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They can be lifesavers -- or they can be useless. But what are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics begins to decline? Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know examines the personal and societal implications of our planet''s most important -- and arguably most overused -- medications. In a question-and-answer format, it unpacks the most complicated aspects of this issue, including: How antibiotics are used (and overused) in humans, plants, and livestock The consequences to date, and the potential crisis ahead, as overuse of existing antibiotics breeds new resistance in bacteria How the globalized world enables antibiotic resistance more quickly Collateral damage, individually and societally, of antibiotic use The difficult decisions ahead related to medical care and the food systemGrounded in the latest scientific research and translated for general readers, Ant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson's final two chapters are notable for suggesting methods to reduce the need for  antibiotics and presenting newer approaches to diagnosing and treating bacterial infections.\" --Tony Miksanek, Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE Why should you read this book? Why did I write this book? 1. ORIGIN AND FUNCTION What is an antibiotic? What is the difference between an antibiotic and antimicrobial? How do antibiotics work? What is the difference between broad and narrow-spectrum antibiotics? Why do we have so many different ones? Do antibiotics work against viruses? Why do people confuse bacteria and viruses? How were antibiotics discovered? Where do antibiotics come from? How are antibiotics made? Are new antibiotics created in the laboratory or discovered in nature? What happens when a compound with antibacterial activity is discovered? How does it come to be used to treat infections? Are the same antibiotics used all over the world? How common are substandard and falsified antibiotics? What is the WHO model list of essential medicines? 2. USE IN HUMANS  How are antibiotics administered? What are the routes of administration besides by mouth and by injection? What determines how they should be given? Are pills as effective as injections? Where does the antibiotic go in the body? Does it reach all organs and tissues? What is its fate? Does any part of the antibiotic leave the body in urine or feces? What happens after an antibiotic leaves the body? Why are antibiotics that are not absorbed used? How does one decide which antibiotic to use? What information about each antibiotic is available to the pharmacist, the health provider, and the patient? TABLE Full prescribing information How long does it take for an antibiotic to work? Why are some antibiotics given as a single dose and others prescribed for weeks or longer? What determines the right dose of an antibiotic? Can one overdose on an antibiotic? Does an antibiotic have any effect other than against the bacteria being treated? How long does the effect of an antibiotic last? Why are some infections, such as tuberculosis, always treated with multiple different antibiotics taken simultaneously? Does one always have to take the entire course of prescribed antibiotics? Can one take leftover antibiotics for a new infection? Or give it to a family member or friend? What should one do with leftover antibiotics? Is it dangerous to take expired antibiotics? When are antibiotics used to prevent infections (in contrast to treating an established infection)? How are antibiotics used to prevent infections in surgery? In what other settings are antibiotics used to prevent infections? When are antibiotics used to treat an entire population in mass treatment campaigns? What are the consequences of mass treatment with antibiotics? How are antibiotics used in the human population? Who receives them? What are the main reasons that antibiotics are prescribed? Why is antibiotic use so common for respiratory infections? Does antibiotic use vary by region or by country? Is antibiotic use increasing or decreasing? How much is spent on antibiotics? 3. CONSEQUENCES OF USE: Adverse events associated with use of antibiotics in humans What is the difference between an allergic reaction and an adverse reaction? What are the signs and symptoms of an allergic reaction? How common are adverse reactions? How much antibiotic does it take to cause an adverse reaction? Do genetic factors influence drug reactions? What are drug-drug interactions? Does exposure to the sun make one more likely to have a reaction to an antibiotic? Why have side effects from ciprofloxacin (and other fluoroquinolones) gotten so much attention? What is Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile or C. diff. and where did it come from? What is driving the increase in cases? What predisposes someone to Clostridium difficile infection and how does it spread? How is it treated? What is a fecal microbiota transplant? Can fecal microbiota transplantation be used to treat other conditions? Why do yeast infections occur during and after treatment with antibiotics? What is the microbiome and why is it so important? What is the Human Microbiome Project? What are the functions of the human microbiome? How do antibiotics affect the human microbiome? Does human use of antibiotics and other agents affect animal microbiota? Do other drugs besides antibiotics affect the microbiome? Can the gut microbiota be protected from the effect of antibiotics? 4. OTHER USES OF ANTIBIOTICS (NON HUMAN USE) What are the uses of antibiotics other than to treat infections in humans? What proportion of antibiotics produced in recent years had a non-human use? Why are antibiotics given to healthy animals? Which animals receive antibiotics? Which antibiotics are used? Are the same antibiotics used in people also use in animals? Are antibiotics used in food animals in other countries? How are antibiotics used in aquaculture? Is it OK for people to take antibiotics that were made for fish or other animals? What are the consequences of use of antibiotics in animals? Is any antibiotic still present in the meat, fish, eggs, or milk when they are sold for human consumption? Why are antibiotics used in bees? Do plants develop infections? Why and how often are antibiotics used in plants? Can humans pick up infections from plants? How can plant infections affect human health? Is food from plants contaminated with antibiotics? Does feeding animals antibiotics in large production facilities (such as industrial production of chickens, pigs, and cattle) have impact on the local environment? What are other sources of antibiotics in the environment? 5. ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE  What is antibiotic resistance? Where did antibiotic resistance come from? What are the mechanisms bacteria use to evade antibiotics? How do bacteria destroy or disable the antibiotic? How can bacteria change an antibiotic in order to resist it? How can bacteria prevent antibiotics from getting through the cell wall of the bacteria? How do bacteria manage to pump antibiotics out of the bacterial cell? How can bacteria alter the target of antibiotic action in the bacteria? How can bacteria bypass key functions to survive despite the presence of antibiotics? What else can bacteria do to prevent being killed? How does one test bacteria for resistance to antibiotics? See FIGURE1 also cited in USE section How does antibiotic resistance spread among bacteria? See Figure 2 (also cited earlier in this chapter) Where does this transfer of resistance genes among bacteria take place? How do resistant bacteria and resistance genes spread globally? What is the role of travel in the movement of resistant bacteria and resistance genes globally? How do travelers pick up multiply-resistant bacteria? Where are the resistant bacteria found? How often do travelers pick up resistant bacteria? Do they spread them to others? What is medical tourism? Are travelers who receive care abroad at risk for infections with resistant bacteria? Are mass gatherings an important source of infections and spread of infections or resistance? What is wastewater epidemiology? How does resistance in spread in health care facilities? Are there ways that resistant bacteria spread that do not involve movement of humans? Do pets carry antibiotic resistant bacteria? What are other routes of spread of bacteria from animals to humans? Does antibiotic resistance ever disappear? Which bacteria have developed resistance? Why does tuberculosis (TB) remain such a serious global problem? Why is gonorrhea so hard to treat? Are resistant bacteria found in all countries? Is the level of resistance influenced by the amount of antibiotic used in a region or country? What can be done to slow or stop antibiotic resistance? 6. CONSEQUENCES OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE  What are the most important consequences of having infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria? Are infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria less severe? More severe? The same? Are outcomes worse for antibiotic-resistant infections? What would be the consequences if antibiotics stopped working? What do people mean by the \"post-antibiotic era\"? What medical procedures today rely on the availability of highly effective preventive antibiotics? Do we have antibiotics to use when bacteria become resistant to first-line drugs? Are these other antibiotics as safe and effective as the first-line drugs? Are they available and affordable? Can antibiotics still be used for prevention when bacteria become resistant? Are people dying today because of antibiotic resistant infections? Why are antibiotics sometimes called \"societal\/social drugs\"? How does my taking an antibiotic affect my neighbors and the community? 7. INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE THE NEED FOR ANTIBIOTICS and ALTERNATIVES TO ANTIBIOTICS  Are there ways we can reduce risks of infections so that we do not need antibiotics? How do clean water and improved sanitation reduce use of antibiotics? How can processing and handling of food affect antibiotic use? How can using vaccines reduce need for antibiotics? Are vaccines used to prevent infections in animals? Can they prevent infections that could affect humans? How can controlling vectors like mosquitoes and ticks reduce antibiotic use? Are healthcare-associated infections a common reason for antibiotic treatment? Do antiseptics and alcohol-based hand sanitizers work against all microbes? How can copper be used to decrease infections? Are there approaches to treating infections that do not involve antibiotics - treatment approaches that do not drive development of resistance the way the use of antibiotics does? What other approaches to treating infections are being tried that do not involve antibiotics? What is bacteriophage therapy? Does it work? Is it being used today? How are phage and bacteriocins used today? 8. PRESERVING ANTIBIOTICS and DEVELOPING NEW ANTIBACTERIAL TREATMENTS  How common is inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics? What approaches have been effective in increasing the appropriate use of antibiotics and decreasing inappropriate prescribing by clinicians? What can individuals do to reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics? What are antibiotic stewardship programs? Do antibiotic stewardship programs work? Why do stewardship programs focus on reported allergies to antibiotics? What is the role of better diagnostic testing in reducing use of antibiotics? What is procalcitonin and can it help guide antibiotic treatment? Are procalcitonin levels useful in diagnosis of infection in infants? Why did use of rapid diagnostic tests lead to increased use of antibiotics in some settings. Are there approaches that use urine, saliva, breath, or other specimens to diagnose infections? What is the role of national and international agencies in reducing inappropriate use of antibiotics? Why aren't pharmaceutical companies developing more new antibiotics? Why don't we have more antibiotics in the pipeline? Which bacteria are highest priority for development of new antibiotics? Which antibiotics or antibacterial products are currently in the pipeline? Whose responsibility is it to develop new antibiotics? Who pays for their development? What incentives or other approaches might increase the development of new antibiotics? What are priority areas in looking for ways to treat bacterial infections? 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Kirsch   Chapter 5: A Review of Psychological Well-Being and Mortality Risk: Are All Dimensions of Psychological Well-Being Equal? Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Laura D. Kubzansky, and Tyler J. VanderWeele      Part 2: Conceptual Reflections on Well-Being Measurement   Chapter 6: \"Positive Biology\" and Well-Ordered Science, Colin Farrelly   Chapter 7: Philosophy of Well-Being for the Social Sciences: A Primer, Guy Fletcher   Chapter 8: Defending a Hybrid of Objective-List and Desire Theories of Well-Being, William A. Lauinger   Chapter 9: The Challenge of Measuring Well-Being as Philosophers Conceive of It, Anne Baril   Chapter 10: Human Flourishing: A Christian Theological Perspective, Neil G. Messer   Chapter 11: Comparing Empirical and Theological Perspectives on the Relationship Between Hope and Aesthetic Experience: An Approach to the Nature of Spiritual Well-Being, Mark Wynn      Part 3: Advancing the Conversation about Measurement   Chapter 12: The Comprehensive Measure of Meaning: Psychological and Philosophical Foundations, Jeffrey Hanson and Tyler J. VanderWeele   Chapter 13: Empirical Relationships among Five Types of Well-Being, Seth Margolis, Eric Schwitzgebel, Daniel J. Ozer, and Sonja Lyubomirsky   Chapter 14: Measures of Community Well-Being: A Template, Tyler J. VanderWeele   Chapter 15: Inner Peace as a Contribution to Human Flourishing: A New Scale Developed from Ancient Wisdom, Juan Xi and Matthew T. Lee   Chapter 16: Tradition-Specific Measures of Spiritual Well-Being, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Katelyn N. Long, and Michael J. Balboni      Part 4: Scholarly Dialogue on the Science of Well-Being   Chapter 17: Current Recommendations on the Selection of Measures for Well-Being, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Paul Allin, Colin Farrelly, Guy Fletcher, Donald E. Frederick, Jon Hall, John F. Helliwell, Eric S. Kim, William A. Lauinger, Matthew T. Lee, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Seth Margolis, Eileen McNeely, Neil G. Messer, Louis Tay, Vish Viswanath, Dorota Woziak-Biaowolska, Laura D. Kubzansky   Chapter 18: Advancing the Science of Well-Being: A Dissenting View on Measurement Recommendations, Carol D. Ryff, Jennifer Morozink Boylan, and Julie A. Kirsch  Chapter 19: Response to \"Advancing the Science of Well-Being: A Dissenting View on Measurement Recommendations,\" Tyler J. VanderWeele, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, and Laura D. Kubzansky   Chapter 20: Response to Response:  Growing the Field of Well-Being, Carol D. Ryff, Jennifer Morozink Boylan, and Julie A. Kirsch      Conclusion, Matthew T. 