Medicolegal issues Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Malignant
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMalignant is punchy and persuasive, and the author is clearly in command of his subject matter. Prasad offers valuable advice on how to keep up with research as well as the appropriate way to analyse clinical trial reports.—Talha K Burki, The Lancet HematologyAimed at general readers (including patients), oncology trainees and experts in health-care policy, it informs and disturbs throughout.—Andrew Robinson, NaturePatients should ask their oncologist how good the cure is: do I really live longer and better than doing "nothing"? Let them start by asking whether their doctor has read Prasad's book.—Zurich Weekly News Review[Malignant is] so applicable to the issues of the pandemic . . . Because what we're seeing is a research infrastructure that is not set up to do rapid evaluation, and to be resilient and to respond to a health crisis.—Marty Makary, MD, MPH, MedPage TodayTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Cancer Drugs: The Outcomes They Improve and at What PriceChapter 1. The Basics of Cancer Drugs: Cost, Benefit, Value Chapter 2. Surrogate Endpoints in Cancer: What Are They and Where Are They Used? Chapter 3. The Use and Misuse of Surrogate Endpoints for Drug Approvals Chapter 4. How High Prices Harm Patients and SocietyPart II. Societal Forces That Distort Cancer MedicineChapter 5. Hype, Spin, and the Unbridled Enthusiasm That Distorts Cancer MedicineChapter 6. Financial Conflict of InterestChapter 7. The Harms of Financial Conflicts and How to Rehabilitate MedicineChapter 8. Will Precision Oncology Save Us?Part III. How to Interpret Cancer Evidence and TrialsChapter 9. Study Design 201Chapter 10. Principles of Oncology PracticeChapter 11. Important Trials in OncologyChapter 12. Global OncologyPart IV. SolutionsChapter 13. How Should Cancer Drug Development Proceed?Chapter 14. What Can Three Federal Agencies Do Tomorrow? Chapter 15. What Can People with Cancer Do?Chapter 16. What Can Students, Residents, and Fellows Do?Epilogue: The Hallmarks of Successful Cancer PolicyGlossary ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ending Medical Reversal
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEvery doctor should read this book.—JAMA Internal Medicine[A]n excellent and realistic discussion of some of the horror stories that occur in medical practice . . . The examples are quite interesting and certainly educational for all readers. Highly recommended.—ChoiceEnding Medical Reversal goes far in teaching medical students and practicing physicians alike how to learn on our own.—The LancetThis has to be on the reading list for medical and nursing students.—Nursing TimesEnding Medical Reversal presents persuasive evidence that many current standard-of-care treatments are probably ineffective or harmful, thoroughly explains how such treatments came to be accepted, and proposes a number of ways to address the general problem (only some of which involve avaricious companies and mercenary physicians) and minimize its impact on a specific patient.—Journal of Clinical Research Best PracticesDr. Prasad and Dr. Cifu offer a five-step plan, including pointers for determining if a given treatment is really able to do what you want it to do, and advice on finding a like-minded doctor who won't object to a certain amount of back-seat driving.—The New York TimesWhen I describe Ending Medical Reversal as revolutionary, I don't use the term lightly. Go out and read it—right now.—Common Sense Family DoctorShould be considered for undergraduate reading lists. Keep a copy in the pharmacy or your briefcase as a great icebreaker or discussion point with other local healthcare professionals.—The Pharmaceutical JournalTable of ContentsIntroductionPart IExamples, Frequency, and Consequences1. What Is Medical Reversal?2. Subjective OutcomesWhy Feeling Better Is Often Misleading3. Surrogate Outcomes4. Screening Tests5. Systems Failure6. Finding Flawed Therapies on Our Own7. The Frequency of Medical Reversal8. The Harms of Medical ReversalToday's Patients, Tomorrow's Patients, and the Health-Care FieldPart II9. A Primer on Evidence-Based MedicineWhat Is Evidence in Medicine?10. What Really Made You BetterWhen Evidence Gets ComplicatedPart III11. Scientific Progress, Revolution, and Medical Reversal12. Sources of Flawed Data13. Why Are We So Attracted to Flawed Therapies?Part IV14. Medical EducationA Very Good Place to Start15. Academic Medicine16. Reforming the SystemThe Burden of Proof and Nudging Our Way Past Reversal17. How Not to Become a Victim of Reversal18. Beyond DogmaWhen Randomized Trials Are UnnecessaryAcknowledgmentsAppendixReferencesIndex
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Penguin Putnam Inc Healing
Book SynopsisA bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system.“Healing is truly one of the best books ever written about mental illness, and I think I’ve read them all. —Pete Earley, author of CrazyAs director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, “Our house is on fire and you’re telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?” Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not nearly enough. The gargantuan American mental health industry was not healing millions who were desperately in need. He left his position atop the mental health research world to investigate all that was broken—and what a better path to mental health might look like. In the United States, we have treatm
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WW Norton & Co Science on Trial The Clash of Medical Evidence
Book SynopsisAn accessible, passionate indictment of the ignorance, opportunism and social indifference that enriched lawyers and a few plaintiffs, though the available scientific evidence was against them. New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of 1996Trade Review"[A] sober and rigorous examination of the controversy over silicone breast implants . . . an important statement, not just about silicone implants, but about other matters at the intersection of law, science, and opinion. [Dr. Angell’s] book is . . . a warning that rationality, like much else in the fragile porcelain of society, can be weakened by lack of vigilance." -- New York Times"An indispensable guide to the breast implant madness—litigation that will forever stand as a monument to the inability of our civil justice system to sort out latter-day Ptolemies from Galileos." -- Wall Street Journal"Marcia Angell's outstanding book explains clearly and fairly the combination of greed, fear, ignorance, junk science, and media hype that created this national litigation nightmare. Everyone interested in the tort system, science, and medicine should heed the lessons that Dr. Angell teaches." -- Shirley M. Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education
£17.58
The University of Chicago Press Inclusion The Politics of Difference in Medical
Book SynopsisArgues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Trade Review"Epstein's use of theory to demonstrate how public policies in the health profession are shaped makes this book relevant for many academic disciplines.... Highly recommended." - Choice "A balanced analysis of the positive and negative effects of institutional changes on groups that are traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research." - New England Journal of Medicine"
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Ohio University Press Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa
Book SynopsisMaking and Unmaking Public Health in Africa explores how medical professionals and patients, government officials, and ordinary citizens approach questions of public health as they navigate contemporary landscapes of NGOs and transnational projects, faltering state services, and expanding privatization.Trade Review“The essays are in the very best tradition of medical anthropology: they display intimate political engagement, are genuinely comparative, speak to each other, and…accessibly written. …The volume opens up new vistas on public health, and challenges what we take for granted.” * African Affairs *“Public health in Africa—as elsewhere—is no longer strictly public. Public and private providers are involved in national and transnational partnerships that divide responsibility for health and welfare among a number of agencies and actors. These clear and powerful essays set out this new landscape, exploring how medical professionals and patients, government officials and citizens approach questions of health. This text is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Africa.”“[The chapters] provide a fascinating range of ethnographically rich and theoretically subtle accounts of and insights into the diverse and often ambiguous practices of ‘public health’ across Africa. …One of the most impressive things about this volume is its integration and coherence…The result is a landmark publication that I believe will become a key text of enduring value – particularly to scholars and practitioners in the fields of public health, global health, and medical anthropology – but also to a much wider audience within and beyond anthropology.” * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“A powerful and complex picture of what ‘public health’ is in Africa today as commitments to national health systems are being reshaped through the dramatic rise of ‘global health.’ This set of ethnographically rich and historically sensitive essays illustrates the forms of inequality that structure efforts to building health care institutions and that configure debates over who is responsible for the health and care of particular individuals. It is a must read for both Africanists interested in medicine and public health professionals who care about Africa.”“This volume contributes significantly to the rapidly developing scholarship of public health and global health in African contexts, considered either as a collection of excellent chapters or taken as the sum of its parts. … [It] is also book-ended with trenchant, provocative commentaries on the operative theories and current practices of public health in Africa.…Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa is an ideal fit for teaching the history or anthropology of public health at the undergraduate or graduate level.” * Social History of Medicine *“Though the historical and anthropological literature on public health in Africa has tended to focus on the ‘health’ part of the equation, the chapters in this volume interrogate the meaning of the ‘public’ aspect.…Prince and Marsland argue that in recent years ‘widening global and national inequalities and the emptying out of the public as an inclusive terrain’ has led to a shift in health care provision to ‘the arena of the market and of nongovernmental and transnational organizations’ in most African settings. Individual chapters examine how Africans across the continent interpret and negotiate this chaotic, fractured terrain in a variety of contexts… Recommended.” * Choice *“Any medical anthropologist who works in Africa will want this book in a nearby library. Those of us who study African biomedicine and biomedical research, whether anthropologists or historians, will find it particularly valuable. …As a whole, this excellent collection enlarges the scope of public health and challenges readers to think deeply about who is responsible for African health—and for the many threats to it.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“This superb new edited volume is extraordinarily timely and important.” * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction Situating Health and the Public in Africa Historical and Anthropological Perspectives RUTH J. PRINCE * Part I WHOSE PUBLIC HEALTH? * One The Peculiarly Political Problem behind Nigeria's Primary Health Care Provision MURRAY LAST * Two Who Are the "Public" in Public Health? Debating Crowds, Populations, and Publics in Tanzania REBECCA MARSLAND * Three The Qualities of Citizenship Private Pharmacists and the State in Senegal after Independence and Alternance NOEMI TOUSIGNANT * Part II REGIMES AND RELATIONS OF CARE * Four Regimes of Homework in AIDS Care Questions of Responsibility and the Imagination of Lives in Uganda LOTTE MEINERT * Five "Home-Based Care Is Not a New Thing" Legacies of Domestic Governmentality in Western Kenya HANNAH BROWN * Six Technologies of Hope Managing Cancer in a Kenyan Hospital BENSON A. MULEMI * Part III EMERGING LANDSCAPES OF PUBLIC HEALTH * Seven The Publics of the New Public Health Life Conditions and "Lifestyle Diseases" in Uganda SUSAN REYNOLDS WHYTE * Eight Navigating "Global Health" in an East African City RUTH J. PRINCE * Nine The Archipelago of Public Health Comments on the Landscape of Medical Research in Twenty-First-Century Africa P. WENZEL GEISSLER * Bibliography * Contributors * Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Health Program Planning Implementation and
Book SynopsisA time-tested, landmark approach to health promotion and communication projects and everything that goes into making them successful. For more than 40 years, the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, developed in the early 1970s by Lawrence W. Green and first published as a text in 1980 with Marshall W. Kreuter, Sigrid G. Deeds, and Kay B. Partridge, has been effectively applied worldwide to address a broad range of health issues: risk factors like tobacco and lack of exercise, social determinants of health such as lack of access to transportation and safe housing, and major disease challenges like heart disease and guinea worm disease. In Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation, Green and his team of senior editors and chapter authors combine their expertise to offer a high-level guide to public health programming. This guide aligns with foundational public health competencies required by increasingly rigorous certification and accreditation standards. Driven by the coronavirus panTable of ContentsForeword by Jonathan E. FieldingPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsContributors Part I. Hallmarks of the PRECEDE-PROCEED ModelChapter 1 A Model for Population Health Planning, Implementation, and EvaluationLawrence W. Green, Andrea Carlson Gielen, Marshall W. Kreuter, Darleen V. Peterson, and Judith M. Ottoson Chapter 2 Participation and Community Engagement in PlanningLawrence W. Green, Andrea Carlson Gielen, and Marshall W. KreuterPart II. PRECEDE-PROCEED Phases: Planning, Implementation, and EvaluationChapter 3 Social Assessment: Quality of LifeLawrence W. Green, Marshall W. Kreuter, and Andrea Carlson GielenChapter 4 Epidemiological Assessment I: Population HealthLawrence W. Green, Andrea Carlson Gielen, and Marshall W. KreuterChapter 5 Epidemiological Assessment II: Behavioral and Environmental FactorsLawrence W. Green, Marshall W. Kreuter, and Andrea Carlson GielenChapter 6 Educational and Ecological Assessment: Predisposing, Enabling, and Reinforcing FactorsMaría E. Fernández, Gerjo Kok, Guy Parcel, and Lawrence W. GreenChapter 7 Health Program and Policy Development I: Intervention StrategiesMichelle C. Kegler and Rodney LynChapter 8 Health Program and Policy Development II: Implementation StrategiesCam Escoffery and Lawrence W. GreenChapter 9 Health Program and Policy Development III: Evaluation StrategiesChris Y. Lovato and Judith M. OttosonPart III. Applications of PRECEDE-PROCEED in Specific SettingsIntroduction to PRECEDE-PROCEED ApplicationsChapter 10 Applications in Community SettingsAmelie G. Ramirez and Patricia ChalelaChapter 11 Applications in Occupational SettingsPaul Terry, Nico Pronk, and Shelley GoldenChapter 12 Applications in School SettingsLloyd J. Kolbe, Holly Hunt, and Faten Ben AbdelazizChapter 13 Applications in Health Care SettingsJohn P. Allegrante and Janey C. PetersonChapter 14 Applications in Communication TechnologyRobert S. GoldAppendixesA. Frequently Asked QuestionsAndrea Carlson Gielen and Vanya C. JonesB. Public Health Competencies by ChapterDarleen V. PetersonC. The Evaluation Standards: A ChecklistD. CDC Evaluation Framework Steps and PRECEDE-PROCEED PhasesE. Commonly Used Evaluation DesignsGlossaryIndex
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Oxford University Press Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law
Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice. It is written with the busy clinician in mind who requires the key information presented without technical jargon in a handy quick-reference style.Trade Reviewthis book makes an impressive contribution to medical education ... it is easy to read and understand and highly relevant to modern clinical practice * Dr Harry Brown, Glycosmedia *"...such an interesting and useful handbook of medical ethics and law - straightforwardly written and helpfully combining ethical and legal reasoning with advice and at least some legal obligations for clinicians practising under English law - analysis and advice worth considering even by doctors practising elsewhere" * Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, Imperial College London; Past President, British Medical Association; Honorary President, Institute of Medical Ethics; Former Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics *Table of ContentsPart 1: Ethics 1: Introduction to Ethics 2: The Virtuous Doctor 3: Consequentialism 4: Deontology 5: The Four Principles 6: Care Ethics 7: Moral Relativism and Subjectivism 8: Critical Reasoning Part 2: Law 9: Introduction to the Legal System 10: Key Articles of Law 11: Court 12: Law within Medical Practice 13: Negligence 14: Other Issues of Liability Part 3: Generic legal and ethical issues 15: Resource allocation 16: Candour and Confidentiality 17: Issues in the Doctor-Patient Relationship 18: Issues in Death and Dying 19: Doctors and the General Medical Council ('GMC') 20: Medical Research 21: Medical Education Part 4: Ethico-legal issues by medical specialism 22: Ethico-legal issues by medical specialism A-M 23: Ethico-legal issues by medical specialism N-V Part 5: Statutory Provisions 24: Abortion Act 1967 25: Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 26: Gender Recognition Act 2004 27: Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 28: Human Rights Act 1998 (European Convention on Human Rights) 29: Human Tissue Act 2004 30: Mental Capacity Act 2005 31: Mental Health Act 1983 32: Suicide Act 1961 33: Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985
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Johns Hopkins University Press Life and Death in Rikers Island
Book SynopsisShining a light on the deadly health consequences of incarceration. Finalist in the PROSE Award for Best Book in Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology by the Association of American PublishersKalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, Browder spent three years in New York's infamous Rikers Island jailtwo in solitary confinementwhile awaiting trial. After his case was dismissed in 2013, Browder returned to his family, haunted by his ordeal. Suffering through the lonely hell of solitary, Browder had been violently attacked by fellow prisoners and corrections officers throughout his incarceration. Consumed with depression, Browder committed suicide in 2015. He was just 22 years old. In Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer for New York City's jails, explains the profound health risks associated with incarceration. FTrade ReviewReporters have virtually no access to the jails on Rikers Island, but, for many years, Venters had a rare vantage point from which to observe its inner workings . . . He left the city's jail-health service in 2017, and now he has written a crucially important book, Life and Death in Rikers Island, in which he examines one of the most overlooked aspects of mass incarceration: the health risks of being locked up . . . Venters reveals the true human cost of these colossal management failures.—Jennifer Gonnerman, The New YorkerVenters is a role model for using data as a tool for both epidemiology and human rights. In his book, he describes rigorous case reviews and epidemiological studies that demonstrate causes of harm . . . Venters's book impressively demonstrates that too little has been done at Rikers to prevent suffering, violence, and death.—Hans Wolff MD, MPH, and Robert Greifinger MD, American Journal of Public HealthHomer Venter's prescient Life and Death in Rikers Island explains why improving carceral health is important and deserving of more attention. In the COVID-19 era, this argument gains even greater significance . . . The book is also a searing exposé that powerfully illustrates the health risks of incarceration in New York City, as well as those risks that lead to incarceration in the first place . . . This book will be of interest to readers who follow health, medicine, and the carceral system, as well as activists and policy makers working to improve conditions for incarcerated people.—Ezelle Sanford III, The Gotham Center for New York City HistoryTable of ContentsForeword, by Preet BhararaAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Dying in Jail: Carlos Mercado and Angel Ramirez Chapter 2. Injury and Violence Chapter 3. Solitary Confinement Chapter 4. Serious Mental Illness in Jail Chapter 5. Human Rights and Correctional Health Chapter 6. Race: Kalief Browder Chapter 7. Sexual Assault in Rikers: Maria and Brianna Chapter 8. Correctional Health Chapter 9. Transparency and Governance Conclusion. What to Do with Rikers Appendix Notes Index
