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  • 150 Years of ObamaCare

    Go behind the curtain of the creation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act.In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative written from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 21st Century Global Health Diplomacy

    Series Book 3 - Global Health Diplomacy
    Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with sensitivity to historical, political, social, economic, and cultural differences. It focuses on the interplay of globalization, economic interdependence, social justice, and the enlightened self-interests of nations. Global health diplomacy can help sustain peace and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • 9/12

    The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders

    9/12 is the saga of the epic nine-year legal battle waged by William H. Groner against the City of New York and its contractors on behalf of the more than ten thousand first responders who became ill as a result of working on the Ground Zero cleanup. These first responders—like AT&T Disaster Relief head Gary Acker and New York Police Department detectives Candiace Baker, Thomas Ryan, and Mindy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Dialética do Direito à Saúde

    entre o direito fundamental à saúde e a escassez de recursos

    Este livro analisa a dialética do direito à saúde, entre o Direito fundamental à saúde e a escassez de recursos e, por fim, como síntese, traz que as políticas de saúde devem se dar em processo democrático de decisão com a participação e contestação pública, através dos conselhos e conferências de saúde. Analisa-se o neoconstitucionalismo e o Estado de Bem-estar social, a fim de introduzirem-nos ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A dimensão cultural do direito fundamental à alimentação

    O que o Direito protege não é apenas a comida e nem a qualidade desta (embora essa proteção seja desde logo de suma importância). O Direito protege também a dimensão cultural, que é múltipla e vasta: a produção, a escolha dos alimentos, a forma de prepará-los, o modo como as pessoas se alimentam, os tabus alimentares etc. Foi aqui na dimensão cultural da alimentação enquanto objeto do direito ... Read more

    $19.98 USD

  • A Government of Insiders

    The People Who Made the Affordable Care Act Possible

    Translated by Melanie Mauthner ...
    Discover the hidden forces that shaped one of the most significant health care reforms in US history.In A Government of Insiders, William Genieys traces the winding path from the failed health policy priorities of the Clinton administration to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Genieys uncovers the pivotal role of a committed group of unelected governmental elites known as "long-term ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • A Hora do Acidente do Trabalho

    As políticas de saúde e segurança do trabalhador dependem da correta identificação dos momentos da jornada de trabalho em que os acidentes mais acontecem para que possam antecipar eventos ou, quando isto não for possível, aprimorar a organização do trabalho para que não haja a repetição do fato. Embora não existam provas em dados oficiais, estabeleceu-se um consenso na doutrina e na jurisprudência ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A influência da influenza

    por uma interpretação contemporânea de meio ambiente

    Esta obra tem por objetivo geral avaliar se a influenza altera a percepção da sociedade sobre o meio ambiente. Para isso, busca responder ao seguinte problema de pesquisa: uma doença de grande impacto, a exemplo da influenza, é capaz de alterar a percepção da sociedade acerca do que venha a ser meio ambiente? Em caso afirmativo, quais os impactos causados por essa doença e como isso altera a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Judicialização da Política Pública de Saúde

    a percepção do magistrado Capixaba

    O presente trabalho procurou analisar, em especial no Brasil e mais distintamente no Estado do Espírito Santo, a percepção do magistrado capixaba, quando do julgamento de questões relacionadas ao direito social à saúde, destacando diversas questões de relevo, como por exemplo, o impacto na legitimação democrática e na representatividade popular. Para tanto, buscou-se uma inserção no conceito de ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A judicialização de políticas públicas de saúde

    e efeitos na gestão administrativa no âmbito do Estado de SP

    A judicialização de políticas públicas, e em especial na área da saúde, tornou se uma prática usual e rotineira nas últimas décadas. Nesta obra, buscou-se analisar essa atuação do Poder Judiciário, que se distancia de uma posição de mero aplicador do direito vigente e passa a atuar de modo efetivo na implantação de programas sociais e até mesmo definir suas prioridades. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abortion

    History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler

    This book will be of interest to reproductive rights activists and students and scholars of history, political science, medicine, and law. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Abortion across Borders

    Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services

    A timely examination of how restrictive policies force women to travel both within and across national borders to access abortion services.Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Access to Medicines as a Human Right

    Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility

    According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines. Should pharmaceutical companies be ethically or legally responsible for providing affordable medicines for these people, even though they live outside of profitable markets? Can the private sector be held accountable for protecting human beings' right to health?This thought-provoking ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Achieving Health for All

    Primary Health Care in Action

    Edited by David Bishai, Meike Schleiff ...
    How did seven low- and middle-income countries, inspired by the landmark Alma-Ata Declaration, dramatically improve citizen health by focusing on primary health care?The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 marked a potential turning point in global health, signaling a commitment to primary health care that could have improved the safety of air, food, water, roads, homes, and workplaces in all 180 ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Advance Directives Across Asia

    A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis

    Edited by Daisy Cheung, Michael Dunn ...
    This book is the first to consider comprehensively and systematically the law and practice of advance directives across Asia. It will thus be important not only as a reference volume that documents how advance directives are regulated and used throughout Asia, but also as an exploration of the concept of the advance directive itself, in context. By examining how advance directives operate in Asian ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • After Morgentaler

    The Politics of Abortion in Canada

    The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive; and women’s access to abortion in Canada remains uneven and at risk of being curtailed. In After Morgentaler, Rachael Johnstone examines the state of abortion access in Canada today, maps its historical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Afterlives of Data

    Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance

    What our health data tell American capitalism about our value—and how that controls our lives.Afterlives of Data follows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape our control. Mary F. E. Ebeling's ethnographic investigation shows how information about our health and the debt that we carry becomes biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers, insurers, commercial data ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Against Security

    How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition

    How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Aging Bones

    A Short History of Osteoporosis

    Series series Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
    How osteoporosis went from a normal aging process to a disease.In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older persons was neither preventable nor ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook

    Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety

    by Dale Lyman ...
    Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook: Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety helps guide ASC administrative and security staff meet the requirements and standards of both federal and state authorities, including the Life Safety Code, a critical designation for facilities participating in Medicare (CMS) funding reimbursement. Designed for easy reference, the book assumes no code ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • American Contagions

    Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19

    A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion“Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt’s legal survey a fascinating resource”—Kirkus, starred review“Professor Witt’s book is an original and thoughtful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law. Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An Inexplicable Deception

    A State Corruption of Justice

    Series series An Inexplicable Deception
    Though traditionally used in civil cases there is no reason why criminal cases cannot be challenged pursuant to the doctrine of fraud upon the court. It is an unconscionable plan or scheme which is designed to improperly influence the court in its decision so that the judicial machinery cannot perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudging cases that are presented for adjudication ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry

    Balancing Care, Cost, and Access

    Why does US health care have such high costs and poor outcomes? Dr. David S. Guzick offers this critique of the American health care industry and argues that it could work more effectively by rebalancing care, cost, and access.For decades, the United States has been faced with a puzzling problem: Despite spending much more money per capita on health care than any other developed nation, its ... Read more

    $59.99 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