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Medicine's Dilemmas
Infinite Needs versus Finite Resources
Can the United States provide a health care program that offers a comprehensive package of the highest-quality health benefits to all Americans while containing health care costs? In this important book, Dr. William L....
Thinking the World Visible
The winning volume in the 1993 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Thinking the World Visible, by Valerie Wohlfeld. As James Dickey, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said, "Valerie...
In Adamless Eden
The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley
One of the most influential women's colleges in the country, Wellesley has educated many illustrious women, from Katharine Lee Bates—author of America the Beautiful—to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Since its origins in the late...
Hemingway's Genders
Rereading the Hemingway Text
Ernest Hemingway has long been regarded as a fiercely heterosexual writer who advocated and embodied an exaggerated masculinity. This witty and intelligent book, the first to focus exclusively on gender in Hemingway's writing...
Caring for Creation
An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Many environmentalists believe that religion has been a major contributor to our ecological crisis, for Judeo-Christians have been taught that they have dominion over the earth and so do not consider themselves part of a...
Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom
This elegantly written book by the renowned author Ved Mehta is a chronicle of a tumultuous dozen years of recent Indian history—from the unsettled conditions that preceded the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to...
Sickness and Healing
An Anthropological Perspective
The ways in which people respond to sickness differ greatly from society to society. In this book anthropologist and epidemiologist Robert A. Hahn examines how Western and non-Western cultures influence the definition,...
Inventing the Psychological
Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America
When and why did it become chic for members of the white middle and upper classes to perceive and value themselves as neurotic, primitive, and emotionally fragile? Is the popular tendency to define the self in psychological...
The Stork and the Plow
The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma
In this provocative book, the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a powerful and radical strategy for balancing human numbers with nutritional needs. Their proposals include improving...
The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition
What is the healthiest diet for an infant? What constitutes a nutritious school lunch? How do I deal with my adolescent's eating needs and habits? Will my children receive proper nutrients if they are sick, very athletic, or...