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  • Lessons in Politics and Ethics from the Public Hospital

    A Portrait from the Inside

    de Stephen William Foster ...
    Lessons in Politics and Ethics from the Public Hospital takes us behind the scenes of one of America's last major public hospitals - San Francisco General.Drawing on his unique position as both an anthropologist and a psychiatric nurse with 26 years of experience, Foster reveals the complex interplay between compassionate care and institutional constraints that defines modern public healthcare. ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • Against Technoableism

    Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    de Ashley Shew ...
    **One of BookRiot’s Ten Best Disability Books of the YearShortlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Awards“Wonderfully lucid.” —Andrew Leland, New York Times Book ReviewA manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.**When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Sociological Perspectives on Substance Use and College Life

    An Ethnographic Investigation

    de Patrick O'Brien ...
    This book is specifically designed to be used in a variety of my sociology courses, including Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems. It is an example of a sociological monograph, a detailed written study on a specialized scholarly subject and will illustrate how original sociological research is conducted, analyzed, and written.Throughout this text, we will examine a wide variety of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Bipolar Expeditions

    Mania and Depression in American Culture

    de Emily Martin ...
    Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • Forgive and Remember

    Managing Medical Failure

    de Charles L. Bosk ...
    The landmark study of how medical errors are managed among surgeons and other hospital staff—now in an updated edition with a new preface and epilogue.When it was first published, Forgive and Remember offered groundbreaking insight into the training and lives of young surgeons. It quickly emerged as the definitive sociological study on the subject. While medical errors are both inevitable and ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Social Work in the Hospital Setting

    Interventions

    de C'sar M. Garc's Carranza DSW ...
    The book is about social work interventions in the different units of the hospital, from the history of social work in the hospital setting to the different units of the hospital, including emergency room, medical intensive care units, and discharge planning. The book is important because it is about the different interventions of the social worker with patients and families. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Data Analysis in Qualitative Research

    Theorizing with Abductive Analysis

    de Stefan Timmermans, Iddo Tavory ...
    From two experts in the field comes an accessible, how-to guide that will help researchers think more productively about the relation between theory and data at every stage of their work.In Data Analysis in Qualitative Research, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a how-to guide filled with tricks of the trade for researchers who hope to take excellent qualitative data and transform it into ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Voracious Science & Vulnerable Animals

    A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey

    de John P. Gluck ...
    The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate about the ethics of animal research. For decades, proponents of such research have argued that the discoveries and benefits for humans far outweigh ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • (Mis)Diagnosed

    How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health

    de Jonathan Foiles ...
    "Fascinating history . . . A passionate and well-informed study on the importance of improving inclusiveness in mental health evaluations." ― Kirkus ReviewsIn a clear, empathetic style, Jonathan Foiles, author of the critically acclaimed This City Is Killing Me, takes us through troubling examples of bias in mental health work. Placing them in context of past blunders in the history of psychiatry ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Pleasure Consuming Medicine

    The Queer Politics of Drugs

    de Kane Race ...
    On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies that occasionally occur. But when police appear at the gates with drug-detecting dogs, mild panic ensues. Some patrons down all their drugs, heightening their risk ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Complexities of Care

    Nursing Reconsidered

    Edición de Sioban Nelson, Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. Yet, in spite of what seems to be an endless outpouring of public support, in almost every country in ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Biopolitics of Disability

    Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

    de David T. Mitchell ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion” becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD