Medicolegal issues Books
American Psychological Association Eliminating Inequities for Women With
Book SynopsisOver 20 million American women and girls have some form of disability. Women with disabilities often have difficulty accessing health care services, and the quality of the health care they do receive is often worse than the care received by women without disabilities and men with disabilities. Using an integrated care framework as a foundation, authors in this book tackle the structural, environmental, and social barriers that prevent women with disabilities from accessing effective and culturally competent care and services, and offer plans for action to improve wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention among this broad yet consistently underserved population.Table of ContentsContributorsForeword Wanda K. JonesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Shari E. Miles-Cohen and Caroline SignoreI. The Big Picture Health Disparities and Equity: The Intersection of Disability, Health, and Sociodemographic Characteristics Among Women Margaret A. Nosek Access to Care: The Heart of Equity in Health Care Marsha Saxton Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Women With Disabilities Susan Parish, Monika Mitra, and Lisa Iezzoni II. Delivery of Care Achieving Equity in the Health of Women With Disabilities Through Telehealth: Challenges and Benefits Anju Khubchandani and Denise Thew Reproductive and Sexual Health for Women With Disabilities Caroline Signore Oral Health of Women With Disabilities H. Barry Waldman and Steven P. Perlman III. Specific Populations Across the Lifecourse: Youth and Aging With Disability Judy Simms-Cendan and Adam Golden Integrated Health Care for Women of Color With Disabilities Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo "We Exist": The Health and Well-Being of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People With Disabilities Lesley A. Tarasoff Parenting With Disability: Experiences of Disabled Women Erin E. Andrews and Kara Ayers Integrated Primary Behavioral Health Care for Women Veterans With Disabilities Colleen Clemency Cordes, Linda R. Mona, and LaDonna C. Saxon Coming Together to End Violence Against Women and Girls With Disabilities Julie Williams and Lyndsay Colvin IV. RecommendationsAn Agenda to Eliminate Inequities Shari E. Miles-Cohen and Caroline Signore Afterword Gloria L. KrahnIndexAbout the Editors
£999.99
University of Texas Press A Right to Health
Book SynopsisThis ethnographic study of a low-income neighborhood in the northeastern state of Ceará analyzes the complicated and compromised realities of Brazil's universal health care system, pointing the way toward more successful planning of future reforms.Trade ReviewThis excellent ethnography . . . will appeal to many audiences and lends itself well to undergraduate teaching. What is particularly attractive about the book is its deft handling of ethnographic evidence: it shows rather than tells. This approach is gratifying because it trusts the scholarly reader to draw suggestive connections to multiple bodies of contemporary theory rather than hammering together an ambitious theoretical armature with a few slender tacks of ethnographic detail. It is inviting to the student reader because it is a lively, funny, touching read – full of memorable, evocative description and incident – that students will readily be able to mine for social theoretical points. . . . Jerome’s analysis offers keen insight into the current political situation in Brazil. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *[A] compelling and timely ethnography…A Right to Health combines a detailed history of Brazilian health care with compelling illness narratives. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *[Jerome's] goal is to explore the relationship between a formal right to health care and the way in which people experience that right...Jerome shows that patronage and dependency have continued to dominate favela life, as reciprocity among family members, friends, and neighbors, and the presence of good or bad bosses dominate the life of its inhabitants...Excellent. * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Pirambu: Historical and Contemporary Accounts of Citizenship in a Favela Chapter 2. A History of Welfare and the Poor in Ceará Chapter 3. Democratizing Health Care: Health Councils in Pirambu Chapter 4. Prescribing Knowledge: Farmácia Viva and the Rationalization of Traditional Medicine Chapter 5. Favors, Rights, and the Management of Illness Chapter 6. Public and Private Medical Care for a New Generation in Pirambu Conclusion: A Politics of Health Notes References Index
£999.99
Duke University Press Our Veterans Winners Losers Friends and Enemies
Book SynopsisIn Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life.Trade Review"This chilling account explores the physical, economic and psychological consequences of military service on veteran health and takes a critical look at the many players involved in shaping veteran life in the United States." * New York Times *"This little book is jam-packed with information that is not only fascinating, it promises to be incredibly helpful to any vet who will take the time to read it. . . Every veteran involved with the VA will find that Our Veterans is a reference book they can access as an unprecedented toolbox full of information that will come in handy in every confrontation with the Department of Veterans Affairs." -- John Ketwig * The Veteran *"The civilian community is largely unaware of the harm to all caused by the specialized problems facing our current veterans, and the growing drive to privatize the VA. Nor is it aware of the rising movement against this trend. Anyone having concerns about these issues will find Our Veterans to be an essential source of information. It provides a thorough, well-written analysis of the situation, and the direction we need to take in response." -- Ronald Citkowski * Against the Current *"The strength of this book is its honesty about the whole field of military service and its effects on those who survive it; as well as, those who don’t. The authors demonstrate through this, and previous activities, their concerns for the well-being of those who have served. Their writing is straight-forward, clear, and honest." -- Kim Scipes * Stansbury Forum *"As Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early and Jasper Craven make clear in their new book, Our Veterans, thinking about veterans as a monolithic group with the same experiences, same outlook and same needs is wrong. The extensively researched and sourced Our Veterans sets out to explain why." -- Janis Hashe * East Bay Express *"The authors of Our Veterans have taken a deep dive into a large and little understood corner of the social safety net. Their detailed depiction of how the forces of neoliberalization interact with the unique history, culture, and politics of this sector is an important contribution to our understanding of how working people are affected by these forces in all aspects of their lives." -- Mark Dudzic * New Labor Forum *"The authors bring extensive research, a strong progressive analysis, and powerful advocacy to this expansive review of veterans’ issues. . . . Our Veterans illustrates the dangerous impact of the U.S.’s massive military on many service members. It also shines a light on the many ways in which corporate greed and privatization are encroaching on our public resources, including the resources to robustly support our veterans when they come home." * New Politics *"An important addition to the literature about American veterans in the forever-war era. ... I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the complicated and interconnected world of veteran policies, politics, and processes, then work to make them better." -- Jim Craig * Journal of Military History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Preface xiii Authors' Note and Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Friendly Fire 1 1. A Toxic Workplace 27 2. Life and Work after the Military 57 3. Stolen Valor 85 4. Last Stand of the Legion Post? 108 5. The New VSOs 134 6. A VA Healthcare Struggle 155 7. Playing the Veteran Card 176 8. Veterans and the 2020 Election 199 Conclusion: Rethinking Veterans Affairs 222 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 311 Index 317
£78.30
Duke University Press Health in Ruins
Book SynopsisIn Health in Ruins César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, confTrade Review“This superb, timely monograph . . . is both collaborative and activist. . . . Abadía-Barrero’s decade of intense fieldwork along with his local knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid, astutely rendered ethnography.” -- Carole Browner * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *"This book calls on us to fight for health care that no longer leaves so many people in the public hospital waiting area, condemned to a precarious survival, while offering treatment in private hospitals to those who can pay. ... Health in Ruins makes a fundamental contribution to current scholarly debates on the embodiment of social inequalities brought about by capitalist ideology." -- Ivana Teixeira * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xv Timeline: People, Infrastructures, and Events xix Introduction 1 1. The National University Escuela 21 2. Clinical Social Medicine 45 3. Religion and Caring in a Medical Setting 79 4. Hospital Budgets before and after Neoliberalism 103 5. Violence and Resistance 137 6. Remaining amid Destruction 179 7. Learning and Practicing Medicine in a For-Profit System 199 Final Remarks. Medicine as Political Imagination 221 Notes 229 References 261 Index 283
£73.95
Duke University Press Our Veterans
