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  • The New NHS

    A Guide

    by Alison Talbot-Smith, Allyson M. Pollock ...
    Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS – which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented changes.Providing an authoritative and accessible overview of the new NHS, the book describes:the structures and functions of the new ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959

    by Peter Johnson ...
    Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands of forgotten people who arrived on our shores only to be felled by disease, in an era when ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Question of Competence

    Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Brian D. Hodges, Lorelei Lingard ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Kids Recipes Book: 70 Of The Best Ever Dinner Recipes That All Kids Will Eat....Revealed!

    by Samantha Michaels ...
    Anyone who has kids will tell you that meal times can very easily become a battleground as you try and force your kids to eat something that is even vaguely good for them. After having this struggle with my children I created my own kids recipes book in order to make healthy meals that my kids would eat. Let me introduce myself, I'm Samantha Michaels, and I'm a 34 year old professional who after ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Health Advocacy, Inc.

    How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement

    by Sharon Batt ...
    Over the past several decades, a gradual reduction in state funding has pressured patient groups into forming private-sector partnerships, raising an important ethical question: do these alliances ultimately lead to policies that are counter to the public interest? Health activist, scholar, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt examines the issue by investigating Canada’s breast cancer movement from ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Workable Sisterhood

    The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

    by Michele Tracy Berger ...
    Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Digital Information Revolution Changes in Canada

    E-Government Design, the Battle Against Illicit Drugs, and Health Care Reform

    by Scarlett Kelly ...
    We are in the middle of a digital information revolution. Information storage is moving from sheaves of paper in dusty cabinets to code and electrons in a vast digital world. In Canada, the movement to digitize health records is gaining momentum in spite of fears and resistance. Digital Information Revolution Changes in Canada: E-Government Design, the Battle against Illicit Drugs, and Health Care ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Got the Flu! What is Influenza? - Biology Book for Kids | Children's Diseases Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Everybody has had the flu at least once in their life. It’s one of the most common diseases known to man. In order to understand what the disease does to your body, you first have to learn its origins. And that’s what this book is all about. Written especially for young learners, this book is easy to understand and love. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Creating the Health Care Team of the Future

    The Toronto Model for Interprofessional Education and Practice

    by Sioban Nelson, Maria Tassone, Brian D. Hodges ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the patient at its center. The team-based care movement is at the heart of major changes in medical education and will become an element in the new ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Sociology of the Health Service

    Edited by Michael Bury ...
    The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of sociology's contributions to health policy and proposals for an agenda for sociological health policy ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Organizing Patient Safety

    Failsafe Fantasies and Pragmatic Practices

    by Kirstine Zinck Pedersen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety programme introduces new problems and safety threats in clinical practice by devaluing practical forms of reasoning and the trained safety ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Researching Quality in Care Transitions

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Karina Aase, Justin Waring, Lene Schibevaag ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions. The organization and accomplishment of high quality care transitions relies upon the coordination of multiple professionals, working within and across multiple care processes, settings and organizations, each with their own distinct ways of working, profile of resources, and modes of organizing. In short, care ... Read more

    $107.09 USD