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Experiencing Politics
A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care
Häftad, 2000
419 kr
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John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough …
When Walking Fails
Mobility Problems of Adults with Chronic Conditions
Av Lisa Iezzoni
Häftad, 2003
456 kr
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Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults …
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
A Political History
Av James Wooten
Inbunden, 2005
945 kr
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This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress overcame strong opposition from business and organized labor to pass landmark legislation regulating employer-sponsored retirement and health plans. …
Sick To Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!
Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life
Av Joanne Lynn
Inbunden, 2004
1058 kr
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Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of …
Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care
Av Jeanne Daly
Inbunden, 2005
1058 kr
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Patient management is the central clinical task of medical care. Until the 1970s, there was no generally accepted method of ensuring a scientific, critical approach to clinical decision making. And while traditional clinical authority was under attack, there was increasing concern about the way in …
Death Is That Man Taking Names
Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture
Häftad, 2004
371 kr
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The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their 'right to die' - initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. …
Big Doctoring in America
Profiles in Primary Care
Häftad, 2004
412 kr
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The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical care in the United States changed dramatically. By the 1960s, the GP was almost extinct. The later …
What Price Better Health?
Hazards of the Research Imperative
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and distorted into a harmful practice. …
State of Immunity
The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
Inbunden, 2006
756 kr
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This first comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. One hundred years ago, just a handful of vaccines existed, and only …
Are We Ready?
Public Health since 9/11
Av David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz
Häftad, 2006
456 kr
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A contemporary history of a critical period, "Are We Ready?" analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed, and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's public health infrastructure. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz interviewed local, state, and federal …
Disease and Democracy
The Industrialized World Faces AIDS
Häftad, 2007
456 kr
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Disease and Democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of divergent approaches to the epidemic in the United States and several European nations is a springboard for a wide-ranging and sophisticated historical …
Medicare Matters
What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care
Häftad, 2007
456 kr
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Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health-insurance program of our time. Christine K. Cassel …
Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health
A History of Twelve Countries
Inbunden, 2007
1058 kr
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This book studies the experience of twelve countries that have broken through the limits that low incomes so often impose on human survival: China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Oman, Panama, the former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela. Most made impressive gains in life …
Searching Eyes
Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
Av Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
280 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 …
Health Care Revolution
From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition
Inbunden, 2008
1058 kr
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America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1970s. In this lucid, balanced account, Carl F. Ameringer tells how this revolution came into being …
Real Collaboration
What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed
Av Mark L. Rosenberg, Elisabeth Hayes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1190 kr
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Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to …
Real Collaboration
What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed
Av Mark L. Rosenberg, Elisabeth Hayes m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
456 kr
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Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to …
House on Fire
The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
Inbunden, 2011
491 kr
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A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a …
Pills, Power, and Policy
The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences
Inbunden, 2011
668 kr
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Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation. "Pills, Power, and Policy" …
Pills, Power, and Policy
The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences
Häftad, 2011
456 kr
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Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation. "Pills, Power, and Policy" …
House on Fire
The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
Häftad, 2011
227 kr
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A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a …
Inside National Health Reform
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. John E. …
Deceit and Denial
The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
Av Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner
Häftad, 2013
315 kr
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"Deceit and Denial" details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important …
Lead Wars
The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Av Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner
Häftad, 2014
271 kr
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In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public …
