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Forthcoming 2

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2019–2020

Public HEaltH

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The Doctor Who Fooled the WorldScience, Deception, and the War on Vaccines

Brian Deer

Award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield—the so-called father of the anti-vaccine movement.

2020 408 pp. 978-1-4214-3800-9 $25.00 hc/eb

The Opioid FixAmerica’s Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don’t Want You to Have

Barbara Andraka-Christou

Why medication-assisted treatment, the most effective tool for battling opioid addiction, is significantly underused in the United States.

2020 288 pp. 978-1-4214-3765-1 $27.00 hc/eb

From Enforcers to GuardiansA Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence

Hannah L. F. Cooper, ScD, and Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD

A public health approach to

understanding and eliminating excessive police violence.

2020 280 pp., 26 figures 978-1-4214-3644-9 $34.95 hc/eb

Food Insecurity on CampusAction and Intervention

edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cadyforeword by Sara Goldrick-Rab

A timely and powerful book aimed at anyone fighting the hidden problem of student hunger on college campuses.

2020 272 pp. 978-1-4214-3772-9 $39.95 pb/eb

The Morehouse ModelHow One School of Medicine Revolutionized Community Engagement and Health Equity

Ronald L. Braithwaite, Tabia Henry Akintobi, Daniel S. Blumenthal, and W. Mary Langleyforeword by Valerie Montgomery Rice

How can the example of Morehouse School of Medicine help other public health-oriented universities create ideal collaborations between faculty and community-based organizations?

2020 224 pp., 6 line drawings 978-1-4214-3804-7 $39.95 hc/eb

MalignantHow Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer

Vinayak K. Prasad, MD, MPH

How hype, money, low standards of evidence, and bias can come together to mislead cancer patients into thinking that many worthless or unproven treatments were effective.

2020 240 pp., 19 line drawings 978-1-4214-3763-7 $32.95 hc/eb

  

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Fundamental Statistical Methods for Analysis of Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

Katherine E. Irimata, Brittany N. Dugger, and Jeffrey R. Wilsonforeword by Marwan Sabbagh, MD

A statistics textbook that delivers essential data analysis techniques for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

2020 320 pp., 56 line drawings 978-1-4214-3671-5 $74.95 pb/eb

On Becoming a HealerThe Journey from Patient Care to Caring About Your Patients

Saul J. Weiner, MD

An invaluable guide to becoming a competent and compassionate physician.

2020 192 pp., 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-3781-1 $26.95 pb/eb

The Political Determinants of Health

Daniel E. Dawesforeword by David R. Williams

How do policy and politics influence the social conditions that generate health outcomes?

2020 208 pp., 14 line drawings 978-1-4214-3789-7 $29.95 pb/eb

Narrative MattersWriting to Change the Health Care System

second edition

edited by Jessica Bylander, Senior Editor, Health Affairsforeword by Abraham Verghese, MD

Drawn from the popular “Narrative Matters” column in the journal Health Affairs, these essays embody a vision for a health care system that centers the humanity of patients and doctors alike.

2020 328 pp. 978-1-4214-3754-5 $27.95 pb/eb

Achieving Health for AllPrimary Health Care in Action

edited by David Bishai, PhD, MD, MPH, and Meike Schleiff, MSPH, DrPH

How did seven low-income countries, inspired by the landmark Alma Ata Declaration, dramatically improve citizen health by focusing on primary care?

2020 352 pp., 4 halftones, 33 line drawings 978-1-4214-3812-2 $59.95 hc/eb

Pathways to a Successful Accountable Care Organization

edited by Peter A. Gross, MD

A valuable guide to starting and running a successful accountable care organization.

2020 320 pp., 6 halftones, 32 line drawings 978-1-4214-3825-2 $89.95 pb/eb

  

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SeparatedFamily and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid

William D. Lopez

William D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration raids conducted by ICE and local law enforcement placed on one Latino community—and the families and friends left behind.

2019 232 pp. 978-1-4214-3331-8 $27.95 hc/eb

Golden RiceThe Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood

Ed Regis

The first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in developing countries—if only they were allowed to grow it.

2019 256 pp., 2 halftones 978-1-4214-3303-5 $29.95 hc/eb

Teaching Public Health

edited by Lisa M. Sullivan and Sandro Galea

A comprehensive collection of best practices in public health education.

2019 352 pp., 10 line drawings 978-1-4214-2980-9 $49.95 hc/eb

Preventing Child TraffickingA Public Health Approach

Jonathan Todres, JD, and Angela Diaz, MD

How can a public health approach advance efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to child trafficking?

2019 320 pp., 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-3301-1 $44.95 hc/eb

The Medicalization of Birth and Death

Lauren K. Hall

Improving how individuals give birth and die in the United States requires reforming the regulatory, reimbursement, and legal structures that centralize care in hospitals and prevent the growth of community-based alternatives.

2019 352 pp. 978-1-4214-3333-2 $39.95 hc/eb

Prevention FirstPolicymaking for a Healthier America

Anand K. Parekh, MD, MPHforeword by Senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, MD

Deaths from preventable disease have decreased life expectancy in the United States for the first time in a century. This book argues that we must deal with the crisis by embracing prevention as our nation’s top health sector priority.

2019 232 pp. 978-1-4214-3365-3 $34.95 hc/eb

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Lazy, Crazy, and DisgustingStigma and the Undoing of Global Health

Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich

How well-intentioned public health efforts can be unwitting but powerful drivers of stigma.

