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Book SynopsisAn insider's guide to searching online, communicating with your physician, and maximizing your health from a doctor who works at Google. We've all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about. In Searching for Health, Dr. Kapil Parakh, with Anna Dirksen, brings to life knowledge he gained from working at Google and practicing medicine. Helping readers avoid common pitfalls, get the information they need, and partner effectively with their health team to figure out a path to good health together, the book distills decades of scientific research into a set of easy-to-follow tips. It also incorporates firsthand accounts of common challenges on the path to good health; an inside look at how doctors approach and assess health-related information; techniques that consumers can use to locate evidence-based information online, whether in blogs, social media postings, forums, or news stories; guidanceTable of ContentsHow to Use This BookPrologueChapter 1. The First Signs of IllnessChapter 2. Moving from Symptoms to a DiagnosisChapter 3. Meeting with Your Doctor about Your DiagnosisChapter 4. Receiving a DiagnosisChapter 5. Deciding on TreatmentChapter 6. MedicationsChapter 7. SurgeryChapter 8. Lifestyle Treatment OptionsChapter 9. Complementary and Alternative TreatmentsChapter 10. Making Tough DecisionsAfterwordNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive, down-to-earth guide for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer. Being diagnosed with breast cancer can be scary and confusing. There are medical terms to learn, options to consider, and important decisions to make, all while trying to carry on with work, family, and life. The Breast Cancer Book can't reverse a diagnosis or make breast cancer disappear, but every page can inform and empower you or your loved ones, no matter where you are in the breast cancer experience. Written by three trusted expertsan oncologist, a breast surgeon, and a two-time breast cancer survivorthis multidisciplinary book walks you through everything you need to know about breast cancer so that you can make the best decisions about diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care. In plain, easy-to-understand language that illuminates all the facets of this disease, the authors draw on their professional experience and the most current scientific knowledge to describe the risk factors for breast cancer;Trade ReviewThis book is written thoughtfully and empathetically and I would urge you to read it if you've received this frightening diagnosis.—Dr. Kathleen Thompson, author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope:Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows, Frost MagazineTable of ContentsList of TablesIntroduction A Message of HopePart One. Understanding Breast Cancer1. What Is Cancer?2. Breast Cancer Basics3. Demystifying Breast Cancer Risk4. Strategies to Reduce Your Risk of Developing Breast Cancer5. Hereditary Breast CancerPart Two. Finding Breast Cancer and Dealing with a Diagnosis6. Screening Tools and Technologies7. Making a Diagnosis8. After a Diagnosis: Charting a Course and Assembling Your TeamPart Three. Understanding Treatment Choices and Making Decisions9. Local Therapy: Breast Cancer Surgery10. Radiation Therapy11. Rebuilding Your Breasts after Mastectomy12. Treating Noninvasive Breast Cancer: Ductal Carcinoma In Situ13. Reducing the Risk of Recurrence: Systemic Therapies for Invasive Breast Cancer14. Cancer Again: Treating Local or Regional Recurrence15. Treating Metastatic Breast Cancer16. Considering Breast Cancer Clinical Trials17. Treating Less Common Types of Breast Cancers and Male Breast CancerPart Four. Finding Answers18. Managing Breast Cancer Treatment Side Effects19. Complementary, Integrative, and Alternative Medicine20. Meeting the Emotional Challenges of Breast Cancer21. Family Matters during and after Breast Cancer22. Insurance and Money Matters during Breast Cancer TreatmentPart Five. Moving On23. Supportive Care and Symptom Management for Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer24. Living Well beyond Cancer: Healthy Breast Cancer SurvivorshipResourcesGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisContouring the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: "This is the Face of Obesity": Race, Class, Gender, and the Feminization of Fat Chapter 2: The "Kitchen Demon" and the "Tubby Hubby": Reproductive labour and the nuclear family in obesity discourse Chapter 3: "Of Missiles and Muscles": Fitness, Masculinity, and Obesity during the Cold War Chapter 4: "The White Man's Burden"? Obesity and Colonialism in the Developing North Conclusion: Asking Different Questions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisContouring the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: "This is the Face of Obesity": Race, Class, Gender, and the Feminization of Fat Chapter 2: The "Kitchen Demon" and the "Tubby Hubby": Reproductive labour and the nuclear family in obesity discourse Chapter 3: "Of Missiles and Muscles": Fitness, Masculinity, and Obesity during the Cold War Chapter 4: "The White Man's Burden"? Obesity and Colonialism in the Developing North Conclusion: Asking Different Questions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIt is now recognized that innovation in healthcare needs to be a primary strategy for dealing with the challenges of pressure from consumers and the effort to control costs.This practical guide describes key issues surrounding innovation, such as the barriers to innovation in healthcare, the opportunities of working across boundaries in open innovation, and the process and tools of exploring the innovation approach. The highly-regarded author follows a five-stage process model that presents a systematic base for understanding, and -- more importantly -- performing innovation work: 1. Defining the innovation design challenge 2. The process and tools of exploring the innovation 3. Generating innovative ideas 4. Prototyping and testing innovations 5. Creating a diffusion plan This user-friendly guide is ideal for all healthcare professionals and healthcare teams, both in training and in practice.Table of ContentsForeword vii Chapter 1 Introduction to Innovation 1 Chapter 2 Defining the Innovation Challenge 16 Chapter 3 The Deep Dive 36 Chapter 4 Generating Innovative Ideas 64 Chapter 5 Prototyping and Testing Ideas 89 Chapter 6 Creating Your Diffusion Plan 106 Appendix 129 Index 133

