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This is the first full-length monograph devoted to the study of the talk between physicians and patients in a medical interview. Methods are developed to describe, analyze and interpret the discourse. In the course of the work, a critique of more traditional methods, studies, and interpretations of medical interviews is presented.

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The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored This book, written by a leading health care economist, tackles these and other key questions.

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A literary and scientific examination of Alzheimer's disease and the race to find a cure.

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As economic and demographic conditions change, and technology advances, world leaders are becoming increasingly concerned with the future of health care.

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A narrative history of man's struggle with the infirmities of his body, from Aesculapius to AIDS.

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A "New York Times"-bestselling author shows how industrialized democracies other than the United States provide health care for their citizens at a reasonable cost.

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From the bestselling author of The Queens Conjuror, comes the story of Nicholas Culpeper legendary rebel, radical, Puritan, and author of the great Herbal. This is a powerful history of medicines first freedom fighter set in London during Britains age of revolution.

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At a time of great change in the technology and delivery of medical care, the timelessness and permanence of the non-technical aspects of medicinethe human sideare of profound value to patients and physicians alike.

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At a time of great change in the technology and delivery of medical care, the timelessness and permanence of the non-technical aspects of medicinethe human sideare of profound value to patients and physicians alike.

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The body's built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, tells us to do more of the things that give us pleasure. In this title, the author uses neuroscience to explain how unhealthy food and behavioural "fixes" have ensnared us in a vicious cycle of overeating and addiction.

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Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volumes two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victims presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden or pain experienced by the watching audience.

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Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volumes two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victims presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden or pain experienced by the watching audience.

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Each author provides not only a picture of the health system's current level of development, but a description of the dynamic forces that drive the system's health care decision-making processes and will determine its path in the future.

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Outlines the laboratory diagnosis of a selected number of diseases which have relatively high incidence and existing screening programs.

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A neurological consultant at a California state hospital, Schain explores the causes of the insanity that suddenly came upon the German philosopher at age 44, early in 1889, a topic frequently discussed in German literature of the early 20th century but little thought of since. Doctors at the time d

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These problems are defined using multicriterion approach and resolved through a series of focus group discussions that involve medical and lay personnel. This is must reading for lay people, medical personal, and policymakers concerned with bioethics and medical philosophy issues.

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The first history of bioethics in Britain -- .

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The Measurement of Health will be of great value to health statisticians, scholars interested in health policy, students in courses concerning research methods in health, health services administrators, and health proessionals.

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