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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Right to Try How the Federal Government
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Uncontrolled Spread
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Uncontrolled Spread is everything you’d hope: a smart and insightful account of what happened and, currently, the best guide to what needs to be done to avoid a future pandemic. —Wall Street Journal“Informative and well paced.”—The Guardian“An intense ride through the pandemic with chilling details of what really happened. It is also sprinkled with notes of true wisdom that may help all of us better prepare for the future.”—Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent, CNNPhysician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything?In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America’s pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps tha
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Elsevier Nursing Today
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Ethical Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 An Introduction to Ethics and the Law: A Perspective for Nurses 2 Ethical Theories: Their Meaning for Nurses 3 Guiding Ethical Decision Making: Resources for Nurses 4 The Canadian Legal System 5 Regulation of the Nursing Profession 6 Informed Consent: Rights and Obligations 7 The Nurse's Legal Accountabilities: Professional Competence, Misconduct, Malpractice, and Nursing Documentation 8 Complexity at the End of Life: Ethical and Legal Challenges 9 Ethical and Legal Issues Related to Advancing Science and Technology 10 Safeguarding Patient Rights 11 Perspectives on the Rights of Nurses 12 Ethical Issues in Leadership, the Organization, and Approaches to the Delivery of Care Glossary Index
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Elsevier Nursing Today Binder Ready
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Random House USA Inc Under the Skin
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer.—Oprah DailyFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial dis
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Random House USA Inc How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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Random House Canada Better Now
Book SynopsisFrom respected doctor and passionate Medicare advocate Danielle Martin, an important check-up on our health-care system--and what urgently needs fixing. Dr. Danielle Martin sees the cracks and challenges in our health-care system every day. In the style of Atul Gawande, she uses real patient stories to illustrate what works in our health-care system and what doesn''t. Most importantly, she proposes six big ideas to make healthcare achievable and affordable: 1) a national drug program; 2) change the way we deliver care; 3) reduce unnecessary tests; 4) strengthen primary care; 5) create a guaranteed income program; and 6) scale up successful innovation. One of the most urgent reforms she advocates for is a national pharmacare program, instead of the piecemeal provincial pattern of buying drugs. Canada could save billions if drugs were bought in bulk by a single body, which in turn could fund a
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Future of LongTerm Care Social and Policy
Book SynopsisBinstock Ethical Issues in Long-Term Care Nancy Neveloff Dubler American Culture and Long-Term Care Otto von Mering Forecasting the Future of Long-Term Care Dennis L. KodnerTrade ReviewThis wide-ranging book discusses the history, problem, and future prospects of long-term care in America. Inspired by the 1992 National Health Forum held at the University of Florica and edited by an interdisciplinary team from medicine (Cluff), anthropology (von Mering), and social gerontology (Binstock), it contains chapters by 15 authors who represent the diverse fields of history, ethics, social welfare, nursing, health policy, and health-care administration... Unlike so much literature in gerontology, the book is clear, straightforward, and well focused on practical issues, while maintaining a high standard of scholarship throughout. Both academics and service professionals will find it extremely useful. -- Else M. Kiefer Health Progress This book considers long-term care in the United States in a variety of contexts including accessability, needs assessment, and affected populations. The authors examine the history and evolution of long-term care through to the present and speculate about the future, asking questions such as what will future nursing home care entail, and what role will economic, political, and cultural factors play? Hastings Center Report The Future of Long-Term Care... is the product of the first National Health Forum held at the University of Florida in 1992. The book examines the developments that have brought long-term care to the fore as an area of substantial concern, as well as the factors that will likely make it even more pressing in the future. The book includes chapters written by a distinguished panel of gerontologists and health policy experts. Aging Network News Provides a broad view of the history of long-term care policies and programmes in the United States, highlights current issues, and assesses future prospects... this is a readable, well-referenced volume which presents a useful overview of LTC issues and policy perspectives. Ageing and SocietyTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefacePart I: Overview and History of the IssuesChapter 1. Issues Affecting the Future of Long-Term CareChapter 2. The Evolution of Long-Term Care in AmericaPart II: Populations Needing Care and Issues of Providing CareChapter 3. Older People, Dependency, and Trends in Supportive CareChapter 4. Trends Among Younger Persons with Disability of Chronic DiseaseChapter 5. The Role of Technology in Long-Term Care Chapter 6. Challenges in Providing Care for Persons with Complex Chronic IllnessPart III: Exploring the Future of Settings for CareChapter 7. The Evolution of the American Nursing HomeChapter 8. Care in the Home and Other Community Settings: Present and FuturePart IV: Social and Policy IssuesChapter 9. The Financing and Organization of Long-Term CareChapter 10. The Politics of Enacting Long-Term Care InsuranceChapter 11. Reflections on Some Ethical Issues in Long-Term CareChapter 12. American Culture and Long-Term CareEpilogueChapter 13. Foreseeing the Future of Long-Term Care: The Highlights and Implications of a Delphi StudyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Assisted Living
Book SynopsisAssisted Living: Needs, Practices, and Policies in Residential Care for the Elderly brings together a group of nationally recognized experts to help define the types of residential care that should be encouraged and sets guidelines for selecting an appropriate type of facility.Trade ReviewThis study is the largest, most comprehensive study of residential care/assisted living ever undertaken. -- Georg Gottschalk Housing Studies The most comprehensive study of RC/AL ever undertaken... Policy makers, educators, advocates, and service providers along the continuum of care for older adults will find this work impressive. -- Susan Daggett Inside GCMTable of ContentsContents: Foreword, M. Powell Lawton Preface List of Contributors Introduction, Catherine Hawes Part I. Key Topics in Assisted Living 1. State Policy and Regulations, Robert L. Mollica 2. Residential Care/Assisted Living in the Changing Health Care Environment, Michael A. Nolin and Robert L. Mollica 3. Creating a Therapeutic Environment: Lessons from Northern European Models, Victor A. Regnier and Anne Copeland Scot t4. Staffing Problems and Strategies in Assisted Living, R. Tamara Hodlewsky 5. African American Use of Residential Care in North Carolina, Elizabeth J. Mutran, S. Sudha, Peter Reed, Manoj Menon, and Tejas Desai Part II. Diversity in Profile: Assisted Living in Four States 6. An Overview of the Collaborative Studies of Long-Term Care, Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip D. Sloane, J. Kevin Eckert, Verita Custis Buie, Joan F. Walsh, Gary Grove Koch, and J. Richard Hebel 7. Resident Characteristics, Leslie A. Morgan, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, and Jay Magaziner 8. The Physical Environment, Philip D. Sloane and Sheryl Zimmerman 9. The Process of Care, Sheryl Zimmerman, J. Kevin Eckert, and Judith B. Wildfire 10. Aging in Place, Shulamit L. Bernard, Sheryl Zimmerman, and J. Kevin Eckert 11. Care for Persons with Dementia, Philip D. Sloane, Sheryl Zimmerman, and Marcia G. Ory 12. Economics and Financing, Sally C. Stearns and Leslie A. Morgan 13. Connectedness in Residential Care: A Qualitative Perspective, J. Kevin Eckert, Sheryl Zimmerman, and Leslie A. Morgan Part III. Future Directions in Assisted Living Emerging Issues in Residential Care/Assisted Living, Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip D. Sloane, and J. Kevin Eckert Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women under the Influence
