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19 produkter
AIDS Doctors
Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History
Av Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Ronald Bayer
E-bok, 2002
420 kr
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Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the …
Public Health Ethics
Theory, Policy, and Practice
Av Bonnie Steinbock, Bruce Jennings m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
793 kr
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Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by …
Shattered Dreams
An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
Av Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer
E-bok, 2007
437 kr
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Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world''s most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on interviews-not only from the great urban centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban-but from provincial centers and rural …
AIDS Doctors
Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History
Av Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer
Häftad, 2003
653 kr
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Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the …
Shattered Dreams?
An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
Av Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Ronald Bayer
Inbunden, 2007
821 kr
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On April 27th, 1994, the people of South Africa voted in their first democratic election, bringing down the curtain on 46 years of Apartheid. But, at the very moment of transition, the seeds of a grave epidemic had already been sown. AIDS has indelibly marked the era since the Apartheid's end, …
Backlash
The War on Public Health
Av Amy Lauren Fairchild, Cheryl G. Healton m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
611 kr
Kommande
During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States took an almost uniform approach to prevention: around ninety percent of the country was practicing some degree of social distancing, wearing protective masks, and living under some degree of stay-at-home order. By the summer of …
Shattered Dreams
An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
Av Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer
E-bok, 2007
437 kr
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Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world''s most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on interviews-not only from the great urban centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban-but from provincial centers and rural …
Public Health Ethics
Theory, Policy, and Practice
Av Bonnie Steinbock, Bruce Jennings m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
793 kr
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Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by …
Searching Eyes
Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
Av Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
278 kr
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This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control …
Searching Eyes
Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
Av James Colgrove, Ronald Bayer m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
464 kr
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This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control …
Unfiltered
Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health
Inbunden, 2004
950 kr
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Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the twentieth century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette smoking has been transformed into an activity that reflects sharp differences in social status. Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking …
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry
The Politics of Diagnosis
Av Ronald Bayer
Häftad, 1987
682 kr
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In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by the Board's action, a substantial number of dissident psychiatrists charged the association's …
Mortal Secrets
Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
Av Robert Klitzman, Ronald Bayer
Inbunden, 2003
635 kr
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In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront …
Mortal Secrets
Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
Av Robert Klitzman, Ronald Bayer
Häftad, 2005
368 kr
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In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront …
Private Acts, Social Consequences
Av Ronald Bayer
E-bok, 2010
266 kr
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In this timely, penetrating analysis, Ronald Bayer examines the legal and political implications of creating and implementing an effective and rational nationwide health policy that balances public safety with private freedom.
In Search of Equity
Health Needs and the Health Care System
Av Ronald Bayer
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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I Several years ago, when the Carter administration announced that it would support congressional action to end the public fund ing of abortions, the President was asked at a press conference whether he thought that such a policy was unfair; he responded, "Life is unfair." His remarks provoked a …
In Search of Equity
Health Needs and the Health Care System
Av Ronald Bayer
Häftad, 2012
551 kr
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I Several years ago, when the Carter administration announced that it would support congressional action to end the public fund ing of abortions, the President was asked at a press conference whether he thought that such a policy was unfair; he responded, "Life is unfair." His remarks provoked a …
E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction
History, Evidence, and Policy
Av Virginia Berridge, Ronald Bayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
567 kr
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This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject of much public, media and regulatory attention, with discussion centring on …
E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction : History, Evidence, and Policy
Av Virginia Berridge, Ronald Bayer
2023
686 kr
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