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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The hospitals stand in for the concept Schelling calls a “statistical life,” as opposed to the girl, who represents an “identified life.” We occasionally run into examples of identified lives at risk in the real world, such as the thrilling rescue of trapped miners. As Schelling notes, we rarely allow any identified life to be extinguished solely f
... See moreRichard H. Thaler • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
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Eugenics flourished in America at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
“PULLMAN PORTER LECTURES: Ford Makes a Hit in an Address to Students at Dartmouth.” The Times continued to report on my grandfather in its April 13 issue of that year: “PULLMAN PORTER WINS AS COLLEGE LECTURER; John Baptist Ford, Who Made Four Hundred Dartmouth Students Look at His Profession with New Eyes, Talks of Traveling Public.”
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
As documented by Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and National Book Award winner for How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, many Americans have fallen prey to the idea, now avidly marketed by many big players in the health care industry, that medicine can offer a remedy to nature.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Samir Chaudry • Big Time
