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The Big Fix

How The Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers

By: Katharine Greider

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The Big Fix

How The Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers

By: Katharine Greider

As the pharmaceutical industry invests more and more in the development of new drugs, true breakthroughs are few and far between. Into the breach comes a panoply of product-line extensions and me-too drugs aimed at grabbing market share. The industry plows its high profits back into research, but invests an equal or greater sum in flogging its products in every imaginable venue. Research studies are designed to support marketing claims. Many doctors all over the country get their first information about new drugs from a salesperson. And, increasingly, prescription drugs are pitched to consumers on TV and the internet with images of hope, terror, or chic. Evidence-based practice guidelines, which endeavor to get the right medicines to those who will benefit most, can't be heard over the din. Having created an unprecedented number of "megabrands"—blockbuster drugs with huge sales—and undergone an extraordinary wave of consolidation, some drug companies now find themselves in a precarious position. Patents are expiring on flagship products. In order to sustain the growth Wall Street has come to expect, these companies must produce billions of dollars worth of new revenue—fast. But can Americans continue to bankroll Operation Grow Big Pharma? Must we swallow the bad with the good?

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0786743875

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The Archaeology of Home

An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side

By: Katharine Greider

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The Archaeology of Home

An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side

By: Katharine Greider

When Katharine Greider was told to leave her house or risk it falling down on top of her and her family, it spurred an investigation that began with contractors' diagnoses and lawsuits, then veered into archaeology and urban history, before settling into the saltwater grasses of the marsh that fatefully once sat beneath the site of Number 239 East 7th Street. During the journey, Greider examines how people balance the need for permanence with the urge to migrate, and how the home is the resting place for ancestral ghosts. The land on which Number 239 was built has a history as long as America's own. It provisioned the earliest European settlers who needed fodder for their cattle; it became a spoil of war handed from the king's servant to the revolutionary victor; it was at the heart of nineteenth-century Kleinedeutschland and of the revolutionary Jewish Lower East Side. America's immigrant waves have all passed through 7th Street. In one small house is written the history of a young country and the much longer story of humankind and the places they came to call home.

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1586489909

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The Archaeology of Home

An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side

By: Katharine Greider

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The Archaeology of Home

An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side

By: Katharine Greider

Narrates how an investigation into the safety of a house on the lower East Side in New York City turns into an exploration of the history of the dwelling and the land beneath it, as well as a philosophical meditation on the meaning of a home.

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The Big Fix

How The Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers

By: Katharine Greider

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Recognizing Other Subjects

Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity

By: Katharine Eleanor Lassiter

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Recognizing Other Subjects

Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity

By: Katharine Eleanor Lassiter

How do we care justly when selves suffer because of the identities that they inhabit? Pastoral theologian Katharine Lassiter approaches this interdisciplinary question from a feminist perspective in order to understand how suffering, subject formation, and social injustice are interconnected. Reflecting on tensions in her own experiences of caring for selves, Lassiter identifies the challenges of identity in developing a pastoral theological anthropology. Drawing from theories of recognition, she argues that doing just care requires recognizing the need for recognition as well as understanding the impediments to receiving interpersonal, social, and theological recognition. Bringing together resources from pastoral theology and social theory, she develops a feminist pastoral theology and praxis of encounter in order to advance a care that does justice. Scholars, social justice practitioners, and pastoral caregivers will be able to use this resource to understand not only how and why recognition affects human development but also how we might implement a liberative theological praxis attentive to the role of recognition in subject formation.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498230377

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Family-Centered Policies and Practices

International Implications

By: Katharine Briar-Lawson,Hal A. Lawson,Charles B. Hennon

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Family-Centered Policies and Practices

International Implications

By: Katharine Briar-Lawson,Hal A. Lawson,Charles B. Hennon

Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. By including a conceptual framework as well as practice components, the authors offer an original multimodal approach toward understanding family-centered policy practice from an international perspective. It provides grassroots strategies for activists and practical guides for both students and practitioners and includes cutting-edge interpretations of the impact of globalization on families, social workers, and other helping professionals and advocates.

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0231504365

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National Geographic Foods for Health

Choose and Use the Very Best Foods for Your Family and Our Planet

By: Barton Seaver,P. K. Newby

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National Geographic Foods for Health

Choose and Use the Very Best Foods for Your Family and Our Planet

By: Barton Seaver,P. K. Newby

For health-conscious cooks, clean eaters, and smart consumers, National Geographic introduces a science-based guide to healthy, everyday eating for your whole family -- and the planet. Featuring dozens of tips, food pairings, and sample menus, this attractive book is a culinary tour of the 148 foods that have huge nutritional value with the least environmental impact. This guide explores food and its place in cultures around the world; highlights what it adds to healthy menus today; and advises consumers on what to look for, how to choose, how to prepare and what to avoid in order to make best choices for the table and for the planet. Barton Seaver, acclaimed chef and author of For Cod and Country and Where There's Smoke, and nutritional scientist P.K. Newby, have created the ultimate shopping and cooking guide to help you nourish your family while you sustain the planet.

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1426212755

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Foods for Health

Choose and Use the Very Best Foods for Your Family and Our Planet

By: Barton Seaver,P. K. Newby,Monique Vescia,Katharine Greider

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Choose and Use the Very Best Foods for Your Family and Our Planet

By: Barton Seaver,P. K. Newby,Monique Vescia,Katharine Greider

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Book's by Katharine Greider

The Big Fix

The Big Fix

The Archaeology of Home

The Archaeology of Home

The Archaeology of Home

The Archaeology of Home

The Big Fix

The Big Fix

Recognizing Other Subjects

Recognizing Other Subjects

Family-Centered Policies and Practices

Family-Centered Policies and Practices

National Geographic Foods for Health

National Geographic Foods for Health

Foods for Health

Foods for Health

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