Public health and preventive medicine Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Living with Lymphoma
Book SynopsisThe book includes suggestions for further reading, including the latest material available online.Trade ReviewHighly recommended for any patient or family member seeking a clear health book with the latest facts. Midwest Book Review Reading [ Living with Lymphoma] is an enlightening experience and all nurses caring for lymphoma patients should ensure it is on their reading list. Nursing Standard I strongly recommend this book for relatives and friends with a diagnosis of cancer. Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword, by W. Jeffrey Baker, MDPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction, by Michael R. Bishop, MDPart I1. What Is Lymphoma?2. Symptoms and DiagnosisPart II3. Chemotherapy4. Radiation Therapy and Surgery5. Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Magic Bullet Therapies6. Stem Cell Transplants7. Unconventional Therapies8. SurvivorshipPart III9. Basic Cell Biology and Cancer10. The Immune System11. Lymphoma Classification and Staging12. Possible Causes of LymphomaAfterwordAcknowledgmentsGlossaryIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Just and Lasting Change
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a fine resource for individuals teaching or practicing in the fields of international health, public health, health policy, or medical education, as well as individuals in social work and education. The authors' informative treatise introduces practitioners, educators, and policy makers to the fundamentals of promoting community-centered and cost-effective social change. Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword Glossary: The SEED-SCALE ProcessIntroduction Part I: The Claim: A Just and Lasting Future Is PossibleChapter 1. Getting Started Chapter 2. Our Maturing Understanding of Community Change Chapter 3. Making a Large and Lasting Impact Chapter 4. Synopsis of SEED-SCALEChapter 5. Assuring Accountability through Better Paperwork Chapter 6. A Crisis Can Become an Opportunity Part II: Historical DemonstrationsChapter 7. The World's First Example of Intentional, Community-Based Development: Ding Xian, China Chapter 8. Abraham Lincoln: Setting America's Modernization in Motion Chapter 9. An Evolving Balance between People and Nature: The Adirondacks, New York Chapter 10. Development without Wealth: Kerala, India Part III: Evidence from the Community LevelChapter 11. A Better Pattern for Cities: Curitiba, Brazil Chapter 12. The Role of Conceptual and Cultural Breakthroughs: Narangwal, India Chapter 13. Out of the Shadows: Women in AfghanistanChapter 14. Evolution of a World Training Center: Jamkhed, India Chapter 15. Addiction as a Barrier to Development: Gadchiroli, India Chapter 16. The Green Bay Packers: Community-Owned Energy Part IV: Large-Scale ApplicationsChapter 17. Scaling Up Tobacco Control: Creating Authority by International Convention Chapter 18. Urban Agriculture: A Powerful Engine for Sustainable Cities Chapter 19. Communities and Government Learning to Work Together: CLAS in Peru Chapter 20. Integrating Conservation with Development: Tibet, China Chapter 21. Going to Scale with Health Care: China's Model Counties Chapter 22. A University's Actions in Apartheid South Africa Chapter 23. A Promising Start Derailed: Kakamega, KenyaConclusion: Patterns to Own Our Futures AcknowledgmentsAppendix A. A Handbook on SEED: Initiating Growth Appendix B. A Handbook on SCALE: Growth in Improvement and Participation Notes Authors and Contributors Index
£35.48
Johns Hopkins University Press One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial
Book SynopsisBy integrating the perspectives of both medicine and agriculture and exploring the history and science behind the widespread use of growth-promoting antibiotics, One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance examines the controversy in a unique way while offering policy recommendations that all sides can accept.Trade ReviewSome of her impartial findings will surprise readers and completely recolor the current conversation on antimicrobial resistance. Give a copy of this book to your legislators today. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association The author demonstrates her command of both the politics and the science of establishing medication guidelines throughout the book and approaches the subject with professional objectivity. Emerging Infectious Diseases Some of her impartial findings will surprise readers and completely recolor the current conversation on antimicrobial resistance. Give a copy of this book to your legislators today. JAVMAD As a veterinarian who follows all policies on antimicrobial resistance closely, I greatly enjoyed reading this book as it provided a holistic, multidisciplinary and well-analysed perspective on the different policies followed and their consequences. For those involved in policies and research around antimicrobial resistance this book will be a must-read. Furthermore, I recommend it to all libraries of medicine, veterinary science and public health schools and research centres all over the world. Veterinary RecordTable of Contents1. The Politics2. A Brief History of Meat Production and Antibiotics3. The British Experience4. Lessons from Sweden5. Lessons from Denmark6. The European Experience7. The Controversy in the United States8. International Challenges9. Environmental and Pharmaceutical Discoveries and Challenges10. ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CNotesIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Peripheral Neuropathy
Book SynopsisWiesman provides hope, help, and comfort to patients, families, and caregivers.Trade ReviewAn excellent book that I would recommend to my patients. Dr. Wiesman does a good job explaining difficult medical concepts in laymen's terms. Ahmet Hoke, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Very well written in simple language, this book covers many aspects of neuropathy that would be of use to any sufferer... This book would be a useful read to any person who has the need of personal insight to this condition, either as a sufferer or family member. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. What Is a Nerve? Chapter 2. What Is Neuropathy? Chapter 3. Symptoms of Neuropathy Chapter 4. Causes of Neuropathy Chapter 5. How Is Neuropathy Diagnosed? Chapter 6. Tests Chapter 7. Treatment of Neuropathy Chapter 8. Clinical Trials Chapter 9. Things that Feel Like Neuropathy but Are Something Else Chapter 10. Living with Neuropathy Glossary Acknowledgments References Resources Index
£30.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Nudging Health
Book SynopsisZamzow, Richard J. ZeckhauserTrade ReviewThis volume is a "must have" for collections in behavioral economics, economic policy, and healthcare economics and policy. The editors have put together a collection of papers by some of the best writers in the field and have structured the book in seven parts that address everything from the ethics of nudges in healthcare to issues in costs and policy design. This reviewer highly recommends the book for the included papers, for the exceptional organization, and for the foreword written by Cass R. Sunstein. Essential. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChristopher T. Robertson, I. Glenn Cohen, and Holly Fernandez Lynch1. Behaviorally Informed Health Policy? Patient Autonomy, Active Choosing, and PaternalismCass R. Sunstein2. Three Choice Architecture Paradigms for Healthcare Policy Russell Korobkin3. Can Behavioral Economics Save Healthcare Reform? Alan M. Garber4. Seven Ways of Applying Behavioral Science to Health Policy Michael HallsworthPart I. The Ethics of Nudges in HealthcareIntroductionI. Glenn Cohen5. What Can PPACA Teach Us About Behavioral Law & Economics?David A. Hymen and Thomas S. Ulen6. Bad Medicine: Does the Unique Nature of Healthcare Decisions Justify Nudges? Mark D. White7. Nudging and Benign Manipulation for HealthNir Eyal8. The Political Morality of Nudges in HealthcareJonathan GingerichPart II. Nudging and Public Health PolicyIntroductionHolly Fernandez Lynch9. An Ethical Framework for Public Health Nudges: A Case Study of Incentives as Nudges for Vaccination in Rural IndiaJennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Zainab Shipchandler, and Julika Kaplan10. Behavioral Economics and Food Policy: The Limits of Nudging Andrea Freeman Part III: Behavioral Economics and Healthcare CostsIntroduction Matthew J.B. Lawrence11. Cost-Sharing as Choice ArchitectureChristopher T. Robertson12. Using Behavioral Economics to Promote Physicians' Prescribing of Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics: What Are the Issues? Ameet Sarpatwari, Niteesh K. Choudhry, Jerry Avorn, and Aaron S. Kesselheim 13. Towards Behaviorally Informed Policies for Consumer Credit Decisions in Self-Pay Medical Markets Jim Hawkins Part IV. Crowding-OutIntroductionNeel Shah14. Extrinsic Incentives, Intrinsic Motivation, and Motivational Crowding-Out in Health Law and PolicyKristin Underhill15. Do Financial Incentives Reduce Intrinsic Motivation for Weight Loss?: Evidence from Two Tests of Crowding-Out Aditi P. Sen, David Huffman, George Loewenstein, David A. Asch, Jeffrey T. Kullgren, and Kevin G. Volpp Part V. Behavioral Economics and the Doctor-Patient RelationshipIntroduction Aaron S. Kesselheim16. Affective Forecasting in Medical Decision-Making: What Do Physicians Owe Their Patients?Jennifer L. Zamzow17. Behavioral Economics in the Physician-Patient Relationship: A Possible Role for Mobile Devices and Small Data Alexander M. Capron and Donna Spruijt-Metz18. The Perilous Promise of Privacy: Ironic Influences on Disclosure of Health Information Ester Moher and Khaled El Emam Part VI. Deciding for Patients and Letting Patients Decide for ThemselvesIntroductionChristopher T. Robertson19. Procedural Justice by Default: Addressing Medicare's Backlog CrisisMatthew J.B. Lawrence20. Measuring the Welfare Effects of a Nudge: A Different Approach to Evaluating the Individual Mandate Manisha Padi and Abigail R. Moncrieff21. Better Off Dead-Paternalism and Persistent Unconsciousness Sarah Conly22. Improving Healthcare Decisions Through a Shared Preferences and Values Approach to Surrogate Selection Nina A. Kohn23. Consumer Protection in Genome Sequencing Barbara J. EvansPart VII. Defaults in HealthcareIntroductionGregory Curfman24. Forced to Choose Again: The Effects of Defaults on Individuals in Terminated Health Plans Anna D. Sinaiko and Richard J. Zeckhauser25. Presumed Consent to Organ Donation David OrentlicherList of ContributorsIndex
£68.85
Johns Hopkins University Press 150 Years of ObamaCare
Book SynopsisGo behind the curtain of the creation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative written from an insider's perspective, 150 Years of ObamaCare debunks contemporary understandings of health reform. It also provides a comprehensive and unprecedented review of the health equity movement and the little-known leadership efforts that were crucial to passing public policies and laws reforming mental health, minority health, and universal health. An instrumental player in a large coalition of organizations that helped shape ObamaCare, Dawes tells the story of the Affordable Care Act with urgency and intimate detail. He reveals what went on behind the scenes by including copies of letters anTrade ReviewAn informative and enticing book . . . Dawes combines his on-the-ground perspective with that of a longtime scholar and advocate for the reduction and elimination of health disparities.—Health AffairsThis text is invaluable for its data alone. Dawes provides an informed perspective on U.S. health care, its evolution, and how the ACA ultimately became law; but ObamaCare is also a good information source, a neutral chronicle. I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the act and U.S. health care policy.—Florida BarAn important book that will come to serve as a key reference work for anyone wishing to understand the process by which the Affordable Care Act came into existence, not to mention the actual contents of the law itself. [Dawes] brings valuable . . . knowledge of the policy process to a wider audience, and the book will be of interest to scholars and policy analysts across a range of fields.—Social History of MedicineThis is an important book that will come to serve as a key reference work for anyone wishing to understand the process by which the Affordable Care Act came into existence, not to mention the actual contents of the law itself.—Social History of Medicine150 Years of ObamaCare not only details the history of the incrementalist approach to health reform in this country but also offers a keen perspective on what might lie ahead.... The lessons of 150 Years of Obamacare will help us all better understand future attacks on the ACA and continuing attempts to achieve health equity. In addition to the vast amount of history one can learn by reading 150 Years of ObamaCare, the book provides a bird's-eye view of both the ACA's passage and the political turmoil that has followed. Readers will appreciate Dawes's insightful descriptions of what it was like behind the scenes during the tortuous process of passing the law.... To help cut through that complexity, all readers, law-trained or not, will find useful Dawes's piece-by-piece explanation of the law's major provisions accompanied by concrete examples designed to illustrate their application.—Journal of Legal MedicineTable of ContentsForeward, by David SatcherPreface1. Making the Case for Health Reform2. Past Meets Present3. Pulling Back the Curtain4. The Fight Is On5. Brushes with Death6. Breaking Down the Law7. Moving Health Equity ForwardAcknowledgmentsAppendixIndex
£26.97
Johns Hopkins University Press A Modern Contagion
Book SynopsisHow deadly cholera pandemics transformed modern Iran. Pandemic cholera reached Iran for the first of many times in 1821, assisted by Britain's territorial expansion and growing commercial pursuits. The revival of Iran's trade arteries after six decades of intermittent civil war, fractured rule, and isolation allowed the epidemic to spread inland and assume national proportions. In A Modern Contagion, Amir A. Afkhami argues that the disease had a profound influence on the development of modern Iran, steering the country's social, economic, and political currents. Drawing on archival documents from Iranian, European, and American sources, Afkhami provides a comprehensive overview of pandemic cholera in Iran from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Linking the intensity of Iran's cholera outbreaks to the country's particular sociobiological vulnerabilities, he demonstrates that local, national, and international forces in Iran helped structure the region's susceptibilTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronology of Major EventsA Note on Transliteration and StyleIntroduction 1Chapter 1. Cholera and the Globalization of Health in Iran, 1821-1889Chapter 2. The 1889-1893 Cholera EpidemicsChapter 3. Epidemics and Sanitary Imperialism, 1896-1904 Chapter 4. Cholera, Germs, and the 1906 Constitutional Revolution Chapter 5. Wars, Plagues, and Institutional Developments in Health, 1906-1926 Epilogue AppendixesA. Nasir al-Din Shah's 1879 Decree on the Hygiene of Tehran B. Muzaffar al-Din Shah's 1897 Decree Regulating Sanitary Stations and Quarantines on Iran's Eastern Frontiers C. Medical Practice Act of 1911 D. 1914 Sanitation Ordinances for Tehran NotesSelect BibliographyIndex
£47.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Delivering Effective College Mental Health
Book SynopsisAn essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on campus.Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers find it deeply challenging to address growing college mental health service needs. Yet little conceptual training is provided to student affairs, higher education, health, and mental health professionals who deliver campus mental health services.In Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services, psychologist Lee Keyes aims to change that. He offers sound, field-tested advice for creating a congruent, cross-division, and service-oriented college counseling enterprise that best fits its campus culture and students. This useful handbook for administering counseling services poses questions and offers practical advice to help college counsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Mental Health Paradigms and Service Models at CollegesChapter 2. Developing an Accurate Picture of College StudentsChapter 3. Developmental and Societal Factors Fueling the Clinical PictureChapter 4. Orientation Mismatch and Young Adults' NeedsChapter 5. Outreach and Consultative Work at College Counseling CentersChapter 6. Paradigm Conflict in Delivering College Mental HealthConclusion: A Road Map for SuccessReferencesIndex
£33.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Governing Health
Book SynopsisHow do government and private interests shape the health policy process?In this classic text, William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert describe how government and private interests help define health policy. Under the Obama administration, the federal government took a broadened role in setting health policy and insurance regulations. But the succeeding Trump administration and a Republican congress threatened to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its core tenets. Chronicling these recent important changes, Governing Health explores the political science theory behind this and other major shifts in national health policy. In this thoroughly updated edition, the authors describe how party polarization, a virulent anti-government movement, populist presidential politics, and the demise of regular order in Congress shape and define a new approach to health policy. This revised edition also offers a comprehensive synthesis of Obamacare, touching on everything from Accountable CTrade ReviewThis book could prove useful for those interested in the process and contributing factors of health policy formation such as scholars and professionals in the fields of governance, medicine, and public health.—Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Policy Process Chapter 2. CongressChapter 3. The PresidencyChapter 4. Interest GroupsChapter 5. The BureaucracyChapter 6. States and Health Care ReformConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£64.80
Johns Hopkins University Press Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement
Book SynopsisHelping human research protection program professionals create, implement, and evaluate quality assurance/quality improvement programs. Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Handbook for Human Research is the first comprehensively designed instructional manual aimed at teaching human research protection program (HRPP) professionals how to create, implement, evaluate, and improve QA/QI programs. Geared toward institutions and individuals responsible for establishing new QA/QI programs or functions, the book offers several organizational models for consideration. It also provides practical information for improving and strengthening established programs, both big and small. Written in a conversational style, the book's step-by-step instructions make it easily accessible to those who may not be well versed in QA/QI concepts and fundamentals. Developed by the QA/QI Subcommittee of the Harvard Catalyst Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program, which is committed to designing Table of ContentsContributors Foreword Preface AcknowledgmentsNote to Readers Chapter 1. Introduction to Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement ProgramsHila Bernstein, Jennifer A. Graf, and Jennifer HutchinsonChapter 2. Types of QA/QI Programs: A Review of Three ModelsJennifer A. Graf and Jennifer HutchinsonChapter 3. Policies and ProceduresBarbara E. Bierer and Eunice NewbertChapter 4. Investigator Site ReviewSusan Corl, Alyssa Gateman, Nareg D. Grigorian, and Sarah A. WhiteChapter 5. Evaluating IRB ComplianceJennifer A. Graf, Leslie M. Howes, Cynthia Monahan, Eunice Newbert, and Sarah A. WhiteChapter 6. Metrics and Communicating Observations of NoncomplianceLeslie M. Howes and Sarah A. WhiteChapter 7. Educational ProgrammingElizabeth Bowie and Leslie M. HowesAppendix A. Abbreviations and Acronyms Appendix B. Resources
£64.60
Johns Hopkins University Press Narrative Matters
Book SynopsisDrawn from the popular Narrative Matters column in the journal Health Affairs, these essays embody a vision for a health care system that centers the humanity of patients and doctors alike. Health care decision making affects patients and families first and foremost, yet their perspectives are not always factored into health policy deliberations and discussions. In this anthology, Jessica Bylander brings together the personal stories of the patients, physicians, caregivers, policy makers, and others whose writings add much-needed human context to health care decision making. Drawn from the popular Narrative Matters column in the leading health policy journal Health Affairs, this collection features essays by some of the leading minds in health care today, including Pulitzer Prizewinner Siddhartha Mukherjee, MacArthur fellow Diane Meier, former Planned Parenthood president Leana S. Wen, and former secretary of health and human services Louis W. Sullivan. The collection also presentsTable of ContentsForeword, by Abraham Verghese, MD List of Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. The Practice of Medicine The Importance of BeingAbraham VergheseRethinking the Traditional Doctor's Visit Maureen A. MavrinacIn the Safety Net: A Tale of Ticking Clocks and Tricky Diagnoses Maria MaldonadoThe Personal Toll of Practicing Medicine Elaine SchattnerChapter 2. Medical Innovation and Research Cancer, Our Genes, and the Anxiety of Risk-Based Medicine Siddhartha MukherjeeBeating a Cancer Death Sentence Jonathan FriedlaenderA Black Alzheimer's Patient Wants to Be Part of the Cure Katti GrayChapter 3. Patient-Centered Care "Nothing Is Broken": For an Injured Doctor, Quality-Focused Care Misses the Mark Charlotte YehThe Battle of the Bundle: Lessons from My Mother's Partial Hip Replacement Timothy HoffEven in an Emergency, Doctors Must Make Informed Consent an Informed Choice Cindy BrachChapter 4. The Doctor-Patient Relationship How to Win the Doctor Lottery Donna Jackson NakazawaAt the VA, Healing the Doctor-Patient Relationship Raya Elfadel KheirbekWhen Patients Mentor Doctors: The Story of One Vital Bond Aroonsiri SangarlangkarnChapter 5. Disparities and Discrimination "Go Back to California": When Providers Fail Transgender Patients Laura ArrowsmithA Simple Case of Chest Pain: Sensitizing Doctors to Patients with Disabilities Leana S. WenGrasping at the Moon: Enhancing Access to Careers in the Health Professions Louis W. Sullivan Bridging the Divide between Dental and Medical Care Gayathri SubramanianIn Rural Towns, Immigrant Doctors Fill a Critical Need Yasmin Sokkar HarkerAn Uninsured Immigrant Delays Needed Care Cheryl BettigoleChapter 6. Aging and End-of-Life Care "I Don't Want Jenny to Think I'm Abandoning Her": Views on Overtreatment Diane E. MeierThe Fall: Aligning the Best Care with Standards of Care at the End of Life Patricia GabowGetting It Right at the End of Life Dina Keller MossThe Evolving Moral Landscape of Palliative Care Myrick C. ShinallNecessary Steps: How Health Care Fails Older Patients, and How It Can Be Done Better Louise AronsonA Family Disease: Witnessing Firsthand the Toll that Dementia Takes on Caregivers Gary Epstein-LubowChapter 7. Maternity and Childbirth Watching the Clock: A Mother's Hope for a Natural Birth in a Cesarean Culture Carla KeirnsIn the "Gray Zone," a Doctor Faces Tough Decisions on Infant Resuscitation Gautham K. SureshReversing the Rise in Maternal Mortality Katy B. KozhimannilChapter 8. Opioids and Substance Abuse Down the Rabbit Hole: A Chronic Pain Sufferer Navigates the Maze of Opioid Use Janice Lynch SchusterIn Opioid Withdrawal, with No Help in Sight Travis N. RiederThe Fine Line between Doctoring and Dealing Pooja LagisettyIntoxicated, Homeless, and in Need of a Place to LandOtis WarrenIndex
£64.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Doctor Who Fooled the World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRiveting . . . Readers who love a good debunking will find Deer's narrative logical, exciting, and enraging.—Publishers WeeklySeldom has any new book been more timely than The Doctor Who Fooled the World At times the book reads more like a thriller than a journalistic investigation—The Sunday TimesAt a time when the World Health Organization lists 'vaccine hesitancy' as one of the top ten threats to global health, this stunning work sounds an urgent message and demonstrates the essential role of investigative journalism in uncovering the truth.—Foreword ReviewsExposing researchers who lie, cheat and fake their data often requires the work of courageous whistleblowers or tenacious investigative journalists. Enter Brian Deer, an award-winning reporter for the Sunday Times of London—The Wall Street JournalAlthough many people think they know this now-infamous story, it is likely they are unaware of all its dramatic details. Curious lay readers and vaccine experts alike are sure to learn something worthwhile from Deer's well-chronicled account.—Paul A. Offit, ScienceMind-boggling . . . Every chapter drops your jaw.—BigThinkRiveting . . . a compelling portrait of hubris and the terrible dark shadow it can cast.—Saad B. Omer, NatureEvocative . . . an incredible story.—Chemistry WorldThe author not only exposes major flaws in the study itself, he also describes high-pressure tactics used to recruit the young patients and the harmful, invasive procedures used to gather samples.—Eric Hoffer Award CommitteeTable of ContentsPrologue: ResurrectionPart 1. Big Ideas1. The Guinness Moment2. It Must Be Measles3. Quests Collide4. The Pilot Study5. Child Four6. A Moral IssuePart 2. Secret Schemes7. Everybody Knows8. First Contact9. The Deal10. Trouble in the Labs11. Spartanburg Science12. Asked and Answered13. Turn of the Century14. On Capitol Hill15. Letting Go 16. The Bridge17. UnblindedPart 3. Exposed18. Assignment19. Cracking the Coombe20. The Spoiler21. Texas22. Nothing As It Seems23. Sesame Street24. Enterocolitis25. We Can Reveal26. Cry Smear27. An Elaborate FraudPart 4. Avenged28. Rock Bottom29. Payback Time30. Vaxxed31. Wakefield's World32. Cause and AffectEpilogue: A Wonderful DoctorTimelineNote to ReadersAcknowledgmentsIndex
£23.80
Johns Hopkins University Press Pathways to a Successful Accountable Care
Book SynopsisA valuable guide to starting and running a successful accountable care organization.Health care in America is undergoing great change. Soon, accountable care organizationshealth care organizations that tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the cost of carewill be ubiquitous. But how do you set up an ACO? How does an ACO function? And what are the keys to creating a profitable ACO?Pathways to a Successful Accountable Care Organization will help guide you through the complicated process of establishing and running an ACO. Peter A. Gross, MD, who has firsthand experience as the chairman of a successful ACO, breaks down how he did it and describes the pitfalls he discovered along the way. In-depth essays by a group of expert authors touch on the essential ingredients of a successful ACO monitoring and submitting Group Practice Reporting Option quality measures mastering your patients'' responses to the Consumer ATable of ContentsContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Essential Ingredients of a Successful Accountable Care OrganizationPeter A. GrossChapter 2. Patient-Centered Medical Homes: A Key Building Block for Accountable Care OrganizationsJoshua BennettChapter 3. Care Coordination: Initial Plans and EvolutionDenise PatriacoChapter 4. Quality Measurement in Accountable Care OrganizationsGuy D'Andrea and Kris CorwinChapter 5. Monitoring and Submitting Quality Measures for the Group Practice Reporting Option: CMS Web InterfaceKris GatesChapter 6. Live Experience of a Quality Measure Validation AuditMitchel EastonChapter 7. Ready, Risk, Reward: Building Successful Two-Sided Risk ModelsBrent Hardaway, Elyse Pegler, and Bryan SmithChapter 8. Post-Acute Care: A Key Consideration for an Accountable Care OrganizationAndy EdeburnChapter 9. Data Analytics: Making a ChoiceShawn GriffinChapter 10. Impact of Coding and Documentation on Risk ScoresGlen Champlin and John PitsikoulisChapter 11. Legal and Compliance ConsiderationsSeth EdwardsChapter 12. Employee Health Management and the Role of an Accountable Care OrganizationJeremy MathisChapter 13. The Role of Primary Care in the Future of Health CareMorey MenackerChapter 14. Practice Transformation: Engaging and Integrating Physician PracticesThomas KloosChapter 15. Population Health Management ConsultingJoseph F. DamoreChapter 16. The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus InitiativeSeth EdwardsChapter 17. Keys to Success in Bundled PaymentsMark Hiller, Beth Ireton, Miriam McKisic, and Mike SchweitzerAfterwordIndex
£72.68
Johns Hopkins University Press An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry
Book SynopsisWhy does US health care have such high costs and poor outcomes? Dr. David S. Guzick offers this critique of the American health care industry and argues that it could work more effectively by rebalancing care, cost, and access. For decades, the United States has been faced with a puzzling problem: Despite spending much more money per capita on health care than any other developed nation, its population suffers from notoriously poorer health. In comparison with 10 other high-income nations, in fact, the US has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest rates of infant and neonatal mortality, and the most inequitable access to physicians when adjusted for need. In An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry, Dr. David S. Guzick takes an in-depth look at this troubling issue. Bringing to bear his unique background as a physician, economist, former University of Rochester medical school dean, and former president of the University of Florida Health System, Dr. Guzick shows that Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Health and Health Care over the Past CenturyPart I. Economic UnderpinningsChapter 2. Perfect Competition and Its Applicability to Health Care Services Chapter 3. Imperfections in the Market for Health Care Services Chapter 4. Implications of an Imperfect Market I: Greater Utilization Due to Price Subsidies Chapter 5. Implications of an Imperfect Market II: The Role of Induced Demand Chapter 6. The Role of Price in Health Care Spending Growth Chapter 7. Inequality of Wealth, Health, and Access to Care Part II. Historical EvolutionChapter 8. Origins and Structural Underpinnings of the US Health Care Industry Chapter 9. The US Health Care Industry Takes Shape: The 1940s through 1965 Chapter 10. Medicare Chapter 11. Medicaid Chapter 12. The Affordable Care Act Part III. Contemporary EnvironmentChapter 13. Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 14. Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analysis Chapter 15. Health Care Law Chapter 16. The Safety and Quality of Patient Care Chapter 17. The Cost Conundrum I: Utilization Chapter 18. The Cost Conundrum II: Price: Administration, Insurers, Physicians, and Hospitals Chapter 19. The Cost Conundrum III: Price: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Chapter 20. Inequality of Access Part IV. Improving the Balance of Care, Cost, and AccessChapter 21. Improving the Balance I: Macro Considerations Chapter 22. Improving the Balance II: Enhancing Care, Reducing Cost, and Improving Access References Index
£104.02
Johns Hopkins University Press Teaching Toward Slow Hope
£28.35
National Geographic Society Tell Me When Its Over
Book SynopsisFrom one of the world's top virologists, the definitive guide to understanding - and navigating - COVID-19.
