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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370056
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: R. Purcell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137313846
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' – that is, race as a biological and sociological concept – played within the global and cultural Cold War.

Author: Linda Keen
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470420562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The book is part biography and part collection of mathematical essays that gives the reader a perspective on the evolution of an interesting mathematical life. It is all about Lipman Bers, a giant in the mathematical world who lived in turbulent and exciting times. It captures the essence of his mathematics, a development and transition from applied mathematics to complex analysis--quasiconformal mappings and moduli of Riemann surfaces--and the essence of his personality, a progression from a young revolutionary refugee to an elder statesman in the world of mathematics and a fighter for global human rights and the end of political torture. The book contains autobiographical material and short reprints of his work. The main content is in the exposition of his research contributions, sometimes with novel points of view, by students, grand-students, and colleagues. The research described was fundamental to the growth of a central part of 20th century mathematics that, now in the 21st century, is in a healthy state with much current interest and activity. The addition of personal recollections, professional tributes, and photographs yields a picture of a man, his personal and professional family, and his time.

Author: Victor R Fuchs
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 9814365645
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations and memorable examples of the importance of the non-medical determinants of health, the dominant role of physicians in health care expenditures, the necessity of choices about health at the individual and societal levels, and many other compelling themes.Now, in a new introduction of some 8,000 words including new tables and figures, Fuchs, often called the “Dean of health economists”, concisely summarizes the major changes of the past 37 years in health, medical care, and health policy. He focuses primarily on the United States but includes remarks about health policy in other countries, and addresses the question of whether national health care systems are becoming more alike. In addition to reviewing changes, the introduction explains why health expenditures grow so rapidly, why health spending in the United States is so much greater than in other countries, and what physicians need in order to practice cost-effective medicine.This second expanded edition also includes recent papers by Fuchs on the economics of aging, the socio-economic correlates of health, the future of health economics, and his policy recommendations for the United States to secure universal coverage, control of costs, and improvement in the quality of care. As was true of the first expanded edition (1998), this book will be welcomed by current students and life-long learners in economics, other social and behavioral sciences, medicine, public health, law, business, public policy, and other fields who want to understand the relation between health, economics, and social choice.

Author: National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309082811
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Biographic Memoirs: Volume 80 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.