2019 288 pp., 35 halftones 978-1-4214-3335-6 $34.95 hc/eb

Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Handbook for Human Research

edited by Leslie M. Howes, MPH, CIP, Sarah A. White, MPH, CIP, and Barbara E. Bierer, MD

Helping human research protection program professionals create, implement, and evaluate quality assurance/quality improvement programs.

2019 240 pp., 15 line drawings 978-1-4214-3282-3 $80.00 pb/eb

Health Disparities in the United StatesSocial Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health

third editionDonald A. Barr, MD, PhD

Challenging students to think critically about the complex web of social forces that leads to health disparities in the United States.

2019 376 pp., 3 halftones, 53 line drawings 978-1-4214-3258-8 $57.95 pb/eb

Death by RegulationHow Bureaucrats Killed One of Obamacare’s Promising Innovations

Peter L. Beilenson, MD, MPH

The story of a small healthcare startup and its fight for survival against the very federal agencies responsible for its launch as part of the ACA.

2019 192 pp. 978-1-4214-3214-4 $29.95 pb/eb

Global Epidemics, Local ImplicationsAfrican Immigrants and the Ebola Crisis in Dallas

Kevin J. A. Thomas

How fear and stigma affected the lives of African immigrants during the global Ebola epidemic—and the resilient ways in which immigrant communities responded.

2019 272 pp. 978-1-4214-3299-1 $59.95 hc/eb

The Crisis of US Hospice CareFamily and Freedom at the End of Life

Harold Braswell

Exploring the failure of hospice in America to care for patients and families at the end of life.

2019 288 pp. 978-1-4214-2982-3 $54.95 hc/eb

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Cesarean SectionAn American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence

Jacqueline H. Wolf

Why have cesarean sections become so commonplace in the United States?

2018 336 pp., 17 halftones, 8 graphs 978-1-4214-3811-5 $24.95 pb/eb

New in Paperback March 2020

Under the Big TreeExtraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

Ellen Aglerwith Mojie Crigler foreword by Bill Gates

Powerful stories of the debilitating effects of neglected tropical diseases throughout the world, highlighting the successes and challenges of those fighting to eliminate them.

2019 240 pp., 16 b&w photos 978-1-4214-2723-2 $27.95 hc/eb

Life and Death in Rikers Island

Homer Venters, former Chief Medical Officer of NYC Jails

Shining a light on the deadly health consequences of incarceration.

“A crucially important book.”—The New Yorker

2019 200 pp. 978-1-4214-2735-5 $26.95 pb/eb

Fat in the FiftiesAmerica’s First Obesity Crisis

Nicolas Rasmussen

A riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic during 1950s and 1960s America.

2019 200 pp., 21 figures 978-1-4214-2871-0 $39.95 hc/eb

The Road to Universal Health CoverageInnovation, Equity, and the New Health Economy

edited by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Ilona Kickbusch, and Louis Galambosforeword by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization

How can countries chart their own course toward universal health coverage?

2019 304 pp., 14 line drawings 978-1-4214-2955-7 $34.95 pb/eb

Governing HealthThe Politics of Health Policy

fifth edition

William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert

How do government and private interests shape the health policy process?

2019 424 pp., 7 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-2894-9 $44.95 pb/eb

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Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform

Richard (Buz) Cooper, MD

Proof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty.

2016 304 pp., 76 line drawings 978-1-4214-2905-2 $28.95 pb/eb

Ending Medical ReversalImproving Outcomes, Saving Lives

Vinayak K. Prasad, MD, MPH, and Adam S. Cifu, MD

Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them

—sometimes too late.

“Every doctor should read this book.”—JAMA Internal Medicine

2015 280 pp., 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-2904-5 $24.95 pb/eb

Patient Safety EthicsHow Vigilance, Mindfulness, Compliance, and Humility Can Make Healthcare Safer

John D. Banja

Developing best practices and ethical systems to protect and enhance patient safety.

2019 272 pp. 978-1-4214-2908-3 $49.95 hc/eb

Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services

Lee Keyes

An essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on campus.

2019 208 pp., 4 charts 978-1-4214-2885-7 $37.95 hc/eb

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s AutismMy Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhDforeword by Arthur L. Caplan

Internationally renowned medical scientist and autism dad Dr. Peter J. Hotez explains why vaccines do not cause autism.

2018 240 pp., 8 halftones, 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-2660-0 $22.95 hc/eb

150 Years of ObamaCare

Daniel E. Dawesforeword by David Satcher, 16th US Surgeon General

with a new afterword

Go behind the curtain of the creation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

2016 320 pp., 32 line drawings 978-1-4214-2569-6 $19.95 pb/eb

  

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Drug Dealer, MDHow Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop

Anna Lembke, MD

2016 192 pp. 978-1-4214-2140-7 $19.95 pb/eb

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s AutismMy Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhDforeword by Arthur L. Caplan

2018 240 pp., 8 halftones, 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-2660-0 $22.95 hc/eb

150 Years of ObamaCare

Daniel E. Dawesforeword by David Satcher, 16th US Surgeon General

2016 320 pp., 32 line drawings 978-1-4214-2569-6 $19.95 pb/eb

Health Disparities in the United StatesSocial Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health

third editionDonald A. Barr, MD, PhD

2019 376 pp., 3 halftones, 53 line drawings 978-1-4214-3258-8 $57.95 pb/eb

The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the PoorMy Years at the CDC

William H. Foege

2018 280 pp., 14 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-2529-0 $24.95 hc/eb