Health Policy category: 748 books
High Stakes
The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
What the explosive growth of legalized gambling means socially, politically, and economically for America.
Forty years ago, casinos were legal in just one state. Today, legalized gambling has morphed into a $119 billion industry established in all but two states. As elected officials are urging...
School Desegregation Research
New Directions in Situational Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The desegregation situation is the keynote theme of the following chapters. I Each of them touches on a different dimension of the situation: the historical, the temporal, the spatial. But the reader, perusing the essays with the situation in mind, should remember that the desegregation situation...
by William Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The question foremost in my mind when I was writing “Chairman of the Party” was to decide if democracy was nothing more than an illusion. As both a candidate for the NC State House and as a county party chairman, I became somewhat disillusioned with the actions of both major political parties....
VISIONS 2100
Stories from Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Stories from Your Future The complex issue of climate change is one that our race is struggling to address. The solutions are not beyond us in any way. Technological solutions exist, scientific knowledge is plentiful, the world can afford the transition but still significant action eludes us. Rational...
American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
**The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the body **
Plastic surgery has become “the answer” for many Americans, and in *American Plastic *sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular...
The Converging World
How One Community's Path to Zero Waste is Helping Save Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
THE CONVERGING WORLD tells the incredible story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. Faced with the challenge of making the English village of Chew Magna a 'zero waste' society, Pontin developed a groundbreaking non-profit scheme that twinned them with Tamil Nadu, a poor...
Managing Discovery in the Life Sciences
Harnessing Creativity to Drive Biomedical Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In this book, distinguished scholars Philip A. Rea, Mark V. Pauly, and Lawton R. Burns explore the science and management behind marketable biomedical innovations. They look at how the science actually played out through the interplay of personalities, the cultures within and between academic and...
Thirteen Years of Hell in Paradise
An Account of the Caribbean Amblyomma Programme
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
After leading a regional office in Africa that studied ticks and tick-borne diseases, Rupert Pegram received a call in 1994 that changed his life. His higher ups wanted him to lead a new program in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Amblyomma Program, known as the CAP, sought to eliminate the Amblyomma...
by T. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners, adult children, siblings, grandchildren, friends, and other relatives, as well as by members of racial, ethnic, and sexual minority groups.
by Anthony Horvath
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
How did America become a place where those with Down syndrome and spina bifida are aborted in huge numbers? How can it tolerate aborting a child just because it is a girl or killing a twin in the womb so that only one child is born alive? Why are Americans being reduced to numbers and Quality Adjusted...
La terza faccia della moneta
Le dinamiche che guidano la nostra relazione con il denaro
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Faresti gestire i tuoi risparmi alla scimmia bendata di Malkiel? Affideresti le tue decisioni alle previsioni della gallina drogata degli Azande? Molto probabilmente no! Eppure, tutti noi lanciamo spesso in aria una moneta. E scegliamo la terza faccia, lottando ogni giorno per difendere l’illusione...
Clinical Practice at the Edge of Care
Developments in Working with At-Risk Children and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book brings together psychological and psychotherapeutic contributions in clinical practice with at-risk children and their families. Chapters by experts working in a range of edge-of-care settings give an essential account of real-world clinical challenges and dilemmas; whilst drawing on relevant...
Disability Politics and Care
The Challenge of Direct Funding
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
“We do not need care!” is a rallying cry for disability movements. It is informed by a recognition that a lack of choice over life decisions – from relationships and employment, to what to wear or eat – is a subtle yet pervasive form of violence endured by many people with disabilities as...
Babies of Technology
Assisted Reproduction and the Rights of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Millions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents. But alarmingly, scarce attention has been paid to the lax regulations that have made the U.S. a major fertility tourism destination. And without clear...