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Right to Try How the Federal Government
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Uncontrolled Spread
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Uncontrolled Spread is everything you’d hope: a smart and insightful account of what happened and, currently, the best guide to what needs to be done to avoid a future pandemic. —Wall Street Journal“Informative and well paced.”—The Guardian“An intense ride through the pandemic with chilling details of what really happened. It is also sprinkled with notes of true wisdom that may help all of us better prepare for the future.”—Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent, CNNPhysician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything?In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America’s pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps tha
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Oxford University Press Mason and McCall Smiths Law and Medical Ethics
Book SynopsisTrusted for over 40 years for its authoritative account of medical law, this text provides the right balance between in-depth legal coverage and analysis of ethical issues.This classic textbook focuses on medical law and its relationship with medical practice and modern ethics. It provides thorough coverage of all topics found on medical law courses, and in-depth analysis of recent court decisions and legislation, encouraging students to think critically about this area of study. - Covers the whole field of modern ethical medical practice, making the book suitable for use on all undergraduate and postgraduate medical law courses- Clearly sets a diversity of views in ethical debates, and offers the authors'' own perspectives, encouraging students to explore and form their own opinions- Takes account of the influence of international policy and legal developments in shaping medical law in the UKNew to this edition: Two brand new chapters introduce students to concepts, theories, and toolTrade ReviewReview from previous edition This is the gold standard: authoritative, comprehensive, and the most readable account of a challenging subject. * Sarah Sivers, Robert Gordon University *This is the leading treatise in medical law: it preserves Mason and McCall Smith's ground-breaking work and distinct approach, while covering an impressive breadth of material. * Katherine Wade, University of Leicester *Table of Contents1: Introduction to bioethics 2: Critical frameworks in bioethics 3: Governance of the health system 4: Health and social care professionals 5: Health resource allocation 6: Health research and innovation 7: Public health 8: Consent to medical treatment 9: Children and consent to medical treatment 10: Mental health 11: Medical confidentiality and data protection 12: Clinical negligence 13: Organ donation for transplantation 14: The body as property 15: Contraception and pregnancy 16: Assisted conception 17: Withdrawal and withholding of medical treatment 18: Euthanasia and assisted suicide
£45.99
Oxford University Press Opt Out Organ Donation
Book SynopsisA global shortage of organs for transplantation has led to myriad proposals for improving supply. One that has gained significant traction is so-called opt out', wherein donation becomes the default, and the burden falls on those who do not want their organs used to formally record this.Despite widespread uptake, opt out models are far from flawless. They have, in their theoretical form, been criticised for masquerading as informed consent and inadequately involving families in decisions. In their realised form, they have been suggested to be redundant given practical challenges in following through with the core tenet. Alongside such critiques are concerns around designing opt out systems to satisfy public awareness requirements and protect the vulnerable from inappropriate inclusion.This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of all four UK opt out systems. Rather than assessing the success of these systems in increasing transplantation activity - which it is ultimately too soon for - this book examines the paths to and design of these systems. In dissecting the construction, it manoeuvres towards a better understanding of what a good' opt out system might look like, offering important considerations in the development of future examples elsewhere.Through this analysis, this book also explores the relationship between the four UK nations in their respective moves to introduce opt out. Further, it incorporates comparative discussion with the systems of the Crown Dependencies, highlighting important interplays between the UK and these neighbouring jurisdictions. In doing so, it contributes to the growth of scholarly interest in the impact of devolution on healthcare law.
£37.99
Oxford University Press, USA Ethics in Mental Health Research Principles Guidance and Cases
Book SynopsisEthics in Mental Health Research explores how ethical issues arise in mental health research and offers guidance to researchers who seek to comply with regulations while conducting research that is both ethical and scientifically credible. Case studies used throughout illustrate a variety of ethical issues and effective problem-solving strategies.Trade ReviewThis compendium of resources is a landmark contribution to the mental health field. * Joseph G. Ponterotto, PsycCritiques, Vol 53, Release 40 *This outstanding book on mental health research ethics certainly will become obligatory reading for anyone contemplating research on mental illness as well as anyone responsible for the ethical and regulatory review of such research. * Doody's Notes *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Focus on Mental Health Research? ; 1. Ethics and Regulatory Compliance: Competing or Complementary Approaches? ; 2. An Ethical Framework for Research ; 3. Solving Ethical Problems: Analyzing Ethics Cases and Justifying Decisions Case Study: Willowbrook Revisited ; 4. Informed Consent Case Study: Withholding information on study purpose ; 5. Decision-Making Capacity and the Involvement of Surrogates Case Study: Questionable capacity Case Study: Waiving parental permission ; 6. Thinking about Harms and Benefits Case Study: A study of suicidality with at-risk teens ; 7. Justice in Recruitment and Research Case Study: Reimbursing participants for their time in a psychotherapy trial Case Study: Biological studies of aggressive behavior in preteens ; 8. Research Questions and Study Design Case Study: The ethics of placebo controls ; 9. Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality Case Study: Confidentiality and mandatory reporting ; 10. Identifying and Managing Conflicts of Interest Case Study: Multiple illustrative vignettes
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Oxford University Press Stalking
Book SynopsisThis book provides up-to-date information on a variety of areas within stalking research, including practical approaches to stalking risk assessment and management, along with unique information related to celebrity stalking, cyberstalking, and forensic assessment.Trade Review...I would highly recommend this book for its scope and clarity. * British Journal of Psychology *This book stands alone at the forefront of identifynig and understanding this disturbing phenomenon. The vast experience of the authors adds a rich clinical component to to the empirical data and serves to make the information more approachable and useful for readers. This is a worthy addition to a practitioner's library, and the comfortable writing style allows for quick referral to specific issues. The book will undoubtedly be viewed as a vital reference for both forensic and general clinicians involved in the assessment and potential treatment of individuals with stalking behavior. * Doddy's Notes, *Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION ; PART II: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF STALKING ; PART III: STALKING AND THE LAW ; PART V: EPILOGUE
£58.50
The University of Chicago Press The Medical Malpractice Myth
Book SynopsisAims to bring together research that demolishes the myths that have taken hold and suggests a series of legal reforms that would help doctors manage malpractice insurance while also improving patient safety and medical accountability.Trade Review"The best attempt to synthesize the academic literature on medical malpractice is Tom Baker's The Medical Malpractice Myth.... [Baker] argues that the hype about medical malpractice suits is 'urban legend mixed with the occasional true story, supported by selective references to academic studies.'... If anything, there are fewer lawsuits than would be expected, and far more injuries than we usually imagine." - Slate"
£14.00
The University of Chicago Press Inclusion
Book SynopsisArgues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Trade Review"Epstein's use of theory to demonstrate how public policies in the health profession are shaped makes this book relevant for many academic disciplines.... Highly recommended." - Choice "A balanced analysis of the positive and negative effects of institutional changes on groups that are traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research." - New England Journal of Medicine"
£76.00
University of Chicago Press Suing for Medical Malpractice
