Medicolegal issues Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy.Trade ReviewThis book is brave and insightful and succeeds in raising the possibility that cultural histories of health must acknowledge the distinct vocabulary and sociocultural definitions that are inherent to specific disease states. It is full of potential leads and insights, reference and analysis that will be consulted time and time again. -- Paul Weindling Science Weisz shows beautifully that concern with chronic diseases is hardly new. -- Bill Bynum Lancet This is a valuable resource for all academic professionals in the health field, especially those in public policy. Choice This is a valuable study. It is the first long overview of the emergence of one of the most significant health policy issues in modern times. Chronic Illness As this book shows, chronic disease has long been neglected, by both health care systems and historians. Weisz took up the challenge of writing the history of a diffuse and undramatic concept, and has done it well. -- David Jones Global Public Health The recent globalisation of 'chronic disease' serves to demonstrate the importance of Weisz's book not just for historians of medicine, but for policy makers and practitioners too. By highlighting the constructed nature of 'chronic disease' Weisz draws attention to the political foundations of a category too often taken for granted. Crisply written, clearly structure, and presenting a wealth of detail without ever overwhelming, this is sure to become a classic text. -- Alex Mold Social History of Medicine The book is scholarly, builds on the work of prominent thinkers in the field such as Daniel Fox, and provides new insights on the history of American health care. Gesnerus Weisz has produced an intriguing and original argument that will be of great interest to historians of health care and health care policy, in both national and international contexts. IsisTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Chronic Disease in the United States1. "National Vitality" and Physical Examination2. Expanding Public Health3. Almshouses, Hospitals, and the Sick Poor4. New Deal Politics and the National Health Survey5. Mobilizing against Chronic Illness at Midcentury6. Long-Term Care7. Public Health and PreventionPart II: Chronic Disease in the United Kingdom and France8. Health, Wealth, and the State9. Alternative Paths in the United Kingdom10. Maladies chroniques in FranceEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New Politics of Old Age Policy
Book SynopsisScholars, students, and policymakers will appreciate the volume's timely overview of the evolution of aging policy.Table of ContentsList of ContributorsPreface1. Contemporary Challenges to Aging Policy2. The Implications of Structural Lag for Old Age Policy3. Fiscal Effects of Population Aging in the United States4. The Great Divide: Elite and Mass Opinion about Social Security5. The Shifting Political Construction of Older Americans as aTarget Population6. Working, Retiring, and the New Old Age7. Diversity and the Economic Security of Older Americans8. The Policy Challenges of a Larger and More Diverse: Oldest-Old Population9. Social Security, the Great Recession, and the Entitlements Problem10. The Medicare Challenge: Clients, Cost Controls, and Congress11. Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm 84? Long-Term Care Challenges for an Aging America12. Means-Testing of Entitlements: Good Policy? Good Politics?13. Ageism's Many Forms: Institutional, Unintended, and ReverseConclusion. The Futures of Old Age Politics and Policy
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press The Global War on Tobacco
Book SynopsisAimed at public health professionals and students, The Global War on Tobacco is a fascinating look at how international relations is changing to respond to the modern global marketplace and protect human health.Trade ReviewThis is a unique, aptly titled book. Choice It is a thorough and yet succinct analysis of the forces and trends that led to the negotiation of the FCTC and the treaty's immediate results-both intended and unintended. Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. A World Connected by Cigarettes and DiseasePart I2. One Hundred Years in the Making3. Those Who Want and Those Who Do Not . . .The FCTC Negotiations4. With ForcePart II5. The FCTC in Thailand6. The FCTC in Uruguay7. The FCTC in Germany8. The FCTC in China9. ConclusionAppendix. Ratification of the FCTCNotesIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Improving Access to HIV Care
Book SynopsisS.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMethodsExecutive Summaries of Case Study FindingsCase StudiesMultiple Cities in the State of LouisianaChicagoNew York CitySan Francisco / Bay AreaMultiple Regions in the State of North CarolinaConclusionsAppendixesA. Semistructured Case Study Interview GuideB. Network Collaboration Survey QuestionsReferencesIndex
£21.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform
Book SynopsisThe first book to address the fundamental nexus that binds poverty and income inequality to soaring health care utilization and spending, Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform is a must-read for medical professionals, public health scholars, politicians, and anyone concerned with the heavy burden of inequality on the health of Americans.Trade ReviewThe book contains a comprehensive reference list. It also offers helpful information for every American interested in improving the country's health care system. Recommended. Choice ... passionately but meticulously argured... Penn MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Riding the A Train2. Milwaukee3. Los Angeles4. Boston versus New Haven5. Health Care Costs of Poverty6. A Nation of Nations7. Global Perspectives8. States9. The 30% Solution10. Solution #111. Solution #2ReferencesIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Blue Marble Health
Book SynopsisClear, compassionate, and timely, Blue Marble Health is a must-read for leaders in global health, tropical medicine, and international development, along with anyone committed to helping the millions of people who are caught in the desperate cycle of poverty and disease.Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice This is a well-researched book that takes you to different countries of the world, describing diseases and giving solid data. It should be on the essential reading list of student nurses, as it will raise awareness of some shocking facts and hopefully increase the chance of something being done to solve the problems highlighted. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. A Changing Landscape in Global HealthChapter 2. The "Other Diseases": The Neglected Tropical DiseasesChapter 3. Introducing Blue Marble Health (BMH)Chapter 4. BMH East Asia: China, Indonesia, Japan, and South KoreaChapter 5. BMH IndiaChapter 6. BMH Sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria and South AfricaChapter 7. BMH Middle East and North Africa: ISIS-Occupied Zones and Saudi ArabiaChapter 8. BMH in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, and MexicoChapter 9. BMH Australia, Canada, European Union, Russian Federation, and TurkeyChapter 10. BMH United States of AmericaChapter 11. BMH and the G20: "A Theory of Justice"Chapter 12. BMH as a Framework for Science and Vaccine DiplomacyChapter 13. BMH Future Directions
£24.22
Johns Hopkins University Press Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform
Book SynopsisProof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty. In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients use more health care, driving up costs across the board. Drawing on decades of research, Dr. Cooper illuminates the geographic patterns of poverty, wealth, and health care utilization that exist across neighborhoods, regions, and statesand among countries. He chronicles the historical threads that have led to such differences, examines the approaches that have been taken to combat poverty throughout US history, and analyzes the impact that structural changes now envisioned for clinical practice are likely to have. His research reveals that ignoring the impact of low income on health care utilization while blaming rTrade ReviewThe capstone to an illustrious career in academic medicine. Cooper's book offers surprising insights.—Health AffairsOffers helpful information for every American interested in improving the country's health care system. Recommended.—ChoicePassionately but meticulously argued.—Penn MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Riding the A Train2. Milwaukee3. Los Angeles4. Boston versus New Haven5. Health Care Costs of Poverty6. A Nation of Nations7. Global Perspectives8. States9. The 30% Solution10. Solution #111. Solution #2ReferencesIndex
£22.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Death by Regulation
Book SynopsisThe story of a small healthcare startup and its fight for survival against the very federal agencies responsible for its launch as part of the ACA. In the contentious run-up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Congress passed a law to make nonprofit health insurance CO-OPs (formally known as Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans) a viable alternative to the public option. The idea was to create new competition in order to lower health insurance premiums and encourage innovation. Nearly two dozen such low-cost CO-OPs were launched in the wake of the ACA's passage; only four are in operation today. In Death by Regulation, Dr. Peter L. Beilenson tells the story of a group of Maryland-based public health professionals who launched the Evergreen Health Cooperative, only to discover that the ACA law encouraging CO-OPs was a plastic planta piece of legislation created for optics but never intended to be functional. Over most of its four years of existence, Evergreen succeeded againsTable of ContentsPrologue: Sacramento, California, 1970 Part One. A CO-OP Is Launched1. Creating Evergreen: March 2010 to March 2013 2. A Rocky Start: April 2013 to March 2014 3. Gaining Experience: April 2014 to June 2015 4. The Obstacles Pile Up: Summer 2015 5. Improving Fortune: November 2015 to March 2016 Part Two. Fighting the Good Fight6. Evergreen Fights Back: April to June 2016 7. Preparing to Go to Court: June 20168. Evergreen Health Cooperative v. United States of America: July 2016 9. The Pursuit of Investors Begins: July to October 2016 10. Staying Alive: October 2016 00011. Think Globally, Act Locally: October 2016 to January 2017 12. Ten Frenzied Days: January 2017 13. Finale: January to August 2017 Conclusion. A Dozen Lessons Learned Epilogue Acknowledgments Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Preventing Child Trafficking
Book SynopsisHow can a public health approach advance efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to child trafficking?Child trafficking is widely recognized as one of the critical issues of our day, prompting calls to action at the global, national, and local levels. Yet it is unclear whether the strategies and tools used to counter this exploitationmost of which involve law enforcement and social serviceshave actually reduced the prevalence of trafficking. In Preventing Child Trafficking, Jonathan Todres and Angela Diaz explore how the public health field can play a comprehensive, integrated role in preventing, identifying, and responding to child trafficking. Describing the depth and breadth of trafficking's impact on children while exploring the limitations in current responses, Todres and Diaz argue that public health frameworks offer important insights into the problem, with detailed chapters on how professionals and organizations can identify and respond effectively to at-risk and trafficked cTrade ReviewA call to action—to provide a public health toolkit for all people who work, or care for children, from policy makers, to educators, health-care and social workers, and community leaders . . . [Preventing Child Trafficking is a] thorough, well researched, evidence-based book, with an impassioned argument for action.—Jules Morgan, The Lancet Child And AdolescentPreventing Child Trafficking by Todres and Diaz examine what human trafficking entails and responses that need to be taken on the issue. The authors address ways that evidence-based research would be beneficial in preventing human trafficking and the methods that should be implemented. Issues raised in this book are intended for the general public, medical professionals, legislatures, and researchers. The information presented is intended to bring awareness to aid combatting human trafficking.—Morgan Fetters, Journal of Youth and AdolescenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Case Studies and TerminologyIntroduction: Child Trafficking in Our CommunitiesPart I. Child Trafficking and Current Responses1. Understanding Child Trafficking: The Nature and Scope of the Problem2. The Consequences of Child Trafficking3. Current Responses to Child TraffickingPart II: The Public Health Approach4. Public Health Methods and Perspectives5. Understanding Risk Factors6. Improving Identification: A Case Study of Health Care Settings7. Assisting Vulnerable and Exploited Youth: Health Care ResponsesConclusion: Building an Effective Response to Child TraffickingAppendix: ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Prevention First
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword, by Senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, MDPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The State of Disease PreventionPart 1: Prevention within the Healthcare SettingChapter 1. How Do You Insert Prevention into Healthcare's Value Equation? Chapter 2. Why Is Strengthening Primary Care So Important for Prevention? Chapter 3. Where Should Healthcare Look outside the Walls of the Clinical Setting?Chapter 4. Social Determinants and Healthcare: Is It Time to Go Upstream?Part 2: Prevention outside the Healthcare SettingChapter 5. Personal Responsibility or Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change?Chapter 6. Why Do We Take Public Health for Granted?Chapter 7. Public Health Emergency Preparedness: The Great Uniter?Chapter 8. Is Global Health US Health?Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Urgent Challenges and Promising OpportunitiesEpilogueNotesIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press My Quest for Health Equity
Book SynopsisReading this book is like sitting down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity. Dr. David Satcher is one of the most widely known and well-regarded physicians of our time. A former four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he served as the assistant secretary for health, the surgeon general of the United States, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before founding the eponymous Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. At the core of his impact on public health, he is also a lifelong leader for civil rights and health equity. Born black and poor in the deep South, Dr. Satcher was a victim of an unjust health care system: he almost died of whooping cough at the age of two because Jim Crow laws meant that his black doctor could not admit him to a hospital. That experience was the first of many that shaped him as a leader andTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Leadership Chapter 2. From Health Disparities to Global Health Equity Chapter 3. When Leadership Confronts FailureChapter 4. The Need for Clear CommunicationChapter 5. The Need for Continual Learning Chapter 6. A Three-Dimensional Perspective on Leadership Chapter 7. Discipline in the Quest for Health Equity Chapter 8. Leading from Science to Policy to PracticeChapter 9. Confronting the Epidemic of Overweight and ObesityChapter 10. The Advancement of Reproductive HealthChapter 11. Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health ProblemsChapter 12. Leadership beyond ExpertiseChapter 13. The Team Approach to LeadershipChapter 14. Leading for Institutional Sustainability Frequently Used AcronymsReferencesIndex
£21.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Skid Road
Book SynopsisA compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the worthy and unworthy poor, and the role of charity health care and public policy in the United States. Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in the United States. In 2018, an estimated 8,600 homeless people lived in the city, a figure that does not include the significant number of hidden homeless people doubled up with friends or living in and out of cheap hotels. In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle historypast its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or notto reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society. The sometimes fragmentary tales of these people, their lives and deaths, are not included in official histories of a place. How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the health needsTrade ReviewEnsign's Skid Road exposes the entrenched roots of our contemporary crisis. She reveals how physical, visible sites of destitution — and the misery they contain — have long been features of Seattle's landscape: shantytowns, the sprawling Hooverville, tent encampments, tiny villages, shelters, doorways, abandoned homes, vehicles, rundown RVs. She then humanizes this topography by adding flesh and bone and heart to some of the homeless people who have experienced it.—CrosscutEnsign's novel unearths the layers of Seattle history underlying our current housing crisis. Centering long-silenced perspectives of those in the margins of society, the provocative read is informed by Ensign's own lived experience of homelessness and over three decades of her work providing primary health care to unhoused populations.—Seattle MetTable of ContentsPrologue. One Woman's SeattleChapter 1. Brother's KeeperChapter 2. Skid RoadChapter 3. The SistersChapter 4. Ark of RefugeChapter 5. ShacktownChapter 6. ThresholdChapter 7. State of EmergencyEpilogue. Hearing VoicesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£21.85
Johns Hopkins University Press American Dementia
Book SynopsisHave the social safety nets, environmental protections, and policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia todayand how do we improve brain health in the future?Winner of the American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest, Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book AwardsFor decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future?In American Dementia, Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, and Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, argue that the current decline of dementia may be strongly linked to midtwentieth century policies that reduced inequality, provided widespread access to education and healthTrade ReviewGeorge and Whitehouse had me turning each page with wonder over topics I know well, to which their insight brought newperspective . . . [American Dementia] will enlighten a lay public, and experts in Alzheimer's disease, new and old.—George Perry, PhD, Journal of Alzheimer's DiseaseTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Occupy Alzheimer's! Setting the Scene for ResistanceChapter 2. Alzheimer's and the Neoliberal Turn: "Politics of Anguish," Visions of a CureChapter 3. Alzheimer's Today: Inconvenient Truths in the Marketplace of MemoryChapter 4. Treating Populations: Collectively Strengthening the Brain Health of the Many, Not the FewChapter 5. Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water: What the Lead-Poisoning Tragedy in Michigan Means for Alzheimer'sChapter 6. #PoorLivesMatter: Fighting Poverty to Resist Alzheimer'sChapter 7. Turning Up the Heat on Global Warming: The Neurologic Costs of Climate ChangeChapter 8. Occupy the Nursing Home! Breaking Down Walls and Breaking Out "Socialceuticals"Chapter 9. A Bridge beyond Loneliness: The Gathering Momentum of Age- and Dementia-Friendly CommunitiesChapter 10. The Intergenerational Schools: Desegregating and Revaluing the Cognitively FrailAcknowledgmentsAppendix: An Intergenerational Interview with the AuthorsNotesIndex
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response
Book SynopsisAs nations race to hone contact-tracing efforts, the world's experts consider strategies for maximum transparency and impact. As public health professionals around the world work tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that traditional methods of contact tracing need to be augmented in order to help address a public health crisis of unprecedented scope. Innovators worldwide are racing to develop and implement novel public-facing technology solutions, including digital contact tracing technology. These technological products may aid public health surveillance and containment strategies for this pandemic and become part of the larger toolbox for future infectious outbreak prevention and control. As technology evolves in an effort to meet our current moment, Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologiesa rapid research and expert consensus group effort led by Dr. Jeffrey P. Kahn of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of BioethiTable of ContentsLead Authors and ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsSummaryIntroductionChapter 1. Public Health PerspectiveChapter 2. Digital Technology and Contact TracingChapter 3. Ethics of Designing and Using DCTTChapter 4. Legal ConsiderationsChapter 5. RecommendationsResourcesWorks Cited
£11.88
Johns Hopkins University Press Unequal Cities
Book SynopsisAcross the United States, Black people have shorter life expectancies than white peoplereflecting structural racism and deep-rooted drivers of population health. But are some cities more equal than others?The elimination of racial and ethnic inequitiesdifferences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfairhas been one of the overarching health-related goals of the United States for decades. Yet dramatic differences in health outcomes between Black people and white people persist, rooted in structural and social determinants of health. Nationally, a Black baby can expect to live four years less than a white baby. But mortality outcomes and inequities vary widely across cities. In Washington, DC, for example, the average life expectancy for Blacks is twelve years less than that of whites. But in other cities, mortality differences between races are less striking or nonexistent. If health equity can be achieved in some cities, why not all? This is arguably the most important health equityTable of ContentsForeword by Julie Morita, Former Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public HealthAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Path to Health Equity for CitiesPart I. Entrenched Racial Health Inequities in the United StatesChapter 1. Context for Entrenched Racial Health InequitiesChapter 2. Theorizing the Causes of Health InequitiesPart II. Racial Inequities in US Cities: An Analysis of Mortality DataChapter 3. Inequities in All-Cause Mortality, Life Expectancy, and Premature MortalityChapter 4. Inequities in the 10 Leading Causes of DeathChapter 5. Inequities in Selected Causes of Death: HIV, Homicide, and OpioidPart III. Epidemiological Patterns and Sociological ExplanationsChapter 6. Understanding Mortality Patterns and Inequities across US CitiesPart IV. Translating Data into Action: Practical Approaches to Health EquityChapter 7. Using a Social Justice Framework to Help Achieve Health EquityChapter 8. Data Are Not Enough: Moving toward Solutions-Focused CommunicationChapter 9. Mobilizing to Action: Overcoming Chicago's 16-Year Life Expectancy GapConclusion. Next Steps on the Path to Health EquityAppendixAbout the AuthorsIndex
£31.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Crossing the American Health Care Chasm
