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Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Reader by Geraldine Lee Treweek
RRP: £29.99£13.69Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is an emerging and increasingly popular group of treatments, therapies and philosophies of health and wellbeing. It is a fascinating and fast-changing area of social life, which also poses an interesting... -
Relating Experience: Stories from Health and Social Care Caroline Malone 9780415326582
RRP: £24.99£21.81This reader provides a diverse selection of accounts of interpersonal communication and relationships in the context of health and social care. Most of the contributions are personal narratives by people using or working in care services; the majority... -
Engaging Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in Health Research: 'Hard to Reach'? Demystifying the Misconceptions Natalie Darko (De Montfort University) 9781447359128
RRP: £80.00£60.87In this crucial contribution to current debates, Natalie Darko exposes the misconception that health research and health services are equally effective for all and highlights their failures in engaging with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups. ... -
Regulating Creation: The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction by Trudo Lemmens
RRP: £37.00£32.82In 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada. Fully in force by 2007, the act was intended to safeguard and promote the health, safety, dignity, and rights of Canadians. However, a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada... -
Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach Eileen Berlin Ray 9780805847574
RRP: £115.00£99.76Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication. This text contains detailed case studies that demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in... -
The Handbook of European Welfare Systems by Klaus Schubert
RRP: £43.99£39.44This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter... -
Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty: The Contested Governance of Health by Tarryn Phillips
RRP: £32.99£29.16We've seen it before, with asbestos-related disease, leukaemia clusters and lung cancer caused by cigarettes. There tends to be a lag between the emergence of environmental risks and chemical injuries, and their recognition and therapeutic treatment by... -
Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction: Just Habits by Kate Seear
RRP: £33.99£30.00This book considers how largely accepted 'legal truths' about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering. Lawyers play a vital and largely underappreciated role in constituting legal certainties about substances and... -
Understanding Public Health: Productive Processing of Internal and External Reality by Klaus Hurrelmann
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book develops a new model of the genesis of health, on the basis of the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Hurrelmann and Richter build upon the basic theories of health and the popular model of salutogenesis to offer a... -
False Positive: Private Profit in Canada's Medical Laboratories by Ross Sutherland
RRP: £19.95£16.39Offering a daring expose of Canada's laboratory system, this investigation unveils its historical and contemporary development, contending that its landscape has been heavily influenced by private, for-profit companies to the detriment of public health... -
Hospital Survival Guide: The Patient Handbook to Getting Better and Getting Out David Sherer 9781630061630
RRP: £14.99£9.88WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE AN OPERATION IN JULY AND OTHER LIFESAVING ADVICE! "This book offers practical advice about how to keep yourself free from harm and error in hospitals, and how to assert yourself in cases such as getting stuck with a bad... -
Grief on the Front Lines: Reckoning with Trauma, Grief, and Humanity in Modern Medicine by Rachel Jones
RRP: £17.99£12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623176402Author Rachel JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories by Sally Goold
RRP: £135.00£117.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975742228Author Sally GooldFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint eContent Management Pty LtdPublisher eContent Management Pty LtdWeight(grams) 386g -
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
RRP: £18.00£13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478060Author Ben GoldacreFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice by Lynn M. Harter
RRP: £58.99£51.48This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narratives, Health, and Healing emphasizes what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where... -
The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out by Julius B. Richmond
RRP: £26.95£21.41If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in... -
Rethinking Obesity: Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times Lee F. Monaghan 9781138999749
RRP: £36.99£32.53Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific... -
Community Involvement in Health: From Passive Recipients to Active Participants by Jan Smithies
RRP: £35.99£32.09Published in 1998. This book brings together both the history of community involvement and health and ideas and proposals for further developing the potential of this approach. It explores the roots and branches of community involvement, drawing together... -
Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime: Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course Susan Pickard (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781138351929
RRP: £135.00£117.28The current (postfeminist) gender order comprises a highly complex coexistence of old and new norms and expectations, freedom and constraints, within a neoliberal social order underpinned by individualism and involving a shift in gender performance by... -
Reframing Health and Health Policy in Ireland: A Governmental Analysis by Claire Edwards
RRP: £90.00£64.42This edited collection is the first to apply the theoretical lens of post-Foucauldian governmentality to an analysis of health problems, practices, and policy in Ireland. Drawing on empirical examples related to childhood, obesity, mental health,... -
The Environment and Social Policy by Michael Cahill
RRP: £135.00£117.28Focusing on human welfare and the environment from a social policy perspective, this text shows how environmental concerns are becoming increasingly central to policy-making and discusses the roles of central and local government in relation to... -
Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems by Jacqueline Broerse
RRP: £36.99£32.53Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of... -
The Patient's Checklist: 10 Simple Hospital Checklists to Keep You Safe, Sane, and Organised (Revised) by Elizabeth Bailey
RRP: £12.99£7.51"I've been pushing for people to understand how checklists work and can be made to empower them. Bailey has done precisely this for patients--that is, for all of us."--Atul Gawande Whether you're addressing the rising chaos of a pandemic or preparing for... -
The Prevention of Tuberculosis (Routledge Revivals) by Sir Arthur Newsholme
RRP: £34.99£30.85First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced. The third part of the book then focuses on measures for reducing and... -
Illicit Medicines in the Global South: Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation? by Mathieu Quet
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries. The book analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, showing how the entanglement of market and health... -
How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace by Paul D. Blanc
RRP: £25.00£19.99This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day - a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a... -
Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine: Sociological Perspectives Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra, Australia. SHARP Professor, Leader, the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre.) 9780367321864
RRP: £39.99£35.06Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical monitoring... -
Issues and Opportunities in Primary Health Care for Children in Europe: The Final Summarised Results of the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) Project Mitch Blair (Imperial College London, UK) 9781789733549
RRP: £20.99£18.15The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book reports on a project which studied of how primary care services are delivered to children. The study, the first of its kind, has been undertaken over three... -
Primary Hiv Clinical Care, 5th by Clive Evian
RRP: £32.00£26.77A practical guide for doctors and nurse clinicians in treating and managing people with HIV, this fifth edition addresses the essential medical care for people infected with HIV as well as issues relating to the epidemic in general. It is ideal for those... -
Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia by Christian Aspalter
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of... -
Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People Christine Ceci 9780415849890
RRP: £51.99£45.19Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering... -
Planning in Health Promotion Work: An Empowerment Model by Roar Amdam
RRP: £48.99£42.66Community development, planning and partnerships have become important terms in health promotion but, up until now, debate around these concepts have been discussed more in planning science than in public health literature. Roar Amdam draws on theories... -
How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection: Using Psychology to Optimize Healthcare Interactions Christine J. Ko 9780367769475
RRP: £25.99£22.63How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection offers actionable steps for improving communication between health professionals and patients based on visual, auditory, and emotional understanding from the principles of cognitive psychology.Drawing on the... -
Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line by Sharon R. Kaufman
RRP: £89.00£77.62Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see-it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and... -
Communication Perspectives on HIV/AIDS for the 21st Century by Timothy M. Edgar
RRP: £45.99£40.53Reflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, moving forward from the 1992 publication AIDS: A Communication Perspective. Editors Timothy Edgar, Seth M... -
Pandemic Economics by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk
£89.61Discussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of COVID-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockdown caused... -
Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems Jacqueline Broerse (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 9780415888417
RRP: £135.00£117.68Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of... -
Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
£12.21The definitive story of American health care today,its causes, consequences, and confusionsIn March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of... -
Breaking the Headache Cycle by Livingston 9780805072211
RRP: £13.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805072211Author LivingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution by Gerald Markowitz 9780520275829
RRP: £30.00£23.29"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...