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In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process by Ruth Horowitz 9780813554266
RRP: £39.00£26.39How 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 questions, using medical licensing and discipline to... -
Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting and Policymaking by Rachel Grob 9780813551364
RRP: £38.00£25.95Within 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... -
With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland by Samantha Solimeo 9780813545448
RRP: £35.00£22.81Far from celebrity media spotlight, ordinary individuals, many older and less advantaged, suffer the disabling pain of Parkinson's Disease (PD), an illness whose progressive symptoms often mimic old age and cause mobility impairment, communication... -
Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made it Happen by Bonnie Lefkowitz 9780813539126
RRP: £37.00£23.76The 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... -
Classrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 by Richard A. Meckel 9780813562407
RRP: £134.00£88.73Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early... -
Organ Shortage: The Solutions - Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, 13-15 June 1994 by J. L. Touraine 9780792331797
RRP: £146.00£72.17This text is part of the Continuing Education series, organized by Fondation Marcel Merieux and Universite Claude Bernard in Lyon where the annual subject is chosen to reflect the status of the topical issues of the year, as taught by leading... -
End-of-Life Care: Bridging Disability and Aging with Person Centered Care by William C. Gaventa 9780789030733
£36.19Two cogent arguments about end-of-life care and carefully reasoned responses from experts End-of-Life Care: Bridging Disability and Aging with Person Centered Care features two primary papers on the controversial issue of end-of-life care within the... -
End-of-Life Care: Bridging Disability and Aging with Person Centered Care by William C. Gaventa 9780789030726
RRP: £110.00£67.73Two cogent arguments about end-of-life care and carefully reasoned responses from experts End-of-Life Care: Bridging Disability and Aging with Person Centered Care features two primary papers on the controversial issue of end-of-life care within the... -
Access, Quality and Satisfaction with Care: Concerns of Patients, Providers and Insurers by Jennie Kronenfeld 9780762313204
£99.83Traditionally in health services research, cost, quality and access to care have been viewed as the three major issues of health care delivery and have been important in the development of health services research as a multidisciplinary way to examine... -
A Plan for a Single-Payer Health Care System: The Best Health Care in the World by Charles H Chen 9780595471584
£8.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595471584Author Charles H ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 152g -
Where are the Physicians?: Preventing A Physician Shortage and Curtailed Healthcare Services by Lindsay L Pratt 9780595433032
£7.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595433032Author Lindsay L PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 177g -
On The Path to Becoming A Physician by Venkatachala I Sreenivas 9780595404179
£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595404179Author Venkatachala I SreenivasFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 168g -
Affordable Health Insurance in America: Secrets and Tips to Help You in Your Search for Medical Coverage by Edwin S IV Havens 9780595386130
£6.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595386130Author Edwin S IV HavensFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 159g -
Voices of Healthcare: The Digital Acceleration by Matt Cybulsky 9780578910475
RRP: £16.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578910475Author Matt CybulskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Behavoral Insights LLCPublisher Behavoral Insights LLCWeight(grams) 413g -
The Case Manager's Survival Guide: Winning Strategies for Clinical Practice by Toni G Cesta 9780323082594
£44.87This practical, "hands-on" guide includes vital information every case manager and administrator of a case management program need to be successful. A useful resource for working in the changing face of healthcare, it addresses case managers in... -
The International Handbook of Health Care Systems by Richard B. Saltman 9780313241116
£72.57[P]rovides a useful compendium of miscellaneous information on a large number of countries, much of which is not usually available in English. Choice The work is valuable in providing background for health statistics from different sources. As it shows... -
Moving and Shaking American Medicine: The Structure of a Socioeconomic Transformation by Betty Leyerle 9780313240201
£55.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313240201Author Betty LeyerleFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Puerto Rican Women and Children: Issues in Health, Growth and Development by Gontram Lamberty 9780306446153
£72.17Wide-ranging, lengthy collection of papers on Puerto Ricans on the mainland and the island includes Clara E. Rodriguez's historical review of Puerto Rican immigration to the US. Other chapters present information on Puerto Rican fertility, the problem of... -
The Meaning of AIDS: Implications for Medical Science, Clinical Practice, and Public Health Policy by Eric T. Juengst 9780275926465
£83.24The editors of this remarkable volume have collected 18 essays by humanists about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS seems to seek out as its victims the weakest and already victimized, writes Albert R. Jonsen, describing the inhumanity of this... -
Violence in Dating Relationships: Emerging Social Issues by Jan E. Stets 9780275930042
£83.64This extremely valuable collection of fourteen chapters is divided into two sections, with the first section covering research on physical abuse in dating relationships and the second section covering the issue of sexual abuse in dating relationships... -
The New Economics of Health Care: DRGs, Case Mix, and the Prospective Payments System (PPS) by Raymond R. Arons 9780275914219
