Health Policy category: 748 books
US Health Care
The King Is Naked
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In the spring of ‘77, wealthy socialite Claire MacKennsey returns home and her dying mother reveals the turbulent past of her late father’s family: Her grandmother decapitated her grandfather in his sleep, and the head was never found; and an uncle she never knew existed committed suicide. Mental...
Without a Manual
The reflections of a woman in her forties determined to live her fullest life, while facing terminal illness
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In 2009, after being diagnosed with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a rare, life-ending illness, author Sandy Trunzer began a blog, with the simple intention of keeping friends updated on her health. Over time, and with feedback from an ever-increasing number of readers. Without a Manual evolved into a wry...
Bodies Across Borders
The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process, a genuinely globalised sphere of biomedical production and consumption. This emerging market is characterised...
by Stephen Parkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Exploring the value of photography and video as legitimate forms of social enquiry, An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction constitutes a guidebook for conducting applied visual sociology within health related or social science research projects, providing a full account of the visual...
by Harlan D. Platt
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Since its publication in 1998, this indispensable text has been the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including...
When Abortion Was a Crime
Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1997
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when...
Born in the USA
How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and...
by Victoria A. Harden; Anthony Fauci, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the...
Ending Medical Reversal
Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic...
Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Due to massive technological and medical advances in the life sciences (molecular genetics, biology, biochemistry, etc.), modern medicine is increasingly effective in treating individual patients, but little technological advancement has focused on advancing the healthcare infrastructure. Management...
Healthcare Management and Economics
Perspectives on Public and Private Administration
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The long-standing debate on public vs. private healthcare systems has forced an examination of these organizations, in particular whether these approaches play corresponding or conflicting roles in service to global citizens. Healthcare Management and Economics: Perspectives on Public and Private Administration...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
As technology becomes further engrained in the modern healthcare experience, an understanding of the impact created by the implementation of each new technology as well as the issues surrounding the today's medical experience is never more necessary. New Technologies for Advancing Healthcare and Clinical...
Prescription for the Future
The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
How can America's healthcare system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in healthcare matters more.
Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost...
by Andrew T. Price-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.