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The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town Брайан Александер
ISBN: 1250237351 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: St. Martin's Press Язык: Английский USA Today's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS
"Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world of American health care into a real-life narrative with people you come to care about." —New York Times
"Takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before." — Fortune
"With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted sickness and despair by immersing us in the lives of a small town hospital and the people it serves." —Beth Macy, bestselling author of Dopesick
By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will solve America’s health crisis until the deeper causes of that crisis are addressed.
Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been fighting to preserve its independence. Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio’s northwest corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession. As local leaders struggle to address the town’s problems, and the hospital fights for its life amid a rapidly consolidating medical and hospital industry, a 39-year-old diabetic literally fights for his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies dying in the emergency room. With these and other stories, Alexander strips away the wonkiness of policy to reveal Americans’ struggle for health against a powerful system that’s stacked against them, but yet so fragile it blows apart when the pandemic hits. Culminating with COVID-19, this book offers a blueprint for how we created the crisis we're in. -
Химия любви. Научный взгляд на любовь, секс и влечение Ларри Янг, Брайан Александер
ISBN: 978-5-905891-22-9 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: Синдбад Язык: Русский Верите в любовь с первого взгляда? Считаете, что браки совершаются на небесах? - Вы заблуждаетесь: то, что представляется вам счастливым стечением обстоятельств, на самом деле - результат реакции мозга на химический коктейль в наших венах. И даже такое святое чувство, как материнская любовь, - не более чем ответ организма на окситоцин, называемый гормоном привязанности. Смелая до провокативности книга, от выводов которой можно было бы отмахнуться, если бы они не базировались на серьезных научных исследованиях, рассматривает широкий спектр "вечных" вопросов: Как возникает любовь? Что заставляет двух вчера еще не знакомых людей сегодня…
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The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction Ларри Янг, Брайан Александер
ISBN: 1591845130, 9781591845133 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Current Язык: Английский How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors surrounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we’ll ever make, are unconsciously driven by a few molecules in our brain. How does love begin? How can two strangers come to the conclusion that it would not only be pleasant to share their lives, but that they must share them? How can a man say he loves his wife, yet still cheat on her? Why do others stay in relationships even after the romance fades? How is it possible to fall in love with the “wrong” person? How do people come to have a “type”? Physical attraction, jealousy, infidelity, mother-infant bonding—all the behaviors that so often leave us befuddled—are now being teased out of the fog of mystery thanks to today’s social neuroscience. Larry Young, one of the world’s leading experts in the field, and journalist Brian Alexander explain how those findings apply to you. Drawing on real human stories and research from labs around the world, The Chemistry Between Us is a bold attempt to create a “grand unified theory” of love. Some of the mind-blowing insights include:
Love can get such a grip on us because it is, literally, an addiction. To a woman falling in love, a man is like her baby. Why it’s false to say society makes gender, and how it’s possible to have the body of one gender and the brain of another.
Why some people are more likely to cheat than others. Why we sometimes truly can’t resist temptation. Young and Alexander place their revelations into historical, political, and social contexts. In the process, they touch on everything from gay marriage to why single-mother households might not be good for society. The Chemistry Between Us offers powerful insights into love, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and family life that will prove to be enlightening, controversial, and thought provoking.