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  • Human Rights and Gender Politics

    Asia-Pacific Perspectives

    Edited by Anne-Marie Hilsdon, Martha Macintyre, Vera Mackie, Maila Stivens ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide.This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Screening

    Evidence and Practice

    by Angela E. Raffle, Anne Mackie, J. A. Muir Gray ...
    Screening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular medical condition or disease, with the aim of offering intervention to reduce their risk. For many years, screening was practised without debate, and without evidence, but in the 1960s serious challenges were raised ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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    War Council, The

    by Ann Shepphird ...
    Narrated by Megan Mackie ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - University Chronicles

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    Ever wonder what it would be like to be able to hire a team like the one from “Mission: Impossible” to solve your relationship woes? A young communications professor attempts to do just that in “The War Council."After the love of her life leaves her for a job on the other side of the world, Professor Maggie McGrew is devastated. To Maggie, his leaving—and not taking her with him—was just not ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights—and the idea of human rights itself—is historically specific and contingent.Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Hippocrasy

    How doctors are betraying their oath

    by Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris ...
    Two world-leading doctors reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down. In Hippocrasy, rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris argue that the benefits of medical treatments are often wildly overstated and the harms understated. That overtreatment and overdiagnosis are rife. And the medical system is not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clinical Governance: Improving The Quality Of Healthcare For Patients And Service Users

    by Mary Gottwald, Gail Lansdown ...
    This is an accessible and practical guide to clinical governance in healthcare, designed to help practitioners and students deliver better care to patients. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Home and Native Land

    Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada

    Edited by May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, Sonali Thakkar ...
    Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light–shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Patient Paradox: Why sexed-up medicine is bad for your health

    by Margaret McCartney ...
    Welcome to the world of sexed-up medicine, where patients have been turned into customers, and clinics and waiting rooms are jammed with healthy people, lured in to have their blood pressure taken and cholesterol, smear test, bowel or breast screening done. In the world of sexed-up medicine pharmaceutical companies gloss over research they don't like and charities often use dubious science and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Order and Security in Southeast Asia

    Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer

    Edited by Ralf Emmers, Joseph Liow ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in government and business in the region.In this book, many of Leifer’s students, colleagues and friends come together to explore the key themes of his work on Southeast Asia, including the notion of ... Read more

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  • Testing Treatments: better research for better healthcare

    by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers, Paul Glasziou ...
    How do we know whether a particular drug, therapy or operation really works, and how well? How reliable is the evidence? Are clinical trials truly unbiased? And is current research focused on the real needs of patients? Such timely and pressing questions are raised and addressed in this probing enquiry into modern clinical research, with far-reaching implications for daily medical practice and ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Exalted Subjects

    Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada

    by Sunera Thobani ...
    Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the theoretical traditions of political economy and cultural / post-colonial studies, this book examines ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Rat Trap

    The capture of medicine by animal research – and how to break free

    by Dr Pandora Pound ...
    With devastating logic and clarity, Dr Pandora Pound, Research Director at Safer Medicines Trust, comprehensively dismantles the case for animal research, bringing to an end the 150-year-old debate about its value once and for all. Focusing on the science rather than animal suffering – and including no distressing details – she provides a riveting account of how the practice became so well ... Read more

    $6.29 USD