Book SynopsisWhy is there such a deep partisan division within the United States regarding how health care should be organized and financedand how can we encourage politicians to band together again for the good of everyone?For decades, Democratic and Republican political leaders have disagreed about the fundamental goals of American health policy. The modern-day consequences of this disagreementparticularly in the Republicans' campaign to erode the coverage and equity gains of the Affordable Care Actcan be seen in the tragic and disparate impact of COVID-19 on the country. In Crossing the American Health Care Chasm, Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD, details the breakdown in political relations in the United States. Why, he asks, has health policywhich used to be a place where the two sides could find common groundbecome the nexus of fiery political conflict?From Harry S. Truman's failed attempt to enact a plan for national health insurance to the recent efforts of President Donald J. Trump, Barr's historicTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Bipartisanship in Health Care during the Late Twentieth CenturyChapter 2. Building on the Bipartisanship That Gained Passage of Medicare and MedicaidChapter 3. Health Care Reform under the Obama AdministrationChapter 4. Growing Congressional Opposition to the Affordable Care ActChapter 5. Efforts to Repeal the Affordable Care Act following the Elections of 2016Chapter 6. Attempts by Congress and the Trump Administration to Disrupt ACA FinancingChapter 7. Continuing Efforts to Weaken the Affordable Care ActChapter 8. Two More Attempts to Defeat Key Elements of the Affordable Care Act Chapter 9. Bridging the Health Care ChasmSummary and Conclusions: Finding the Path to BipartisanshipAcknowledgmentsReferencesIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Searching for the Family Doctor
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn 'Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink,' management Professor Timothy J. Hoff depicts a field in crisis amid a system trending toward 'transactional,' volume-driven, ever more 'balkanized' care. The practitioner perspective illuminates a system antithetical to the preventive care that is family medicine's stock-in-trade, and Hoff's observations about the missteps behind the field's malaise are incisive. This emphasis will also serve to impart a sense of agency to the book's professional readers — that redemption lies in setting their house in order.—San Francisco ChronicleHoff, professor of management, health care systems, and health policy at Northeastern University, investigates the specialty of family medicine through archival research and interviews conducted with practicing family physicians....An excellent book.—Choice (American Library Association)[Hoff] piec[es] out the cognitive dissonance of practicing family medicine in a broken health care system.—Lalita Abhyankar, Health AffairsTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Searching for the Family DoctorChapter 2. Poor Soil for Growing Generalists: Family Doctors versus the Health SystemChapter 3. Altruists and Accidental Doctors: Why They Become (Family) DoctorsChapter 4. Saying Goodbye to the General DoctorChapter 5. Saying Hello to the New and Improved Family DoctorChapter 6. The Struggle to Be a True Believer as a Family DoctorChapter 7. The Realists: Family Doctors Charting Their Own CourseChapter 8. The Bill Comes Due: Family Doctors' Struggle for RelevancyChapter 9. A Top-Ten List for Saving Family DoctorsAppendix. A Note on the ResearchReferencesIndex
£29.70
Johns Hopkins University Press My Quest for Health Equity
Book SynopsisReading this book is like sitting down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity. Dr. David Satcher is one of the most widely known and well-regarded physicians of our time. A former four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he served as the assistant secretary for health, the surgeon general of the United States, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before founding the eponymous Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. At the core of his impact on public health, he is also a lifelong leader for civil rights and health equity. Born black and poor in the deep South, Dr. Satcher was a victim of an unjust health care system: he almost died of whooping cough at the age of two because Jim Crow laws meant that his black doctor could not admit him to a hospital. That experience was the first of many that shaped him as a leader andTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Leadership Chapter 2. From Health Disparities to Global Health Equity Chapter 3. When Leadership Confronts FailureChapter 4. The Need for Clear CommunicationChapter 5. The Need for Continual Learning Chapter 6. A Three-Dimensional Perspective on Leadership Chapter 7. Discipline in the Quest for Health Equity Chapter 8. Leading from Science to Policy to PracticeChapter 9. Confronting the Epidemic of Overweight and ObesityChapter 10. The Advancement of Reproductive HealthChapter 11. Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health ProblemsChapter 12. Leadership beyond ExpertiseChapter 13. The Team Approach to LeadershipChapter 14. Leading for Institutional Sustainability Frequently Used AcronymsReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Curriculum Development for Medical Education
Book SynopsisA thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of a text that has become an international standard for curriculum development in health professional education. Intended for faculty and other content experts who have an interest or responsibility as educators in their discipline, Curriculum Development for Medical Education has extended its vision to better serve a diverse professional and international audience. Building on the time-honored, practical, and user-friendly approach of the six-step model of curriculum development, this edition is richly detailed, with numerous examples of innovations that challenge traditional teaching models. In addition, the fourth edition presents updates in our understanding of how humans learn; a new chapter on curricula that address community needs and health equity; and an increased emphasis throughout on health systems science, population health, equity, educational technology in health professions education, and interprofessional education. Table of ContentsPrefaceList of ContributorsIntroductionPatricia A. Thomas and David E. KernOne. Overview: A Six-Step Approach to Curriculum DevelopmentDavid E. KernTwo. Step 1: Problem Identification and General Needs AssessmentBelinda Y. ChenThree. Step 2: Targeted Needs AssessmentMark T. HughesFour. Step 3: Goals and ObjectivesPatricia A. ThomasFive. Step 4: Educational StrategiesSean A. Tackett and Chadia N. AbrasSix. Step 5: ImplementationMark T. HughesSeven. Step 6: Evaluation and FeedbackBrenessa M. Lindeman, David E. Kern, and Pamela A. LipsettEight. Curriculum Maintenance and EnhancementDavid E. Kern and Patricia A. ThomasNine. DisseminationDavid E. Kern and Sean A. TackettTen. Curriculum Development for Larger ProgramsPatricia A. Thomas and David E. KernEleven. Curricula That Address Community Needs and Health EquityHeidi L. Gullett, Mamta K. Singh, and Patricia A. ThomasAppendix A. Example CurriculaTopics in Interdisciplinary Medicine: High-Value Health CareAmit K. PahwaNeurology Graduate Training Program in ZambiaDeanna SaylorThe Kennedy Krieger Curriculum: Equipping Frontline Clinicians to Improve Care for Children with Behavioral, Emotional, and Developmental DisordersMary L. O'Connor LeppertAppendix B. Curricular, Faculty Development, and Funding ResourcesPatricia A. Thomas and David E. KernIndex
£79.00
Duke University Press Our Veterans Winners Losers Friends and Enemies
Book SynopsisIn Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life.Trade Review"This chilling account explores the physical, economic and psychological consequences of military service on veteran health and takes a critical look at the many players involved in shaping veteran life in the United States." * New York Times *"This little book is jam-packed with information that is not only fascinating, it promises to be incredibly helpful to any vet who will take the time to read it. . . Every veteran involved with the VA will find that Our Veterans is a reference book they can access as an unprecedented toolbox full of information that will come in handy in every confrontation with the Department of Veterans Affairs." -- John Ketwig * The Veteran *"The civilian community is largely unaware of the harm to all caused by the specialized problems facing our current veterans, and the growing drive to privatize the VA. Nor is it aware of the rising movement against this trend. Anyone having concerns about these issues will find Our Veterans to be an essential source of information. It provides a thorough, well-written analysis of the situation, and the direction we need to take in response." -- Ronald Citkowski * Against the Current *"The strength of this book is its honesty about the whole field of military service and its effects on those who survive it; as well as, those who don’t. The authors demonstrate through this, and previous activities, their concerns for the well-being of those who have served. Their writing is straight-forward, clear, and honest." -- Kim Scipes * Stansbury Forum *"As Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early and Jasper Craven make clear in their new book, Our Veterans, thinking about veterans as a monolithic group with the same experiences, same outlook and same needs is wrong. The extensively researched and sourced Our Veterans sets out to explain why." -- Janis Hashe * East Bay Express *"The authors of Our Veterans have taken a deep dive into a large and little understood corner of the social safety net. Their detailed depiction of how the forces of neoliberalization interact with the unique history, culture, and politics of this sector is an important contribution to our understanding of how working people are affected by these forces in all aspects of their lives." -- Mark Dudzic * New Labor Forum *"The authors bring extensive research, a strong progressive analysis, and powerful advocacy to this expansive review of veterans’ issues. . . . Our Veterans illustrates the dangerous impact of the U.S.’s massive military on many service members. It also shines a light on the many ways in which corporate greed and privatization are encroaching on our public resources, including the resources to robustly support our veterans when they come home." * New Politics *"An important addition to the literature about American veterans in the forever-war era. ... I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the complicated and interconnected world of veteran policies, politics, and processes, then work to make them better." -- Jim Craig * Journal of Military History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Preface xiii Authors' Note and Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Friendly Fire 1 1. A Toxic Workplace 27 2. Life and Work after the Military 57 3. Stolen Valor 85 4. Last Stand of the Legion Post? 108 5. The New VSOs 134 6. A VA Healthcare Struggle 155 7. Playing the Veteran Card 176 8. Veterans and the 2020 Election 199 Conclusion: Rethinking Veterans Affairs 222 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 311 Index 317
£78.30
Duke University Press Health in Ruins
Book SynopsisIn Health in Ruins César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, confTrade Review“This superb, timely monograph . . . is both collaborative and activist. . . . Abadía-Barrero’s decade of intense fieldwork along with his local knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid, astutely rendered ethnography.” -- Carole Browner * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *"This book calls on us to fight for health care that no longer leaves so many people in the public hospital waiting area, condemned to a precarious survival, while offering treatment in private hospitals to those who can pay. ... Health in Ruins makes a fundamental contribution to current scholarly debates on the embodiment of social inequalities brought about by capitalist ideology." -- Ivana Teixeira * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xv Timeline: People, Infrastructures, and Events xix Introduction 1 1. The National University Escuela 21 2. Clinical Social Medicine 45 3. Religion and Caring in a Medical Setting 79 4. Hospital Budgets before and after Neoliberalism 103 5. Violence and Resistance 137 6. Remaining amid Destruction 179 7. Learning and Practicing Medicine in a For-Profit System 199 Final Remarks. Medicine as Political Imagination 221 Notes 229 References 261 Index 283