£21.59
History Press The School Poisoning Tragedy in Caledonia Ohio
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History Press The 1849 Cholera Outbreak in Jefferson City
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the
Book SynopsisPandemics are large-scale epidemics that spread throughout the world. Virologists predict that the next pandemic could occur in the coming years, probably from some form of influenza, with potentially devastating consequences. Vaccinations, if available, and behavioral methods are vital for stemming the spread of infection. However, remarkably little attention has been devoted to the psychological factors that influence the spread of pandemic infection and the associated emotional distress and social disruption. Psychological factors are important for many reasons. They play a role in nonadherence to vaccination and hygiene programs, and play an important role in how people cope with the threat of infection and associated losses. Psychological factors are important for understanding and managing societal problems associated with pandemics, such as the spreading of excessive fear, stigmatization, and xenophobia that occur when people are threatened with infection. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the psychology of pandemics. It describes the psychological reactions to pandemics, including maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and defensive reactions, and reviews the psychological vulnerability factors that contribute to the spreading of disease and distress. It also considers empirically supported methods for addressing these problems, and outlines the implications for public health planning.Trade Review“Dr Taylor has pulled together a wide range of research to provide a clear, engaging and scholarly analysis of historical, social, and psychological factors involved in pandemics. This text will prove a valuable resource for policy-makers who are engaged in public health and management in times of health crises. It will also be highly useful for mental health practitioners who regularly treat anxious individuals, a group particularly susceptible to distress in times of pandemic risk. A true must-read!”(Dean McKay, Professor of Psychology, Fordham University)“In the first volume of its kind, The Psychology of Pandemics addresses the role of psychological factors in understanding pandemics and preventing the spread of infection. Building on his own seminal work in the area of anxiety and fear, and drawing from research from public health, social psychology, epidemiology, and several other disciplines, Taylor reveals the psychology behind pandemics and lays out strategies for changing the psychosocial factors that contribute to the spread of disease. This highly accessible and well researched book is strongly recommended for anyone interested in this important topic – especially those working in the area of public health.”(Martin M. Antony, Professor of Psychology, Ryerson University)“This is an innovative book that offers a comprehensive review of the psychological correlates and consequences of pandemics. The author is an internationally renowned expert that provides an engaging and insightful analysis of complex phenomena. This thoughtful book is guaranteed to be of interest to academics and the general public.”(Bunmi O. Olatunji, Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, Vanderbilt University)"This is a timely and critical contribution from an author who understands the pulse of health-related anxiety and how to effectively manage it. The Psychology of Pandemics is a must read for researchers, scholars, health care professionals, and policy makers who may be involved in the managing the public in the face of a pandemic threat."(Gordon J. G. Asmundson, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada and University of Regina Professor)
£129.07
PublicAffairs Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills
Book SynopsisDoctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them.Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional healthcare system. But that’s only part of the problem.In this important and timely book, Dr. Robert Pearl shines a light on the unseen and often toxic culture of medicine. Today’s physicians have a surprising disdain for technology, an unhealthy obsession with status, and an increasingly complicated relationship with their patients. All of this can be traced back to their earliest experiences in medical school, where doctors inherit a set of norms, beliefs, and expectations that shape almost every decision they make, with profound consequences for the rest of us.Uncaring draws an original and revealing portrait of what it’s actually like to be a doctor. It illuminates the complex and intimidating world of medicine for readers, and in the end offers a clear plan to save American healthcare.
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Management Concepts, Inc Past Performance Handbook: Applying Commercial
Book SynopsisThe Best Guide to Past Performance Evaluation in Government Contracting Just Got Better! The Past Performance Handbook has long been the resource contracting professionals have turned to for guidance on evaluating contractor performance and making award decisions in competitive acquisitions based on the evaluation results. Now this essential resource has been completely updated and revised to bring readers the most up-to-date information they need to conduct past performance evaluations. Past Performance Handbook: Applying Commercial Practices to Federal Procurement, Second Edition, not only includes a detailed explanation of the process of past performance evaluation, but also presents new approaches to standardizing assessment areas and rating scales, streamlining the source selection process, and ensuring that awards are made to the most qualified offerors. This thoroughly revised second edition offers: • Additional focus on the collaboration between the government and contractors in providing past performance information • Enhanced definitions of numerical scoring, adjectival ratings, color coding schema, and risk assessments — all consistent with the current guidelines issued by the Department of Defense and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) • Updated citations from the Federal Acquisition Regulation, OFPP, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) • Abridged GAO decisions that provide details for citations included in the text. Contracting officers and contractors working with the government will find value in every chapter of this updated edition.
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American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Pharmacy in Public Health: Basics and Beyond
Book SynopsisPharmacy in Public Health: Basics and Beyond outlines what public health is and why it is so important for today's pharmacists to know. This practical book covers key areas like the foundations of public health, concepts and tools of policy, and models of public health programs run by pharmacists. It provides pharmacists and pharmacy students all of the tools they need to get started making an impact in their communities. Readers are guided through three sections that progressively build knowledge of concepts, tools, and models of pharmacist participation in public health activities.Be prepared for21st century challenges such as: Disease prevention Immunization programs Public health crises such as Avian Influenza and H1N1 virus The obesity and diabetes epidemics Government health programs n Health care reform Tobacco cessation And much more This publication answers these tough issues and prepares you for public health challenges ahead.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1 - Foundations of Public Health Part 2 - Concepts and Tools of Public Health Policy Part 3-Models of Pharmacist-Run Public Health Programs Glossary Subject Index General Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Consumed in the City: Observing Tuberculosis at
Book SynopsisAs a public health field worker assigned to control tuberculosis in New York and Chicago in the 1990s, Paul Draus encountered the horrible effects of tuberculosis resurgence in urban areas, and the intersections of disease, blight, and poverty. Consumed in the City grows out of his experiences and offers a persuasive case for thinking aboutand treatingtuberculosis as an inseparable component of the scourges of poverty, homelessness, AIDS, and drug abuse. It is impossible, Draus argues, to treat and eliminate tuberculosis without also treating the social ills that underlie the new epidemic. Paul Draus begins by describing his own on-the-job training as a field worker, then places the resurgence of tuberculosis into historical and sociological perspective. He vividly describes his experiences in hospital rooms, clinics, jails, housing projects, urban streets, and other social settings where tuberculosis is often encountered and treated. Using case studies, he demonstrates how social problems affect the success or failure of actual treatment. Finally, Draus suggests how a reformed public health agenda could help institute the changes required to defeat a deadly new epidemic. At once a personal account and a concrete plan for rethinking the role of public health, Consumed in the City marks a significant intervention in the way we think about the entangled crises of urban dislocation, poverty, and disease. Author note: Paul Draus is a research scientist at the Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research in the Department of Community Health at the Wright State University School of Medicine.Trade Review"Consumed in the City provides revealing insight into the world of social epidemiology related to tuberculosis control in major metropolitan areas of the United States at the close of the 20th century. Challenging our stereotypes about 'difficult' and 'non-compliant' patients, this engrossing book reveals much about the real character and milieu of life and treatment for patients caught up in poverty, homelessness, addictions to alcohol or drugs, and discrimination." JAMA "Draus makes a strong case for bringing ethnography into the practice of medicine to transform patients' histories from narratives shaped by existing medical categories to representations of life as lived by patients. This is an important book that will be valuable for health care professionals. Recommended." Choice "Consumed in the City offers a riveting and haunting view of the social havoc wreaked by TB in contemporary America. Drawing from his experience as a public health outreach worker, Paul Draus demonstrates that this preventable and treatable condition will remain a major killer if the ingrained inequalities of inner-city segregation, addiction, and poverty remain unaddressed." --Stefan Timmermans, Associate Professor, Brandeis University, and author of Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR and The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health CareTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: A Day in the Life, Chicago, 1998 Introduction: TB and Sociology 1. Bugs in the Big Apple: Chasing TB in NYC 2. Slow Motion Disaster: Postindustrial Poverty and the Return of TB 3. The Public Hospital: Battles on the TB Frontier 4. Cavities of Contagion: Networks and Nodes of TB in Chicago 5. Welcome to the West Side: Hanging Out in TB Alley 6. Hard Case Histories: Narratives of Tuberculosis, Homelessness, and Addiction 7. Dif.cult Negotiations: Coercion, Care, and Compliance in TB Therapy 8. Sheep's Clothing: Lessons Learned from TB in the Field Conclusion: Implications of a Marginal Epidemic Epilogue: Back on the Corner, Chicago, 2002 Notes Works Cited Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Consumed in the City: Observing Tuberculosis at
Book SynopsisAs a public health field worker assigned to control tuberculosis in New York and Chicago in the 1990s, Paul Draus encountered the horrible effects of tuberculosis resurgence in urban areas, and the intersections of disease, blight, and poverty. Consumed in the City grows out of his experiences and offers a persuasive case for thinking aboutand treatingtuberculosis as an inseparable component of the scourges of poverty, homelessness, AIDS, and drug abuse. It is impossible, Draus argues, to treat and eliminate tuberculosis without also treating the social ills that underlie the new epidemic. Paul Draus begins by describing his own on-the-job training as a field worker, then places the resurgence of tuberculosis into historical and sociological perspective. He vividly describes his experiences in hospital rooms, clinics, jails, housing projects, urban streets, and other social settings where tuberculosis is often encountered and treated. Using case studies, he demonstrates how social problems affect the success or failure of actual treatment. Finally, Draus suggests how a reformed public health agenda could help institute the changes required to defeat a deadly new epidemic. At once a personal account and a concrete plan for rethinking the role of public health, Consumed in the City marks a significant intervention in the way we think about the entangled crises of urban dislocation, poverty, and disease. Author note: Paul Draus is a research scientist at the Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research in the Department of Community Health at the Wright State University School of Medicine.Trade Review"Consumed in the City provides revealing insight into the world of social epidemiology related to tuberculosis control in major metropolitan areas of the United States at the close of the 20th century. Challenging our stereotypes about 'difficult' and 'non-compliant' patients, this engrossing book reveals much about the real character and milieu of life and treatment for patients caught up in poverty, homelessness, addictions to alcohol or drugs, and discrimination." JAMA "Draus makes a strong case for bringing ethnography into the practice of medicine to transform patients' histories from narratives shaped by existing medical categories to representations of life as lived by patients. This is an important book that will be valuable for health care professionals. Recommended." Choice "Consumed in the City offers a riveting and haunting view of the social havoc wreaked by TB in contemporary America. Drawing from his experience as a public health outreach worker, Paul Draus demonstrates that this preventable and treatable condition will remain a major killer if the ingrained inequalities of inner-city segregation, addiction, and poverty remain unaddressed." --Stefan Timmermans, Associate Professor, Brandeis University, and author of Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR and The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health CareTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: A Day in the Life, Chicago, 1998 Introduction: TB and Sociology 1. Bugs in the Big Apple: Chasing TB in NYC 2. Slow Motion Disaster: Postindustrial Poverty and the Return of TB 3. The Public Hospital: Battles on the TB Frontier 4. Cavities of Contagion: Networks and Nodes of TB in Chicago 5. Welcome to the West Side: Hanging Out in TB Alley 6. Hard Case Histories: Narratives of Tuberculosis, Homelessness, and Addiction 7. Dif.cult Negotiations: Coercion, Care, and Compliance in TB Therapy 8. Sheep's Clothing: Lessons Learned from TB in the Field Conclusion: Implications of a Marginal Epidemic Epilogue: Back on the Corner, Chicago, 2002 Notes Works Cited Index
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co How to End the Autism Epidemic
Book SynopsisIn How to End the Autism Epidemic, Generation Rescue’s co-founder J.B. Handley offers a compelling, science-based explanation of what’s causing the autism epidemic, the lies that enable its perpetuation, and the steps we must take as parents and as a society in order to end it. While many parents have heard the rhetoric that vaccines are safe and effective and that the science is settled about the relationship between vaccines and autism, few realize that in the 1960s, American children received three vaccines compared to the thirty-eight they receive today. Or that when parents are told that the odds of an adverse reaction are “one in a million,” the odds are actually one in fifty. Or that in the 1980s, the rate of autism was one in ten thousand children. Today it’s one in thirty-six. Parents, educators, and social service professionals around the country are sounding an alarm that we are in the midst of a devastating public health crisis—one that corresponds in lockstep with an ever-growing vaccine schedule. Why do our public health officials refuse to investigate this properly—or even acknowledge it? In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Handley confronts and dismantles the most common lies about vaccines and autism. He then lays out, in detail, what the truth actually is: new published science links the aluminium adjuvant used in vaccines to immune activation events in the brains of infants, triggering autism; and there is a clear legal basis for the statement that vaccines cause autism, including previously undisclosed depositions of prominent autism scientists under oath. While Handley’s argument is unsparing, his position is ultimately moderate and constructive: we must continue to investigate the safety of vaccines, we must adopt a position of informed consent, and every individual vaccine must be considered on its own merits. This issue is far from settled. By refusing to engage with parents and other stakeholders in a meaningful way, our public health officials destroy the public trust and enable the suffering of countless children and families.Trade Review“Addressing one of the most urgent issues of our time, J.B. Handley’s book How to End the Autism Epidemic shows us how we got here and what we need to do. It is a must read for every parent and health care professional.”—Zen Honeycutt, Moms Across America“J.B. Handley is arguably the world’s most thoughtful, sophisticated, knowledgeable, and indefatigable activist for children’s health and safety. As a frontline leader for fifteen years, Handley has led the big fistfight against the Pharma Cartel to force the issue, broadcast the science, and expose the lies behind the vaccine policies that have created an epidemic of chronic disease among our children. Handley has helped bring the issue of toxins in medical products and regulatory corruption to a tipping point. Handley’s advocacy has lifted the curtain of lies behind which the autism epidemic has sprouted. When we end this cataclysm, it will be thanks to the dogged character of people like J.B. Handley who have refused to rest in his battle to support parents, protect children, bring justice to injured families, and to punish those responsible for one of the worst scandals in American history. Please read this book and decide for yourself if you still believe that vaccines are ‘safe and effective.’”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.“I honestly believe J.B. Handley wrote the book that will end the autism epidemic. As I sit here now, in stillness, I want to jump up and down with excitement, but I’m holding back rivers of tears. He breaks down the scientific information in a way that doesn’t intimidate the reader. And he lets us know it’s okay to be angry. His soul, his fight, his love for his son radiates off the pages. Wow. Bravo, bravo.”—Jenny McCarthy, author of Louder Than Words; coauthor of Healing and Preventing Autism “This book is inspired, powerful, the unadulterated truth, and a must read. We have sacrificed too many children at the vaccine altar while our blind belief in the CDC and AAP, government, and the media has prevented us from seeing the conflicts of interest that enable big business and Big Pharma to profit at the expense of our children’s health. How to End the Autism Epidemic is one family’s story, but it is sadly also a story shared by millions of families. A beautiful normal baby, vaccinated, and then lost to autism and all the horrible medical conditions associated with immune devastation and brain toxicity. Thank you, J.B., for sharing your story and wisdom. Parents and future parents: Read this book now, and say No to business as usual and the status quo. If your pediatrician has not yet done his or her own research and is just parroting the ‘vaccines are safe and effective’ marketing phrase, it is time for you to get a new pediatrician.”—Paul Thomas, MD, coauthor of The Vaccine-Friendly Plan and The Addiction Spectrum“I encourage everyone to read How to End the Autism Epidemic, which has the potential to spark a thoughtful and thorough review of how we can stop vaccine injuries among our nation’s children. A dedicated and passionate advocate for medical freedom, J.B. is also a father who has lived the experience no parent would want to endure. His life’s work is making sure everyone gets the information they need and vaccine-injured children and their families get the justice they deserve.”—Tim Knopp, Oregon State Senator“As parents our job is to be concerned about our children’s health. Yet every day in doctors’ offices around the country, American parents are told we are being ‘irresponsible’ or ‘selfish’ just for asking questions about vaccines. We all want to keep our children safe and healthy, both from infectious diseases and from overexposure to toxins. It’s reasonable to be concerned that there are too many vaccines on the schedule and that medications like antibiotics, acetaminophen, and ADHD drugs are being over-prescribed. What’s a worried parent to do? For starters, read this book! Sharing his personal story as the father of a boy with autism and taking a close look at the most recent and rigorous science, Stanford-educated J.B. Handley shows how the CDC’s aggressive childhood vaccine schedule is connected to the astonishing rise in autism in the United States. How to End the Autism Epidemic is a direct challenge to the American public health establishment and a gift to the millions of parents who find themselves caught in the crosshairs—uncertain of what to think or do—of the seemingly intractable debate about vaccines.”—Jennifer Margulis, PhD, author of Your Baby, Your Way; coauthor of The Vaccine-Friendly Plan“I have been thinking about the toxicity of aluminum for thirty-five years. It is my life’s work. Before we completed our recent research on aluminum in brain tissue in autism, I could not see a direct link between human exposure to aluminum and autism. I certainly saw no immediate role for aluminum adjuvants in vaccines in autism. The missing link was a mechanism whereby the brain would be subjected to an acute exposure to aluminum, for example, as occurs in aluminum-induced dialysis encephalopathy. Pro-inflammatory cells, some originating from blood and lymph, heavily loaded with a cargo of aluminum in brain tissue in autism provided that missing link. We all tolerate the toxicity of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines. Unfortunately, some of us are predisposed to suffer, as opposed to tolerate, the toxicity of aluminum adjuvants, and this may cause autism. “Autism is a disease, and it is not inevitable. J.B. Handley’s elegant synthesis of what we know and what we need to know argues that autism could and should be preventable. I agree with him.”—Professor Christopher Exley, PhD, fellow, Royal Society of Biology; professor of bioinorganic chemistry, Keele University“J.B. Handley tells it like it is. His new book is a masterful synthesis of all the latest threads of autism: the controversies, the science, the legal and policy battles, and the human dimension of the ‘movement’ that has inspired so many of us to become parent activists. Peppered with jaw-dropping new developments—including depositions from major vaccine science luminaries—Handley weaves a compelling narrative and cuts through the noise to make a powerful and convincing case. Read it. Process what he’s telling you. And then stand up and do something about it. The health of generations of children is at stake.”—Mark Blaxill, coauthor of The Age of Autism, Vaccines, 2.0, and Denial
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Curable: How an Unlikely Group of Radical
Book SynopsisSmart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a “Moneyball” prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the author of Tripping Over the Truth The United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to rise. There is an epidemic of chronic disease in children. Even with all the money and modern innovations in science, the country’s health care system is beyond broken. Clearly there is a glitch in the system. But what if the solution has been here all along, and we’ve just been too blind to see it? In Curable journalist and health care advocate Travis Christofferson looks at medicine through a magnifying glass and asks an important question: What if the roots of the current US health care crisis are psychological and systemic, perpetuated not just by corporate influence and the powers that be, but by you and me? It is now known that human perception is based on deeply entrenched patterns of irrational thought, which we attach ourselves to religiously. So how does this implicate the very scientific research and data that doctors rely on to successfully treat their patients? A page-turning inquiry into a “moneyball approach to medicine,” Curable explores the links between revolutionary baseball analytics; Nobel Prize–winning psychological research on confirmation bias; wildly successful maverick economic philosophy; the history of the radical mastectomy and the rise of the clinical trial; cutting edge treatments routinely overlooked by regulatory bodies; and outdated medical models that prioritize profit over prevention. As stark as things are, Christofferson asks us to see health care not as a toppling house of cards, but as a badly organized system that is inherently fixable. How do we fix it? First we must reframe the conflict between doctors’ intuition and statistical data. Then we must design better systems that can support doctors who are increasingly overwhelmed with the complexity of modern medicine. Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.Trade Review“Travis Christofferson seamlessly weaves together psychology, medicine, history, and insight in this page-turning book, providing a compelling case for improving the quality of life of patients in efficient and effective ways. Christofferson has an exceptional ability to synthesize the work of others, and in Curable he brings it all together in a gripping narrative that’s both informative and entertaining.”—Bob Kaplan, MS, MBA, medical research analyst “Travis Christofferson elegantly details why and how Western medicine is failing us and, more importantly, gives us a road map for recovery. We already have the tools of the trade to change direction, we simply need a new driver to effect those changes. Curable helps to properly inform those that wish to take control of their health to identify interventions that are biologically plausible and which have a proper scientific basis. These are time-tested therapies with minimal side effects and maximal outcomes that can give us all the power to change direction. As Lao Tzu said, ‘If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.’ Read this book and steer yourself back to good health.”—Dr. Sarah Myhill, author of Sustainable Medicine and Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis“Curable is exceptionally well written, captivating, and convincing. It’s true that the existing problem with health care is psychological and systemic, and there are numerous examples and stories to support this. Travis Christofferson advances the idea of repurposing drugs in innovative ways, which has the potential to revolutionize a profit-driven and incompetent health care system. The off-label use of generic drugs can be highly efficacious and an adjuvant to augment existing therapies. For examples, see the recent studies on the use of metformin for cancer or the use of ketamine for drug-resistant depression. There are many ideas presented in this book that are incredibly important for researchers, health care professionals, and educators to understand and disseminate. Curable is incredibly informative, and I will be sure to recommend it to all my colleagues and students.”—Dominic D’Agostino, PhD, associate professor, USF Morsani College of Medicine“Travis Christofferson’s highly anticipated new book does not disappoint. Our current medical system (I find it difficult to call it ‘health’ care) is defective, and Curable goes into great detail as to why and offers an intelligent approach to the future of medicine. A growing number of doctors are finding ways to support their patient outcomes by repurposing drugs as well as changing their thinking in order to approach the challenge of chronic illness with entirely new methods. However, with the average clinical study costing millions of dollars and taking 17 years to go from bench to bedside, patients often don’t have the luxury of time nor the financial resources to utilize these expensive treatments. Christofferson encourages us to look beyond the dogma and leads us down an entirely new path. I anticipate this book will be an important wake up call for physicians, patients, and biotechnicians to come together and return ‘health’ to health care.”—Dr. Nasha Winters, coauthor of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer“We cannot expect the health care industry to change on its own. We have to take ownership of our own choices, look at the research with a critical eye, and compel the change that we so desperately need. Nobody provides the evidence-based rallying cry like Travis Christofferson, and Curable is a perfect blueprint for some of the ways we can start to make real improvements to the health of our nation, now.”—Aubrey Marcus, CEO, Onnit; New York Times best-selling author of Own the Day, Own Your Life“Travis Christofferson provides a compelling strategy for curing our broken health care system based on ‘moneyball’ logic, common sense, and validated science. Why is the logic and science supporting this strategy ignored? Every member of our society should address the questions posed in Curable, especially those in the health care industry and in the US congress.”—Thomas N. Seyfried, PhD, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Mistreated
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Experiment Immunity: The Science of Staying Well - The
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Texas A & M University Press Preparing for Pandemics in the Modern World
Book SynopsisThe Black Death. Cholera. Spanish flu. Swine flu. HIV/AIDS. COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. Each of these pandemics has made (or, is making) a lasting impact on humanity. From the immediate mental image of the beaked masks worn in the Middle Ages (bubonic plague) and the birth of epidemiology (cholera) to recognizing the benefits of social distancing (1918 flu) and the harm of prejudice and misinformation (HIV/AIDS), pandemics have shown us how to survive infectious disease, as long as we heed their lessons.Preparing for Pandemics in the Modern World, edited by Christine Crudo Blackburn, brings together experts on pandemic preparedness and biosecurity to explore areas of weakness in pandemic prevention, preparedness, detection, and response. Even as COVID-19 makes its way around the world, leaders and policymakers are tasked with thinking ahead and preparing to effectively respond to the next such event - which experience shows us to be a matter of 'when', not 'if'. Inside, chapters are divided into sections on the lessons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic, the application of the One Health concept, and the role of the private sector in responding to potentially devastating disease outbreaks.A chapter on the impacts of supply chain disruption - in light of COVID-19 - and an epilogue that discusses the current outbreak make Preparing for Pandemics in the Modern World a timely and accessibly written compilation on pandemic prevention, preparedness, detection, and response.
