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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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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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Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options. While their plans have varied widely in scale and ambition, their goals are the same: to make health services more affordable through the use of public subsidies while also moving care providers partially or fully into competitive markets.

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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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This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body-that it was malleable.

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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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Proctor studies the connections between the "normal" and the "monstrous" aspects of Nazi science and policy, to explain the horror of fascism, and its appeal even to otherwise right-thinking Germans.

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Charts the significance and impact of the human nose across different cultures throughout history, identifying its place in anthropology, art, health, sex, science, and other fields while considering its role in big business, from plastic surgery to allergies. Reprint.

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At 47, Jonathan Brewster finally feels like he's king of the world - he has a lucrative job, a happy marriage, two children in private schools, an impressive house and a flashy car, but he has neglected his health. Urologist and author Mohamed Khadra comes into contact with his patient when he is diagnosed with bladder cancer.

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She gives graphic examples of actual events that illustrate the problems cited in a federal Institute of Medicine report showing medical errors in the hospital cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths each year.

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This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations in Denmark and England. Based on a detailed account of obesity control and mental recovery programs, the book shows that these interventions are supported by a form of optimistic vitalism that seems to have no political limitations. -- .

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Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .

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This combination makes it more likely that patients will sue when something goes wrong.

The so-called medical practice crisis is mostly the result of a system of health care that has promoted professional dominance and high-tech care.

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Covering the years leading up to the Progressive Era through the 1920s, this book provides entries on the central figures, events, crusades, legislation, publications and terms of the health reform movements, while a detailed timeline ties health reform to political, social, and religious movements.

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The stem cells at the center of the cluster have the potential to become specialized cells that could one day benefit millions of Americans. Confounding the traditional polarized politics of the country previously dominated by anti-abortion and pro-choice politics, the politics of stem cell research may be redrawing the contours of public life.