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Johns Hopkins University Press Licensed to Practice
Book SynopsisThus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact.Trade ReviewThe tale told by Professor Mohr is not a dry sequence of facts, but is instead an evocative page-turner. Mohr's description of the characters in this tale is massively evocative and filled with palace intrigue and scheming worthy of Henry II... To learn the fascinating details I refer you wholeheartedly to this marvelous depiction. -- Howard Wainer Journal of Medical Regulation Mohr presents a thoroughly researched and eminently readable account of the times, people and circumstances that led to the passage of the West Virginia licensing law and its subsequent legal challenges... Reading this fascinating and personal history of a watershed moment in physician regulation encourages one to dig deeper into the history of medical regulation. -- John Harris Social History of Medicine In sprightly prose Mohr explains how the practice of medicine came to be licensed. His archival sleuthing has unearthed a complex drama involving personalities, ideas, and interests. -- Jeffrey Kahana Journal of American History Mohr clearly explains the rationale for opposing licensing and makes it easy to understand why for over a decade legal authorities remained confused and unconvinced by the decision. This book will be a useful case study for historians attempting to make the case for the contingent nature of change to non-historian policy makers. -- Joel D. Howell Bulletin of the History of Medicine Licensed to Practice covers a lot of ground... [James C. Mohr] provides a definitive account of Dent, makes an important contribution to the history of medicine in the United States, and offers an interesting study of regulation in the Progressive era. The Federal Lawyer Licensed to Practice is a valuable contribution to the history of US medicine and public health. Mohr frames the unique features of the West Virginia law and its subsequent legal history. He presents new information on the individuals involved. West Virgina History Mohr's book does a superb job presenting not just the history and the legal debates leading to Dent, but also offers well-thought-out criticisms of the consequences of the Supreme Court's Dent decision for issues such as the medical malpractice system and the policing of physician competence post-licensure. He manages to present all of this, including the rather arcane and complex legal issues in an accessible and easily-understood manner even for those who are not steeped in constitutional law or historical research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Mohr's effective blending of engaging narrative with cogent historical analysis makes this book a useful resource for historians of medicine, legal historians, as well as those interested in social history. But the book is also appealing to medical, legal, and regulatory professionals seeking a historical perspective on medical licensing, its impact on practice, and the implementation of public health in the United States. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesTable of ContentsIntroductionProloguePart One: Background1. Medical Regulation in the United States through the Civil WarPart Two: The Medical Society of West Virginia2. Dr. Reeves and the Founding3. Building the "True Church"4. Challenges from WithinPart Three: The Board of Health5. Securing Legislation6. Exercising Power7. The Dents Confront the BoardPart Four: The Courts8. The West Virginia State Supreme Court9. Conflict and Enforcement10. The United States Supreme Court11. American Medical Practice after DentEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£40.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Licensed to Practice
Book SynopsisThus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact.Trade ReviewThe tale told by Professor Mohr is not a dry sequence of facts, but is instead an evocative page-turner. Mohr's description of the characters in this tale is massively evocative and filled with palace intrigue and scheming worthy of Henry II... To learn the fascinating details I refer you wholeheartedly to this marvelous depiction. -- Howard Wainer Journal of Medical Regulation Mohr presents a thoroughly researched and eminently readable account of the times, people and circumstances that led to the passage of the West Virginia licensing law and its subsequent legal challenges... Reading this fascinating and personal history of a watershed moment in physician regulation encourages one to dig deeper into the history of medical regulation. -- John Harris Social History of Medicine In sprightly prose Mohr explains how the practice of medicine came to be licensed. His archival sleuthing has unearthed a complex drama involving personalities, ideas, and interests. -- Jeffrey Kahana Journal of American History Mohr clearly explains the rationale for opposing licensing and makes it easy to understand why for over a decade legal authorities remained confused and unconvinced by the decision. This book will be a useful case study for historians attempting to make the case for the contingent nature of change to non-historian policy makers. -- Joel D. Howell Bulletin of the History of Medicine Licensed to Practice covers a lot of ground... [James C. Mohr] provides a definitive account of Dent, makes an important contribution to the history of medicine in the United States, and offers an interesting study of regulation in the Progressive era. The Federal Lawyer Licensed to Practice is a valuable contribution to the history of US medicine and public health. Mohr frames the unique features of the West Virginia law and its subsequent legal history. He presents new information on the individuals involved. West Virgina History Mohr's book does a superb job presenting not just the history and the legal debates leading to Dent, but also offers well-thought-out criticisms of the consequences of the Supreme Court's Dent decision for issues such as the medical malpractice system and the policing of physician competence post-licensure. He manages to present all of this, including the rather arcane and complex legal issues in an accessible and easily-understood manner even for those who are not steeped in constitutional law or historical research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Mohr's effective blending of engaging narrative with cogent historical analysis makes this book a useful resource for historians of medicine, legal historians, as well as those interested in social history. But the book is also appealing to medical, legal, and regulatory professionals seeking a historical perspective on medical licensing, its impact on practice, and the implementation of public health in the United States. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesTable of ContentsIntroductionProloguePart One: Background1. Medical Regulation in the United States through the Civil WarPart Two: The Medical Society of West Virginia2. Dr. Reeves and the Founding3. Building the "True Church"4. Challenges from WithinPart Three: The Board of Health5. Securing Legislation6. Exercising Power7. The Dents Confront the BoardPart Four: The Courts8. The West Virginia State Supreme Court9. Conflict and Enforcement10. The United States Supreme Court11. American Medical Practice after DentEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£27.06
