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The $800 Million Pill
University of California Press 2004; US$ 24.95Why do life-saving prescription drugs cost so much? Drug companies insist that prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development. In this gripping exposé, Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying astronomically high prices... more...
The 'Fat' Female Body
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00Exploring the rapidly increasing interest in obesity and fatness, this book engages with dominant ideas about 'fatness' and analyses the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, looking at the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. more...
(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 119.95Drawing together the latest research from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, (Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings engages with the work of critical theorists such as Bourdieu, Butler, Foucault, Latour, and iek, amongst others, to address the issue of violence and theorise its workings in creative and controversial ways. more...
2008 UNAIDS Annual Report
World Health Organization 2009; US$ 10.00In November 2007, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) published data showing that HIV prevalence has stabilized, even though the number of people living with HIV continues to rise. The following year, a joint UNAIDS, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and WHO report announced that 3... more...
2030 - The Future of Medicine
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 26.99It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance?This book tackles these questions, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from... more...
24 hours to save the NHS
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 28.99"24 hours to save the NHS". It was a political slogan but it hid a deeper question. Could the NHS survive? Could it continue to offer free health care for every citizen regardless of their ability to pay? Could the extraordinary, liberating ambition and dream of its founders 50 years before be maintained in the 21st Century - that everyone,... more...
5S for Healthcare
CRC Press 2009; US$ 28.95Based on Hiroyuki Hirano's classic "5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace" and modeled after the Shingo Prize-winning "Shopfloor Series for Lean Manufacturers", this work adopts a reader-friendly format to impart the information needed to understand and efficiently implement lean methodology in a healthcare setting. more...
ABC of Clinical Leadership
Wiley 2010; US$ 34.95This new title in the ABC series is written by clinical educators involved in running leadership programmes for doctors and other healthcare professionals, and defines the scope of clinical leadership, emphasising its importance in the clinical context. It develops and explores the key principles of leadership and management, and outlines the main... more...
ABC of Health Informatics
Wiley 2009; US$ 41.95New addition to the ABC series looking at how technology can aid health care This ABC focuses on how patient data, health knowledge, and local service information are managed during the routine tasks that make up clinical work. It looks at medical record keeping, how to use the information that records contain for clinical, quality improvement... more...
ABC of Patient Safety
Wiley 2009; US$ 46.99This brand new title in the popular ABC series offers an up-to-date introduction on improving patient safety in primary and secondary care. The ABC of Patient Safety covers an area of increasing importance in healthcare and provides a clear description of the underlying principles that influence practice. Patient safety is now an integral part of... more...









