Health Policy category: 748 books
Pet Food Politics
The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste,...
by e-Patient Dave deBronkart
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
To come.
Assessing Alternative Modifications to the Affordable Care Act
Impact on Individual Market Premiums and Insurance Coverage
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This report summarizes analysis in which the COMPARE microsimulation model was used to estimate how several potential changes to the Affordable Care Act, including eliminating the individual mandate and eliminating the law’s tax-credit subsidies, might affect 2015 individual market premiums and...
Making the Mexican Diabetic
Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors...
Inspiring a Medico-Legal Revolution
Essays in Honour of Sheila McLean
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book marks the retirement of Professor Sheila McLean, whose contribution to the discipline of medical law has been truly ground breaking. As one of the pioneers of the discipline, Sheila McLean inspired a revolution in the ways in which lawyers, doctors, courts and patients perceive the relationship...
When Good Drugs Go Bad
Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments. Drug dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. Dan Malleck reveals how different forces converged...
Providing for the Casualties of War
The American Experience Through World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and--until recently--often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.
Biopolitics
An Advanced Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational decision-making...
The Five Horsemen of the Modern World
Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can't we make any progress in counteracting these problems despite vast expenditures of...
Generation Rx
A Story of Dope, Death, and America's Opiate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A journalist recounts the loss of her brother to pills and heroin in a “gripping memoir, enhanced by statistics and other stories of addiction” (Kirkus Reviews).
What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?
These...
Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities
In and Out of Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towards deinstitutionalization as they have been experienced by people with intellectual disabilities: living inside total institutions, moving out, living...
Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate
The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tissue of the body heralds the advent of an extraordinary new field of medicine. Controversy arises,...
The Conversation
A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine's oldest tool.
There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds...
Private Bodies, Public Texts
Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans....