Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile
ISBN: 9780520227682 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of poblacion(shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in their community and to denounce military rule. How did their organization respond seven years later when Chile's transition to democracy brought an end to dictatorship but no clear solution to ongoing health problems? Marketing Democracy shows how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed with the transition from a military to an elected-civilian regime in Chile. The term "marketing democracy" refers first to...
Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of poblacion(shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in th...
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144,87 zł |
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis
ISBN: 9780521546768 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options. Detailed ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families...
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States ...
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127,38 zł |
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis
ISBN: 9780521837743 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This documents the holes in the health care safety net for poor and minority Americans.
This documents the holes in the health care safety net for poor and minority Americans.
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351,71 zł |
Why Your Doctor Can't Write: The Problem and a Solution
ISBN: 9780595131396 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,91 zł |
Choosing a Psychotherapist: A Guide to Navigating the Mental Health Maze
ISBN: 9780595219100 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,48 zł |
The Heart Attack Germ: Prevent Strokes, Heart Attacks and the Symptoms of Alzheimer's by Protecting Yourself from the Infections and Inflamma
ISBN: 9780595262205 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps you've read about the Heart Attack Germ in
Perhaps you've read about the Heart Attack Germ in
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106,89 zł |
Living With Sarcoidosis & Other Chronic Health Conditions
ISBN: 9780595321148 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Living With Sarcoidosis & Other Chronic Health Conditions" gives firsthand accounts of what life is like when you experience chronic health conditions, as only a patient can articulate, by way of patient stories, support options, insurance tips and a doctor interview. Although each situation is unique, they are also so similar and it's those similarities that helps us cope in a positive manner with our current situations, regardless if you are the patient, caregiver, medical professional, employer or just a friend. The importance of understanding your reality, honestly accepting that...
"Living With Sarcoidosis & Other Chronic Health Conditions" gives firsthand accounts of what life is like when you experience chronic health condition...
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68,33 zł |
I Beat Heart Disease, So Can You
ISBN: 9780595395804 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material in "I Beat Heart Disease, So Can You" does contain some elementary biochemistry. I believe that even a cursory reading of this book will provide enough information for the reader to get the main points so that he or she can decide what course of action to take. The general public may find Part 1 and Part 2, Chapters 2 and 3 more to their interest. In my case I did not delay to get medical help. Within one month I had all the necessary medical tests done and had a successful surgery which has given me at least 25 or more years of life. Just walking 10 minutes a day three times a...
The material in "I Beat Heart Disease, So Can You" does contain some elementary biochemistry. I believe that even a cursory reading of this book will ...
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68,33 zł |
Heal & Prevent Stroke & Heart Disease
ISBN: 9780595418701 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,19 zł |
The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors
ISBN: 9780595426621 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical errors kill 98,000 patients per year in the United States. But you, the patient, can play a crucial role in preventing these mistakes by fully educating yourself about your own health. According to author and medical doctor Sheldon Cohen, the best way to secure this information is to get a comprehensive medical examination. "The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors" is the perfect tool to help you take charge of your health as you attempt to navigate through the United States' overburdened health-care system. Filled with essential...
Medical errors kill 98,000 patients per year in the United States. But you, the patient, can play a crucial role in preventing these mistakes by fully...
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72,62 zł |
The Cancer Challenge: Sharing the Experience
ISBN: 9780595429813 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lee Miller's book "The Cancer Challenge" contains much wisdom gained through her experience with cancer and the people she has encountered. Lee speaks as a native, not a tourist, and because of her experience she is able to write a guidebook for all those who find themselves in need of guidance. Lee can coach and guide you along the path to healing. Her book clarifies the value of support groups and also is a resource for the family and friends of those afflicted by the disease. It is far wiser to learn from her experience rather than our own disasters. So read on and find your path to... "Lee Miller's book "The Cancer Challenge" contains much wisdom gained through her experience with cancer and the people she has encountered. Lee sp... |
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51,20 zł |
The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors
ISBN: 9780595681747 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical errors kill 98,000 patients per year in the United States. But you, the patient, can play a crucial role in preventing these mistakes by fully educating yourself about your own health. According to author and medical doctor Sheldon Cohen, the best way to secure this information is to get a comprehensive medical examination."The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors" is the perfect tool to help you take charge of your health as you attempt to navigate through the United States' overburdened health-care system. Filled with essential...
Medical errors kill 98,000 patients per year in the United States. But you, the patient, can play a crucial role in preventing these mistakes by fully...
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115,46 zł |
Generation RX: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
ISBN: 9780618773565 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, he asks, has "big pharma" created a nation of pharmaceutical tribes, each with its own unique beliefs, taboos, and brand loyalties? How have powerful chemical compounds for chronic diseases, once controlled by physicians, become substances we feel entitled to, whether we need them or not? How did we come to hate drug companies but love their pills?
Read on in Generation Rx for: -- exclusive interviews with the... Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, h...
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The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out
ISBN: 9780674024151 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s. After the advent of Medicare and Medicaid and with the progressive goal to make advances in medical care available to all, medical costs began their upward spiral. Cost control measures failed and led to the HMO revolution, turning patients into consumers and doctors into providers. The swelling ranks of Americans... If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In ... |
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144,60 zł |
Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies
ISBN: 9780674025431 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You've argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer's and only occasionally recognizes you. Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin regimen you're on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who... You've argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother... |
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
ISBN: 9780679740247 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms...
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to recor...
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77,11 zł |
Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars
ISBN: 9780684867472 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our recent political history, and the only book to portray the passion of both sides of the abortion conflict.
Drawing from more than five hundred interviews as well as previously unseen archival material, Cynthia Gorney has written a compelling narrative that explores the years between Roe v. Wade (1973) and William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989), the first case to challenge the Roe decision before... Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our re...
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149,73 zł |
The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You
ISBN: 9780738204505 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known as the "Ralph Nader of psychiatry," Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless civil and criminal cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This unusual position has given him unprecedented access to private pharmaceutical research and correspondence files, access that informs this straight-talking guide to the most-prescribed and controversial class of psychoactive medications prescribed for children. From how these drugs work in the brain to documented side and withdrawal effects, The Ritalin Fact Book is up-to-the-minute and easy-to-access. With its...
Known as the "Ralph Nader of psychiatry," Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless civil and criminal cases involving the use or misuse ...
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126,19 zł |
Hard Yakka: Transforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics
ISBN: 9780739114100 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hard Yakka is a qualitative study of evolving relations between Australian Indigenous communities and government bureaucracies in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health policy. The volume provides insights into the processes and politics of health care, analyzes inherent challenges of Indigenous self-determination, and reflects upon the roles played by anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and other proponents of action-oriented health research.
Hard Yakka is a qualitative study of evolving relations between Australian Indigenous communities and government bureaucracies in the development, imp...
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472,16 zł |
How to Survive Your Hospital Stay: The Complete Guide to Getting the Care You Need--And Avoiding Problems You Don't
ISBN: 9780743233194 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GET WELL AND GET OUT
Most people will find themselves -- or a loved one -- faced with a hospital stay at some point in their lives. The prospect is scary enough, even without worrying about hospital infections, adverse drug reactions, and other alarming risks that have been documented by the Centers for Disease Control and reported widely in medical journals and the national media. But help is here. Written by an experienced nurse practitioner and recognized hospital safety expert, How to Survive Your Hospital Stay offers simple steps to take before, during, and after... GET WELL AND GET OUT
Most people will find themselves -- or a loved one -- faced with a hospital stay at some point in their lives. The p... |
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81,19 zł |