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  • Harm Reduction

    A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs

    Series series Heritage
    Since the First International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, held in 1990, the term 'harm reduction' has gained wide currency in the areas of public health and drug policy. Previously the field was characterized by heated struggle between prohibition and legalization of addictive substances, and this debate tended to obscure practical, collective approaches. Harm reduction, an ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Disabled Rights

    American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality

    "Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace, and social integration. Disabled Rights provides an interdisciplinary approach to the history ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Governance of Teaching Hospitals

    Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins

    What forces lead to changes in governance among medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals? To what extent do such changes affect how well those schools and hospitals do their work? In this book, John A. Kastor, M.D., focuses on the academic medical centers of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University, two institutions that underwent dramatic change in governance ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair

    Health Care and the Good Society

    America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries. In Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair a distinguished group of health policy experts pointedly examines this troubling paradox, as they chart the stark ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Global Health Governance

    International Law and Public Health in a Divided World

    Series series Heritage
    Globalization has immersed all of humanity in a single germ pool. There are no health sanctuaries in a globalizing world. In Global Health Governance, Obijiofor Aginam explores the relevance of international law in contemporary public health diplomacy. He focuses on the concept of mutual vulnerability to explore the globalization of disease, in what is paradoxically a global village and a divided ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Message in a Bottle

    The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

    by Janet Golden ...
    A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. Women whose own mothers enjoyed martinis while pregnant now lost sleep over a bowl of rum raisin ice cream. In Message in a Bottle, Janet Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • One Nation, Uninsured

    Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance

    by Jill Quadagno ...
    Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Modern Military and the Environment

    The Laws of Peace and War

    The battle is an old one: man versus nature. And in modern society, man includes the military. Machines. Chemicals. Who wins the battle and at what cost? This practical analysis of the conflict between national security requirements and environmental responsibility looks at just that. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion

    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biomedical, care with complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, herbal medicine, and spiritual healing. In Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion, Michael H. Cohen discusses the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Community Care Practice and the Law

    Fourth Edition

    This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care.It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners, including the NHS, disabled facilities grants and housing adaptations, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland

    A Strategy for Professional Development in a Changing Health Service

    by Yvonne O'Shea ...
    Over the past ten years, nursing and midwifery in Ireland have experienced a considerable number of changes, driven principally by the Report of the Commission on Nursing, published in 1998, and the health service reform programme, announced in 2003. In the same period, Irish society has become wealthier and more culturally diverse, creating new challenges for nursing and midwifery. In Nursing and ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

    A Relational Challenge

    Series Book 8 - Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
    Alasdair Maclean analyses the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment, providing both an extensive reconsideration of the ethical issues and a detailed examination of English law. Importantly, the analysis is given a context by situating consent at the centre of the healthcare professional-patient relationship. This allows the development of a relational model that balances the agency of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis

    Statistical Methods and Applications

    Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Analysis provides essential insights into the evaluative techniques necessary for creating appropriate and effective policies and programs to address these worldwide issues. Food scientists and nutritionists will use this important information, presented in a conceptual framework and through case studies for exploring representative problems, identifying and ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Code Red

    An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It

    by David Dranove ...
    The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Death Investigation in America

    Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty

    A death occurs at home, in a hospital, on a street: why? As Jeffrey Jentzen reveals, we often never know. Why is the American system of death investigation so inconsistent and inadequate? What can the events of the assassination of President Kennedy, killing of Bobby Kennedy, and Chappaquiddick reveal about the state of death investigation?If communities in early America had a coroner at all, he ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Judicialização da Saúde Pública e Privada

    A ideia central que anima este trabalho é a percepção de que a judicialização da saúde ocorre em decorrência da ausência de espaços mais efetivos para o debate sobre a utilização de recursos para a saúde pública e privada, e de motivação dos atores sociais para ocuparem esses espaços e efetivarem o debate. Os recursos econômicos destinados à saúde pública e privada são finitos e devem ser ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Os Tribunais e o Direito à Saúde

    Series Book 12 - Coleção Estado e Constituição
    No Brasil, a judicialização do direito à saúde tem servido de pano de fundo para tal reflexão, levando,inclusive à realização de audiência pública junto ao STF , além da produção de inúmeras decisões jurisdicionais e publicações acadêmicas. Muitos destes aspectos estão presentes no debate proposto por Scaff e Avelãs Nunes, permitindo uma interface argumentativa, e um intercâmbio de experiências ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Baby Markets

    Money and the New Politics of Creating Families

    Edited by Michele Bratcher Goodwin ...
    Creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple's home and the privacy of their bedroom. To the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators, surrogates, 'brokers', donors, sellers, endocrinologists, and without any traditional forms of intimacy. In direct response to the need and desire ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public

    Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment

    Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys. And yet, the agencies that shoulder these responsibilities are in shambles; if they continue to decline, lives will be lost and natural resources will be ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Bioethics in Perspective

    Corporate Power, Public Health and Political Economy

    by Scott Mann ...
    In Bioethics in Perspective Scott Mann demonstrates the importance of issues of corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes around the world. The text develops a comprehensive ethical and practical critique of the neoliberal economic ideas which have guided policy in the English-speaking world. It explores the consequences of such policies for health and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • EU Law and Obesity Prevention

    Series series European Monographs Series
    Since the 1980s, there has been an alarming increase in the prevalence of obesity in virtually every country in the world. As obesity is known to lead to both chronic and severe medical problems, it imposes a cost not only on affected individuals and their families, but also on society as a whole. In Europe, the Obesity Prevention White Paper of May 2007 - followed by the adoption of an EU School ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Reconsidering Law and Policy Debates

    A Public Health Perspective

    Edited by John G. Culhane ...
    This book approaches a variety of social and political issues that have become highly polarized and resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective. The topics included are some of the most contentious: abortion and reproductive rights; end-of-life issues, including the right to die and the treatment of pain; the connection between racism and poor ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Vitamin E Factor

    The miraculous antioxidant for the prevention and treatment of heart disease, cancer, and aging

    by Andreas Papas ...
    It is too early to conclude that vitamin E has all the beneficial effects attributed to it, but even if only 25% of current expectations were to be fulfilled, vitamin E would become an important weapon against a range of chronic diseases.The book is not simply scientific and education but also a please to read. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus