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| 991 - 1000 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Biomedical-Ethical Issues: A Digest of Law and Policy Development
by Fank Harron, United Ministries in Education Health &
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: Saturday, January 01, 1983
Description: This handbook contains excerpts and summaries of influential court decisions, state and federal legislation, and federal guidelines, as well as policy statements from various religious and professional organizations, related to biomedical-ethical issues. By providing excerpts, the digest enables the general reader and the legal specialist to understand the recent...more
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 | The History and Politics of Community Mental Health
by Murray Levine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, November 19, 1981
Description: "I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even reassurance, to those who continue to care for the mentally ill in these uncertain times." --Hospital and Community Psychiatry. "Well...more
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 | Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)
by Philippe Ariès
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: Friday, August 01, 1975
Description: "Ariès traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret." -- ...more
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 | White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955
by Robert A. Trennert
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Description: In 1863 the Din began receiving medical care from the federal government during their confinement at Bosque Redondo. Over the next ninety years, a familiar litany of problems surfaced in periodic reports on Navajo health care: inadequate funding, understaffing, and the unrelenting spread of such communicable diseases as tuberculosis. In...more
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 | Millennium Development Goals for Health in Europe and Central Asia: Relevance and Policy Implications (World Bank Working Papers) (World Bank Working Papers)
by Rechel Berndt, Laidon Shapo, Martin McKee, Bernd Rechel
Publisher: World Bank
Description: Millennium Development Goals for Health in Europe and Central Asia is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. This study aims to contribute to the debate about the appropriateness...more
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 | How to Prepare for and Respond to a Crisis (2nd Edition)
by David J. Schonfeld, Robert Lichtenstein, Marsha Kline Pruett, Dee Speese-Linehan
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Description: Is your school ready to respond to a crisis? Are school staff ready to address physical safety issues, emotional needs, and mental health consequences that arise from crisis situations? What steps can you take now to prepare your school for a crisis? Use the steps and guidance offered...more
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 | Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market
by Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Description: In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the American government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I, however, the free market in drugs was but a...more
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 | Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z (Health Care Policy & Politics A to Z)
by Julie Rovner
Publisher: CQ Press
Description: Health care is America's most talked about and controversial issue at the end of the 20th century. No domestic problem has engaged so many persons, from thousands without medical insurance to individuals fed up with real or imagined mistreatment in managed care. Health Care Policy and Politics A...more
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 | The Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work
by Marianne A. Paget
Publisher: Temple University Press
Description: Marianne Paget's The Unity of Mistakes has long been considered a landmark text on the nature of medical error. Paget—who herself died because of a medical error—argued that mistakes are an intrinsic part of the clinical process. Encompassing a much wider range of error than the terms "malpractice," "incompetence,"or "negligence"...more
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 | HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention in India: Modeling the Costs and Consequences (Health, Nutrition, and Population) (Health, Nutrition, and Population)
by over Mead, Peter Heywood, Julian Gold, Indrani Gupta, Subhah Hira, Elliot Marseille
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Description: How should governments respond to the increasing domestic and international pressures to finance antiretroviral therapy for AIDS patients? Once prohibitively expensive outside rich countries, antiretroviral therapy is now increasingly affordable, especially in India where patent laws and a dynamic pharmaceutical industry have facilitated the production and marketing of some of...more
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Last Updated: 29 November 2007.
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