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This new edition presents a globally-relevant, policy-oriented approach, that emphasizes the application of economic analysis to universal health policy issues in an accessible manner. It explores four key questions currently facing health policy-makers across the globe: How should society intervene in the determinants that affect health? How should healthcare be financed? How should healthcare providers be paid? And, how should alternative healthcare programmes be evaluated when setting priorities? The book is an ideal guide to everyone interested in how the tools of health economics can be applied when shaping health policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are many economic and policy books on the market, but none that applies economic principles to policy making in such a concise manner as this one does. * Carole A. 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The theoretical and empirical approaches draw heavily on the general field of applied microeconomics, but the text moves from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole. The book takes a global perspective, with description and analysis of institutional features of health sectors in countries around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second edition has been updated to include material on the U.S. Pat\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733445587287,"sku":"9780262035118","price":116.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262035118.jpg?v=1720000107"},{"product_id":"causal-inference-for-statistics-social-and-biomedical-sciences-9780521885881","title":"Causal Inference for Statistics Social and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text presents statistical methods for studying causal effects and discusses how readers can assess such effects in simple randomized experiments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book offers a definitive treatment of causality using the potential outcomes approach. Both theoreticians and applied researchers will find this an indispensable volume for guidance and reference.' Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google, and Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e'By putting the potential outcome framework at the center of our understanding of causality, Imbens and Rubin have ushered in a fundamental transformation of empirical work in economics. This book, at once transparent and deep, will be both a fantastic introduction to fundamental principles and a practical resource for students and practitioners. It will be required readings for any class I teach.' Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003cbr\u003e'Causal Inference sets a high new standard for discussions of the theoretical and practical issues in the design of studies for assessing the effects of causes - from an array of methods for using covariates in real studies to dealing with many subtle aspects of non-compliance with assigned treatments. The book includes many examples using real data that arose from the authors' extensive research portfolios. These examples help to clarify and explain many important concepts and practical issues. It is a book that both methodologists and practitioners from many fields will find both illuminating and suggestive of further research. It is a professional tour de force, and a welcomed addition to the growing (and often confusing) literature on causation in artificial intelligence, philosophy, mathematics and statistics.' Paul W. Holland, Emeritus, Educational Testing Service\u003cbr\u003e'A comprehensive and remarkably clear overview of randomized experiments and observational designs with as-good-as-random assignment that is sure to become the standard reference in the field.' David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e'This book will be the 'Bible' for anyone interested in the statistical approach to causal inference associated with Donald Rubin and his colleagues, including Guido Imbens. Together, they have systematized the early insights of Fisher and Neyman and have then vastly developed and transformed them. In the process they have created a theory of practical experimentation whose internal consistency is mind-boggling, as is its sensitivity to assumptions and its elaboration of the key 'potential outcomes' framework. The authors' exposition of random assignment experiments has breadth and clarity of coverage, as do their chapters on observational studies that can be readily conceptualized within an experimental framework. Never have experimental principles been better warranted intellectually or better translated into statistical practice. The book is a 'must read' for anyone claiming methodological competence in all sciences that rely on experimentation.' Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair of Ethics and Justice, Northwestern University, Illinois\u003cbr\u003e'In this wonderful and important book, Imbens and Rubin give a lucid account of the potential outcomes perspective on causality. This perspective sensibly treats all causal questions as questions about a hidden variable, indeed the ultimate hidden variable, 'What would have happened if things were different?' They make this perspective mathematically precise, show when and to what degree it succeeds, and discuss how to apply it to both experimental and observational data. This book is a must-read for natural scientists, social scientists and all other practitioners who seek new hypotheses and new truths in their complex data.' David Blei, Columbia University, New York\u003cbr\u003e'This thorough and comprehensive book uses the 'potential outcomes' approach to connect the breadth of theory of causal inference to the real-world analyses that are the foundation of evidence-based decision making in medicine, public policy and many other fields. Imbens and Rubin provide unprecedented guidance for designing research on causal relationships, and for interpreting the results of that research appropriately.' Mark McClellan, Director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative, Brookings Institution, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003e'This book will revolutionize how applied statistics is taught in statistics and the social and biomedical sciences. The authors present a unified vision of causal inference that covers both experimental and observational data. They do a masterful job of communicating some of the deepest, and oldest, issues in statistics to readers with disparate backgrounds. They closely connect theoretical concepts with applied concerns, and they honestly and clearly discuss the identifying assumptions of the methods presented. Too many books on statistical methods present a menagerie of disconnected methods and pay little attention to the scientific plausibility of the assumptions that are made for mathematical convenience, instead of for verisimilitude. This book is different. It will be widely read, and it will change the way statistics is practiced.' Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Robson Professor of Political Science and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e'Clarity of thinking about causality is of central importance in financial decision making. Imbens and Rubin provide a rigorous foundation allowing practitioners to learn from the pioneers in the field.' Stephen Blyth, Managing Director, Head of Public Markets, Harvard Management Company\u003cbr\u003e'A masterful account of the potential outcomes approach to causal inference from observational studies that Rubin has been developing since he pioneered it fourty years ago.' Adrian Raftery, Blumstein-Jordan Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington\u003cbr\u003e'Correctly drawing causal inferences is critical in many important applications. Congratulations to Professors Imbens and Rubin, who have drawn on their decades of research in this area, along with the work of several others, to produce this impressive book covering concepts, theory, methods and applications. I especially appreciate their clear exposition on conceptual issues, which are important to understand in the context of either a designed experiment or an observational study, and their use of real applications to motivate the methods described.' Nathaniel Schenker, Statistician\u003cbr\u003e'The book is well-written with a very comprehensive coverage of many issues associated with causal inference. As can be seen from its table of contents, the book uses multiple perspectives to discuss these issues including theoretical underpinnings, experimental design, randomization techniques and examples using real-world data.' Carol Joyce Blumberg, International Statistical Review\u003cbr\u003e'Guido Imbens and Don Rubin present an insightful discussion of the potential outcomes framework for causal inference … this book presents a unified framework to causal inference based on the potential outcomes framework, focusing on the classical analysis of experiments, unconfoundedness, and noncompliance. The book has become an instant classic in the causal inference literature, broadly defined, and will certainly guide future research in this area. All researchers will benefit from carefully studying this book, no matter what their specific views are on the subject matter.' Matias D. Cattaneo, Journal of the American Statistical Association\u003cbr\u003e'Guido Imbens and Donald Rubin have written an authoritative textbook on causal inference that is expected to have a lasting impact on social and biomedical scientists as well as statisticians. Researchers have been waiting for the publication of this book, which is a welcome addition to the growing list of textbooks and monographs on causality … the authors should be congratulated for the publication of this impressive volume. The hook provides a unified introduction to the potential outcomes approach with the focus on the basic causal inference problems that arise in randomized experiments and observational studies.' Alicia A. Lloro, Journal of the American Statistical Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Introduction: 1. The basic framework: potential outcomes, stability, and the assignment mechanism; 2. A brief history of the potential-outcome approach to causal inference; 3. A taxonomy of assignment mechanisms; Part II. Classical Randomized Experiments: 4. A taxonomy of classical randomized experiments; 5. Fisher's exact P-values for completely randomized experiments; 6. Neyman's repeated sampling approach to completely randomized experiments; 7. Regression methods for completely randomized experiments; 8. Model-based inference in completely randomized experiments; 9. Stratified randomized experiments; 10. Paired randomized experiments; 11. Case study: an experimental evaluation of a labor-market program; Part III. Regular Assignment Mechanisms: Design: 12. Unconfounded treatment assignment; 13. Estimating the propensity score; 14. Assessing overlap in covariate distributions; 15. Design in observational studies: matching to ensure balance in covariate distributions; 16. Design in observational studies: trimming to ensure balance in covariate distributions; Part IV. Regular Assignment Mechanisms: Analysis: 17. Subclassification on the propensity score; 18. Matching estimators (Card-Krueger data); 19. Estimating the variance of estimators under unconfoundedness; 20. Alternative estimands; Part V. Regular Assignment Mechanisms: Supplementary Analyses: 21. Assessing the unconfoundedness assumption; 22. Sensitivity analysis and bounds; Part VI. Regular Assignment Mechanisms with Noncompliance: Analysis: 23. Instrumental-variables analysis of randomized experiments with one-sided noncompliance; 24. Instrumental-variables analysis of randomized experiments with two-sided noncompliance; 25. Model-based analyses with instrumental variables; Part VII. Conclusion: 26. 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Examining how the Russian leadership has guided the process of distributing these windfalls, Adnan Vatansever explores the causes behind key policy continuities and policy reversals during Putin’s tenure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe product of over ten years of research, including interviews with decision-makers and oil industry officials, \u003cem\u003eOil in Putin’s Russia\u003c\/em\u003e takes an innovative approach to understanding the contested nature of resource rents and the policy processes that determine how they are allocated. In so doing, it offers a comprehensive and timely account of politics and policy in contemporary Russia, and a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    Introduction   1. Understanding Policy-Making in Resource-Rich Countries 2. The Upsurge in Executive Power under President Putin 3. Russia’s Historic Oil Windfalls and the Contest over Who Will Generate the Rents 4. 