Book SynopsisMedical malpractice suits today can result in multi-million-dollar settlements, and a practicing physician can pay $100,000 or more annually for malpractice insurance. Some complain that lawyers and plaintiffs are overcompensated by exorbitant judgments that add to the rising cost of health care. But there has been very little evidence to show whether these arguments are true. In this timely work, six experts in health policy, law, and medicine study nearly 200 malpractice claims to show that, contrary to popular perceptions, victims of malpractice are not overcompensated and our legal system for dealing with malpractice claims is not defective. The authors survey claims filed in Florida between 1986 and 1989 by people who suffered permanent injury or death during birth or during treatment in an emergency room. How often did illegitimate claims result in financial awards? What was the relation between the injury and the amount the patient lost economically? How much did the plaintiffs actually recover? How did the claimants choose their lawyers and what kind of relationship did they have?Contrary to common perceptions, in the majority of cases the claims were merited, and the authors found that claimants were on average substantially undercompensated--only about one-fifth of plaintiffs recovered more than their economic loss caused by injury or death. The evidence in this book suggests that placing dollar limits on malpractice cases is unjustified and that our tort system is not so faulty after all.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Boxes Preface Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Setting the Stage Frank A. Sloan Ch. 2: The Sample Frank A. Sloan, Penny B. Githens. Ch. 3: The Injuries, Antecedents, and Consequences Frank A. Sloan Ch. 4: Doctor-Patient Relationships Ellen Wright Clayton, Gerald B. Hickson, Penny B. Githens, Frank A. Sloan. Ch. 5: Lawyer-Client Relationships Ellen Wright Clayton, David F. Partlett. Ch. 6: Liability Gerald B. Hickson, Douglas A. Gentile, Penny B. Githens, Frank A. Sloan. Ch. 7: Cost of Injuries Frank A. Sloan, Stephen S. van Wert. Ch. 8: The Dispute Resolution Process Frank A. Sloan, Penny B. Githens, Gerald B. Hickson. Ch. 9: Compensation Frank A. Sloan, Penny B. Githens, Gerald B. Hickson, Stephen S. van Wert. Ch. 10: Policy Implications Frank A. Sloan Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Nursing the Spirit
Book SynopsisDon Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspectives of the people who provide care.Trade ReviewDon Grant brings the reader into the lived interpersonal experience of religion through the care that nurses engender of the body and spirit of patients. Out of such professional caregiving, Grant advances the social theory of care as a moral, emotional, and spiritual practice that resists professional and bureaucratic constraints on the meaning and future of the human in our highly technologized, bureaucratized, and neoliberal times. A serious and provocative achievement! -- Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a DoctorDon Grant's book on spirituality, and nursing the human spirit is an inspired treatise of sustaining human caring and human dignity wherever it is present! This work honors nursing as an exemplar of spirituality, depth of human spirit, and transcendent yet immanent nature of our shared humanity—evident in small and grand ways. Grant captures the universal history of human care and its relevant to diverse fields and life itself. A tremendous resource for interdisciplinary professional and lay interests, studies and practices. -- Jean Watson, author of Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of CaringDon Grant raises crucial questions about medical institutions, the place of spirituality in healthcare, and the limits of sociology as a way of knowing. Nursing the Spirit is a fascinating experiment in multifaceted research, as Grant juxtaposes first-person writing—about his experiences as an intern chaplain and as a patient—with social scientific methods of studying nursing work. The experiential and methodological modes of inquiry each tell their own truths, and readers can contemplate how these overlap and diverge. -- Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and EthicsBased on research at a hospital planning to end its chaplaincy program, Nursing the Spirit thoughtfully and sympathetically delves into how nurses think and talk about the spiritual aspects of their work, and how they sometimes provide spiritual care to patients. Both personal and scholarly, this book explores what it might mean for nurses to care for people’s entire selves—not just their bodies—and the challenges of doing so. -- Mark Chaves, author of American Religion: Contemporary Trends, second editionReligions urge us to care for suffering strangers. Nursing the Spirit shows that, although hospitals are bureaucratic organizations applying medical science, they are also places where nurses, in an unofficial and low-key way, offer spiritual (as well as physical) care to patients. Grant explains how and why they do this, and grapples with the important question of how an ethic of care can be kept alive in today’s societies. -- Paula England, New York University, past President of the American Sociological AssociationHow can the ideal of being ready to help not only those close to us, and of considering all people spiritual beings, be preserved and translated into social reality? In a brilliant sociological study of nurses in a university hospital, combined with personal and historical reflections, the author confronts us with the challenges for this ideal in the world of modern scientific medicine and opens realistic perspectives that give reason for hope. -- Hans Joas, Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface1. Religion and Care of the Stranger2. The History of Caritas in Health Care3. Craft Versions of Religious Authority4. Second-Guessing Talk About Spirituality5. Pathways to Spiritual Meaning and Emotional Dead Ends6. Styles of Spiritual Care7. Bridging Science and Spirituality Through Storytelling8. Restoring the Sanctity Once Bestowed on HumanityNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Nursing the Spirit
Book SynopsisDon Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspectives of the people who provide care.Trade ReviewDon Grant brings the reader into the lived interpersonal experience of religion through the care that nurses engender of the body and spirit of patients. Out of such professional caregiving, Grant advances the social theory of care as a moral, emotional, and spiritual practice that resists professional and bureaucratic constraints on the meaning and future of the human in our highly technologized, bureaucratized, and neoliberal times. A serious and provocative achievement! -- Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a DoctorDon Grant's book on spirituality, and nursing the human spirit is an inspired treatise of sustaining human caring and human dignity wherever it is present! This work honors nursing as an exemplar of spirituality, depth of human spirit, and transcendent yet immanent nature of our shared humanity—evident in small and grand ways. Grant captures the universal history of human care and its relevant to diverse fields and life itself. A tremendous resource for interdisciplinary professional and lay interests, studies and practices. -- Jean Watson, author of Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of CaringDon Grant raises crucial questions about medical institutions, the place of spirituality in healthcare, and the limits of sociology as a way of knowing. Nursing the Spirit is a fascinating experiment in multifaceted research, as Grant juxtaposes first-person writing—about his experiences as an intern chaplain and as a patient—with social scientific methods of studying nursing work. The experiential and methodological modes of inquiry each tell their own truths, and readers can contemplate how these overlap and diverge. -- Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and EthicsBased on research at a hospital planning to end its chaplaincy program, Nursing the Spirit thoughtfully and sympathetically delves into how nurses think and talk about the spiritual aspects of their work, and how they sometimes provide spiritual care to patients. Both personal and scholarly, this book explores what it might mean for nurses to care for people’s entire selves—not just their bodies—and the challenges of doing so. -- Mark Chaves, author of American Religion: Contemporary Trends, second editionReligions urge us to care for suffering strangers. Nursing the Spirit shows that, although hospitals are bureaucratic organizations applying medical science, they are also places where nurses, in an unofficial and low-key way, offer spiritual (as well as physical) care to patients. Grant explains how and why they do this, and grapples with the important question of how an ethic of care can be kept alive in today’s societies. -- Paula England, New York University, past President of the American Sociological AssociationHow can the ideal of being ready to help not only those close to us, and of considering all people spiritual beings, be preserved and translated into social reality? In a brilliant sociological study of nurses in a university hospital, combined with personal and historical reflections, the author confronts us with the challenges for this ideal in the world of modern scientific medicine and opens realistic perspectives that give reason for hope. -- Hans Joas, Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface1. Religion and Care of the Stranger2. The History of Caritas in Health Care3. Craft Versions of Religious Authority4. Second-Guessing Talk About Spirituality5. Pathways to Spiritual Meaning and Emotional Dead Ends6. Styles of Spiritual Care7. Bridging Science and Spirituality Through Storytelling8. Restoring the Sanctity Once Bestowed on HumanityNotesReferencesIndex
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Yale University Press Politics Health and Health Care
Book SynopsisFeatures two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis who reflect in a collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama's health care reform. This book includes their writings on the future of Medicare; universal health insurance; conflicts of interest among physicians, regulators, and patients; and other topics.
