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Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Germany
ISBN: 9780521524568 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany and considers the nature of modern German government and society in relation to Western social, political, and economic development. The central focus is on the professionalization of modern medicine and the medicalization of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme. Other topics include: hospitals in early nineteenth century society, Social Darwinism, state-run health insurance, eugenics, social control, Nazi experimentation, and the...
This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany and considers the ...
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A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885-1915
ISBN: 9780521528627 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York that occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It represents a fundamental departure from traditional medical history, which has usually emphasised 'progress' through science and technology. Professor Rosner identifies the economic, political and demographic pressures that brought about a reshaping of the health care system, and analyses the dramatic reorganisation of hospitals that took place. He also discusses major scientific advances such as the discovery of anaesthetic properties of ether, nitrous oxide and...
This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York that occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It represents a fundamental d...
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Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-Industrial Society
ISBN: 9780521530613 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and ?fringe?) seen from the patients? point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated...
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor...
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Cost-Value Analysis in Health Care: Making Sense Out of Qalys
ISBN: 9780521644341 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comprehensive and fully up-to-date account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. It offers an elegant new approach to comparing the costs and benefits of medical interventions. Erik Nord questions Cost-Utility Analysis (CUA) and the feasibility of measuring patients' quality of life meaningfully in numerical terms. He presents an alternative approach called cost-value analysis in which representative samples of the general public express preferences among different health-care programs. This will be a book of particular interest...
This book is a comprehensive and fully up-to-date account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. It off...
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The Adolescent Alone: Decision Making in Health Care in the United States
ISBN: 9780521658911 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A growing number of adolescents do not have a supportive and trusting relationship with an adult in a birth, foster, adoptive, or chosen family. Yet like all adolescents they need routine and sometimes specialized health care. This book is a collection of essays, case studies, and guidelines that describe the demographic, philosophical, medical, legal, and developmental framework in which these youth and health care staff confront medical decision making. The authors address questions of consent, confidentiality, access to care, and the right to refuse or demand care, emphasizing the...
A growing number of adolescents do not have a supportive and trusting relationship with an adult in a birth, foster, adoptive, or chosen family. Yet l...
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Management Mistakes in Healthcare: Identification, Correction, and Prevention
ISBN: 9780521829007 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While increasing attention has been directed recently toward recognizing and reducing medical errors, healthcare organizations have yet to benefit from a similar scrutiny of management mistakes. Serving as a call to action for health care managers throughout the world, this book addresses the information gap on this critical issue.
While increasing attention has been directed recently toward recognizing and reducing medical errors, healthcare organizations have yet to benefit fro...
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Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly
ISBN: 9780521876322 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key questions: What is the special moral importance of health? When are health inequalities unjust? How can we meet health needs fairly when we cannot meet them all? The theory has implications for national and global health policy: Can we meet health needs fairly in aging societies? Or protect health in the workplace while respecting individual liberty? Or meet professional obligations and obligations of justice without conflict?
In this new book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers thr...
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The Medical Cop-Out
ISBN: 9780595006069 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Beyond Training: Mastering the Art of Contemporary Medicine
ISBN: 9780595134939 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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New Frontiers in Healthcare Management: MBAs Evolving in the Business of Healthcare
ISBN: 9780595174355 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Healthcare Communication: A Rhetorical Handbook
ISBN: 9780595199747 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Introduction to the Peer Review Organization
ISBN: 9780595206803 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Decline of American Medicine: Where Have All the Doctors Gone?
ISBN: 9780595284191 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is it so difficult to find a good doctor, and see the doctor when you have a problem? Why are you told to "go to the emergency room?" Why is your "doctor" a nurse practitioner? The U.S. health care system, heralded as the finest in the world, has been in decline for a number of years. Here are the explanations for the decline in availability of primary health care, its increasing cost, and the increasingly impersonal care encountered by the patient. Dr. Rosenblum, chosen by his peers as a leading physician in his community, clarifies the many issues contributing to deterioration of health...
Why is it so difficult to find a good doctor, and see the doctor when you have a problem? Why are you told to "go to the emergency room?" Why is your ...
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Virtual Reality: Future Of Health Care
ISBN: 9780595296446 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hospital groups differ on interventions for tomorrow's medicine. 3-D interface, volume reconstruction, virtual imagery, and stealth platform surgery guided systems all enhance conventional medicine in treatment planning, diagnostic tests and surgical interventions. Consolidating services, acquiring contracts and partnerships in medicine, DNA therapies, molding bone for reconstruction, developing tissue replacement, and cloning organs provide good outcomes in patient care.
Hospital groups differ on interventions for tomorrow's medicine. 3-D interface, volume reconstruction, virtual imagery, and stealth platform surgery g...
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Affordable Health Insurance in America: Secrets and Tips to Help You in Your Search for Medical Coverage
ISBN: 9780595386130 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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On The Path to Becoming A Physician
ISBN: 9780595404179 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Training of medical students physically, mentally, and emotionally is an arduous process. The transformation of a lay person entering medical school to that of a physician is a remarkable process. Almost every medical student embarks on this journey with compassion to relieve the suffering of his fellow human beings. There is danger of being emotionally paralyzed by witnessing the misery of the sick, the horror of death, social injustice of lack of medical coverage, and the ingratitude of litigious patients. Medical school curriculum is geared to teach medical skills. Students on their... Training of medical students physically, mentally, and emotionally is an arduous process. The transformation of a lay person entering medical schoo... |
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Where are the Physicians?: Preventing A Physician Shortage and Curtailed Healthcare Services
ISBN: 9780595433032 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year is 2015, and the public is saying, "Where are the physicians?" Also, they are complaining, "Why have my healthcare services become so difficult to obtain?" The problem? The private healthcare delivery system has been replaced by a National Health Service. There is a physician shortage, and many of those who have become physicians have not come from the best of our youth. In addition, curtailed health care services are necessary to pay the costs of the national, state, and local bureaucracies required to administer the government's National Health Service. This book will have... The year is 2015, and the public is saying, "Where are the physicians?" Also, they are complaining, "Why have my healthcare services become so diff... |
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Futurecare
ISBN: 9780632035779 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health care in the developed world is in the throws of radical change. Primary health care is having to become more cost effective, large scale hospitals may become a thing of the past and the increasing needs of a growing population will need to be catered for. These are just a few of the issues. Health and care planners, together with architects and designers, need to ensure that what they plan for today will not be redundant in the near future. This book looks at development and design needs across the whole range of health and care facilities.
Health care in the developed world is in the throws of radical change. Primary health care is having to become more cost effective, large scale hospit...
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Excellence in Health Care Management
ISBN: 9780632040322 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to today's practice. Central issues such as people management and workplace education are approached from contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. Concepts of training, quality, finance, information and transition management are considered in detail with a strong emphasis on inter-professional working. Excellence in Health Care Management will appeal to students studying general management courses as well as human resource managers, health professionals, and management...
This book is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to today's practice. Central issues such as peo...
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Pathways of Care: Causes and Management
ISBN: 9780632040766 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pathways of Care programmes are used in all areas of healthcare to improve clinical effectiveness and the quality of patient care. This book is an essential reference source for all those involved in coordinating healthcare delivery. It is also a valuable tool for those piloting the use of Pathways, for those who have already implemented Pathway programmes, and for anyone interested in investigating or using Pathways. The book provides detailed information on the concepts of Pathways and many examples of how Pathways of care have been implemented and used in different clinical settings. The...
Pathways of Care programmes are used in all areas of healthcare to improve clinical effectiveness and the quality of patient care. This book is an ess...
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