Book SynopsisIncorporating more than a decade of extensive research, Women under the Influence will help women, health care professionals, educators, and policy makers understand the scope of substance abuse in girls and women, the urgency of responding to the problem, the key points of intervention, and potential roads to recovery.Trade ReviewAn excellent starting point for patrons researching the topic, as it examines substance abuse in women of all ages. Library Journal 2006 The first of its kind and the product of 10 years of research. Southern Review of Books Thoughtfully examines the myriad factors that enhance vulnerability to substance-abuse problems across the life span and the unique challenges of life-stage transitions in women. New England Journal of Medicine 2006 This readable and useful treatise wil be a valuable resource on substance abuse for readers in a variety of disciplines. Choice 2006Table of ContentsForeword1. Pathways to Substance Abuse among Girls and Women2. Women and Smoking3. Women and Alcohol4. Women and Prescription and Illicit Drugs5. Pregnancy and Substance Abuse6. Getting Over the influence7. prevention and Policy Opportunities across the Life SpamAcknowledgmentsAppendix: ResourcesNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Innovation in Medical Technology Ethical Issues
Book SynopsisThis work's insights into the nature and consequences of medical innovation contribute to the national debate on how best to protect patients while fostering innovation and securing benefits.Trade ReviewA captivating read for just about any thoughtful person, Innovation in Medical Technology could serve as an effective springboard for lively teaching sessions in a medical school or residency program, or as a provocative introduction to a course in medical ethics. -- Richard M. Stillman JAMA 2007 This volume serves as an introduction to legal and ethical issues that emerge from medical technological innovation, and to the boundary issues between medical research and clinical practice. It includes policy suggestions for regulation in this gray zone of practice between clinical care and research, as well as a short history of human subjects research. Choice 2008 The work provides both medical practitioners and academicians of various levels of experience with a helpful overview of the complicated dilemmas surrounding innovation in medicine. -- Jacob William Shatzer Ethics and Medicine 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Need to Ask Questions about Innovation1. Distinguishing Innovative Medical Practice from Research2. The Modern History of Human Research Ethics3. Innovation in the Off-Label Use of Drugs4. Innovative Surgery5. Innovation in Assisted Reproduction6. Innovation in Neuroimaging7. Questions, Issues, and Recommendations Going ForwardConclusion: Final Thoughts on the Landscape of InnovationAppendix A: Directives for Human Experimentation: Nuremberg CodeAppendix B: World Medical Association Declaration of HelsinkiAppendix C: Description of Department of Health and Human ServicesRegulations for the Protection of Human SubjectsAppendix D: Participants in Lasker Forum on Ethical Challenges in Biomedical Research and PracticeNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Public Health and Human Rights EvidenceBased
Book SynopsisPart III confronts current policy approaches-such as Brazil's integration of rights, HIV/AIDS programming, and the contradictory and confounding global policies on illicit drugs-and offers recommendations for future programs and strategies.Trade ReviewMany of the case studies are powerful and hopeful... Recommended. Choice 2008 The strength of the book is the authors' and editors' insistence on 'evidence-based approaches' to abuse and harm. They explain why acquiring reliable evidence about the effects on health of abuses of human rights requires changing principles and methods that researchers in industrial countries take for granted. -- Daniel M. Fox, PhD JAMA 2008 The message of this book is clear... A rights-based analysis of our public health policies is a requirement of the times in which we live. -- William M. Valenti AIDS Reader 2008 The book is well constructed and provides insights into how to approach public health programs in unique situations where human rights violations constrain public health workers' ability to assist populations at risk... The examples in this book provide a set of tools to consider when we find ourselves in unique situations. -- Maryn Elizabeth Torner Doody's Review Service 2008 A good resource for students. It is a quick and interesting read. -- Catherine G. Chalin Canadian Journal of Public Health 2008 This engaging and important book is likely to interest a broad range of readers. -- Steven S. Coughlin European Journal of Public Health 2008 Valuable and enlightening... Mental health specialists will find here much to reflect about. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2008 A good addition to the burgeoning literature on global health, and I would recommend it strongly to practitioners. -- Nana K. Poku Development in Practice 2008 The individual case studies are fascinating, and provide insight into the challenges of working in oppressive and dangerous environments. -- Kate van Dooren Critical Public Health 2008 Well researched and timely, and cites well-documented evidence. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2010Table of ContentsForeword, by Leonard S. RubensteinPrefaceContributorsList of AcronymsIntroduction: Human Rights and the Health of PopulationsPart I: Cases and Contexts1. Health and Human Rights in the Midst of a Drug War: The Thai Drug Uses' Network2. The Impact of Human Rights Violations on Health among Internally Displaced Persons in Conflict Zones: Burma3. Consequances of a Stalled Response: Iatrogenic Epidemic among Blood Donors in Central China4. Women's Health and Women's Rights: Selling Sex in Moscow5. Reducing Harm in Prisons: Lessons from the United States and WorldwidePart II: Methods6. using Molecular Tools to Track Epidemics and Investigate Human Rights and Disease Interactions7. Documenting the Effects of Trafficking in Women8. Documenting Sexual Violence among Internally Displaced Women: Sierra Leone9. The Crime of Genocide: Darfur10. Public Health Research in a Human Rights Crisis: The Effects of the Thai "War on Drugs"11. Maps in the Sand: Investigating Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan and Darfur12. Civil Conflict and Health Infromation: The Democratis Republic of CongoPart III: Policy13. From Human Rights Principles to Public Health Practice: HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil14. Seeing Double: Mapping Contradictions in HIV Prevention and Illicit Drug Policy Worldwide15. Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Responding to the Global HIV/AIDS pandemic16. Gender and Sexual Health Rights: Burma17. Advocacy Strategies for Affording the Right to HealthIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Challenges of an Aging Society Ethical Dilemmas
Book Synopsis, Boston College.Trade ReviewAn excellent book... Will be exceedingly helpful to clinicians and nonclinicians who are involved in the development of public policy. JAMA 2008 Easily readable and well referenced... It is an excellent, well-thought-out resource for where the U.S. is on the issue of gerontology as it relates to ethics and public policy... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 A good survey of many aging society issues. Future Survey 2007 Some of the individual chapters are superb... contains some interesting original material as well as a useful synthesis of the literature... There is something in it for almost everyone. New England Journal of Medicine 2008 This book is well edited and presented, which makes reading it quite straightforward, even while taking on at times some complex issues. -- Karen Le Ball Age and Ageing 2008 This book... is unique in that it explores issues and challenges at hand with the current aging society through an 'ethical' lens, and brings together experts in a wide range of fields covering sociobiology, social work, economics, public policy, theology, public health, bioethics, nursing and neurology -- Erica Yoonkyung Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 2009 There is something for everyone in this collection -- John Bond Aging and Society 2008 It is a compilation of multiple thought-provoking analyses of the status of elderly and the aging, and includes current and future ramifications. -- Susan Wegener Inside GCM 2008Table of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Science and Ethics of Aging WellPart I: Autonomy and End-of-Life Decisions1. The Legal Aspects of End-Of-Life Decision Making2. Assessing Compentency to Make Medical Decisions at the End of Life: Clinician and Patient Issues3. The Ethics of Long-Term Care: Recasting the Policy Discourse4. Religiosity and Spirituality at the End of Life: Challenges and OpportunitiesPart II: The Future of Family Responsibility5. The Family and the Future: Challenges, Prospects, and Resilience6. Long-Term Care, Feminism, and an Ethics of Solidarity7. Aging, Generational Opposition, and the Future of the FamilyPart III: Policies and Politics of Genrational Responsibility8. Minority Elders in the United States: Implications for Public Policy9. Allocating Resources for Lifelong Learning for Older Adults10. Transforming Age-Based Policies to Meet Fluid Life-Course Needs11. The Political Paradoxes of Thinking outside the Life-Cycle Boxes12. Is Responsibility across Generations Politically Feasible?Part IV: Health and Wealth: Whose Responsibility?13. Social Security Reform and Responsibility across the Generations: Framing the Debate14. Setting the Agenda for Social Security Reform15. A Summary of Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach16. Assessing the Returns from the New Medicare Drug Benefit17. Prescription Drugs and Elders in the Twenty-first CenturyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care