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Book SynopsisThe assessment of patient reported outcomes and health-related quality of life continue to be rapidly evolving areas of research and this new edition reflects the development within the field from an emerging subject to one that is an essential part of the assessment of clinical trials and other clinical studies.The analysis and interpretation of quality-of-life assessments relies on a variety of psychometric and statistical methods which are explained in this book in a non-technical way. The result is a practical guide that covers a wide range of methods and emphasizes the use of simple techniques that are illustrated with numerous examples, with extensive chapters covering qualitative and quantitative methods and the impact of guidelines. The material in this new third edition reflects current teaching methods and content widened to address continuing developments in item response theory, computer adaptive testing, analyses with missing data, analysis of ordinal data, Table of ContentsPreface to the third edition xiii Preface to the second edition xv Preface to the first edition xvii List of abbreviations xix Part 1 Developing and Validating Instruments for Assessing Quality of Life and Patient-Reported Outcomes 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Patient‐reported outcomes 3 1.2 What is a patient‐reported outcome? 4 1.3 What is quality of life? 4 1.4 Historical development 6 1.5 Why measure quality of life? 9 1.6 Which clinical trials should assess QoL? 17 1.7 How to measure quality of life 18 1.8 Instruments 19 1.9 Computer‐adaptive instruments 32 1.10 Conclusions 32 2 Principles of measurement scales 35 2.1 Introduction 35 2.2 Scales and items 35 2.3 Constructs and latent variables 36 2.4 Single global questions versus multi‐item scales 37 2.5 Single‐item versus multi‐item scales 40 2.6 Effect indicators and causal indicators 42 2.7 Psychometrics, factor analysis and item response theory 48 2.8 Psychometric versus clinimetric scales 52 2.9 Sufficient causes, necessary causes and scoring items 53 2.10 Discriminative, evaluative and predictive instruments 54 2.11 Measuring quality of life: reflective, causal and composite indicators? 55 2.12 Further reading 56 2.13 Conclusions 56 3 Developing a questionnaire 57 3.1 Introduction 57 3.2 General issues 58 3.3 Defining the target population 58 3.4 Phases of development 59 3.5 Phase 1: Generation of issues 61 3.6 Qualitative methods 63 3.7 Sample sizes 66 3.8 Phase 2: Developing items 68 3.9 Multi‐item scales 72 3.10 Wording of questions 73 3.11 Face and content validity of the proposed questionnaire 74 3.12 Phase 3: Pre‐testing the questionnaire 74 3.13 Cognitive interviewing 77 3.14 Translation 80 3.15 Phase 4: Field‐testing 80 3.16 Conclusions 86 3.17 Further reading 87 4 Scores and measurements: validity, reliability, sensitivity 89 4.1 Introduction 89 4.2 Content validity 90 4.3 Criterion validity 94 4.4 Construct validity 96 4.5 Repeated assessments and change over time 104 4.6 Reliability 104 4.7 Sensitivity and responsiveness 117 4.8 Conclusions 124 4.9 Further reading 124 5 Multi‐item scales 125 5.1 Introduction 125 5.2 Significance tests 126 5.3 Correlations 127 5.4 Construct validity 133 5.5 Cronbach’s α and internal consistency 139 5.6 Validation or alteration? 143 5.7 Implications for formative or causal items 144 5.8 Conclusions 147 6 Factor analysis and structural equation modelling 149 6.1 Introduction 149 6.2 Correlation patterns 150 6.3 Path diagrams 152 6.4 Factor analysis 154 6.5 Factor analysis of the HADS questionnaire 154 6.6 Uses of factor analysis 159 6.7 Applying factor analysis: Choices and decisions 161 6.8 Assumptions for factor analysis 167 6.9 Factor analysis in QoL research 171 6.10 Limitations of correlation-based analysis 172 6.11 Formative or causal models 173 6.12 Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling 176 6.13 Chi-square goodness-of-fit test 178 6.14 Approximate goodness-of-fit indices 180 6.15 Comparative fit of models 181 6.16 Difficulty-factors 182 6.17 Bifactor analysis 183 6.18 Do formative or causal relationships matter? 186 6.19 Conclusions 187 6.20 Further reading, and software 188 7 Item response theory and differential item functioning 189 7.1 Introduction 189 7.2 Item characteristic curves 191 7.3 Logistic models 193 7.4 Polytomous item response theory models 196 7.5 Applying logistic IRT models 197 7.6 Assumptions of IRT models 205 7.7 Fitting item response theory models: Tips 208 7.8 Test design and validation 209 7.9 IRT versus traditional and Guttman scales 209 7.10 Differential item functioning 210 7.11 Sample size for DIF analyses 218 7.12 Quantifying differential item functioning 219 7.13 Exploring differential item functioning: Tips 219 7.14 Conclusions 221 7.15 Further reading, and software 222 8 Item banks, item linking and computer-adaptive tests 223 8.1 Introduction 223 8.2 Item bank 224 8.3 Item evaluation, reduction and calibration 226 8.4 Item linking and test equating 228 8.5 Test information 231 8.6 Computer-adaptive testing 232 8.7 Stopping rules and simulations 235 8.8 Computer-adaptive testing software 236 8.9 CATs for PROs 237 8.10 Computer-assisted tests 238 8.11 Short-form tests 239 8.12 Conclusions 239 8.13 Further reading 240 Part 2 Assessing, Analysing and Reporting Patient-Reported Outcomes and the Quality of Life of Patients 9 Choosing and scoring questionnaires 243 9.1 Introduction 243 9.2 Finding instruments 244 9.3 Generic versus specific 245 9.4 Content and presentation 246 9.5 Choice of instrument 247 9.6 Scoring multi-item scales 250 9.7 Conclusions 256 9.8 Further reading 257 10 Clinical trials 259 10.1 Introduction 259 10.2 Basic design issues 260 10.3 Compliance 262 10.4 Administering a quality‐of‐life assessment 268 10.5 Recommendations for writing protocols 270 10.6 Standard operating procedures 280 10.7 Summary and checklist 281 10.8 Further reading 282 11 Sample sizes 283 11.1 Introduction 283 11.2 Significance tests, p‐values and power 284 11.3 Estimating sample size 284 11.4 Comparing two groups 289 11.5 Comparison with a reference population 298 11.6 Non‐inferiority studies 298 11.7 Choice of sample size method 301 11.8 Non‐Normal distributions 302 11.9 Multiple testing 303 11.10 Specifying the target difference 305 11.11 Sample size estimation is pre‐study 305 11.12 Attrition 306 11.13 Circumspection 306 11.14 Conclusion 306 11.15 Further reading 307 12 Cross‐sectional analysis 309 12.1 Types of data 309 12.2 Comparing two groups 312 12.3 Adjusting for covariates 324 12.4 Changes from baseline 330 12.5 Analysis of variance 331 12.6 Analysis of variance models 336 12.7 Graphical summaries 337 12.8 Endpoints 342 12.9 Conclusions 343 13 Exploring longitudinal data 345 13.1 Area under the curve 345 13.2 Graphical presentations 348 13.3 Tabular presentations 358 13.4 Reporting 360 13.5 Conclusions 365 14 Modelling longitudinal data 367 14.1 Preliminaries 367 14.2 Auto-correlation 368 14.3 Repeated measures 373 14.4 Other situations 388 14.5 Modelling versus area under the curve 389 14.6 Conclusions 390 15 Missing data 393 15.1 Introduction 393 15.2 Why do missing data matter? 396 15.3 Types of missing data 400 15.4 Missing items 403 15.5 Methods for missing items within a form 404 15.6 Missing forms 408 15.7 Methods for missing forms 410 15.8 Simple methods for missing forms 410 15.9 Methods of imputation that incorporate variability 415 15.10 Multiple imputation 421 15.11 Pattern mixture models 422 15.12 Comments 424 15.13 Degrees of freedom 425 15.14 Sensitivity analysis 426 15.15 Conclusions 426 15.16 Further reading 427 16 Practical and reporting issues 429 16.1 Introduction 429 16.2 The reporting of design issues 430 16.3 Data analysis 430 16.4 Elements of good graphics 436 16.5 Some errors 440 16.6 Guidelines for reporting 442 16.7 Further reading 445 17 Death, and quality-adjusted survival 447 17.1 Introduction 447 17.2 Attrition due to death 448 17.3 Preferences and utilities 449 17.4 Multi-attribute utility (MAU) measures 453 17.5 Utility-based instruments 454 17.6 Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) 456 17.7 Utilities for traditional instruments 457 17.8 Q-TWiST 462 17.9 Sensitivity analysis 467 17.10 Prognosis and variation with time 470 17.11 Alternatives to QALY 472 17.12 Conclusions 473 17.13 Further reading 474 18 Clinical interpretation 475 18.1 Introduction 475 18.2 Statistical significance 476 18.3 Absolute levels and changes over time 477 18.4 Threshold values: percentages 478 18.5 Population norms 479 18.6 Minimal important difference 488 18.7 Anchoring against other measurements 492 18.8 Minimum detectable change 493 18.9 Expert judgement for evidence-based guidelines 494 18.10 Impact of the state of quality of life 495 18.11 Changes in relation to life events 496 18.12 Effect size statistics 498 18.13 Patient variability 505 18.14 Number needed to treat 506 18.15 Conclusions 509 18.16 Further reading 509 19 Biased reporting and response shift 511 19.1 Bias 511 19.2 Recall bias 512 19.3 Selective reporting bias 513 19.4 Other biases affecting PROs 514 19.5 Response shift 516 19.6 Assessing response shift 521 19.7 Impact of response shift 523 19.8 Clinical trials 523 19.9 Non‐randomised studies 525 19.10 Conclusions 526 20 Meta‐analysis 527 20.1 Introduction 527 20.2 Defining objectives 528 20.3 Defining outcomes 528 20.4 Literature searching 528 20.5 Assessing quality 529 20.6 Summarising results 533 20.7 Measures of treatment effect 534 20.8 Combining studies 537 20.9 Forest plot 542 20.10 Heterogeneity 542 20.11 Publication bias and funnel plots 544 20.12 Conclusions 545 20.13 Further reading 546 Appendix 1: Examples of instruments 547 Generic instruments E1 Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) 549 E2 Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) 551 E3 SF36v2TM Health Survey Standard Version 552 E4 EuroQoL EQ-5D-5L 555 E5 Patient Generated Index of quality of life (PGI) 557 Disease-specific instruments 559 E6 European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) 559 E7 Elderly cancer patients module (EORTC QLQ-ELD14) 561 E8 Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – General (FACT-G) 562 E9 Rotterdam Symptom Checklist (RSCL) 564 E10 Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-89) 566 E11 Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) 570 Domain-specific instruments 573 E12 Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) 573 E13 Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) 574 E14 Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20) 575 ADL and disability 577 E 15 (Modified) Barthel Index of Disability (MBI) 577 Appendix 2: Statistical tables 579 Table T1: Normal distribution 579 Table T2: Probability points of the Normal distribution 581 Table T3: Student’s t‐distribution 582 Table T4: The χ2 distribution 583 Table T5: The F‐distribution 584 References 585 Index 613

