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  • The Work of Hospitals

    Global Medicine in Local Cultures

    by William C. Olsen, Carolyn Sargent, Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, Thomas L. Leatherman, Cheryl Mattingly, John M. Janzen, Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh0, Roch Christian Johnson1, Anita Chary2, Peter Rohloff3, Adrienne E. Strong4, Vania Smith-Oka5, Kayla Hurd6, Elisa (EJ) Sobo7, Eugenia Georges8, Emma Varley9, Claire Wendland0, Anita Hannig1 ...
    In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism

    Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala

    by Anita Chary, Peter Rohloff, Peter Benson, Alejandra Colom, Shom N. Dasgupta-Tsikinas, David Flood, Rachel Hall-Clifford, Nora King, Jonathan Maupin0, Carla Pezzia1, Paul Wise2 ...
    Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Trade Competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa

    Policies for Export Diversification

    Edited by José R. López-Cálix, Peter Walkenhorst, Ndiamé Diop ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Trade
    Over the past decade, four major developments in global economic integration have shaped trade policy and the economic performance of countries within the Middle East and North Africa region: the emergence of global supply chains, the growth of trade in services, the rise of China and India as major international trading powers, and regional integration. These developments, along with the labor ... Read more

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  • Financial Cryptography and Data Security

    FC 2017 International Workshops, WAHC, BITCOIN, VOTING, WTSC, and TA, Sliema, Malta, April 7, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Michael Brenner, Kurt Rohloff, Joseph Bonneau, Andrew Miller, Peter Y.A. Ryan, Vanessa Teague, Andrea Bracciali, Massimiliano Sala, Federico Pintore, Markus Jakobsson ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 5 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2017, in Sliema, Malta, in April 2017.The 39 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They feature the outcome of the 5th Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography, WAHC 2017, the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Financial Cryptography and Data Security

    FC 2016 International Workshops, BITCOIN, VOTING, and WAHC, Christ Church, Barbados, February 26, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Jeremy Clark, Sarah Meiklejohn, Dan Wallach, Michael Brenner, Kurt Rohloff, Peter Y.A. Ryan ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three workshops heldat the 20th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and DataSecurity, FC 2016, in Christ Church, Barbados, in February 2016.The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They feature the outcome of the Second Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, BITCOIN 2016, the First ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion

    by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D ...
    “If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria SteinemThe “remarkable” (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological—of receiving versus being denied an abortion that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

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  • Improving Municipal Management For Cities To Succeed: An Ieg Special Study

    by World Bank ...
    Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews how, worldwide, nearly 3,000 municipalities have benefitted from 190 World Bank-supported MDPs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Read more

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  • A Guide To The World Bank, Second Edition

    by World Bank ...
    The World Bank Group is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Its focus is on helping the poorest people in the poorest countries by using its financial resources, staff, and extensive experience to aid countries in reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, and improving quality of life. In partnership with more than 100 developing ... Read more

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  • Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe

    Edited by Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis, Gail Bolan ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few ... Read more

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  • Energy Security

    An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Gawdat Bahgat ...
    Security of Energy supply is a major concern for all modern societies, intensified by skyrocketing demand in India and China and increasing international competition over fossil fuel deposits. Energy Security: An Interdisciplinary Approach gives A comparative analysis from both consumers' and producers' perspectives. It uniquely combines economics, geology, international relations, business, ... Read more

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