Book SynopsisThis volume is a useful resource for bioethicists, members of rural bioethics committees and networks, policy makers, teachers of health care providers, and rural practitioners themselves.Trade ReviewOf obvious value for those active in rural health care. It may be even more useful, however, for nonrural practitioners, ethicists, and members of ethics committees. Reading the essays in this volume is like acquiring a new set of glasses. It made me better able to perceive differences in how ethics can be considered based on culture, population, geographic challenges, and personal connections... An even bigger service may be the tools it provides to look differently at problems commonly thought to be understood. -- Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD JAMA An excellent scholarly examination of what rural people face in the world of health care. Midwest Book Review A welcome addition to this oft-neglected area of ethics. The collection is broad-ranging and well-designed. -- Robert Macauley Journal of Bioethical Inquiry The common thread among the essays is a bioethical perspective. Their common goal is to raise awareness among rural practitioners and other interested parties about the particular challenges that the rural environment presents. Health AffairsTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Overview of Rurality and General Ethical IssuesChapter 1. Rural-Urban Differences in End-of-Life Care: Reflections on Social ContractsChapter 2. The Challenges of Rural Health CareChapter 3. Ethics, Errors, and Where We Go from HereChapter 4. The Ethics of Allocating Resources toward Rural Health and Health CarePart II: Practitioners' VoicesChapter 5. Reflections on Fifty Years in Rural Health CareChapter 6. Serving the Underserved: Personal, Social, and Medical ChallengesChapter 7. Ethical and Sociocultural Issues in Rural Mental Health CarePart III: Specific Ethical Issues and SolutionsChapter 8. Ethical Dimensions of the Quality of Rural Health CareChapter 9. Building Bioethics Networks in Rural States: Blessings and BarriersChapter 10. Structural Violence in the Rural Context: The Ethical implications of Welfare Reform for Rural HealthChapter 11. Rural Geristric Bioethics: A Texas PerspectiveChapter 12. Supporting the Rural Physician: Processes and ProgramsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Natural Disasters and Public Health
Book SynopsisThis volume is a valuable resource for public policymakers, health care agencies, providers who plan for large-scale emergencies, academics teaching disaster relief courses, and professionals working in this field.Trade ReviewWould make a solid addition to any collection concerning disaster planning, public health, or policy making. Choice 2010 An excellent book that brings together 26 essays showcasing the theory and practice of providing medical care in challenging situations during and after disasters. This book should be required reading for medical professionals and emergency responders who may be called upon to respond to disasters. It is also ideal for health and graduate students, researchers and policy makers. -- Tanya Gulliver Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Professionally Fulfilling, Personally PainfulChapter 1. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and Wilma and the Medically UnderservedChapter 2. Katrina Perspectives on the Environment and Public HealthPart I: What It was Like and What HappenedChapter 3. Persevering through the Storm: Educating Nursing Seniors in the Aftermath of KatrinaChapter 4. A Diabetes Pharmaceutical Care Clinic in an Underserved CommunityChapter 5. Dental Care as a Vital Service Response for Disaster VictimsChapter 6. Mental Health Interventions by Telephone with Katrina SurvivorsChapter 7. "They Blew the Levee": Distrust of Authorities Among Hurricane Katrina EvacueesChapter 8. Hospitals in Hurricane Katrina: Challenges Facing Custodial Institutions in a DisasterChapter 9. Hurricane Emergency Planning by Home Health Providers Serving the PoorChapter 10. Katrina and Vulnerability: The Geography of StressChapter 11. A Mobile Medical Care Approach Targeting Underserved Populations in Post–Hurricane Katrina MississippiChapter 12. Wading in the Waters: Spirituality and Older Black Katrina SurvivorsPart II: Assessment Chapter 13. The Hurricane Choir: Remote Mental Health Monitoring of Participants in a Community-basedChapter 14. Rapid Needs Assessment among Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Metro-DenverChapter 15. Displacement of the Underserved: Medical Needs of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in West VirginiaChapter 16. Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Pediatric and Adult Patients with Sickle Cell DiseaseChapter 17. Media Use and Information Needs of the Disabled During a Natural DisasterChapter 18. Adverse Health Outcomes after Hurricane Katrina Among Children and Adolescents with Chronic ConditionsChapter 19. News, Social Capital, and Health in the Context of KatrinaPart III: Looking to the FutureChapter 20. Mitigating the Health Effects of Disasters for Medically Underserved Populations: Electronic Health Records, Telemedicine, Research, Screening, and SurveillanceChapter 21. Katrina-Related Health Concerns of Latino Survivors and EvacueesChapter 22. Emergency Preparedness: Knowledge and Perceptions of Latin American ImmigrantsChapter 23. The Resuscitation of a New Orleans Substance Abuse Treatment Agency after Hurricane KatrinaChapter 24. Hurricane Readiness and Environmental Risks on the Bayous—an NIEHS Community-Based Pilot Project in South Terrebonne–Lafourche Parishes, LouisianaChapter 25. Re-establishing a Home after Katrina: A Long and Winding RoadChapter 26. Cultural Competency in Disaster Recovery: The Lessons of Hurricane Katrina for ServingAppendix. Films and Notable Books on the Hurricanes of 2005Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Getting What We Deserve Health and Medical Care
Book SynopsisHumorous, sometimes acerbic, and always well informed, Sommer's thought-provoking book will change the way you look at health care in America.Trade ReviewAn ideal, nonalarmist first book on what needs reforming in American health care. Booklist 2009 Al Sommer, former Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a giant in the world of public health, has written a thought-provoking and insightful short course on the power of prevention. Indeed, the book is delightfully not just another treatise on universal access or the complexities of health insurance. Instead, it is a commonsense and concise case for the health benefits and cost savings that accrue from public health in all its breadth. -- Roberta B. Ness American Journal of Epidemiology 2010 In contrast to the confusing, politicized national conversation about health care, Sommer talks to the reader in a straightforward fashion. Washington Post 2010 This volume is a timely, easy-to-read, practical treatise on health care reform. Choice 2010 Alfred Sommer brings his vast global experience and applies his academic rigor and wit to look at contradictions inherent in the US health system, especially the disproportionate emphasis on expensive biomedical treatment of diseases over policy choices to invest in better social and economic environments that foster prevention and health promotion. This book is immensely timely, engaging and thought provoking-a must read. American Journal of Opthalmology 2010Table of ContentsPreface1. Genesis: From Few to Many—in Fits and Starts2. Disease Is the Sum of All Evils3. Genes: Sometimes "Destiny," Sometimes Not4. The Complex Nature of Causality5. The Consequences of Our Own Behavior6. Choosing the Healthier Lifestyle7. From Science to Policy: The Path Is Anything but Linear8. The U.S. Health Care System9. Who's Healthy? Who's Not? Why?NotesFurther Reading, Films, and Websites of InterestIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Talking with Patients and Families about Medical
Book SynopsisNarrative examples of common situations demonstrate how conversations about medical error can lead to healing.Trade ReviewProfessional health collections will consider this essential. Midwest Book Review 2011Table of ContentsForeword, by Lucian L. Leape, M.D.AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Medical Error through the Eyes of Clinicians, Patients, and Families2. What Is a Medical Error?3. A Brief Overview of the Patient Safety Movement4. Communicating about Adverse Events and Medical Error5. Supporting Clinicians in Disclosure: The Coaching Model6. Practice-Based Learning for Coaches and Clinicians7. Practical Guidelines for Disclosure8. Learning through Enacting9. The Broad Spectrum of Adverse Events and Medical Error10. Organizational Strategies for Improving Disclosure Practice11. Future Directions and Closing ThoughtsAppendix: Practical Guidelines for DisclosureAnnotated Bibliography of Key WorksReferencesIndex
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Guide to EKG Interpretation
Book SynopsisPractical guide for primary care physicians, students, nurses, physician’s assistants, and anyone else who interprets electrocardiograms as part of his or her practice.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Cannabis Alcohol and the South African Student
Book SynopsisDu Toit examines the results of two surveys which he made a decade apart among high school students of Black, Indian, White, and Colored backgrounds. The initial survey showed some acceptance of the use of these substances among a small proportion of high school students but a high degree of intolerance of such use by the majority.