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Book SynopsisOffers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.

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Book SynopsisHighlighting the rise of Parents Anonymous and connecting their activism to the sexual abuse moral panic that swept America in the 1980s, Mical Raz argues that these panics and policies - as well as biased viewpoints regarding race, class, and gender - played a powerful role shaping perceptions of child abuse.

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Book SynopsisOffers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.

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Book SynopsisUsing Alan Berkman's unfinished prison memoir, FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, Susan Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary transformation from doctor to co-conspirator for justice.

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Book SynopsisHow can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped deaf person in area road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms dis-attention.To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomenaincluding disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.Drawing on a set of thirty-three research iTrade ReviewThis engaging, accessible book builds on Stephanie Kerschbaum’s already-award- winning scholarship on difference and discourse, constructing new research methods and approaches, but also building community on these pages. Signs of Disability offers an incredibly generative vocabulary for understanding the ways that disability matters: how we mark and signal it, how we ignore and hide it, how we powerfully inhabit and embody it through stories. Signs of Disability is a transformative book. * Jay Dolmage, University of Waterloo *A lovely, powerful read, Signs of Disability makes consequential, engaging, and evocative contributions to scholarship in disability studies and in rhetorical studies. The book’s theoretical and methodological interventions are significant and it offers cogent readings of texts, material culture, bodies, and more. Stephanie Kerschbaum tells powerful stories and draws readers deeply into the material life of disability and its signs. * Christa J. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison *

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Book SynopsisOffers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care systemand in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a moTrade Review"Just Medicine is a must-read for everyone! Weaving together from insights from research in history, sociology, psychology, law, and more, Matthew crushes the argument that racial disparities in health and health care are due to factors like biology and bad behavior. Time and time again, Matthew exposes the role of racial bias and discrimination in disparate outcomes. More so, she offers meaningful and achievable suggestions for resolving these problems. Lets hope those with the most power to create these changes are paying attention to this important scholarly contribution!" -- Angela Onwuachi-Willig,Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law"A powerful socio-legal reflection on the history of health disparities and how that terrible legacy now further impedes racial equality and results in death. . . . Masterfully written. The author provides a captivating narrative that is at once stark and grizzly (how many ways can people of color suffer at the hands of medicine) and yet so provocatively and artfully written that one cannot stop reading. Not since Harriet Washington's page-turning (and award-winning) book, Medical Apartheid, has there been another that makes medical discourse so captivating." -- Michele Goodwin,Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine"A remarkably ambitious and provocative book on the ways that implicit bias exacerbates racial disparities in health. Matthew provides a critical analysis and call to action that should be taken seriously by all health care professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in health equality." -- Osagie K. Obasogie,UC Hastings"The book is highly engaging and worthwhile reading for health care providers, hospital administrators, insurers, medical students and educators, and those involved in civil rights law." * Health Affairs *"Having presented a thorough picture of the problems facing minorities in the health care system, Matthew proposes a solution: reform of specific sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which she claims would provide a legal and moral basis to hold liable those who unconsciously discriminate and would help to establish a new standard of care in medicine....[F]ood for thought here." * Kirkus Reviews *"Her ambitious book lays out a case for a legal remedy for racial health inequality." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Just Medicine is necessary reading for all who envision a society in which health equity is a moral imperative. I would place Matthew's contributions on the scale of Michelle Alexander's transformational book, The New Jim Crow. Matthew not only documents the problem of color-blind racism but also provides solution-oriented road maps for a way forward." * Political Science Quarterly *"This book will spark much debate." * Choice Connect *

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Book SynopsisOffers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care systemand in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a moTrade Review"Just Medicine is a must-read for everyone! Weaving together from insights from research in history, sociology, psychology, law, and more, Matthew crushes the argument that racial disparities in health and health care are due to factors like biology and bad behavior. Time and time again, Matthew exposes the role of racial bias and discrimination in disparate outcomes. More so, she offers meaningful and achievable suggestions for resolving these problems. Lets hope those with the most power to create these changes are paying attention to this important scholarly contribution!" -- Angela Onwuachi-Willig,Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law"A powerful socio-legal reflection on the history of health disparities and how that terrible legacy now further impedes racial equality and results in death. . . . Masterfully written. The author provides a captivating narrative that is at once stark and grizzly (how many ways can people of color suffer at the hands of medicine) and yet so provocatively and artfully written that one cannot stop reading. Not since Harriet Washington's page-turning (and award-winning) book, Medical Apartheid, has there been another that makes medical discourse so captivating." -- Michele Goodwin,Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine"A remarkably ambitious and provocative book on the ways that implicit bias exacerbates racial disparities in health. Matthew provides a critical analysis and call to action that should be taken seriously by all health care professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in health equality." -- Osagie K. Obasogie,UC Hastings"The book is highly engaging and worthwhile reading for health care providers, hospital administrators, insurers, medical students and educators, and those involved in civil rights law." * Health Affairs *"Having presented a thorough picture of the problems facing minorities in the health care system, Matthew proposes a solution: reform of specific sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which she claims would provide a legal and moral basis to hold liable those who unconsciously discriminate and would help to establish a new standard of care in medicine....[F]ood for thought here." * Kirkus Reviews *"Her ambitious book lays out a case for a legal remedy for racial health inequality." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Just Medicine is necessary reading for all who envision a society in which health equity is a moral imperative. I would place Matthew's contributions on the scale of Michelle Alexander's transformational book, The New Jim Crow. Matthew not only documents the problem of color-blind racism but also provides solution-oriented road maps for a way forward." * Political Science Quarterly *"This book will spark much debate." * Choice Connect *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: The New Normal 1 1. Bad Law Makes Bad Health 9 2. Implicit Bias and Health Disparities 33 3. Physicians' Unconscious Racism 55 4. From Impressions to Inequity: Connecting the Empirical Dots 75 5. Implicit Bias during the Clinical Encounter 106 6. Implicit Bias beyond the Clinical Encounter 128 7. From Inequity to Intervention: What Can Be Done about Implicit Bias 154 8. A Structural Solution 173 9. A New Normal: The Restoration of Title VI 195 Conclusion: Beyond Title VI 225 Notes 233 Index 265 About the Author 271