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Elsevier Nursing Today
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Ethical Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 An Introduction to Ethics and the Law: A Perspective for Nurses 2 Ethical Theories: Their Meaning for Nurses 3 Guiding Ethical Decision Making: Resources for Nurses 4 The Canadian Legal System 5 Regulation of the Nursing Profession 6 Informed Consent: Rights and Obligations 7 The Nurse's Legal Accountabilities: Professional Competence, Misconduct, Malpractice, and Nursing Documentation 8 Complexity at the End of Life: Ethical and Legal Challenges 9 Ethical and Legal Issues Related to Advancing Science and Technology 10 Safeguarding Patient Rights 11 Perspectives on the Rights of Nurses 12 Ethical Issues in Leadership, the Organization, and Approaches to the Delivery of Care Glossary Index
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Elsevier Nursing Today Binder Ready
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Taylor & Francis Diagnostic Cultures
Book SynopsisSome studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence for the progress of psychiatry, a discipline that is now able to identify and treat mental illnesses that have always existed, or might it be the case that modern life somehow creates new conditions, or social pathologies? This book argues that in fact something more fundamental has been taking place in recent years: the development of diagnostic cultures. Taking account of the phenomenon of patients themselves ''pushing for'' pathologization - and acknowledging therefore that this is not simply a case of psychiatry pursuing an agenda of ''medicalisation from above'' - this volume examines the emerging trend towards interpreting our sufferings in terms of psychiatric conceptions and diagnostic categories. Drawing on new empirical case studies of psychological diagnoses, including depression and ADHD, and emplTrade Review"A captivating analysis of the ways that use of medical diagnoses to categorize human behavior has altered our inner experience and our everyday social lives." - Donald R. Marks and Larissa Redziniak in PsycCRITIQUES (2016)Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Introducing the Concept of Diagnostic Cultures2. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Epistemic Objects3. Languages of Suffering4. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Semiotic Mediators5. "Do More, Feel Better, Live Longer": Being a Psychiatric Subject6. Interpreting the Epidemics7. Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Mental Disorder8. General ConclusionsBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Pioneering Healthcare Law
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazierâs outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects developed in Professor Brazierâs agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, the US and continental Europe. They examine a range of current and future challenges for healthcare law and bioethics, representing state-of-the-art scholarship in the field.The book is organised into five parts. Part I discusses key principles and themes in healthcare law and bioethics. Part II examines the dynamics of the patientâdoctor relationship, in particular the role of patients. Part III explores legal and ethical issues relating to the human body. Part IV discusses the regulation of reproduction, and Part V examines the relationship between the criminal law and the healthcare process.Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open AcceTable of ContentsPreface, Brenda Hale 1. Pioneering Healthcare Law: Reflecting on the Work and Contribution of Margaret Brazier, Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell and Alexandra Mullock Part I: Principles and Concepts in Healthcare Law 2. Waxing and Waning: the Shifting Sands of Autonomy on the Medico-Legal Shore, J. Kenyon Mason & Graeme Laurie 3. Compulsory Vaccination and the Collective Good: Going Beyond a Civic Duty?’, Nicola Glover-Thomas & Søren Holm 4.The Value of Human Life in Healthcare Law: Life versus Death in the Hands of the Judiciary, Rob Heywood & Alexandra Mullock 5. Decisions at the End of Life: An Attempt at Rationalisation, Sheila McLean 6.The Past, Present and Future of EU Health Law, Tamara Hervey 7. Beyond Medicine, Patients and the Law: Policy and Governance in 21st Century Health Law, John Coggon & Lawrence O Gostin Part II: Patient-Doctor Relations 8. ‘(I Love You!) I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do’: Breaches of Sexual Boundaries by Patients in their Relationships with Healthcare Professionals, Suzanne Ost & Hazel Biggs 9. When Things Go Wrong: Patient Harm, Responsibility and (Dis) Empowerment Anne-Maree Farrell and Sarah Devaney 10. Critical Decisions for Critically Ill Infants: Principles, Processes, Problems Giles Birchley and Richard Huxtable 11. The Role of the Family in Healthcare Decisions: the dead and the dying Monica Navarro-Michel Part III: Law, ethics and the human body12. Exploring the legacy of the Retained Organs Commission a decade on: Lessons Learned and the Danger of Lessons Lost Jean McHale 13. Property Interests in Human Tissue: Is the Law still an Ass? Muireann Quigley and Loane Skene 14. Law and Humanity: Exploring Organ Donation using the Brazier Method Marleen Eijkholt and Ruth Stirton 15. Sex Change Surgery for Transgender Minors: Should Doctors Speak Out? Simona Giordano, César Palacios-González and John Harris 16. The Lawyer’s Prestige Iain Brassington and Imogen Jones Part IV: Regulating Reproduction 17. The Science of Muddling Through: Categorising Embryos Marie Fox and Sheelagh McGuinness 18. Revisiting the Regulation of the Reproduction Business Danielle Griffiths and Amel Alghrani 19. Regulating Responsible Reproduction David Archard 20. Donor Conception and Information Disclosure: Welfare or Consent? Rosamund Scott 21. Are We Still "Policing Pregnancy"? Sara Fovargue and Jose Miola Part V: The Criminal Law and the Healthcare Process 22. Vulnerability and the Criminal Law: The Implications of Brazier’s Research for Safeguarding People at Risk Kirsty Keywood and Zuzanna Sawicka 23. Revisiting the Criminal Law on the Transmission of Disease David Gurnham and Andrew Ashworth 24. Maternal responsibility to the child not yet born Emma Cave and Catherine Stanton 25. Compromise Medicalisation Roger Brownsword and Jeffrey Wale
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queering Fat Embodiment
Book SynopsisCultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an alleged 'obesity epidemic', this volume brings together the latest scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment. Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses. A critical queer examination on fatness, Queering Fat Embodiment will be of interest tTrade Review’Queering Fat Embodiment is the first book to focus on the intersection of queer studies and fat studies, and promises to be a classic in its field. What could be more exciting than discussions of fat and queer fashion, desire, performance, cyberspace, and politics, as well as the fluidity of gender identity, bodies, and sexuality? It’s a great read.’ Esther D. Rothblum, San Diego State University, USA ’Queering Fat Embodiment is an important contribution to the emerging literature of Fat Studies because it restates the necessity for radical critique and makes space for anti-assimilationist activism. The book offers an exciting balance of better-known contributors and fresh new voices and I highly recommend it to anybody interested in developing a critical understanding of fat and obesity.’ Dr Charlotte Cooper, charlottecooper.net, obesitytimebomb.blogspot.co.uk, twitter.com/thebeeferTable of ContentsQueering Fat Embodiment
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Random House USA Inc Under the Skin
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer.—Oprah DailyFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial dis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Values in Medicine What are We Really Doing to
Book SynopsisWritten by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments. Accessibly written, it provides readers with a timely contribution to the current literature on medical ethics, in which the concept of subjectivity is a key issue characterizing current medical humanities.Examining the critical assumption that scientifically-demonstrable facts will remove all uncertainty, the author argues that ethical dimensions of clinical practice do not always arise from undisputed facts, but that they are sometimes to be found at the level of the determinations of the facts themselves.Firmly placing the patient back on centre stage, without underestimating the crucial role which science plays in modern medicine, this volume is an excellent account of ethics and science in healthcare and their proper place in assessing and meeting people's health needs.Table of Contents1. What are we really doing to patients? 2. Radical disagreement and cultural dissonance 3. Mystery in Sugery 4. Equitable Health Care 5. Is infertility a health need? 6. The child's interests in assisted reproduction 7. Qualifying as a person 8. Are animals our equals? 9. Patients and research 10. Ethics, nanotechnologies and health 11. Imagination and medical education
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Principles of Corporate Renewal Second Edition
Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Harlan Platt has revised, updated, and expanded this classic text to include a new chapter on bankruptcy law, a profile of the turnaround manager, and an overview of the typical turnaround engagement. This book cuts to the heart of the patterns, procedures, and pitfalls of bringing a corporation back to life and health.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Bendectin on Trial A Study of Mass Tort
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Law at the End of Life
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Random House USA Inc Under the Skin