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Maryland Historical Society A Monument to Good Intentions The Story of the
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary narrative of the oldest continuously operating penitentiary in the Western World, based on prison records, investigative reports, and personal interviews.
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Johns Hopkins University Press War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the
Book SynopsisThose interested in debates about health care in Japan, the United States, and other countries, and especially scholars of comparative political development, will appreciate and learn from Yamagishi's study.Trade ReviewDaring, relevant and an excellent an excellent commencement within the English language literature on the origins of the Japanese welfare state... Beyond contributing substantively to the literature by covering hitherto uncharted terrain, Yamagishi's claims about the mechanisms underlying war-period health policy change deserve closer scrutiny and will be of interest to a broad audience. -- A.K.M. Skarpelis Social Science Japan Journal Historical investigation and international comparative analysis are two major approaches among the forces in the field, and Takakazu Yamagishi's War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction has combined those two methodologies to produce a sharply focused, beautifully constructed, and clearly argued explanation of this historical making of the systems or medical insurance in Japan and the United States... Yamagishi has produced a wonderful book... The book will serve as one of the best introductions to the making of health care policies in the two countries and as a starting point to develop a more inclusive account of the paths to the different medical systems in two countries that face each other across the Pacific. -- Akihito Suzuki Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Prewar Development of Health Insurance1. Learning from Germany: Japan before 19372. Catching Up with Europe: The United States before 1941Part II: Health Security as National Security3. Creating a Public Health Insurance System: Japan, 1937– 19454. Forming a Hybrid Health Insurance System: The United States, 1941– 1945Part III: Health Insurance in the Postwar Period5. Consolidating the Hybrid Health Insurance System: The United States, 1945– 19526. Restoring the Public Health Insurance System: Japan, 1945– 1952ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Tapping into The Wire The Real Urban Crisis
Book SynopsisWith a firm grasp on the hard truths of real-world problems, Tapping into 'The Wire' helps undo misconceptions and encourage a dialogue of understanding.Trade ReviewAn engaging, fast-paced read that translates the fiction of a cable one-hour drama to the reality of an American City. Using the themes of the social determinants of health, governance, and intersectoral action, the book seeks to reframe the discourse about drug policy and the health of US cities. It is an important read for students and for those seeking to communicate the importance of social determinants of health and understand the politics of drugs and health in cities. -- Danielle C. Ompad Journal of Urban Health A convincing argument that nonviolent drug users are part of a significant public health problem that demands an effective response from cities... Readers cannot help but feel sympathy for those who struggle with addiction and the plight of government officials who strive to create alternatives to this dilemma. Highly recommended for readers interested in substance abuse or criminal justice issues and prepared for intellectual engagement. Library Journal Beilenson leads us through the rationale and implementation of public health initiatives that might have an effect on the show's characters, or on the city's embattled residents those characters are meant to portray. -- Andrew Cleary Rain Taxi Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword: A Conversation with David Simon, Creator of The Wire, by Patrick A. McGuire1. The New Public Health Crisis: Wallace's World2. Heroin Central: The Street Life of Bubbles, Marlo, and Johnny3. Losing the War on Drugs: The Pit versus the Police4. Medicalize or Legalize: Hamsterdam5. Needle Exchange and the AIDS Dilemma: Sticking It to "the Bug"6. Treatment on Demand as a Strategy: Walon's Success Story7. School Performance and the MIA Parent: The Tragedy of Dukie's Education8. Teenage Pregnancy and STDs: Shardene's Escape9. Firepower: Snoop's Beretta, Avon's Heckler, and Omar's Mossberg10. Place Matters: Why Didn't Bodie Just Leave?11. Of Paint and Guns: Did Omar Die of Lead Poisoning?12. Obese Yet Malnourished: The Weighty Contradiction of Prop Joe13. Public Health and Politics: The Promise and Peril of Tommy CarcettiEpilogue: Learning from The Wire: Practicing Politics to Practice MedicineCast of CharactersNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ten Lessons in Public Health
Book SynopsisTriumph, tragedy, frustration, and elation await those who set off on careers in public health, and Ten Lessons in Public Health is destined to become a classic book that puts the field into perspective.Trade ReviewSommer is deftly able to explore his field's big ideas by directly following ordinary human stories, which not only makes the lessons easy to understand but foregrounds the reasons why to do it in the first place. -- Bret McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine Sommer's new memoir is also a gift to students-'Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders' is the subtitle-full of stories from a career spent in some of the poorest corners of the world, amid political upheaval and natural disasters. -- Dan Rodricks Baltimore Sun Alfred Sommer has now done exactly what we desire and written 10 Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders. Sommer combines the wisdom of going to where the problems are... with a discussion of the limitation of a job description... These aren't just lessons for public health. These are lessons for life. -- Bill Foege, Author of House on Fire LancetTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Go Where the Problems AreChapter 2. Get into the FieldChapter 3. Forget the Job DescriptionChapter 4. Don't Count on Things Staying the SameChapter 5. Follow Most, but Not All, of the RulesChapter 6. Collect Good Data—Even if You Don't Yet Know What Important Questions They May AnswerChapter 7. Remember Your HumanityChapter 8. Use Data to Set PolicyChapter 9. If You Think You're Right, Keep PushingChapter 10. Take the Long ViewEpilogue
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Story Within
Book SynopsisShares experiences of living with genetic disorders. This title includes stories that illustrate the complexities involved in making decisions about genetic diseases: whether to be tested, who to tell, whether to have children, and whether and how to treat children medically, if treatment is available.Trade ReviewA compelling collection of essays that address the experiences of many who have genetically based illnesses... These pieces can comfort those in similar situations; inform friends, relatives, and caregivers; enlighten health providers; and help us all better understand how others experience the world in which we live. VERDICT Recommended for those who are touched by genetic disorders or are interested in health in the modern world. Library Journal If there were an All-Star Team for memoirists struggling with genetic misfortune... The Story Within would surely be it. -- Patrick Tracey PsychCentral Thought provoking, moving and extremely interesting. -- Jane Brown Nursing Times For those who have traveled a similar path and who have faced genetic illnesses, these stories can be a source of comfort. These stories can also help inform and educate and generate much needed dialogue about health and body norms. The narratives in The Story Within are a reminder that every life has value. -- Dena Hurst Metapsychology The Story Within is a true success of a collection. With joy, rigor, and respect, it