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Book SynopsisHow will the ecological and economic crises of the 21st century transform health systems and human wellbeing?Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction to Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo Part 1, Population Health in the Anthropocene: Addressing Wicked Problems in the Transition to an Alternative Social-Ecological System Guided by Ecological Constraints Introduction Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo Individual or Community as a Frame of Reference for Health in Modernity and in the Anthropocene Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo "Regional Overload" as an Indicator of Profound Risk: A Plea for the Public Health Community to Awaken Colin Butler, University　of Canberra Medicine and Healthcare in the Anthropocene: Who Pays and Why? Jennifer Cole, University of London Anthropocene Health Economics: Preparing for the Journey or the Destination? Martin Hensher, University of Tasmania What About My Pineapples?: The Wicked Implications of Nonlinearity, Embedded Systems, and Transformative Social Goals Kaitlin Kish, McGill University Imagining Health Systems 150 years from Now: Best and Worst-case Scenarios for the Future of Human Health Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo A Changing Role for Public Health in the Anthropocene: The Contribution of Scenario Thinking for Reimagining the Future Blake Poland, University of Toronto, Margot Parkes, University of British Columbia, Trevor Hancock, University of Victoria, George McKibbon, University of Guelph, Andrea Chircop, Dalhousie University Part 2, Emerging social innovations for health and wellbeing: Prefiguring viable health systems for the Anthropocene Introduction Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo The Role of Grassroots Social Movements as Agents of Change for Societal Transformation: The Example of the Transition Movement Blake Poland, University of TorontO, and the Transition Emerging Study Research Team (Chris Buse, Randy Haluza-Delay, Chris Ling, Lenore Newman, Andreì-Anne Parent, Cheryl Teelucksingh, Rebecca Hasdell, K Hayes) "Food as Thy Medicine:" How Ecovillages Foster Population and Planetary Health through Regenerative Food Systems Lisa Mychajluk, University of Toronto - OISE Care Farming: Making a Meaningful Connection between Agriculture, Health Care and Society Marjolein Elings, Wageningen University & Research Grieving Nature – Grieving in Nature: The Place of Parks and Natural Places in Palliative and Grief Care Sonya L. Jakubec, Mount Royal University, Dan Carruthers Den Hoed, Mount Royal University, Heather Ray, Mount Royal University, Ashok Krishnamurthy, Mount Royal University Nature as Partner: Rethinking Intersectoral Action for Health in the Anthropocene Era, Mary Jane Yates, University of Alberta The Soil Sponge: Collaborating with the Work of Other Species to Improve Public Health, Climate Change, and Resilience Didi Pershouse Making Medicine Work in the Anthropocene: Tenets of a Meta-medicine for Complex Adaptive Systems in Precarious Times Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and William Sutherland, University of Waterloo Part 3, Alternative ontologies: Laying the groundwork for living well within the earth’s biophysical limits Introduction, Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo Our Affluence Is Killing Us: What Degrowth Offers Health and Wellbeing Jean-Louis Aillon, Frantz Fanon Center Nurturing Ecological Consciousness Mark Hathaway, University of Waterloo, Donald Cole, University of Toronto, and Blake Poland, University of Toronto Bodies of the Anthropocene: Health, Ontology, Ecology Alexander Foster, King’s College London The Exploration of Socio-Ecological Approaches and Indicators in the Anthropocene Ann Del Bianco, York University, David Mallery, York University, Kamal Paudel, York University, Martin J. Bunch, York University Coming Back to Our True Nature: What is the inner work that supports Transition? Blake Poland, University of Toronto Death Denial in the Anthropocene Sheldon Solomon, Skidmore College To Become Ancestors of a Living Future Barbara Jane Davy, University of Waterloo Conclusion, Pursuing Health in the Anthropocene: A Synthesis of Current and Future Research Priorities Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Algonquian folklore, the wetiko is a cannibal monster or spirit that possesses a person, rendering them monstrous. In The Wetiko Legal Principles, Hadley Friedland explores how the concept of a wetiko can be used to address the unspeakable happenings that endanger the lives of many Indigenous children. Friedland critically analyses Cree and Anishinabek stories and oral histories alongside current academic and legal literature to find solutions to the frightening rates of intimate violence and child victimization in Indigenous communities. She applies common-law legal analysis to these Indigenous stories and creates a framework for analysing stories in terms of the legal principles that they contain. The author reveals similarities in thinking and theorizing around the dynamics of wetikos and offenders in cases of child sexual victimization. Friedland’s respectful, strength-based, trauma-informed approach builds on the work of John Trade Review"The Wetiko Legal Principles is a timely and interesting book that addresses prevalent issues in Indigenous communities, such as child victimization and violence, in a unique fashion by mixing narrative and legal analysis." -- Evan Best * Saskatchewan Law Review, vol 82 *Table of ContentsStory #1: Sweet Dirt Chapter 1: Introduction and Methodology Chapter 2: The Wetiko as a Legal Concept or Category Chapter 3: Understanding the Dynamics: The Wetiko and Child Victimization Chapter 4: The Wetiko Legal Principles Chapter 5: Future Directions in Wetiko Law Story #2: Beyond Sweet Dirt Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAdding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and rising socio-political instability, and offers novel frameworks for living well on a finite planet. Rather than directing readers to more sustainable ways to structure health systems, Health in the Anthropocene navigates the transition toward social-ecological systems that can support long-term human and environmental health, which requires broad shifts in thought and action, not only in formal health-related fields, but in our economic models, agriculture and food systems, ontologies, and ethics. Arguing that population health will largely be decided at the intersection of experimental social innovations and appropriate technologies, this volume calls readers to turn their attention toward social movements, practicesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction to Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo Part 1, Population Health in the Anthropocene: Addressing Wicked Problems in the Transition to an Alternative Social-Ecological System Guided by Ecological Constraints Introduction Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo Individual or Community as a Frame of Reference for Health in Modernity and in the Anthropocene Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo "Regional Overload" as an Indicator of Profound Risk: A Plea for the Public Health Community to Awaken Colin Butler, University　of Canberra Medicine and Healthcare in the Anthropocene: Who Pays and Why? Jennifer Cole, University of London Anthropocene Health Economics: Preparing for the Journey or the Destination? Martin Hensher, University of Tasmania What About My Pineapples?: The Wicked Implications of Nonlinearity, Embedded Systems, and Transformative Social Goals Kaitlin Kish, McGill University Imagining Health Systems 150 years from Now: Best and Worst-case Scenarios for the Future of Human Health Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo A Changing Role for Public Health in the Anthropocene: The Contribution of Scenario Thinking for Reimagining the Future Blake Poland, University of Toronto, Margot Parkes, University of British Columbia, Trevor Hancock, University of Victoria, George McKibbon, University of Guelph, Andrea Chircop, Dalhousie University Part 2, Emerging social innovations for health and wellbeing: Prefiguring viable health systems for the Anthropocene Introduction Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo The Role of Grassroots Social Movements as Agents of Change for Societal Transformation: The Example of the Transition Movement Blake Poland, University of TorontO, and the Transition Emerging Study Research Team (Chris Buse, Randy Haluza-Delay, Chris Ling, Lenore Newman, Andreì-Anne Parent, Cheryl Teelucksingh, Rebecca Hasdell, K Hayes) "Food as Thy Medicine:" How Ecovillages Foster Population and Planetary Health through Regenerative Food Systems Lisa Mychajluk, University of Toronto - OISE Care Farming: Making a Meaningful Connection between Agriculture, Health Care and Society Marjolein Elings, Wageningen University & Research Grieving Nature – Grieving in Nature: The Place of Parks and Natural Places in Palliative and Grief Care Sonya L. Jakubec, Mount Royal University, Dan Carruthers Den Hoed, Mount Royal University, Heather Ray, Mount Royal University, Ashok Krishnamurthy, Mount Royal University Nature as Partner: Rethinking Intersectoral Action for Health in the Anthropocene Era, Mary Jane Yates, University of Alberta The Soil Sponge: Collaborating with the Work of Other Species to Improve Public Health, Climate Change, and Resilience Didi Pershouse Making Medicine Work in the Anthropocene: Tenets of a Meta-medicine for Complex Adaptive Systems in Precarious Times Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and William Sutherland, University of Waterloo Part 3, Alternative ontologies: Laying the groundwork for living well within the earth’s biophysical limits Introduction, Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo Our Affluence Is Killing Us: What Degrowth Offers Health and Wellbeing Jean-Louis Aillon, Frantz Fanon Center Nurturing Ecological Consciousness Mark Hathaway, University of Waterloo, Donald Cole, University of Toronto, and Blake Poland, University of Toronto Bodies of the Anthropocene: Health, Ontology, Ecology Alexander Foster, King’s College London The Exploration of Socio-Ecological Approaches and Indicators in the Anthropocene Ann Del Bianco, York University, David Mallery, York University, Kamal Paudel, York University, Martin J. Bunch, York University Coming Back to Our True Nature: What is the inner work that supports Transition? Blake Poland, University of Toronto Death Denial in the Anthropocene Sheldon Solomon, Skidmore College To Become Ancestors of a Living Future Barbara Jane Davy, University of Waterloo Conclusion, Pursuing Health in the Anthropocene: A Synthesis of Current and Future Research Priorities Katharine Zywert, University of Waterloo and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisPhysiology, unlike most biological sciences, is characterized less by methods of study than by its goal, the understanding of the complex interactions at the cellular and organismic levels. Ever since Claude Bernard’s introduction of the concept of homeostasis as a basic principle of survival, biological scientists have attempted to integrate mechanisms characteristic of organs and systems to explain the overall functioning of the whole animal. This book is dedicated to the memory of the distinguished Canadian physiology J.A.F. Stevenson, who maintained in his teaching and research activities a holistic approach to the study of physiological regulations and life processes. Two of the book’s introductory essays are tributes by men who remember James Stevenson as a scientist and as a friend. The third gives a sketch of early studies of physiological regulations. The twenty-four remaining articles serve as examples of integrated physiological regulations with speci