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Addressing the persistent gap between supply and demand in the healthcare sector, the authors highlight the capability of healthcare cooperatives to create a positive impact. With examples from Canada, Argentina, Japan, Africa, Brazil, Columbia, Sri Lanka, Spain, and India, chapters showcase the services that cooperatives can offer their communities, including the establishment of hospitals, medical facilities, and other infrastructure, as well as opportunities in biotechnology and information technology research.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsidering more than 100 million households worldwide that have benefitted from healthcare cooperatives, this pioneering collection triggers a new direction of research to support those seeking to establish healthcare infrastructure in developing and least developed countries in achieving universal healthcare for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: World Healthcare Cooperatives: Challenges and Opportunities; \u003cem\u003eK.K. Tripathy, Sneha Kumari, V.G. Venkatesh, M.P. Sukumaran Nair, and R. 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Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers, professionals and practitioners in gerontology, sociology, health-related sciences, and social care.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume introduces topics in the economics of happiness, quality of life, and well-being in later life. It also covers questions of inequality and poverty, intergenerational economics, and housing. Other areas described in this book include behavioural economics, political economy, and consumption in ageing societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Economics of happiness and quality of life1 Conceptualisations and measurement1.1 Utility1.2 Welfare1.3 Subjective and objective well-being1.3.1 Subjective well-being1.3.2 Objective well-being1.4 Psychological well-being1.5 Optimal well-being1.6 Happiness1.7 Human development1.8 Quality of life1.8.1 CASP-191.8.2 Long-term care1.8.3 Health care1.8.4 Community quality of life2 Theories and empirical findings2.1 Comparison theories2.2 Easterlin paradox2.3 Set-point, adaptation-level, and the hedonic treadmill2.4 Personality traits and genetics2.5 Needs-based theories2.6 Inequality and happiness2.7 Happiness along the life cycle3 Happiness and policy3.1 Gross National Happiness3.2 National Accounts of Well-being3.2.1 Time-based national well-being accounts3.3 Happy life expectancy or happy life years3.3.1 Inequality of Happiness3.4 Closing thoughtII Inequality and Poverty4 Inequality4.1 Introduction4.2 Distribution and moral theory4.2.1 Value claims4.2.2 Moral desert4.2.3 Utilitarianism4.2.4 Libertarianism4.2.5 Contractualism4.2.6 Capabilities4.2.7 Consequentialist and deontological approaches4.3 Measurement of distribution and inequality4.3.1 Inequality of whom?4.3.2 Inequality of what?4.3.3 Measures of inequality4.4 Population ageing and distributional issues4.5 Intergenerational transmission of inequality5 Poverty, deprivation and social class5.1 An embarrassment of definitional riches?5.1.1 Equivalisation5.1.2 Absolute poverty5.1.3 Relative poverty5.1.4 Multidimensional approaches5.1.5 Mortality-adjusted poverty rates5.1.6 Subjective poverty5.1.7 Financial distress5.1.8 Financial security5.1.9 Chronic or persistent poverty5.2 Theories of Poverty5.2.1 Individualist approaches5.2.2 Structuralist approaches5.2.3 Intergenerational income elasticity5.2.4 Equal burden-sharing5.2.5 The Great Gatsby curve5.2.6 Anti-poverty role of pension income in low-income developingcountries5.3 Social class and later life6 Some questions of intergenerational economics6.1 Intergenerational transfers6.2 Intergenerational mobility6.2.1 Multigenerational mobility6.3 Justice between generations6.3.1 Prudential lifespan6.3.2 Fair innings6.4 Equity, solidarity, conflict, and ambivalence6.4.1 Generational equity6.4.2 Generational interdependence and solidarity6.4.3 Generational contract6.4.4 Intergenerational ambivalence6.5 Indices of intergenerational fairness6.5.1 The Intergenerational Fairness Index6.5.2 Intergenerational Justice Index7 Ageing, house prices, and economic crises7.1 Introduction7.2 Residential mobility in later life7.2.1 Ageing, moving, and house prices7.2.2 Housing-related financial products7.3 Housing and poverty in later life7.3.1 Housing and risk in later life7.4 Housing and pensions7.4.1 Housing income and public spending on older people7.4.2 Housing and the retirement decisionIII Behavioural Economics and Ageing8 Behavioural economics and individual ageing8.1 Prospect theory8.2 Framing effects8.3 Anchoring effect8.4 Priming8.5 Sunk cost effect8.6 Mental accounting8.7 Myopia8.8 Lack of willpower8.9 Complexity8.10 Same findings, other approaches9 Behavioural economics and policy9.1 Libertarian paternalism9.1.1 Nudge9.2 Constitutionally constrained paternalism9.3 Autonomy-enhancing paternalism9.4 Asymmetric paternalism9.5 The Save More Tomorrow TM programmeIV Political Economy10 Economics and the political economy of ageing10.1 Introduction 10.2 Political economy of ageing -the orthodox economicsview10.2.1 Population ageing and the median voter model10.2.2 Elderly power and fiscal leakage10.2.3 Interest group models11 Gerontological views11.1 Political gerontology11.2 Social gerontology and the political economy of ageingV The silver economy12 The silver economy12.1 Introduction12.2 The ageing’ consumer12.2.1 Demand-driven market segmentations12.2.2 Other market segmentations12.3 The retirement-consumption puzzle12.4 Ageing and the consumer society12.4.1 Successful ageing and the consumer society12.4.2 Affluenza","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743028851031,"sku":"9783030290122","price":52.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030290122.jpg?v=1720063812"},{"product_id":"the-covid-19-crisis-and-entrepreneurship-perspectives-and-experiences-of-researchers-thought-leaders-and-policymakers-9783031046544","title":"The COVID-19 Crisis and Entrepreneurship:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2020 introduced a global pandemic that led to global economic, social, and regional lockdowns affecting public life in ways never been imagined before. This book takes a look at how researchers from fields encompassing economics and political science, along with thought leaders in business and economic policy, experienced the crises themselves as experts in their field, as well as from a personal viewpoint. Most importantly, however, it looks into the future how entrepreneurship and economic policies may change and positively influence the societies and the economy after the pandemic. Keeping in mind that, with climate change and the digital revolution, change was already around the corner and inevitable, renowned economic and policy experts are asked for their assessment of future roads and feasible economic policies. The book follows the chronology of the pandemic and focuses on leading researchers and thought leaders in public policy and business. An introduction to each chapter describes the context particular to the contributing author when the pandemic struck and their own reactions, experiences, and insights triggered by the emerging pandemic.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Journey: Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis.- Part I: The Future is Risky and Entrepreneurial.- Resilience Is the New Competitive.- Depths of Change: Ranging from Clubhouse to Game Changer.- Oxygenating Innovation? 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It illustrates how simulation may be used in different levels in professional education. The book deals with the role of the Simulation Facilitator, peer learning and the use of Virtual Reality in simulation. It provides new insights and paths to the development of the use of simulation within nursing and healthcare and contributes with new knowledge from research and experiences of implementation of different simulating scenarios within nursing and midwifery. It is intended to teachers in nursing and other healthcare professionals with an interest in the use of active learning methods. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 1Simulation: A historical and pedagogical perspective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 2How to use simulation as a learning method in bachelor and postgraduate\/master education of nurses? 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This book-chapter presents a practical guide to simulation with an emphasis on the roles of the operating room nurses and interactions within the team.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 5 Training Interprofessional Teamwork in Palliative Care: A Pilot study of Online Simulation Activity for Registered Nurses and Nursing Associates (Astrid Rønsen, Randi Beate Tosterud).Successful interdisciplinary teamwork is essential in Palliative Care to achieve quality in patient care. Simulation is usually conduced with participants physically present but because of the COVID 19 pandemic situation, this was not possible. In this chapter we present how the students and facilitators perceived and experienced this transformation to online simulation. \u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 6The use of Critical Response Process as a debriefing structure in simulation activity in nursing education (Randi Tosterud, Jon Viktor Haugom). In the use of simulation as a learning approach, the debriefing phase is considered as crucial   to achieve learning. In debriefing the participants reflect and discuss what happened in the scenario. Feedback is an important factor, and research show that there must be certain conditions present to achieve learning from feedback. The Simulating Facilitator and the structure used have impact on these conditions. In this chapter we will present a new structure for debriefing in medical simulation and a study focusing how the structure affects the Simulating Facilitator role.\u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 7 Learning without a teacher: perceptions of peer-to-peer learning activities in simulation training (Lise Degn, Hanne Selberg,  Anne-Lene Rye Marcussen)This chapter reports from a pilot study carried out at Copenhagen University College. In the pilot, 5th semester nursing students were subjected to an intensified simulation intervention, combined with other supporting elements designed to increase collaborative and peer learning. One of the supporting elements was a series of peer-to-peer sessions, where students in small groups trained practical skills for mastery learning. In the chapter, we describe the study and analyze how the students perceive strengths and weaknesses of the peer-to-peer format, and how these perceptions seem to be linked to the students’ perceptions of learning and authority. We discuss how the method may work as a positive addition to simulation training in nursing education and particularly how it contributes to the students’ development of professional identity. \u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 8Train the trainer course How can the skills of a facilitator benefit academic staff in nursing and other health education programmes.  (Ulrika Eriksson and Astrid Kilvk) As part of the learning process within simulations, the possibilities of feedback are stated as an essential part of promoting learning. Central to this facilitation of learning is the individual Simulation Facilitator. In this chapter, we will take a closer look at what a Simulation Facilitator course is, what distinguishes a facilitator from a teacher, the importance of a common language and framework and what side effects the Simulator Facilitator competence can have for teachers in academia. \u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 9\u003cbr\u003ePlayful learning with VR- SIMI model- the use of 360-degree video as a learning tool for nursing students in a psychiatric simulation setting (Siri Haugan, Eivind Kværnø, Johnny Sandaker, Jonas Langset Hustad;Gunnar Orn Thordarson)By looking for new fields of visibility, educational institutions can elevate students' perspective and activation so that learning is formed. The potential of 360 video \/ VR gives the teacher flexibility to create systematic experiential learning, and create emotional learning in collaboration with students. This chapter will provide knowledge about the practical use of 360 video \/ VR, as well as provide insight into technical potential and challenges. Background on why this method is suitable for promoting nursing students' competence in mental health work will be presented. The chapter's function is to give an introduction and inspire to turn 360 \/ VR in professional education, especially with a focus on nursing education.\u003cbr\u003e•\tChapter 10Virtual Reality (VR) in anatomy teaching and learning in higher healthcare education  (Katrine Aasekjær, Beate Eltarvåg Gjesdal, Ivar Rosenberg, Lars Peder Vatshelle Bovim,  )The chapter will provide knowledge about Virtual Reality, what this is and how VR is used in teaching and learning anatomy using goggles. Definition and knowledge about VR in education will be followed by an explanation of our pedagogical thinking and decision-making when implementing VR as a digital learning resource in the midwifery and radiography program. The chapter will end with an instruction in how to implement VR in healthcare education using examples and experience from our own planning, implementation and use of VR, from both teachers and students’ perspectives\u003cbr\u003eContributors's bio:\u003cp\u003eUlrika Eriksson, Assistant Professor, emergency nurse and Director for Unit for Healthcare Simulation, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Her research and teaching areas are simulation, traumatology, adult learning, non- technical skills and crises resource management. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. She is an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses\u003c\/p\u003e  Astrid Kilvik, Assistant professor, research librarian at the medicine and health library at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. She has responsibility for the library service for the nursing education at the university. From the term beginning 2021 Astrid Kilvik is elected as a member of the Executive Board of EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries). She has been a board member of SMH (Norwegian Library Association, Section for Medicine and Health) for many years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHanne Karlsaune, Assistant professor at the bachelor’s in nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU.  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTherese Antonsen, Assistant professor at the bachelor’s in nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU.  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eKatrine Aasekjær, Associated professor and midwife at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. She is responsible for the simulation and skill training course at the master programme in midwifery and uses virtual reality in teaching anatomy at the programme. Aasekjær`s research involves developing and use of digital resources in education, focusing on active and collaborative learning.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLars Peder Vatshelle Bovim, Assistant professor and a physiotherapist at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. He is a project manager for virtual reality training room. He has wide experience and competencies in using virtual reality in both teaching and patient follow-up. His research is related to the use of VR in both teaching and patient treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIvar Rosenberg, Project leader at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. He is responsible for the digital training and follow-up of the teaching staff at the faculty of Health and Social Science. He has extensive competencies in digital learning and developing digital learning resources in higher education. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBeate Eltarvåg Gjesdal, Assistant professor and PhD student at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. In her PhD thesis she uses VR technology monitoring people with cerebral palsy and their walking function. Gjesdal is also a teacher at her department, using VR in teaching anatomy to students at the radiographic bachelor programme. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRandi Tosterud, Associate Professor and intensive care nurse at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway. Her doctoral thesis focuses on simulation used as a learning approach in nursing education.  Her research interest is development of simulation as a learning approach, especially focusing the debriefing phase and how to facilitate for learner centered and active learning. She has participated in building and developing Centre for Simulation and Patient Safety at NTNU, Gjøvik. She is a Simulation Facilitator and has completed the Advanced TeamSTEPPS® Course (NY, USA). She is an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJon Viktor Haugom, Assistant professor and intensive care nurse at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Gjøvik, Norway. As a member of the Simulation team at “Center for simulation and patient safety” NTNU Gjøvik, Haugom has worked as a Simulation Facilitator and Operations Specialist, as well as an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  Astrid Rønsen, Assosiated professor and programme leader in Interdisciplinary Palliative Care for post graduate students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway. She uses simulation as a learning approach in different settings for raising awareness in Interdisciplinary teamwork, communications skills, and relational ethics. At NTNU she is a part of a research group in Education quality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSven Inge Molnes, Associate professor and programme leader for the postgraduate education in oncolgy nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Ålesund. Areas of expertise and research are subject development at the individual and system level, prehospital, palliative care, spiritual care, pedagogy and mentoring, simulation, quality in education, interprofessional collaboration and welfare technology. He has published several scientific papers about simulation.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eKjersti Natvig Antonsen, Assistant professor and operating room nurse at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is a course coordinator and lecturer at the postgraduate program in operating room nursing, specialization in surgical nursing and surgery, medical and natural sciences. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJanne Kristin Hofstad, Assistant professor and operating room nurse at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. She is a course coordinator and lecturer at the postgraduate program in operating room nursing, specialization in surgical nursing and surgery, medical and natural Sciences. She is a member of PAFFA research group: Pain and Function after Fast track Arthroplasty at the department of orthopaedic surgery, Trondheim university hospital. Her research area is postoperative pain treatment. She is a Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSiri Haugan, Assistant professor and RN nurse at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. She teaches and supervises students in the fields of mental health, substance abuse and addiction disorders, as well as sociological perspectives on illness and health. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEivind Kværnø, intensive care nurse and employed as a Simulation technician at the Simulation Unit, NTNU, Trondheim. He is responsible for running simulations for all studies at the faculty of Nursing. The last 2 years he has been looking at how VR (virtual reality) can be used as a supplement to traditional simulation. He has an interest in how nurses work and learn together in teams, especially in the critical care setting. He is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJohnny Sandaker, psychiatric nurse, and head of Center for Simulation and Innovation at Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway. He is a Simulation Facilitator and leads and participates in several VR-projects in collaboration with industry and other hospitals. He is currently an associate member of a VR-research group at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJonas Langset Hustad, Assistant professor and Senior Executive Officer at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, NTNU. He creates educational media in close collaboration with educators. He completed his Master’s in Film and Video Production, and was the Chief Executive Officer of Brillefilm, a film company specializing in science communication. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLise Degn, Associate Professor in Higher Education Policy at The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her work focuses on higher education quality, research and higher education policy and governance. 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Health services research uses empirical studies to address challenges in the delivery and organization of health care. The book focuses on healthcare delivery (micro-level), which is embedded in institutions such as hospitals (meso-level) and healthcare systems (macro-level). The quality of the research approach determines the value of health services research to a large extent. The book, therefore, puts emphasis on research principles and research methods. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e The book provides an evidence-informed perspective on principles, methods and topics of health services research and uses examples of studies throughout the text. The 24 chapters are organised in four sections:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction to Health Services Research\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinciples of Health Services Research\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResearch Methods in Health Services Research\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmerging Topics in Health Services Research\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoundations of Health Services Research: Principles, Methods, and Topics\u003c\/i\u003e gives an overview of tools and strategies for learning and teaching at master and doctoral levels. It also is a useful resource for health researchers in clinical science and public health. Policy-makers and healthcare managers might also find the book helpful for their work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. 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Introduction.- Healthy and Creative Mentors.- Preamble.- Healthy and Creative Mentors (Burke).- Mentorship, historic perspectives in today’s experiences.- Transforming the Mentorship Relationship from the Philosophical into the Practical.- From Mentee to Mentor.- Generativity and to unpack the behaviors that are associated  with mentoring.- Mindfulness, clarity, and mentoring.- Part 1: Mentoring of Early-Stage and Late-Stage Career Nurses.- Ch 1: Introduction.- Ch 2: Caring Mentorship in Nursing Leadership.- Ch 3: External Mentorship to Accelerate Early Career Impact in Nursing.- Ch 4: Born to be in a Mentorship Dyad.- Ch 5: Mentoring with a purpose: Getting promoted to CNO.- Ch 6: The Power of Mentorship.- Ch 7: Mentoring throughout a nursing career: Applying Transitions Theory to guide the mentor and mentee.- Ch 8: Inspiring Late Career Nurses towards Career Progression through Mentoring.- Ch 9: Four Generations of Faculty Mentoring in Caring Science.- Ch 10: We knew it was a match.- Ch 11: Mentorship Beyond a PhD Program.- Part 2: Mentoring in Inclusivity, Equity, Diversity and Belonging.- Ch 12: Introduction.- Ch 13: Mentoring overseas qualified nurses applying for registration in the host country: Reflection on successful experience.- Ch 14: Mentorship as a Tool to Support and Retain Faculty Members of Color.- Ch 15: Walking side by side: The mentor's role in guiding the mentee's scholarship and academic career.- Ch 16: Mentorship in a clinical setting: From the lens of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.- Ch 17: Mentoring for Courageous Leadership.- Ch 18: Transforming the Compass: Mentoring Latin X psychiatric nursing students for a multicultural Society.- Ch 19: From Minority Fellowship Program Mentor- Mentee to Colleagues Impacting Health Care Policy.- Ch 20: Native American Way of Mentoring.- Ch 21: Mentorship in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Promote Human Flourishing for All.- Ch 22: Increasing Diversity through Mentorship and Sponsorship.- Part 3. Mentoring in Clinical Practice.- Ch 23: Introduction.- Ch 24: Fearfully and woefully made to Care.- Ch 25: Navigating Scholarship as a first-year DNP.-  Ch 26: Always Learning from Each Other.- Ch 27: Mentoring in Evidence-Based Practice.- Ch 28: Mentorship in Evidence-based Practice: A Necessity for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Improved Patient Outcomes.- Ch 29: When the going gets tough.- Ch 30: Mentoring in Leadership of clinical practice in community home care.- Ch 31: Mentoring nurses through a regulatory investigation process.- Part 4: Mentoring in Nursing Education.- Ch 32: Introduction.- Ch 33: Distance can enhance mentoring: a nurse education example.- Ch 34: Lessons on Mentoring Innovation Curriculum for Caregivers in Thailand.- Ch 35: A Crossed Mentoring Story.- Ch 36: Mentoring for Role Transition: Clinician to Academia.- Ch 37: The power of mentorship: In learning, we teach, and in teaching, we learn!.- Ch 38: Impact of the Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Scholar mentoring Program.- Ch 39: Leadership mentoring: Peer mentoring experience in nursing education.- Ch 40: Innovation and Entrepreneurial Mentoring in Nursing for the Life Transformational Education.- Ch 41: Global mentorship in nursing education.- Ch 42: Caring for the caregivers a mentoring perspective: a contribution from nursing in Colombia.- Ch 43: Authentic leadership by the bedside and beyond.- Ch 44: Virtual Mentoring your Mentee.- Ch 45: A cross-cultural perspective of mentoring in nursing in Israel.- Ch 46: Knowing the Way, Show the Way: Leadership and Mentoring in Nursing Education.- Ch 47: Mentoring: Relational Experiences.- Ch 48: Mentoring relations between generations foster reciprocity, growth, and innovation.- Ch 49: Supervision to Mentoring: A satisfactory experience through stages of academic Development.- Ch 50: Redesign Networks in Organizations: Perspectives and Reflections in the Field of Nursing and Public Health.- Ch 51 First generation to PhD student: The faces of mentorship that shaped growth and success.- Ch 52: Mentoring grounded in shared lived experiences.- Ch 53: So you want to be a leader in nursing education? Mentoring is the way.- Ch 54: Finding your mentor in the academic jungle.- Ch 55: Mentoring the New Faculty.- Ch 56: Implementing Activity theory to realize global standards in nursing education.- Ch 57: Mentoring in Research and Academia is a faculty lifesaver.- Ch 58: The upstream and downstream effects of mentoring in research and academia.- Ch 59: Paying it Forward: Meaningful Mentoring.- Ch 60: Multicultural exposure practicum.- Ch 61: Building a Sustainable Academic Career.- Ch 62: The Next Generation of Nursing Informaticians: The Benefits of Mixing Mentoring Models.- Ch 63: Passing the Mentoring Torch : Afghanistan Narrative.- Part 5: Mentoring in Leadership.- Ch 64: Introduction.- Ch 65: Peer Mentoring through Action Learning for Strategic Leadership.- Ch 66: Investing in emerging nurse leaders: Knowledge to action.- Ch 67: Water me, I will grow.- Ch 68: The Genealogy of Leadership.- Ch 69: Mentoring continuity of a nursing professional model.- Ch 70: Appreciative Leadership Mentoring.-  Ch 71: Nurturing leadership growth in clinical nurses: a blueprint through mentoring.- Ch 72: Identifying my cancer nursing leadership role through mentoring.