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This no-holds-barred book includes a new chapter presenting a comprehensive, politically achievable, private-public solution to the health care dilemma-one that preserves the best of the present system, eliminates the worst current problems, and represents our nation's last best chance to contain costs without a government takeover of medicine.

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Shock Therapy For the American Health Care System describes the problems of the health care system and offers a program of comprehensive reform that is more far-reaching than anything currently being proposed.

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A memoir of Dick and Loretta Stoughton's experiences during two different medical missionary times in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

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This book is developed around a rational planning process of six steps required to develop a strategic plan for health services. In the fast developing and dynamic field of health care, past experiences are no longer the best barometer of what a health agency ought to do in the future.

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In these two volumes, he analyzes doctor-patient communication and shows how doctors can use language for the maximum benefit of their patients.

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In these two volumes, he analyzes doctor-patient communication and shows how doctors can use language for the maximum benefit of their patients.

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This is the first reference book to provide a detailed assessment of the Affordable Care Act, explaining the realities and myths surrounding one of the most divisive political struggles in recent U.S. history.

The Affordable Care Actalso known as Obamacareis one of the most controversial and politicized topics in the United States today.

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An in-depth guide for professionals in assessing the appropriateness of a 12-step program referral, understanding how psychological theories align with 12-step programs, learning subtle differences in programs addressing similar addictive behaviors, integrating 12-step involvement into the therapeutic process, and working with resistance.

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The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored This book, written by a leading health care economist, tackles these and other key questions.

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As economic and demographic conditions change, and technology advances, world leaders are becoming increasingly concerned with the future of health care.

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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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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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This thoroughly revised edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders presents a biosocial model for understanding mental disorders, which integrates the sociological paradigm with current research in the epidemiology of mental disorders and on biological features of mental disorders.

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

This thoroughly revised edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders presents a biosocial model for understanding mental disorders, which integrates the sociological paradigm with current research in the epidemiology of mental disorders and on biological features of mental disorders.

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For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West.

The speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism.

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McGuire and Anderson bring the findings of the behavioural biology of group co-operation to bear on the problem of healthcare reform.

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