiatrist is released from minimum security prison and returns home to discover that a fellow psychiatrist is masterminding an unauthorized scheme to eradicate social ills by manipu-lating cortical functions through surreptitious doses of 'heavy sodium' in the local water supply. Picador 8x5½ pb [9/99] for $10.20 Ivy Books mass pb [3/88] out of print/many used FS&G hardcover [4/87] out of print/many used FS&G hardcover [4/87] out of print/many used

Healthy Lifestyle

	"The Sauna: A Complete Guide To The Construction, Use, and Benefits of The Finnish Bath" [orig 1997, rev 2004] by Robert L. 'Rob' Roy The book focuses on the author's specialty of 'cordwood masonry construction' and so the term 'complete' is not correct Chelsea Green Publng 10x7 pb [11/2004] for $19.62 Chelsea Green Publng 9x6 pb [3/97] out of print/used
	"Hot Tubs, Saunas & Steam Baths: A Guide To Planning and Designing Your Home Health Spa" [2005] by Alan Sanderfoot Storey Publng 11x8½ pb [5/2005] for $12.96
	"Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life - and How You Can Get Back On Track" [2006] by Connie Bennett, with Stephen T. Sinatra Berkley Trade 9x6 pb [12/2006] for $10.17 author's official book site
	"What's In This Stuff?: The Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products - and What You Can Do About Them" [2006] by Patricia Thomas Perigee Trade 9x6 pb [1/2008] out of print/many used
	"Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain" [2008] by John J. Ratey, MD with Eric Hagerman Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [1/2008] for $11.99 Little, Brown pb [DUE Jan 2012] for $10.87   7½x5 pb [undated] out of print/used Little, Brown 9¼x6 hardcover [1/2008] for $16.49 author's official website
	"Free For All: Fixing School Food In America" [2010] by Janet Poppendieck Univ CA Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2010] for $18.15
	"Well Being: The Five Essential Elements" [2010] by Tom Rath & James K. Harter, PhD Two bestselling authors team up to share the results of a landmark study of well-being and its implications for organizations and individuals, covering five dimensions of human experience: Physical Well-Being, Career Well-Being, Financial Well-Being, Social Well-Being, and Community Well-Being Gallup Press 9x6¼ deckle-edge hardcover [5/2010] for $13.99

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