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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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Johns Hopkins University Press Malaria
Book SynopsisIn addition Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States argues that malaria control was central to the evolution of local and federal intervention in public health, and demonstrates the complex interaction between poverty, race, and geography in determining the fate of malaria.Trade ReviewThis is a fresh (and plausible) explanation for the disappearance of another southern germ of laziness, and it is presented in a study that does a fine job of packaging its findings within a richly documented historical context. -- Kenneth F. Kiple Journal of Southern History Margaret Humphrey's monograph on malaria in America has a strong storyline and a well-articulated thesis. It combines modern knowledge of malaria transmission and the genetic basis of resistance with a sound appreciation of the social, geographical and cultural nuances of the disease in American history. -- W.F. Bynum Times Literary Supplement A fascinating story of the spread of malaria through the USA following its introduction in the 17th century, through its greatest geographical coverage in the 19th century. -- Allan Saul Nature Medicine The main purpose of this book is to carry out an in-depth dialogue on the mystery of malaria and its existence in some parts of the world and disappearance in another based on the historical facts... The insight that [this] history provides has enormous value for global health. Doody's Health Sciences Review [ Malaria] is a masterpiece and is recommended reading for anyone involved in or interested in health care. -- Ronald C.HamdyMDFRCPFACP Southern Medical Journal A complex and fascinating story of the social history of malaria. -- Elizabeth Fee American Historical Review Gracefully written, perceptive, and well-documented, it will make historians of medicine, public health, and the social history of the American South grateful for her efforts. Medical History The lack of jargon makes the book accessible to a wide audience. -- Leo B. Slater, PhD Journal of the History of Medicine 2005 Accessible to a wide audience. A great breadth and depth of research underpins each chapter. -- Leo B. Slater Journal of the History of Medicine 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Pestilence That Stalks in DarknessChapter 2. The Mist Rises: Malaria in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 3. Race, Poverty, and PlaceChapter 4. Making Malaria Control ProfitableChapter 5. "A Ditch in Time Saves Quinine?"Chapter 6. Popular Perceptions of Health, Disease, and MalariaChapter 7. DenouementNotesNotes on SourcesIndex
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John Wiley & Sons The Health Care Safety Net in a PostReform World Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Book SynopsisThe Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. With contributions from leading health care scholars, it is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net following enactment of national health care reform.Trade Review"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables1. The Health Care Safety Net in the Context of National Health Insurance ReformPart I2. Dr. StrangeRove; or, How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Community Health Centers3. Reinventing a Classic: Community Health Centers and the Newly Insured4. Applying Lessons from Social Psychology to Repair the Health Care Safety Net for Undocumented Immigrants5. Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships to Expand and Improve Primary Care6. Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety-Net ServicesPart II7. Safety-Net Hospitals at the Crossroads: Whither Medicaid DSH?8. The Safety-Net Role of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers: Past, Present, and Future9. The Declining Public Hospital SectorPart III10. Achieving Universal Access through Safety-Net Coverage11. Public Coverage Expansions and Private Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Implications for Safety NetsAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Ohio State University Press Making Midwives Legal
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers American Federalism in Practice
Book Synopsis American Federalism in Practice is an original and important contribution to our understanding of contemporary health policy. It also illustrates how contentious public policy is debated, formulated, and implemented in today''s overheated political environment. Health care reform is perhaps the most divisive public policy issue facing the United States today. Michael Doonan provides a unique perspective on health policy in explaining how intergovernmental relations shape public policy. He tracks federal-state relations through the creation, formulation, and implementation of three of the most important health policy initiatives since the Great Society: the State Children''s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), both passed by the U.S. Congress, and the Massachusetts health care reform program as it was developed and implemented under federal government waiver authority. He applies lessons learned from
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Legare Street Press Health Ordinances Including Ordinances Relating to the Preservation of Public Health Regulation of Hospitals Prevention of Disease Preparation of Food and Regulation of Places Where Food Is Offered for Sale
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Legare Street Press The The State And The Doctor
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Legare Street Press An An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Great Sanitary Failure of the State Regulation of Social Vice
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Legare Street Press The The Present State of the Medical Administration of the Japanese Empire
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Legare Street Press A A Plan for a More Effective Federal and State Health Administration
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Legare Street Press Mémoire Sur La Nécessité De Transférer Et Reconstruire Lhôteldieu De Paris Suivi Dun Projet De Translation De Cet Hopital Proposé Par Le Sieur Poyet Architecte Et Controleur Des Batimens De La Ville...