Johns Hopkins University Press Abortion across Borders
Book SynopsisA timely examination of how restrictive policies force women to travel both within and across national borders to access abortion services. Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, attempt self-induced abortions, or even travel to less restrictive states, provinces, and countries to receive care. Abortion across Borders focuses on travel across domestic and international boundaries to terminate a pregnancy. Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis have gathered a cadre of authors to examine how restrictive policies force women to move both within and across national borders in order to reach abortion providers, often at great expense, over long distances and with significant safety risks. Taking historical and contemporary perspectives, contributors examine the situation Trade Review[Abortion across Borders] is a great example of interdisciplinary scholarship: the authors comprise several historians, a geographer, a sociologist, a psychologist, a lawyer and an architect. There is also a fair amount of politics in the book. This makes for varied approaches to each chapter, most of which focus on one country.—Sam Rowlands, Bournemouth University, British Society of Abortion Care Providers[Abortion across Borders] is a rich volume that offers new and exciting analyses.—Shannon Stettner, Literary Review of CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Christabelle SethnaPart I. Flight Risks1. Sherri Finkbine Flew to Sweden: Abortion and Disability in the Early 1960sLena Lennerhed2. From Heathrow Airport to Harley Street: The ALRA and the Travel of Nonresident Women for Abortion Services in BritainChristabelle Sethna3. The Trans-Tasman Abortion Travel Service: Abortion Services for New Zealand Women in the 1970sHayley BrownPart II. Domestic Transgressions4. All Aboard the "Abortion Express": Geographic Variability, Domestic Travel, and the 1967 British Abortion ActGayle Davis, Jane O'Neill, Clare Parker, and Sally Sheldon5. A Double Movement: The Politics of Reproductive Mobility in IrelandMary Gilmartin and Sinéad Kennedy6. Tales of Mobility: Women's Travel and Abortion Services in a Globalized AustraliaBarbara Baird7. Don't Mess with Texas: Abortion Policy, Texas StyleLori A. Brown8. Trials and Trails: The Emergence of Canada's Abortion Refugees in Prince Edward IslandCathrine Chambers, Colleen MacQuarrie, and Jo-Ann MacDonaldPart III. Democratic Transitions9. Abortion Travel and the Cost of Reproductive Choice in SpainAgata Ignaciuk10. "The Import Problem": The Travels of Our Bodies, Ourselves to Eastern EuropeAnna Bogic11. Abortion and the Catholic Church in PolandEwelina Ciaputa12. Beyond the Borders of Brexit: Traveling for Abortion Access to a Post-EU BritainNiklas BarkeContributorsIndex
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Health Disparities in the United States
Book SynopsisChallenging students to think critically about the complex web of social forces that leads to health disparities in the United States. The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health Disparities in the United States, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities. Examining the significance of this gulf for the medical community and society at large, Barr offers potential policy- and physician-based solutions for reducing health inequity in the long term. This thoroughly updated edition focuses on a new challenge the United States last experienced more than half a century ago: successive years of declining life expectancy. Barr addresses the causes of this declineTable of ContentsPreface1. Introduction to the Social Roots of Health Disparities2. What Is "Health"? How Should We Define It? How Should We Measure It?3. The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health, or, "They Call It 'Poor Health' for a Reason"4. Understanding How Low Social Status Leads to Poor Health 5. Race, Ethnicity, and Health 6. Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Which Is More Important in Affecting Health Status?7. Children's Health Disparities 8. All Things Being Equal, Does Race/Ethnicity Affect How Physicians Treat Patients?9. Why Does Race/Ethnicity Affect the Way Physicians Treat Patients?10. When, if Ever, Is It Appropriate to Use a Patient's Race/Ethnicity to Help Guide Medical Decisions?11. What Should We Do to Reduce Health Disparities?ReferencesIndex
£88.35
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
American Bar Association Family Law Section International Assisted Reproductive Technology
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£95.82
Health Administration Press The Law of Healthcare Administration
Book SynopsisHelps readers think through the issues, applying current legal principles and relevant judicial decisions. J. Stuart Showalter writes from a management perspective, emphasizing a practical understanding of legal concepts, in a style that is clear and accessible to readers without a legal background.
£111.35
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Governance of Disease Outbreaks:
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£68.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Life Sciences Law
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£36.75
World Health Organization WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation:
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£32.47
World Health Organization Management of Patient Information: Trends and
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£32.67
World Health Organization The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future:
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£42.11
WHO Regional Office for Europe Governance for Health Equity: Taking Forward the
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£28.22
WHO Regional Office for Europe What we've achieved together: report of the
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£18.60
WHO Regional Office for Europe Public Health Significance of Urban Pests
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£121.73
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Addressing diseases of poverty: an initiative to
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£18.43
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Health systems in transition template for
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