Book SynopsisIn Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life.Trade Review"This chilling account explores the physical, economic and psychological consequences of military service on veteran health and takes a critical look at the many players involved in shaping veteran life in the United States." * New York Times *"This little book is jam-packed with information that is not only fascinating, it promises to be incredibly helpful to any vet who will take the time to read it. . . Every veteran involved with the VA will find that Our Veterans is a reference book they can access as an unprecedented toolbox full of information that will come in handy in every confrontation with the Department of Veterans Affairs." -- John Ketwig * The Veteran *"The civilian community is largely unaware of the harm to all caused by the specialized problems facing our current veterans, and the growing drive to privatize the VA. Nor is it aware of the rising movement against this trend. Anyone having concerns about these issues will find Our Veterans to be an essential source of information. It provides a thorough, well-written analysis of the situation, and the direction we need to take in response." -- Ronald Citkowski * Against the Current *"The strength of this book is its honesty about the whole field of military service and its effects on those who survive it; as well as, those who don’t. The authors demonstrate through this, and previous activities, their concerns for the well-being of those who have served. Their writing is straight-forward, clear, and honest." -- Kim Scipes * Stansbury Forum *"As Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early and Jasper Craven make clear in their new book, Our Veterans, thinking about veterans as a monolithic group with the same experiences, same outlook and same needs is wrong. The extensively researched and sourced Our Veterans sets out to explain why." -- Janis Hashe * East Bay Express *"The authors of Our Veterans have taken a deep dive into a large and little understood corner of the social safety net. Their detailed depiction of how the forces of neoliberalization interact with the unique history, culture, and politics of this sector is an important contribution to our understanding of how working people are affected by these forces in all aspects of their lives." -- Mark Dudzic * New Labor Forum *"The authors bring extensive research, a strong progressive analysis, and powerful advocacy to this expansive review of veterans’ issues. . . . Our Veterans illustrates the dangerous impact of the U.S.’s massive military on many service members. It also shines a light on the many ways in which corporate greed and privatization are encroaching on our public resources, including the resources to robustly support our veterans when they come home." * New Politics *"An important addition to the literature about American veterans in the forever-war era. ... I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the complicated and interconnected world of veteran policies, politics, and processes, then work to make them better." -- Jim Craig * Journal of Military History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Preface xiii Authors' Note and Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Friendly Fire 1 1. A Toxic Workplace 27 2. Life and Work after the Military 57 3. Stolen Valor 85 4. Last Stand of the Legion Post? 108 5. The New VSOs 134 6. A VA Healthcare Struggle 155 7. Playing the Veteran Card 176 8. Veterans and the 2020 Election 199 Conclusion: Rethinking Veterans Affairs 222 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 311 Index 317
£18.99
Duke University Press Health in Ruins
Book SynopsisIn Health in Ruins César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, confTrade Review“This superb, timely monograph . . . is both collaborative and activist. . . . Abadía-Barrero’s decade of intense fieldwork along with his local knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid, astutely rendered ethnography.” -- Carole Browner * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *"This book calls on us to fight for health care that no longer leaves so many people in the public hospital waiting area, condemned to a precarious survival, while offering treatment in private hospitals to those who can pay. ... Health in Ruins makes a fundamental contribution to current scholarly debates on the embodiment of social inequalities brought about by capitalist ideology." -- Ivana Teixeira * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xv Timeline: People, Infrastructures, and Events xix Introduction 1 1. The National University Escuela 21 2. Clinical Social Medicine 45 3. Religion and Caring in a Medical Setting 79 4. Hospital Budgets before and after Neoliberalism 103 5. Violence and Resistance 137 6. Remaining amid Destruction 179 7. Learning and Practicing Medicine in a For-Profit System 199 Final Remarks. Medicine as Political Imagination 221 Notes 229 References 261 Index 283
£19.79
New York University Press Keywords for Health Humanities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKeywords for the Health Humanities transcends its title. This rich volume contains essays that not only map the essential concepts in the health humanities, but also expand the possibilities of the field going forward. With an impressive roster of contributors whose essays address such wide-ranging topics as disability, disaster, human rights and indigeneity, as well as neurodiversity, stress, and trauma, this is a Health Humanities reader for our current era. Highly recommended not only for courses but also for any reader hoping to broaden their vision of what constitutes health. -- Susan Squier, The Pennsylvania State UniversityMany, many aperçus here that diverge, converge, challenge, illumine, and occasionally surprise yet almost always take the reader in the plural directions that make up this exciting field. An excellent place to start to figure out what the humanities bring and do to health and medicine. Entertaining but, better still, serious and useful! * Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care *
£62.90
New York University Press Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Book SynopsisReveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSongHow did reproductive justicedefined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parentbecome recognized as a human rights issue? In Reproductive Rights as Human Rights, Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home. An indispensable read, Reproductive Rights as Human Rights provides a much-needed intersectional perspeTrade Review"Through careful analysis and deep, multi-method research, Luna brings to light the story of the struggle of Black women seeking to redefine the reproductive justice movement. In doing so, the book examines some of the most urgent questions of today: how do people come together to redefine their own liberation not only through rights granted by the state, but also in the ways they relate to each other? Further, how does their work push the boundaries of social change, helping us to reimagine a different world? In an uncertain world with yawning gaps between the world we want and the world we have, this book provides fresh insight that scholars and organizers alike desperately need." -- Hahrie Han, author of How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century"Zakiya Luna makes an essential contribution to the growing understanding of the crucial contributions women of color have made to historical and contemporary intersectional movements that embrace both anti-racism and feminism. She also tells a critical story of how the social movement organization SisterSong adapted international human rights discourse in the US domestic context to forge a struggle for reproductive justice." -- Jennifer Nelson, author of More Than Medicine: A History of the Women’s Health Movement"Reproductive Rights as Human Rights is a necessary contribution to the scholarship on the reproductive justice movement and the reader will come to understand the movement through Luna’s work." * Mobilization *
£73.80
Cornell University Press Achieving Access
Book SynopsisAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues, Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and public health and will speak Trade ReviewThrough his focus on professional movements at the domestic level, Harris makes new contributions to the literatures on the transnational AIDS movement, democratization and the medical profession's role in health policy.... The book is a major contribution to the study of professionals in (health) politics and timely given the ongoing struggle for universal coverage models in global health institutions. * Global Affairs *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Achieving Access
Book SynopsisAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues, Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and public health and will speak Trade ReviewThrough his focus on professional movements at the domestic level, Harris makes new contributions to the literatures on the transnational AIDS movement, democratization and the medical profession's role in health policy.... The book is a major contribution to the study of professionals in (health) politics and timely given the ongoing struggle for universal coverage models in global health institutions. * Global Affairs *
£27.54
Cornell University Press The Battle for Veterans Healthcare
Book SynopsisIn The Battle for Veterans'' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage.Gordon's collected dispatches provide insight and information too often missing from mainstream media reporting on the VHA and from Capitol Hill debates about its future. Drawing on interviews with veterans and their families, VHA staff and administrators, health care policy experts and Congressional decision makers, Gordon describes a federal agency under siege that nevertheless accomplishes its difficult mission of serving men and women injured, in myriad ways, while on active duty.The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare is an essential primer on VHA care and a call to action by veterans, their advocacy organizations, and political allies. Without lobbying efforts and broader public understaTrade Review""The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare should be required reading for the Trump Administration, members of Congress, and anyone concerned about the fate of the Veterans Health Administration."—Garry Augustine, Washington Executive Director of Disabled American Veterans"""The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare explains why the VHA’s many specialized services should be strengthened and expanded."—Michael Blecker, Executive Director of Swords to Plowshares and member of VA Commission on Care"""Suzanne Gordon skillfully rebuts the arguments of would-be privatizers, who are trying to discredit and then divert public funding from health care providers who actually care about their patients."—Phillip Longman, author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better than Yours"
