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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

  • The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law

    Your Guide to Protecting Your Rights as a Patient, Dealing with Hospitals, Health Insurance, Medicare, and More

    The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law is a comprehensive guide to understanding your rights as a patient and knowing how to move through the health care system. This guide allows you to understand issues about health care to the fullest. Among the issues covered are:Patients’ Rights: Confidentiality, Privacy, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights; Emergency Care; Informed ConsentPaying for ... Read more

    $13.99 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 Harm Paradox

    Tort Law and the Unwanted Child in an Era of Choice

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Offering the first comprehensive theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, The Harm Paradox provides readers with an insightful critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood.Raising fundamental questions relating to birth, abortion, family planning and disability, Priaulx challenges the law’s response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Defending the Genetic Supermarket

    The Law and Ethics of Selecting the Next Generation

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    The controversial topic of the technology of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the muddled approach to this subject adopted by the UK Parliament, is explored in detail in this volume. The author takes the viewpoint that the HFEA has taken insufficient notice to date of certain core ethical principles and makes the case for a much more ethically consistent and humane system than has been ... Read more

    $42.99 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

  • The Best Interests of the Child in Healthcare

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Topical and compelling, this volume provides an excellent re-evaluation of the ‘best interests’ test in the healthcare arena; the ways in which it has developed, the inherent difficulties in its use and its interpretation in legal cases concerning the medical care of children.Comprehensively covering both the English and Scottish position within the context of the European Convention of human ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Assisted Dying

    Reflections on the Need for Law Reform

    by Sheila McLean ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in the 21st Century. This book provides an in-depth critique of the arguments surrounding legislative control of such practices and particularly looks into the regulatory role of the state. In the classical ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Medicine, Malpractice and Misapprehensions

    by V.H. Harpwood ...
    Analyzing the level of claims for clinical negligence in the light of the most recent trends and discovering whether there is indeed a litigation crisis in healthcare, this book is a topical and compelling exploration of healthcare and doctor-patient relationships.The author:identifies and analyzes the growing pressures on doctors in modern society, placing their role in contextexplores some of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD $18.99 USD

  • Values in Medicine

    What are We Really Doing to Patients?

    by Donald Evans ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments. Accessibly written, it provides readers with a timely contribution to the current literature on medical ethics, in which the concept of subjectivity is a key issue characterizing current medical humanities.Examining the critical ... Read more

    $59.99 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

  • Autonomy, Consent and the Law

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their own reasons. The notion that consent underpins beneficent and lawful medical intervention is deeply ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Living Well with Hypothyroidism, Revised Edition

    What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...that

    by Mary J Shomon ...
    The Most Comprehensive Resource Available on the Diagnosis and Treatment of HypothyroidismFor millions of Americans, hypothyroidism often goes untreated ... or is treated improperly. This book, thoroughly researched by the nation's top thyroid patient advocate—a hypothyroidism patient herself—provides you with answers to all your questions, including:What is hypothyroidism?What are the warning ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Reinventing Medicine

    Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing

    by Larry Dossey ...
    Larry Dossey forever changed our understanding of the healing process with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Healing Words. Now the man considered on of the pioneers of mind/body medicine provides the scientific and medical proof that the spiritual dimension works in therapeutic treatment, exploding the boundaries of the healing arts with his most powerful book yet. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD