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By: Jamie L. Feldman
ISBN: 9780897893855
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Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Christopher H. Foreman
ISBN: 9780815728757
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Publication Date: Aug 1994
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Focusing on activity devoted to the discovery, investigation, containment, and prevention of disease in the population at large, Christopher Foreman shows how uncertainty and politics complicate crucial stages of policy response, and why that response is easily misinterpreted.
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By: Julie K. Silver
ISBN: 9780275994921
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Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Jennifer Crane
ISBN: 9781526163462
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Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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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By: Christine Crudo Blackburn
ISBN: 9781498593861
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Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South explores the conditions of extreme poverty in the American South that allow Neglected Tropical Diseases to infect 12 million people in the richest country in the world.
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By: Reza Ghadimi
ISBN: 9781098387136
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Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: B. M. Burke
ISBN: 9780897893374
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Publication Date: Jul 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Prenatal testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood. Using sociological research, this book analyzes the social-psychological and ethical implications of invasive prenatal testing, particularly CVS and amniocentesis.
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By: B. M. Burke
ISBN: 9780897896337
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Publication Date: Aug 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood, and the recent discoveries by the Human Genome Project affect us all. Among the issues discussed in the new Afterword are the spread of prenatal testing, the changing meanings of pregnancy, and the perils and promises of the Human Genome Project.
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By: Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson
ISBN: 9781440879272
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Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Gayle Ormiston
ISBN: 9780313266256
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Publication Date: Feb 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In general, the contributors challenge the fundamental relationships of authority that exist between patients and health care practitioners, question the tradition of using classical ethical theories within the domain of health care, and suggest a set of different directions in which health care should develop.
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By: Diane Weiner
ISBN: 9780275961800
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Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Presents and assesses a variety of socio-cultural and behavioral factors that shape and influence lay and professional cancer prevention and control beliefs and actions.
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By: Robert A. Dorwart
ISBN: 9780865690028
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Publication Date: Jun 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Mental health policy in the United States has involved varying approaches, often reflecting the social and economic conditions of the times.
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By: Anita Chary
ISBN: 9781498505376
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Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism provides ethnographic accounts of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people in Guatemala. This volume will greatly interest scholars in anthropology, global health, and public policy by offering insight into the challenges, opportunities, and inequalities the Maya people face.
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By: James M. Smith
ISBN: 9780865692930
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Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A holistic view of the factors affecting the health of a patient beyond the illness itself, this work examines the experiences of the patient. The author argues that terminal illness may not be a tragedy, but an opportunity for emotional growth, and discusses the inadequacies of modern health care.
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By: Sally Shuttleworth
ISBN: 9781526133687
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Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .
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By: P.W. Barber
ISBN: 9781786994356
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Publication Date: Jun 2018
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A fascinating investigation into a very strange episode of scientific history. P.W. Barber tells the story of the invention, practice and downfall of psychedelic psychiatry, revealing how it shaped twentieth century understanding of mental health.
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By: P.W. Barber
ISBN: 9781786994363
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Publication Date: Jun 2018
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A fascinating investigation into a very strange episode of scientific history. P.W. Barber tells the story of the invention, practice and downfall of psychedelic psychiatry, revealing how it shaped twentieth century understanding of mental health.
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By: David McLean
ISBN: 9781845110697
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Publication Date: Oct 2005
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Provides an account of the battle against cholera. This work is based on documents in the naval towns of south-west England. The author's account exposes the struggles between local and national government, and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention.
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By: David McLean
ISBN: 9781350176171
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Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2020
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By: Woodrow Jones
ISBN: 9780313263095
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Publication Date: Jan 1994
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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.
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By: Alex Mold
ISBN: 9781526156754
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Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health How does this change over time and place Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of problem publics and their relationship with public health authorities.
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By: Arnold Birenbaum
ISBN: 9780275951634
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Publication Date: Jun 1995
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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.
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By: Arnold Birenbaum
ISBN: 9780275951641
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Publication Date: Jun 1995
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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.
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By: Lester Lave
ISBN: 9780815751632
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Publication Date: Jan 1983
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This collection of six papers on the role of quantitative risk assessment in the promulgation of recent regulatory standards represents the latest contribution to a series of volumes published by Lester Lave and the Brookings Institution on regulatory decisionmaking.
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