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Neurohospitalist Medicineby S. Andrew Josephson; W. David Freeman; David J. Likosky
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 56.00This is the first authoritative text to detail the advances and strategies for treating neurologic disease in a hospital setting. more...
Mountains Beyond Mountainsby Tracy Kidder
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 11.99Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and... more...
Understanding Health Policyby Thomas Bodenheimer; Kevin Grumbach
McGraw-Hill 2008; US$ 45.95The most clinically applicable textbook on the subject of healthcare With a brand-new, two-color design that complements the already lucid writing style, this new edition of Understanding Health Policy makes the subject of healthcare principles, structures, and financial underpinnings more accessible than ever. Ideal for anyone involved in the industry, from students to clinicians to administrators, it brings you up to date on all the burning issues of healthcare, including government and private insurance issues, access to care, and the machinations of healthcare delivery. The authors, two doctors internationally recognized for their work on health policy, have provided valuable new information on the pharmaceutical industry,... more...
Medical Research For Hireby Jill A. Fisher
Rutgers University Press 2008; US$ 22.00Today, more than 75 percent of pharmaceutical drug trials in the United States are being conducted in the private sector. Once the sole province of academic researchers, these important studies are now being outsourced to non-academic physicians. According to Jill A. Fisher, this major change in the way medical research is performed is the outcome of two problems in U.S. health care: decreasing revenue for physicians and decreasing access to treatment for patients. As physicians report diminishing income due to restrictive relationships with insurers, increasing malpractice insurance premiums, and inflated overhead costs to operate private practices, they are attracted to pharmaceutical contract research for its lucrative return. Clinical trials... more...
Medical Disaster Responseby David Goldschmitt; Robert Bonvino
CRC Press 2009; US$ 99.95Presenting an overview of the basic principles of disaster management, this book describes the role of emergency medicine in disaster planning and mass casualty events. From disaster capacity to hazard risk score and vulnerability analysis, it addresses various aspects of disaster planning. more...
Our Daily Medsby Melody Petersen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 9.99In the last thirty years, the big pharmaceutical companies have transformed themselves into marketing machines selling dangerous medicines as if they were Coca-Cola or Cadillacs. They pitch drugs with video games and soft cuddly toys for children; promote them in churches and subways, at NASCAR races and state fairs. They've become experts at promoting fear of disease, just so they can sell us hope. No question: drugs can save lives. But the relentless marketing that has enriched corporate executives and sent stock prices soaring has come with a dark side. Prescription pills taken as directed by physicians are estimated to kill one American every five minutes. And that figure doesn't reflect the damage done as the overmedicated... more...
Change Leadership in Nursingby Mairead Hickey; Phyllis Beck Kritek
Springer Publishing Company 2011; US$ 65.00Brigham and Women's Hospital, a high-profile, complex, academic medical center in Boston, MA, is a founding member of the Partners HeathCare Sytem and is associated with Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. This truly unique volume chronicles the systemic efforts of the nursing department to make an already outstanding system even better. It provides access to a compelling story of institute-wide nursing practice today and how the opportunity for major change was embraced and successfully accomplished. Told from the perspective of ninety administrative and staff nurses, it serves as a model for change in similar institutions everywhere. Key Features.: Provides "real world" system level description of hospital-wide... more...
The Built Environment and Public Healthby Russell P. Lopez
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 75.00The Built Environment and Public Health The Built Environment and Public Health explores the impact on our health of the environments we build for ourselves, and how public health and urban planning can work together to build settings that that promote healthy living. This comprehensive text covers origins and foundations of the built environment as a public health focus and its joint history with urban planning, transportation and land use, infrastructure and natural disasters, assessment tools, indoor air quality, water quality, food security, health disparities, mental health, social capital, and environmental justice. The Built Environment and Public Health explores such timely issues as: Basics of the built environment and evidence... more...
Mental Health Work In The Communityby Michael Sheppard
Routledge 1991; US$ 59.95A presentation of a comparative analysis of the work of mental health social workers and community psychiatric nurses, an issue of importance because of "community care" and also important as much of their work territory overlaps. The findings are more favourable to social workers. more...