Product Description: "Individualized medicine" is a catchphrase currently used to denote efforts in medical research and practice to establish tailored healthcare. The vision of "personalized" medicine has proved to be highly ambivalent, reflecting hype and hope - compared to the great expectations only very few applications have been realized up to now...read more

A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century

Originally bought to log the flights of his home-built floatplane, Albert Copeland's notebooks are, years later, bursting with records of the floatplanes's failures and an intricate, informal history of the Copeland clan

A survey of what the future will bring to the health profession explores such medical trends as the separation of sex and reproduction through genetic engineering; artificial organs; neuropharmacology; and more. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMOs, and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries has resulted in reduction in services, dangerous cost cutting, poor regulation, and corrupt research. He sheds light on the political lobbying and media manipulation that keeps the present system in place...read more

Product Description: Beginning in the 1970s large corporations collectively began an unprecedented involvement in health policy and planning on the local and national levels. ""The Corporate Transformation of Health Care, Parts 1 & 2"" is a twenty year comprehensive overview, dissecting this phenomenon...read more