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Random acts of medicine :
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Books
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307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition 
First edition.
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New York : Doubleday, [2023]
Summary 
"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General who researches health care policy, Christopher Worsham confronts its impact on the hospital's sickest patients. In this singular work of science and medicine, Jena and Worsham work together to reveal the hidden side of medicine, and its effect on everyone that touches the health care system. Relying on ingeniously devised natural experiments-random events that unknowingly turn us into experimental subjects-Jena and Worsham do more than offer readers colorful stories. They help us see the way our health is shaped by forces invisible to the untrained eye. Do you choose the veteran doctor or the rookie? Do you take the appointment on Monday or on Friday? Do you get the procedure now or wait a week? These questions are rife with significance; their impact can be life changing. In a style that's animated and enlightening, this book empowers you to see past the white coat and find out what really makes medicine work-and how it could work better"--
Call Number 
616.0072 JEN
Publication Date 
2023
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780385548816
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Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat :
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xiii, 322 pages : ill ; 23 cm.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Summary 
From the sheep, dog, and cockerel that were sent aloft in Montgolfier's balloon to test the air over Paris, to the famous clone Dolly the Sheep and the Darwinian finches of the Galapagos, Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat offers a look at the use of plants and animals--including humans--in scientific experiments. Rom Harre provides a fresh perspective on research, setting aside moral reflection to simply examine the history of how and why living creatures have been used for the purposes of discovery. From Gregor Mendel's use of pea plants to explore heredity, to Barry Marshall's used of himself as the experimental animal in his helicobacter experiments (he survived) and even the use of an imaginary cat in Schrodinger's famous thought experiment, the reader encounters a new perspective on scientific work.
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507.2 HAR
Publication Date 
2009
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780199238569
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Citizen science :
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Books
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294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2016.
Summary 
Cites the essential contributions of millions of ordinary people who contribute to the scientific process by volunteering in cooperation with scientists to help collect and discover information, tracing the history of citizen scientists and how they are reshaping scientific awareness.
Call Number 
500 COO
Publication Date 
2016
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781468308679
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Intuition :
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Books
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344 pages ; 24 cm.
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New York : Dial Press, 2006.
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F GOODMAN
Publication Date 
2006
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780385336123 9780385336109
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Prize fight :
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Books
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262 pages : ill ; 25 cm.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Summary 
"We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and fallibility. In Prize Fight, Emeritus Chair at SUNY School of Medicine Morton Meyers pulls back the curtain to reveal the dark side of scientific discovery. From stolen authorship to fabricated results and elaborate hoaxes, he shows us how too often brilliant minds are reduced to petty jealousies and promising careers cut short by disputes over authorship or fudged data. Prize Fight is a dramatic look at some of the most notable discoveries in science in recent years, from the discovery of insulin, which led to decades of infighting and even violence, to why the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine exposed how often scientific objectivity is imperiled."
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174.95 MEY
Publication Date 
2012
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780230338906
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Research centers directory. --. 1984 ; 9th ed.
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Continuing Resources
Physical Description 
volumes ; 29 cm.
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Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co..
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REF 001.43 R 1984-85
Publication Date 
1965-2024
Language 
English
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Whose view of life? :
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Books
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368 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Call Number 
174.28 MAI
Publication Date 
2005, 2005 2003
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780674017665
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The thing in the snow :
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Books
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268 pages ; 22 cm
Edition 
First edition.
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New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Summary 
Three caretakers and a single remaining researcher, who keep the Northern Institute in working order in case research ever resumes, find their work upended by a mysterious object that appears in the snow that soon challenges their every notion of what is normal.
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F ADAMS (M)
Publication Date 
2023
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780063257757
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Flight paths :
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Books
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267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition 
First edition.
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Summary 
"Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration--from where and when they take off to their flightpaths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there"--
Call Number 
598.1568 HEI
Publication Date 
2023
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780063161146
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Our biggest experiment :
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Books
Physical Description 
xix, 359 pages ; 24 cm
Edition 
First hardcover edition.
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Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
Summary 
"It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and woman's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention. Our Biggest Experiment tells Foote's story, along with stories of the many other scientists who came before and after her, helping build our modern understanding of climate change. It also tells the story of our energy system, from whale oil to kerosene and beyond, the first steamships, wind turbines, electric cars, oil tankers and fridges. The story flows from the Enlightenment into World War Two and beyond, tracing the development of big science and our advancing realisation that global warming was a significant global problem, along with the growth of the environmental movement, climate scepticism and political systems like the UN climate talks. As citizens of the twenty-first century, it can feel like history's dealt us a rather bad hand with the climate crisis. In many ways, this is true. Our ancestors have left us an almighty mess. But they left us tools for survival too, and Our Biggest Experiment tells both sides of the story"--
Call Number 
363.7387 BEL
Publication Date 
2021
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781640094338
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Climate chaos :
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Books
Physical Description 
xxiv, 321 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition 
First edition.
Production / Publication Information 
New York : PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, 2021.
Summary 
"Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: history. The study of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the past ten years, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years, and see just how civilizations and nature interacted. The lesson is clear: the societies that survive are the ones that plan ahead. Climate Chaos is thus a book about saving ourselves. Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani show in remarkable detail what it was like to battle our climate over centuries, and offer us a path to safer and healthier future"--
Call Number 
304.25 FAG
Publication Date 
2021
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781541750876
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Centers of the cancer universe :
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Books
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xv, 291 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Production / Publication Information 
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
Summary 
"Centers of the cancer universe: A Half-Century of Progress Against Cancer reviews 50-years of progress in cancer research and treatment since the signing of the 1971 National Cancer Act, and the role played by the NCI-designated cancer centers created by the Act"--
Call Number 
616.994 TRU
Publication Date 
2021
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781538144893
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