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Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance
Brookings Institution Press 2008; US$ 28.95Few people realize that one of the nations largest health programs runs through the tax system. Reformers of all stripes propose to modify current tax rules as part of larger programs to increase coverage and control costs. Is the current system working? Will tax-based reforms achieve their goals? Several of the nations foremost experts... more...
Can We Say No?
Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 19.95"Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher. more...
The Sociology of the Caring Professions, Second Edition
Routledge 2002; US$ 95.00This updated and substantially revised second edition of a key textbook, provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of professions including social work, probation, nursing, midwifery and health visiting. The authors discuss the changing role of the caring professions, focussing on their status and the strategies used... more...
Rethinking Hizballah
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 89.95Framing and analysing Hizballah through the perspective of the 'resistance society'; an articulation of identity politics that informs the violent and non-violent political strategies of the movement, Abboud and Muller demonstrate how Hizballah poses a challenge to the Lebanese state through its acquisition and exercise of private authority,... more...
Taking the Crime Out of Sex Work
The Policy Press 2010; US$ 99.00This book examines the decriminalisation of all sectors of sex work in New Zealand. It provides first hand views and experience on this policy from the point of view of those involved in the sex industry, as well as people involved in developing, implementing, researching and reviewing the policies. more...
Treaty
Aboriginal Studies Press 2001; US$ 17.50These essays were commissioned to stimulate discussion and debate about a treaty between Indigenous and white Australians. It is an important contribution to the national dialogue in Australia, a nation that has been shaped by a history that contains little trace of Treaty of peaceful co-existence amongst Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The... more...
Promoting Health
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 52.95'A very interesting melange of descriptive material - in the form of case studies - and more analytical and conceptual pieces covering the broad span of the health and well-being agenda' - Health Matters Promoting Health provides an up-to-date and accessible introduction to current health promotion and public health developments in the UK.... more...
At Risk in America
Wiley 2002; US$ 85.00This updated second edition of At Risk in America provides a detailed analysis of those key population groups most vulnerable to disease and injury in the United States today-including homeless persons, refugees and immigrants, people living with AIDS, alcohol and substance abusers, high-risk mothers and infants, victims of family or other violence,... more...
Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95Demographic change and economic liberalization are reshaping European states in a number of profound ways. In particular, an ageing population and shifts in the labour market are bringing new challenges to the nation states welfare systems. This unique volume of essays seeks to analyze these changes within the wider historical and geographical context... more...
Gender and Well-Being
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three main kind of institutions: the familial household; the commercial enterprise selling goods and services; the institutions of the Welfare State that provide education, medical care and other goods and personal services. The purpose of this book is to study the interplay of these institutions and their... more...