£73.95
Duke University Press Our Veterans
Book SynopsisIn Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life.Trade Review"This chilling account explores the physical, economic and psychological consequences of military service on veteran health and takes a critical look at the many players involved in shaping veteran life in the United States." * New York Times *"This little book is jam-packed with information that is not only fascinating, it promises to be incredibly helpful to any vet who will take the time to read it. . . Every veteran involved with the VA will find that Our Veterans is a reference book they can access as an unprecedented toolbox full of information that will come in handy in every confrontation with the Department of Veterans Affairs." -- John Ketwig * The Veteran *"The civilian community is largely unaware of the harm to all caused by the specialized problems facing our current veterans, and the growing drive to privatize the VA. Nor is it aware of the rising movement against this trend. Anyone having concerns about these issues will find Our Veterans to be an essential source of information. It provides a thorough, well-written analysis of the situation, and the direction we need to take in response." -- Ronald Citkowski * Against the Current *"The strength of this book is its honesty about the whole field of military service and its effects on those who survive it; as well as, those who don’t. The authors demonstrate through this, and previous activities, their concerns for the well-being of those who have served. Their writing is straight-forward, clear, and honest." -- Kim Scipes * Stansbury Forum *"As Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early and Jasper Craven make clear in their new book, Our Veterans, thinking about veterans as a monolithic group with the same experiences, same outlook and same needs is wrong. The extensively researched and sourced Our Veterans sets out to explain why." -- Janis Hashe * East Bay Express *"The authors of Our Veterans have taken a deep dive into a large and little understood corner of the social safety net. Their detailed depiction of how the forces of neoliberalization interact with the unique history, culture, and politics of this sector is an important contribution to our understanding of how working people are affected by these forces in all aspects of their lives." -- Mark Dudzic * New Labor Forum *"The authors bring extensive research, a strong progressive analysis, and powerful advocacy to this expansive review of veterans’ issues. . . . Our Veterans illustrates the dangerous impact of the U.S.’s massive military on many service members. It also shines a light on the many ways in which corporate greed and privatization are encroaching on our public resources, including the resources to robustly support our veterans when they come home." * New Politics *"An important addition to the literature about American veterans in the forever-war era. ... I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the complicated and interconnected world of veteran policies, politics, and processes, then work to make them better." -- Jim Craig * Journal of Military History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Preface xiii Authors' Note and Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Friendly Fire 1 1. A Toxic Workplace 27 2. Life and Work after the Military 57 3. Stolen Valor 85 4. Last Stand of the Legion Post? 108 5. The New VSOs 134 6. A VA Healthcare Struggle 155 7. Playing the Veteran Card 176 8. Veterans and the 2020 Election 199 Conclusion: Rethinking Veterans Affairs 222 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 311 Index 317
£18.99
Duke University Press Health in Ruins
Book SynopsisIn Health in Ruins César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, confTrade Review“This superb, timely monograph . . . is both collaborative and activist. . . . Abadía-Barrero’s decade of intense fieldwork along with his local knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid, astutely rendered ethnography.” -- Carole Browner * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *"This book calls on us to fight for health care that no longer leaves so many people in the public hospital waiting area, condemned to a precarious survival, while offering treatment in private hospitals to those who can pay. ... Health in Ruins makes a fundamental contribution to current scholarly debates on the embodiment of social inequalities brought about by capitalist ideology." -- Ivana Teixeira * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xv Timeline: People, Infrastructures, and Events xix Introduction 1 1. The National University Escuela 21 2. Clinical Social Medicine 45 3. Religion and Caring in a Medical Setting 79 4. Hospital Budgets before and after Neoliberalism 103 5. Violence and Resistance 137 6. Remaining amid Destruction 179 7. Learning and Practicing Medicine in a For-Profit System 199 Final Remarks. Medicine as Political Imagination 221 Notes 229 References 261 Index 283
£19.79
New York University Press Keywords for Health Humanities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKeywords for the Health Humanities transcends its title. This rich volume contains essays that not only map the essential concepts in the health humanities, but also expand the possibilities of the field going forward. With an impressive roster of contributors whose essays address such wide-ranging topics as disability, disaster, human rights and indigeneity, as well as neurodiversity, stress, and trauma, this is a Health Humanities reader for our current era. Highly recommended not only for courses but also for any reader hoping to broaden their vision of what constitutes health. -- Susan Squier, The Pennsylvania State UniversityMany, many aperçus here that diverge, converge, challenge, illumine, and occasionally surprise yet almost always take the reader in the plural directions that make up this exciting field. An excellent place to start to figure out what the humanities bring and do to health and medicine. Entertaining but, better still, serious and useful! * Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care *
£62.90
New York University Press Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Book SynopsisReveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSongHow did reproductive justicedefined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parentbecome recognized as a human rights issue? In Reproductive Rights as Human Rights, Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home. An indispensable read, Reproductive Rights as Human Rights provides a much-needed intersectional perspeTrade Review"Through careful analysis and deep, multi-method research, Luna brings to light the story of the struggle of Black women seeking to redefine the reproductive justice movement. In doing so, the book examines some of the most urgent questions of today: how do people come together to redefine their own liberation not only through rights granted by the state, but also in the ways they relate to each other? Further, how does their work push the boundaries of social change, helping us to reimagine a different world? In an uncertain world with yawning gaps between the world we want and the world we have, this book provides fresh insight that scholars and organizers alike desperately need." -- Hahrie Han, author of How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century"Zakiya Luna makes an essential contribution to the growing understanding of the crucial contributions women of color have made to historical and contemporary intersectional movements that embrace both anti-racism and feminism. She also tells a critical story of how the social movement organization SisterSong adapted international human rights discourse in the US domestic context to forge a struggle for reproductive justice." -- Jennifer Nelson, author of More Than Medicine: A History of the Women’s Health Movement"Reproductive Rights as Human Rights is a necessary contribution to the scholarship on the reproductive justice movement and the reader will come to understand the movement through Luna’s work." * Mobilization *
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Cornell University Press Achieving Access
Book SynopsisAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues, Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and public health and will speak Trade ReviewThrough his focus on professional movements at the domestic level, Harris makes new contributions to the literatures on the transnational AIDS movement, democratization and the medical profession's role in health policy.... The book is a major contribution to the study of professionals in (health) politics and timely given the ongoing struggle for universal coverage models in global health institutions. * Global Affairs *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Achieving Access
Book SynopsisAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues, Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and public health and will speak Trade ReviewThrough his focus on professional movements at the domestic level, Harris makes new contributions to the literatures on the transnational AIDS movement, democratization and the medical profession's role in health policy.... The book is a major contribution to the study of professionals in (health) politics and timely given the ongoing struggle for universal coverage models in global health institutions. * Global Affairs *
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Cornell University Press The Battle for Veterans Healthcare
Book SynopsisIn The Battle for Veterans'' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage.Gordon's collected dispatches provide insight and information too often missing from mainstream media reporting on the VHA and from Capitol Hill debates about its future. Drawing on interviews with veterans and their families, VHA staff and administrators, health care policy experts and Congressional decision makers, Gordon describes a federal agency under siege that nevertheless accomplishes its difficult mission of serving men and women injured, in myriad ways, while on active duty.The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare is an essential primer on VHA care and a call to action by veterans, their advocacy organizations, and political allies. Without lobbying efforts and broader public understaTrade Review""The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare should be required reading for the Trump Administration, members of Congress, and anyone concerned about the fate of the Veterans Health Administration."—Garry Augustine, Washington Executive Director of Disabled American Veterans"""The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare explains why the VHA’s many specialized services should be strengthened and expanded."—Michael Blecker, Executive Director of Swords to Plowshares and member of VA Commission on Care"""Suzanne Gordon skillfully rebuts the arguments of would-be privatizers, who are trying to discredit and then divert public funding from health care providers who actually care about their patients."—Phillip Longman, author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better than Yours"
£9.57
Cornell University Press Wounds of War