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Book SynopsisThe Ninth Canadian Cancer Research Conference centred on multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of cancer. The sessions were organized around areas of current interest (the environment and cancer, present problems in cancer treatment), current areas of heightened interest (tumor viruses), and areas of hope for the future (chromosome structure and somatic cell genetics, antigenic and functional properties of cell surfaces). The Canadian Cancer Research Conferences, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute of Canada, focus on multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of cancer and serve as an international forum for the presentation and discussion of new research into the problem of cancer. This collection of twelve stimulating and informative papers from the tenth conference is devoted to discussions of endogenous viruses, environmental carcinogens, tumor immunology, and chemotherapy. It should be not only valuable to the expert but within the grasp of the novice

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Book SynopsisThe first Canadian Conference on Children, held in the province of Quebec in October, 1960, was the culmination of several years of planning and of three years' specific study of projects which dealt with existing programmes for children in Canada. Delegates came from provincial and national organizations and the Conference was supported by a large number of organizations connected with child health, welfare, and education. The programme of the Conference was divided into three sections: plenary sessions, group discussions of the projects, and group discussion of children under three headings: "the early years," "the middle years," and "the transition years." The whole programme covered children from birth to about the age of seventeen. The Proceedings includes the speeches presented at the plenary sessions (by Sir Geoffrey Vickers, Chairman of the Research Committee of the British Mental Health Research Fund; Dr. K.D. Naegele of the University of British Columbia; and Dr. Otto Klinebe

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Book SynopsisThe symposium was arranged with the purpose of cutting across some of the lines dividing various disciplines all having a common interest in different aspects of the functioning of the brain. The essays, given originally as lectures at one of the Jubilee celebrations of the University of Saskatchewan, were deliberately designed to be of interest to laymen concerned with the problem of education as well as to academics dealing daily with products of the brain's activity in teaching and learning. One of the main themes of the book is that the human brain has far greater potentialities than our present methods of education are exploiting; another is that, although our universities can be said to owe their very existence to the multiplex activities of the human mind, the subject of how the brain functions and the application of even our rather meagre knowledge of this field to the sphere of teaching and learning remains greatly neglected in university programmes. The subject of brain funct

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Book SynopsisIn Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicinesand a primer on how to make that change happen. Globally, 10 million people die each year because they are unable to pay for medicines that would save them. The cost of prescription drugs is bankrupting families and putting a strain on state and federal budgets. Patients' desperate need for affordable medicines clashes with the core business model of the powerful pharmaceutical industry, which maximizes profits whenever possible. It doesn't have to be this way. Patients and activists are aiming to make all essential medicines affordable by reclaiming medicines as a public good and a human right, instead of a profit-making commodity. In this book, Quigley demystifies statistics and termiTrade ReviewExplores the reasons behind high prescription drug costs and the consequences of those costs for individuals, drug companies, and governments.... Easy-to-read short chapters. Many references from top journals and government documents. * Choice *An accessible, empowering plea to act on a vital issue. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. People Everywhere Are Struggling to Get the Medicines They Need 2. The United States Has a Drug Problem 3. Millions of People Are Dying Needlessly 4. Cancer Patients Face Particularly Deadly Barriers to Medicines 5. The Current Medicine System Neglects Many Major Diseases Part II 6. Corporate Research and Development Investments Are Exaggerated 7. The Current System Wastes Billions on Drug Marketing 8. The Current System Compromises Physician Integrity and Leads to Unethical Corporate Behavior 9. Medicines Are Priced at Whatever the Market Will Bear 10. Pharmaceutical Corporations Reap History-Making Pro ts Part III 11. The For-Profit Medicine Arguments Are Patently False 12. Medicine Patents Are Extended Too Far and Too Wide 13. Patent Protectionism Stunts the Development of New Medicines 14. Governments, Not Private Corporations, Drive Medicine Innovation 15. Taxpayers and Patients Pay Twice for Patented Medicines Part IV 16. Medicines Are a Public Good 17. Medicine Patents Are Arti cial, Recent, and Government-Created 18. The United States and Big Pharma Play the Bully in Extending Patents 19. Pharma-Pushed Trade Agreements Steal the Power of Democratically Elected Governments Part V 20. Current Law Provides Opportunities for Affordable Generic Medicines 21. There Is a Better Way to Develop Medicines 22. Human Rights Law Demands Access to Essential Medicines Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSearching the internet for health information or using health apps on mobile devices has become part of our daily routine, yet can be just as disempowering as empowering. This engaging overview critically examines the theoretical underpinning of digital health promotion and the use of digital tools and strategies to promote health. Ivy O’Neil investigates how modern technologies can enhance health services provision and increase the accessibility and efficiency of health communication and promotion. She also looks at the challenges they bring to the social model of health, as they often focus on the individual and neglect the many social, environmental and economic determinants of health. Digital technologies, O’Neil argues, can have negative as well as positive implications and may be contributing to the ever-widening health inequality gap, thereby failing to be compatible with health promotion principles and values. Offering a critical, practical and thoughtful overview of the application and usefulness of digital technology, this book will appeal to students of public health and health promotion, communication and policy. Trade Review‘This book addresses a significant need, exploring health promotion strategies in light of new digital technologies and advances in communications. I particularly appreciate the incorporation of values-based and ethical considerations, with emphasis on health inequities and a more critical health promotion practice – perspectives of key importance in our current communications climate.’Charlotte Lombardo, Program Director, MPH–Health Promotion, University of Toronto ‘Digital technologies have major implications for healthcare and public health. This book offers a necessary critical look at the ways in which digital health not only views responsibility for health but also offers new forms of surveillance and social inequalities.’Jane Wills, London South Bank University and author of Foundations for Health Promotion Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 - Recent Development in Digital Technology relating to Public Health Chapter 3 – The alignment of digital health promotion to health promotion principles and values Chapter 4 – Behaviour change approach and behaviour theories in digital health promotion Chapter 5 - Big Data and Public Health management Chapter 6 – Digital technology and Health Inequality Chapter 7 – Looking to the future

