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Abortion Care As Moral Work
Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies
Häftad, 2022
325 kr
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Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their …
History and Health Policy in the United States
Putting the Past Back in
Av Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
417 kr
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In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry …
Community Health Centers
A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen
Häftad, 2007
417 kr
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has placed a national spotlight on the shameful state of healthcare for America's poor. In the face of this highly publicized disaster, public health experts are more concerned than ever about persistent disparities that result from income and race. This book …
Just Don't Get Sick
Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform
Av Karen Seccombe, Kim A. Hoffman
Häftad, 2007
468 kr
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The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The low-wage jobs that individuals …
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion
A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
Häftad, 2007
455 kr
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Winner of the 2008 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association and Nominated for the 2008 William H. Welch Medal, AAHMThough notorious for its polluted air today, the city of Los Angeles once touted itself as a health resort. After the arrival of the transcontinental …
Truth About Health Care
Why Reform Is not Working in America
Häftad, 2008
333 kr
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The United States spends greatly more per person on health care than any other country but the evidence shows that care is often poor and inappropriate. Despite expenditures of 1.7 trillion dollars in 2003, and growing substantially each year, services remain fragmented and poorly coordinated, and …
Under the Radar
Cancer and the Cold War
Inbunden, 2008
433 kr
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At the end of the Second World War, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Sixty years later, it is considered a chronic disease rather than one that is invariably fatal. Although survival rates have improved, the very word continues to evoke a special terror and guilt, inspiring scientists …
Medical Research for Hire
The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Häftad, 2008
484 kr
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Today, more than 75 percent of pharmaceutical drug trials in the United States are being conducted in the private sector. Once the sole province of academic researchers, these important studies are now being outsourced to non-academic physicians.According to Jill A. Fisher, this major change in the …
Cultivating Health
Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform
Inbunden, 2009
678 kr
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At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated food, lived in decaying urban tenements, and had little access to medical care. In a city that demanded change, Los Angeles women, rather than city officials, …
From Pink to Green
Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
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From the early 1980s, the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducing-even eliminating exposure to chemicals and toxins. From Pink to Green chronicles the movement's disease prevention philosophy from the …
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
Av Gerald N. Grob, Allan V. Horwitz
Häftad, 2009
484 kr
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In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. They utilize case studies and examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, PTSD, anxiety, and …
Practice Under Pressure
Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
Av Timothy Hoff
Häftad, 2009
426 kr
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Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first centuryÙtheir work, …
Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
Av David J. Rothman, David Blumenthal
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional implications of the new technology. These essays explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between …
Fit to Be Tied
Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980
Häftad, 2011
426 kr
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The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a …
Alternative History of Hyperactivity
Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
Inbunden, 2011
915 kr
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In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in the United States. He contended that the epidemic should not be treated with drugs such as Ritalin but, instead, …
Patients As Policy Actors
Av Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1506 kr
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Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the …
Patients As Policy Actors
Av Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
468 kr
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Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the …
Testing Baby
The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking
Av Rachel Grob
Inbunden, 2011
1139 kr
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Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving lives. Yet many lives are also …
Testing Baby
The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking
Av Rachel Grob
Häftad, 2011
443 kr
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Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving lives. Yet many lives are also …
Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers
Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox
Inbunden, 2011
1147 kr
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According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia GÁlvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican …
Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers
Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia GÁlvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican …
Morning After
A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
Inbunden, 2011
1506 kr
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Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-million industry in the United States and throughout the Western world. But emergency contraception is nothing new. It has a long and often contentious …
Morning After
A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-million industry in the United States and throughout the Western world. But emergency contraception is nothing new. It has a long and often contentious …
Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities
Av Paige Hall Smith, Bernice Hausman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1552 kr
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Current public health promotion of breastfeeding relies heavily on health messaging and individual behavior change. Women are told that “breast is best” but too little serious attention is given to addressing the many social, economic, and political factors that combine to limit women’s real choice …
Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities
Av Paige Hall Smith, Bernice Hausman m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
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413 kr
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Current public health promotion of breastfeeding relies heavily on health messaging and individual behavior change. Women are told that “breast is best” but too little serious attention is given to addressing the many social, economic, and political factors that combine to limit women’s real choice …
Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World
Av Mark A. Hall, Sara Rosenbaum
Inbunden, 2012
1506 kr
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The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. The “safety net” refers to the collection of hospitals, clinics, and doctors who treat disadvantaged people, including those …
Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World
Av Mark A. Hall, Sara Rosenbaum
Häftad, 2012
417 kr
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The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. The “safety net” refers to the collection of hospitals, clinics, and doctors who treat disadvantaged people, including those …
Vulnerable Empowered Woman
Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health
Häftad, 2012
417 kr
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Winner of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender 2013 Outstanding Book AwardWinner of the 2013 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the Feminist and Women's Division of the National Communication AssociationThe feminist women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is …
Vulnerable Empowered Woman
Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health
Inbunden, 2012
1506 kr
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Winner of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender 2013 Outstanding Book AwardWinner of the 2013 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the Feminist and Women's Division of the National Communication AssociationThe feminist women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is …
In the Public Interest
Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process
Häftad, 2012
451 kr
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Winner of the American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section 2013 Outstanding Book AwardHow do we know when physicians practice medicine safely? Can we trust doctors to discipline their own? What is a proper role of experts in a democracy? In the Public Interest raises these provocative …
