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Science / Health Policy catalog at Amazon


http://www.amazon.com/America-Fooled-Antidepressants-Antipsychotics-Deceived/dp/0977307506/
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Anxiety-Americas-Turbulent-Tranquilizers/dp/0465086586/
http://www.amazon.com/Before-Prozac-Troubled-Disorders-Psychiatry/dp/0195368746/
http://www.amazon.com/Listening-Prozac-Landmark-Antidepressants-Remaking/dp/0140266712/
http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Pills-America-Miltown-Prozac/dp/0801890306/

Sugar Shock! book by Connie Bennett  "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
Doubt is Their Product book by David Michaels   "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
Merchants of Doubt book by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway   "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
Spark, Exercise & the Brain book by John Ratey & Eric Hagerman  "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 2011] for $10.87  
Little, Brown 9¼x6 hardcover [1/2008] for $16.49
author's official website
Wellbeing, Five Essential Elements book by Tom Rath & James K. Harter  "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

Sick & Sicker book by Susan Rosenthal  
"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 book by Gary Greenberg  "Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of A  
Modern Disease" [2010]
by Gary Greenberg

S&S 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $17.82
Emperor's New Drugs / Antidepressant Myth book by Irving Kirsch, PhD   "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 book by David Blumenthal & James Morone  "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


Animal Factory book by David Kirby   "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
Fixing School Food In America book by Janet Poppendieck  "Free For All: Fixing School Food In America" [2010]  
by Janet Poppendieck

Univ CA Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2010] for $18.15
Crisis of Abundance / Rethinking Health Care tripe by Arnold Kling   "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
America's Health Care Crisis tripe by J. Patrick Rooney & Dan Perrin  "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
Healthcare Fix  
"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 book by Robert H. LeBow & C. Rocky White   "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?  "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 / America's Health Care Crisis   ”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   "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 / American Health Care   ”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 book by Jill Quadagno   "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 & Death book by Susan Starr Sered & Rushika Fernandopulle   "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 / Health Care In America   "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  "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
Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around The World  ”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
Great Influenza Pandemic   "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
Food Fight   "Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis & and 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
Forgotten Pandemic of 1918   "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
Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy   "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 manipulating 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
Doctor's Case Against the Pill  
"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



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