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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this defining ethnography of China's public health system and its complex relation to epidemics, Katherine Mason brilliantly describes health professionals, their struggles to be effective and ethical, the barriers they face, and how they animate the Chinese public health system as a lived reality. Infectious Change is an impressive contribution to both China studies and to medical anthropology!" -- Arthur Kleinman, Director * Harvard Asia Center *"Meticulously crafted, Infectious Change draws readers into the world of Chinese public health after SARS. Mason documents fundamentally different approaches to epidemic control among global, state, and local practitioners, including management of migratory populations, data collection, and ethics, arguing that global directives often stymie local efforts. This book elucidates why epidemic prevention everywhere must draw on local knowledge and practices." -- Margaret Lock * author of The Alzheimer Conundrum *"Infectious Change brings us for the first time before a hitherto unacknowledged consequence of the 2009 H1N1 crisis, and, at that, in one of the most epidemiologically critical regions of the globe today. It is this invaluable insight that should hold the attention not only of medical anthropologists but also of the wider global health community." -- Christos Lynteris * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This is an excellent, thought-provoking book, which will appeal to those with interests in contemporary China, medical anthropology, and histories of health and disease. It yields insights that will illuminate broader debates, such as those that pivot on the challenges inherent in promoting the "global" as a category in health." -- Robert Peckham * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Katherine Mason's book is an important contribution to the fields of Chinese studies and anthropology, joining a recent spate of excellent studies using the methods of anthropology to look at the intersections of public health, cultural practices and politics in China...Mason's book reminds us that implementing public health policy is never only about what is technically correct. It is about the cultural values and practices that govern relationships. It is also about understanding the power dynamics of the political system and generating the political will to construct an enabling environment and accountability mechanism to achieve it. In China, the tensions between centre and local are rarely resolved in favour of local and when new criteria for professional advancement are introduced, it results in the type of dysfunction so masterfully described by Mason." -- Joan Kaufman * China Quarterly *"In Infectious Change, Katherine A. Mason provides a captivating analysis of public health in China in the wake of SARS...Infectious Change is an insightful work that would be of interest to scholars of China and global health practitioners while also being accessible to a general academic reader. For China scholars, Mason makes a major contribution to the literature on public health." -- Emilio Dirlikov * Anthropological Quarterly *"Infectious Change presents a rich ethnographic account of how the Tianmai CDC works, how it would like to transform itself, and the barriers to doing so. It will make an excellent addition to courses on the anthropology of China or of global health because of the clarity of its ethnographic account and also because of the questions it opens up."––Elanah Uretsky, Asian MedicinTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis chapter situates the reader in time and space and lays out the main arguments of the book. The author provides an overview of the recent history of public health in China, and describes the pseudonymous city of Tianmai. The author then suggests that due to key differences between professional responsibility as it is defined in the clinical and public health settings - particularly with regards to the aggregate nature of the public health "client" – a bifurcation of service and governance arose in Tianmai between a "common" being served and local populations being governed. The chapter lays out five "commons" that will be examined in the rest of the book: a civilized immigrant common, a professional common, a transnational scientific common, a global health common, and a global common. It also suggests that the Tianmai case can offer novel insights into the study of global health. 2City of Immigrants chapter abstractThis chapter takes a closer look at the immigrant city of Tianmai, and considers how the modern, cosmopolitan urban paradise that Tianmai's elites were trying to build included some and excluded others. In particular, the chapter examines the relationship – or lack thereof – between Tianmai's public health professionals and the city's enormous "floating population" of rural-to-urban migrants. The author shows how her interlocutors – former migrants themselves – refused to engage with migrant individuals, and actively maintained personal, moral, and professional boundaries between themselves and the floating population. This effectively divulged public health professionals of responsibility for the majority of the people who lived in their city and established them as "biological non-citizens" who had to be governed but could not be served. In doing this public health professionals worked to serve a civilized immigrant common of modern urban subjects that did not include the floating population. 3Relationships, Trust, and Truths chapter abstractThis chapter illustrates how the power to implement any given public health initiative in China was located within the webs of guanxi, or personal relationships, that public health professionals spun anew at the beginning of each project. Drawing on rich ethnographic description, the chapter takes the reader into the banqueting and other entertainment rituals that public health professionals engaged in almost daily in order to create and maintain these networks of reciprocal obligation and personalistic trust. The author then examines how a group of young, highly educated post-SARS reformers attempted to rid the public health system of guanxi, which they regarded as anti-scientific and akin to corruption. These reformers hoped to build a more transparent and reliable system of disease reporting and governance by establishing a professional common grounded in professionalized trust. 4Scientific Imaginaries chapter abstractThis chapter critically examines public health research and science in Tianmai. The author explores the efforts of Chinese public health professionals to advance their careers through scientific research, and discusses how in the wake of SARS, Chinese public health institutions dramatically increased their investments in scientific research – rendering publishable research a major focus of local public health work. Newly hired young people labored to produce the "quality" and "true" data that they associated with good science. They hoped that doing so would give them a chance to "develop themselves" as members of transnational scientific common, and to escape a local moral world that they felt was dominated by mimicry, deception, and instability. The chapter suggests that their approach to research provides a mirror through which public health researchers in other contexts could critically examine their own ethical practices, raising new questions about global research ethics. 5Pandemic Betrayals chapter abstractThis chapter provides an ethnographically rich eyewitness account of Tianmai's response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, describing how public health professionals in Tianmai drew upon the lessons of SARS to mount what they thought would be an internationally lauded response to H1N1. In attempting to prove their pandemic preparedness capabilities and ensure a place among the global scientific elite, however, Tianmai's public health professionals instead found that their full admittance into a global health common and a global common remained elusive. The chapter discusses the professionals' difficulties in escaping their perceived status as a source, rather than a victim, of dangerous viruses; their use of disease control tactics that were portrayed abroad as excessive and unsophisticated; and their disappointment with the failure of their leaders and guanxi partners to act in the professional fashion that they had been trying to promote since SARS. 6Conclusion chapter abstractThe concluding chapter returns to the broader question of what professional responsibility can or should mean in public health and beyond, and asks how public health professionals in China could work to reconcile the "common" with the "population," and population needs with individual needs. The author uses the case of HIV/AIDS to examine the ways in which some public health professionals in Tianmai were experimenting with alternative interpretations of public health that broadened the boundaries of the common to allow in otherwise maligned groups, including rural migrants, gay men, and sex workers. The book ends by considering the implications of this ethnography for the study of public health – both local and global – more broadly.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this defining ethnography of China's public health system and its complex relation to epidemics, Katherine Mason brilliantly describes health professionals, their struggles to be effective and ethical, the barriers they face, and how they animate the Chinese public health system as a lived reality. Infectious Change is an impressive contribution to both China studies and to medical anthropology!" -- Arthur Kleinman, Director * Harvard Asia Center *"Meticulously crafted, Infectious Change draws readers into the world of Chinese public health after SARS. Mason documents fundamentally different approaches to epidemic control among global, state, and local practitioners, including management of migratory populations, data collection, and ethics, arguing that global directives often stymie local efforts. This book elucidates why epidemic prevention everywhere must draw on local knowledge and practices." -- Margaret Lock * author of The Alzheimer Conundrum *"Infectious Change brings us for the first time before a hitherto unacknowledged consequence of the 2009 H1N1 crisis, and, at that, in one of the most epidemiologically critical regions of the globe today. It is this invaluable insight that should hold the attention not only of medical anthropologists but also of the wider global health community." -- Christos Lynteris * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This is an excellent, thought-provoking book, which will appeal to those with interests in contemporary China, medical anthropology, and histories of health and disease. It yields insights that will illuminate broader debates, such as those that pivot on the challenges inherent in promoting the "global" as a category in health." -- Robert Peckham * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Katherine Mason's book is an important contribution to the fields of Chinese studies and anthropology, joining a recent spate of excellent studies using the methods of anthropology to look at the intersections of public health, cultural practices and politics in China...Mason's book reminds us that implementing public health policy is never only about what is technically correct. It is about the cultural values and practices that govern relationships. It is also about understanding the power dynamics of the political system and generating the political will to construct an enabling environment and accountability mechanism to achieve it. In China, the tensions between centre and local are rarely resolved in favour of local and when new criteria for professional advancement are introduced, it results in the type of dysfunction so masterfully described by Mason." -- Joan Kaufman * China Quarterly *"In Infectious Change, Katherine A. Mason provides a captivating analysis of public health in China in the wake of SARS...Infectious Change is an insightful work that would be of interest to scholars of China and global health practitioners while also being accessible to a general academic reader. For China scholars, Mason makes a major contribution to the literature on public health." -- Emilio Dirlikov * Anthropological Quarterly *"Infectious Change presents a rich ethnographic account of how the Tianmai CDC works, how it would like to transform itself, and the barriers to doing so. It will make an excellent addition to courses on the anthropology of China or of global health because of the clarity of its ethnographic account and also because of the questions it opens up."––Elanah Uretsky, Asian MedicinTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis chapter situates the reader in time and space and lays out the main arguments of the book. The author provides an overview of the recent history of public health in China, and describes the pseudonymous city of Tianmai. The author then suggests that due to key differences between professional responsibility as it is defined in the clinical and public health settings - particularly with regards to the aggregate nature of the public health "client" – a bifurcation of service and governance arose in Tianmai between a "common" being served and local populations being governed. The chapter lays out five "commons" that will be examined in the rest of the book: a civilized immigrant common, a professional common, a transnational scientific common, a global health common, and a global common. It also suggests that the Tianmai case can offer novel insights into the study of global health. 2City of Immigrants chapter abstractThis chapter takes a closer look at the immigrant city of Tianmai, and considers how the modern, cosmopolitan urban paradise that Tianmai's elites were trying to build included some and excluded others. In particular, the chapter examines the relationship – or lack thereof – between Tianmai's public health professionals and the city's enormous "floating population" of rural-to-urban migrants. The author shows how her interlocutors – former migrants themselves – refused to engage with migrant individuals, and actively maintained personal, moral, and professional boundaries between themselves and the floating population. This effectively divulged public health professionals of responsibility for the majority of the people who lived in their city and established them as "biological non-citizens" who had to be governed but could not be served. In doing this public health professionals worked to serve a civilized immigrant common of modern urban subjects that did not include the floating population. 3Relationships, Trust, and Truths chapter abstractThis chapter illustrates how the power to implement any given public health initiative in China was located within the webs of guanxi, or personal relationships, that public health professionals spun anew at the beginning of each project. Drawing on rich ethnographic description, the chapter takes the reader into the banqueting and other entertainment rituals that public health professionals engaged in almost daily in order to create and maintain these networks of reciprocal obligation and personalistic trust. The author then examines how a group of young, highly educated post-SARS reformers attempted to rid the public health system of guanxi, which they regarded as anti-scientific and akin to corruption. These reformers hoped to build a more transparent and reliable system of disease reporting and governance by establishing a professional common grounded in professionalized trust. 4Scientific Imaginaries chapter abstractThis chapter critically examines public health research and science in Tianmai. The author explores the efforts of Chinese public health professionals to advance their careers through scientific research, and discusses how in the wake of SARS, Chinese public health institutions dramatically increased their investments in scientific research – rendering publishable research a major focus of local public health work. Newly hired young people labored to produce the "quality" and "true" data that they associated with good science. They hoped that doing so would give them a chance to "develop themselves" as members of transnational scientific common, and to escape a local moral world that they felt was dominated by mimicry, deception, and instability. The chapter suggests that their approach to research provides a mirror through which public health researchers in other contexts could critically examine their own ethical practices, raising new questions about global research ethics. 5Pandemic Betrayals chapter abstractThis chapter provides an ethnographically rich eyewitness account of Tianmai's response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, describing how public health professionals in Tianmai drew upon the lessons of SARS to mount what they thought would be an internationally lauded response to H1N1. In attempting to prove their pandemic preparedness capabilities and ensure a place among the global scientific elite, however, Tianmai's public health professionals instead found that their full admittance into a global health common and a global common remained elusive. The chapter discusses the professionals' difficulties in escaping their perceived status as a source, rather than a victim, of dangerous viruses; their use of disease control tactics that were portrayed abroad as excessive and unsophisticated; and their disappointment with the failure of their leaders and guanxi partners to act in the professional fashion that they had been trying to promote since SARS. 6Conclusion chapter abstractThe concluding chapter returns to the broader question of what professional responsibility can or should mean in public health and beyond, and asks how public health professionals in China could work to reconcile the "common" with the "population," and population needs with individual needs. The author uses the case of HIV/AIDS to examine the ways in which some public health professionals in Tianmai were experimenting with alternative interpretations of public health that broadened the boundaries of the common to allow in otherwise maligned groups, including rural migrants, gay men, and sex workers. The book ends by considering the implications of this ethnography for the study of public health – both local and global – more broadly.

