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This wide-ranging resource serves as a guide for understanding America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.

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This monograph is devoted to an analysis of Medicare and Medicaid provisions together with a brief description of the conditions and events that led to their enactment into law. The conditions that gave rise to the law are reviewed in Chapter 2, and a brief chronicle of the legislation is given in Chapter 3.

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Responding to the increased public interest in the moral aspects of medical practice, this collection of essays focuses on questions of justice and injustice in the delivery and distribution of medical care and on problems concerning the rights of patients in their relationship to doctors, medical institutions, and government. Originally published

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This study of the effect on women and families of the organizing principles of health care shows the consequences of the assumption that women are solely responsible for family problems and demonstrates the medical superiority of a clinical relationship based on communication rather than control.

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A provocative presentation of medicolegal controversies within the American court system from the late 19th through the late 20th century.

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What role does sports medicine play in today's society This book analyzes the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It looks at both history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced view of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries.

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What role does sports medicine play in today's society This book analyzes the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It looks at both history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced view of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries.

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This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean. -- .

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Seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. -- .

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Leading researchers and practitioners identify the best practices in using mobile technologies to promote healthy behaviours and reduce unhealthy ones, placing a special focus on developing countries.

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Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS. -- .

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Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS. -- .

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This unique reference work offers a diverse and interesting view of the remarkable history of treating disease and understanding human health. While other volumes may overwhelm readers with extraneous information, Milestones in Health and Medicine offers relevant and succinct entries.

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In Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of conscience, such as arti

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Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

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Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

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The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by 'technological advances in destructive capabilities' needed new type of medical service. Success meant that expert care was needed near the frontline. -- .