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Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and in the broader system of American higher education during the post-World War II decades.

The estimated annual health care cost of obesity-related illness in the United States is $190 billion, with countless more costs in lost mobility, vigor, and life-years. Here, Jonathan Engel reviews the sources of the problem as they have developed over the past 70 years and offers a realistic plan for helping address obesity.

Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk and engaging history of the American healthcare "system" from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Covering topics as varied as health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, government policies, physician training, medical ethics, and healthcare in other countries, it explains how healthcare in the United States has been organized, managed, d...

A national and state-by-state history of public health options for the American poor.

A national and state-by-state history of public health options for the American poor.

From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American psychotherapy.Fifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, but the origins of the field are rarely known to patients. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense debates within this community of healers.American Therapy begins, as psychotherapy itself does, wit...