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Pegasus Books Supercharge Your Brain: How to Maintain a Healthy
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great
Book SynopsisMultiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, team up to expose the truth—and end the madness—about COVID-19. Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events—a global pandemic caused by what appears to be an engineered coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment; and an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties and freedoms in the name of keeping people safe by locking them up in their homes. We are now living in a world that is increasingly ruled, not by our democratic systems and institutions, but by public health fiat, carried out by politicians who rule by instilling fear and panic. In The Truth About COVID-19, Dr. Mercola and Cummins reveal new and emerging evidence that: The SARS-CoV-2 virus was, indeed, lab-engineered and emerged from a negligently managed bioweapons lab in Wuhan, China The global pandemic was long anticipated by global elites who have used it to facilitate and hide the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history PCR testing, case counts, morbidity, and vaccine safety and efficacy data have been widely manipulated and misrepresented Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are known to worsen COVID-19 outcomes, but the junk food industry continues to push its agenda at the expense of public health Safe, simple, and inexpensive treatment and prevention for COVID-19 have been censored and suppressed to create a clear path for vaccine acceptance Effectiveness of the vaccines has been wildly exaggerated and major safety questions have gone unanswered The good news in all of this is that we can take control of our health and that, together, we have the power to unite and fight back for our health, democracy, and freedom. The time is now for a global awakening. As Dr. Mercola and Cummins remind us, this is the fight of our lives.Trade Review"The most mind-blowing book I've read lately."—Ben Greenfield, New York Times bestselling author
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Toda la verdad sobre el COVID-19: La historia
Book SynopsisUSA Today, Wall Street Journal, Bestseller Internacional “Una [crítica] elocuente, carismática e informada de un sistema corrupto.”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,del prólogo “El Dr. Mercola es un visionario, pionero y líder.”—Del Bigtree, anfitrión de The Highwire El muchas veces ganador de libros más vendidos del New York Times, Dr. Mercola y Ronnie Cummins, fundador y director de la Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos y Vía Orgánica, se unen para exponer la verdad - y terminar con la locura - sobre el COVID-19. Mediante una robusta investigación, más de 500 referencias de artículos de revistas científicas arbitradas, estadísticas oficiales gubernamentales y descubrimientos de investigación de salud pública de todo el mundo, los autores muestran la necesidad urgente de un despertar global. Es hora de unirnos, exigir la verdad y tomar el control de nuestra salud. La Verdad Sobre el COVID-19 es tu invitación a unirte al Dr. Mercola y Cummins mientras educan y organizan un futuro sano, equitativo, democrático y regenerativo. *Edición actualizada con un nuevo prólogo*
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America Through Time Garden City: Pictures from a Pandemic
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Rutgers University Press Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern
Book SynopsisWomen in North India are socialized to care for others, so what do they do when they get a disease like diabetes that requires intensive self-care? In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women’s experiences with diabetes in New Delhi as a lens to explore how gendered roles and expectations are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver argues that although women’s domestic care of others may be at odds with the self-care mandates of biomedically-managed diabetes, these roles nevertheless do important cultural work that may buffer women’s mental and physical health by fostering social belonging. Weaver describes how women negotiate the many responsibilities in their lives when chronic disease is at stake. As women weigh their options, the choices they make raise questions about whose priorities should count in domestic, health, and family worlds. The varied experiences of women illustrate that there are many routes to living well or poorly with diabetes, and these are not always the ones canonized in biomedical models of diabetes management. Trade Review"Recommended."— Choice "Sugar and Tension is a poignant ethnography that reveals how middle-class women in urban North India grapple with a mounting diabetes epidemic in the midst of shifting expectations and opportunities for women. Women with diabetes in Delhi often act in ways that run counter to biomedical recommendations. Weaver helps us to understand why, through her account of structural constraints that women face, and by showing how women justify their actions as they leverage ideas about relationships among diabetes, tension and self-sacrifice to engage in both social critique and self-validation. This book makes an important contribution to the studies of medical anthropology and gender in South Asia."— Cecilia VanHollen, author of Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India “This book is a must read not only for scholars and public health practitioners wanting to understand how women in contemporary India experience and respond to diabetes; but a broader audience interested in what ethnographies of chronic illness can tell us about gender roles, women’s life priorities, and challenges to their wellbeing across the life course.”— Mark Nichter, author of Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representation and Biopolitics Matter "Weaver identifies this tension between self-care and societal demands in women in India and offers a way forward for all, with generalizable lessons for anyone dealing with a chronic disease. Sugar and Tension provides a unique and incisive view of diabetes in modern India, and highlights the potential for women to change their own place in society."— Latha Palaniappan, The Lancet "This is a book where women's voices sing. It is filled with stories that make an imprint because they are narratively complex, in-depth, and speak to the heart of the issues that center the book: diabetes, the efforts and limitations of self-care, family, and, most importantly, gender....Beautifully articulates the everyday dilemmas women face as they manage competing demands and sometimes contradictory cultural poles as they try to live well, physically, mentally, and spiritually."— American Journal of Human Biology Human Biology Association - Sausage of Science 83- An Excerpt with Dr. Lesley Jo Weaver https://soundcloud.com/humanbiologyassociation/sos-82-an-excerpt-with-dr-lesley-jo-weaver— Sausage of Science "A clear and very compelling ethnography that demonstrates how for women in New Delhi, learning to be diabetic is as much about family and global development as it is about individual well-being. Weaver does not set up self-sacrifice and self-care as mutually exclusive possibilities but considers how acts of control and giving hold profound social meaning in North India. Overall, this highly readable book would be appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology, global health, biocultural anthropology, and the anthropology of gender."— Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Opening a Window on Diabetes Experience Chapter 2: Seeking Modern India Chapter 3: Balance: The Moral and Practical Work of Diabetes Management Chapter 4: Tension: Diabetes, Distress, and Mental Health Chapter 5: Sacrifice: Domesticity and Care Among Women with Diabetes Chapter 6: Resilience: Living Well with Diabetes Chapter 7: Conclusions: Diabetes as Life Appendix References Index
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Rutgers University Press At Ansha's: Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer
Book SynopsisAt Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosque. We come to know Ansha’s experiences as revolutionary and migrant, her religious trajectories, family, the healers who cured her, the spirits who possessed her, and her declining health. We follow Ansha’s shifts in her life and work in the mosque as these intersect with the visible and invisible borders of Mozambique and of its fraught history. Confronting events in her life and in the mosque between 2009 and 2016, Ansha invites us to make meaning with her, as we sit in her mosque, and engage with her family, spirits, friends, patients, and world.Trade Review"This vivid, richly woven ethnographic account of healing practice in Mozambique offers valuable insights into the fluidity and flexibility of cultural and religious boundaries. The book captures the dynamics of agency and power in its focus on a healer’s spiritual border-crossing, revealing alternative visions of experiences of culture and religion as continually re-constructed and emergent."— Susan Rasmussen, author of Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective "Through this ethnographic account of one healer in northern Mozambique, Daria Trentini evokes the contours of an entire social world. As Ansha works the borders between health and illness, tradition and modernity, good and evil—even life and death—Trentini shows how lives are defined by tensions and contradictions as well as attempts to ease them. By providing such an accessible and compelling narrative, Trentini herself works ontological borders between her readers and those she meets in Ansha’s compound."— Harry G. West, author of Ethnographic Sorcery "This ethnography is well written and offers much comparative material for medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and the social science of medicine. I recommend it highly for both undergraduate and graduate students. Daria Trentini has made a very important contribution to the understanding of the personal and professional life and development of a spiritual healer." — Patricia Barker Lerch, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations Ansha’s Family Note on Languages Prologue Introduction Part I: Ansha and the Spirits 1 Rural and Urban 2 Health and Healing 3 Wives and Husbands 4 Demons and Spirits 5 Insiders and Outsiders 6 Mountains 7 Coast 8 Rivers and Bridges Part II: Outside the Mosque 9 Makhuwa and Maka 10 Books and Roots 11 Muslims of the Spirits and Muslims of the Mosque 12 Healers and the Governo 13 Healers and Nurses 14 Knowing and Not-Knowing Part III: Patients 15 Good and Evil 16 Closed and Opened 17 The Dead and the Living 18 Juniors and Seniors 19 Tradition and Modernity 20 Spirits and Women Part IV: Returns 21 Life and Death Epilogue Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health
Book SynopsisSince its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society. Trade Review"Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn has never been surpassed as the authoritative text on the history of public health nursing in the United States. This new edition, with a new introduction by two of the leading historians of nursing and with an updated bibliography, fills a critical gap in this literature." — Rima D. Apple, Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsContents Foreword: Can there be a New Dawn for Public Health Nursing? by Susan Reverby and Julie A. Fairman Preface 1 Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor: Care, Cleanliness and Character 2 Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses and the Sick Poor 3 The Hope and Promise of Public Health 4 Preserving the Treasures of their Tradition: The Founding of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service 5 The Decline of Public Health Nursing: Economical and Pragmatic, but No Longer Necessary 6 Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£29.45
