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The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. This title takes us deep into the clinical trials industry as it brings together players separated by vast economic and cultural differences.

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This reference provides a treatment of the laws, documents and policies relating to the difficult issues that arise at the end of life. It provides commentaries on the refusal of life-sustaining treatment and the Patient Self-Determination Act, as well as legal references and hospital policies.

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This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft.

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This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft.

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Situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. -- .

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Pregnancy Narratives examines the stories of women who undergo complications during the reproductive process such as difficult conception, miscarriage, still birth, premature labor, and premature delivery. Hall calls attention to how the stories of pregnancy and birth that women hear prior to their pregnancy shape the narratives they later tell of their own traumatic experiences.

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Taking a unique perspective, this book argues for a psychosocial approach to dual diagnosis and draws on this to highlight practice skills with specific groups including individuals, families and communities. The inclusion of case studies, reflection points and reflective exercises throughout help to aid learning and provide practice insight.

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In this study of the evolution of US healthcare in the 1990s, Birenbaum (pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) discusses the rise of, and backlash to, health maintenance organizations; other managed care organizations; the changing doctor-patient relationship due to managed care and infor

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An astonishing investigation into the outbreak and spread of Zika and the resilience of the Brazilian people in the face of the epidemic.

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An astonishing investigation into the outbreak and spread of Zika and the resilience of the Brazilian people in the face of the epidemic.

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Being Beheld explores the standardization of clinical ethics techniques and articulates how its integrity depends on our dissent from such standardization. Moving between philosophical, theological, and practical lenses, it offers a reorientation of ethics to participation in the good of the other, mirroring the Christian Eucharistic liturgy.

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Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties of the modern peristaltic system

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An examination of the ever-shifting boundary between scientific medicine and quackery.

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With COVID still affecting the worlds population on a daily basis, Epidemics, Pandemics, and Plagues: A Reference Guide, will be an excellent edition to any library.