Oxford University Press

This book mounts a critique of current health economics, arguing it has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, and lack of education on health. The author proposes a form of collective decision making through communitarianism as a basis for a new paradigm....

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These specially written essays show that philosophy of religion is fertile ground        for the application of probabilistic thinking. The authors examine central topics in        the field: the status of evidence relating to the question of the existence of God;        the rationality of religious belief; and the epistemic significance of...

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This is a full-length, systematic literary treatment of Pseudo-Philo DS a long, well-written reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible by a Palestinian Jew of the first century AD, and an important source of information about Jews of that period. Murphy also includes a concordance of the Latin text which will prove useful to serious scholars of...

Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Author Lynn M. Sargeant demonstrates that the successful development of a Russian musical infrastructure salved persistent anxieties about Russia's place vis-a-vis...