£9.57
Cornell University Press Wounds of War
Book SynopsisU.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their wounds of war are treated by the largest hospital system in the countryone that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation''s media.In Wounds of War, Suzanne Gordon draws on five years of observational research to describe how the VHA does a better job than private sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the end of life. In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients and providers that the VHA has fostered, Gordon finds a working model for higher-quality health care and a much-needed alternative to the practice of for-profit medicine.Trade ReviewImportant and timely. * BeyondChron *A terrific book, and I would recommend that every veteran depending upon the VA for his or her healthcare buy it. * The Veteran *Important and timely. * CounterPunch *This book offers a unique approach to an important topic and is an essential addition for institutions with programs in medicine and other health-affiliated fields (health administration, social work, etc.), public policy and administration, political science, or for any public library serving veteran and/or military populations. * Choice *For better or worse, the course of VA health care now depends on a citizenry and health policy community that possesses little firsthand experience with its services or achievements. Wounds of War is a tremendous starting point for those interested in understanding the importance of getting these decisions right. * Washington Monthly *A compelling account of the many strengths of the Veterans Healthcare System.... Gordon documents these strengths with informative statistics as well as compelling narratives of innovative programs, commendable teamwork and exemplary clinical providers.... A valued view of a system which, even with its flaws, still has remarkable strengths to offer soldiers when their service to our nation is completed. * The Pharos *Wounds of War is a valuable resource for veterans' rights advocates as well as everyone concerned with the struggle for Medicare for all. * Against the Current *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: What Kind of Care for Veterans? 1. Promises Broken and Kept: A Short History of the VHA 2. Those Who Have Borne the Battle: The VHA's Patient Population Profile—What It Means to Be a VA Volunteer 3. Primary Care the Way It Should Be 4. Healing Minds and Bodies: Integrated Mental Health Care and Primary Care 5. Dealing with a World of Hurt: VHA Treatment of Chronic Pain 6. When Wounded Warriors Are Women: Caring for Female Veterans 7. Mental Health the Way It Should Be 8. Unpacking PTSD: From Diagnosis to Effective Treatment Profi le—Karen Parko: A Special Kind of Professional Development at the VA 9. Returning to Civilian Life: Veterans on Campus 10. Suicide Prevention: VHA Programs That Save Lives 11. Overcoming Disability: VA Rehabilitation Services Profile—Mark Smith: No Ordinary Bike Shop 12. Transcending Trauma: The Martinez Cognitive Rehabilitation Program 13. Off the Streets: Reducing Veteran Homelessness 14. Alternatives to Jail: Veterans' Justice Programs Profile—Cops and Vets: The Memphis Crisis Intervention Model 15. Specializing in Elder Care: The VA and Geriatrics 16. Knocking on Heaven's Door: The VA and End-of-Life Care 17. Better Care Where? The VHA Compared to the Private Sector Conclusion: A System Worth Saving—and Making Even Better Epilogue: Thank You for Your Service? Notes Index About the Author
£22.79
University of Minnesota Press Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health
Book SynopsisExamining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization. In New York, Christoph Hanssmann examines activist attempts to overturn bans on using public health dollars to fund trans- health care. In Argentina, he traces how trans- activists marshaled medical statistics and personal biographies to reveal state violence directed against trans- people and travestis. Hanssmann also demonstrates the importance of understanding transphobia in the broader context of gendered racism, ableism, and antipoverty, arguing for the rise of a thoroughly coalition-based mass mobilization. Care without Pathology highlights the distributive arguments activists made to access state funding for health care, combating state arguments that funding trans- health care is too specialized, too expensive, and too controversial. Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place—with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care. Trade Review "A bold ethnography of twenty-first century trans health care movements in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology untangles the thicket of political distortion to reveal the urgency and innovation of championing trans health care as a public good and a social need. A vital book for grasping a revolutionary movement that propagates access to care and justice."—Nayan Shah, University of Southern California
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health
Book SynopsisExamining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization. In New York, Christoph Hanssmann examines activist attempts to overturn bans on using public health dollars to fund trans- health care. In Argentina, he traces how trans- activists marshaled medical statistics and personal biographies to reveal state violence directed against trans- people and travestis. Hanssmann also demonstrates the importance of understanding transphobia in the broader context of gendered racism, ableism, and antipoverty, arguing for the rise of a thoroughly coalition-based mass mobilization. Care without Pathology highlights the distributive arguments activists made to access state funding for health care, combating state arguments that funding trans- health care is too specialized, too expensive, and too controversial. Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place—with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care. Trade Review "A bold ethnography of twenty-first century trans health care movements in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology untangles the thicket of political distortion to reveal the urgency and innovation of championing trans health care as a public good and a social need. A vital book for grasping a revolutionary movement that propagates access to care and justice."—Nayan Shah, University of Southern California
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital
Book SynopsisThe role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheidHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment. Naming this frontier “medical brownfields,” Krupar shows how hospitals leverage their domestic real estate empires to underwrite international prospecting for patients and overseas services and specialty clinics. Her pointed analysis reveals that decolonizing health care efforts must scrutinize the land practices of nonprofit medical institutions and the liberal foundations of medical apartheid perpetuated by globalizing American health care.
£9.00
University of Minnesota Press The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial
Book SynopsisWhy human rights don’t work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simply to state and institutional malfeasance but to the very concept of human rights as anthropocentric—and, therefore, fatally shortsighted. In an engaging mix of literary and cultural criticism, Indigenous and Black critique, and substantive forays into the medical humanities, Jolly proposes right-making in the demise of human rights. Using what she calls an “effluent eye,” Jolly draws on “Fifth Wave” structural public health to confront the concept of human rights—one of the most powerful and widely entrenched liberal ideas. She builds on Indigenous sovereignty work from authors such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Mark Rifkin as well as the littoral development in Black studies from Christine Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and Tiffany Lethabo King to engage decolonial thinking on a range of urgent topics such as pandemic history and grief; gender-based violence and sexual assault; and the connections between colonial capitalism and substance abuse, the Anthropocene, and climate change. Combining witnessed experience with an array of decolonial texts, Jolly argues for an effluent form of reading that begins with the understanding that the granting of “rights” to individuals is meaningless in a world compromised by pollution, poverty, and successive pandemics. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.Trade Review "Rosemary J. Jolly’s far-reaching book urges us to rethink our normative, institutionalized assumptions about human rights. What is required, she argues, is a wider recognition that decentering the human is, paradoxically, vital to human sustainability. Standard notions of human rights have failed vast swathes of humanity and the more-than-human lives with whom their beings are intertwined. By turns philosophical and grounded, The Effluent Eye illuminates anew the vexing worlds of sexual assault, Ebola, and HIV/AIDS, among other concerns. Jolly has given us a provocative, iconoclastic work that deserves to be read, taught, and debated."—Rob Nixon, Princeton University "This superbly original book challenges some of the core concepts that structure anthropocentric understandings of human rights and calls on readers to think differently about waste, death, health, and healing. Looking through an ‘effluent eye’ inspired by South African literature and philosophy, Rosemary J. Jolly offers a vision that breaks with the embedded logic of colonial capitalism to see what lies outside and beyond."—Stephanie Newell, Yale University