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration Between Behavioral Science Consultants and Health Care Leaders
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Health Care Reform In An Aging America
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Official List Of Commissioned And Other Officers Of The Public Health Service
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Deficiencies in the Oversight of the 340B Drug Pricing Program
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Evaluation of Health Services
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University Press of the Pacific The Swine Flu Affair DecisionMaking on a Slippery Disease
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis new book provides a clear and accessible analysis of the various ways in which human reproduction is regulated. A comprehensive exposition of the law relating to birth control,abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, surrogacy and assisted conception is accompanied by an exploration of some of the complex ethical dilemmas that emerge when one of the most intimate areas of human life is subjected to regulatory control. Throughout the book, two principal themes recur. First, particular emphasis is placed upon the special difficulties that arise in regulating new technological intervention in all aspects of the reproductive process. Second, the concept of reproductive autonomy is both interrogated and defended. This book offers a readable and engaging account of the complex relationships between law, technology and reproduction. It will be useful for lecturers and students taking medical law or ethics courses. It should also be of interest to anyone with a more general interest in women's bodies and the law, or with the profound regulatory consequences of new technologies.Trade Review...welcomed as a valuable and essential addition to a very contentious topic. The processing, presentation and analysis of data and the development and arrangement of the content of the book are indicative of a thorough investigation and grasp of the topic, as well as a scientific dissemination of voluminous research material. Although the book will be essential reading for lecturers, students, practitioners of medical law and health care professionals, it will also be an asset to any bookshelf. P A Carsten, University of Pretoria Stellenbosch Law Review October 2001 This will be a very valuable book for the wealth of information it contains and the ease of acces to it that Jackson produces in her clear and concise writing style. The narrative is well-informed and up-to-date. The author has produced a very interesting, comprehensive and accessible account of the law's involvement in reproductive choice and I believe that it is a valuable addition to the literature in this area. Professor Sheila McLean, Glasgow University Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law October 2001Table of ContentsPart 1 In defence of reproductive autonomy. Part 2 Birth control: introduction; regulating access to birth control - United Kingdom, developing countries; defective birth control - defective sterilisation, defective contraception; involuntary birth control - a brief history of eugenic sterilisation, compulsory birth control, sterilisation in cases of incapacity; conclusion. Part 3 Abortion: introduction; the law; access to abortion; special problems - distinguishing between contraception and abortion, are some abortions morally "worse" than others?; conclusion. part 4 Pregnancy and childbirth: introduction; regulation of prenatal care and obstetric services - access and accountability, the medicalisation of pregnancy and childbirth; forced caesarean sections; controlling pregnancy - third parties, "maternal" immunity, "maternal" liability; health promotion - employment, health promotion programmes; conclusion. Part 5 Reproductive technologies: introduction; what is infertility?; what are reproductive technologies? - cryopreservation, assisted insemination by husband/partner, donor insemination, oocyte (egg) donation, in viro fertilisation, gamete intra-fallopian transfer, micromanipulation, cloning; critics of reproductive technologies - unnaturalness, child welfare arguments, the femnist critique; regulation in the UK - controlling the provision of treatment, regulating access, regulating the status and the use of gametes, regulating the status and use of the embryo, parentage, regulating new technologies; conclusion. Part 6 Surrogacy: introduction; the law - commercialisation, status, acquiring legal parenthood, (non) regulation, reform; is surrogacy acceptable? - an option of last resort?, why don't "they" adopt instead?, harm to children?, risk of exploitation, commodification of reproduction; lessons from contract law; conclusion. Postscript.
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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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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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Taylor & Francis Inc The Sherlock Effect
Book SynopsisForensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects whoinside an hour, notwithstanding commercialspiece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmesthe iconic fictional detective, and the invention of forensic doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyleis held up as a paragon of forensic and scientific inspirationdoes not reason forward as most people do, but reasons backwards. Put more plainly, rather than learning the train of events and seeing whether the resultant clues match those events, Holmes determines what happened in the past by looking at the clues. Impressive and infallible as this technique appears to beit must be recognized that infallibility lies only in works of fiction. Reasoning backward does not work in real life: reality is far less tidy. In courtrooms everywhere, innocent people pay the price of life imitating art, of sciTable of Contents1. Reasoning Backwards 2. Sherlock and His Successors 3. Categorical Intuitive Deduction 4. How Detective Fiction Turned Into Medical Science 5. Good Cop, Bad Cop 6. You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know 7. Can’t Shake This Feeling 8. The Emperor Wears No Clothes 9. Broken Bones in Babies 10. The Unified Hypothesis 11. Failing the Infamous 12. The Deadly Bed 13. Failing the Numerous Not-So-Infamous 14. The Double Dip 15. Modern-Day Sherlocks 16. The Battered Football Player Syndrome 17. Tree People and Forest People 18. The Perils of Pediatric Forensic Pathology 19. Kayakers, Spider Bites, Jack the Ripper, and Speaking for the Dead 20. CSI, Adam Ruins Forensic Science, Forensic Tree Teams, and a Bridge in Melbourne 21. Confessions of a Former Chief Medical Examiner
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Pharmaceutical Press Pharmacy and Medicines Law in Ireland
Book SynopsisOpening with a detailed account of the historical development of Irish pharmacy and medicines law, this practical textbook covers all aspects of current pharmacy and medicines law in Ireland, including the landmark Pharmacy Act of 2007.Trade Review"Irish pharmacists, pharmacy students and those coming to practice in Ireland from other countries, this new text will also be a valuable reference source for lawyers, government bodies and anyone who wants to know more about the regulatory framework for pharmacists and medicinal products in Ireland." Evening Echo, Monday May 23, 2011 * Evening Echo *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Sources of Irish Law 3. Historical development of medicines and pharmacy law 4. Placing medicines on the market 5. Manufacturing and wholesaling of medicines 6. Advertising of medicines 7. Prescription and control of supply of medicines 8. Misuse of Drugs Acts and Regulations 9. Poisons Acts and Regulations 10. Veterinary medicines 11. Methylated spirits legislation 12. The Pharmacy Act 13. Pharmacy Act-regulations and rules 14. The pharmacy disciplinary system 15. Liability of community pharmacists in negligence and for defective products
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Ig Publishing The End Of Roe V. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the sustained attack on reproductive rights in the USA in recent years, and its ramifications.
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Daraja Press Racism, Capitalism, And Covid19 Pandemic
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Independent The Ethical Hacker: Unraveling Technology
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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"
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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"
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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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MO - University of Illinois Press Upheaval in the Quiet Zone 1199SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism
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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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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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