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(0)Francis S Collins
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease." -Barack Obama
From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one of the most important medical books of the year: The Language of Life. With accessible, insightful prose, Dr. Collins describes the medical, scientific, and genetic...
Publisher
Committee for Citizen Awareness
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Compares Americans to the world population, primarily in terms of one major indicator - our health and well-being. "It discusses America's leadership in the world in the areas of medical research and innovation, as well as access to well-equipped emergency medical facilities. However, it also includes some startling new information about how the U.S. has fallen to the worst place among the 17 high-income countries in terms of a number of health and...