Rutgers University Press False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health
Book SynopsisSince its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society. Trade Review"Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn has never been surpassed as the authoritative text on the history of public health nursing in the United States. This new edition, with a new introduction by two of the leading historians of nursing and with an updated bibliography, fills a critical gap in this literature." — Rima D. Apple, Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsContents Foreword: Can there be a New Dawn for Public Health Nursing? by Susan Reverby and Julie A. Fairman Preface 1 Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor: Care, Cleanliness and Character 2 Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses and the Sick Poor 3 The Hope and Promise of Public Health 4 Preserving the Treasures of their Tradition: The Founding of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service 5 The Decline of Public Health Nursing: Economical and Pragmatic, but No Longer Necessary 6 Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Global Mental Health: Latin America and
Book SynopsisGlobal Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America, including work being done on understanding Alzheimer’s, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and other psychoses. While supporting the initiative for building capacity of care in low income countries, the book warns about some of the potential risks related to the abuse of psychiatry, using examples from the past, focusing on early 20th century Spain.Trade Review“This global health collection is wide-ranging topically and geographically. New works from South America are a welcome counterbalance to available sources. Remarkably fresh sourcebook of broad interdisciplinary interest.” -- Janis H. Jenkins * Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Director, Center for Global Mental Health, UCSD *This innovative book reviews what is known while telling the story of efforts to fill gaps in services and science in global mental health in Latin America and Spanish-speaking groups. While reviewing epidemiology and services research, they describe recent issues including even political abuses, and new studies highlighting growth of this field. -- Kenneth Wells * Director of UCLA Semel Institute Center for Health Services and Society *Table of ContentsA brief review of global mental health: challenges, developments, and needs / Stanley Nkemjika, Javier I. Escobar, and Humberto Marin Looking at cultural aspects of global mental health: The culturally infused engagement model in Latin American and Asian populations / Miwa Yasui and Kathleen J. Pottick The abuse of psychiatry globally: A focus on a little-known historical example from Francoist Spain / Ethan Pearlstein and Javier I. Escobar Task-shifting strategies in Latin America: The key role of primary care health agents in mental health policy and research in northern Argentina / Maria Calvo, Gabriel de Erausquin, Mariana Figueredo Aguiar, Eduardo Padilla, and Javier I. Escobar Genetic research on chronic, severe mental disorders in the Paisa population in Latin America: A review of past and current research / Carrie E. Bearden, Carlos Lopez Jaramillo, and Javier I. Escobar A brief rejoinder and future projections / Javier I. Escobar
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Rutgers University Press Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use,
Book SynopsisIn Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior that makes successful treatment of people affected by tuberculosis extremely difficult. People affected don’t get healthy, healthcare providers are frustrated, and families seek to balance love and care for those who are ill with self-protection. How are we to understand this? Where does the responsibility for poor health and healing lie? What are the possibilities for an effective healthcare response? Through a close look at lives and care, Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health shows how patterns of substance use, tuberculosis disease, and their interaction are shaped by history, social context, and political economy. This, in turn, generates new perspectives on what makes poor health, and what good care might look like.Trade Review"This is an outstanding ethnography that makes important contributions to medical anthropology specifically in relation to infectious diseases, substance use, and anthropological studies of global health practices and interventions. The nuanced anthropological focus on the intersections of substance use and tuberculosis among marginalized and impoverished persons that Versfeld analyzes in relation to historical legacies of colonialism and Apartheid is both in-depth and accessible. Critical reading for medical anthropologists, global public health scholars, and those interested in health inequalities in Africa and the Global South." -- Erin Koch * author of Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Postsocialist Georgia *"South Africa has among the highest tuberculosis rates in the world, related to indoor residential crowding, occupational hazards like mining, and high background HIV prevalence. Drug resistance and active TB resurgence magnify the original problem, increasing costs of care and reducing survival. I recommend this important contribution for anyone seeking deeper insights into the healthcare and community challenges facing the syndemic of substance use and TB, often complicated by HIV co-infection. Only a multifaceted response is likely to succeed for a disease too often addressed with limited “vertical” programs." -- Sten Vermund * the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson 1 Returners 2 The Stickiness of Moral Opinion 3 Co-constitutions: Makers and Maskers 4 Salience and Silence: Data, Evidence, and the Making of Figure Facts 5 The Challenge of “Unruly” Patients 6 Care to Cure 7 Catching Breath: The Hospital as Restricted Respite 8 Anthropology in Action Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of
Book SynopsisFor a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the development of viral suppression treatments and preventative pills such as PrEP and nPEP has massively reduced the risk of acquiring HIV. Yet some of the stigma around gay male promiscuity and bareback sex has remained, inhibiting open dialogues about sexual desire, risk, and pleasure. A Pill for Promiscuity brings together academics, artists, and activists—from different generations, countries, ethnic backgrounds, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has changed in a post-PrEP era. Some offer personal perspectives on the value of promiscuity and the sexual communities it fosters, while others critique unequal access to PrEP and the increased role Big Pharma now plays in gay life. With a diverse group of contributors that includes novelist Andrew Holleran, trans scholar Lore/tta LeMaster, cartoonist Steve MacIsaac, and pornographic film director Mister Pam, this book asks provocative questions about how we might reimagine queer sex and sexuality in the 21st century. Trade Review"The arrival of PrEP and biomedical prevention helped rescue a public centering of gay men's desire, pleasure and sex that was becoming marginalized in the fight for same sex marriage. By returning to the all-but-abandoned anthology as a necessary strategy of critical queer community dialogue, A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in the Age of Pharmaceuticals offers a compelling collection of voices on the complicated cultural and political dynamics of sex in the era of PrEP. " -- Kenyon Farrow * Managing Director of Advocacy & Organizing for PrEP4All *"A Pill for Promiscuity is a necessary collection, in a time where pharmaceutical culture and public health are too often narrating proper ideas of sexual practice and sexual intimacy. This volume speaks back to these problematic frames, through a rich offering of diverse voices from multiple genres of writing, which explore the complexity of sexual life in eras of disease." -- Jeffrey McCune * author of Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Polities of Passing *Table of ContentsCONTENTSIntroduction to Q+ Public Books by series editors E.G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier1 Introduction: Why Promiscuity Matters by Andrew Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier2 Notes on Promiscuity by Andrew Holleran3 Perspective: Fear4 Safety by Steve MacIsaac5 How I Learned to Stop Worrying: Or,The Straight Panic Defense by Daniel Felsenthal6 Perspective: Sex7 Reluctant Objects: Sexual Pleasure and HIV Prevention by Kane Race8 Learning How to Fuck on PrEP by Nicolas “Nic” Flores9 Gay Sex is Our Superpower by Alex Garner10 Perspective: Pharma11 “Heard about it before, but don’t know where to get it”: A Black Gay Man’s Journey to Securing PrEP by Deion Scott Hawkins12 PrEP in the Porn World by Pam Dore, aka Mr. Pam13 Auto-Pharmakon: Prescribing Utopia by Addison Vawters14 Perspective: Trauma and Healing15 S(t)imulation by Lore/tta LeMaster16 Playing in the Shadows: Cycles of Trauma by Ariel Sabillon17 When We Touch: A Reading on Queer Intimacies by Justice Jamal Jones and Andrew Spieldenner with Photographs by Justice Jamal Jones18 Epilogue: Promiscuity for the Non-Promiscuous by Andrew Spieldenner and Jeffrey EscoffierAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Rutgers University Press Toward a Healthier Garden State: Beyond Cancer
Book SynopsisWhile New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey. Trade Review“Toward a Healthier Garden State is a wonderful resource for decision makers and educators, and an entertaining read for everyone who loves the Garden State. This book should be required reading for all elected and appointed officials throughout the state–a truly unique read.” -- Thomas A. Burke * Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University *Table of Contents Preface 1 Defining, Measuring, and Improving Health 2 The Winding Path to Better Health in New Jersey 3 Transportation Drives Population Shifts 4 Fixing Environmental Inequities: Cancer Alley 5 Health Disparities and the COVID-19 Pandemic 6 Housing and Education Interventions 7 Acute Natural and Man-Made Hazard Events 8 Reshuffling Health Care Epilogue: Confronting Challenges to a Healthier New Jersey—The Next 25 Years Acknowledgments Index
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Rutgers University Press The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and
