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This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.

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This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.

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Examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians and the public. -- .

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The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political and ideological upheavals of the age of reform.

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This book provides a description of the change processes that occur in psychotherapy when it is viewed from a personal construct perspective. The reconstructive process is dealt with in some depth, including the goals of personal construct therapy, the process of reconstruing and the sharing of it between therapist and client.

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This volume presents current models of coping, describes the coping process, and relates that process to environmental factors, person variables, and desirable outcomes.

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Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the ways in which benefits and opportunities are unevenly realised and distributed.

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This text discusses the roles and responsibilities of nursing faculty and deans related to student education, nursing programme management, and success within the academic and clinical environments. Topics covered include role strain, student demographics, and career progression.

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This work highlights how the introduction of third-party payers into medicine has altered the relationship between doctor and patient. It explains why patients are increasingly dissatisfied with the medical care they receive, and doctors with the way they have to practice medicine.

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A study of what phobias are, how they occur and how we can stop them.

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The book contains more than 250 photographs which are representative of the thousands that were studied. Journal of Biological Photography

With a perspective shaped by recent work in art history and the sociology of knowledge, the authors encourage the reader to analyze photographs as complicated historical documents.

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In the final chapter, Walton shows how his method functions in light of the real-life complexities of the clinical encounter and how it bears on ethical questions concerning health-care policy, attitudes toward treatment and toward the medical profession, reasonableness of expectations, and the setting of realistic goals of treatment.

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Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .

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Plague Doctors highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way each system constructs the interaction between disease and the human body.

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This book provides a complete history of plastic surgery, a description of the modern techniques and choices available, and an overview of the controversies surrounding the choice to voluntarily change your physical appearance.

Plastic surgery was historically considered a medical necessity.

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Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian Daniel Wilson help readers understand the sheer terror that gripped parents of young children every spring and summer during the first half of the 20th century as polio epidemics ran rampant.

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Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration. Ghosts are ubiquitous in contemporary critical theory and in literary and visual culture.

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Aspects of cancer and cancer therapies; medical aspects of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD); the role of the doctor, staff, and society, sexuality and loss of sexual function, surgical aspects; and anticipatory grief, acute grief, and bereavement are all discussed in this book for caregivers working with ESRD patients.

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This is a practical manual for group facilitators, informed by extensive experience. Grounded in a firm psychological evidence base, it focuses on the concrete practicalities of how to make groups vehicles for success, whether in achieving therapy or self-development, in optimising team function or in achieving specific organisational tasks.

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The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation.

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Dr Blake outlines the basic principles that have governed his practice of podiatry, lower extremity biomechanics, and sports medicine for over 40 years.