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial
Book SynopsisWhy human rights don’t work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simply to state and institutional malfeasance but to the very concept of human rights as anthropocentric—and, therefore, fatally shortsighted. In an engaging mix of literary and cultural criticism, Indigenous and Black critique, and substantive forays into the medical humanities, Jolly proposes right-making in the demise of human rights. Using what she calls an “effluent eye,” Jolly draws on “Fifth Wave” structural public health to confront the concept of human rights—one of the most powerful and widely entrenched liberal ideas. She builds on Indigenous sovereignty work from authors such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Mark Rifkin as well as the littoral development in Black studies from Christine Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and Tiffany Lethabo King to engage decolonial thinking on a range of urgent topics such as pandemic history and grief; gender-based violence and sexual assault; and the connections between colonial capitalism and substance abuse, the Anthropocene, and climate change. Combining witnessed experience with an array of decolonial texts, Jolly argues for an effluent form of reading that begins with the understanding that the granting of “rights” to individuals is meaningless in a world compromised by pollution, poverty, and successive pandemics. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.Trade Review "Rosemary J. Jolly’s far-reaching book urges us to rethink our normative, institutionalized assumptions about human rights. What is required, she argues, is a wider recognition that decentering the human is, paradoxically, vital to human sustainability. Standard notions of human rights have failed vast swathes of humanity and the more-than-human lives with whom their beings are intertwined. By turns philosophical and grounded, The Effluent Eye illuminates anew the vexing worlds of sexual assault, Ebola, and HIV/AIDS, among other concerns. Jolly has given us a provocative, iconoclastic work that deserves to be read, taught, and debated."—Rob Nixon, Princeton University "This superbly original book challenges some of the core concepts that structure anthropocentric understandings of human rights and calls on readers to think differently about waste, death, health, and healing. Looking through an ‘effluent eye’ inspired by South African literature and philosophy, Rosemary J. Jolly offers a vision that breaks with the embedded logic of colonial capitalism to see what lies outside and beyond."—Stephanie Newell, Yale University
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Temple University Press,U.S. Silicone Survivors: Women's Experiences with
Book SynopsisSusan Zimmermann talked with forty women about perhaps one of the most sensitive issues of body image and health - their breasts, the chief attribute of femininity. In the aftermath of the early 1990s controversy over the use of silicone breast implants, how do women decide to undergo surgery o enhance or reconstruct their bodies? How does surgery alter a woman's self-image? How did they face the possibility of debilitating autoimmune disease from rupturing or leaking implants? Some opted for breast implants after mastectomies, others for cosmetic reasons. Some felt empowered by the surgery: \u0022Being a woman, I just like breasts and felt like I got ripped off...I did it for myself.\u0022 Others were pressured by their husbands: \u0022He used to make fun of parts of my body...And, he made me believe that if I was ever to leave him, no one would have anything to do with me because I was this deformed type of person.\u0022 After surgery, some women were ecstatic, while others had a sense of inner conflict about what they had done to themselves: were they \u0022faking it\u0022? And a few were angry: \u0022I was really angry inside that I had had to put plastic bags filled with chemicals in my body in order for me to feel like I could do the Hoochie Koo on Saturday nights...I didn't wear tight clothes; I didn't want my children to find out.\u0022 Now, having faced years of medical and personal uncertainty, many have coped by reassessing their lives and their relationships, by sharing information and support with other women with implants, outreach that became a means for self-empowerment.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Historical Background: The Emergence of a Controversy 3 The Decision to Seek Breast Implants: Women's Participation in the Medicalization Process 4 False Expectations: An Ironic Twist on "Before and After" 5 Misinforming Women of Risk: A Medical Conspiracy? 6 Minimizing Women's Troubles 7 Listening to an Inner Voice 8 Transforming Identities: Experiences of Empowerment Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR
Book SynopsisSudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families of victims and survivors of CPR. It will engage emergency personnel, others in the medical field, and anyone concerned with ethical issues of death and dying. Anyone who has ever taken a CPR course has wondered, \u0022What would happen if I actually had to use CPR?\u0022 In Western societies, the lifesaving power of resuscitation has the status of a revered cultural myth. It promises life in the face of sudden death, but the reality is that lives are rarely saved. Medical researchers estimate the survival rate for out-of-hospital CPR to be between 1 and 3 percent. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR explores the history of this medical innovation and the promotion of its effectiveness. The overuse of resuscitation, Timmermans explains, defines people's experience with sudden death, something he learned firsthand by following the practice of lifesaving from street corner to emergency room. He argues that very few people are successfully resuscitated without brain damage despite the promotion of CPR's effectiveness through powerful media images. In vivid accounts of the day-to-day practices of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in one of the only studies o f sudden death, Timmermans records the astonishingly frank comments of emergency personnel. Doctors, nurses, social workers, and paramedics express emotions from cynicism about going through the futile motions to genuine concern for victims' family members. If a person who was supposed to keep on living dies at the end of a resuscitative attempt, how socially meaningful is the dying? Timmermans asks tough questions and addresses the controversial ethical issues about the appropriateness of interfering with life and death. He suggests policy reform and the restoration of dignity to sudden death.Trade Review"Out of his immersion in the sequestered inner world of the hospital emergency departments where sudden death and resuscitative efforts generally take place, Timmermans arrives at illuminating philosophical and sociological insights into how we all are, and ought to be, implicated in these processes, and admirable suggestions about how we can help to make them more dignified, consoling, and meaningful." -Renee C. Fox, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania "This deeply disturbing book documents the failure of modern society to deal with sudden death. Timmermans combines ethnographic observations in various Emergency Rooms with a detailed history of the emergence of CPR to debunk the myth that CPR is successful. Timmermans is a wise and humane guide through the tricky ethical issues surrounding sudden death. He argues for a new ethical code to restore dignity and choice to the dying process. This important and insightful book deserves to become a classic in medical sociology." -Trevor Pinch, Cornell University "A compassionate, meticulous portrayal of sudden death. Heroics are entirely banished in this first-ever ethnography of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, and the record is set straight through a skillful, eye-opening account of the routines and practices of emergency medicine... [T]his is an indispensable read for social scientists and historians of technology and medicine, and also for specialists in emergency medicine and health-care professionals involved with death and dying." -Margaret Lock, author of the award-winning Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North AmericaTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Bern Shen, M.D. Preface Introduction: What They Didn't Tell You in Your CPR Course The Myth of CPR How Dignified is Sudden Death? 1. Death Awareness in the United States The Emergence of Death Awareness Hospice Care Right-to-Die Movement The "Good" Death Toward a Dignified Sudden Death? 2. The Search for the Best Resuscitation Technique The Royal Humane Society The Resuscitation Techniques of the Royal Humane Society The Vital Principle The Schafer Technique Resuscitation Research in the United States Manual Artificial Ventilation Methods The Obstructed Airway Mouth-to-Mouth Ventilation Chest Compressions The Origins of Resuscitation Beliefs 3. CPR for All Professional Versus Lay CPR Patient Transportation Consolidation of the Emergency Medical System Survival Rates The Chain of Survival Some CPR Is Better Than No CPR What Is Survival? Number-to-Number Inflation The Economic Cost of Saving Lives Universal Lifesaving 4. Lifesaving in Action Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Paramedics The Emergency Department Ritual, Medicalization, and Community 5. Deciding Life and Death Reaching Decisions Initial Impressions Dead on Arrival The Rush of the First Minutes The Resuscitation Team Retrieving Clinical Information Circumstances of the Cardiac Arrest The Patient's Social Viability Resuscitation Trajectories Legal Death Trajectory Elite Death Trajectory Temporary Stabilization Trajectory Stabilization Trajectory Social Inequality of Sudden Death 6. "There Is a Code and a Code" The Routines of Emergencies Becoming a Resuscitator Major Categories The Successful Resuscitative Effort The Bad Resuscitative Effort The Tragic Resuscitative Effort The Non-Category Personal Philosophy Comfort with Sudden Death 7. Saving Life or Saving Death? Resuscitation Ethic More Effective CPR Empowering Relatives and Friends Family Attendance Final Reflections Appendix: Methodology Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And Women'S Worlds Of Pain