Book SynopsisIn both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.Trade Review"Wow! A gripping ethnography of the everyday ecstatic emergency and boredom of methamphetamine, fentanyl and failed relationships that cuts short the lives of Canadian youth—often indigenous—desperately seeking community, meaning and survival. Documents the dysfunctional meshes of care/jail/gentrification/predatory narcotics markets and human betrayals that betrays their persistent universally recognizable dreams/hopes against all odds for a better futures that never arrives." -- Philippe Bourgois * author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and coauthor of Righteous Dopefiend *"The Best Place offers an analysis of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia, a locale where young people's illicit drug use has received international attention. Fast has worked in this area for many, many years, developing long-term relationships with young drug users and health professionals. This is a collaboration that offers a model of multi-level analyses and showcases the hope of Fast's interlocutors for the future. Fast draws on their visions of possible futures, and on their critiques of current approaches, articulated with those of healthcare professionals. This is a book many have been waiting for." -- Dara Culhane * cofounder and cocurator for the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography *Table of Contents Foreword by Lenore Manderson Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Places Introduction PART I: DREAMS OF PLACE Lee, the Best Place on Earth, 2009 Jeff, Paradise, 2009 Big-City Dreams Lula and Jeff, Paradise, 2012 Senses of Place Lee, World City, 2009 Where I’m Going, Lee, 2011 Jordan, Normal Places, 2012 Danya and Nancy, the Field, 2010 Lee, Not These Service Places, 2009 Jordan, Normal People, 2008 Frictions Danya, around Downtown, 2008 Janet and the Lost Boys, Never Never Land, 2008 Trajectories Carly and Connor, Family, 2009 Geographies Patty and Joe, Home, 2012 Part II: SOMETHING Patty, Coast Salish Territories, 2009 Vital Experimentation Shae, Lula, and Jeff, Lighthouse Shelter, 2009 Momentum Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Moral Worlds Terry, Jail, 2011 Carly and Connor, Apartment, 2013 Stagnation Janet, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Patty and Joe, Mackenzie Hotel, 2010 Endless Business Terry, Field Office, 2012 Lee, Mackenzie Hotel, 2012 Reentering Never Never Land Jordan, Beachwood Hotel, 2013 74 Shae, Mackenzie Hotel, 2009 Disappearances Lee, Gone, 2015 PART III: LOST Patty, City of Glass, 2011 Community Care Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2010 Losing Everything Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2012 Boredom Aaron, Northwest Apartments, 2013 (No)Exit, Shae, 2013 Flashbacks and Futures Patty, Terminal City, 2013 The Dance of Death Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2013 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Waiting Terry, St. Mary’s, 2014 Flights Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2014 PART IV: NOWHERE Patty, Saltwater City, 2017 The Will to Intervene Shane, Passages, 2017 Living on the Edge of Change Jessica, Horizons, 2018 Filling the Hours Shane, Downtown, 2017 Stalls and Dead Ends Lula, Wenonah House, 2016 Everything We Need, Carly and Connor, 2013 A Churn of Intervention Raymond, Downtown, 2017 The Colonial Present Aaron, Field Office, 2017 Living with Death Lula and Jeff, Field Office, 2017 The Broken Promise Land Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, Camp under the Tracks, 2017 Exits, Janet, 2015 PART V: EVERYWHERE Jordan, Rain City, 2016 Laura, Field Office, 2017 Shae/Trix, Apartment, 2017 Janet, Recovery House, 2018 Exits, Janet, 2018 Terry, Psychiatric Ward, 2018 The Way Home, Terry, 2011 Laurie, Downtown, 2018 Aaron, Beachwood Hotel, 2019 Lula and Jeff, Greystone Hotel, 2019 Dom, BC Children’s Hospital, 2020 Carly and Connor, Field Office, 2018 Joe, Field Office, 2018 Patty, Everywhere, 2018 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Afterword Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday
Book Synopsis Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth century’s largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand “drugs into bodies.” And yet not all activism creates echoes. Included among the ranks of 1980s and 1990s-era AIDS activists were individuals whose expressions of empowerment differed markedly from those demanding open access to mainstream pharmaceutical agents. Largely forgotten today, this activist tradition was comprised of individuals who embraced unorthodox approaches for conceptualizing and treating their condition. Rejecting biomedical expertise, they shared alternative clinical paradigms, created underground networks for distributing unorthodox nostrums, and endorsed etiological models that challenged the association between HIV and AIDS. The theatre of their protests was not the streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village but rather their bodies. And their language was not the riotous chants of public demonstration but the often-invisible embrace of contrarian systems for defining and treating their disease. The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the twentieth century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the twenty-first century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.Trade Review“The Sounds of Furious Living fits within the history of 'unorthodox' medicine, but in a more nuanced and theoretical way, providing new insight into this tradition that never really went away—there is nothing like this out there now. Matthew Kelly has done an impressive job.” -- Susan Reverby * author of Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms Introduction: Acknowledging the Everyday Part I: The Soils of Unorthodoxy: Irregular and Alternative Medicine in U.S. History 1 Situating Unorthodox AIDS Activism within the History of Medicine in the United States 2 A Broken Model: Twentieth-Century Transformations in the Social Constructions of Health and Disease 3 A Broken Trust: The Changing Character of Health Care Part II: The Seeds of Unorthodoxy: The Emergence of Unorthodox AIDS Activism 4 Everyday Unorthodoxies and the People with AIDS Coalition (PWAC) 5 Patient, Heal Thyself: The History of Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL) Conclusion: Listening to and Learning from the Sounds of Furious Living Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Barlow Book Publishing inc. Project Unthinkable: A Doctor's Gamble to Save
Book SynopsisThis is the memoir of one of the world's most effective health crusaders and his lifelong campaign to save lives around the globe. Author Derek Yach started out in a traditional way, at the World Health Organization, where he demonized Big Tobacco for causing the death of millions worldwide. Then, after engineering an international treaty to curb smoking around the world, he crossed the line. In an unorthodox move, he joined Pepsi to help its CEO transform the chips and soda behemoth into a more healthy company. The author's rationale was this: To save tens of millions of lives, you may have to go inside the enemy corporation to help it change. So when Philip Morris International (PMI) announced it was ready to switch from combustible cigarettes to smokeless ones, a move that could save untold lives, Yach made the most audacious gamble of his long career in global public health. Project Unthinkable is a biography embedded in several big themes: - Can a company that causes harm to human health change from the inside? - Can you cross the line and work with the opposition? - Will combustible cigarettes become history?Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: Beginnings Chapter 2: Finding My Way Chapter 3: Leaving Home Chapter 4: Taking on Big Tobacco Chapter 5: The End of the Beginning Chapter 6: Treading Water Chapter 7: Opening Up a Can of Trouble Chapter 8: Inside Man at Pepsi Chapter 9: The Virtuous Cycle Chapter 10: In the Lair of the Enemy Chapter 11: The Battle Ahead
£19.76
Springer International Publishing AG Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Vaccination, Politics and Society: The Continuing Challenge
Book SynopsisThis books comprises of 24 chapters by experts from developed and developing countries. The book cover Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and England, USA, West Africa, and Zambia.FOREWORD by David J. Hunter, Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, the UK.Table of Contents1.Introduction:AUSTRALASIA2.Under Promise and Over-deliver:The failure of political rhetoric in managing COVID-19 in Australia3. COVID-19 and culture in Papua New Ginea.Failing to meet the challenges of diversity?4.COVID-19 in Fiji: From health and economic to major political crisis5. COVID-19 Vaccination trends and people’s views and action in Japan6. Through the lens of systems thinking:Analyzing the breakdown of a successful COVID-19 mitigation model in Taiwan7.Lessons from COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Hong Kong and South Korea8.Distribution and allocation of vaccines against COVID-19 and vaccination communication in Thailand9. Resurgence of COVID-19 in Indonesia:Response to the critical second wave of pandemic10.Coronavirus disease(COVID-19) and vaccine epidemiology in Malaysia11.COVID-19 in Bangladesh:A spatio-Temporal and Gender analysis. 12.Crowded out:The pandemic’s toll on non-COVID patients in India Africa13.COVID-19:Work,economic activity and its geo-spatiotemporal distribution in South Africa14. Analyzing the dual nature of responses to COVID-19 in Lusaka city15.COVID-19 patterns and waves in West Africa:A geographical perspectiveEurope16.Current development and impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy17. The pandemic in France reveals the vulnerability of society18. Without risk? A sociological analysis of the vaccination programme in England19. COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: How a mixed welfare regime has responded to the Pandemic. Americas 20.COVID-19 in Canada:Vaccination and the effects of the pandemic on health care workers and healthcare systems 21.Geographic patterns of COVID-19 vaccination,infection and mortality in the United States during year-two of the pandemic and the influence of political orientation22.COVID-19 vaccine hesitation in young adults and mitigation policies in the United States23. Vaccination in Mexico as a political strategy24. Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic on health services in Argentina25. COVID-19 in Brazil: The experience of collecting citizen data in the city of Rio de Janeiro26.Conclusion and Suggestions Index
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Theologischer Verlag Zwischen Ungleichheit Und Gerechtigkeit:
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NIAS Press Breast Cancer Meanings: Journeys Across Asia:
Book SynopsisBreast cancer is now the most common cancer among women in most Asian countries. Many lives are at stake. Even in places where state-of-the-art medical services are available, thousands of women in Asia are dying of the disease largely due to late presentation compared to women in most Western countries. While much progress has been made in Western medical science to treat breast cancer, it appears that there are significant socio-cultural considerations and contexts in Asia that limit the efficacy of Western-based health-care methods. This volume presents conversations across Asia with breast cancer patients, their caregivers, doctors, traditional healers as well as just ordinary men and women - all on the subject of breast cancer meanings. Through the stories as told by local peoples in Asia about how they think and talk about breast cancer, as well as how they respond to the disease, insights on breast cancer meanings emerge. These offer new understandings into how local contexts shape those meanings and life courses - and hopefully will help medical practitioners devise new strategies to combat the disease.
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World Health Organization International certificate of vaccination
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