£83.24The purpose of this tudy was to measure how well diagnostic related groupings (DRGs) perform as length of stay predictors. This study performed a length of stay analysis on the 44,546 patient discharge abstracts from the Presbyterian Hospital in the City... -
Accidental Intolerance: How We Stigmatize ADHD and How We Can Stop by Susan C. C. Hawthorne 9780199977383
RRP: £68.00£47.41In Accidental Intolerance, Susan Hawthorne argues that in the past few decades, our medical, scientific, and social approaches to ADHD have jointly - but unintentionally-reinforced intolerance of ADHD- diagnosed people. We have packed social values, such... -
Bridging the Gap: How Community Health Workers Promote the Health of Immigrants by Sally E. Findley 9780199364329
RRP: £61.00£48.81Immigrants living in US cities face myriad obstacles to accessing quality health care. This inequitable access to care is compounded by the risk of chronic disease accompanying the stress, strain, and lifestyle changes that can come with life in a new... -
The Economics of Infectious Disease by Jennifer A. Roberts 9780198516224
£58.70Infectious diseases once considered vanquished in the developed world now represent a growing challenge to public health care systems. Not only do we face threats from new diseases such as AIDS, MRSA, SARS and Avian Flu, but old scourges such as... -
Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care by Jane Banaszak-Holl 9780195388305
RRP: £31.99£30.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prevention Practice in Primary Care by Sherri Sheinfeld-Gorin 9780195373011
RRP: £89.00£63.31Amid the ongoing changes in how health care is administered and financed, prevention-oriented care is a critical and cost-effective method for improving population health through primary care. As the key figure in promoting patients' health and... -
High Stakes: The Critical Role of Stakeholders in Health Care by David A. Shore 9780195326253
RRP: £69.00£54.30The United States health care system is broken. Critics and commentators point to the staggering costs of health care, the shrinking insurance coverage, and the diminishing access that many U.S. citizens have to essential services and treatments. These... -
The Practice of International Health: A Case-Based Orientation by Daniel Perlman 9780195310276
RRP: £57.00£44.82Virtually every school of public health teaches a global health course, yet the major textbooks provide little on the actual practice of international health. This new book comprises a series of vivid first person accounts in which physicians,... -
The Health of Populations: General Theories and Practical Realities by Stephen J. Kunitz 9780195308075
RRP: £72.00£59.26In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While this area of research deals in complex problems, it is... -
Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States by Richard J. Wolitski 9780195301533
RRP: £66.00£54.15Most public health students, academics, and practitioners recognise the association between racial/ethnic minority status and the disproportionate burden of preventable disease in the USA. Much less attention has been directed, however, towards the... -
Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Edward C. Chang 9780195179064
RRP: £127.50£94.20The Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians represents a historically remarkable global collaboration among leading experts of psychopathology in Asian adults. Chapters provide critical appraisals of existing research and theory as they relate to... -
Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America by Susan E. Lederer 9780195161502
RRP: £42.99£31.79Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the... -
AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty by Eileen Stillwaggon 9780195169270
RRP: £49.49£43.87AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and delivers a telling critique of AIDS policy. Drawing on a wealth of scientific evidence, Stillwaggon demonstrates that HIV/AIDS cannot be... -
Monitoring the Health of Populations: Statistical Principles and Methods for Public Health Surveillance by Ron Brookmeyer 9780195146493
RRP: £92.00£77.00Public health faces critical challenges ranging from outbreaks of new and old pathogens to the threat of bioterrorism and the impact of lifestyle and environmental changes on health. Modern tools of health surveillance and sound statistical practices are... -
The Heart of Long-Term Care by Rosalie A. Kane 9780195122381
RRP: £55.00£45.92Long-term care in the United States has taken the nursing home as its benchmark, but the monetary, social, and psychological costs of nursing home care are all too high. This book challenges the current dominance of nursing homes as the principal... -
Social Work With HIV and AIDS: A Case-Based Guide by Diana Rowan 9780190616380
RRP: £80.00£63.71More than thirty years after the first reported case of AIDS in the United States, we are fortunate to live in a time when, with proper medical treatment, a person with HIV or AIDS can live a long and fulfilling life. The social, economic, and... -
Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business by John A. Quelch 9780190235123
RRP: £61.00£48.81The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health... -
Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor by Eli Ginzberg 9780300209068
£13.81Academic health centers (AHCs) have played a key role in propelling the United States to world leadership in technological advances in medicine. At the same time, however, many of these urban-based hospitals have largely ignored the medical care of their... -
HIV Prevention With Latinos: Theory, Research, and Practice by Kurt C. Organista 9780199764303
RRP: £80.00£63.71According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Latinos now comprise 16% of the general population as they continue to be one of the fastest-growing populations in the United States. However, according to recent CDC data, Latinos also account for a disproportionately... -
Handbook of Research Methods in Health by Ann Bowling 9780335214600 [USED COPY]
RRP: £39.99£2.53"an ideal set text" Angela Scriven, Course Leader, Brunel UniversityWhich research method should I use to evaluate services?How do I design a questionnaire?How do I conduct a systematic review of research?This handbook helps researchers to plan, carry...