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Health and Medicine

Do medical advances, like stem cell research, promise eternal youth or an ethical quagmire? With skyrocketing medical costs and aging populations, will even rich societies be unable to assure decent medical care for all? Are millions needlessly dying in poor countries because they suffer from diseases that do not affect the rich? What will be the payoff of the mapping of the human genome?

Date Title / Authors Available Languages
June 2009 Beyond Pandemics
by Ban Ki-moon and Margaret Chan
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese
May 2009 Care-Giving and the Moral Impoverishment of Medicine
by Arthur Kleinman
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
May 2009 Preventing Toxic Stress in Children
by Jack P. Shonkoff
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
March 2009 Kidney for Sale
by Sally Satel
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
February 2009 The Paracetamol Dilemma
by Richard Beasley
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
January 2009 Why Do Smart People Live Longer?
by Ian Deary
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
December 2008 Criminalizing HIV
by Edwin Cameron
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
November 2008 A Mania for Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder
by Mark Zimmerman
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
October 2008 The Agony and Ecstasy of Synthetic Drugs
by Antonio Maria Costa
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
September 2008 Marginalizing Malaria
by Richard Feachem
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
August 2008 Shock and Panic
by David Healy
English Spanish Russian
German Czech Chinese Arabic
July 2008 The Stressed-Out Brain
by Bruce McEwen
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
June 2008 The Fight for Food
by Marc van Ameringen
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
May 2008 Water Pipe Dreams
by Dale Whittington and Bjørn Lomborg
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
May 2008 The Economic Benefits of Disease Control
by Dean T. Jamison and Bjørn Lomborg
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
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