- Ch 73: Bridging the future of nursing through leadership mentoring.- Ch 74: Growing Dynamic Leaders through Mentoring.- Ch 75: Leadership for Nursing Practice.- Ch 76: Domino mentorship. I mentor you, you mentor them.- Ch 77: Walking the way to leadership.- Ch 78: Professional Role Driven: Leadership Impact on Operation.- Ch 79: Intention to lead and mentor nurses globally.- Ch 80: Paying it Forward: Developing Emerging Nurse Leaders.- Ch 81: Growing People Through Mentoring.- Ch 82: Helping Leaders Optimize Their Personal Leadership Journey.- Ch 83: Developing leaders through mentorship.- Ch 84: Values Based Mentorship.- Ch 85: Mentoring: Unconventional Beginnings but what benefits we have Enjoy!.- Ch 86: Out of Africa. Cross continental Mentorship in critical care.- Ch 87: It is Always a Two-Way Street.- Ch 88: Patience, Perseverance, Resilience, Multi-tasking, and Everything!.- Ch 89: Leadership without a title- The power of mentoring.- Ch 90: Succession Planning: Preparing for the Future.- Ch 91: Passing the Baton: Advancing nursing through leadership mentoring; A story of mentorship in Pakistan.- Ch 92: Strategic Leadership in Mentoring.- Ch 93: Leaders shaping Leadership: Advising, Coaching, and Mentoring.- Part 6: Mentoring in Research and Academia.- Ch 94: Introduction.- Ch 95: Vision Alignment- Cognitive Reframing from An Inward to Outward Mindset in Mentoring.- Ch 96: The HEARTS Across the Lifespan in Research and Academia.- Ch 97:Mentoring in Research contributing to the health care.- Ch 98: Our joint journey in a European project and how we both grew – mentor and mentee.- Ch 99: Mentoring and establishing European collaboration.- Ch 100: Empower, encourage, and expand: Mentoring the 21st century nurse scientist.- Ch 101: Nurturing and empowering research leadership through mentoring.- Ch 102: Experiences of mentoring withing a structured academic mentorship program at a South African University.- Ch 103: Mentoring in the research: from dissertation to the entrepreneurial journey.- Ch 104: Mindful mentoring in academic research to develop self-mastery in the graduate.- Ch 105: Leadership: A process of paying it forward.- Ch 106: Educating the minds, hearts, and hands.- Ch 107: Mentorship to achieve global collaboration.- Ch 108: The 3 R’s: Revisiting the Mentored Relationship in Research.- Part 7: Mentoring in the times of Covid-19\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e Ch 109: Mentoring in PhD education, building role models.- Ch 110: Introduction.- Ch 111: Mentoring through a Pandemic.- Ch 112: Leading in a Pandemic.- Ch 113: Keeping a Chapter (Association) Thriving during a Pandemic.- Ch 114: In the eye of the storm: Mentorship in times of crisis.- Ch 115: Mentoring during COVID-19.- Ch 116: Mentoring in the times of COVID-19.- Ch 117: Seizing the moment for mentoring amid crisis.- Part 8: Mentoring in Policy –Healthcare, Education, Research.- Ch 118 Introduction.- Ch 119: Transcultural scenarios for health professionals in a plural and reticular society. Ch 120: Mentoring Partnerships Across Borders and Cultures: Cresting Sustainable Leadership.- Ch 121: Policy and People.- Ch 122: Building leadership competencies to navigating the world of healthcare policy.- Ch 123: Mentoring in Policy in Afghanistan.- Ch 124: Introduction.- Ch 125: Breakfasts, Open Doors, and Belonging.- Ch 126: Finding mentors in unusual places.- Ch 127: Mentoring in Politics- The Power of Partnership through “The Urgency of Now”.- Ch 128: Registered Nurse, Registered Voter.- Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book will involve authors from all Global Regions:\u003c\/b\u003eAsia Region; Pacific Region; European Region; African Region; North American Region, South America Region; Latin American\/Central American Region\/Caribbean; Middle East Region\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Contents will focus on:\u003c\/b\u003e Mentoring across wide range of nursing and focus on narratives of  mentors and  mentees working in: Clinical Practice, Education, Research, Leadership, Policy, Politics\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084754297175,"sku":"9783031252037","price":62.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783031252037.jpg?v=1725553235"},{"product_id":"shuddha-your-journey-within-to-stay-cleansed-9789355201904","title":"SHUDDHA: YOUR JOURNEY WITHIN TO STAY CLEANSED","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachna's book comes at a time when Mother Nature has rapped us hard on the knuckles for being impure and making the environment impure. 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The only miracle that exists is within youthe power to heal yourself.'","brand":"Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084902506839,"sku":"9789355201904","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789355201904.jpg?v=1725553691"},{"product_id":"health-communism-9781839765162","title":"Health Communism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fiery, theoretical \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by co-hosts of the hit \"Death Panel\" podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Adler-Bolton and Vierkant, \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as \"surplus,\" regarded as a fiscal and social burden. Demarcating the healthy from the surplus, the worker from the \"unfit\" to work, the authors argue, serves not only to undermine solidarity but to mark whole populations for extraction by the industries that have emerged to manage and contain this \"surplus\" population. \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e then looks to the grave threat capital poses to global public health, and at the rare movements around the world that have successfully challenged the extractive economy of health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue, we will not succeed in defeating capitalism until we sever health from capital. To do this will require a radical new politics of solidarity that centers the surplus, built on an understanding that we must not base the value of human life on one's willingness or ability to be productive within the current political economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCapital, it turns out, only fears health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book changed the way I think about health, power, state capacity, extraction, social welfare, and resistance. It is an immensely useful tool for wrestling with the most urgent questions facing our movements in these terrifying times. Readable and filled with concise histories and clear examples to illustrate nuanced analysis, it will no doubt become required reading among those struggling against the death cult that is racial capitalism. -- Dean Spade, author of \u003ci\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant bring us a galvanizing proposition: Unlike the rest of us, capital is not alive; it merely animates itself through our host bodies. This book shares the impressive truth that we are all surplus in the political economy of health, whether we are presently 'healthy' or 'sick.' Adler-Bolton and Vierkant teach that our shared condition of vulnerability is ever ready to transform into our collective strength. -- Jules Gill-Peterson, author of \u003ci\u003eHistories of the Transgender Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant have been a lifeline for many during the COVID-19 pandemic through their Death Panel podcast, deconstructing the failed American response with a knife that cuts like truth. Here, they do something even more remarkable: imagine a better future. \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't tinker around the edges. It makes a direct assault on the idea that health can survive under capitalism, where the sick are simply disposable, while the system making a killing along the way. No one talks like Adler-Bolton and Vierkant do - those in public health and medicine are too deeply embedded in the status quo to even acknowledge the searing logic of their words. They stake out the far edge of what is possible and remind us that only the journey towards that horizon will make us free. -- Gregg Gonsalves, Yale School of Public Health and Yale Law School\u003cbr\u003eHealth against health! I can't remember the last time I learned so much in under 200 pages. Nor can I imagine a more needful book for the pandemic we are still in, let alone the pandemics yet to come. This exquisitely researched 'surplus manifesto' made me cry tears of rage, but demonstrated powerfully to me that our collective illness can be 'turned into a weapon.' In my view, everyone new to disability liberation should read this text. Everyone who wants to stop  the destruction of their bodies by capitalism should join the Death Panel community. If we let them, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant will teach the left how to really understand capitalism, at the cellular and somatic levels. So, if you are holding this book, congratulations. Here is deep wisdom to arm a struggle towards forms of human embodiment as yet undreamed-of; inspiration for a million insurgencies of communist health. -- Sophie Lewis, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI could not help but cheer as I read \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e. The most analytically sharp analysis of the relations between capitalism and disability since the pioneering work of Marta Russell, this powerfully explicative work is a rousing manifesto for the sick and becoming-surplus to unite. -- Jasbir Puar, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Maim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how people are viewed as fuel from which to extract profits through the medicalization and financialization of health outputs...[it] serves as a wake-up call for the dehumanization of healthcare delivery. -- Roberta E. Winter * The New York Journal of Books *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e, [Adler-Bolton and Vierkant] show how members of the 'unproductive' surplus class are cast as burdens even as health capitalism sets up entire cottage industries (e.g. for-profit nursing homes, prisons) to extract value from this very population. -- Charlie Markbreiter * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003eThis seamless book fills an urgent void in leftist theories of illness...the achievement of such a concise yet cogent framework (aided by the fact that the past years have only confirmed its conclusion) is a marvel. -- Selen Ozturk * PopMatters *\u003cbr\u003eSurveying a century of sickness under an increasingly privatized system, in \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue that we have to demand much more than Medicare for All in order to fix health care. -- Spencer Green * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book you should read before you die, because the ideas synthesized by Adler-Bolton and Vierkant could save our collective lives. \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e diagnoses our shared social sickness correctly. Rooted in the contemporary reality of mass death and disability, it reworks our familiar, commonsense concepts of sickness and health, care and cure, labor and waste to show how capitalist biomedicine wrings every last drop of productive labor from us before discarding us into the trash heap of 'surplus population' to carelessly be picked over and plundered until our death...Indeed, we are all ill under capitalism. Read this book. Care for your neighbors. Smash capitalism. Malingerers of the world unite. -- Jon Shaffer * Peste Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e is itself a blueprint, in the (roughly translated) words of SPK, for turning illness into a weapon. -- Jess McAllen * The Baffler *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e] is a new way to find the universal in the particular, which is the kind of thinking tool we are in desperate need of at the moment. Turning those ideas into practice is a greater challenge. Where to start? Health communists begin with a compelling vision of society not as divided between abled and disabled or sick and well but as a vast web of people, all of whom have both abilities to contribute and needs to meet. -- Malcolm Harris * New York Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeath Communism\u003c\/i\u003e is not \"well-behaved\": It is not interested in sober consideration, dry pontifications. It thrives through a sense of optimism. There is a joy to a manifesto that sits alongside its anger. If it is birthed from complaint and fury, these emotions are funneled through a hope that things could be otherwise-most of all, an optimism for a new collective. -- Jon Venn * Full Stop *\u003cbr\u003eBest Books of 2022 -- Joshua Frank * Counterpunch *\u003cbr\u003eIf you have ever gone to work sick because you need the job to treat the sickness, you know the basic argument of \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e to be true: health under capitalism is an impossibility. -- Natalie Adler * LUX Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e is, most fundamentally, a call for a new and expansive concept of health as a commons, a collective experience, and a collective commitment to human flourishing, freed from the ideological and financial strictures of market discipline. -- Abby Cartus * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eThis creative, wide-ranging book would be important under any circumstances since it helps readers understand widespread social processes that are genuinely violent in their operations yet often curiously bloodless in their ideological depictions. The book is especially urgent in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e helps make clear both the fundamental social patterns that gave rise to the pandemic, and stresses that any real solutions to those patterns will require far-reaching social change. -- Nate Holdren * Theory \u0026amp; Event *\u003cbr\u003eAn exciting contribution to materialist disability studies * Critical Inquiry *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372591259991,"sku":"9781839765162","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839765162.jpg?v=1730163475"},{"product_id":"democracy-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-9780226815626","title":"Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a leading political thinker, this book is both an invaluable playbook for meeting our current moment and a stirring reflection on the future of democracy itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Political theorist Allen shrewdly analyzes how and why the US response to COVID-19 fell short, and suggests what should be done to better prepare for the next pandemic. . . . This is a trenchant call for reimagining how America functions in a time of crisis.