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Book SynopsisA toolkit for sustaining wellness, building resilience, and modeling health, geared particularly toward health professionals

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Book SynopsisThis book helps you take your health info search skills to the next level!What skills, resources, and techniques do expert searchers use when looking up health information? Here are the authoritative answers from the most authoritative source: the prestigious Medical Library Association's renowned trainer, Terry Jankowski.Ideal for use as a course text or a workbook for self-instruction, this utilitarian guide will teach you valuable strategies and techniques, regardless of your current skill level. It begins with the self-evaluation tool - find out where you are on the novice-to-expert continuum and then follow Jankowski through all of the components of an expert search, starting with the reference interview. A useful interview checklist and examples of librarian-user interactions will help you plan a successful, efficient search.Jankowski then guides you through the basics of search construction, offers practical guidelines for deciding what resource to start with, passes on tips and tricks from expert searchers, and reviews the usefulness of some of the most popular health science databases, like MEDLINE and PubMed, PsychInfo, CAB Abstracts, ABI/Inform, ERIC, and more. Featuring a dozen checklists and 30 exercises plus tips and strategies for maintaining and growing your skill set over time, here is your direct path to becoming an expert health information searcher.

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Book SynopsisIn their desire to improve medical professionalism within the world of academic medicine, editors Delese Wear and Janet Bickel have assembled thirteen thought provoking essays that elucidate the many facets of teaching, valuing, and maintaining medical professionalism in the middle of the myriad challenges facing medicine at the dawn of the twenty-first century.The collection traces how the values of altruism and service influence not only mission statements and admission policies but also the content of medical school ethics courses, student-led task forces, and mentoring programs, along with larger environmental issues in medical schools and the communities they serve.Trade ReviewAn inspirational work that will give medical educators many ideas and will stimulate some substantial changes in education about service and community activism. - Joseph F. O'Donnell, senior advising dean and director of community programs, Dartmouth Medical School

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Book SynopsisCurriculum committees at health professional schools are determined that faculty engage students in reflection. Reflective practice invites students to inquire into their own thoughts, biases, assumptions, feelings, and behaviors and to reconnect with their own sense of purpose and commitment to their work. In Keeping Reflection Fresh, practitioners, educators, and students in medical humanities, bioethics, nursing, emergency medicine, geriatrics, psychiatry, family medicine, surgery, medical education, and other fields join artists, musicians, poets, and writers to present an illuminating and innovative collection of provocative essays. The contributors—including Louise Aronson, Jay Baruch, Alan Bleakley, Rita Charon, Jack Coulehan, Sayantani DasGupta, Therese Jones, and Delese Wear, among many others—offer insights, guidance, and strategies designed to inspire new concepts, connections, and conversations, enrich practices, and stimulate scholarly inquiry.Keeping Reflection Fresh demonstrates the care and commitment of internationally recognized educators who are working toward reimagining health education and re-inspiring health care. It will be welcomed by a broad readership of educators, students, practitioners, and lifelong learners across the healing professions, social sciences, humanities, and artistic disciplines.

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Book SynopsisEach day of working parenthood is a rollercoaster of success and failure. Am I alone in this? In Parenting on the Frontlines, we explore both the lighter and heavier sides of working parenthood. The stories shared here are written by healthcare workers at Michigan Medicine, but all caregivers will find pieces to which they can relate.

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Book SynopsisFIVE STARS from Doody's Star Ratings™ This step-by-step instruction manual with videos introduces a spectrum of osteopathic manipulative techniques incorporating principles of psychomotor learning that enable optimal skill acquisition during both independent and supervised practice. Introductory chapters contain historical and essential concepts for performing osteopathic manipulative techniques including somatic dysfunction diagnosis. Each technique chapter includes pertinent background and summary concepts, key features of somatic dysfunction diagnosis, an end-goal focus for performing the technique, relevant anatomic image(s), and performance steps to foster knowledge retention. Key Highlights Online access to 160 technique video demonstrations High quality illustrations that reinforce anatomy Psychomotor skills learning and assessment strategies Nearly 100 self-study/review questions in multiple choice format, also accessible via WinkingSkull.com This evidence-based manual for learning manipulation treatment is the must-have tool for all osteopathic medical students and residents.Table of Contents1 Osteopathic Concepts and Learning Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment 2 Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Overview 3 Osteopathic Screening Exams 4 Somatic Dysfunction Diagnosis 5 Soft Tissue Techniques 6 Myofascial Release Techniques 7 Lymphatic Techniques 8 Indirect Techniques 9 Articulatory Techniques 10 Challenge the Barrier Techniques 11 Muscle Energy Techniques 12 High Velocity, Low Amplitude Thrust Techniques 13 Osteopathic Cranial Manipulative Medicine Techniques 14 Visceral Techniques 15 Counterstrain Techniques

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Book SynopsisCovers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, biology, and issues in an easy-to-use A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. In addition to completely new essays in this edition, all entries from the previous edition have been evaluated and updated by a panel of Medical Editors to ensure their currency and accuracy.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes public health efforts to reduce infant mortality and improve children's health in three large English cities: Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.While English public health efforts had reduced the threat of infectious diseases and improved sanitation by the end of the Victorian era, soaring infant mortality rates brought children's health to the forefront of public health concerns. Efforts to understand the causes of infant mortality and improve children's survival required attention to the environments where infant mortality was often highest, i.e., in the cities. Children's Health and Urban Ecology in England, 1885-1919 examines the history of urban public health campaigns in three of the largest English cities, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. It considers how local environments impacted children's health by creating ecological conditions ripe for the spread of disease, as well as opportunities for improvements and interventions. Between 1885 and 1919, English public health leaders began to establish increasingly localized approaches to public health that included interventions in households and at schools. This work was conducted by new types of public health professionals, including health visitors to new mothers and school medical officers. While these programs emerged from local environmental conditions, two imperial military conflicts (the Second Anglo-Boer War and the First World War) drew national attention to the importance of children's health. In examining the effects of these conflicts as well as the urgent response to local environmental conditions, Children's Health and Urban Ecology highlights how the epicenter of public health shifted from cities to the state by the end of the First World War.

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Book SynopsisTaking an interdisciplinary approach to medical history, this book shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional and aesthetic parameters of reconstructive plastic surgery in Britain during the 20th century.Plastic surgery in twentieth-century Britain was a medical discipline with deep ties to art, artists and art history. It was also a field still in the process of creating its reputation and its archives. Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper examines these archives, focusing in particular on the works on paper held within these collections by two artists: Diana "Dickie" Orpen and Percy Hennell. Plastic surgeons depended upon the drawings and photographs made by these and other medical illustrators to craft certain narratives about their field and their surgical practice. In addition to telling an art history of plastic surgery during this period, Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper engages with the affective parameters of archival objects, and with what working as a historian involves when done within potentially traumatic spaces. Paying particular attention to the emotional dimensions and effects of this visual culture and the ways in which it is archived and framed by the discipline of plastic surgery - then and now - Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper explores not only what it meant to make art in a surgical space, but also what it means to study these affecting paper objects in the archive today. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