Book SynopsisMore than six million Americans aEURO" most of them women aEURO" have been diagnosed with the controversial medical disorder fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). Because of the absence of definitive physiological markers, a well-understood cause, or effective treatment, FMS is controversial. Many have questioned if FMS is a aEUROoerealaEURO illness or if women sufferers are modern-day hysterics. Amidst the controversy, millions of women live with their very real symptoms. Rather than taking sides in the heated FMS debate, Kristin Barker explains how FMS represents an awkward union between the practices of modern medicine and the complexity of womenaEURO(t)s pain. Using interviews with sufferers, Barker focuses on how the idea of FMS gives meaning and order to women beset by troubling symptoms, self-doubt, and public skepticism. This book offers a fresh look at a controversial diagnosis, avoids overly simplistic explanations, and empathizes with sufferers without losing sight of medicineaEURO(t)s power over our lives.Trade Review"Kristin Barker presents us with one of those rare sociological studies of the experience of illness by examining how women manage a common but contested pain syndrome called fibromyalgia. Based on in-depth interviews with sufferers and an analysis of medical and non-medical literature, Barker increases our understanding of the gendered construction of the disorder and how sufferers manage their symptoms, seek legitimacy, and develop an illness identity in the context of a doubting medical world. This book should interest medical sociologists and practitioners as well as people with fibromyalgia and their families."-Peter Conrad, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University "Barker tells a story of the interface between the biomedical community and the fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) community. In giving voice to women who are suffering from FMS, she shows how the facts of how women live their lives are often obscured by physicians and researchers in a drive to adapt FMS to a biomedical model where it clearly does not fit well. This failing has led to the development and perpetuation of an institutionalized FMS community of sufferers, with both positive and negative consequences. Ultimately, Barker provides insight into the failings of biomedicine thus far to improve FMS-related quality of life that should guide researchers towards integrating social and cultural factors into the study of FMS physiology."-Leslie J. Crofford, M.D., Gloria W. Singletary Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Director, Center for the Advancement of Women's Health, University of Kentucky "The Fibromyalgia Story authoritatively explores the roles doctors and patients played in 'discovering' fibromyalgia; explains why, overwhelmingly, fibromyalgia affects white working-class women; and analyzes why doctors have ignored this basic demographic fact. Written with an amazingly evenhanded approach, it is an important contribution to scholarship on medicalization; illness experience; identity construction; and the intersections of race, class, and gender."-Rose Weitz, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Arizona State University, and author of Life With AIDS and Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's LivesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Diagnostic Making of Fibromyalgia Syndrome2. The Woman Problem and the Feminization of Fibromyalgia Syndrome3. Similar-but-Different: The Fibromyalgia Syndrome Illness Experience4. The Symptomatic Self and the Life World5. In Search of Meaning6. Diagnostic Transformations7. Self-Help and the Making of a Fibromyalgia Syndrome Illness Identity8. Ties That Bind and the Problem That Had No NameConclusionAppendix A. The Fibromyalgia Syndrome Biomedical LiteratureAppendix B. The InterviewsNotesBibliography/Works CitedIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Life And Death In Intensive Care
Book SynopsisLife and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions-from comas to terminal illness-are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of \u0022moral economies\u0022 to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment. Drawing upon her fieldwork conducted in both the United States and New Zealand, Cassell compares the moral outlooks and underlying principles of SICU nurses, residents, intensivists, and surgeons. Using real life examples, Life and Death in Intensive Care clearly presents the logic and values behind the SICU as well as the personalities, procedures, and pressures that characterize every case. Ultimately, Cassell demonstrates the differing systems of values, and the way cultural definitions of medical treatment inform how we treat the critically ill.Trade Review"Life and Death in Intensive Care is a valuable addition to our growing understanding of our technology- and bureaucracy-intensive hospital system. Joan Cassell is an advocate as well as comparative ethnographer, and her work will appeal to anyone concerned with health policy or the social world of modern medicine generally."-Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard University "This is some book... It is powerful writing, with harsh (accurate) content. There are great quotes, terrific anecdotes, fiery feminism and damning observations of doctors' arrogance in dealing with family, other medical specialties, and nurses."-Critical Care and Resuscitation "Cassell's ethnographic description is lively and engaging... For the psychologist who has recently entered the medical setting, Cassell's book will be an entertaining and enjoyable educational source."-PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsIntroduction - Moonscape: The Surgical Intensive Care Unit1. A Caring Ethic: Nurses and the Dilemma of Powerlessness2. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Residents3. Diverse Universes of Medical Discourse: The Fellows4. The Attendings5. Is Death the Enemy, or Suffering?6. Confronting Death in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit7. Intensive Caring in New Zealand8. Going Gentle into that Good Night: Death in Auckland9. Focusing on the Bottom Line10. The Dominion of DeathAppendix - "Hard" Science, "Soft" Science, Social Science:The Anxiety of MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction And
Book SynopsisThere is little doubt among scientists and the general public that homelessness, mental illness, and addiction are inter-related. In Of Others Inside, Darin Weinberg examines how these inter-relations have taken form in the United States. He links the establishment of these connections to the movement of mental health and addiction treatment from redemptive processes to punitive ones and back again, and explores the connection between social welfare, rehabilitation, and the criminal justice system. Seeking to offer a new sociological understanding of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disability, Of Others Inside considers the general social conditions of homelessness, poverty, and social marginality in the U.S. Weinberg also explores questions about American perceptions of these conditions, and examines in great detail the social reality of mental disability and drug addiction without reducing people's suffering to simple notions of biological fate or social disorder.Trade Review"Of Others Inside is brilliant and fascinating. The author has done a commendable job charting a middle ground between the equally unsatisfying positions that mental illness and addictions are things-in-themselves or arbitrary social constructions."-Spencer Cahill, University of South Florida "Well written and unique in its empirical scope, Of Others Inside is a groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disorder in America... [A] major contribution to debates about the relationship between community solidarity and mental health."-Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri "Based on scrupulously careful historical analysis and penetrating ethnography, Weinberg liberates us from the idea that insanity and addiction are either human constructions or independent realities. He illuminates how they are equally social products and causal factors in shaping expected paths toward wellness. Although focused on the marginalized ill, this work provides a more general model for getting beyond radically objectivist or subjectivist explanations that stifle progress in the human sciences. This will be the book's most enduring contribution."-David A. Karp, author of Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness and The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental IllnessTable of ContentsForeword - Bryan S. TurnerAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism in the Sociology of Mental HealthPart I. A History of Insanities and Addictions Among Marginalized Americans2. Setting the Stage3. Addictions and Insanities: Two Fields and Their PhenomenaPart II. A Tale of Two Programs4. Canyon House5. Twilights6. ConclusionReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