strvies to reconcile something like the original (one-of-a-kind) and the originator (universal), the literal (DNA) and the literary (collected essays). Original review below -- Adrien Guignard Gesnerus The Story Within est un collectif reussi. Il s'efforce avec bonheur, rigueur et respect de concilier quelque chose comme l'orignal (singulier) et l'originaire (universel), le litteral (de l'ADN) et le litteraire (des textes reunis). -- Adrien Guignard Gesnerus When medical students really feel that they understand genetics... let them read The Story Within and be brought down to earth with a bang. I know I was. BioNewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Finding Out: Genetics and Ideas of SelfChapter 1. UndiagnosedChapter 2. Driving NorthChapter 3. Collateral DamageChapter 4. In SamarraChapter 5. The UnnumberedPart II: Intervening: Living with Genetic DifferenceChapter 6. Of Helices, HIPAA, Hairballs . . . and HumansChapter 7. The Power of Two: Two Sisters, Two Genes, and Two New Chances at LifeChapter 8. Permission to Look: Documenting the BRCA MutationChapter 9. "Why Would You Be Wantin' to Know?" Not Talking about Schizophrenia in IrelandChapter 10. Help WantedChapter 11. Community and Other Ordinary MiraclesPart III: Passing Down: Genetics and FamilyChapter 12. String Theory, or How One Family Listens Through DeafnessChapter 13. What IfChapter 14. The Long ArmChapter 15. Lettuce and ShoesChapter 16. Dear Dr. Frankenstein: Creation Up CloseEpilogueNotesList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy.Trade ReviewThis book is brave and insightful and succeeds in raising the possibility that cultural histories of health must acknowledge the distinct vocabulary and sociocultural definitions that are inherent to specific disease states. It is full of potential leads and insights, reference and analysis that will be consulted time and time again. -- Paul Weindling Science Weisz shows beautifully that concern with chronic diseases is hardly new. -- Bill Bynum Lancet This is a valuable resource for all academic professionals in the health field, especially those in public policy. Choice This is a valuable study. It is the first long overview of the emergence of one of the most significant health policy issues in modern times. Chronic Illness As this book shows, chronic disease has long been neglected, by both health care systems and historians. Weisz took up the challenge of writing the history of a diffuse and undramatic concept, and has done it well. -- David Jones Global Public Health The recent globalisation of 'chronic disease' serves to demonstrate the importance of Weisz's book not just for historians of medicine, but for policy makers and practitioners too. By highlighting the constructed nature of 'chronic disease' Weisz draws attention to the political foundations of a category too often taken for granted. Crisply written, clearly structure, and presenting a wealth of detail without ever overwhelming, this is sure to become a classic text. -- Alex Mold Social History of Medicine The book is scholarly, builds on the work of prominent thinkers in the field such as Daniel Fox, and provides new insights on the history of American health care. Gesnerus Weisz has produced an intriguing and original argument that will be of great interest to historians of health care and health care policy, in both national and international contexts. IsisTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Chronic Disease in the United States1. "National Vitality" and Physical Examination2. Expanding Public Health3. Almshouses, Hospitals, and the Sick Poor4. New Deal Politics and the National Health Survey5. Mobilizing against Chronic Illness at Midcentury6. Long-Term Care7. Public Health and PreventionPart II: Chronic Disease in the United Kingdom and France8. Health, Wealth, and the State9. Alternative Paths in the United Kingdom10. Maladies chroniques in FranceEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Social Networks and Popular Understanding of
Book SynopsisThis book will appeal to social science students and citizens interested in the role of social networks in information diffusion and yet it serves as a cautionary tale for communication practitioners and policymakers interested in leveraging social ties as an inexpensive method to spread information.Trade ReviewSouthwell has made major contributions to our understanding of the roles that social processes play in driving the diffusion and impact of science- and health-related information. Concise and empirically grounded, Social Networks and Popular Understanding of Science and Health cautions against widespread reliance on peer-to-peer sharing strategies to disseminate vital information. In doing so, it challenges all of us-scientists, educators, and policy-makers-to think more critically and creatively about the potential for our communication efforts to increase disparities in access to information that can help people live healthier lives in a healthier world. Science Readers of Social Networks and Popular Understanding of Science and Health: Sharing Disparities are likely to come away better informed and inspired. -- Michelle Shumate Health CommunicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Evidence of Inequality in Information Sharing3. A Catalogue of Information-Sharing Behaviors4. Who One Is Matters: Individual-Level Factors5. Where One Is Matters: Community-Level Factors6. What Information Matters: Content-Level Factors7. The Consequences of Information Sharing8. Remedies and RealismReferencesAbout the AuthorIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Health Behavior Change in Populations
Book SynopsisThe single greatest way to improve health and quality of life is not by developing new medical approaches, but by addressing harmful personal behaviors. This book is designed to teach students and practitioners strategic principles for creating positive behavioral change on a population level.Table of ContentsForeword by William H. Dietz1. Introduction2. Conceptual Framework for Behavior Change3. Evidence and Ecological Theory in Two Public Health Successes for Health Behavior Change4. Extending the Ecological Model: Key Stakeholders and Organizational Partnerships5. Program Planning for Behavior Change Interventions6. Behavior Change at the Intrapersonal Level7. Behavior Change at the Interpersonal Level: Social Networks8. Behavior Change at the Environmental Level9. Evaluating Behavior Change Programs10. Tobacco and Behavior Change11. Alcohol and Behavior Change12. Substance Abuse and Behavior Change13. Obesity and Eating Behaviors and Behavior Change14. Physical Activity and Behavior Change15. Unintentional Injury and Behavior Change16. Workplace Injury and Behavior Change17. Violence and Behavior Change18. Sexual Risk and Behavior Change19. Clinicians and Behavior Change20. Behavioral Economics and Incentives to Promote Health Behavior Change21. Complexity, Systems Thinking, and Health Behavior Change22. Patient and Consumer Activation for Health Behavior Change23. Empowering Patient Communication24. Health Risk Assessment25. Chronic Conditions and Population HealthManagement for Health Care Systems26. Health Behavior Change in Persons withDepressive Disorders
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Johns Hopkins University Press Burdens of War