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this stirring manifesto, the renowned political theorist Allen argues that the United States’ woeful response to the COVID-19 pandemic must serve as a wake-up call for Americans to rebuild their public health infrastructure and renew their constitutional democracy.\" * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"In her new book, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in the Time of Coronavirus\u003c\/i\u003e, Allen argues that federalism, rather than being a problem, offers solutions to what ails democracy today. In particular, she embraces what she calls 'cooperative federalism.' . . .  For Allen, cooperative federalism suggests that the federal government should focus on the big picture: setting overarching goals and identifying promising practices for how best to respond to the pandemic. In contrast, states, counties, cities, and local governments should concentrate on 'the nitty-gritty'—contact tracing, testing, treating the ill, and supporting those who are isolating.\" * Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s not the first political book on the pandemic, but it’s the first I’ve taken seriously so far. . . . It takes a truly original thinker to excite the intellectual public with fresh insights on the pandemic. Allen is the political thinker the modern intelligentsia has patiently held their breath to learn from. She is among the foremost theorists on democracy so an opportunity to uncover her thoughts on how the pandemic exposed cracks in modern democratic governance is thrilling. Of course, her purpose is not to tear down democracy, but rather to discover how to repair it for the future.\" * Democracy Paradox *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Allen] argues that democracies can learn from health, economic, and political crises how to reestablish social contracts and build pandemic resilience. . . This book concisely identifies the many and multivalent concerns before COVID vaccines became available—a critical period to document—and it also raises a number of provocative arguments that might form the basis for a lively reader discussion. Finally, other scholars and reformers should further consider Allen's views on social rights and integrative policy judgment.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Allen's] book—published during her campaign for Massachusetts governor—has an aspirational quality; it is rich with discussion of the purposes of our federal constitutional democracy, the social contract, and political legitimacy. She focuses exclusively on COVID-19 but uses the crisis to illustrate the larger problems of U.S. governance.\" * Boston Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Allen’s public life has been spent arguing for democracy, living it, teaching it. She is an exemplar of a democratic citizen, putting forth her ideas in public space for open debate and thereby encouraging us all to join her in communal democratic life.” -- Jonathan Lear, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e“Allen’s clear understanding of the social and political challenges to an advanced, industrial democracy that lacks foundational trust make this book an important tool in approaching the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is an excellent broad-brush approach to the need for restoring our social contract.” -- Daniel P. Aldrich, author of \"Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery\"\u003cbr\u003e“Scrutinizing our founding document, Allen sees it as a clarion call for equality.” * New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice, on \"Our Declaration\" *\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable. . . . A tour de force.” * New York Review of Books, on \"Our Declaration\" *\u003cbr\u003e“A primer on all that we have been missing. . . . Invaluable.” * Washington Post, on \"Our Declaration\" *\u003cbr\u003e\"Political philosopher Danielle S. Allen, Conant University Professor and, for a time, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts, has examined the pandemic in light of America’s social and political arrangements. In \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in the Time of Coronavirus\u003c\/i\u003e, Allen . . . finds deep reasons for concern.\" * Harvard Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Democracy in Crisis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Pandemic Resilience\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Federalism Is an Asset\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: A Transformed Peace: An Agenda for Healing Our Social Contract\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400125391191,"sku":"9780226815626","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226815626.jpg?v=1730469808"},{"product_id":"being-at-genetic-risk-toward-a-rhetoric-of-care-rsa-series-in-transdisciplinary-rhetoric-10-9780271082103","title":"Being at Genetic Risk Toward a Rhetoric of Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. 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Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is groundbreaking, not only for scholars interested in women’s health, or health or science studies more generally, but also for rhetorical scholars and (post)humanists.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Celeste M. 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It brings together the many moving parts of this large and varied system to provide both a bird''s-eye view as well as relevant details of the complex mechanisms at work. By focusing on stakeholders and their interests, this book analyzes the value propositions of the buyers and sellers of healthcare products and services along with the interests of patients.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book begins with a presentation of frameworks for understanding the structure of the healthcare system and its dynamic stakeholder inter-relationships. The chapters that follow each begin with their social and historical origins, so the reader can fully appreciate how that area evolved. The next sections on each topic describe the curr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudents of American health care’s history, structure, organization, management, regulation, and financing face a daunting challenge, confounded by the complexity and scale of that industry.  Until now, a modern comprehensive source book covering all of that terrain and more has been missing. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe wait is over.  In The U.S. Healthcare System: Origins, Organization, and Opportunities, Professor Joel Shalowitz has provided a stunningly ambitious compendium with an unequaled combination of both scope and detail.  It covers both the current shape and the historical background of payment, classical and emerging organizational forms, professional roles, regulation, technology, efforts to measure, control, and improve the quality of care, and more.  It takes deep dives into the epidemiology of both disease and the utilization of care – important scientific foundations for proper health care policy and management.  Throughout it makes generous use of helpful figures and tables, as well as copious citations that mark this as a work of authentic scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor Shalowitz’s book is a must-have resource for the library of any health care scholar who wants to have ready and efficient access to the fundamental facts that shape American health care today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald M. Berwick, MD, MPP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormer CMS Administrator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresident Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor anyone who picks up Joel Shalowitz’s book, The U.S. Healthcare System: Origins, Organization, and Opportunities, do NOT make the common mistake of skipping the prefatory material. The first two paragraphs of the “Foreword” (p. xxi) are worth the price of admission. As far as I am concerned, anyone teaching or taking an introductory survey course on our healthcare system needs to embrace and internalize the nuggets of wisdom here, obviously gleaned over thirty years of laboring on this topic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat are some these nuggets? First, we do not have a healthcare system. Rather, we have a series of inter-related parts that are not aligned in their goals and incentives. That means the parts don’t work together and are not meant to work together. What that means is abandon efforts to try to “align the incentives” of all the parties using payment changes and structural models; the divides go deeper than this. The lack of a system also means that the parts impact one another in sometimes opaque ways. This means that efforts to change this monster with simplistic, top-down programs that only address one part are likely to fail. Trying to get all parties to participate in some reform might resemble the idealistic scene depicted in Edward Hicks’ painting, “The Peaceable Kingdom” (with William Penn in the background!).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecond, there is nothing new in our healthcare system. As Yogi Berra reputedly said, “it is déjà vu all over again”. Many of the problems we are trying to tackle today (improving quality, increasing access, controlling cost increases) are similar to problems we have tried to tackle in the past. The fact that we are still tackling them - - without realizing that we have been down this road before, unsuccessfully - - should send out warning signs to everyone. These problems are intractable. The only problem is that managers, policy-makers, and students of U.S. healthcare don’t know the history and the lessons learned from the last time we tried to tackle these issues, and thus don’t know (to quote an old management text) “the ropes to skip and the ropes to know”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese words are meant as praise for what Joel Shalowitz has achieved in this hefty tome. He takes nearly 700 pages to (a) present several important frameworks for understanding the U.S. healthcare system, (b) trace the history of this system, and (c) present the relevant fact base on its major sectors - - but with an emphasis on “understanding” how this system really works (or doesn’t work). Unlike other introductory texts, Joel has avoided the mindless presentation of statistics and charts. I do not think those help anyone; moreover, it is boring. Instead, his book is designed to be thoughtful and thought-provoking - - i.e., to help improve your critical thinking about our healthcare system through some important lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe lessons come quickly in this book. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the three main policy goals pursued by the U.S. (and every other country) for decades: higher quality, improved access, and restrained rate of growth in healthcare costs. This framework needs to be on everyone’s learning agenda, since every country endorses it as their strategic aim (but have not yet solved it). Joel immediately gets to the task of explaining what each of these complex goals consists of - - not an easy task, since they are multi-dimensional in nature. More importantly, he correctly (I think) characterizes this tripartite set of goals as inherently contradictory and involving tradeoffs in their accomplishment. This will come as unwelcome news to many people who want to have it all and\/or do not want to make tough choices. This is critical thinking that challenges many widely-held beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 also introduces you to the many stakeholders in the U.S. healthcare system. This analysis should sober readers that “alignment” - - one of the most overused words in our field - - is going to be difficult given the plurality of interests involved. Anyone one who has studied plural societies (those with many, different ethnic or religious groups) should understand the difficulties of bringing all parties together for a common goal. Indeed, one of the strengths of this book is to emphasize the presence of stakeholders and their plurality in our healthcare system. Their mere existence tells the reader that, as far as “alignment” goes, “we have trouble in River City”. Efforts to cut costs in one area of healthcare are likely to “gore someone else’s ox” (e.g., income) and therefore be opposed and perhaps thwarted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd this is just the Foreword and Chapter 1! I could go on further about why this book makes an enormous contribution. Chapters 2 and 3 deal with epidemiology - - a topic worthy of a physician author, but also important for an MBA business school audience that is interested in marketing (the managerial version of epidemiology). This should come as no surprise since Joel has co-authored another major text with Phil Kotler. Subsequent chapters (4 and 5) deal ably with the two biggest sources of spending in our healthcare system: hospitals (and hospital systems) and healthcare professionals. Chapters 6-8 then cover the multitude of payers, the multitude of technologies that need to be paid for, and (in particular) the advances in information technology. The final chapter does a deep-dive into the whole issue of quality - - how to measure it, how to manage it, and the tradeoffs necessitated in doing so.