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Book SynopsisPatients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking.Trade Review"This strong volume brings together contributors of different disciplinary and experiential backgrounds, broadening our understanding of how patient voices influence American health care policy." -- Elizabeth Toon * University of Manchester *"Patients as Policy Actors provides food for thought on the representation of patients’ voices in a variety of health care arenas. This edited anthology is both academic and intended to foster change. It evaluates patient effectiveness, from patients’ struggles to be heard to their successful mobilization of resources for shared interests." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Despite all of the recent study of patient activism, there has been little attempt to synthesize its achievements and limitations—making the scholarship as fragmented as the activism itself. Patients as Policy Actors fills this void. It should be required reading for anyone interested in how individual patients might mobilize together to help effect meaningful health care reform in the United States." -- Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD * When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine *"A valuable, timely book. It is a guide to developments in the field, critical with the new federal health care law soon to become fully operational. Highly recommended." * Choice *"This is a fascinating book that greatly enhances our understanding of the complexities surrounding the place of the patient in modern health care." * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Patients as Policy Actors, by Nancy Tomes and Beatrix HoffmanPart I. Voices of the Silent1. Solitary Advocates: The Severely Brain Injured and Their Surrogates, by Joseph J. Fins and Jennifer Hersh2. Physician-Patient Communication in the Care of Vulnerable Populations: The Patient's Voice in Interpersonal Policy, by M. Robin DiMatteo, Kelly B. Haskard-Zolnierek, Summer L. Williams, and Desiree Despues3. Is It Time to Push Yet? The Challenges to Advocacy in U.S. Childbirth, by Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong and Eugene Declercq4. A Pound of Flesh: Patient Legal Action for Human Research Protections in the Biotech Age, by Lori Andrews and Julie Burger ChronisPart 2. From Individual to Collective5. From Outsiders to Insiders: The Consumer-Survivor Movement and Its Impact on U.S. Mental Health Policy, by Nancy Tomes6. "Don't Scream Alone": The Health Care Activism of Poor Americans in the 1970s, by Beatrix Hoffman7. The Canary in the Gemeinschaft: Using the Public Voice of Patients to Enhance Health System Performance, by Mark Schlesinger8. Patient Appeals as Policy Disputes: Individual and Collective Action in Managed Care, by Marc A. RodwinPart 3. How Patients Matter9. The Power of Us: A New Approach to Advocacy for Rare Cancers, by Amy Dockser Marcus10. Patients and the Rise of the Nurse-Practitioner Profession, by Julie Fairman11. A House on Fire: Newborn Screening, Parents' Advocacy, and the Discourse of Urgency, by Rachel Grob12. Measuring Success: Scientific, Institutional, and Cultural Effects on Patient Advocacy, by Steven EpsteinEpilogue: Principles for Engaging Patients in U.S. Health Care and Policy, by Rachel Grob and Mark SchlesingerNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gripping, tragic, cogent, emotional, and haunting, reading through these narrative accounts and Grob's interpretation of them achieves the effect of great sociological monographs." * Contemporary Sociology *"Newborn screening is a most interesting area that impacts each and every individual in countless ways. In this truly inspiring work, Grob has captured what others have not been able to write about the topic. Essential." * Choice *"Testing Baby does what sociology is meant to do—transform our understanding of everyday life, connect the personal to the structural, and challenge our thinking. A rare accomplishment" -- Barbara Katz Rothman * City University of New York *"Testing Baby is an excellent book for medical professionals—including physicians, social workers, and genetic researchers—as well as policymakers. A relevant and important contribution that sits at the interface of medical science, reproduction, and parenthood, Grob’s work will provoke further reflection regarding the future role of technology and genetic information for the human experience." * World Medical and Health Policy *"Grob provokes the reader to think deeply about a taken-for-granted aspect of the medicalization of reproduction in the United States." -- Rayna Rapp, PhD. * Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America *"Her accessible, Testing Baby,...may be the start of a differenc kind of policy conversation." * Health Affairs *"Rachel Grob's timely and insightful analysis explores how families actually experience newborn screening. It will be read with profit by anyone interested in issues raised by medical screening programs generally." -- Diane B. Paul * The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurtur *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Saving Babies, Changing Lives Chapter 2. Diagnostic Odysseys, Old and New: How Newbord Screening Transforms Parents' Encounters with Disease Chapter 3. Specters in the Room: Parenting in the Shadow of Cystic Fibrosis Chapter 4. Encounters with Expertise: Parents and Health Care Professionals Chapter 5. A House on Fire: How Private Experiences Ignite Public Voices Chapter 6. Brave New Worlds: Visible in a Single Drop of Blood? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAccording to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favourable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. This takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital’s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies.Trade Review"Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox." -- Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D. * Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University *"This wonderful book demonstrates how immigrant knowledge is rendered irrelevant by the New York City medical establishment, and contributes to our understanding of large-scale transnational immigration issues examined through the lens of gender, pregnancy, and reproduction." -- Rayna Rapp * author, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in *"For years, health professionals have been intrigued by the so-called 'birth-weight paradox'—the fact that recently arrived Mexican immigrant women have fewer pregnancy complications and fewer low-birth-weight babies than their socioeconomic status would predict. Galvez casts the large New York City public hospital prenatal clinic at which she did her interviews as a site of 'subjectification'—the molding of Mexican immigrant women and their families into racialized, needy, passive subjects of medicalization, state intervention, and monitoring. In large part, the women submit because of their own narratives of bettering themselves by their move to the US. This brief description cannot do justice to the richness of Galvez's analysis and the complexity of the women's negotiations with the US health care system. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox." -- Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D. * Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University *"This wonderful book demonstrates how immigrant knowledge is rendered irrelevant by the New York City medical establishment, and contributes to our understanding of large-scale transnational immigration issues examined through the lens of gender, pregnancy, and reproduction." -- Rayna Rapp * author, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in *"For years, health professionals have been intrigued by the so-called 'birth-weight paradox'—the fact that recently arrived Mexican immigrant women have fewer pregnancy complications and fewer low-birth-weight babies than their socioeconomic status would predict. Galvez casts the large New York City public hospital prenatal clinic at which she did her interviews as a site of 'subjectification'—the molding of Mexican immigrant women and their families into racialized, needy, passive subjects of medicalization, state intervention, and monitoring. In large part, the women submit because of their own narratives of bettering themselves by their move to the US. This brief description cannot do justice to the richness of Galvez's analysis and the complexity of the women's negotiations with the US health care system. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for ChangeEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. With contributions from leading health care scholars, it is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net following enactment of national health care reform.Trade Review"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables1. The Health Care Safety Net in the Context of National Health Insurance ReformPart I2. Dr. StrangeRove; or, How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Community Health Centers3. Reinventing a Classic: Community Health Centers and the Newly Insured4. Applying Lessons from Social Psychology to Repair the Health Care Safety Net for Undocumented Immigrants5. Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships to Expand and Improve Primary Care6. Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety-Net ServicesPart II7. Safety-Net Hospitals at the Crossroads: Whither Medicaid DSH?8. The Safety-Net Role of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers: Past, Present, and Future9. The Declining Public Hospital SectorPart III10. Achieving Universal Access through Safety-Net Coverage11. Public Coverage Expansions and Private Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Implications for Safety NetsAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA compilation of the primary texts-by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists-that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.Trade ReviewWhat Lemkes final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology, science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and its needfulness. * Theory & Event *Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introductionis required reading for anyone interested in this concept. -- Carlos Novas * New Genetics and Society *[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a 'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of valuable and provocative questions to guide future research. * Foucault Studies *Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Preface Introduction 1 Life as the Basis of Politics 2 Life as an Object of Politics 3 The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault 4 Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben 5 Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6 The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics 7 The End and Reinvention of Nature 8 Vital Politics and Bioeconomy 9 Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of biopolitics has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of Trade ReviewWhat Lemkes final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology, science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and its needfulness. * Theory & Event *Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introductionis required reading for anyone interested in this concept. -- Carlos Novas * New Genetics and Society *[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a 'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of valuable and provocative questions to guide future research. * Foucault Studies *Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Preface Introduction 1 Life as the Basis of Politics 2 Life as an Object of Politics 3 The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault 4 Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben 5 Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6 The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics 7 The End and Reinvention of Nature 8 Vital Politics and Bioeconomy 9 Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A keenly observed case study."—Foreign Affairs"HIV Exceptionalism will be a fine addition to both institutional and personal libraries, offering insights for global health and development scholars, and particularly for HIV/AIDS researchers."—African Studies Review"Through fine-grained accounts describing how individuals navigated new structures, new relationships, and new expectations that came along with being beneficiaries of global HIV funding, Benton reveals that jagged edges and uncomfortable truths about broader global-local health encounters. This book tells a compelling story about an entire society adapting to a sudden infusion of donor money for a disease that, in this particular context, barely existed."—Anthropological Quarterly"Benton recovers numerous silences and opens a conversation foregrounding the unarticulated moral epistemologies people struggle with."—Journal of African History"Benton adeptly dissects the psychological and practical effects of the well-meaning but often overbearing world of development. HIV Exceptionalism is strongly argued and impressively researched."—The Lancet"This book serves as a critical call to those in the public health field to be wary of health programming that so imbalances comprehensive healthcare services in an effort to target a health problem that is perceived as exceptional, emergent and urgent."—Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: HIV Exceptionalism in Sierra Leone: Christiana’s StoryPart I. The Exceptional Life of HIV in Sierra Leone1. The HIV Industry in Postwar Sierra Leone2. Exceptional Life, Exceptional Suffering: Enumerating HIV’s TruthsPart II. Becoming HIV-Positive3. The Imperative to Talk: Disclosure and Its Preoccupations4. Positive Living: Hierarchies of Visibility, Vulnerability, and Self-ReliancePart III. HIV and Governance5. For Love of Country: Model Citizens, Good Governance, and the Nationalization of HIVConclusion: The Future of HIV ExceptionalismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDoctors of osteopathy today practice side by side with medical doctors, employing the same diagnostic and curative tools of scientific medicineu2009—u2009with a difference.Trade Review“The human body is a machine run by the unseen force called life, and that it may be run harmoniously it is necessary that there be liberty of blood, nerves, and arteries from their generating point to their destination.”

