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Dan Skinner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Not an amanuensis of John Milton | Health policy & politics professor | #MedEd | political scientist | Host, @PrognosisOhio | Editor, @medical_policy

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Book Cover for: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace
Dan SkinnerDan Skinner

Essay idea: David Foster Wallace’s “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,” but about camping.

Paperback, 1998

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900, James C. Mohr

Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900

James C. Mohr
Dan SkinnerDan Skinner

“In 1800 no jurisdiction in the United States enacted any statutes whatsoever on the subject of abortion; most forms of abortion were not illegal and those American women who wished to practice abortion did so.” – James Mohr, Abortion in America (1978) p. vii

Paperback, 1979

$42.99Member price:$42.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich
Dan SkinnerDan Skinner

With the proliferation of monthly recurring charges on the average person's credit cards, the 2022 version of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed would be something like "$4.99ed and $9.99ed."

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Book Cover for: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free?, My Composition Books

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free?

My Composition Books
Dan SkinnerDan Skinner

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" How did we get from this beautiful vision to "they are invaders"?

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Book Cover for: Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making, Daniel Skinner

Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making

Daniel Skinner
Dan SkinnerDan Skinner

Honored to be part of this. My 2012 article in @PoliticsGenderJ was my first tangle with the question of medical necessity, which was the eventual focus of my @UMinnPress book, Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making: https://t.co/AL3YNfQfrJ https://t.co/MJTdDYwAJb

Paperback, 2019

$28.00Member price:$28.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)