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI should acknowledge my biases. Like Joel, I have been teaching an introductory survey course on the U.S. healthcare system for over 30 years. It may take us that long to really appreciate what working in this non-system means. And, like Joel, I believe an understanding of the history of the system is important for anyone trying to work within it, let along trying to change it. And, like Joel, I have labored at this task in major business schools trying to teach MBA students about the importance of this all. So, I am already predisposed to like this book. I wish I had written it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLawton R. Burns, PhD, MBA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Joo-Jin Kim Professor; Director, Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics; and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChairperson, Health Care Systems Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Healthcare System: Origins, Organization and Opportunities is a tour de force— a must use textbook for those seeking to solve the problems of the U.S. health care system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt discusses each of the major stakeholders in an accessible, detailed, and authoritative voice and presents a compelling framework for understanding how they function.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoupled with Professor Shalowitz’s daily blog, https:\/\/www.healthcareinsights.md, which discussed current healthcare issues, this book will make for the lively, informed discussions that students of U.S. healthcare have been looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRegina E. Herzlinger, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis remarkably well-documented text provides important information and knowledge about the U.S. healthcare system within the context of historical developments and interpretative frameworks. The chapter on Managerial Epidemiology distinguishes [the book] from many other texts in the field, and there are particularly strong chapters on Payers, Technology, and Information Technology. The text will help readers understand and navigate the complexity of the U.S. healthcare system, why it has developed the way that it has, and some of the implications for its future evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen M. Shortell, PhD, MBA, MPH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDistinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management Emeritus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDean Emeritus School of Public Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUniversity of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo matter if you’re a seasoned executive or just entering the health care workforce, this book provides critical context about the history of care delivery and payment methodologies. 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Having participated in the healthcare industry for 40 years, this is the first time I have found a book that is comprehensive, factual and well-written.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Kraemer, Jr., MBA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormer Chairman \u0026amp; CEO, Baxter International \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClinical Professor of Leadership, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExecutive Partner at Madison Dearborn Partners\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Exhibits xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnderstanding and Managing Complex Healthcare Systems 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, SecureChoice, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHal Luft's book deserves and will surely command a wide audience. Concerned public officials as well as concerned citizens will want to consider his comprehensive and detailed approach to ensuring access to quality medical care while controlling costs. -- Rashi Fein, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Health Care Mess: How We Got into It and What It Will Take to Get Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book has some marvelous and novel ideas about how to restructure our health care system. -- Ezekiel J. Emanuel, author of \u003ci\u003eHealthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innovative, stimulating, well-written prescription for health care reform. -- Victor R. Fuchs, author of \u003ci\u003eWho Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn America, we pay more than any other country does for health care that has inconsistent quality, leaves millions uninsured, and wastes billions of dollars on unnecessary care and administration. In \u003ci\u003eTotal Cure\u003c\/i\u003e, Hal Luft recognizes that changing the payment system must be the foundation for any real health reform. -- Peter V. Lee, Executive Director, National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health\u003cbr\u003eLuft has written a sober, thoughtful volume...It may also prove very influential. -- David Gratzer * Forbes *\u003cbr\u003eEconomist Harold Luft presents a thought-provoking and original proposal in \u003ci\u003eTotal Cure\u003c\/i\u003e...Now is the time to evaluate SecureChoice and other health care proposals. Swift action is crucial if policymakers are to take advantage of this defining moment to enact health care reforms. -- Marian E. Gornick * New England Journal of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003eOf the numerous discussions of health care reform, many are longer on diagnosis than on prescription. \u003ci\u003eTotal Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e is a notable exception to that tendency. After presenting a brief overview of the state of U.S. health care, it turns quickly to developing an innovative reform proposal, and it does so in considerably greater depth than most similar books...SecureChoice is an ingenious, carefully constructed proposal...Some readers not versed in health policy may find \u003ci\u003eTotal Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e challenging. It rewards the effort, however, by providing both an important new health care reform option and an illuminating tutorial on the issues at stake. -- Samuel Y. Sessions * Journal of the American Medical Association *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTotal Cure\u003c\/i\u003e in whole or in part should definitely be included in the syllabus of a course that addresses what we might do to reform the U.S. health care system. And for those who want to be challenged to think about how they would restructure our health care system, \u003ci\u003eTotal Cure\u003c\/i\u003e is a great read--it makes you think hard. -- Katherine Swartz * Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003eAre you sitting down? I have in hand a 318-page health care reform plan that could actually work. Really. Harold Luft's \u003ci\u003eTotal Cure\u003c\/i\u003e is a calm, fearless leap across the abyss of health policy cynicism and the greatest of improbabilities: a comprehensive, detailed, and practical CTRL-ALT-DEL for the U.S. health care system...Luft's \u003ci\u003eTotal Cure\u003c\/i\u003e is just what the policy doctors on Capitol Hill will need: a wise, postpartisan, durable shop manual for how to make health reform actually happen in our time. -- J. D. Kleinke * Health Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant and badly underappreciated...Luft seems to recognize that advances in medical technology make the traditional approach to private health insurance less viable. Yet he also sees the value in promoting constructive competition. Part of the appeal of Luft's approach is that it is very open-ended: While [Universal Coverage Pool] coverage for big-ticket costs is mandatory, wraparound coverage is optional. His plan could be financed through something like our current system of tax incentives for employers, or we could finance it through taxes. And though fairly complex in its details, the basic outlines are simple and attractive: With the UCP in place, no one will ever go bankrupt due to illness; private insurers and providers will compete on the basic of cost and quality; and the health system will get better and cheaper over time. -- Reihan Salam * Forbes.com *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Preface \t* List of Tables and Figures \t* List of Abbreviations  \t* Introduction  \t* Build on What You've Got, but Recognize Real-World Constraints \t* Overview of a Restructured Health Care System \t* Covering the Cost of Care: Rethinking Health Insurance \t* Organizing Care and Paying Providers \t* Choices: Harnessing Data to Inform Decisions \t* Financing SecureChoice \t* Malpractice, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Education, and Prevention \t* How SecureChoice Would Work for Patients and Physicians \t* Getting There: Policy Choices, Implementation, and Transition  \t* Notes \t* Glossary \t* Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403546861911,"sku":"9780674057364","price":24.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674057364.jpg?v=1730483789"},{"product_id":"the-next-shift-9780674292192","title":"The Next Shift","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American working class didn’t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized blue-collar men, today’s working class is dominated by underpaid women in service jobs—especially health care. With recognition of this shift, Gabriel Winant argues, may come political clout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe replacement of blue-collar work by pink-collar work has been much discussed, but what makes this book stand out is Winant’s argument that two seemingly distinct phenomena are in fact inextricably connected…An original work of serious scholarship, but it’s also vivid and readable…[An] eye-opening book. -- Jennifer Szalai * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA deeply upsetting book. It meticulously charts the transformation of the working class to show how the destruction of workers’ unions and bodies occurred in a feedback loop, with capitalist exploitation demanding care, demanding more exploitation, demanding still more care. The demolition of state support and state protections served to speed up this feedback loop. It has long since spun out of control…Winant ably blends social and political history with conventional labor history to construct a remarkably comprehensive narrative with clear contemporary implications. -- Scott W. Stern * New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eWinant charts the rise of this new political economy and working class in his terrific new book…Offering fine-grained details of shop-floor industrial relations, the book is at once an ethnographic probe into the lives of working-class families and a comprehensive analysis of the larger dynamics of the US political economy…A useful guide to the sweeping social changes that have shaped a huge segment of the economy and created the dystopian world of contemporary service-sector work. -- Nelson Lichtenstein * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003eHow the health-care industry replaced manufacturing while downgrading the quality of American middle-class life, furthering inequality, and fueling political bitter divisions is the welcome subject of Gabriel Winant’s \u003ci\u003eThe Next Shift\u003c\/i\u003e…Winant weaves together a convincing argument that this downward mobility has been driven by a gendered and racist political economy that values many things—from retiree health care to CEO pay—more than care work by women and people of color…Many health-care workers on the bottom rungs now find themselves, in some ways, back where industrial workers started in the nineteenth century…[An] important book. -- John W. Miller * Democracy *\u003cbr\u003eDigs deep into the stories of working people, tracing the rise and fall of two industries that, despite vast differences on the surface, have been intertwined for decades. Through stories of real people’s real lives, Winant explores the move from manufacturing to care, tracing the rise of a new working class—one that looks very different from the stereotypical blue-collar worker of the Rust Belt’s mythic past…A road map for how to think about the changing working class. -- Sarah Jaffe * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003eCharts how Pittsburgh’s declining steel industry gave rise to one of the country’s most ruthlessly corporatized health care systems, and how the ability of each to deliver on its romanticized promises rested on the exploitation of care work. -- Natalie Shure * Jacobin *\u003cbr\u003eWinant explains in fascinating detail how Pittsburgh’s working class adapted to the post-steel economy…[O]ffers a highly intelligent case study of the transformation of one key section of the working class since 1950—a vital precondition for mapping its future. -- Tom Mertes * New Left Review *\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading for anyone interested in Pittsburgh history, the labor movement or the economics of our health care system. It helps us to make sense of the region and the economy we inhabit today. -- Kate Giammarise * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive account of the causes and consequences of the decline of heavy industry and the birth of the medical-industrial complex. Winant dives deeply into Pittsburgh's economic, social and cultural history to illuminate the linkages between the rise and fall of steel and the spectacular growth of health care…Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand our modern health-care industry's historical and economic foundations. -- Joshua Kim * Inside Higher Ed *\u003cbr\u003eAn exquisite regional economic history, \u003ci\u003eThe Next Shift\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how health care became a primary mechanism of social reproduction—allowing the American state to govern the economic and sociological consequences of deindustrialization…Offers powerful lessons for scholars of health policy and politics. -- Philip Rocco * Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law *\u003cbr\u003e[An] exhaustive examination of the shifting economies of the American Rust Belt…A fascinating look at labor history and the continuing struggles of blue-collar workers, particularly in light of the pandemic and the increased burden, both personally and politically, placed on health care workers. * Pittsburgh Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA thorough understanding of the political economy of the post-war United States inflected through the lenses of race, gender and class. It is a masterful book that weaves together two seemingly disparate strands—the demise of heavy industry and the rise of care work—into a single thread that traces the story of a broken society. -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *\u003cbr\u003eWinant explores in his informative debut the rise and fall of Pittsburgh’s steel industry as a microcosm of America’s shift from an industrial to a service economy. