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The US taxpayers fund the overwhelming majority of addiction research in the world. Every year, Congress channels about $1 billion to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). An additional almost $0.5 billion is separately given to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), my own workplace for the past decade.
The post Why is addiction treatment so slow to change? appeared first on OUPblog.
What value does the story of Henry George, a self-taught economist from the late nineteenth century, hold for Americans living in the early 21st century? Quite a lot, if we stop to consider the ways in which contemporary American society has come to resemble America in the late-nineteenth century, a period popularly known as the Gilded Age. As in our times, that era was marked by a dramatic increase in income inequality. It also witnessed a sharp and disturbing rise in the numbers of Americans living in poverty, even as Wall Street boomed and overall productivity soared.
The post Why Henry George matters appeared first on OUPblog.
What can the history of medicine tell us about food allergy and other medical conditions? An awful lot. History is essentially about why things change over time. None of our ideas about health or medicine simply spring out of the ground. They evolve over time, adapting to various social, political, economic, technological, and cultural factors. If we want to know anything about the health issues that face us today and will face us in future, the very first thing we should do is turn to the history of such issues.
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In the name of giving credit where it’s due, I’d like to do something a little different today and highlight some quality content on other university press blogs. Long live academic publishing!
From Columbia University Press: Judith Butler – Implicated and Enraged
From Harvard University Press: Killing for Coal, in Prime-Time
From MIT Press: And it’s root, root, root for the vector!
From New York University Press: Finding Faith on the Internet
From Princeton University Press: Birding in the City
From University of North Carolina Press: Hummus and Bugles
From Yale University Press: Cartooning is an Art
From University of California Press: How Climate Change Damages Our Health