Book SynopsisHow Western medicine has transformed--and been transformed by--African cultureTrade Review"David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare. His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area that has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens." -Roderick Bush, St. John's UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. The Origins of African Biomedicine 2. Dissecting Western Medicine 3. Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission 4. African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents 5. African Biomedicine References Index
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WW Norton & Co Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s when doctors still paid house calls but regularly withheld the truth from their patients, Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno explore an unprecedented revolution in health care and explain the problem with Americans wanting everything that medical science has to offer without debating its merits and its limits. The result: Americans today pay far more for health care while having amongst the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation. Gutmann and Moreno—“incisive, influential, and pragmatic thinkers” (Arthur Caplan)—demonstrate that the stakes have never been higher for prolonging and improving life. From health care reform and death-with-dignity to child vaccinations and gene editing, they explain how bioethics came to dominate the national spotlight, leading and responding to a revolution in doctor-patient relations, a burgeoning world of organ transplants and new reproductive technologies that benefit millions but create a host of legal and ethical challenges. With striking examples, the authors show how breakthroughs in cancer research, infectious disease and drug development provide Americans with exciting new alternatives, yet often painful choices. They address head-on the most fundamental challenges in American health care: Why do we pay so much for health care while still lacking universal coverage? How can medical studies adequately protect individuals who volunteer for them? What’s fair when it comes to allocating organs for transplants in truly life-and-death situations? A lucid and provocative blend of history and public policy, this urgent work exposes the American paradox of wanting to have it all without paying the price.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Human Rights Act: A Practical Guide for
Book SynopsisThe Human Rights Act came into effect on 2nd October 2000, giving every citizen a clear statement of their rights and responsibilities. For public authorities - such as the NHS - the Act makes it a legal duty to respect and foster the rights of citizens as set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. This timely book has been written by nursing-related professionals who are nationally recognised for their experience in nursing and its relation to ethics and the law. Intended to be of practical use for nurses in their day to day relationships with patients and clients, this guide explores the impact of The Human Rights Act on key areas such as health law and ethics, patient rights and non-discrimination. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse in safeguarding patients rights and several case studies are included to illustrate issues raised by the Act. Written for nurses and other healthcare professionals, this guide provides an informed overview of the Human Rights Act and its ramifications for healthcare services in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1: Context and General Importance. European Convention. Human Rights Act Legislation Chapter 2: How the HRA will Relate to Healthcare. Resources. Right to Life. Research. Chapter 3: Other Countries. American Bill of Rights. Canada. Patients Charter. Code of Professional Conduct Chapter 4. Nursing Perspectives. Patients Perspectives. Chapter 5: Case Studies. Confidentiality. Data Protection. Consent. Abortion. Transplantation. Children. Withdrawal of Treatment. Euthanasia. Treatment Choices. Research. Appendices. Convention Rights Incorporated into the Human Rights Act 1998. ICN Code for Nurses. References. Resources. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Assisted Human Reproduction: Psychological and
Book SynopsisWith contributions from: Eric Blyth, Ken Daniels, Julia Feast, Robert Lee, Nina Martin, Alexina McWhinnie, Derek Morgan, Clare Murray, Sharon Pettle, Claire Potter, Jim Richards and Francoise Shenfield The separation of procreation from conception has broadened notions of parenthood and created novel dilemmas. A woman may carry a foetus derived from gametes neither or only one of which came from her or her partner; or she may carry a foetus created using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) with the purpose of handing it to two other parents one, neither or both of whom may be genetically related to the prospective child. Parents may consist of single-sex couples, only one of them genetically related to the child; the prospective mother may be past her menopause; and genetic parenthood after death is now achievable. In a world increasingly reliant on medical science, how can the argument that equates traditional with natural and novel with unnatural/unethical be justified? Should there be legislation, which is notoriously slow to change, in a field driven by dazzling new possibilities at ever faster rate; particularly when restrictions differ from country to country, so that those who can afford it travel elsewhere for their treatment of choice? Whose rights are paramount - the adults hoping to build a family or the prospective child(ren)s future well being? On what basis can apparently competing rights be regulated or adjudicated and how and to what extent can these be enforced in practice?Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword (Professor Susan Golombok). Introduction. Chapter 1: Assisted human reproduction: contemporary policy and practice in the UK (Eric Blyth, Nina Martin and Claire Potter). Chapter 2: Issues of gamete donation and sex selection: a clinician's view (Francoise Shenfield). Chapter 3: Ethical issues - the major faiths: a personal view (Jim Richards). Chapter 4: Human reproduction and human rights (Derek Morgan and Robert G. Lee). Chapter 5: Donor-assisted conception: what can we learn from adoption? (Julia Feast). Chapter 6: Children raised in assisted human reproduction families: the evidence (Clare Murray). Chapter 7: Disclosure and development: 'taking the bady home was just the beginning' (Alexina M. McWhinnie). Chapter 8: Psychological therapy and counselling with individuals and families afrter donor conception (Sharon A. Pettle). Chapter 9: Policy development in third party reproduction: an international perspective (Ken Daniels). Appendix: Resources. Index.
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Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in
Book SynopsisThe world's two most populous countries face numerous policy challenges from rapid demographic change, including gender imbalance, population aging, and rapid urbanization. Drawing on social science expertise from China, India, and the United States, the contributors examine the social and economic challenges for policy across a range of domains, from family planning and old-age support to human capital investment, poverty alleviation, and broader issues of governance.
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Rutgers University Press Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town
Book SynopsisIn disease cluster communities across the country, environmental contamination from local industries is often suspected as a source of disease. But civic action is notoriously hampered by the slow response from government agencies to investigate the cause of disease and the complexities of risk assessment. In Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town, Laura Hart examines another understudied dimension of community inaction: the role of emotion and its relationship to community experiences of social belonging and inequality. Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging, disconnect, and disruption in the wake of suspected industrial pollution. Her research points to a fear driven not only by economic anxiety, but also by a fear of losing security within the community—a sort of pride that is not only about status, but connectedness. Hart reveals the importance of this social form of risk—the desire for belonging and the risk of not belonging—ultimately arguing that this is consequential to how people make judgements and respond to issues. Within this context where the imperative for self-protection is elusive, affected families experience psychosocial and practical conflicts as they adapt to cancer as a way of life. Considering a future where debates about risk and science will inevitably increase, Hart considers possibilities for the democratization of risk management and the need for transformative approaches to environmental justice.Trade Review“Hart does an excellent job weaving local community narratives in with sociological insights and theories of risk and belonging. Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town offers a clear and important contribution to in-depth community studies of industrial risks and environmental health disaster.” -- Peter Little * author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks *“Hart’s account of Clyde, Ohio leaves the reader feeling as though they’ve come to know the residents of this town, and it skillfully captures the complexity underlying a community’s response to chronic contamination and illness. It is an important contribution to the literature on risk, disasters, and the sociology of emotions.” -- Norah MacKendrick * author of Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate their Exposure to Everyday Toxics *Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Town of Whirlpool 1 The Deregulation of Toxic Chemicals 2 Cancer in Clyde and “Will-o’-the-Wisp Things” 3 Emotion, Risk, and Othering 4 Embodied Risk 5 Toward Transformative Movements of Theory and Practice Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Cancer Entangled: Anticipation, Acceleration, and
