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A key issue in the debate about reforming the US health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including the regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and the use of long-term care and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly.

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In general, the contributors challenge the fundamental relationships of authority that exist between patients and health care practitioners, question the tradition of using classical ethical theories within the domain of health care, and suggest a set of different directions in which health care should develop.

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Mental health policy in the United States has involved varying approaches, often reflecting the social and economic conditions of the times.

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Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism provides ethnographic accounts of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people in Guatemala. This volume will greatly interest scholars in anthropology, global health, and public policy by offering insight into the challenges, opportunities, and inequalities the Maya people face.

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A holistic view of the factors affecting the health of a patient beyond the illness itself, this work examines the experiences of the patient. The author argues that terminal illness may not be a tragedy, but an opportunity for emotional growth, and discusses the inadequacies of modern health care.

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Provides an account of the battle against cholera. This work is based on documents in the naval towns of south-west England. The author's account exposes the struggles between local and national government, and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention.

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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.

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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.

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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.

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Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare in America but not on how to do it. In Reforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate. They identify and analyse the three leading approaches to reform.

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This revealing book tackles the daunting problem of increasing chronic illness in America, offering fresh ideas for the ways in which the challenge can be successfully managed.

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Thousands of American service members are returning from their tours of duty with physical and/or psychological disabilities.

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A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants.

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These four multi-disciplinary studies focus on sexual and reproductive health advocacy and programs in Latin America.

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Rural Womens Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and views on family planning and gender inequality. Providing insights on cultural traditions and understanding of modern medicine, it is essential for public health and anthropology scholars and practitioners.

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Rural Womens Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and views on family planning and gender inequality. Providing insights on cultural traditions and understanding of modern medicine, it is essential for public health and anthropology scholars and practitioners.

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We call it lifeboat ethics: When there is not enough of this or that scarce good, who should die that others might survive Born in the 19th century, when shipwrecks were frequent and lifeboats scarce, it has become a 21st century dilemma. Who should get the last hospital bed, the scarce medical dru

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Koch (a bioethicist and contributor to CBC radio) provides an historical, philosophical, and concrete examination of the American system of distributing transplantable organs, and its relationship to the American health care system overall. He considers the issue in terms of lifeboat ethics, being c

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Written by 36 Palestinian, Israeli, and international health professionals, this book is a courageous experiment, the first of its kind, made by individuals from both sides of the Israeli-Palestianian conflict, jointly examining their common history in the field of health and the future that awaits them.