Health Policy category: 748 books
Death House
The True Story of an American Community Hospital and Its Physicians Who Murder for Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2001
There is an excellent chance this book will save your life. You will see doctors, the practice of medicine, and community hospitals as you have never seen them before. You will learn about things you never could have believed existed before. For what is written in this book has never been told before...
by Paula Gerber, Katie O'Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the underexplored issues of how domestic and international law is responding to the sharp increase in the use of surrogacy. The work presents critical analysis...
The Radiology Handbook
A Pocket Guide to Medical Imaging
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Designed for busy medical students, The Radiology Handbook is a quick and easy reference for any practitioner who needs information on ordering or interpreting images.The book is divided into three parts:- Part I presents a table, organized from head to toe, with recommended imaging tests for common...
by A.M. Viens
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The right to bodily integrity has become a notable controversial issue within moral, political and legal discourse and this right is regarded as one of the most precious rights that persons have, alongside the right to life. Recent scholarly debate has focused attention on the content, scope and force...
by David Baronov
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Beginning with the colonial era, Western biomedicine has radically transformed African medical beliefs and practices. Conversely, in using Western biomedicine, Africans have also transformed it. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange contends that...
Une couverture sanitaire universelle pour un développement durable inclusif
Une synthèse de 11 études de cas pays
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
La CSU a pour objectifs de s’assurer que tous peuvent avoir accès à des services de santé de qualité, de préserver l’ensemble des individus contre les risques à la santé publique et de protéger toutes les personnes contre l’appauvrissement attribuable à la maladie. Des pays aussi...
Raising the Dead
Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting...
The Key Facts on Medicare
Everything You Need to Know About Medicare
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The Key Facts on Medicare provides readers with essential, easy-to-read information on the nationwide healthcare system. Compiled in a simplified manner, this guide helps patients navigate the complicated world of Medicare without enduring the complicated nature of medical terminology or fine...
The Fibromyalgia Story
Medical Authority And Women'S Worlds Of Pain
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
More than six million Americans—most of them women—have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a disorder that produces musculo-skeletal pain and fatigue. In the absence of visible evidence, a well-understood cause, or effective treatment, many have questioned whether FMS is a "real"...
by KATHERINE MILLER
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book is to help foreign medical doctors who immigrate to the US legally to return to practice medicine via medical licensing. This book explains in very details all the steps and important issues to help foreign medical doctors to start their saga of medical licensing on their own with DIY- Do...
by Sharon Hollander
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Anecdotes and real case studies ripped from the headlines about what doctors did which got them into trouble either with Medicare, HIPAA, The Office of Inspector General (OIG) or worse the FBI.
The case studies are true stories of medical professionals: Some are about providers just like you trying...
Prescription for the People
An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines—and a primer...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks...
Death and Dollars
Solving the Epidemic of Chronic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Death and Dollars: Solving the Epidemic of Chronic Disease is a guide to navigating through the ever-changing field of healthcare while incorporating technology and other advancements to improve the quality of care and decrease illness, simultaneously improving and extending lives. The medical crisis...