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  • The aWAKE Project, Second Edition

    Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis

    "Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. If this isn't emergency, what is?" -Bono (U2)The aWAKE Project, Second Edition is an updated collection of stories and essays geared toward educating and mobilizing Americans to help with the AIDS crisis in Africa. Action is needed for a continent on which five people die every minute from the deadly AIDS virus. aWAKE stands for: AIDS-Working ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audible Bleeding

    The Origin and Development of the VGH Vascular Surgery Division

    Audible Bleeding, The Origin and Development of the VGH Vascular Surgery Division describes the development of vascular surgery in Vancouver from its inception in 1978 to 2020. The book examines how and why vascular surgery developed into its own specialty, the personalities who established the division and those who continue to practice the craft, outlining the unique opportunities and challenges ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation

    Policies, Practices and Skills

    by Clive Langman ...
    This text provides an overview of vocational rehabilitation (VR) practice, making it the perfect companion for students and practitioners with an interest in supporting people back to work and improving their sense of health and well-being.The book is divided into three parts: the first covers the policy context of VR in the UK, defining VR, outlining the development of national standards in the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Health Watch 5

    An Alternative World Health Report

    For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.This new edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, within the context of rapid shifts in global governance mechanisms and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Like its predecessors, it challenges conventional wisdom while pioneering innovative ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Human Factors in Healthcare

    Level One

    The majority of errors, litigation, and complaints in the health service are due to 'human factors', yet the term is still not widely understood and is sometimes used interchangeably to refer to team training or communication skills. Although including these, the subject of 'human factors' goes far beyond this to look at systems, environmental influences, and interactions with equipment, in ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Cancer Entangled

    Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

    Cancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Hospital Policy in the United Kingdom

    Its Development, Its Future

    Harrison and Prentice aim to provide a source of reference and reflection for those who are concerned with the planning of hospitals themselves or who are concerned with the health care delivery system as a whole. The authors set out a detailed framework for analyzing hospital services in relation to other providers, based on clinical quality, costs of provision, and access. The book also contains ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Medical History of Hong Kong

    1842-1941

    This book tells the fascinating story of the development of medical andsanitation services in Hong Kong during the first century of Britishrule and how changing political values and directions of the colonialadministration and the socio-economic status of the Hong Kong affectedthe policies of development in these areas. It also recounts how thebubonic plague of 1894 changed the government's ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Cancer Within

    Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania

    Series series Medical Anthropology
    The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Connected Health

    Improving Care, Safety, and Efficiency with Wearables and IoT Solution

    Connected Health is the most dynamic phenomenon in healthcare technology today. From smartphones and tablets to apps, body sensors and telemedicine, Connected Health promises to stir foundational shifts in healthcare quality and delivery. This is a watershed moment in healthcare – the Connected Health ecosystem is dramatically impacting healthcare’s stakeholders, from patients to C-Suite ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Nature Of Laughter

    by Gregory, J C ...
    First Published in 1999. This is Volume X of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. Written in 1924, this book looks at the aspects such as wit and the ludicrous, varieties, causes, function and aesthetics of laughter and its place in civilisation. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Information Technology in Medical Diagnostics III

    Metrological Aspects of Biomedical Research

    The science of biomedical measurements is experiencing a period of rapid development. Biomedical measuring systems are becoming increasingly accurate on the one hand and complex on the other. In order to make progress in this field, metrological problems must be solved using a systemic and formal approach. To this end, it is necessary to define the components of the system and the rules for their ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Birthing a Mother

    The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

    by Elly Teman ...
    Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Ethical Practice in Social Work

    An applied approach

    This innovative text shows why ethics is so important for social work practice, that it is not simply a way of defining and understanding what is good in practice, but is a means by which social work and other caring professions can actually achieve good practice.'Professor Richard Hugman, University of NSWThis book integrates ethical theory and political philosophy into a clear yet challenging ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Disaster Health Management

    A Primer for Students and Practitioners

    The second edition of this leading textbook provides the definitive guide to disaster health management. From the key concepts, principles and terminology, to systems for mitigation, planning, response and recovery, it gives readers a comprehensive overview of every aspect of this emerging field.Split into eight parts, the book begins by drawing the parameters of disaster health management before ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Mental Illness in the Community

    The pathway to psychiatric care

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Child's Construction of Quantities

    Selected Works vol 8

    First published in 1974. This is Volume VIII of selected works of Jean Piaget which along with Burbel Inhelder, looks at how children construct continuous quantity. That is where a quantity that is even more general than number or measurement, and gets included as special cases, namely the extensive quantity characterized by the comparison of the parts without the specification of a unit. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Pulling Through

    Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness

    "And at that exact moment, the earth tipped, and we all slid into a parallel universe..."On Christmas Day 2016, the Jessops were just an ordinary family, but on Boxing Day, one near-death experience swept them all into the bewildering world of hospitals and serious illness, and their lives changed forever.Pulling Through is a handbook of everything Catherine has learned on their journey. It covers ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Parenting in Global Perspective

    Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

    Series series Relationships and Resources
    Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of ‘parenting’.Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of ‘parenting’ as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are increasingly expected to be emotionally absorbed and become personally fulfilled. By focusing the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 醫療資訊與病人安全管理實務

    慈濟醫療志業藉由整合醫療資訊系統與臨床診療作業以確保醫療品質與病人安全,包括高警訊用藥安全提示、危急值或異常影像報告之即時訊息傳遞、臨床成效指標之收集、監控與追蹤等以提升疾病之診療成效,實踐守護生命、守護健康、守護愛的承諾。為了分享慈濟醫療資訊的豐碩成果,如花蓮慈濟醫院之「雲端心蓮安寧療護計畫」,更獲得第十五屆醫策會醫療品質獎智慧醫療類的肯定。由張文成副執行長策劃,整合花蓮、大林、臺中、臺北四家慈濟醫院與醫療志業醫療資訊室等各相關單位之主管與同仁共同撰述,為慈濟醫療資訊系統的發展,留下完整見證。本書呈現慈濟醫療志業運用醫療資訊技術提升醫療品質與確保病人安全之努力成果與未來須再擴展之系統,包括電子病歷、電腦化醫囑系統、用藥安全之醫療資訊管理,也藉此拋磚引玉,使醫療資訊系統成為醫療服務的最佳輔助工具。 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Therapeutics in Pregnancy and Lactation

    This book will assist doctors, pharmacists, midwives and other health professionals in dealing with the issue of medicine use in pregnant and breastfeeding women. It gives practical guidance on the principles of safe and effective prescribing, summarises the known effects of widely used drugs, and provides up-to-date information in one accessible source. With an impressive list of contributors, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Digital Medicine

    Health Care in the Internet Era

    Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical information online. Some physicians encourage patients to use email or web messaging to manage ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Global Health

    The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating guide for healthcare students and practitioners introduces the major themes, challenges and debates relevant to global health that will equip the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Evidence Based Practice

    by Judith Davies ...
    Series series Nursing and Health Survival Guides
    Taking an evidence-based approach is fundamental to ensuring good clinical practice, but it’s not always easy. This info-packed guide will be an invaluable resource throughout your healthcare or nursing studies and post-registration, helping you to understand the essentials of EBP theory and application, and develop new insights into healthcare practice.The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have ... Read more

    $11.99 USD