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Book SynopsisHeterosexual Africa?Trade Review“Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality in Africa…. the assumption that Africa is a continent of heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for too long.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Epprecht’s argument—that imperialism ultimately brought homophobia to Africa, not an introduction of homosexual acts—has become an important tool for African LGBTI and human rights activists.” * International Socialist Journal *“Heterosexual Africa? interrogates the silences of anthropologists who have failed to dispel the myths denying that alternative forms of sexual expression among Africans, particularly men’s same-sex relationships, formerly were tolerated in various societies.” * African Studies Review *“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy—both intellectually and politically—in contemporary Africa.”“This is a ground-breaking survey by an award-winning historian, a work of great significance for anyone interested in the study of sexuality in Africa…. Such work is essential for our understanding not only of African culture but, perhaps more immediately important, for our understanding of how violence, gender discrimination, and anxiety and ignorance about sexuality have impeded treatment of a health crisis of catastrophic and continental magnitude.” * Anthropos *“(Heterosexual Africa?) is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of the stories of researchers who either ignored evidence of African homosexuality or were blind to it or chose to suppress what they found due to homophobia (their own or that of their peers.” * The Gay & Lesbian Review *“This outstanding study will attract a significant readership among undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of African history, queer theory, anthropology, and postcolonial literature. Scholars and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS will also be challenged and engaged by this book. I am convinced that Heterosexual Africa? will stimulate debate and inspire a rethinking of methods and models in African social history. It represents a significant, provocative, and at times controversial contribution to the field.”

