Fred Feldman, What is This Thing Called Happiness? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xv + 286-ERRATUM.

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To paraphrase Cole Porter's famous 1926 song, "What is this thing called pain? This funny thing called pain, just who can solve its mystery?" Pain, like love, is all consuming: when you have it, not much else matters, and there is nothing you can do about it. Unlike love, however, we are actually beginning to tease apart the mystery of pain. The substantial progress made over the last decade in...

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

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Humans as Model Organisms Transcription Factors and Human Disease Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics, No. 37 By Gregg L. Semenza Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1998). 368 pp. $49.95

physiology, " commences with a review of mutations in † Computational Biology Branch cis-acting transcriptional regulatory elements. Some of National Center for Biotechnology Information this material is old hat: promoter mutations in the National Library of Medicine ␤-globin promoter in thalassemia, or in the F9 promoter National Institutes of Health encoding Factor IX in hemophilia B Leyden. ...