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This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts.

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An account published of the history, spread, and repercussions of pandemic AIDS. It explores how developing countries with limited access to healthcare and scarce resources reveals how such factors as tourism, international travel, war, and mobility have facilitated the spread of HIV and AIDS.

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What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of the neo-liberal turn in development practices.

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The latest edition of what remains the leading source for radical analysis in healthcare.

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This introduction to ancient medical systems asks how the experience of illness and the role of medicine were understood in the Greek and Roman worlds. Covering topics such as the development of anatomical knowledge, the book focuses on the place of medicine within changing types of societies.

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It is estimated that there are 60,000 excess Black American deaths annually compared with White Americans.

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Healing American Healthcare presents an undeniable case for universal healthcare in the United States. The authors' research, combined with their experience in the United States healthcare system, has given them the expertise to suggest that as a nation we can provide care for all, while reducing our overall cost of care by $1 trillion per year.

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Shows us the physical, emotional, social, economic, and legal effects of what the author calls "headless health care." This work illustrates with patient stories the profound impact psychological and behavioral disorders have on physical health and, conversely, the impact that medical illness has on mental health.

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Written directly to individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, this book provides essential information that allows victims to begin recovering from their immense pain and suffering, and empowers them to examine their specific issues in order to become a true survivor.

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A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.

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A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries -- .

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Key sections include a historical overview of health education, a discussion of the design and use of health programs, a sample of outstanding programs, and an analysis of the research and evaluation methods employed.

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In this groundbreaking book, experts show what a difference support systems-family, friends, community and social programs-can make towards the recovery of the millions of people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year.

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Medicine in the 19th century may strike us as primitive by today's standards, but widespread social change of the era brought about new ideas and practices in health and healing-all described in this engaging book.

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Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution.

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In today's chaotic health reform environment, it is especially important for non-financial health care managers to have a practical guide to the tools and concepts they need to manage their human, supply, and equipment resources.

Today's health care managers, frequently, were yesterday's technicians, physicians, and nurses.