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Book SynopsisHeterosexual Africa?Trade Review“Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality in Africa…. the assumption that Africa is a continent of heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for too long.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Epprecht’s argument—that imperialism ultimately brought homophobia to Africa, not an introduction of homosexual acts—has become an important tool for African LGBTI and human rights activists.” * International Socialist Journal *“Heterosexual Africa? interrogates the silences of anthropologists who have failed to dispel the myths denying that alternative forms of sexual expression among Africans, particularly men’s same-sex relationships, formerly were tolerated in various societies.” * African Studies Review *“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy—both intellectually and politically—in contemporary Africa.”“This is a ground-breaking survey by an award-winning historian, a work of great significance for anyone interested in the study of sexuality in Africa…. Such work is essential for our understanding not only of African culture but, perhaps more immediately important, for our understanding of how violence, gender discrimination, and anxiety and ignorance about sexuality have impeded treatment of a health crisis of catastrophic and continental magnitude.” * Anthropos *“(Heterosexual Africa?) is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of the stories of researchers who either ignored evidence of African homosexuality or were blind to it or chose to suppress what they found due to homophobia (their own or that of their peers.” * The Gay & Lesbian Review *“This outstanding study will attract a significant readership among undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of African history, queer theory, anthropology, and postcolonial literature. Scholars and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS will also be challenged and engaged by this book. I am convinced that Heterosexual Africa? will stimulate debate and inspire a rethinking of methods and models in African social history. It represents a significant, provocative, and at times controversial contribution to the field.”