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer.—Oprah DailyFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore.Now, in Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts. Today's medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Black people live in dirtier, more polluted communities due to environmental racism and neglect from all levels of government. And, most powerfully, Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under the Skin is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Tyranny of the Gene
Book SynopsisA revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicineThe United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our genomes—have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen.In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine—essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives—and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present, revealing how politicians, influential federal scientists, biotech companies, and drug giant
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Random House USA Inc How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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Harvard University Press Global Health Security
Book SynopsisIn an age of pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security expert Lawrence O. Gostin examines the key cross-border threats to our well-being, from infectious diseases to bioterrorism, and proposes pragmatic solutions: targeted research, robust international institutions, and tools for effective global action.Trade ReviewGostin draws on the lessons of AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and the COVID-19 pandemic to lay out a roadmap for global health security, making a powerful and persuasive case for how the principles of solidarity, equity, and justice must guide the international community in preparing for and responding to the health crises of the future. -- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health OrganizationGlobal Health Security is invaluable, drawing critical lessons from the world’s epic struggle with COVID-19, and looking far beyond. Gostin incisively analyses future threats, from superbugs and antimicrobial resistance to bioterrorism, and charts a better course through global solidarity and enlightened self-interest. If you read only one book on global health this year, make it this one. -- Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of WellcomeThe world has learned valuable lessons from infectious disease outbreaks. Yet the power of lessons is in their use. In this book, Gostin provides a sweeping view of what is needed to avert disaster in the future. The crucial question is: will people read and act on his suggestions? -- William Herbert Foege, 10th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWe are entering an age of pandemics, one marked with more frequent disease outbreaks and increasingly greater threats to our social order. There is no one better than Gostin to connect the dots across outbreaks, laying out how climate change, economic development, and globalization have created new risks. But more than sounding the alarm, he brilliantly charts a path forward for how nations and indeed the world can be better prepared to meet these threats head on. -- Ashish K. Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public HealthAs a leading public health legal scholar and global health activist, Gostin has influenced the course of every major public health crisis of our time, from HIV/AIDS, to SARS, Ebola, and now COVID-19. Global Health Security draws on those important experiences but looks forward, charting a clear and compelling framework to assess future biological threats and effectively address them. Masterfully insightful. -- Peggy Hamburg, former Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of MedicineDiscouraged but inspired by COVID‑19, [Gostin’s] wide-ranging study analyzes the science and politics of past and present global disease, with hypothetical exercises about a new influenza, bioterrorism, and cholera. He recommends steps to reduce pandemic risk, such as increasing surveillance of animal pathogens and their movement. Above all, he calls for a ‘new politics,’ free from nationalistic populism. -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *[A] comprehensive and detailed blueprint for responding to global health crises. Gostin casts a wide net, addressing the overuse of antibiotics, climate change, and the lack of universal health coverage…Gostin goes further to explain how lessons from Covid-19 can remake society to be better prepared for future health threats. * Publishers Weekly *A comprehensive blueprint for global reforms. * Georgetown Law *
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Princeton University Press Dead on Arrival The Politics of Health Care in
Book SynopsisExamines the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.Trade Review"This is a sophisticated, impassioned, and well-documented analysis of the failures of twentieth-century American health reform efforts."--David Rosner, Business History Review "[A] brilliantly recounted, thoughtful, and persuasive argument, not for simple explanations, but for a complex, on-the-ground discussion of what it was in the United States that made universal health insurance 'dead on arrival.'... [This book] is impeccably and impressively researched, drawing extensively on governmental and private archives."--Rosemary A. Stevens, Bulletin of the History of Medicine "Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, but Dead on Arrival is more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance?"--Bernard S. Bloom, Journal of the American Medical Association "A welcome addition to a large literature on the modern United States medical system... [It] illuminates the political deadlock and the institutional rigidity of the American system and offers a cogent explanation for why reform has been so intractable in health care throughout the last hundred years."--Declan O'Reilly, Enterprise & Society "A treasure trove of information for anyone seriously wishing to tackle this issue."--Tom Gallagher, San Francisco Bay Guardian "At a time of renewed popular and scholarly debate over America's exceptional welfare state, students of American public affairs will find much of value in Gordon's timely book."--Jacob S. Hacker, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction: Why No National Health Insurance in the United States? 1 1. The Political Economy of American Health Care: An Overview, 1910-2000 12 2. Bargaining for Health: Private Health Insurance and Public Policy 46 3. Between Contract and Charity: Health Care and the Dilemmas of Social Insurance 90 4. Socialized Medicine and Other Afflictions: The Political Culture of the Health Debate 136 5. Health Care in Black and White: Race, Region, and Health Politics 172 6. Private Interests and Public Policy: Health Care's Corporate Compromise 210 7. Silenced Majority: American Politics and the Dilemmas of Health Reform 261 Conclusion: The Past and Future of Health Politics 297 Archival Sources 303 Index 307
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Princeton University Press Code Red An Economist Explains How to Revive the
Book SynopsisProposes a set of healthcare solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality. This book focuses on the plight of the uninsured, and proposes a direction that promises to make premier healthcare for Americans a national reality. It is suitable for those trying to make sense of the thorny issues of healthcare reform.Trade Review"Code Red is one of the two or three best books on the economics of health care. It is especially strong on how the current mess evolved historically and what has been tried (or not tried) along the way. This is the place to go to understand PSROs or what happened to the HMO revolution...This book won't make anyone fully happy, but it is a must for fans of health care policy."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "Many books and articles address improvements to the US health care system and the provision of health insurance to all citizens ... [Dranove's] goal ... is to review public sector efforts to deal with access, costs, and quality... [I]t is well written ... and does a good job of providing insights into the national debate... In the end, having a quality system requires an efficient public-private partnership."--R. L. Jones, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, for CHOICE "With health care as a key issue in the presidential campaign, it is refreshing to read a balanced, well-reasoned essay on the ailments of our healthcare system, along with some possible remedies. Code Red is an excellent read for health care professionals and policy wonks: it is suitable for anyone interested in the debate, though it employs a modicum of vocabulary from Dranove's discipline, economics."--Michael P. Meacham, Centre Daily TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii PART 1: DIAGNOSING THE CONDITION 1 Introduction 3 Chapter One: An Accidental Healthcare System 8 Chapter Two: Paging Doctor Welby 30 Chapter Three: Therapy for an Ailing Health Economy 58 Chapter Four: The Managed Care Prescription 83 PART 2: SEARCHING FOR CURES 119 Chapter Five: Self-Help 121 Chapter Six: The Quality Revolution 147 Chapter Seven: Mending the Safety Net 176 Chapter Eight: Reviving the American Healthcare System 205 Appendix: An Alphabet Soup of Healthcare Acronyms 235 Notes 239 Bibliography 255 Index 269
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Princeton University Press Taming the Beloved Beast