Book SynopsisDrawing readers into a critical debate about the level of responsibility America bears for wounded service members, Burdens of War is a unique and moving case study.Trade ReviewScholars, health-care providers, policy makers, and general audiences should be highly interested in the book.—Armed Forces & SocietyThis book is thoughtful, well researched, and timely. It is little wonder Adler earned the Bancroft Award for the dissertation version. Burdens of War will long be an invaluable resource, particularly for those studying the role of the interwar years in creating modern America.—Journal of Military HistoryAdler's book deals more with the beginnings of veterans' health care than its current state and will appeal to those with a historical interest in the program. The criticisms of today, she notes, are not so different from those voiced a hundred years ago.—Health AffairsAdler has produced a worthwhile work, one that helps us understand how America built its own National Health Service but for only one class of patients.—H-DiploThis is a most welcoming contribution on the history of a U.S. service... The book expands the debate...—Alain Touwaide, Doody's Reviews[A] highly detailed and well-crafted account of the political dimension behind health care.—Bobby A. Wintermute, Business History ReviewAdler's Burdens of War is a must-read for specialists and nonspecialists alike, and is one of the most important books on veteran policy of the twenty-first century—Evan Sullivan, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used in the TextIntroduction1. An Extra-Hazardous Occupation2. A Stupendous Task3. War Is Hell but after Is "Heller"4. The Debt We Owe Them5. Administrative Geometry6. I Never Did Feel Well Again7. State MedicineConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Abortion across Borders
Book SynopsisA timely examination of how restrictive policies force women to travel both within and across national borders to access abortion services. Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, attempt self-induced abortions, or even travel to less restrictive states, provinces, and countries to receive care. Abortion across Borders focuses on travel across domestic and international boundaries to terminate a pregnancy. Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis have gathered a cadre of authors to examine how restrictive policies force women to move both within and across national borders in order to reach abortion providers, often at great expense, over long distances and with significant safety risks. Taking historical and contemporary perspectives, contributors examine the situation Trade Review[Abortion across Borders] is a great example of interdisciplinary scholarship: the authors comprise several historians, a geographer, a sociologist, a psychologist, a lawyer and an architect. There is also a fair amount of politics in the book. This makes for varied approaches to each chapter, most of which focus on one country.—Sam Rowlands, Bournemouth University, British Society of Abortion Care Providers[Abortion across Borders] is a rich volume that offers new and exciting analyses.—Shannon Stettner, Literary Review of CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Christabelle SethnaPart I. Flight Risks1. Sherri Finkbine Flew to Sweden: Abortion and Disability in the Early 1960sLena Lennerhed2. From Heathrow Airport to Harley Street: The ALRA and the Travel of Nonresident Women for Abortion Services in BritainChristabelle Sethna3. The Trans-Tasman Abortion Travel Service: Abortion Services for New Zealand Women in the 1970sHayley BrownPart II. Domestic Transgressions4. All Aboard the "Abortion Express": Geographic Variability, Domestic Travel, and the 1967 British Abortion ActGayle Davis, Jane O'Neill, Clare Parker, and Sally Sheldon5. A Double Movement: The Politics of Reproductive Mobility in IrelandMary Gilmartin and Sinéad Kennedy6. Tales of Mobility: Women's Travel and Abortion Services in a Globalized AustraliaBarbara Baird7. Don't Mess with Texas: Abortion Policy, Texas StyleLori A. Brown8. Trials and Trails: The Emergence of Canada's Abortion Refugees in Prince Edward IslandCathrine Chambers, Colleen MacQuarrie, and Jo-Ann MacDonaldPart III. Democratic Transitions9. Abortion Travel and the Cost of Reproductive Choice in SpainAgata Ignaciuk10. "The Import Problem": The Travels of Our Bodies, Ourselves to Eastern EuropeAnna Bogic11. Abortion and the Catholic Church in PolandEwelina Ciaputa12. Beyond the Borders of Brexit: Traveling for Abortion Access to a Post-EU BritainNiklas BarkeContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives
Book SynopsisClaiming 1.5 million lives in 2015, tuberculosis is the world’s most deadly infectious disease. Because of the population it overwhelmingly affects, however, pharmaceutical companies are uninterested in developing better drugs for the disease. Compound Solutions examines Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), which arose early in the twenty-first century to develop new drugs and vaccines for infectious diseases in low-income countries. Here, for the first time, is a sustained examination of PDPs: the work they do, the partnerships they form, their mission, and their underlying philosophy of addressing global health needs—with implications that extend well beyond tuberculosis.Focusing on two PDPs for tuberculosis—the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) and Aeras (a nonprofit focused on vaccine development)—Susan Craddock argues that PDPs do much more than product development. As innovative sites of humanitarian pharmaceutical production, they are contravening mainstream pharmaceutical production by tying drug and vaccine research to global health needs rather than shareholder demand. In largely untethering the profit incentive from pharmaceutical production, Craddock shows, PDPs exhibit more creative and efficient scientific practices, reshaping regulatory norms and implementing more ethical forms of clinical trials that enhance community engagement and capacity building. An unparalleled, interdisciplinary analysis of PDPs as politically, socially, scientifically, and economically innovative sites of pharmaceutical production, Compound Solutions is a must for readers in the fields of public health, science and technology studies, and medical social science.Trade Review"Compound Solutions is a thoroughly researched, technically dense, and ambitious text. In her meticulous examination of Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), Susan Craddock provides us with a way to understand how pharmaceutical humanitarianism could save the lives of poor people around the globe. This book will be an essential resource for understanding contemporary global health and the dilemmas of private–public partnering in late capitalism."—Lisa Ann Richey, author of Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World"Susan Craddock’s Compound Solutions is a compelling and important book about what she calls ‘humanitarian pharmaceutical production.’ Anyone interested in the challenges of getting TB drugs where they are needed most should read it." —Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviations Leaders of Product Development Partnerships, 2015 Introduction: Changing the Paradigm of Pharmaceutical Development 1. The Possibilities and Parameters of Drug and Vaccine Partnerships2. Scientific Collaboration, Innovation, and Contradiction3. The Contingent Ethics of Tuberculosis Clinical TrialsConclusion: Tuberculosis and the Future of Humanitarian Pharmaceutical ProductionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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PublicAffairs A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented constellation of experts—leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more—explore the legacy and the shortcomings from the fifty-year war on cancer and look ahead to the future.The longest war in the modern era, longer than the Cold War, has been the war on cancer. Cancer is a complex, evasive enemy, and there was no quick victory in the fight against it. But the battle has been a monumental test of medical and scientific research and fundraising acumen, as well as a moral and ethical challenge to the entire system of medicine. In A New Deal for Cancer, some of today’s leading thinkers, activists, and medical visionaries describe the many successes in the long war and the ways in which our deeper failings as a society have held us back from a more complete success.Together they present an unrivaled and nearly complete map of the battlefield across dimensions of science, government, equity, business, the patient provider experience, and more, documenting our emerging understanding of cancer’s many unique dimensions and offering bold new plans to enable the American health care system to deliver progress and hope to all patients.