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Book SynopsisHealing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa’s traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa’s healthcare challenges.Trade Review“(Flint) should be applauded for her thorough analysis of a very complex subject during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when western biomedicine was asserting itself worldwide as the dominant profession.” * Journal of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Healing Traditions greatly illuminates the business of medicine within its colonial and postcolonial contexts…. Flint’s work not only offers an excellent model for comparative study; it also suggests that the situation in South Africa is just one important part of a world historical process of biomedical market expansion.” * Business History Review *“Flint’s work is of interest not only to historians of medicine, but also social-cultural historians working with topics as varied as witchcraft and professionalization…. Taken as a whole, the work demonstrates that the syncretic nature of the current South African medical environment results from almost 200 years of dynamic cultural exchange and competition.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Healing Traditions is a comprehensive work that substantially adds to our knowledge of how medicine and power have intertwined in South Africa over the past two hundred years.” * Technology and Culture *“An extremely timely book that will have immediate impact on the heated current debates across several fields of study, forming part of a new and exciting debate emerging around new South African history. The book has great potential to have a measurable impact on the teaching of medicine and health … and the various pathways to healing and health in our current HIV/AIDS pandemic.”“…lucid and detailed…. a vivid picture of the polyculturalism underlying African traditional medicine, and of the economic, social, and political history of a complex medical marketplace.” * American Historical Review *“A well-researched and argued book that contributes to the discussion over cultural imperialism by problematizing current ideas of biomedicine’s colonial hegemony.” * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThrough the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposure vaccines and regular inoculation campaigns for dogs.InTrade Review“Brown has done a brilliant piece of detective work to trace the erratic progress of the disease through the region in the twentieth century. She integrates an innovative history of science and medicine with a complex understanding of the ecology of disease. All of this is told in an engaging narrative which captures the cultural and political significance of rabies in societies riven by divisions of class and race.”“A compelling history of one of the most gruesome epidemic diseases that affect both humans and animals…. In seven chapters Brown is not only writing a history of rabies in colonial and post-colonial Southern Africa but shows how medical history can be as much environmental history as it is the history of ideas and of course social history.” * Environment and History *“Karen Brown demonstrates in her well-researched survey that the history of rabies in South Africa involved not only tranformations in veterinary practices, in epidemiology, in conservation, and in public health policy but also in wildlife. Over the twentieth century, the disease adapted to a variety of faunal vectors, including jackals, tigers, lions, mongooses, meerkats, and wild, stray, and domestic dogs.” * ISIS *“With few full studies of rabies available, Brown’s ecohistorical perspective will generate more than parochial interest.” * Choice *“No matter whether one’s chief interest lies in the human or animal component of her tale, Dr. Brown gives much food for thought in her revelation of human-animal interactions and how infections pass between animals and people.…In addition to the lively and informed nature of Dr. Brown’s writing, Mad Dogs and Meerkats is also readily accessible to the layperson. Dr. Brown includes many quotations from writers and experts in the field, always ensuring that such quotations are pertinent and salient, while restricting them to the most relevant utterances made by these professionals.” * New York Journal of Books *

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Book SynopsisThis is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today—smallpox, bubonic plague, “Spanish influenza,” polio, and HIV/AIDS—the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences.Trade Review“Such a book is overdue…(It) is precisely written, accessible, eminently readable, and, as I have found out, can be effectively deployed as an effective teaching tool.”

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Book SynopsisGlobal Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts, and nutritional and virological research.Trade Review“An immensely valuable collection…Global Health in Africa should inspire a new generation of local historians to locate the medical in African histories.” * Social History of Medicine *“For anyone looking for a book to assign to undergraduates, or to recommend to students who are interested in the field of global health, the collection edited by Giles-Vernick and Webb, Global Health in Africa, is [an] obvious choice.” * African Studies Review *“Taken as a collective, the essays offer other lessons to those interested in African public and global health. The most striking theme across the volume are the ways in which health interventions can unintentionally contribute to ill health and create tense relationships with medical practitioners.… A second theme is how individual rights are frequently imperiled by mass campaigns, particularly ones where the line between cure and prevention is blurred.… The collection makes the case well for including historical perspectives in approaching global health, but it also demonstrates how including a global health frame can contribute to histories of disease, health and healing in Africa.” * H-Net *“The distinctive contribution of the work is its explicit historical orientation…. Importantly, the historical perspective…highlights the long-term continuities, unquestioned assumptions and moral ambiguities that characterize global health initiatives in Africa. The breadth and depth of the contributions ensures that the book comes a long way in achieving its objective to contribute to the development of a new field of global health history.” * Comparativ *“This volume illustrates very well that the current day applicability of the core concepts of global health [have] need of the serious critical historical and cultural examination that this volume (and no others that I know of) now provides in its richest and most useful form.”“[Global Health in Africa] demonstrates that Africa’s global health history is rich, important, and under-researched. The strength of this book lies in the breadth and depth of the studies presented in one volume.”“Provides a variety of case studies from different parts of the continent and different historical periods.… The cumulative effect of the chapters impresses on the reader the scope of the experimentation that has been done and that continues to be done on African bodies.”

