The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease-diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any overt signs of illness develop-that arose in concert with a set of safe, effective, and highly marketable prescription drugs. In Prescribing by Numbers, physician-hist...(展开全部)

The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease-diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any overt signs of illness develop-that arose in concert with a set of safe, effective, and highly marketable prescription drugs. In Prescribing by Numbers, physician-hist...(展开全部)

There are more than 225 million rural-to-urban migrant workers, and some 20 million migrant children in Chinese cities. Because of policies related to the household registration (hukou) system, migrant students are not allowed a public high school education in the cities, so their urban education stops abruptly at the end of middle school. This book investigates the post-middle...(展开全部)

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind “Captivating. . . . A welcome reconsideration of the role drugs play in life, medicine, and science.”—Publishers Weekly Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting...(展开全部)

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed “rise of the robots” really ex...(展开全部)

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent me...(展开全部)

安妮·凯斯（Anne Case） 普林斯顿大学1886年亚历山大·斯图尔特经济学和公共事务教授、伍德罗·威尔逊公共和国际事务学院荣誉教授，2020年当选美国国家科学院院士。她也是美国国家经济研究局研究员、计量经济学会会员，美国国家医学学会、美国艺术与科学学会和美国哲学学会成员，曾获得国际卫生经济学协会的肯尼斯·阿罗健康经济学奖、美国国家科学院院刊科扎雷利奖。 安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton） 2015年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，普林斯顿大学德怀特·艾森豪威尔经济学和国际事务名誉教授。此前曾任美国经济学会主席、世界银行研究审核委员会主席等。他的主要研究领域为贫困、不平等、健康、福祉和经济发展等，著有《逃离不平等》。 2019年，《展望》杂志将安格斯·迪顿和安妮·凯斯评为年度“世界50大思想家”。

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row―a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug o...(展开全部)