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PublicAffairs Prescription for the Future: The Twelve
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PublicAffairs The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the
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Paragon House Publishers Too Much Medicine: A Doctor's Prescription for
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American Nurses Publishing Code of Ethics for Nurses: With Interpretive
Book SynopsisThe definitive framework for ethical analysis and decision-making for RNs across all practice levels, roles and settings. Revisions were made in this new edition in response to the complexities of modern nursing, to simplify and more clearly articulate the content, to anticipate advances in health care, and to incorporate aids that would make it richer, more accessible, and easier to use.Consisting of nine provisions and the accompanying interpretive statements, it: Provides a succinct statement of the ethical values, obligations, and duties of every individual who enters the nursing profession. Serves as the profession’s nonnegotiable ethical standard. Expresses nursing’s own understanding of its commitment to society. The code is particularly useful to in today’s health care environment because it reiterates the fundamental values and commitments of the nurse (Provisions 1–3), identifies the boundaries of duty and loyalty (Provisions 4–6), and describes the duties of the nurse that extend beyond individual patient encounters (Provisions 7–9). This revision retains interpretive statements for each provision that provide more specific guidance for practice. The statements are responsive to the contemporary context of nursing and recognize the larger scope of nursing’s concern in relation to health. It also includes another innovation: links to foundational and supplemental documents, which will be available later in 2015.ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses is the promise that nurses are doing their best to provide care for their patients and their communities and are supporting each other in the process so that all nurses can fulfill their ethical and professional obligations. It is important tool that can be used now as leverage to a better future for nurses, patients and health care. This Code is a reflection of the proud ethical heritage of nursing, a guide for all nurses now and into the future.Table of Contents Preface Introduction Provision 1 1.1 Respect For Human Dignity 1.2 Relationships with Patients 1.3 The Nature of Health 1.4 The Right to Self-Determination 1.5 Relationships with Colleagues and Others Provision 2 2.1 Primacy of the Patient's Interests 2.2 Conflict of Interest for Nurses 2.3 Collaboration 2.4 Professional Boundaries Provision 3 3.1 Protection of the Rights of Privacy and Confidentiality 3.2 Protection of Human Participants in Research 3.3 Performance Standards and Review Mechanisms 3.4 Professional Responsibility in Promoting a Culture of Safety 3.5 Protection of Patient Health and Safety by Acting on Questionable Practice 3.6 Patient Protection and Impaired Practice Provision 4 4.1 Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility 4.2 Accountability for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.3 Responsibility for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.4 Assignment and Delegation of Nursing Activities or Tasks Provision 5 5.1 Duties to Self and Others 5.2 Promotion of Personal Health, Safety, and Well-Being 5.3 Preservation of Wholeness of Character 5.4 Preservation of Integrity 5.5 Maintenance of Competence and Continuation of Professional Growth 5.6 Continuation of Personal Growth Provision 6 6.1 The Environment and Moral Virtue 6.2 The Environment and Ethical Obligation 6.3 Responsibility for the Healthcare Environment Provision 7 7.1 Contributions through Research and Scholarly Inquiry 7.2 Contributions through Developing, Maintaining, and Implementing Professional Practice Standards 7.3 Contributions through Nursing and Health Policy Development Provision 8 8.1 Health Is a Universal Right 8.2 Collaboration for Health, Human Rights, and Health Diplomacy 8.3 Obligation to Advance Health and Human Rights and Reduce Disparities 8.4 Collaboration for Human Rights in Complex, Extreme, or Extraordinary Practice Settings Provision 9 9.1 Articulation and Assertion of Values 9.2 Integrity of the Profession 9.3 Integrating Social Justice 9.4 Social Justice in Nursing and Health Policy Afterword Glossary Timeline: The Evolution of Nursing’s Code of Ethics
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Temple University Press,U.S. Complex Sorrow: Reflections on Cancer and an
Book SynopsisThe last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her workTrade Review"The author's multiple voices—scholar, sociologist, victim—provide an academic, yet personal, professional, yet poignant, story....Readers face...the 'contradictory meanings' that an especially articulate woman brings to the final chapter of her life."—Women and Health"Paget's book is stunning. It's a tribute to the invulnerable human spirit. The woman burned like a flame; obviously she died well, because she lived well; she was loved because she was loving. The book is tremendously sad, but it isn't depressing; somehow, one is left with a sense of human possibility."—Joan Cassell, author of Expected Miracles: Surgeons at WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor's Introduction 1. Life Mirrors Work Mirrors Text Mirrors Life... 2. Performing the Text 3. The Work of Talk 4. Letters to My Friends 5. Journal Notes Epilogue --Marjorie L. DeVault Notes References
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Temple University Press,U.S. Bioethics In Social Context
Book SynopsisThe problems of bioethics are embedded in people's lives and social worlds. They are shaped by individual biographies and relationships, by the ethos and institutions of health care, by economic and political pressures, by media depictions, and by the assumptions, beliefs, and values that permeate cultures and times. Yet these forces are largely ignored by a professional bioethics that concentrates on the theoretical justification of decisions. The original essays in this volume use qualitative research methods to expose the multiple contexts within which the problems of bioethics arise, are defined and debated, and ultimately resolved. In a provocative concluding essay, one contributor asks his fellow ethnographers to reflect on the ethical problems of ethnography.Trade Review"Bioethics in Social Context energizes both bioethics and ethnography. The authors expand the scope of what issues bioethics should consider, and they demonstrate how culture, mass media, emotions, families, and institutions are relevant in consideration of those issues. In doing all this, they open new possibilities for the empirical investigation of moral life." -Arthur W. Frank, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, and author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness "...this book provides a valuable contribution to the expanding field of empirically based ethics, or 'ethics in use', revealing the moral decisions people make in the real world, and how and why they make those decisions." -Journal of Medical EthicsTable of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction: BARRY HOFFMASTER Chapters SHARON R. KAUFMAN, Clinical Narratives and Ethical Dilemmas in Geriatrics MARGARET LOCK, Situated Ethics, Culture, and the Brain Death "Problem" in Japan SYDNEY A. HALPERN, Constructing Moral Boundaries: Public Discourse on Human Experimentation in Twentieth-Century America PETER CONRAD, Media Images, Genetics, and Culture: Potential Impacts of Reporting Scientific Findings on Bioethics RENEE R. ANSPACH AND DIANE BEESON, Emotions in Medical and Moral Life PATRICIA A. MARSHALL, A Contextual Approach to Clinical Ethics Consultation DIANE BEESONAND TERESA DOKSUM, Family Values and Resistance to Genetic Testing CATE McBURNEY, Ethics Committees and Social Change: Plus ca change...? CHARLES L. BOSK, Irony, Ethnography, and Informed Consent Afterword: BARRY HOFFMASTER
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Temple University Press,U.S. A Pleasing Birth: Midwives And Maternity Care