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Book SynopsisMore than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care.Trade Review“Tappan’s rich study explores how complex health issues in Africa and other regions of the global south have been falsely constructed as problems that can be easily addressed through the application of externally derived biomedical technologies. A must read for public health scholars and practitioners.”“Largely biomedical in orientation and located in the Global North, groups such as the World Heath Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and university research centers seek to remedy the health of the Global South through technological fixes with one-size-fits-all protocols. Tappan’s research … challenges the assumptions of global health on a number of fronts and shows the cost to public health when little regard is given to local culture, history, or autonomy…. Tappan’s work makes significant interventions to the emerging field of African historical epidemiology.” * American Historical Review *“This is a thoughtful and well-researched book on a subject that has remained outside the global health bubble. It tells the important story of capacity and local initiative, as Ugandan doctors, scientists and community health workers struggled to sustain primary health care against unbelievable odds.” * Social History of Medicine *“We try not to pick favorites in the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, but I’ve failed this year with this week’s book…Why was it my favorite? I’ve learned a lot and enjoyed reading all of the books in this summer’s series. But Tappan’s excellent and deeply researched book reads almost like a novel: At the end of each chapter, I needed to keep going to learn what happened next.…This book could change the way you think about health interventions.” * Washington Post online *“An incisive and sensitive portrayal of the real implications of the uneven generation of knowledge in East Africa. Tappan locates the history of nutrition not only in a succession of hypotheses tested on the bodies of Ugandan children, but in later community demonstration meals and in the willingness of researchers to recognize and reflect on the unintended consequences of their actions.”“By tracing the twists and turns in the epidemiology and treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda into the present, The Riddle of Malnutrition delivers an illuminating analysis of the relationship between scientific research and efforts to provide medical care in Africa over the last century.”

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Book SynopsisLooks back at a seminal work of scholarship to provide critical guidance for the years aheadTable of ContentsForeword / Mark V. Pauly vii Preface / Victor R. Fuchs xiii Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care: "Why Arrow? Why Now?" / Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage xvii Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (American Economics Review, 1963) / Kenneth J. Arrow 1 Part 1: Supply, Demand, and Health Care Competition General Equilibrium and Marketability in the Health Care Industry / Michael Chernew 37 Arrow's Concept of the Health Care Consumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective / Frank A. Sloan 49 Uncertainty and Technological Change in Medicine / Annetine G. Gelijns, Joshua Graff Zivin, and Richard R. Nelson 60 Human Inputs: The Health Care Workforce and Medical Markets / Richard A. Cooper and Linda H. Aiken 71 Health Care as a (Big) Business: The Antitrust Response / Clark C. Havighurst 84 Part 2: Risk, Insurance, and Redistribution Health Insurance and Market Failure since Arrow / Sherry A. Glied 103 Can Efficiency in Health Care Be Left to the Market? / Uwe E. Reinhardt 111 Valuing Charity / Richard Kronick 134 Medical Service Risk and the Evolution of Provider Compensation Arrangements / Gloria J. Bazzoli 142 The Role of the Capital Markets in Restructuring Health Care / J. B. Silvers 156 Part 3: Information, Knowledge, and Medical Markets Arrow and the Information Market Failure in Health Care: The Changing Content and Sources of Health Care Information / Deborah Haas-Wilson 169 The End of Asymmetric Information / James C. Robinson 181 Managing Uncertainty: Intermediate Organizations as Triple Agents / Lawrence Casalino 189 Moral Hazard vs. Real Hazard: Quality of Care Post-Arrow / Michael L. Millenson 202 Part 4: Social Norms and Professionalism Arrow's Analysis of Social Institutions: Entering the Marketplace with Giving Hands? / Peter J. Hammer 215 The Market for Medical Ethics / M. Gregg Bloche 230 The Role of Nonprofits in Health Care / Jack Needleman 243 Arrow on Trust / Mark A. Hall 259 From Trust to Political Power: Interest Groups, Public Choice, and Health Care / Mark A. Peterson 272 Regulating Health Care: From Self-Regulation to Self-Regulation? / Peter D. Jacobson 290 The Lawyerization of Medicine / William M. Sage 302 Part 5: Response by Professor Arrow Reflections on Reflections / Kenneth J. Arrow 321 Contributors 327 Index 335

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Book SynopsisWeighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC). This book contends that supporters of CDHC rely on oversimplified ideas about health care, health care systems, economics, and human nature. It challenges the historical and theoretical assumptions on which the consumer-driven health care movement is based.Trade Review“Health Care at Risk is the first intelligent and intelligible discussion of a new fad in American health policy, the so-called ‘consumer-directed’ movement. This topic is quite important, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost knows what he is talking about.”— Theodore R. Marmor, author of Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy“Health Care at Risk offers a scholarly and insightful assessment of the origins, theoretical underpinnings, and key elements of the modern consumerism movement in health care financing and its implications for health care access and quality. Clear, unbiased, and thought-provoking, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost’s book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of the American health care system.”—Sara Rosenbaum, Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services“A well-timed, compelling study, written for experts but also, thankfully, understandable by ‘consumers.’ Timothy Stoltzfus Jost shows why leaving health care decisions to a free market cannot work, even in the United States, while also emphasizing the importance of consumer choice in future policy decisions. Erudite, clearly argued, engaging, and fair.”—Rosemary A. Stevens, author of The Public-Private Health Care State “In Health Care at Risk, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost has written a compelling and yet balanced critique of the so-called ‘consumer-driven health care movement,’ a movement that is gaining force not just in the United States, but around the world. Students of international health policy, and indeed supporters and opponents of the CDHC movement, would benefit from reading Jost’s account.”—Adam Oliver, Editor in Chief, Health Economics, Policy and Law“[A]n analytic tour de force, comprehensive in scope, scrupulous in scholarship, balanced in approach, and incisive in its policy recommendations. . . . Health Care at Risk is a fine piece of work that should be of interest to policy makers, policy researchers, and many physicians. It would also be an excellent supplementary text for an introductory course in health policy and management. Name an issue that is germane to the current health policy debate and you are likely to find it discussed here. The references and footnotes are comprehensive and meticulous. Most of the major modern contributors to health care organization and finance are not only cited, but their ideas are transmitted with high fidelity and clarity.” -- Richard L. Kravitz * JAMA *Table of ContentsPreface ix 1. Our Broken American Health Care System 1 2. The Consumer-Driven Prescription 17 3. Consumer-Driven Health Care Advocates: Who They Are and What They Believe 27 4. Consumer-Driven Health Care the First Time Around 42 5. The Nonaccidental System 54 6. The Origins of Consumer-Driven Health Care: A Short History of American Health Economics 7. The Theoretical Foundations of Consumer-Driven Health Care 86 8. But Does It Work? The Evidence for and against Consumer-Driven Health Care 119 9. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues Presented by Consumer-Driven Health Care 150 10. Are Consumers Our Only Hope? How Other Countries Organize Their Health Care Systems 166 11. How to Fix Our Broken Health Care System: Where Do We Start? 189 Notes 205 Bibliography 225 Index 253