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books, Health Sciences category for 2009 Recommended Reading, 2011 James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives "No one who comes to Taming the Beloved Beast with an open mind can deny the intellectual and ethical power of the questions he poses. He probes issues central to resolving the enormous problems and inequities--not to mention the looming financial threats--that bedevil American medical care."--Beryl Lieff Benderly, Science "While bringing insightful ethical, social, political and economic perspectives to this timely, well-documented discourse of the ballooning costs of American health care and Medicare, Callahan concentrates on the growing costs of medical technology, which, along with uncontrolled governmental healthcare spending, threaten to drag this country into financial crisis... This excellent overview of reaching the goal of universal health care is a good resource for anyone concerned with the future of health care and its economics."--Library Journal "The rising cost of health care has preoccupied policy makers and the public for decades. Callahan contends that the principal cause of rising costs lies in Americans' infatuation with new medical technologies... Callahan argues that the U.S. must rethink the goals of medical technologies and accept new limits on the availability and appropriate use of expensive medical treatments."--Choice "This book reflects the author's expertise not only as a researcher but also as a philosopher. He presents his arguments, discusses alternatives, and anticipates counterarguments, all with ample citations... [T]his book will engage readers seeking to gain insight on health care reform and cost control from the perspective of a pragmatic philosopher."--Leslie R. Pyenson, Psychiatric ServicesTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 CHAPter 1: Medicare on the Ropes 10 CHAPter 2: Taming the Beloved Beast: Medical Technology 37 CHAPter 3: Getting Serious about Costs and Technology 67 CHAPter 4: Competition: The Fix That Will Fail 92 CHAPter 5: The Cohabitation of Medicine and Commerce 120 CHAPter 6: "Medical Necessity": An All-But-Useless Concept 143 CHAPter 7: Redefining "Medical Necessity": From Individual Good to Common Good 171 CHAPter 8: Getting Out from Under: The Politics of Pain 201 Coda 229 Notes 235 Index 257
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Random House Canada Better Now
Book SynopsisFrom respected doctor and passionate Medicare advocate Danielle Martin, an important check-up on our health-care system--and what urgently needs fixing. Dr. Danielle Martin sees the cracks and challenges in our health-care system every day. In the style of Atul Gawande, she uses real patient stories to illustrate what works in our health-care system and what doesn''t. Most importantly, she proposes six big ideas to make healthcare achievable and affordable: 1) a national drug program; 2) change the way we deliver care; 3) reduce unnecessary tests; 4) strengthen primary care; 5) create a guaranteed income program; and 6) scale up successful innovation. One of the most urgent reforms she advocates for is a national pharmacare program, instead of the piecemeal provincial pattern of buying drugs. Canada could save billions if drugs were bought in bulk by a single body, which in turn could fund a
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Lexington Books Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis collection particularly underscores the importance of two major health policy issues—gaps in access to insurance coverage for LGBT people and discrimination against transgender people in the health system—that health professionals and those working for LGBT equality alike need to take up in earnest, especially in the era of the opportunities for change offered by the Affordable Care Act. The book explicitly frames its engagement with LGBT health issues through the framework of the unprecedented progress in public policy that has been achieved over the last five years. It demonstrates how research and policy can go hand in hand to define opportunities for change, and it will help readers from all backgrounds craft real solutions that work for LGBTQ people, our families, and our communities. -- Kellan Baker, Center for American ProgressThe editors’ coverage of topics related to health disparities for sexual minority men and women is impressive. This comprehensive volume will be an essential resource for researchers and policy-makers, as well as health care providers and consumers, who are interested in understanding and ultimately reducing health disparities for the LGBT community. -- Robin Lewis, Old Dominion UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Gary L. Kreps Foreword Allan D. Peterkin Part I: Constructing Identity by Coming Out to Your Physician 1.An Introduction to the Loosely Knit Patchwork of LGBT Health Care Teresa Heinz Housel and Vickie L. Harvey 2.The Importance of Sexual Orientation Disclosure to Physicians for Women Who Have Sex with Women Karina Willes and Mike Allen 3.Coming Out Conversations and Gay/Bisexual Men’s Sexual Health: A Constitutive Model Study Jimmie Manning 4.Shaping Self with the Doctor: The Construction of Identity for Trans Patients Katy Ross, Juliann C. Scholl, and Gina Castle Bell Part II: Access, Disparities and Harassment Under the Guise of Policies 5.Health Insurance Coverage For Same-Sex Couples: Disparities and Trends under DOMA Gilbert Gonzales, Ryan Moltz, and Miriam King 6.Carving Triangles into Squares: The Effects of LGBTQ Stigma Related Stressors During Youth, Adulthood, and Aging Dawn L. Strongin, Marc J. Silva, and Fredrick Smiley 7.Reproductive Physicians’ Treatment of Lesbian Patients in Germany and the United States Alicia VandeVusse Part III: Silencing, Violence, and Other Forms of Intimidation of LGBT People 8.Limiting Transgender Health: Administrative Violence and Microaggressions in Health Care Systems Sonny Nordmarken and Reese Kelly 9.Women’s Health, Health Care Service Utilization, and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States Bethany Coston 10.Political Activism as a Health-Giving Activity: Transforming Silence into Language and Action Michael Warren Tumolo
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University of British Columbia Press First Do No Harm Making Sense of Canadian Health
Book SynopsisIs there a crisis in Canadian health care? This book provides a concise introduction to the fundamentals of health care in Canada and examine various ideas for reforming the system sensibly.Table of ContentsForewordPreface1 Declining Public Confidence in Canada’s Health Care System2 What is Public and What is Private?3 Memes and Myths4 Canaries in the Mine: Waiting for Care5 Closer to Home and Out of Pocket: Shifting Sites of Care6 The Future: Rigid, Resilient, or Retail Reform ChoicesEndnotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Carefair
Book SynopsisIn Carefair, Paul Kershaw urges us to resist this private/public distinction, and makes a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers everyone in society.Trade ReviewThis is a book well worth reading. It squarely addresses a policy issue that is fundamental to the pursuit of quality and equity, it is theoretically engaged while making concrete policy proposals, and it is closely argued ... That stated, Carefair is an important and stimulating book. It should be widely read. -- Hugh Armstrong, Carleton University * Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, July-August 2006 *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Lamenting the Lazy Lavatory Syndrome: Political Theory, Policy,and Civic Virtue 2 The American ExpressTM Model of Citizenship: The Social LiberalTradition 3 The Celebrated Idiot: The Obliged Citizen 4 The Idiot’s Acumen 5 Premature Celebration 6 Private Time for Social Inclusion 7 Carefair 8 The Politics of Time 9 From LEGOTM to Teeter-Totter: Social Investment in Work-LifeBalance Notes References Index
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University of British Columbia Press Carefair
Book SynopsisIn Carefair, Paul Kershaw urges us to resist this private/public distinction, and makes a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers everyone in society.Trade ReviewThis is a book well worth reading. It squarely addresses a policy issue that is fundamental to the pursuit of quality and equity, it is theoretically engaged while making concrete policy proposals, and it is closely argued ... That stated, Carefair is an important and stimulating book. It should be widely read. -- Hugh Armstrong, Carleton University * Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, July-August 2006 *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Lamenting the Lazy Lavatory Syndrome: Political Theory, Policy,and Civic Virtue 2 The American ExpressTM Model of Citizenship: The Social LiberalTradition 3 The Celebrated Idiot: The Obliged Citizen 4 The Idiot’s Acumen 5 Premature Celebration 6 Private Time for Social Inclusion 7 Carefair 8 The Politics of Time 9 From LEGOTM to Teeter-Totter: Social Investment in Work-LifeBalance Notes References Index
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University of British Columbia Press A Town Called Asbestos