Book SynopsisCancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the "state of the nation".Trade Review"Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Tørring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare." -- Ayo Wahlberg * professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen *"Cancer Entangled explores how the miasma of the potential of cancer infiltrates and weighs on people’s ordinary lives as well as clinical experiences. The impact of anticipatory cancer within a welfare state is at the core of each of the chapters, yet each individual chapter contributes a contextually different perspective, contributing to our understanding of the broader context. This is a conversation well worth joining!" -- M. Cameron Hay-Rollins * author of Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indones *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times Marie Louise Tørring Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness Camilla Hoffmann Merrild Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic Benedikte Møller Kristensen Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work Rikke Aarhus Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty Michal Frumer Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions Stine Hauberg Nielsen Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care Lenore Manderson Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
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Rutgers University Press Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American
Book SynopsisOne out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients’ rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops’ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church’s stance on sex, reproduction, and “life” itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.Trade Review"Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, horrific stories began to emerge from hospitals across the country. To many, these denials of emergency medical care seemed to be an alarming new consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision. Lori Freedman, however, has documented such stories for well over a decade. We would do well to study her work carefully — including her book Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals — in this critical moment. * Catholics for Choice *“It’s a recipe for disaster—the Catholic Church wants the most births possible, and most American women want to limit their childbearing and protect their health with modern advances in contraception and abortion. Yet in the name of corporate conscience, our anachronistic laws allow Catholic healthcare to require physicians of all faiths to do things that violate medical ethics and often constitute malpractice. Freedman’s compelling research, rich storytelling, and incisive analysis reveal how outrageous Bishop-knows-best medicine really is.” -- Katie Watson * author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Ordinary Abortion *"Bishops and Bodies is poised to make a significant impact not just in social science and medical humanities circles, but in broader public conversations about health care, reproductive rights, and the place of religion in society." -- Jessica Martucci * author of Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America *Table of ContentsForeword by Debra Stulberg Prologue: Unsafe and Unequal Introduction: Doctrinal Iatrogenesis 1 Growth: How Catholic Health Care Expanded 2 Inferior: How Catholic Directives Contradict Medical Standards 3 Consumer Medicine? Patients and the Illusion of Choice 4 Emergencies: Patient Loss and Suffering 5 Mostly Above-Board Workarounds 6 Under the Radar Workarounds 7 Separation of Church and Hospital 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Appendix Notes Index
£107.20
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19: How Can WHO Be
Book SynopsisThis open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continued and worsened in many parts of the world in the second-half of 2020 and into 2021. Many of these countries and nations wanted to explore COVID-19 on their own, sometimes without listening to the main international health bodies such as WHO, an agency of the United Nations system with long-standing experience and vast knowledge at the global level and of which all countries in the world are members. In this single volume, the chapters present the progress of thinking and debate — particularly in relation to drugs and vaccines — that would enable a response to the COVID-19 pandemic or to subsequent crises that may arise. Among the topics covered: COVID-19 Vaccines: Between Ethics, Health and Economics Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global Strategy Re-thinking Global and Local Manufacturing of Medical Products After COVID-19 Rethinking R&D for Pharmaceutical Products After the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Shock Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines and Vaccines The World Health Organization Reforms in the Time of COVID-19 Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19: How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice? is essential reading for negotiators from the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO); World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) staff participating in these negotiations; academics and students of public health, medicine, health sciences, law, sociology and political science; and intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations that follow the issue of access to treatments and vaccines for COVID-19.Table of ContentsChapter 1 COVID-19 Vaccines: Between Ethics, Health and Economics 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine 11.3 Two Key Issues: Immunity and Contagion 21.4 Vaccine Nationalism 21.5 The COVAX Mechanism 31.6 Compulsory Licensing 31.7 Access to Medicines and Vaccines: A New Player 3References…………………………………………………………………………………………….#Chapter 2 Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global Strategy 72.1 Introduction 72.2 The Background of the IGWG Negotiations 92.3 The IGWG Stakeholders 112.4 The IGWG Process 122.4.1 The First Meeting in Geneva: 4–8 December 2006 122.4.2 Regional Consultations 132.4.3 Second Meeting, 5–10 November 2007 152.4.4 Continuation of the Second Meeting of the IGWG: 28 April to 3 May 2008 152.4.5 Sixty-First World Health Assembly, 24 May 2008 152.5 The Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property 172.5.1 Main Elements of the 2008 Global Strategy 172.5.2 Additional Mandates of the 2008 Global Strategy 172.5.3 Progress in the Implementation of the GSPOA 182.5.4 The Collaboration of the WHO with other International Organisations 192.6 The WHO Consultative Expert Working Group 202.6.1 A Binding International Convention 202.6.2 The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 212.7 The Evaluation of the GSPOA 222.8 The Report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines 232.9 The Roadmap on Access to Medicines 252.9.1 Background 252.9.2 Regulatory Systems Strengthening 262.9.3 Health Research and Development 262.9.4 Intellectual Property 272.10 Resolution on “Improving the Transparency of Markets for Medicines, Vaccines and other Health-Related Technologies” 272.11 Access to Biotherapeutic Products Including Similar Biotherapeutic Products 292.12 Conclusions 30References 31Chapter 3 Re-thinking Global and Local Manufacturing of Medical Products After COVID-19 333.1 Introduction 333.2 Background: The View of UN Agencies on Pharmaceutical Production in Developing Countries 343.3 COVID-19 “Vaccine Nationalism” 373.4 COVID-19 Global Vaccine Access Facility (COVAX Facility) 423.5 Global Preparedness Monitoring Board 443.6 A COVID-19 Technology Sharing Platform: A Recent UN Initiative 463.7 Concluding Remarks 46References 47Chapter 4 Rethinking R&D for Pharmaceutical Products After the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Shock 534.1 Introduction 534.2 Background of the Debate on the R&D Model 544.3 Problems of the R&D Model for Pharmaceutical Products 564.3.1 Lack of Transparency of R&D Costs 564.3.2 Pharmaceutical Innovation Has Significantly Decreased 574.3.3 High Prices Restrict Access 574.3.4 Fragmentation and Lack of Coordination 584.3.5 Waste and Overlap 594.4 A Binding International Convention 594.4.1 Objective and Scope 604.4.2 Possible Main Components 604.5 The Need to Act Fast 614.6 Conclusions and Recommendations 62References…………………………………………………………………………………………….#Chapter 5 Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines and Vaccines 675.1 Introduction 675.2 The WTO TRIPS Agreement 675.3 What Is a Patent? 675.3.1 There Is no Global or International Patent 685.3.2 The Patent Cooperation Treaty 685.3.3 Validity of Patents 695.3.4 Minimum Standards of Patent Protection 705.3.5 Patents on Pharmaceutical Products 715.3.6 Patents and Access to Essential Medicines 725.4 The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health 735.5 What Are the TRIPS Flexibilities? 745.5.1 Criteria for Patentability 755.5.2 Compulsory Licences 755.5.3 Government Use 765.5.4 Parallel Imports 765.5.5 Exceptions to Patent Rights 765.5.6 Flexibility in Test Data Protection 775.5.7 Avoidance of TRIPS-plus Provisions and Policies, Including Extension of Patent Term, Data Exclusivity, Second-Use Patents, Border Measures 775.5.8 Mitigating Implementation or Effects of TRIPS-plus Provisions 775.5.9 Exemption for LDCs 775.5.10 Pre- and Post-Patent Grant Opposition 775.5.11 Use of Competition Law to Address the Misuse of Patents 785.5.12 Disclosure Requirement, Particularly for Biologics 785.5.13 Flexibilities in Enforcement of IP 785.6 The Paragraph 6 Problem and its Solution 785.7 Impact of "TRIPS-plus" and "TRIPS Extra" Provisions 795.7.1 Extension of Patent Protection Beyond the TRIPS Minimum 795.7.2 Restrictions on the Use of Compulsory Licences 805.7.3 Data Exclusivity 805.7.4 Marketing Approval and Patent Term Linkage 805.8 Conclusions 80References 81Chapter 6 The World Health Organization Reforms in the Time of COVID-19 836.1 Introduction 836.2 Background 846.3 COVID-19 and the WHO Reform 856.3.1 Problem 1: The Public-Private Sector Dilemma 866.3.2 Problem 2: The Dilemma Between Voluntary Recommendations and Binding Instruments in the Health Field 886.3.4 Problem 3: The Dilemma Between Regulations and Humanitarian Aid 906.4 The International Health Regulations (IHR) 916.4.1 Taking a Straightforward Approach: Modifying the IHR 916.5 Non-Paper Proposals of Action 926.6 The Special Meeting of the Executive Board on 5–6 October 2020 926.7 Concluding Remarks 93References…………………………………………………………………………………………….#Epilogue 97