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.Trade Review“New Organs Within Us is a tour de force. A brave, nuanced, and caring journey into the lives of transplant patients and the new worlds of meaning they tentatively inhabit. Soulfully written, the book changes the way we think about inner life and well-being, technology and human agency, and the impact of the global biomedical enterprise on local health systems. Social scientists and medical practitioners will have to reckon with this exceptional analysis for years to come.”—João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival“I learned a great deal from this brilliant book. There is nothing else like it in the ethnographic literature on comparative high-tech medicine. Aslihan Sanal reaches far beyond the story of transplant patients and the organ trade in Turkey, taking in global flows of knowledge and ethics around brain-death, organ donation, and standards of care, as well as the worldwide organ trade, in which organs are exchanged legally and on the black market.”—Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School“New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy is a richly ethnographic and soulfully written book that plunges its audience into the world of transplant patients and physicians…. The book is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of organ transplant.” -- Monir Moniruzzaman * American Ethnologist *“New Organs within Us is an important contribution to the fields of science and technology studies and the anthropology of health and illness.” -- Aysecan Terzioglu * American Anthropologist *“This is a brilliant book about organ transplantation in Turkey, not only as a journey into the experiences of patients, donors, and relatives of the decease, but also as a political-economy engagement that sheds light on how coping mechanisms are segregated between the poor and the rich. I learned a great deal from this book, and would like to recommend it to students of social sciences, social medicine, and political economy in Turkey.” -- Fikret Adaman * Turkish Studies *"Sensitively written and deeply insightful, Aslihan Sanal’s ethnography of kidney transplantation in Turkey in the 1990s and 2000s is an intimate stitching of life histories, national and institutional narratives, and shifting meanings of life, death, and the body." -- Elizabeth DeLuca * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsPrologue. The Accurate Nature of Things xi Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own 1 The Book 6 In the Field 7 Part One. The Desirable 15 Half a Human 15 From the Earth, Through the Quake 21 Against the Tide 26 Traveling to the West and the East 30 Within the Experiment 36 Close to Death 41 Internal Objects 44 Words of Life 46 The Biopolis 50 East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life" 54 Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions 63 The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones 85 The Biopolis's Vocations 95 Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less 108 Part Two. The Impossible 111 Spaces of Death 111 The Pool of the Dead 118 Mehmed 122 Insanity 128 Kadavra 130 Beyond the Mirror 134 Dissection and Disenchantment 140 Burial 143 Rites of Diffusion 146 Reburial 150 Suicide 153 Dying Metaphors 160 Sacrifice 165 The Possible 175 Conclusion. New Life 179 Epistemic Passages 180 Benimseme 191 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 221 Index 233

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.Trade Review“New Organs Within Us is a tour de force. A brave, nuanced, and caring journey into the lives of transplant patients and the new worlds of meaning they tentatively inhabit. Soulfully written, the book changes the way we think about inner life and well-being, technology and human agency, and the impact of the global biomedical enterprise on local health systems. Social scientists and medical practitioners will have to reckon with this exceptional analysis for years to come.”—João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival“I learned a great deal from this brilliant book. There is nothing else like it in the ethnographic literature on comparative high-tech medicine. Aslihan Sanal reaches far beyond the story of transplant patients and the organ trade in Turkey, taking in global flows of knowledge and ethics around brain-death, organ donation, and standards of care, as well as the worldwide organ trade, in which organs are exchanged legally and on the black market.”—Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School“New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy is a richly ethnographic and soulfully written book that plunges its audience into the world of transplant patients and physicians…. The book is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of organ transplant.” -- Monir Moniruzzaman * American Ethnologist *“New Organs within Us is an important contribution to the fields of science and technology studies and the anthropology of health and illness.” -- Aysecan Terzioglu * American Anthropologist *“This is a brilliant book about organ transplantation in Turkey, not only as a journey into the experiences of patients, donors, and relatives of the decease, but also as a political-economy engagement that sheds light on how coping mechanisms are segregated between the poor and the rich. I learned a great deal from this book, and would like to recommend it to students of social sciences, social medicine, and political economy in Turkey.” -- Fikret Adaman * Turkish Studies *"Sensitively written and deeply insightful, Aslihan Sanal’s ethnography of kidney transplantation in Turkey in the 1990s and 2000s is an intimate stitching of life histories, national and institutional narratives, and shifting meanings of life, death, and the body." -- Elizabeth DeLuca * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsPrologue. The Accurate Nature of Things xi Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own 1 The Book 6 In the Field 7 Part One. The Desirable 15 Half a Human 15 From the Earth, Through the Quake 21 Against the Tide 26 Traveling to the West and the East 30 Within the Experiment 36 Close to Death 41 Internal Objects 44 Words of Life 46 The Biopolis 50 East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life" 54 Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions 63 The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones 85 The Biopolis's Vocations 95 Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less 108 Part Two. The Impossible 111 Spaces of Death 111 The Pool of the Dead 118 Mehmed 122 Insanity 128 Kadavra 130 Beyond the Mirror 134 Dissection and Disenchantment 140 Burial 143 Rites of Diffusion 146 Reburial 150 Suicide 153 Dying Metaphors 160 Sacrifice 165 The Possible 175 Conclusion. New Life 179 Epistemic Passages 180 Benimseme 191 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 221 Index 233