Book SynopsisU.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their wounds of war are treated by the largest hospital system in the countryone that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation''s media.In Wounds of War, Suzanne Gordon draws on five years of observational research to describe how the VHA does a better job than private sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the end of life. In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients and providers that the VHA has fostered, Gordon finds a working model for higher-quality health care and a much-needed alternative to the practice of for-profit medicine.Trade ReviewImportant and timely. * BeyondChron *A terrific book, and I would recommend that every veteran depending upon the VA for his or her healthcare buy it. * The Veteran *Important and timely. * CounterPunch *This book offers a unique approach to an important topic and is an essential addition for institutions with programs in medicine and other health-affiliated fields (health administration, social work, etc.), public policy and administration, political science, or for any public library serving veteran and/or military populations. * Choice *For better or worse, the course of VA health care now depends on a citizenry and health policy community that possesses little firsthand experience with its services or achievements. Wounds of War is a tremendous starting point for those interested in understanding the importance of getting these decisions right. * Washington Monthly *A compelling account of the many strengths of the Veterans Healthcare System.... Gordon documents these strengths with informative statistics as well as compelling narratives of innovative programs, commendable teamwork and exemplary clinical providers.... A valued view of a system which, even with its flaws, still has remarkable strengths to offer soldiers when their service to our nation is completed. * The Pharos *Wounds of War is a valuable resource for veterans' rights advocates as well as everyone concerned with the struggle for Medicare for all. * Against the Current *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: What Kind of Care for Veterans? 1. Promises Broken and Kept: A Short History of the VHA 2. Those Who Have Borne the Battle: The VHA's Patient Population Profile—What It Means to Be a VA Volunteer 3. Primary Care the Way It Should Be 4. Healing Minds and Bodies: Integrated Mental Health Care and Primary Care 5. Dealing with a World of Hurt: VHA Treatment of Chronic Pain 6. When Wounded Warriors Are Women: Caring for Female Veterans 7. Mental Health the Way It Should Be 8. Unpacking PTSD: From Diagnosis to Effective Treatment Profi le—Karen Parko: A Special Kind of Professional Development at the VA 9. Returning to Civilian Life: Veterans on Campus 10. Suicide Prevention: VHA Programs That Save Lives 11. Overcoming Disability: VA Rehabilitation Services Profile—Mark Smith: No Ordinary Bike Shop 12. Transcending Trauma: The Martinez Cognitive Rehabilitation Program 13. Off the Streets: Reducing Veteran Homelessness 14. Alternatives to Jail: Veterans' Justice Programs Profile—Cops and Vets: The Memphis Crisis Intervention Model 15. Specializing in Elder Care: The VA and Geriatrics 16. Knocking on Heaven's Door: The VA and End-of-Life Care 17. Better Care Where? The VHA Compared to the Private Sector Conclusion: A System Worth Saving—and Making Even Better Epilogue: Thank You for Your Service? Notes Index About the Author
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University of Minnesota Press Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health
Book SynopsisExamining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization. In New York, Christoph Hanssmann examines activist attempts to overturn bans on using public health dollars to fund trans- health care. In Argentina, he traces how trans- activists marshaled medical statistics and personal biographies to reveal state violence directed against trans- people and travestis. Hanssmann also demonstrates the importance of understanding transphobia in the broader context of gendered racism, ableism, and antipoverty, arguing for the rise of a thoroughly coalition-based mass mobilization. Care without Pathology highlights the distributive arguments activists made to access state funding for health care, combating state arguments that funding trans- health care is too specialized, too expensive, and too controversial. Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place—with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care. Trade Review "A bold ethnography of twenty-first century trans health care movements in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology untangles the thicket of political distortion to reveal the urgency and innovation of championing trans health care as a public good and a social need. A vital book for grasping a revolutionary movement that propagates access to care and justice."—Nayan Shah, University of Southern California
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health
Book SynopsisExamining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization. In New York, Christoph Hanssmann examines activist attempts to overturn bans on using public health dollars to fund trans- health care. In Argentina, he traces how trans- activists marshaled medical statistics and personal biographies to reveal state violence directed against trans- people and travestis. Hanssmann also demonstrates the importance of understanding transphobia in the broader context of gendered racism, ableism, and antipoverty, arguing for the rise of a thoroughly coalition-based mass mobilization. Care without Pathology highlights the distributive arguments activists made to access state funding for health care, combating state arguments that funding trans- health care is too specialized, too expensive, and too controversial. Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place—with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care. Trade Review "A bold ethnography of twenty-first century trans health care movements in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology untangles the thicket of political distortion to reveal the urgency and innovation of championing trans health care as a public good and a social need. A vital book for grasping a revolutionary movement that propagates access to care and justice."—Nayan Shah, University of Southern California
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital
Book SynopsisThe role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheidHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment. Naming this frontier “medical brownfields,” Krupar shows how hospitals leverage their domestic real estate empires to underwrite international prospecting for patients and overseas services and specialty clinics. Her pointed analysis reveals that decolonizing health care efforts must scrutinize the land practices of nonprofit medical institutions and the liberal foundations of medical apartheid perpetuated by globalizing American health care.
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University of Minnesota Press The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial
Book SynopsisWhy human rights don’t work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simply to state and institutional malfeasance but to the very concept of human rights as anthropocentric—and, therefore, fatally shortsighted. In an engaging mix of literary and cultural criticism, Indigenous and Black critique, and substantive forays into the medical humanities, Jolly proposes right-making in the demise of human rights. Using what she calls an “effluent eye,” Jolly draws on “Fifth Wave” structural public health to confront the concept of human rights—one of the most powerful and widely entrenched liberal ideas. She builds on Indigenous sovereignty work from authors such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Mark Rifkin as well as the littoral development in Black studies from Christine Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and Tiffany Lethabo King to engage decolonial thinking on a range of urgent topics such as pandemic history and grief; gender-based violence and sexual assault; and the connections between colonial capitalism and substance abuse, the Anthropocene, and climate change. Combining witnessed experience with an array of decolonial texts, Jolly argues for an effluent form of reading that begins with the understanding that the granting of “rights” to individuals is meaningless in a world compromised by pollution, poverty, and successive pandemics. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.Trade Review "Rosemary J. Jolly’s far-reaching book urges us to rethink our normative, institutionalized assumptions about human rights. What is required, she argues, is a wider recognition that decentering the human is, paradoxically, vital to human sustainability. Standard notions of human rights have failed vast swathes of humanity and the more-than-human lives with whom their beings are intertwined. By turns philosophical and grounded, The Effluent Eye illuminates anew the vexing worlds of sexual assault, Ebola, and HIV/AIDS, among other concerns. Jolly has given us a provocative, iconoclastic work that deserves to be read, taught, and debated."—Rob Nixon, Princeton University "This superbly original book challenges some of the core concepts that structure anthropocentric understandings of human rights and calls on readers to think differently about waste, death, health, and healing. Looking through an ‘effluent eye’ inspired by South African literature and philosophy, Rosemary J. Jolly offers a vision that breaks with the embedded logic of colonial capitalism to see what lies outside and beyond."—Stephanie Newell, Yale University
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial
Book SynopsisWhy human rights don’t work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simply to state and institutional malfeasance but to the very concept of human rights as anthropocentric—and, therefore, fatally shortsighted. In an engaging mix of literary and cultural criticism, Indigenous and Black critique, and substantive forays into the medical humanities, Jolly proposes right-making in the demise of human rights. Using what she calls an “effluent eye,” Jolly draws on “Fifth Wave” structural public health to confront the concept of human rights—one of the most powerful and widely entrenched liberal ideas. She builds on Indigenous sovereignty work from authors such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Mark Rifkin as well as the littoral development in Black studies from Christine Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and Tiffany Lethabo King to engage decolonial thinking on a range of urgent topics such as pandemic history and grief; gender-based violence and sexual assault; and the connections between colonial capitalism and substance abuse, the Anthropocene, and climate change. Combining witnessed experience with an array of decolonial texts, Jolly argues for an effluent form of reading that begins with the understanding that the granting of “rights” to individuals is meaningless in a world compromised by pollution, poverty, and successive pandemics. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.Trade Review "Rosemary J. Jolly’s far-reaching book urges us to rethink our normative, institutionalized assumptions about human rights. What is required, she argues, is a wider recognition that decentering the human is, paradoxically, vital to human sustainability. Standard notions of human rights have failed vast swathes of humanity and the more-than-human lives with whom their beings are intertwined. By turns philosophical and grounded, The Effluent Eye illuminates anew the vexing worlds of sexual assault, Ebola, and HIV/AIDS, among other concerns. Jolly has given us a provocative, iconoclastic work that deserves to be read, taught, and debated."—Rob Nixon, Princeton University "This superbly original book challenges some of the core concepts that structure anthropocentric understandings of human rights and calls on readers to think differently about waste, death, health, and healing. Looking through an ‘effluent eye’ inspired by South African literature and philosophy, Rosemary J. Jolly offers a vision that breaks with the embedded logic of colonial capitalism to see what lies outside and beyond."—Stephanie Newell, Yale University
£20.69
