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Beyond Regulations
Ethics in Human Subjects Research
Av Jane Stein
Häftad, 1999
504 kr
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This is a re-examination of research ethics across a broad range of disciplines. It combines case studies and commentaries by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and researchers to explore such issues as informed consent, conflict of interest, confidentiality, and research on illegal behaviour. …
Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter
A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice
Häftad, 1999
548 kr
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The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health …
Tuskegee's Truths
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Häftad, 2000
753 kr
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Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for ""bad …
Devices and Desires
Gender, Technology, and American Nursing
Häftad, 2000
519 kr
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Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurses have necessarily used a variety of tools, instruments, and machines--from …
Dying in the City of the Blues
Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
Av Keith Wailoo
Häftad, 2001
475 kr
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Understanding the connections between culture, race, politics, and disease This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an ""invisible"" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and …
Wages of Sickness
The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
Häftad, 2001
519 kr
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The Clinton administration's failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United States. From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful crusade for compulsory health insurance in New York State. …
Bodies in a Broken World
Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine
Häftad, 2003
580 kr
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In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked. Drawing on feminist ethics to explore the work of eleven novelists, …
Prozac As a Way of Life
Av Tod Chambers
Häftad, 2004
475 kr
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Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders - from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions - has …
Bioethics As Practice
Av Judith Andre
Häftad, 2004
490 kr
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Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds: health care, philosophy, law, social sciences, religious studies, and more. The work they do also varies widely. Writing as a participant in this developing field, Judith Andre offers a model to unify its …
Death Retold
Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
Häftad, 2006
475 kr
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In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight - she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the …
Colonizing Leprosy
Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States
Häftad, 2007
475 kr
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By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, ""Colonizing Leprosy"" provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
Infertility Treadmill
Feminist Ethics, Personal Choice, and the Use of Reproductive Technologies
Häftad, 2007
390 kr
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Combining attention to lived experience with the critical tools of ethics, Karey Harwood explores why many women who use the tools of high-tech assisted reproduction tend to use them repeatedly, even when the results are unsuccessful. With a compassionate look at the individual decision making …
Infectious Fear
Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Häftad, 2009
519 kr
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This title uncovers the links between race, class, and health. For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was …
Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Carla Bittel
Häftad, 2020
535 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and that women physicians endangered the …
Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion
Häftad, 2009
447 kr
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Is there a place for complementary and alternative therapies in modern health care? One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional (or biomedical) care with complementary and alternative medical (CAM) …
Pharmacopolitics
Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
Häftad, 2011
475 kr
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Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will supersede national medical practices and result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by …
If That Ever Happens to Me
Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo
Häftad, 2012
357 kr
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Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain …
AIDS Pandemic
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations
Häftad, 2015
709 kr
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In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population - infected and uninfected - by …
Doctoring the South
Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2014
548 kr
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Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe …
Science Has No Sex
The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.
Häftad, 2014
565 kr
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German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. …
Bittersweet
Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness
Häftad, 2015
475 kr
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One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. The drug produced astonishing results, rescuing children and adults from the deadly grip of diabetes. But as Chris Feudtner demonstrates, the subsequent transformation of the disease from a fatal condition …
What's Wrong with the Poor?
Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty
Av Mical Raz
Häftad, 2016
362 kr
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In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, …
Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice
New Conversations Across the Disciplines
Inbunden, 2016
1236 kr
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Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for informedanalyses of health policy is greater than ever. The twelve original essays inthis volume show that common public debates routinely bypass complexethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we shouldaddress …
Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice
New Conversations Across the Disciplines
Häftad, 2016
475 kr
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Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for informedanalyses of health policy is greater than ever. The twelve original essays inthis volume show that common public debates routinely bypass complexethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we shouldaddress …
Old and Sick in America
The Journey Through the Health Care System
Inbunden, 2017
1236 kr
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Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the office to the hospital …
Old and Sick in America
The Journey Through the Health Care System
Häftad, 2017
402 kr
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Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the office to the hospital …
Abortion After Roe
Abortion After Legalization
Häftad, 2017
447 kr
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Abortion is - and always has been - an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodies. In the four decades that …
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture
Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan
Inbunden, 2018
1163 kr
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Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their …
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture
Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan
Häftad, 2018
373 kr
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Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their …
No Game for Boys to Play
The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis
Inbunden, 2019
1236 kr
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From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boys—some as young as five years old—who play the sport every year. In this book, Kathleen Bachynksi offers the …