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully written, extensively researched, and sharply argued, \u003ci\u003eThe Next Shift\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way to think about the transformations often grouped together under the rubric of ‘neoliberalism.’ Winant sees deindustrialization not simply as a story of decline, but a story of the rise of a new kind of working class. -- Kimberly Phillips-Fein, author of \u003ci\u003eFear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sophisticated, politically pointed, and beautiful crafted book, \u003ci\u003eThe Next Shift\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles both the erosion of the white male industrial working class and the ascendance of a service sector run by the labor of white women and men and women of color. But unlike most stories of industrial decline, Winant’s history bristles with hope for activism for the new world of work that has emerged. -- Eileen Boris, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this nuanced and powerful book, Gabriel Winant connects the slow-motion devastation of deindustrialization to the perverse political economy of care as the twin fruit of America’s compromised social bargain. Through the rusting of ‘Steel City, USA,’ Winant makes tragically concrete the ways that industrial job loss was transformed into a profit-driven market for health care—ensuring that caregivers can never afford the services they provide, and that the social exclusion on which the welfare state was built will swallow up ever greater majorities. -- Bethany Moreton, author of \u003ci\u003eTo Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most timely books of our era. The global pandemic has turned care workers into heroes while concealing the history that rendered them undervalued, underpaid, and precarious long before COVID struck. Winant recovers this history, revealing how the growth of the care industry was a consequence of, and response to, the decline of the industrial sector, and suggesting that the very laborers tasked with keeping the rest of the working class from an early grave may prove to be capitalism’s proverbial gravediggers. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow and why has the healthcare sector taken over formerly industrial cities? Why are care work jobs so important yet so undervalued? In one of the most important works of labor, economic, and policy history to appear in years, Gabriel Winant compellingly answers these questions. This is an essential book for understanding the healthcare system, its weaknesses, and the policies necessary to create a system that is equitable for both workers and patients. -- Thomas J. 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But that’s exactly the situation, and \u003ci\u003eDeaths of Despair\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the immiseration of the less educated has resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, even as the economy has thrived and the stock market has soared.\"\u003cb\u003e---Atul Gawande, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly important book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Arlie Russell Hochschild, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This highly important book examines the pain and despair among white blue-collar workers and suggests that the hopelessness they are experiencing may eventually extend to the entire American work force.\" * New York Times Editors’ Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent.\" * Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter *\u003cbr\u003e\"Gripping. . . . [Case and Deaton] do not merely rehearse decades of mortality and wage statistics. Rather, they seek to catalogue how an entire way of life first frayed and then fell apart over the past half-century, and the cruelty of an American meritocracy that heaps lavish rewards on the winners while increasingly leaving others to rot.\"\u003cb\u003e---Joshua Chaffin, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkable new book.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Harris, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Disturbing. . . . . Case and Deaton do a great job making the case that something has gone grievously wrong.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jim Zarroli, \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I highly, highly recommend it.\"\u003cb\u003e---Cardiff Garcia, \u003ci\u003eNPR Planet Money’s The Indicator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] remarkable and poignant book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Dani Rodrik, \u003ci\u003eProject Syndicate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The system is broken and every bit of it needs fixing. This is a sobering – and essential – book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Diane Coyle, \u003ci\u003eEnlightened Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why economics really matters is illustrated in \u003ci\u003eDeaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . The authors argue that the capitalism that lifted countless people out of poverty is now destroying blue-collar America. They have solutions to make it work for all. They had better be right.\" * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Case and Deaton] dive into and weave the data through different demographic and clinical lenses — race, gender, age, social connectedness, work history, and the most important through-line: education. Thus Case and Deaton connect the dots, literally, in the many charts that explain what factors are driving the \u003ci\u003eDeaths of Despair\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, \u003ci\u003eHealth Populi Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The rise in premature deaths among working-class whites has become a national crisis, and the authors tie the problem to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and to a health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages to the wealthy.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Although the authors completed this book before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic — it was published four days after President Trump declared a national emergency — their diagnosis is still painfully relevant.\"\u003cb\u003e---Carlos Lozada, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Timely and important.\"\u003cb\u003e---Ed Balls, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Refreshing . . . a careful, deep, and troubling look at the America that lies beyond the Ivy League.\"\u003cb\u003e---James K. Galbraith, \u003ci\u003eProject Syndicate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Case and Deaton explain how every detail of this crisis unfolded, examining recent historical events and rightly placing much of the blame on the United States’ distinctive strain of capitalism, designed to protect and grow the assets of the wealthy few.\"\u003cb\u003e---Keri Leigh Merrit, \u003ci\u003eCommon Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anne Case and Angus Deaton are senior economists at Princeton with expertise in public health and poverty, respectively. The combination, plus clear writing and ample doses of caution and open-mindedness, makes \u003ci\u003eDeaths of Despair\u003c\/i\u003e a compelling book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Edward Hadas, \u003ci\u003eReuters BreakingViews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The policies that the authors advocate not only would address deaths of despair, they would improve the health and welfare of the American people more generally.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Canning, \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[a] hard-hitting study of US capitalism.\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew Robinson, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The authors add an important dimension to the growing body of research on the suffering of African Americans in the US; but their main argument is that it is the uneducated white working class that is now in “long-term and slowly unfolding” freefall.\"\u003cb\u003e---Anne Nelson, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Complementing their candid prose with enlightening charts and graphs, Case and Deaton make the scale and immediacy of the problem crystal clear. This is an essential portrait of America in crisis.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeaths of Despair\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to shine a light on a generational catastrophe that could—perhaps will—become a multigenerational disaster. It does this with chilling precision.\"\u003cb\u003e---Mike Jakeman, \u003ci\u003eStrategy+Business\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through simple figures and clear prose, it presents a huge bodyof evidence from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database and other sources that the arc of the white working class’s fate over the last two decades is long, but it bends toward nihilism and an early grave.\"\u003cb\u003e---Gabriel Rossman, \u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elaborately explained and well-presented. . . . Case and Deaton’s well-written and gloomy book was meant as a warning. Relentlessly fighting an infectious disease, the U.S. government seems to have treated it as a handbook.\"\u003cb\u003e---Joakim Book, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Institute for Economic Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-researched, compassionate.\"\u003cb\u003e---Susan Babbitt, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Simply put, this is a terrific book. I suspect it will be on many people’s top 10 book lists of 2020. Although written before COVID-19, the book’s critique of the US approach to health care and inequality is remarkably prescient. In many ways, the opioid crisis Case and Deaton analyze is a microcosm of the anguish the world is experiencing today, and we would be remiss not to pay attention to their insights.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kenneth Rogoff, \u003ci\u003eFinance \u0026amp; Development\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A must-read for anyone attempting to objectively understand our collective American pain as well as those gaining from it.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rahul Gupta, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Important.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael Tomasky, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best account of [the] White collapse.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Ignatius, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well researched and incisive. . . . This is a tragic, but important book, and hopefully it helps to nudge the needle towards where badly needed social reforms need to go.\"\u003cb\u003e---Simon Cocking, \u003ci\u003eIrish Tech News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Building on Case and Deaton’s extraordinarily influential research on the mortality resulting from the tragic opioid epidemic in the United States, this book examines three causes of death – drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol-related liver disease – that have risen rapidly since the mid-1990s. It is extraordinarily well written – sweeping yet succinct. And though it was published before the COVID-19 crisis, its critique of the US approach to health care and inequality is remarkably prescient.\"\u003cb\u003e---Ken Rogoff, \u003ci\u003eProject Syndicate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I’ll offer my own endorsement from the [New York Times Notable] 100: \u003ci\u003eDeaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. It covers arguably the single most alarming development in American life, one that helps explain the frustration pulsing through the country: In many communities, people are not living as long as their parents did.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Leonhardt, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] well-argued, important book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rosamund Urwin, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Case and Deaton’s extraordinary research in this book is an important warning of the consequences this might have for people’s health and wellbeing and family and community life.\"\u003cb\u003e---Economic Annals, \u003ci\u003eJelena Žarković\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403868873047,"sku":"9780691190785","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691190785.jpg?v=1730484759"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/health-economics.oembed?page=3","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}