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  • Intellectual Base of Social Work Practice

    Tools for Thought in a Helping Profession

    This much-needed exploration of the cognitive side of social work practice provides a framework for improving social work practice and education. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Doctors and the State

    The Politics of Health Care in France and the United States

    Series series Duke Press Policy Studies
    All advanced health care systems face severe difficulties in financing the delivery of today’s sophisticated medical care. In this study David Wilsford compares the health systems in France and the United States to demonstrate that some political systems are considerably more effective at controlling the cost of care than others. He argues that two variables—the autonomy of the state and the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?

    Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics

    Edited by Raisa Deber, Gail Thompson ...
    Series series Heritage
    Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its ability to continue. It is time to explore ways to reorient and restructure the health care system and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Learning Disabilities

    Practice Issues in Health Settings

    Learning Disabilities raises issues which are of crucial importance to all health care professionals and students who work with people with a learning disability. The authors, senior nurse teachers and practitioners in the field, examine these issues, and the theoretical concepts underpinning them, from a practical perspective. They show how complex and interconnecting ideas such as consumerism ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Housing Decisions for the Elderly

    To Move or Not to Move

    Because many elderly wish to age in place, they typically give little thought to the future of their housing options. Housing Decisions for the Elderly articulates the relevant issues regarding the diversity and complexity of housing decisions in terms of moving or not moving.To move or not to move is really part of the aging-in-place debate. In this guidebook, the authors deal with such issues as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • No Less a Woman

    Femininity, Sexuality, and Breast Cancer

    Addresses the emotional and psychological issues that face women with breast cancer, especially those who lose one of their breasts to the disease. Covers femininity, sexuality, intimacy and more. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AIDS TV

    Identity, Community, and Alternative Video

    Series series Console-ing passions
    Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression—an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon—why and how video has become the medium for so much AIDS activism—she also tries to make sense of the bigger picture: How is this work different from ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Beyond Caring

    Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics

    Series series Morality and Society Series
    Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals.Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Rethinking Domestic Violence

    The Social Work and Probation Response

    This book explodes the myths concerning domestic violence and explores how the responses of social workers and probation officers to the people involved need to be far better coordinated and more effective. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Research on Social Work and Disasters

    Over the past decade, several major natural disasters have had devastating impacts throughout the United States and the world. Since larger populations now live and work on land vulnerable to various hazards, natural disasters can be expected to affect more people each year. As a result, the social work profession soon will be stretched to its limi ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Nothing About Us Without Us

    Disability Oppression and Empowerment

    James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Total R & D Management

    Strategies and Tactics for 21st Century Healthcare Manufacturers

    by Roger Dabbah ...
    Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Roger Dobbah gives readers an in-depth view of R&D survival strategies and tactics and demonstrates how to apply them to any organization. The author provides insights into the role of R&D, the crucial topic of creativity and innovation, and the differences and similarities between general management and R&D man ... Read more

    $375.99 USD

  • Health Against Wealth

    by George Anders ...
    The HMO system is supposed to stop greedy doctors and hospitals from viewing patients as sources of profit. But Health Against Wealth reveals that when you are confronting a medical emergency, the HMO system's cost-saving rules can jeopardize your life. This book, said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is a "chilling portrait of the many ways in which HMOs can be hazardous to your health." ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Impact: Social and Economic Implications of the Kudremukh Iron Ore Project

    Health care practitioners come from all walks of life physicians, dentists, nurses, medical students, laboratory and radiological technicians, pharmacists, epidemiologists, demographers, biostatisticians, medical social workers, community health workers, public health officials, hospital administrators, health care managers, medical script writers, medical secretaries, medical records personnel, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of AIDS

    A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic

    Edited by Raymond A. Smith ...
    The Encyclopedia of AIDS covers all major aspects of the first 15 years of the AIDS epidemic, including the breakthroughs in treatment announced at the International AIDS Conference in July 1996. The encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of major topics in eight areas: basic science and epidemiology; transmission and prevention; pathology and treatment; impacted populations; policy and law; ... Read more

    $425.99 USD

  • Gesundheit!

    Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy

    The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine• Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system• Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin WilliamsMeet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tyler's Honest Herbal

    A Sensible Guide to the Use of Herbs and Related Remedies

    by Steven Foster ...
    Here is the fourth edition of Tyler's Honest Herbal: A Sensible Guide to the Use of Herbs and Related Remedies, providing essential botanical information as well as folkloric background of herbal remedies in a clear, accessible style. Unlike other herb books, this book gives you a serious evaluation of both the positive and negative features of the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Medicine, Magic and Religion

    The FitzPatrick Lectures delivered before The Royal College of Physicians in London in 1915-1916

    This is Volume IV of six in a series in the International Library of Psychology on Anthropology and Psychology. Originally published in 1924, this is a collection of the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916 and it represents perhaps the first attempt to interpret with real knowledge and sympathetic insight the thoughts and ideas that find ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Nursing Home Decision

    Easing the Transition for Everyone

    Easing the Way to a New Stage in Life.Placing a loved one in a nursing home is a difficult thing to face. In addition to choosing a home, figuring out finances, and dealing with the actual moving, you may also be struggling with deeper conflicts. The emotions you may feel--of guilt, sadness, anger, and even relief--are never predictable, and can sometimes cause confusion. This invaluable book ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blood of Strangers

    Stories from Emergency Medicine

    by Frank Huyler ...
    Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter—interweave with the lives ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Telemedicine and Telehealth

    Principles, Policies, Performances and Pitfalls

    Telemedicine and telehealth are changing the face of health care delivery and becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. Dr. Darkins and Dr. Cary share their knowledge and provide practical insights and advice on making telemedicine programs into successful clinical services and a productive business. The book gives background knowledge and useful tips on starting up and managing programs in an ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Handbook of Health Economics

    Edited by J.P. Newhouse, A J. Culyer ...
    The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful. It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main discipline: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric ... Read more

    $157.99 USD

  • Medical Terminology

    A Student Workbook

    by Linda Rener ...
    This workbook has been developed for all individuals with little to no background in the health care field. It is a basic introduction to medical terminology. It provides the student with an opportunity to develop good word-building skills so that the student can identify medical terms by their corresponding word components.This workbook is unique in that it has been designed for use with any ... Read more

    $3.99 USD