Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of race and gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics, and health care. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial, an
Presents a first-hand account of the experiences of a trauma surgical team based at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan, detailing the procedures they faced and their personal struggles.
Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience. The Informed Patient is a guide and a workbook, divided into topical, focused se
Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond, writes Bernice Hausman in Anti/Vax, but we need to open our eyes and ears so that we ca
Aaron and Stella Alterra had been married for more than sixty years when Aaron began to notice puzzling lapses in his wife's memory. Innocuous at first, they became more severe and more alarming. Afte
Series: New AccentsThis collection covers the organization, financing and regulation of health care systems in four clear contexts: reforming health care systems, understanding health care politics, f
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” o
"This book describes the hour-by-hour, day-by-day rhythms of an intensive care unit in a teaching hospital in New Mexico. Written by a nurse, Where Night Is Day reveals the specialized work of ICU nur
To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first
There has been a high level of conflict in American politics in recent years. Massive disagreements over government policies, including health care, seem to have pitted one group of Americans against
The 12 essays presented in this volume analyze aspects of the television series Breaking Bad, including gender, neoliberal politics, and health care, as well as narrative construction, experimentation
Leap (business administration, U. of Tennessee-Knoxville) presents this investigative report on health care fraud in the United States. An estimated $75 billion to $250 billion is lost to health care
Medical treatment across Africa suffers from diagnostic insufficiency, argues Okeke (biology, Haverford College). There is a widespread failure to provide adequate application of laboratory diagnosis,
Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical
The AIDS crisis is presently at its most dire in Southern Africa, due to social and economic factors. Dickinson (sociology, the University of the Witwatersrand) spent over a year studying a program of
India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-incom
Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this installment in Robert B. Parker’s iconic New York Times bestselling series.Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds of suspects.When her chief of staff reaches out to Spenser for security and help finding the culprits of what he believes to be the most credible threats, Garcia-Ramirez is less than thrilled. Since her first grassroots run, she’s used to the antipathy and intimidation women of color often face when seeking power. To her, it’s all noise. But it turns out an FBI agent disagrees, warning Spenser that Garcia-Ramirez might be i
Early modern commentaries on the classics shaped not only school and university education, but cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, health care, geographical discoveries,
Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks, and a systemic understanding of evolution. The implications of the systems view of life for health care, management, and our global ecological and economic crises are also discussed. Written primarily for undergraduates, it is also essential reading for graduate students and researchers interested in understanding the new systemic conception of life and its implications for a broad range of professions - from economics and politics to medicine, psychol