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Book SynopsisNEW in the fourth edition!Fully updated and revised based on the 2020 ASHA standards and recent AAA standards, the new edition of this bestseller is the core textbook for all students in clinical methods courses—and a reliable reference for practicing SLPs and audiologists. Leading authority Rhea Paul and newly minted research scholar Elizabeth Schoen Simmons bring together more than 20 academics and clinicians for a state-of-the-art guide to contemporary evidence-based practice. Covering a broad range of disorders and developmental levels, this text sets emerging professionals on the path toward mastering all the fundamentals of practice, from conducting effective assessment and intervention to ensuring that practices are family-centered and culturally inclusive. Tomorrow’s clinicians will use this foundational textbook to guide their professional decision-making and provide the best possible services for people with communication disorders. What's new: New chapter on using principles of observation to gather accurate, valid data in clinical settings and more deeply understand clinical processes and procedures Expanded information on intervention principles, with case studies highlighting practical applications and an emphasis on evidence-based practice More on counseling in communication disorders, clinical documentation, relationships with supervisors, and single-case experimental design Updated information on technology in clinical practice New emphasis on automated analysis of communication samples Chapters on clinical competence and family-centered practice by renowned experts New student-friendly text features, such as learning objectives, study questions, and problem-solving questions Case studies and clinical examples throughout Reflects most recent ASHA and AAA standards With new faculty materials, including a test bank for each chapter and suggested projects that professors can assign students to practice the principles outlined in each chapter.Table of Contents About the Online Materials for Faculty About the Editors About the Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction to Clinical Practice in Communication Disorders   Rhea Paul Appendix 1A 2020 Standards & Implementation Procedures for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology Appendix 1B An Outline of Standards for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology Chapter 2 Ethical Practice in Communication Disorders   Barbara H. Jacobson and Arlene E. Carney Appendix 2A ASHA Code of Ethics (ASHA, 2016) Appendix 2B American Academy of Audiology Code of Ethics Chapter 3 Evidence-Based Decision Making in Communication Intervention   Mary Beth Schmitt, Laura M. Justice, and Marc E. Fey Chapter 4 Principles of Communication Assessment   Elizabeth Schoen Simmons Chapter 5 Communication Sampling Procedures   Rhea Paul, Nan Bernstein-Ratner, Marta Korytowska, and Ciara Leydon Chapter 6 Communication Intervention: Principles and Procedures   Lizbeth H. Finestack and Jessica A. Brown Chapter 7 Interviewing, Counseling, and Clinical Communication   David Andrews Appendix 7A Oregon Standard Individualized Education Program (IEP) Chapter 8 Public Policies Affecting Clinical Practice   Charles H. Carlin and Marie C. Ireland Chapter 9 Clinical Service Delivery and Work Settings   Jamie Marotto, Ellen Massucci, Cristina Pino, and Taryn Rogers Chapter 10 Issues of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity   Aquiles Iglesias, RaÚl Rojas, and Brian A. Goldstein Chapter 11 Technology and Communication Disorders   Elizabeth Schoen Simmons and Brandon Eddy Chapter 12 Family-Centered Practice   Patricia Prelock and Ashley R. Brien Chapter 13 Principles of Observation   Nancy E. Hall Appendix Suggested Projects Glossary

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Book SynopsisWhat is the evidence?How do you find it?How do you evaluate it?Put the evidence to work in your practice! Integrate today's best scientific knowledge into your clinical decision-making. Step by step, you'll learn to effectively evaluate and apply nursing research and to understand its potential impact on the quality of your patient care. Easy to read. "Great book, easy to read, very good review of research for beginners, lots of information but goes over a lot, definitely a keeper!" - Online ReviewerTable of Contents Part I: Nature of Research and the Research Process 1. Introduction to Nursing Research 2. Understanding the Research Process and Ethical Issues in Nursing Research 3. Understanding Evidence-Based Practice 4. Differentiating Among Research, Evidenced-Based Practice, and Quality Improvement Projects Part II: Planning a Research Study 5. Selecting and Defining a Problem 6. Applying Appropriate Theories and Conceptual Models 7. Formulating Hypotheses and Research Questions 8. Selecting the Sample and Setting 9. Selecting a Quantitative Research Design 10. Selecting a Qualitative Research Design 11. Data Collection Methods 12. Principles of Measurement Part III: Utilization of Nursing Research 13. Analyzing Data 14. Interpreting and Reporting Research Findings 15. Critiquing Research Reports

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Book SynopsisA programmed learning + self-paced + body systems approach!Medical Terminology Simplified + Medical Language Lab (MLL) work together to create an immersive, multimedia experience that tracks each student’s progress until they’ve mastered the language of medicine. A programmed, frame-based learning approach breaks must-know content into small, student-friendly sections to make the information easier to master. An access code inside new, printed textbooks unlocks an ebook as well as access to MLL.LEARN—Build a solid foundation with the textFrame by frame, exercise by exercise, this workbook/text explores each body system through major combining forms, a comprehensive pathology section, and medical records and evaluations, complemented by true-to-life artwork.PRACTICE—Study smarter, not harderBased on proven language methodology, Medical Language Lab (MLL) guides students step by step from basic through advanced levels of proficiency to become confident medical language speakers. Students review what they’ve learned from the text and in class through activities and quizzes. New! Pronunciation exercises help students practice their speaking skills with instant, detailed feedback that breaks pronunciation down to the phoneme-level. New! Review sections use the results of module tests to identify the topic areas where students need to spend more time and provide practice activities for multiple learning styles. ASSESS—Build mastery. Attain fluency.Students and their instructors can monitor their progress through every MLL lesson and assignment to identify the areas where they’re struggling.Table of Contents 1.Introduction to Programmed Learning and Medical Word Building 2.Body Structure 3.Integumentary System 4.Respiratory System 5.Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems 6.Digestive System 7.Urinary System 8.Reproductive System 9.Endocrine and Nervous Systems 10.Musculoskeletal System 11.Special Senses: The Eyes and Ears Appendices A.Glossary of Medical Word Elements B.Answer Key C.Index of Diagnostic, Medical, and Surgical Procedures D.Drug Classifications E.Abbreviations, Discontinued Abbreviations, and Common Symbols F.Medical Specialties G.Glossary of English-to-Spanish Translations Rules for Singular and Plural Suffixes Pronunciation Guidelines (Inside back cover)

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Book SynopsisKinesiology is the scientific study of movement of the human body or its components. A solid basis in kinesiology is required for the restoration of normal movement, the decrease of movement dysfunction, and the optimization of movement. This book provides a thorough introduction to kinesiology.

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Book SynopsisSocial representations, beliefs, values and knowledge are just some of the aspects that affect how the beneficiaries of preventative health measures perceive their wellbeing. Health Education and Prevention questions and analyzes these concepts in order to consider new ways of theorizing patients’ conceptions of their health. From a methodological point of view, these analyses are put into practice with the design of prevention tools and devices. The use of a corpora of photographs is particularly meaningful in this respect. This book offers an authoritative perspective by noting important points of vigilance in training, and especially by distinguishing instructive contents conducive to the development of an explicit health pedagogy for more effective prevention measures. A model for categorizing situations integrating both educational and healthcare paths is also proposed. Table of Contents1. Conceptions and Deciding for One’s Health. 2. Social Representations of Health Conceptions. 3. A Renewed Theory of Conceptions in Health. 4. Qualitative Methodologies for the Investigation of Health Conceptions. 5. The Convergence of Research Tools, Interventions and Training. 6. Formative Perspectives for More Effective Prevention Actions.

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Book SynopsisUndeniable, inescapable, exhilarating and breaking free from the exclusive domain of science, artificial intelligence has become our main preoccupation. A major generator of new mathematical thinking, AI is the result of easy access to information and data, as facilitated by computer technology. Big Data has come to be seen as an unlimited source of knowledge, the use of which is still being fully explored, but its industrialization has swiftly followed in the footsteps of mathematicians; today's tools are increasingly designed to replace human beings, which comes with social and philosophical consequences. Drawing on examples of scientific work and the insights of experts, this book offers food for thought on the consequences and future of AI technology in education, health, the workplace and aging.