Book SynopsisWomen have long searched for a pleasing birth, a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. In exploring the historical, social, and cultural customs responsible for the Dutch way of birth, Raymond De Vries opens a new page in the analysis of health care and explains why maternal care reform has proven so difficult in the U.S.He carefully documents the way culture shapes the organization of health care, showing how the unique maternity care system of the Netherlands is the result of Dutch ideas about home, the family, women, the body and pain, thriftiness, heroes, and solidarity. "A Pleasing Birth" breaks new ground and closes gaps in our knowledge of the social and cultural foundations of health care. Offering a view into the Dutch notion of maternity care, De Vries also offers a chance of imagining how Dutch practices can reform health care in the U.S. not just for mothers and babies, but for all Americans. Raymond De Vries is Professor of Sociology at St. Olaf College and Visiting Professor at the Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota. He is the author or editor of seven previous books, including, "Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care, and Midwifery in North America and Europe".Trade Review"A Pleasing Birth is a sociological analysis of maternity care and midwifery as provided in the Netherlands; the analysis ranges from the micro- to the macro-level. DeVries provides the reader with variety of sociological evidence, such as historical data, comparative statistical date, and interviews with midwives and obstetricians. DeVries starts with an interesting story in the Preface. The book is very readable, has a good Glossary, and is well indexed." Sociology of Health and Illness "The insights that [DeVries] brings are fascinating. [I]t provides a greater understanding for those who wish to influence and change health policy." Sociology of Health and Illness "[DeVries'] book is a close examination of the attitudes, statistics, traditions of resisting professional interference, politics, and legislation of healthcare and much more, and it gives the reader a full understanding of The Netherlands' remarkable achievements in the realm of healthy pregnancy and birth." Midwifery Today "This is a rewarding book to read." Sociological Research Online "Readers from across the spectrum of participants in childbirth are urged to read this critical and important contribution to the literature, bearing witness to women's physiological capacity to give birth without assistance, to experience 'a pleasing birth.'" Birth "A Pleasing Birth reminds me of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. De Vries works on a small canvas--maternity care in the Netherlands--yet his study is filled with detail, depth, and illumination. The author examines the structural and cultural reasons for the unique qualities of the Dutch way of birth, but he offers much more in this meticulously researched and documented book." Contemporary Sociology
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Temple University Press,U.S. A Pleasing Birth: Midwives And Maternity Care
Book SynopsisWomen have long searched for a pleasing birth-a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. In exploring the historical, social, and cultural customs responsible for the Dutch way of birth, Raymond De Vries opens a new page in the analysis of health care and explains why maternal care reform has proven so difficult in the U.S. He carefully documents the way culture shapes the organization of health care, showing how the unique maternity care system of the Netherlands is the result of Dutch ideas about home, the family, women, the body and pain, thriftiness, heroes, and solidarity. A Pleasing Birth breaks new ground and closes gaps in our knowledge of the social and cultural foundations of health care. Offering a view into the Dutch notion of maternity care, De Vries also offers a chance of imagining how Dutch practices can reform health care in the U.S. not just for mothers and babies, but for all Americans.Trade Review"In this detailed and thoughtful study, De Vries does much more than introduce us to the peculiar maternity care system of the Netherlands; he forces us to reexamine our assumptions about the way health care systems are organized, and offers new, and revolutionary, ways to think about health care reform. This is sociological analysis at its best."-Charles L. Bosk, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania "A Pleasing Birth provides the most comprehensive look yet into the history, the philosophy, the social attitudes, the structures, and the institutions that underlie the Dutch maternity care system. Raymond De Vries explains why and how health policymakers in the Netherlands continue to put such importance on midwifery, home birth, and everything needed to support them."-Ina May Gaskin, author of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and Spiritual Midwifery "De Vries provides the definitive work on the Dutch obstetrical system, showing how this system not only reflects strong cultural values, but also has become entirely evidence-based, pointing the way toward better birth for all nations. A Pleasing Birth is essential reading for social scientists, birth professionals, birth activists, and educated consumers-a masterpiece of insight!"-Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ph.D., author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage "De Vries goes beyond why birth is pleasing in the Netherlands to larger questions about the role of maternity care in the health care system, how the political system influences health care, who pays for and who profits from the provision of health care, and the effects of culture."-Judith Rooks, author of Midwifery and Childbirth in America "[R]eaders from across the spectrum of participants in childbirth are urged to read this critical and important contribution to the literature, bearing witness to women's physiological capacity to give birth without assistance, to experience 'a pleasing birth.'"-Birth "This is a rewarding book to read."-Sociological Research Online "[DeVries'] book is a close examination of the attitudes, statistics, traditions of resisting professional interference, politics, and legislation of healthcare and much more, and it gives the reader a full understanding of The Netherlands' remarkable achievements in the realm of healthy pregnancy and birth."-Midwifery Today "The insights that [DeVries] brings are fascinating... [I]t provides a greater understanding for those who wish to influence and change health policy."-Sociology of Health and IllnessTable of ContentsPrefacePart I. Birth Care/Health Care1. Dutch Birth and the Shape of Health Care2. Uniek, bewonderd en verguisd (Unique, admired and reviled)Part II. Forms3. Structuring Care4. The Politics of CarePart III. Forming5. Doe maar gewoon (Just act normally): Dutch Culture/Dutch Birth6. Two Sciences or No Science? Obstetric Research in the NetherlandsPart IV. Re-Forming7. Is All This Suffering Still Necessary? Pressure to Change the Dutch Way of Birth8. Re-forming Health Care: Culture and Health PolicyGlossaryReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And
Book SynopsisMore than six million Americans - most of them women - 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 "real" 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 women'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 medicine's power over our lives.Trade Review"This clearly written book.[is] exhaustively researched." The American Journal of Sociology "important...[it] offers much for scholars of many disciplines who seek to understand the experience of pain, and to cast mind-body duality in a modern light...[a] well-written exposition on the preconceptions of highly disparate academic traditions." The New England Journal of Medicine "There is much to admire about this book manuscript - I commend the author for tackling a difficult subject and treating it so deftly and insightfully." Elizabeth Armstrong "The sociologist, Kristin K. Barker, scrutinizes the medical making of a disease...This is a really good book about why biomedicine is not good enough when judged according to its most noble mandate: to alleviate human suffering." - The Permanente Journal, Fall 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1. The Diagnostic Making of FMS; Chapter 2. The Woman Problem and the Feminization of FMS; Chapter 3. Similar-But-Different: The FMS Illness Experience; Chapter 4. The Symptomatic Self and the Life World; Chapter 5. In Search of Meaning; Chapter 6. Diagnostic Transformations; Chapter 7. Self-Help and the Making of an FMS Illness Identity; Chapter 8. Ties That Bind and the Problem That Had No Name; Conclusion ; Appendix A. The FMS Biomedical Literature; Appendix B. The Interviews
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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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Large Print Press Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Mistreated
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Apollo Publishers One by One: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the
Book SynopsisAs seen on The Today Show A page-turning memoir from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community—and an up-close look at America's new health crisis. Behind closed doors, millions of people abuse opioids. Nicholas Bush was one of them. In this beautifully raw and refreshingly honest memoir, Bush boldly allows readers into his addiction-ravaged community. We see how heroin nearly claimed his life on multiple occasions, how it stole the lives of his young siblings and friends, and how it continues to wage a deadly toll on American neighborhoods—claiming thousands of lives and decreasing the average lifespan. But we also see that there is a way off of the devastating rollercoaster of opioid addiction, even for the most afflicted. Nicholas fights for recovery, claws his way out of a criminal livelihood, and finds his footing with faith and family, providing Americans with the inspirational story that is deeply needed today.Trade Review“Bush’s memoir opens with a bang…Readers looking for the pervasiveness of despair and addiction, look no further; Bush’s family is certainly representative. That’s the central message of [One by One], which tracks matter-of-factly—without the war-story glorification of too many recovery books—what it means to be boxed in by drugs.” —Kirkus Reviews"Nicholas Bush, thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for writing this book."—Craig Melvin, host of The Today Show "A great read."—Cynthia Newsome, midday anchor for 41 Action News
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Worldchangers Media Why Women Aren't Winning at Health (But Can)
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Worldchangers Media Why Women Aren't Winning at Health (But Can)
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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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