Health economics is one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines of economics and is probably the one that has most engaged with neighbouring disciplines, such as epidemiology and bio-statistics, to solve some of the more intractable problems confronting healthcare systems around the world. The impact of health economics outside the economics profession has been immense, and it has introduced the common currency of economists (opportunity cost, elasticity, the margin, production functions) into medical parlance. However, the very size of the literature spawned by health economists poses a challenge to both students and to those seeking to know more about what economists have had to say on key issues. These volumes are designed to help readers to overcome these difficulties. Presenting a comprehensive ‘library’ of the most important contributions made by health economists, each of the four volumes covers two significant areas of health economics, with each of these eight areas then including an introduction and an article-by-article commentary by the editor. There is also a general introduction, which outlines the scope and content of health economics, to help orientate the reader.  The selection of articles made by Culyer has been based on a survey of the principal teachers of health economics in universities in North America, Europe and elsewhere. Each chosen item is of current relevance and collectively the articles provide a comprehensive review of the most important contributions made by health economists over the past thirty years or so.

Health Economics

Medical Books

Cooper, Michael L.

Culyer, A.J

Administration & Medicine Economics

Penguin??Books

Despite their families being interred in camps, nearly 12,000 Japanese-Americans served in the United States army during World War II and fought courageously, in a tale enhanced with period photos, chronologies, end notes, and more.

Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II

Teen & Young Adult

Clarion Books

Filled with moving personal stories and archival photographs, a fascinating book documents the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, the first institution opened by the federal government to teach Native American children the "white man's way," which led some students such as Olympian Jim Thorpe to success, but for many others it was an education in isolation and estrangement.

Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way

Children's Books

Biographies

Many slave spirituals—songs such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” and “Go Down, Moses”—have become interwoven into the fabric of American culture. For centuries these deeply moving songs were sung by slaves as they worked in the fields. In 1871, six years after the end of slavery, a group from Fisk University known as the Jubilee Singers toured the United States and abroad, raising money for their bankrupt school and, more important, bringing slave spirituals to the attention of a wide audience. This engrossing account, illustrated with archival prints and photographs and appended with the words and music to seven songs, tells the inspiring story of the Jubilee Singers and reveals spirituals to be an invaluable and unique history of American slavery.

Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers

A unique photo essay about the great players and teams of the Negro leagues takes the reader from the early beginnings of all-black baseball in the 1880s to Jackie Robinson's breakthrough into the major leagues in 1947.

Playing America's Game

Dutton Books for Young Readers

Personal accounts help chronicle the social history of the Great Black Migration of 1915-1930, during which approximately one million African Americans left their homes in the South to find freedom and jobs in Northern cities.

Bound for the Promised Land: The Great Black Migration (Migration of the Negro)

History

A young reader's edition of the life of a former slave follows his experiences as a cotton steamer pilot, escape to the North, achievements as a Civil War hero, and rise to a U. S. Congressman.

From Slave to Civil War Hero: The Life and Times of Robert Smalls (Rainbow Biography)

Chronicles the story of the struggle, sacrifice, and determination of the Fifteenth New York Voluntary Infantry of the National Guard, one of the few black regiments in the U.S. Army to actually have gone overseas and seen action during World War I.

Hell Fighters: African-American Soldiers in World War I

A definitive account of the Double V Campaign established during World War II and discusses the group of black soldiers who took the lead in an effort to overcome racism and have their rightful place on the front lines of combat.

The Double V Campaign: African-Americans in World War II

Education & Reference

In this close look at the first relocation camp built for Japanese evacuees living on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, social historian Michael Cooper makes extensive use of the actual wordsfrom diaries, journals, memoirs, and news accountsof the people who were held behind barbed wire in the high California desert. Many were American citizens who felt betrayed by their country. They had to leave their jobs, their homes, and their friends and go live in crowded barracks, eat in noisy mess halls, and do without supplies or books for work or schooling. They showed remarkable bravery and resilience as they tried to lead normal lives, starting their own schools, playing baseball, attending Saturday night dances, and publishing their own newspaper. Archival photographs, some by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange, augment the informative text. Manzanar is now a National Historic Site and hosts an annual pilgrimage that is attended by former internees, their families, and friends. Endnotes, Internet resources, index.

Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp

Military

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