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Book SynopsisThere is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third ('tertiary') category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. This edition has an expanded foundation, with new chapters discussing nuclear war, population and limits to growth, among others. This lively yet scholarly resource explores all these issues, finishing with a practicaldiscussion of avenues to reform. As Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Hum

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Book SynopsisCommunication and Professional Relationships in Healthcare Practice focuses on the crucial role that spoken interactions play in shaping relationships in contemporary healthcare practice. The authors apply theoretical concepts of communication to the workplace of healthcare, drawing upon scenarios based in the settings of clinical experience. The book presents a wide range of interactions (including consultations, team meetings, dialogues and casual conversations) between health professionals, their colleagues and their clients or patients in a variety of settings. Drawing on the latest research in applied linguistics and professional communication, the authors introduce readers to a number of approaches that can be used to analyse these interactions. Using these techniques, readers will discover exactly how central themes of healthcare practice (including trust, empathy, expertise and breaking bad news) are constructed through the communicative choices that participants make in these interactions. Designed specifically for medical, nursing and allied health practitioners with an interest in communication, the book makes the techniques of discourse analysis accessible and provides ample opportunities for individual practitioners to apply this knowledge to their own professional contexts.Trade Review'Refreshingly, the book addresses communication not only in interactions between health professionals and patients, but amongst team members and between health professionals in an array of communicatively challenging real world contexts. It brings home to the reader the complexity of communication in health care, and it offers practitioners many tools for reflecting on their own and others' communicative practices, and for enhancing their professional interactions.' Dr Catherine O'Grady, Educator and Applied Linguist -Health CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Transcription conventions Glossary 1. Introduction: A Framework for the Study of Interactions in Healthcare Settings 2. Managing the Interaction 3. Common Purposes or Cross Purposes 4. Respecting Feelings and Perspectives 5. Polite, Persuasive or Pushy? 6. Projecting an Identity to Others 7. High Stakes Interactions 8. Challenging Situations, Challenging Discourses 9. The Expert Practitioner: Professional Expertise and Communicative Expertise 10. Communication in Healthcare Teams 11. Healthcare Teams: Leadership, Power and Ethical Dilemmas 12. Ways Forward: Applying Theory to your Practice

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Book SynopsisFrom time to time in the field of healthcare, an exciting new development emerges to challenge and potentially transform thinking and behaviour. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and its framework is undoubtedly one of these transformative resources and is increasingly widely used in the field of childhood disability. This accessible handbook introduces the ICF to professionals working with children with disabilities and their families. It contains an overview of the elements of the ICF but focusses on practical applications, including how the ICF framework can be used with children, families and carers to formulate health and management goals. The Appendices contain case studies for individuals and interdisciplinary teams to work through and discuss, alongside other resources, and a copy of an ICF code set for children and youth is available to download online. Importantly, the book includes a chapter written by a parent of a child with impairments, illustrating the potential diverse applications of the ICF framework. The ICF’s relationship with patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and future alternatives to the current ICF framework are also examined. Clinicians, paediatricians and other healthcare providers in neurodisability, community-based health professionals, policy makers and the families and carers of children with disabilities will find this title an indispensable resource.Table of ContentsAuthor Appointments Introduction Peter Rosenbaum SECTION A 1 The ICF and the biopsychosocial model of health: From ‘disease’ to ‘health condition’ Olaf Kraus de Camargo 2 The concept of ‘functioning’ Hillegonda A Stallinga 3 Personal factors in clinical practice and public health Olaf Kraus de Camargo 4 Marriage between the ICF and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS): How good is the relationship? Gabriel M Ronen SECTION B 5 The ICF in clinical practice: Case scenarios and exercises Liane Simon and Olaf Kraus de Camargo 6 The development of effective health and social care teams: ICF as the glue! Stefanus Snyman, Liane Simon and Olaf Kraus de Camargo 7 The ICF: Themes and tools for the education of health professionals Olaf Kraus de Camargo and Stefanus Snyman 8 The ICF informing administration, policy and advocacy Olaf Kraus de Camargo and Jaclyn Pederson SECTION C 9 The ICF from the parent perspective Jennifer Johannesen 10 Perspectives for future developments of the ICF: Challenges and suggested considerations Olaf Kraus de Camargo Appendix 1: Case examples and exercises Appendix 2: Team development phases Appendix 3: My F-words goal sheet Appendix 4: ICF discharge/referral form Appendix 5: Blank ICF framework Appendix 6: ICF code sets for children and youth Appendix 7: Useful links and additional resources about the ICF Index

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Book SynopsisWhat you do really does matter! This book is a must read for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, and others in leadership positions in long-term care. It offers practical, commonsense, easy-to-implement approaches that will yield immediate positive results. It also serves as a wake-up call to leaders who doubt their impact and as an affirmation to leaders who struggle daily to do a good job. Let Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care open the door to new possibilities and set your organisation on a better course. Too often long-term care leaders feel overwhelmed by regulatory, financial, and corporate constraints and succumb to the myth that staff turnover is an inevitable cost of doing business. This book debunks this myth, revealing the powerful link between staff satisfaction and successful organisational performance that delivers high quality, high census, good surveys, and a healthy bottom line. Based on extensive on-the-ground experience with implementing and guiding hundreds of nursing homes through successful organisational transformations, the authors offer advice and wisdom that can make your organisation more successful, efficient and stable, whether it is currently struggling or thriving. Just a few of the take-home lessons from your this constructive guide include how to Get and keep the right staff, including how to identify ""triple crown winners"" Reduce staff stress and promote solid teamwork Build a positive chain of leadership that brings out the best in the staff Convert money now spent on turnover into resources to support stability Improve corporate support with an instructive ""Stop Doing List"" Use quality improvement and culture change practices to achieve high performance Increase staff, family, and resident satisfaction Make a meaningful impact as a leader Watch these benefits unfold right before your eyes in one of the most unique features of this book: a journal documenting administrator David Farrell’s experience turning around a nursing home that was by all measures doing poorly. Through his difficulties, triumphs, tragedies, and everyday experiences, see how better outcomes are attainable by focusing on leadership practices that make a difference. Widely recognised as experts in the long-term care field, the authors of Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care combine their years of experience in nursing home leadership and management to create a resource that can transform how long-term care facilities are run.2012 National Mature Media Award (Bronze Award Winner)

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Book SynopsisPart of the series Leading Principles & Practices in Elder Care, Culture Change in Elder Care is a one-of-a-kind exploration of the ongoing efforts to revolutionise elder care in America, with contributions from many of the innovators who have championed the 'culture change' movement. Supporting the ideals of person-centred care from economic, practical, and moral perspectives, it also speaks to the changing demands of long-term care consumers and how care communities will remain competitive by creating settings where residents and staff can live and grow, and not just grow old. Gain insight into the essential arguments, values, and business case for why traditional care models have and must change to better serve the needs of today's older adults.

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Book SynopsisThis second volume in the series Leading Principles & Practices in Elder Care examines the issues and practices behind the day-to-day implementation of individualised elder care. Through profiles of pioneering model communities, readers learn what person-centred care looks like in practice. From the providers who are raising the bar for best practices in long-term care, readers gain direct experience in the successful processes behind transforming attitudes, practices, physical spaces, and organisational structures to accommodate increasingly collaborative and person-directed care. Professional staff from nurses to social workers to administrators will learn about the essential skills to be mastered and probable challenges to be overcome in the transformational journey from traditional elder care services to progressive modern ideals.

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