Book SynopsisFor decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community's survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos's proud history and reveals the challenges similar resourceTrade ReviewA Town Called Asbestos is a crisp narrative that documents something close to manslaughter. If economic necessity saw mill employees literally work themselves to death, the recklessness of insurers and regulators remains inexplicable. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *For those interested in the history of Asbestos, Quebec, this is the book to read. Thoroughly researched in the archives -- its is, after all, based on a doctoral dissertation -- A Town Called Asbestos situates this particular town within a broader context of resource communities. It also raises some important questions, not only about the survival of communities reliant upon a single major employer but also regarding our federal government's willingness to use its positive international profile to market a hazardous product to developing nations. Read this book and feel the author's moral outrage. -- Ryan O'Connor, a writer, a historical consultant, and the author of the J.J. Talman Award-winning The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario (UBC Press) * Canada's History, Vol. 97 No. 1 *...a fascinating and, at times, disturbing history of a Canadian mining industry’s incredible rise and devastating collapse. This history elucidates the complex relationships humans have with the physical (natural and industrial) environments around them and how individuals and communities create, nurture, and defend their sense of place...It is a vital contribution to our knowledge of Canadian natural resource industries and the people who made their collection possible. -- Elizabeth L. Jewett * American Review of Canadian Studies, Issue 46.4, December 2016 *Painstakingly researched with a compelling writing style, A Town Called Asbestos fulfills the promise of recent U.S. environmental histories that integrated histories of labour, public health, and environmental change into a single narrative. It is essential reading for anyone interested in labour, industrial or environmental history, or any person who wants to know why a deadly substance may persist behind the walls where they live and work. -- John Sandlos * Scientia Canadensis *In the middle of the environmental, medical, and political histories, van Horssen challenges and adds nuance to the existing historical narrative of the 1949 strike in Asbestos … She places it back within its local historical milieu showing how the strike arose in response to a confluence of grievances about local politics, health issues, and community relations. -- Robynne Mellor, Georgetown University * Labour / Le Travail *Table of ContentsForeword: The Long Dying / Graeme WynnIntroduction: Introducing Asbestos1 Creation Stories: Asbestos before 19182 Land with a Future, Not a Past, 1918–493 Negotiating Risk, 1918–494 Essential Characteristics, 1918–495 Bodies Collide: The Strike of 19496 “Une ville qui se deplace,” 1949–837 Useful Tools, 1949–838 Altered Authority, 1949–83Conclusion: Surviving Collapse: Asbestos Post-1983Notes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press When Good Drugs Go Bad Opium Medicine and the
Book SynopsisThis intoxicating look at the history of drug regulation in Canada reveals how a variety of social and political forces converged at the turn of the twentieth century to transform both public attitudes toward, and access to, narcotics.Trade ReviewIn Malleck’s brilliant account we can see how commercial interests both combined and competed with professionals and sellers to influence Canada’s drug laws … As Canadians debate how marijuana should be designated—legal or illegal, medicine or recreational drug or both—Malleck provides a fascinating description of a similar journey taken by pain medications such as opium and cocaine at the beginning of the last century. His book provides a useful history to help us navigate today’s discussions about who should grow and sell safe and affordable marijuana. -- Colleen Fuller, a researcher and writer focused on health and pharmaceutical policy * Alberta Views *Malleck’s extensive use of primary sources convincingly establishes this context and describes the dominant origin story of Canada’s drug laws that has not frequently been told. -- Noah Wernikowski * Saskatchewan Law Review *Malleck vividly depicts how sensationalism, misunderstanding, and the threat to the practise of medicine fuelled the new concept of addiction distinct from insanity and moral depravity. Malleck’s scouring of all available records provides a rich understanding of how the social and cultural factors surrounding opium in Canada set the stage for the moral debate over drug use … His thorough analysis and ability to draw on a mountain of records to seamlessly tell the story provides the reader with a new found appreciation of the complex development of drug legislation in the modern era. -- Joel Rudewicz * Active History *[A] close study of how doctors, pharmacists, bureaucrats, and policy-makers wrestled over the control of opiates in the decades leading to the first Opium Act of 1908 … When Good Drugs Go Bad will be of interest to scholars exploring the history of drugs and their regulation while also adding to our understanding of state formation and professionalization during the nineteenth century. Its multi-regional focus on Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia serves to nationalize these issues. Malleck also addresses and critically challenges the association in British Columbia between anti-Chinese sentiments and opium that, he argues, has distorted events by insisting that the Opium Act was a reaction to racial tensions. Instead, by broadening the regional lens, Malleck shifts the story to a contest over professional authority. -- Erika Dyck * BC Studies *When Good Drugs Go Bad deepens our understanding of the connections that could be so easily drawn between the body, race, medicine and the nation in early twentieth century Canada. -- Yvan Prkachin, Harvard University * Left History, Vol. 21 No. 1, Spring-Summer 2016 *[When Good Drugs Go Bad] is a well-written and well-researched book… Readers will learn much about the “awesome, awe-inspiring, and awful substance” that was opium... Readers may also find that Malleck’s discussion of “danger” and addiction fears with this drug in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resonates with today’s opioid debates. -- Shelley McKellar, University of Western Ontario * Pharmacy in History, Vol 60, No 3 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Its Baneful Influences1 Medicating Canada before Regulation2 Opium in Nineteenth-Century Medical Knowledge3 Canada’s First Drug Laws4 Chinese Opium Smoking and Threats to the Nation5 Medicine, Addiction, and Ideas of Nation6 Madness and Addiction in the Asylums of English Canada7 Proprietary Medicines and the Nation’s Health8 Regulating Proprietary Medicine9 Drug Laws and the Creation of IllegalityConclusion: Baneful InfluencesNotes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Health Care and the Charter
Book SynopsisSince the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, individuals and organizations have increasingly turned to the courts to try to bring about policy change in areas such as health care. Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the ultimate policy impact of the resulting judicial decisions. Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni examine three of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions in recent years. Eldridge (1997) and Auton (2004) invited the Court to extend the scope of publicly funded services, while Chaouilli (2005) asked the Court to allow private health services. This book explores the paths that brought litigants to the Court, the arguments and evidence they mustered to support their positions, and the substance of the victory or defeat the Court provided them. The volume then assesses the ultimate impact of these cases in both Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Supreme Court and Health Policy: An OverviewEldridge v British Columbia: Effective Communication and the Sounds of SilenceAuton v British Columbia: Reversal of FortuneChaoulli v Quebec: The Last Line of Defence for CitizensConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Abortion
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights abortion experiences in the post-Morgentaler era and links new approaches to abortion history and research to the growing movement for reproductive justice.Trade ReviewAbortion is unique in that it ties together the perspectives of scholars in history, politics, and law, as opposed to other compilations that focus on works from one particular field, echoing the intersectionality of modern day reproductive justice framework. -- Megan Siu, Community Developer & Educational Specialist Centre, CPLEA * Canadian Law Library Review *[…][i]n 2019 it is ever more evident that a broader concept of reproductive justice is one that encompasses not only our reproductive health but legal, social and economic justice as well. This book helps move us in that direction. -- Amanda Le Rougetel * Herizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, and Travis HayPart 1: History1 Different Histories: Reproduction, Colonialism, and Treaty 7 Communities in Southern Alberta, 1880–1940 / Kristin Burnett2 Not Guilty but Guilty? Race, Rumour, and Respectability in the 1882 Abortion Trial of Letitia Munson / Rebecca Beausaert3 Abortion and Birth Control on the Canadian Prairies: Feminists, Catholics, and Family Values in the 1970s / Erika DyckPart 2: Experience4 He Is Still Unwanted: Women’s Assertions of Authority over Abortion in Letters to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada / Shannon Stettner5 Abortion on Trial: Abortion Tribunals in the 1970s and 1980s / Beth Palmer6 The Dark, Well-Kept Secret: Abortion Experiences in the Maritime Provinces / Katrina Ackerman7 When Research Is Personal and Political: Researchers Reflect on the Study of Abortion / Marion Doull, Christabelle Sethna, Evelyne Morrissette, and Caitlin ScottPart 3: Politics8 Functionally Inaccessible: Historical Conflicts in Legal and Medical Access to Abortion / Frances E. Chapman and Tracy Penny Light9 Morgentaler and the Technological Production of Embodiment / Jen Rinaldi10 Between a Woman and Her Doctor? The Medicalization of Abortion Politics in Canada / Rachael Johnstone11 Subverting the Constitution: Anti-abortion Policies and Activism in the United States and Canada / Lori Brown, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, and Colleen MacQuarriePart 4: Discourse and Reproductive Justice12 The Future of Pro-choice Discourse in Canada / Kelly Gordon and Paul Saurette13 Reproductive Justice in Canada: Exploring Immigrant Women’s Experiences / Laura Salamanca14 Toxic Matters: Vital and Material Struggles for Environmental Reproductive Justice / Sarah Marie WiebeConclusion / Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner
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