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The book draws on public health ethics, public health law, and the histories of occupational and public health to assess the limits of parental choice to expose their children to risks of injury. Chris Nowinski, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, provides a timely and insider's perspective on these critical issues in the foreword.

During the tumult of the American Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission emerged as a vital lifeline, akin to a forerunner of the Red Cross. Staffed by dedicated volunteers, it played a crucial role in augmenting the medical care provided by the armed forces. This memoir offers a poignant glimpse into the hardships, triumphs, and heart-wrenching realities faced by doctors, nurses, and volunteers as they fought to save lives and provide comfort to grieving families. Through vivid storytelling, it captures the essence of a campaign marked by both despair and hope. Note The term “...

Dive into the intriguing notion that nearly every practicing attorney has a library filled with complex intersections of law and medicine.

Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset of the pandemic-and the many months, stretched into years, that followed. Journalist Victoria Law combines this storytelling with a trenchant analysis of the structural failures of the US carceral system: failures that made prisons uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, from overcrowding to solitary confinement, from insufficient healthcare to life sentences.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a political football for years now, but as its provisions start going into effect, there’s still precious little information available on how it will impact you, your family, and your pocketbook. This 2,572 page document, nearly unreadable, will change your health care, your family budget, and innumerable aspects of your life.