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry
Book SynopsisThis book comprehensively educates psychiatrists about malpractice and other liability. It is written to also specifically assist psychiatrists who are sued or are involved in other complaints. The first two sections discuss malpractice law and the litigation process; the litigation section mainly addresses some of the more emotionally charged issues, including do’s and don’ts, how an attorney will be looking at the case, the defendant doctor’s testifying at deposition and trial, and the stress of being sued. The subsequent three sections address specific topics that give rise to liability, with each section taking a different perspective such as risks in particular clinical, by practice site, and special issues, including practice in special situations such as the current pandemic. The final section discusses other forms of liability, such as complaints to medical boards or professional association ethics committees. An exceptional work, Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry, functions as both a go-to handbook and all-encompassing read on the aforementioned topics.Table of ContentsSection I: Malpractice Law.- Principles of Malpractice Law in Psychiatry.- History of Malpractice.- Liability of the Acts of Others.- Professional Liability Insurance.- Section II: Litigation.- Risk Management after an Adverse Event.- The Litigation Process.- Do's and Dont's if You Are Sued.- The Plaintiff Attorney's Perspective.- The Defense Attorney's Perspective.- Expert Witness.- The Defendant Psychiatrist as Witness.- The Stress of Being Sued.- Section III: Malpractice Allegations.- Suicide.- Patient Violence.- Boundary Violations.- Breach of Confidentiality.- Negligent Psychopharmacology.- Abandonment and Unnecessary Commitment.- Negligent Psychotherapy.- Section VI: Practice Areas.- Inpatient General Psychiatry.- Outpatient General Psychiatry.- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- Consult Liaison Psychiatry.- Emergency Room Psychiatry.- Reproductive Psychiatry.- Addition Psychiatry.- Geriatric Psychiatry.- Correctional Psychiatry.- Forensic Psychiatry.- Psychiatric Research.- Section V: Special Topics.- Telepsychiatry.- Malpractice and the Internet.- Patients and Guns.- Practicing During a Pandemic or Disaster.- Section VI: Complaints.- Medical Board Complaints.- Ethics Complaints.- Granting Agencies.- Negative Reviews on the Internet.- Impaired Psychiatrists.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry
Book SynopsisThis book comprehensively educates psychiatrists about malpractice and other liability. It is written to also specifically assist psychiatrists who are sued or are involved in other complaints. The first two sections discuss malpractice law and the litigation process; the litigation section mainly addresses some of the more emotionally charged issues, including do’s and don’ts, how an attorney will be looking at the case, the defendant doctor’s testifying at deposition and trial, and the stress of being sued. The subsequent three sections address specific topics that give rise to liability, with each section taking a different perspective such as risks in particular clinical, by practice site, and special issues, including practice in special situations such as the current pandemic. The final section discusses other forms of liability, such as complaints to medical boards or professional association ethics committees. An exceptional work, Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry, functions as both a go-to handbook and all-encompassing read on the aforementioned topics.Table of ContentsSection I: Malpractice Law.- Principles of Malpractice Law in Psychiatry.- History of Malpractice.- Liability of the Acts of Others.- Professional Liability Insurance.- Section II: Litigation.- Risk Management after an Adverse Event.- The Litigation Process.- Do's and Dont's if You Are Sued.- The Plaintiff Attorney's Perspective.- The Defense Attorney's Perspective.- Expert Witness.- The Defendant Psychiatrist as Witness.- The Stress of Being Sued.- Section III: Malpractice Allegations.- Suicide.- Patient Violence.- Boundary Violations.- Breach of Confidentiality.- Negligent Psychopharmacology.- Abandonment and Unnecessary Commitment.- Negligent Psychotherapy.- Section VI: Practice Areas.- Inpatient General Psychiatry.- Outpatient General Psychiatry.- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- Consult Liaison Psychiatry.- Emergency Room Psychiatry.- Reproductive Psychiatry.- Addition Psychiatry.- Geriatric Psychiatry.- Correctional Psychiatry.- Forensic Psychiatry.- Psychiatric Research.- Section V: Special Topics.- Telepsychiatry.- Malpractice and the Internet.- Patients and Guns.- Practicing During a Pandemic or Disaster.- Section VI: Complaints.- Medical Board Complaints.- Ethics Complaints.- Granting Agencies.- Negative Reviews on the Internet.- Impaired Psychiatrists.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ethik in der Krankenpflegeausbildung vermitteln:
Book SynopsisAuszubildende der Gesundheits‐ und Krankenpflege kommen in ihrer praktischen Tätigkeit häufig mit ethisch bedenklichen Situationen in Kontakt, ohne diese als solche zu erkennen. Karina Sensen diskutiert die Sensibilisierung für ethische Konflikte als Grundvoraussetzung dafür, das eigene Handeln an ethischen Grundlagen zu orientieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund erarbeitet sie einen didaktischen und methodischen Rahmen für Lehrende an Krankenpflegeschulen, mit dessen Hilfe diese die Auszubildenden dabei unterstützen können, die Reflexion ethischer Konflikte einzuüben und zu festigen. Damit können die Lernenden auf ihre praktische Tätigkeit so vorbereitet werden, dass sie in ethischen Konfliktsituationen handlungsfähig sind. Table of ContentsZiele des Ethikunterrichts.- Ethische Inhalte in der Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegeausbildung.- Ethik unterrichten.- Fallorientierung im Ethikunterricht.- Entwickelte Materialien für die Vermittlung ethischer Inhalte.
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Trivent Publishing Medical Futility in Paediatrics:
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the issues and challenges raised by the high-profile cases of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans. The individual chapters, which complement one other, were written by scholars with expertise in Law, Medicine, Medical Ethics, Theology, Health Policy and Management, English Literature, Nursing and History, from the UK, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Spain, Turkey and the USA.The following are among the key questions explored in the book. Is the courtroom an appropriate forum for resolving conflicts relating to medical futility in paediatrics? If so, should parental rights be protected by confining judicial powers only to cases where there is a risk of significant harm to the infant; or should the "best interests" test continue to be recognised as the "gold standard" for paediatric cases? If not, should mediation be used instead, but how well would this alternative method of dispute resolution work for medical futility conflicts? Further, should social media be deployed to garner support, and should outsiders who are not fully acquainted with the medical facts refrain from intervening? And, how are comparable situations likely to be managed in different countries? What lessons can be learned from them as well as from religious perspectives?Table of Contents Foreword by Michael Redfern QC Preface by Kartina Aisha Choong Notes on Contributors INTRODUCTION. Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans: Their Medico-Legal Journeys, by Kartina A. Choong PART I. ISSUES AND CHALLENGES CHAPTER 1. The Vexed Question of Best Interests in Decisions Relating to Infants and Medical Futility, by Jo Samanta CHAPTER 2. Best Interests: The "Gold Standard" or a Gold Plating? Should Significant Harm be a Threshold Criterion in Paediatric Cases? by William Seagrim CHAPTER 3. Charlie's Law: Clarifying the Legal Standard to be Used in Medical Decision-Making for Children, by Sarah Sargent CHAPTER 4. Media Framing of "Medical Futility": Flaming the Debate?, by Kim McGuire CHAPTER 5. Resource-intense Treatments in a Resource-finite Environment, by Richard Wai Ming Law CHAPTER 6. Citizenship at the Discretion of the State: Public Law Issues Regarding Evans' Naturalisation, by Alejandra Boto CHAPTER 7. Contested Paediatric Palliative Care: A Church of England Perspective, by Brendan McCarthy CHAPTER 8. The Dynamics of Clinical Judgment, Religious Conventions and Parental Responsibilities: An Islamic Perspective, by Mahmood Chandia, Abdulla al-Shami CHAPTER 9. Do Parents Have a Right to Determine Where a Child Patient Dies?, by Lisa Cherkassky PART II. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 10. Serving the Child's "Best Interests" in Australia, by Roslyn Jones CHAPTER 11. Medical Futility in Czech Paediatrics: At the Edge of Law, Bioethics, and Medicine, by Helena Krej?íková CHAPTER 12. The Application of End-of-Life Legislation to Minors in France, by Stephanie Rohlfing-Dijoux CHAPTER 13. Patient Autonomy and Best Interests in End-of-Life Cases: A German Perspective, by Peter Elsner CHAPTER 14. Gard and Evans: A Reflection on What Might Happen in India, by Abhay Vaidya, Sourabhi Sahakari CHAPTER 15. Medical Futility and Parental Paternalism in Turkey, by Banu Buruk, Berna Arda CHAPTER 16. If We Can, Must We? Just Whose Best Interests Are We Talking About? Perspectives from the USA, by Vincent F. Maher
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