Temple University Press,U.S. Silicone Survivors: Women's Experiences with
Book SynopsisSusan Zimmermann talked with forty women about perhaps one of the most sensitive issues of body image and health - their breasts, the chief attribute of femininity. In the aftermath of the early 1990s controversy over the use of silicone breast implants, how do women decide to undergo surgery o enhance or reconstruct their bodies? How does surgery alter a woman's self-image? How did they face the possibility of debilitating autoimmune disease from rupturing or leaking implants? Some opted for breast implants after mastectomies, others for cosmetic reasons. Some felt empowered by the surgery: \u0022Being a woman, I just like breasts and felt like I got ripped off...I did it for myself.\u0022 Others were pressured by their husbands: \u0022He used to make fun of parts of my body...And, he made me believe that if I was ever to leave him, no one would have anything to do with me because I was this deformed type of person.\u0022 After surgery, some women were ecstatic, while others had a sense of inner conflict about what they had done to themselves: were they \u0022faking it\u0022? And a few were angry: \u0022I was really angry inside that I had had to put plastic bags filled with chemicals in my body in order for me to feel like I could do the Hoochie Koo on Saturday nights...I didn't wear tight clothes; I didn't want my children to find out.\u0022 Now, having faced years of medical and personal uncertainty, many have coped by reassessing their lives and their relationships, by sharing information and support with other women with implants, outreach that became a means for self-empowerment.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Historical Background: The Emergence of a Controversy 3 The Decision to Seek Breast Implants: Women's Participation in the Medicalization Process 4 False Expectations: An Ironic Twist on "Before and After" 5 Misinforming Women of Risk: A Medical Conspiracy? 6 Minimizing Women's Troubles 7 Listening to an Inner Voice 8 Transforming Identities: Experiences of Empowerment Notes Bibliography Index
£26.09
Temple University Press,U.S. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR
Book SynopsisSudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families of victims and survivors of CPR. It will engage emergency personnel, others in the medical field, and anyone concerned with ethical issues of death and dying. Anyone who has ever taken a CPR course has wondered, \u0022What would happen if I actually had to use CPR?\u0022 In Western societies, the lifesaving power of resuscitation has the status of a revered cultural myth. It promises life in the face of sudden death, but the reality is that lives are rarely saved. Medical researchers estimate the survival rate for out-of-hospital CPR to be between 1 and 3 percent. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR explores the history of this medical innovation and the promotion of its effectiveness. The overuse of resuscitation, Timmermans explains, defines people's experience with sudden death, something he learned firsthand by following the practice of lifesaving from street corner to emergency room. He argues that very few people are successfully resuscitated without brain damage despite the promotion of CPR's effectiveness through powerful media images. In vivid accounts of the day-to-day practices of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in one of the only studies o f sudden death, Timmermans records the astonishingly frank comments of emergency personnel. Doctors, nurses, social workers, and paramedics express emotions from cynicism about going through the futile motions to genuine concern for victims' family members. If a person who was supposed to keep on living dies at the end of a resuscitative attempt, how socially meaningful is the dying? Timmermans asks tough questions and addresses the controversial ethical issues about the appropriateness of interfering with life and death. He suggests policy reform and the restoration of dignity to sudden death.Trade Review"Out of his immersion in the sequestered inner world of the hospital emergency departments where sudden death and resuscitative efforts generally take place, Timmermans arrives at illuminating philosophical and sociological insights into how we all are, and ought to be, implicated in these processes, and admirable suggestions about how we can help to make them more dignified, consoling, and meaningful." -Renee C. Fox, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania "This deeply disturbing book documents the failure of modern society to deal with sudden death. Timmermans combines ethnographic observations in various Emergency Rooms with a detailed history of the emergence of CPR to debunk the myth that CPR is successful. Timmermans is a wise and humane guide through the tricky ethical issues surrounding sudden death. He argues for a new ethical code to restore dignity and choice to the dying process. This important and insightful book deserves to become a classic in medical sociology." -Trevor Pinch, Cornell University "A compassionate, meticulous portrayal of sudden death. Heroics are entirely banished in this first-ever ethnography of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, and the record is set straight through a skillful, eye-opening account of the routines and practices of emergency medicine... [T]his is an indispensable read for social scientists and historians of technology and medicine, and also for specialists in emergency medicine and health-care professionals involved with death and dying." -Margaret Lock, author of the award-winning Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North AmericaTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Bern Shen, M.D. Preface Introduction: What They Didn't Tell You in Your CPR Course The Myth of CPR How Dignified is Sudden Death? 1. Death Awareness in the United States The Emergence of Death Awareness Hospice Care Right-to-Die Movement The "Good" Death Toward a Dignified Sudden Death? 2. The Search for the Best Resuscitation Technique The Royal Humane Society The Resuscitation Techniques of the Royal Humane Society The Vital Principle The Schafer Technique Resuscitation Research in the United States Manual Artificial Ventilation Methods The Obstructed Airway Mouth-to-Mouth Ventilation Chest Compressions The Origins of Resuscitation Beliefs 3. CPR for All Professional Versus Lay CPR Patient Transportation Consolidation of the Emergency Medical System Survival Rates The Chain of Survival Some CPR Is Better Than No CPR What Is Survival? Number-to-Number Inflation The Economic Cost of Saving Lives Universal Lifesaving 4. Lifesaving in Action Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Paramedics The Emergency Department Ritual, Medicalization, and Community 5. Deciding Life and Death Reaching Decisions Initial Impressions Dead on Arrival The Rush of the First Minutes The Resuscitation Team Retrieving Clinical Information Circumstances of the Cardiac Arrest The Patient's Social Viability Resuscitation Trajectories Legal Death Trajectory Elite Death Trajectory Temporary Stabilization Trajectory Stabilization Trajectory Social Inequality of Sudden Death 6. "There Is a Code and a Code" The Routines of Emergencies Becoming a Resuscitator Major Categories The Successful Resuscitative Effort The Bad Resuscitative Effort The Tragic Resuscitative Effort The Non-Category Personal Philosophy Comfort with Sudden Death 7. Saving Life or Saving Death? Resuscitation Ethic More Effective CPR Empowering Relatives and Friends Family Attendance Final Reflections Appendix: Methodology Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Life And Death In Intensive Care
Book SynopsisLife and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions-from comas to terminal illness-are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of \u0022moral economies\u0022 to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment. Drawing upon her fieldwork conducted in both the United States and New Zealand, Cassell compares the moral outlooks and underlying principles of SICU nurses, residents, intensivists, and surgeons. Using real life examples, Life and Death in Intensive Care clearly presents the logic and values behind the SICU as well as the personalities, procedures, and pressures that characterize every case. Ultimately, Cassell demonstrates the differing systems of values, and the way cultural definitions of medical treatment inform how we treat the critically ill.Trade Review"Life and Death in Intensive Care is a valuable addition to our growing understanding of our technology- and bureaucracy-intensive hospital system. Joan Cassell is an advocate as well as comparative ethnographer, and her work will appeal to anyone concerned with health policy or the social world of modern medicine generally."-Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard University "This is some book... It is powerful writing, with harsh (accurate) content. There are great quotes, terrific anecdotes, fiery feminism and damning observations of doctors' arrogance in dealing with family, other medical specialties, and nurses."-Critical Care and Resuscitation "Cassell's ethnographic description is lively and engaging... For the psychologist who has recently entered the medical setting, Cassell's book will be an entertaining and enjoyable educational source."-PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsIntroduction - Moonscape: The Surgical Intensive Care Unit1. A Caring Ethic: Nurses and the Dilemma of Powerlessness2. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Residents3. Diverse Universes of Medical Discourse: The Fellows4. The Attendings5. Is Death the Enemy, or Suffering?6. Confronting Death in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit7. Intensive Caring in New Zealand8. Going Gentle into that Good Night: Death in Auckland9. Focusing on the Bottom Line10. The Dominion of DeathAppendix - "Hard" Science, "Soft" Science, Social Science:The Anxiety of MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction And
Book SynopsisThere is little doubt among scientists and the general public that homelessness, mental illness, and addiction are inter-related. In Of Others Inside, Darin Weinberg examines how these inter-relations have taken form in the United States. He links the establishment of these connections to the movement of mental health and addiction treatment from redemptive processes to punitive ones and back again, and explores the connection between social welfare, rehabilitation, and the criminal justice system. Seeking to offer a new sociological understanding of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disability, Of Others Inside considers the general social conditions of homelessness, poverty, and social marginality in the U.S. Weinberg also explores questions about American perceptions of these conditions, and examines in great detail the social reality of mental disability and drug addiction without reducing people's suffering to simple notions of biological fate or social disorder.Trade Review"Of Others Inside is brilliant and fascinating. The author has done a commendable job charting a middle ground between the equally unsatisfying positions that mental illness and addictions are things-in-themselves or arbitrary social constructions."-Spencer Cahill, University of South Florida "Well written and unique in its empirical scope, Of Others Inside is a groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disorder in America... [A] major contribution to debates about the relationship between community solidarity and mental health."-Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri "Based on scrupulously careful historical analysis and penetrating ethnography, Weinberg liberates us from the idea that insanity and addiction are either human constructions or independent realities. He illuminates how they are equally social products and causal factors in shaping expected paths toward wellness. Although focused on the marginalized ill, this work provides a more general model for getting beyond radically objectivist or subjectivist explanations that stifle progress in the human sciences. This will be the book's most enduring contribution."-David A. Karp, author of Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness and The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental IllnessTable of ContentsForeword - Bryan S. TurnerAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism in the Sociology of Mental HealthPart I. A History of Insanities and Addictions Among Marginalized Americans2. Setting the Stage3. Addictions and Insanities: Two Fields and Their PhenomenaPart II. A Tale of Two Programs4. Canyon House5. Twilights6. ConclusionReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
