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“shenglan tang”

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  • Health Care Transition in Urban China

    by Shenglan Tang ...
    The on-going transition to a market economy in China is having a profound effect on health services. As a result, the government has made health one of the key policy areas, and there is now a general recognition of the need to reform urban health services. Multidisciplinary in scope, this exceptional volume draws on a prestigious report to explore how changes in health finance have affected the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Canadian Medicare

    We Need It and We Can Keep It

    by Stephen Duckett, Adrian Peetoom ...
    Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare's fundamentals. In Canadian Medicare, Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom show that the shared values ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Reducing Gun Violence in America

    Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    Edited by Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick ...
    Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThe staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize relevant research and recommend policies that are both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • To Save Humanity

    What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

    by Julio Frenk, Steven Hoffman ...
    "The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." --Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mistreated

    Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care -- and Why We're Usually Wrong

    by Robert Pearl, MD ...
    The biggest problem in American health care is usDo you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For example, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • New Organs Within Us

    Transplants and the Moral Economy

    by Aslihan Sanal ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    New Organs Within Us is a richly detailed and conceptually innovative ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey. Drawing on the moving stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul, Aslihan Sanal examines how imported biotechnologies are made meaningful and acceptable not only to patients and doctors, but also to the patients’ families and Turkish society more ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Health Care and the Charter

    Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada

    by Christopher P. Manfredi, Antonia Maioni ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Since the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, individuals and organizations have increasingly turned to the courts to try to bring about policy change in areas such as health care. Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the ultimate policy impact of the resulting judicial decisions. Christopher P ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

    How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

    by Chikako Takeshita ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Healing Traditions

    African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948

    by Karen E. Flint ...
    Series series New African Histories
    In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional healers as important agents in the development of medical education and treatment. This ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century

    A History

    by George Weisz ...
    How the evolving concept of chronic disease has affected patients and politics in the United States and Europe.Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Medical Science In The 21st Century: Sunset Or New Dawn?

    by Desmond J Sheridan ...
    This book sets out the unique and paradoxical position biomedical science finds itself in, in the early 21st (superscript st) century. Science has never been stronger in shaping the world we live in; progress in medical science during most of the last century has helped to transform health care and prolong our lives; almost daily advances in biological science promise hope for the future and yet ... Read more

    $21.99 USD