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  • Understanding the Australian Health Care System

    by Eileen Willis, Trudy Rudge ...
    Understanding the Australian Health Care System 4e is the essential guide to the complexities of health care in Australia. Key theoretical concepts and current issues along with the structures and policies influencing health care professionals are explored by leading experts led by authors, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds and Trudy Rudge. The text is divided into two sections. The first is about ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Abjectly Boundless

    Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work

    by Trudy Rudge ...
    Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject object. Cadaverous, sick, disabled bodies, troubled minds, wounds, vomit and so forth are all part of health and care work and threaten the clean and proper bodies of those who undertake it, yet this 'unclean' side of health work is rarely accounted ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • On the Politics of Ignorance in Nursing and Health Care

    Knowing Ignorance

    by Amelie Perron, Trudy Rudge ...
    Series series Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
    Ignorance is mostly framed as a void, a gap to be filled with appropriate knowledge. In nursing and health care, concerns about ignorance fuel searches for knowledge expected to bring certainty to care provision, preventing risk, accidents, or mistakes. This unique volume turns the focus on ignorance as something productive in itself and works to understand how ignorance and its operations shape ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • (Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings

    A Critical Approach

    by Trudy Rudge ...
    This comprehensive volume explores various forms of violence in health care settings. Using a broad range of critical approaches in the field of anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, political philosophy and sociology, it examines violence following three definite yet interrelated streams: institutional and managerial violence against health care workers or patients; horizontal violence ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    **The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story.” —The Guardian**The flu pandemic of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite ... Read more

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  • Serial Killers

    The Method and Madness of Monsters

    by Peter Vronsky ...
    **A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide—including information on America’s most prolific serial killers such as:Jeffrey Dahmer • Ted Bundy • “Co-ed Killer” Ed Kemper • The BTK Killer • “Highway Stalker” Henry Lee Lucas • Monte Ralph Rissell • “Shoe Fetish Slayer” Jerry Brudos • “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez • “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski • Ed Gein ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • There is No Me Without You

    One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children

    by Melissa Fay Greene ...
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  • From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You

    A Primer on Radiation and Health

    by Dale Dewar, Florian Oelck ...
    The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still unclear to most. The 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant again made headlines with estimates of fatalities ranging from 4000 to almost a million deaths. By the time of the shocking 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant social media meant ... Read more

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  • Naughty: The Story of a Football Hooligan Gang

    by Mark Chester ...
    In 1985 forty hooligan followers of Stoke City FC experienced a riotous trip to Portsmouth - and the Naughty Forty was born. It became one of the most notorious soccer gangs in Britain.Mark Chester was a founder member of the N40. Already a hardened fighter he had been expelled from school after an unsettled childhood and joined the Staffordshire Regiment only to be discharged for misconduct. ... Read more

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  • Gang Life

    10 of the toughest tell their stories

    by Mark Totten ...
    For the first time, here's a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada.Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members in many Canadian cities and small towns, and he knows enough to get the real goods from these men and women. In this book he tells the life stories -- so far -- of ten gang members drawn from across the country. ... Read more

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