Book SynopsisHow Western medicine has transformed--and been transformed by--African cultureTrade Review"David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare. His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area that has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens." -Roderick Bush, St. John's UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. The Origins of African Biomedicine 2. Dissecting Western Medicine 3. Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission 4. African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents 5. African Biomedicine References Index
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WW Norton & Co Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s when doctors still paid house calls but regularly withheld the truth from their patients, Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno explore an unprecedented revolution in health care and explain the problem with Americans wanting everything that medical science has to offer without debating its merits and its limits. The result: Americans today pay far more for health care while having amongst the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation. Gutmann and Moreno—“incisive, influential, and pragmatic thinkers” (Arthur Caplan)—demonstrate that the stakes have never been higher for prolonging and improving life. From health care reform and death-with-dignity to child vaccinations and gene editing, they explain how bioethics came to dominate the national spotlight, leading and responding to a revolution in doctor-patient relations, a burgeoning world of organ transplants and new reproductive technologies that benefit millions but create a host of legal and ethical challenges. With striking examples, the authors show how breakthroughs in cancer research, infectious disease and drug development provide Americans with exciting new alternatives, yet often painful choices. They address head-on the most fundamental challenges in American health care: Why do we pay so much for health care while still lacking universal coverage? How can medical studies adequately protect individuals who volunteer for them? What’s fair when it comes to allocating organs for transplants in truly life-and-death situations? A lucid and provocative blend of history and public policy, this urgent work exposes the American paradox of wanting to have it all without paying the price.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Human Rights Act: A Practical Guide for
Book SynopsisThe Human Rights Act came into effect on 2nd October 2000, giving every citizen a clear statement of their rights and responsibilities. For public authorities - such as the NHS - the Act makes it a legal duty to respect and foster the rights of citizens as set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. This timely book has been written by nursing-related professionals who are nationally recognised for their experience in nursing and its relation to ethics and the law. Intended to be of practical use for nurses in their day to day relationships with patients and clients, this guide explores the impact of The Human Rights Act on key areas such as health law and ethics, patient rights and non-discrimination. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse in safeguarding patients rights and several case studies are included to illustrate issues raised by the Act. Written for nurses and other healthcare professionals, this guide provides an informed overview of the Human Rights Act and its ramifications for healthcare services in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1: Context and General Importance. European Convention. Human Rights Act Legislation Chapter 2: How the HRA will Relate to Healthcare. Resources. Right to Life. Research. Chapter 3: Other Countries. American Bill of Rights. Canada. Patients Charter. Code of Professional Conduct Chapter 4. Nursing Perspectives. Patients Perspectives. Chapter 5: Case Studies. Confidentiality. Data Protection. Consent. Abortion. Transplantation. Children. Withdrawal of Treatment. Euthanasia. Treatment Choices. Research. Appendices. Convention Rights Incorporated into the Human Rights Act 1998. ICN Code for Nurses. References. Resources. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Assisted Human Reproduction: Psychological and
Book SynopsisWith contributions from: Eric Blyth, Ken Daniels, Julia Feast, Robert Lee, Nina Martin, Alexina McWhinnie, Derek Morgan, Clare Murray, Sharon Pettle, Claire Potter, Jim Richards and Francoise Shenfield The separation of procreation from conception has broadened notions of parenthood and created novel dilemmas. A woman may carry a foetus derived from gametes neither or only one of which came from her or her partner; or she may carry a foetus created using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) with the purpose of handing it to two other parents one, neither or both of whom may be genetically related to the prospective child. Parents may consist of single-sex couples, only one of them genetically related to the child; the prospective mother may be past her menopause; and genetic parenthood after death is now achievable. In a world increasingly reliant on medical science, how can the argument that equates traditional with natural and novel with unnatural/unethical be justified? Should there be legislation, which is notoriously slow to change, in a field driven by dazzling new possibilities at ever faster rate; particularly when restrictions differ from country to country, so that those who can afford it travel elsewhere for their treatment of choice? Whose rights are paramount - the adults hoping to build a family or the prospective child(ren)s future well being? On what basis can apparently competing rights be regulated or adjudicated and how and to what extent can these be enforced in practice?Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword (Professor Susan Golombok). Introduction. Chapter 1: Assisted human reproduction: contemporary policy and practice in the UK (Eric Blyth, Nina Martin and Claire Potter). Chapter 2: Issues of gamete donation and sex selection: a clinician's view (Francoise Shenfield). Chapter 3: Ethical issues - the major faiths: a personal view (Jim Richards). Chapter 4: Human reproduction and human rights (Derek Morgan and Robert G. Lee). Chapter 5: Donor-assisted conception: what can we learn from adoption? (Julia Feast). Chapter 6: Children raised in assisted human reproduction families: the evidence (Clare Murray). Chapter 7: Disclosure and development: 'taking the bady home was just the beginning' (Alexina M. McWhinnie). Chapter 8: Psychological therapy and counselling with individuals and families afrter donor conception (Sharon A. Pettle). Chapter 9: Policy development in third party reproduction: an international perspective (Ken Daniels). Appendix: Resources. Index.
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Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in
Book SynopsisThe world's two most populous countries face numerous policy challenges from rapid demographic change, including gender imbalance, population aging, and rapid urbanization. Drawing on social science expertise from China, India, and the United States, the contributors examine the social and economic challenges for policy across a range of domains, from family planning and old-age support to human capital investment, poverty alleviation, and broader issues of governance.
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Rutgers University Press Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town
Book SynopsisIn disease cluster communities across the country, environmental contamination from local industries is often suspected as a source of disease. But civic action is notoriously hampered by the slow response from government agencies to investigate the cause of disease and the complexities of risk assessment. In Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town, Laura Hart examines another understudied dimension of community inaction: the role of emotion and its relationship to community experiences of social belonging and inequality. Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging, disconnect, and disruption in the wake of suspected industrial pollution. Her research points to a fear driven not only by economic anxiety, but also by a fear of losing security within the community—a sort of pride that is not only about status, but connectedness. Hart reveals the importance of this social form of risk—the desire for belonging and the risk of not belonging—ultimately arguing that this is consequential to how people make judgements and respond to issues. Within this context where the imperative for self-protection is elusive, affected families experience psychosocial and practical conflicts as they adapt to cancer as a way of life. Considering a future where debates about risk and science will inevitably increase, Hart considers possibilities for the democratization of risk management and the need for transformative approaches to environmental justice.Trade Review“Hart does an excellent job weaving local community narratives in with sociological insights and theories of risk and belonging. Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town offers a clear and important contribution to in-depth community studies of industrial risks and environmental health disaster.” -- Peter Little * author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks *“Hart’s account of Clyde, Ohio leaves the reader feeling as though they’ve come to know the residents of this town, and it skillfully captures the complexity underlying a community’s response to chronic contamination and illness. It is an important contribution to the literature on risk, disasters, and the sociology of emotions.” -- Norah MacKendrick * author of Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate their Exposure to Everyday Toxics *Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Town of Whirlpool 1 The Deregulation of Toxic Chemicals 2 Cancer in Clyde and “Will-o’-the-Wisp Things” 3 Emotion, Risk, and Othering 4 Embodied Risk 5 Toward Transformative Movements of Theory and Practice Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Cancer Entangled: Anticipation, Acceleration, and
Book SynopsisCancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the "state of the nation".Trade Review"Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Tørring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare." -- Ayo Wahlberg * professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen *"Cancer Entangled explores how the miasma of the potential of cancer infiltrates and weighs on people’s ordinary lives as well as clinical experiences. The impact of anticipatory cancer within a welfare state is at the core of each of the chapters, yet each individual chapter contributes a contextually different perspective, contributing to our understanding of the broader context. This is a conversation well worth joining!" -- M. Cameron Hay-Rollins * author of Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indones *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times Marie Louise Tørring Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness Camilla Hoffmann Merrild Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic Benedikte Møller Kristensen Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work Rikke Aarhus Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty Michal Frumer Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions Stine Hauberg Nielsen Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care Lenore Manderson Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
