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  • Service User and Carer Involvement in Health and Social Care

    A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis

    de Barbara Fawcett, Joy Fillingham, Dawn River, Maureen Smojkis, Nicki Ward ...
    Written by a collection of experts in the field, this important new text provides a critical and constructive analysis of the ways in which service users and carers engage with health and social care services.Covering topics such as the importance of terminology, wellbeing and resilience and the notion of tokenism, and enhanced by a wealth of first-hand experiences and creative work by a range of ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Ethics of Care

    Critical Advances in International Perspective

    Edición de Marian Barnes, Tula Brannelly, Lizzie Ward, Nicki Ward ...
    Over the last 20 years there has been a flourishing of work on feminist care ethics. This collection makes a unique contribution to this body of work. The international contributors demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy and interpersonal contexts. From Tronto’s analysis of global responsibilities, to Fudge Schormans’ re ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

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  • Saving Gotham

    A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives

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    The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited smoking in bars, outlawed trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas, among other ... Leer más

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  • An Undisciplined Economist

    Robert G. Evans on Health Economics, Health Care Policy, and Population Health

    de Morris L. Barer, Greg L. Stoddart, Chris B. McLeod, Kimberlyn McGrail ...
    Series Libro 237 - Carleton Library Series
    For four decades Robert Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. An Undisciplined Economist collects Evans’ most important contributions and includes two new articles.The topics addressed range widely, from the peculiar structure of the health care ... Leer más

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  • Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate

    The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues

    Edición de Kristen Renwick Monroe, Ronald Miller, Jerome Tobis ...
    Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tissue of the body heralds the advent of an extraordinary new field of medicine. Controversy arises, however, because current techniques required to harvest stem cells involve the destruction of the ... Leer más

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  • Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

    Edición de Marthe R. Gold, Joanna E. Siegel, Louise B. Russell, Milton C. Weinstein ...
    A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians. Exploring cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making ... Leer más

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  • Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century

    A History

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Holding Fast

    The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations

    de William A. Kahn ...
    How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work?How can caregiving organizations effectively improve their management and practice?Increasing pressure on caregiving organizations to serve more people with fewer resources means that epidemics of burnout, high staff turnover, dissatisfaction and internal conflict often appear inevitable. Holding Fast ... Leer más

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  • The Fibromyalgia Story

    Medical Authority And Women'S Worlds Of Pain

    de Kristin Barker ...
    More than six million Americans—most of them women—have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a disorder that produces musculo-skeletal pain and fatigue. In the absence of visible evidence, a well-understood cause, or effective treatment, many have questioned whether FMS is a "real" illness. Amidst the controversy, millions of women live with their very real symptoms.Rather than taking ... Leer más

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  • Dead on Arrival

    The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America

    de Colin Gordon ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of ... Leer más

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  • Differential Diagnoses

    A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France

    de Paul V. Dutton ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. With ... Leer más

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  • Preaching Prevention

    Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda

    de Lydia Boyd ...
    Series series Perspectives on Global Health
    Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa. This ethnography of the born-again Christians who led the new anti-AIDS push in Uganda provides insight into both what it means for foreign governments to “export” approaches to care and treatment and the ways ... Leer más

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