Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series – serie
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42 produkter
Embodying Inequality
Epidemiologic Perspectives
Häftad, 2016
979 kr
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To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" …
How to Choose?
A Comparison of the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems
Av Robert Chernomas, Ardeshir Sepehri
Häftad, 2019
545 kr
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Part I of this book explores the economists debate over the relative costs of the two health care systems. Part II explores the debate about access and quality of outcomes in the U.S. and Canadian systems. Part III of this book incorporates surveys and debate on the U.S. and Canadian health care …
Occupational Health and Safety
International Influences and the New Epidemics
Av Chris Peterson, Claire Mayhew
Häftad, 2018
844 kr
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This text provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging OSH (Occupational Health and Safety) epidemics across the industrialized world. The author of each chapter in this book deals with exposure to a particular OSH hazard and examines the epidemic nature of …
Stress at Work
A Sociological Perspective
Häftad, 2018
670 kr
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This book provides a theoretical background to occupational stress, and traces the early work of Hans Selye and the development of bio-physiological, psychological and then sociological models of stress. It also reports on a study of stress and ill-health in a large manufacturing organisation in …
Women and Health
The Politics of Sex in Medicine
Häftad, 2019
665 kr
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In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, Women and Health explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women. Specific sections address the women's health movement, birth control and childbirth, women in the health labor …
Health and Medical Care in the U.S.
A Critical Analysis
Inbunden, 2019
1562 kr
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A collection of papers that challenge the conventional analyses of the problems facing health, medicine and medical care in Western societies in general, and North America in particular.
International Perspective
An International Perspective
Av Vicente Navarro, Daniel Berman
Inbunden, 2019
1562 kr
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While the health effects of many aspects of life, from diet to marital status, have been extensively explored, little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers, the role of unions in worker protection, and occupational health in both developed and …
Imperialism, Health and Medicine
Inbunden, 2019
1562 kr
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Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.
Organization of Health Workers and Labor Conflict
Av Samuel Wolfe
Inbunden, 2019
2190 kr
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Offers insights into such contemporary issues as health workers' unions, labor conflicts in health care facilities, and underlying class and class related sex and ethnic conflicts that beset the health sector.
Readings in the Political Economy of Aging
Av Meredith Minkler, Carroll Estes
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
Why the United States Does Not Have a National Health Program
Av Vicente Navarro, Vicente Navarro
Inbunden, 2019
2190 kr
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This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. They, and not the people, are those who determine the policies of the U.S. government. The volume shows how the United States could indeed provide …
Imperialism, Health and Medicine
Häftad, 1981
955 kr
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Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.
Women and Health
The Politics of Sex in Medicine
Inbunden, 1983
2594 kr
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In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, Women and Health explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women. Specific sections address the women's health movement, birth control and childbirth, women in the health labor …
Readings in the Political Economy of Aging
Av Meredith Minkler, Carroll Estes
Häftad, 1984
1681 kr
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Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
Critical Perspectives on Aging
The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
Av Meredith Minkler, Carroll Estes
Häftad, 1990
1102 kr
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This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the …
Critical Perspectives on Aging
The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
Av Meredith Minkler, Carroll Estes
Inbunden, 1991
1526 kr
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This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the …
Psychosocial Work Environment
Work Organization, Democratization, and Health : Essays in Memory of Bertil Gardell
Av Jeffrey Johnson, Bertil Gardell m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
924 kr
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Dedicated to the late Bertil Gardell, a Swedish Social Scientist, this text comprises of 18 essays that shares a common vision - the impact of work on the interconnected processes of stress and disease.
Corporate Transformation of Health Care
Part 2: Perspectives and Implications
Häftad, 1993
924 kr
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This new volume illuminates the growing corporate in-roads into the health care system and its probable consequences, especially for physicians and other practitioners. Its fourteen contributors examine both the delivery and supply functions in the health sector in America. Ambulatory care, …
Why the United States Does Not Have a National Health Program
Häftad, 1992
1829 kr
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This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. They, and not the people, are those who determine the policies of the U.S. government. The volume shows how the United States could indeed provide …
Women's Health, Politics, and Power
Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health
Av Elizabeth Fee, Nancy Krieger
Inbunden, 1994
2519 kr
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This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women's health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women's health movement in …
AIDS
The Politics of Survival
Inbunden, 1994
1571 kr
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In one short decade, the politics of AIDS has become the politics of survival. In a world whose social order is changing before our eyes, AIDS insistently brings new meaning to the age-old question of what it is we must do to survive-as individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as …
Everyday Bioethics
Reflections on Bioethical Choices in Daily Life
Häftad, 2003
759 kr
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"Everyday Bioethics" suggests a new perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society. It is based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the new development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns all …
Political Economy of Social Inequalities
Consequences for Health and Quality of Life
Häftad, 2001
1613 kr
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In the last two decades of the 20th century, we witnessed a dramatic growth in social inequalities within and among countries. This has had a most negative impact on the health and quality of life of large sectors of the populations in the developed and underdeveloped world. This volume analyzes …
Political And Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being:
Controversies and Developments
Av Vincente Navarro, Carles Muntaner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2557 kr
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The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of …
Cancer-gate
How to Win the Losing Cancer War
Inbunden, 2005
3223 kr
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Award-winning author, Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., whose 1978 book ""The Politics of Cancer"" shook the political establishment by showing how the federal government had been corrupted by industrial polluters, has written a book that is sure to be of equal consequence. ""Cancer-Gate: How to Win the …
Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities
Consequences for Health and Quality of Life
Inbunden, 2007
2557 kr
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Since U.S. President Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives: privatizing …
Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities
Consequences for Health and Quality of Life
Häftad, 2007
1225 kr
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Since U.S. President Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives: privatizing …
Cancer-gate
How to Win the Losing Cancer War
Häftad, 2019
985 kr
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Award-winning author, Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., whose 1978 book ""The Politics of Cancer"" shook the political establishment by showing how the federal government had been corrupted by industrial polluters, has written a book that is sure to be of equal consequence. ""Cancer-Gate: How to Win the …
Financial and Economic Crises and Their Impact on Health and Social Well-Being
Av Vicente Navarro, Carles Muntaner
Inbunden, 2014
2203 kr
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This volume provides a timely collection of the most germane studies and commentaries on the complex links between recent changes in national economies, welfare regimes, social inequalities, and population health. Drs. Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner have selected 24 representative articles, …
Financial and Economic Crises and Their Impact on Health and Social Well-Being
Av Vicente Navarro, Carles Muntaner
Häftad, 2014
955 kr
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This volume provides a timely collection of the most germane studies and commentaries on the complex links between recent changes in national economies, welfare regimes, social inequalities, and population health. Drs. Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner have selected 24 representative articles, …