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Rutgers University Press Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American
Book SynopsisOne out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients’ rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops’ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church’s stance on sex, reproduction, and “life” itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.Trade Review"Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, horrific stories began to emerge from hospitals across the country. To many, these denials of emergency medical care seemed to be an alarming new consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision. Lori Freedman, however, has documented such stories for well over a decade. We would do well to study her work carefully — including her book Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals — in this critical moment. * Catholics for Choice *“It’s a recipe for disaster—the Catholic Church wants the most births possible, and most American women want to limit their childbearing and protect their health with modern advances in contraception and abortion. Yet in the name of corporate conscience, our anachronistic laws allow Catholic healthcare to require physicians of all faiths to do things that violate medical ethics and often constitute malpractice. Freedman’s compelling research, rich storytelling, and incisive analysis reveal how outrageous Bishop-knows-best medicine really is.” -- Katie Watson * author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Ordinary Abortion *"Bishops and Bodies is poised to make a significant impact not just in social science and medical humanities circles, but in broader public conversations about health care, reproductive rights, and the place of religion in society." -- Jessica Martucci * author of Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America *Table of ContentsForeword by Debra Stulberg Prologue: Unsafe and Unequal Introduction: Doctrinal Iatrogenesis 1 Growth: How Catholic Health Care Expanded 2 Inferior: How Catholic Directives Contradict Medical Standards 3 Consumer Medicine? Patients and the Illusion of Choice 4 Emergencies: Patient Loss and Suffering 5 Mostly Above-Board Workarounds 6 Under the Radar Workarounds 7 Separation of Church and Hospital 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Appendix Notes Index
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19: How Can WHO Be
Book SynopsisThis open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continued and worsened in many parts of the world in the second-half of 2020 and into 2021. Many of these countries and nations wanted to explore COVID-19 on their own, sometimes without listening to the main international health bodies such as WHO, an agency of the United Nations system with long-standing experience and vast knowledge at the global level and of which all countries in the world are members. In this single volume, the chapters present the progress of thinking and debate — particularly in relation to drugs and vaccines — that would enable a response to the COVID-19 pandemic or to subsequent crises that may arise. Among the topics covered: COVID-19 Vaccines: Between Ethics, Health and Economics Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global Strategy Re-thinking Global and Local Manufacturing of Medical Products After COVID-19 Rethinking R&D for Pharmaceutical Products After the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Shock Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines and Vaccines The World Health Organization Reforms in the Time of COVID-19 Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19: How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice? is essential reading for negotiators from the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO); World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) staff participating in these negotiations; academics and students of public health, medicine, health sciences, law, sociology and political science; and intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations that follow the issue of access to treatments and vaccines for COVID-19.Table of ContentsChapter 1 COVID-19 Vaccines: Between Ethics, Health and Economics 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine 11.3 Two Key Issues: Immunity and Contagion 21.4 Vaccine Nationalism 21.5 The COVAX Mechanism 31.6 Compulsory Licensing 31.7 Access to Medicines and Vaccines: A New Player 3References…………………………………………………………………………………………….#Chapter 2 Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global Strategy 72.1 Introduction 72.2 The Background of the IGWG Negotiations 92.3 The IGWG Stakeholders 112.4 The IGWG Process 122.4.1 The First Meeting in Geneva: 4–8 December 2006 122.4.2 Regional Consultations 132.4.3 Second Meeting, 5–10 November 2007 152.4.4 Continuation of the Second Meeting of the IGWG: 28 April to 3 May 2008 152.4.5 Sixty-First World Health Assembly, 24 May 2008 152.5 The Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property 172.5.1 Main Elements of the 2008 Global Strategy 172.5.2 Additional Mandates of the 2008 Global Strategy 172.5.3 Progress in the Implementation of the GSPOA 182.5.4 The Collaboration of the WHO with other International Organisations 192.6 The WHO Consultative Expert Working Group 202.6.1 A Binding International Convention 202.6.2 The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 212.7 The Evaluation of the GSPOA 222.8 The Report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines 232.9 The Roadmap on Access to Medicines 252.9.1 Background 252.9.2 Regulatory Systems Strengthening 262.9.3 Health Research and Development 262.9.4 Intellectual Property 272.10 Resolution on “Improving the Transparency of Markets for Medicines, Vaccines and other Health-Related Technologies” 272.11 Access to Biotherapeutic Products Including Similar Biotherapeutic Products 292.12 Conclusions 30References 31Chapter 3 Re-thinking Global and Local Manufacturing of Medical Products After COVID-19 333.1 Introduction 333.2 Background: The View of UN Agencies on Pharmaceutical Production in Developing Countries 343.3 COVID-19 “Vaccine Nationalism” 373.4 COVID-19 Global Vaccine Access Facility (COVAX Facility) 423.5 Global Preparedness Monitoring Board 443.6 A COVID-19 Technology Sharing Platform: A Recent UN Initiative 463.7 Concluding Remarks 46References 47Chapter 4 Rethinking R&D for Pharmaceutical Products After the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Shock 534.1 Introduction 534.2 Background of the Debate on the R&D Model 544.3 Problems of the R&D Model for Pharmaceutical Products 564.3.1 Lack of Transparency of R&D Costs 564.3.2 Pharmaceutical Innovation Has Significantly Decreased 574.3.3 High Prices Restrict Access 574.3.4 Fragmentation and Lack of Coordination 584.3.5 Waste and Overlap 594.4 A Binding International Convention 594.4.1 Objective and Scope 604.4.2 Possible Main Components 604.5 The Need to Act Fast 614.6 Conclusions and Recommendations 62References…………………………………………………………………………………………….#Chapter 5 Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines and Vaccines 675.1 Introduction 675.2 The WTO TRIPS Agreement 675.3 What Is a Patent? 675.3.1 There Is no Global or International Patent 685.3.2 The Patent Cooperation Treaty 685.3.3 Validity of Patents 695.3.4 Minimum Standards of Patent Protection 705.3.5 Patents on Pharmaceutical Products 715.3.6 Patents and Access to Essential Medicines 725.4 The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health 735.5 What Are the TRIPS Flexibilities? 745.5.1 Criteria for Patentability 755.5.2 Compulsory Licences 755.5.3 Government Use 765.5.4 Parallel Imports 765.5.5 Exceptions to Patent Rights 765.5.6 Flexibility in Test Data Protection 775.5.7 Avoidance of TRIPS-plus Provisions and Policies, Including Extension of Patent Term, Data Exclusivity, Second-Use Patents, Border Measures 775.5.8 Mitigating Implementation or Effects of TRIPS-plus Provisions 775.5.9 Exemption for LDCs 775.5.10 Pre- and Post-Patent Grant Opposition 775.5.11 Use of Competition Law to Address the Misuse of Patents 785.5.12 Disclosure Requirement, Particularly for Biologics 785.5.13 Flexibilities in Enforcement of IP 785.6 The Paragraph 6 Problem and its Solution 785.7 Impact of "TRIPS-plus" and "TRIPS Extra" Provisions 795.7.1 Extension of Patent Protection Beyond the TRIPS Minimum 795.7.2 Restrictions on the Use of Compulsory Licences 805.7.3 Data Exclusivity 805.7.4 Marketing Approval and Patent Term Linkage 805.8 Conclusions 80References 81Chapter 6 The World Health Organization Reforms in the Time of COVID-19 836.1 Introduction 836.2 Background 846.3 COVID-19 and the WHO Reform 856.3.1 Problem 1: The Public-Private Sector Dilemma 866.3.2 Problem 2: The Dilemma Between Voluntary Recommendations and Binding Instruments in the Health Field 886.3.4 Problem 3: The Dilemma Between Regulations and Humanitarian Aid 906.4 The International Health Regulations (IHR) 916.4.1 Taking a Straightforward Approach: Modifying the IHR 916.5 Non-Paper Proposals of Action 926.6 The Special Meeting of the Executive Board on 5–6 October 2020 926.7 Concluding Remarks 93References…………………………………………………………………………………………….#Epilogue 97
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry
Book SynopsisThis book comprehensively educates psychiatrists about malpractice and other liability. It is written to also specifically assist psychiatrists who are sued or are involved in other complaints. The first two sections discuss malpractice law and the litigation process; the litigation section mainly addresses some of the more emotionally charged issues, including do’s and don’ts, how an attorney will be looking at the case, the defendant doctor’s testifying at deposition and trial, and the stress of being sued. The subsequent three sections address specific topics that give rise to liability, with each section taking a different perspective such as risks in particular clinical, by practice site, and special issues, including practice in special situations such as the current pandemic. The final section discusses other forms of liability, such as complaints to medical boards or professional association ethics committees. An exceptional work, Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry, functions as both a go-to handbook and all-encompassing read on the aforementioned topics.Table of ContentsSection I: Malpractice Law.- Principles of Malpractice Law in Psychiatry.- History of Malpractice.- Liability of the Acts of Others.- Professional Liability Insurance.- Section II: Litigation.- Risk Management after an Adverse Event.- The Litigation Process.- Do's and Dont's if You Are Sued.- The Plaintiff Attorney's Perspective.- The Defense Attorney's Perspective.- Expert Witness.- The Defendant Psychiatrist as Witness.- The Stress of Being Sued.- Section III: Malpractice Allegations.- Suicide.- Patient Violence.- Boundary Violations.- Breach of Confidentiality.- Negligent Psychopharmacology.- Abandonment and Unnecessary Commitment.- Negligent Psychotherapy.- Section VI: Practice Areas.- Inpatient General Psychiatry.- Outpatient General Psychiatry.- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- Consult Liaison Psychiatry.- Emergency Room Psychiatry.- Reproductive Psychiatry.- Addition Psychiatry.- Geriatric Psychiatry.- Correctional Psychiatry.- Forensic Psychiatry.- Psychiatric Research.- Section V: Special Topics.- Telepsychiatry.- Malpractice and the Internet.- Patients and Guns.- Practicing During a Pandemic or Disaster.- Section VI: Complaints.- Medical Board Complaints.- Ethics Complaints.- Granting Agencies.- Negative Reviews on the Internet.- Impaired Psychiatrists.
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