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“janice e parente, phd”

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  • Ethics on Trial

    Protecting Humans in Canada's Broken Research System

    by Janice E. Parente, PhD ...
    Exposing the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.The governance framework for human research in Canada is dangerously flawed and has the potential to lead to harm and suffering.Canadian researchers and research companies have been allowed to flirt with informed consent; choose research ethics boards with less restrictive oversight; and violate the rights, safety, and welfare of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    by Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre ...
    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Doctors in Denial

    Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant, wealthy multinationals influence how medical students are trained and receive information, how ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Healthcare Management

    by Kieran Walshe, Judith Smith ...
    A comprehensive, research-based introduction to healthcare management, covering healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • When Politics Comes Before Patients

    Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing

    by Shawn Whatley, MD ...
    How Successive Governments Have Weakened the Foundation of All Canadian's Social and Economic SecurityAt some point you will find yourself lying in a hospital bed. There is a good chance that your bed will be a firm, rubber pad held secure between two rails and parked along a corridor in a busy emergency department. Moans of “Nurse!” will echo from the beds ahead of you in line. Those pleas will ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Commercial Determinants of Health

    Edited by Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, Sandro Galea ...
    An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • When Experiments Travel

    Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

    by Adriana Petryna ...
    The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Equitable Research Partnerships

    A Global Code of Conduct to Counter Ethics Dumping

    by Doris Schroeder, Kate Chatfield, Michelle Singh, Roger Chennells, Peter Herissone-Kelly ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book offers insights into the development of the ground-breaking Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (GCC) and the San Code of Research Ethics. Using a new, intuitive moral framework predicated on fairness, respect, care and honesty, both codes target ethics dumping – the export of unethical research practices from a high-income setting to a lower- or ... Read more

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  • Making Health Public

    A Manifesto for a New Social Contract

    by Peter Littlejohns, David J. Hunter, Albert Weale, Jacqueline Johnson, Toslima Khatun ...
    A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised as a serious health hazard. COVID-19 revealed the weaknesses of the UK's public health system, once thought to be among the best in the world.Against ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Organisational Capacity Building in Health Systems

    by Niyi Awofeso ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Capacity building – which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results – is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing countries. Organisations are important structural building blocks of health systems because they provide ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The dynamics of patient organizations in Europe

    Edited by Madeleine Akrich, João Nunes, Florence Paterson, Vololona Rabeharisoa ...
    Series series Sciences sociales
    Patient organizations today play a major role in the scientific, economic and political arenas. They have become the quasi-obliged partners of researchers, industrialists and political authorities. This book investigates this quite recent configuration by offering an in-depth exploration of three thematic issues: To what social and political stakes are patient organizations confronted as regards ... Read more

    $16.99 USD