Epic Measures - One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease study to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. Leading one of the largest scientific projects ever attempted—as ambitious as the first moon landing or the Human Genome Project—the charismatic and controversial health maverick found a way to use Big Data to show that the ideal existence isn’t simply the longest but the one lived well and with the least illness. Along the way, he and his colleagues challenged—and changed—the accepted wisdom of major aid groups, the WHO, and the UN, making enemies but also winning some very influential friends in their ongoing crusade to redefine how we see health and well-being.
Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of Murray’s lifelong determination to understand the world’s health problems, told with novelistic verve by acclaimed journalist Jeremy N. Smith. Encompassing wars and famines, presidents and activists, billionaires and billions of people worldwide living in poverty, Epic Measures is the story of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—and the visionary mastermind behind it.

About the author

Jeremy N. Smith has written for the Atlantic, Discover, and the New York Times, among many other publications, and has been featured by CNN, NPR, and Wired. His first book, Growing a Garden City, was one of Booklist’s top ten books on the environment for 2011. Born and raised in Evanston, Illinois, he is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Montana. He lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife and daughter.

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“A page-turner that could radically change the way you view health.”

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy N. Smith, Smith Jeremy N.
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780062237514
• ISBN: 978-0-06-223751-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Popular medicine and health, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FOOD: HEALTH: AND THE ENVIRONMENT, MEDICINE: MEDICAL HUMANITIES, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: BIG IDEAS, ECONOMICS: INTERNATIONAL, HEALTH & FITNESS: Healthy Living, ECONOMICS: SOCIAL, POLITICAL SCIENCE: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Disease & Health Issues, MEDICINE: GENERAL, MEDICAL: Health Policy, SOCIOLOGY: SOCIAL POLICY