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa’s underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this successful text is an essential and accessible guide to legal aspects of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery students. Midwives will find this book provides them with the knowledge and understanding they require to make sense of the legal principles that affect their day-to-day work and allay their anxieties, encouraging them to extend and develop their practice safely and with confidence. This new edition includes new and revised case studies throughout. It also contains new sections on NHS accountability, the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act, reproductive technologies and disciplinary pathways. Relates legal issues to everyday midwifery practice Written by an experienced midwife for midwives Accessible, relevant and up-to-dateTrade ReviewFrom reviews of the first edition: “The book is written with commendable and enviable clarity… Get this book. Read it. Go back to it.” Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology “I would recommend every midwife to obtain a copy of one or other of them, both to assist her safe practice and allay fears of ignorance about the law as it refers to midwifery.” Midwives “It is clear that this is a book written by a midwife for midwives. The examples used being topical, relevant and recognisable. I found this book fascinating….” Inprint Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1 The Legal Framework. Chapter 2 The Statutory Profession of Midwifery. Chapter 3 The Statutory Regulation of Midwifery. Chapter 4 Accountability within the NHS. Chapter 5 Negligence in Midwifery Practice. Chapter 6 Consent and Refusal. Chapter 7 Use and Abuse of Information. Chapter 8 Aspects of Law Related to Reproduction and Child Protection. Chapter 9 Aspects of Employment Law. Chapter 10 Application to Midwifery Practice

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Book SynopsisABC of Medical Law focuses on the legal issues in daily practice. It provides up to date coverage of contentious issues, such as withholding and withdrawing treatment and confidentiality. The illustrated, user friendly format will provide you with a guide to how to keep your daily practice within the constraints of the law.Trade Review"... starting with an excellent overview of the legal system, going on to cover many of the areas you would expect, including: consent; refusal of treatment; negligence; confidentiality; and withholding and withdrawing treatment. It does this well..." The Psychiatrist, August 2010Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 Introduction to the Legal System 1Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 2 Consent in Adults 6Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 3 Consent in Children 12Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 4 Refusal of Medical Treatment 15Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 5 Negligence: The Duty of Care 18Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 6 Negligence: The Legal Standard of Care 22Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 7 Negligence: Causation 26Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 8 Confidentiality 29Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 9 Withholding andWithdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment 34Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 10 Research 38Lorraine Corfield Ruth Wilkinson Ingrid Granne 11 Organ Transplantation Organ Retention and Post-Mortem Examinations 44Ruth Wilkinson Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 12 The Healthcare Professional and the Human Rights Act 50Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield Index 53

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Book SynopsisFree Clinics will be useful to policymakers, students and faculty in public health and health policy programs, and clinicians and students who are embarking on launching new clinics.Trade ReviewA comprehensive look at case studies and research findings on free clinics in the United States. -- Jessica Bylander Health AffairsTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter 1. Free Clinics Stand as a Pillar of the Health Care Safety Net: Findings from a Narrative Literature ReviewPart I: Free ClinicsChapter 2. Psychiatric Street Outreach to Homeless People: Fostering Relationship, Reconnection, and RecoveryChapter 3. Nurse Practitioners in Community Health Settings TodayChapter 4. Following the Call: How Providers Make Sense of Their Decisions to Work in Faith- Based and Secular Urban Community Health CentersChapter 5. The Jane Dent Home: The Rise and Fall of Homes for the Aged in Low- Income CommunitiesChapter 6. Early Collaboration for Adaptation: Addressing Depression in Low- Income New MothersChapter 7. Neighborhood Clinics: An Academic Medical Center– Community Health Center PartnershipChapter 8. Free Clinics Helping to Patch the Safety NetChapter 9. Impact of Providing a Medical Home to the Uninsured: Evaluation of a Statewide ProgramChapter 10. Characteristics of Patients at Three Free ClinicsChapter 11. Donated Care Programs: A Stopgap Mea sure or a Long- Run Alternative to Health Insurance?Chapter 12. Missed Appointment Rates in Primary Care: The Importance of Site of CareChapter 13. Free Clinics and the Uninsured: The Increasing Demands of Chronic IllnessChapter 14. Missed Opportunities for Patient Education and Social Worker Consultation at the Arbor Free ClinicChapter 15. Adapting the Chronic Care Model to Treat Chronic Illness at a Free Medical ClinicChapter 16. Medical Respite Care for Homeless People: A Growing National PhenomenonPart II: Student-Run Clinics Chapter 17. Balancing Service and Education: Ethical Management of Student- Run ClinicsChapter 18. Quality of Diabetes Care at a Student- Run Free ClinicChapter 19. Students Who Participate in a Student- Run Free Health Clinic Need Education about Access to Care IssuesChapter 20. The UCSD Student- Run Free Clinic Project: Transdisciplinary Health Professional EducationChapter 21. Charlottesville Health Access: A Locality- Based Model of Health Care Navigation for the HomelessChapter 22. UCLA Mobile Clinic ProjectChapter 23. The Promise Clinic: A Service- Learning Approach to Increasing Access to Health Care Chapter 24. Engaging Student Health Organizations in Reducing Health Disparities in Underserved Communities through Volunteerism: Developing a Student Health CorpsChapter 25. HealthSTAT: A Student Approach to Building Skills Needed to Serve Poor CommunitiesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and students in public health as well as those framing and implementing health policies in the private and public sectors.Trade ReviewExtremely well presented and straightforward to read. The chapters are structured, leading the reader through the important concepts and offering suggestions for action. It is well written and accessible to those with an interest in this field. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsList of ContributorsAckowledgmentsIntroduction. Noncommunicable Diseases in the Devleoping World: Cloing the GapChapter 1. Regulation of NCD Medicines in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: Current Challenges and Future ProspectsChapter 2. Improving Access to Medicines for Noncommunicable Diseases through Better Supply ChainsChapter 3. Learning from the HIV/AIDS Experience to Improvde NCD InterventionsChapter 4. Reconfiguring Primary Care for the Era of Chronic and Noncommunicable DiseasesChapter 5. Sectoral Cooperation for the Prevention and Control of NCDsConclusion. The Devloping World and the Challenge of Noncommunicable DiseasesIndex

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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