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Culture and Health 2e
ISBN: 9780470847374 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most health professionals now practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important.
"Culture and Health" considers the practical implications of working with people from different cultures. It takes an explicitly critical perspective to explore the many fascinating interplays between culture and health, situating them within the broader social contexts in which they arise. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this second edition has been extensively revised and updated, and now includes a chapter on Global... Most health professionals now practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very im...
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256,84 zł |
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Advances in Health Economics
ISBN: 9780470848838 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors. Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health economists in the world."
--Steve Morgan, University of British Columbia This is a series of essays to mark the 25 anniversary of HERU. Existing and former HERU staff write about their special interests and work records. This book addresses many current policy issues which exist in the Scottish (and English) National Health System.
"It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors. Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health economists in the world."<...
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803,89 zł |
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Quality Assurance for Biopharmaceuticals
ISBN: 9780471036562 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides basic guidelines concerning quality assurance and its responsibilities for biopharmaceuticals manufactured by either recombinant, monoclonal antibody or other biotechnological methodologies. The author discusses what systems are needed, and gives a detailed description of each system and its functions. Leading authorities in the biotechnology industry offer insight and suggestions in order to assure the safety, purity and efficacy of the products produced.
This volume provides basic guidelines concerning quality assurance and its responsibilities for biopharmaceuticals manufactured by either recombinant,...
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946,12 zł |
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Marketing Management for the Hospitality Industry: A Strategic Approach
ISBN: 9780471310129 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The only advanced marketing textbook specifically focused on the hospitality industry . . .
The time when you could run a hospitality business with nothing but a friendly smile and a strong work ethic has passed. Dining, lodging, and entertaining habits are changing rapidly as the information age revolutionizes the world economy. More than ever, businesses must focus their marketing efforts on specific segments within the market. Success in the hospitality industry demands that you develop the cutting-edge decision-making skills necessary for effective strategic market... The only advanced marketing textbook specifically focused on the hospitality industry . . .
The time when you could run a hospitality bus... |
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667,40 zł |
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Health: The Foundations for Achievement
ISBN: 9780471490111 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This inspirational book provides the philosophical backbone to countless courses for health professionals. It poses two fundamental questions - "What is health?" and "How can more health be achieved?" - and answers them at a depth unmatched by any other text in this field. David Seedhouse shows that these questions lie at the heart of health practice, and explains why all health workers should ponder them deeply.
This second edition retains the freshness and enthusiasm of the first, while making the foundations theory and its practical applications clearer and more accessible... This inspirational book provides the philosophical backbone to countless courses for health professionals. It poses two fundamental questions - "What ...
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251,37 zł |
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Essentials of Telemedicine and Telecare
ISBN: 9780471531517 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rapid advancement of telecommunications and information technology has created the potential for high-quality expert healthcare to be delivered when and where it is needed. This text charts the development of the telemedicine industry, defines its current scope and reveals the potential of new methodologies.
* explains the main features of telemedicine and telecare * reviews the technology needed for telemedicine * describes how to develop, deliver and evaluate telemedicine services * considers the associated ethical and legal issues * includes an in-depth survey... Rapid advancement of telecommunications and information technology has created the potential for high-quality expert healthcare to be delivered when a...
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420,96 zł |
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Fortress Nhs: A Philosophical Review of the National Health Service
ISBN: 9780471939092 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the philosophy of the NHS? What are these fundamental principles? Where do they come from and why are they so important? This book tackles each of these questions and more. Expresses the concept that the health service, armed with a substantial philosophy of health, should drive and control medicine. The central theme is that the theoretical and practical nature of health services can and must be contested.
What is the philosophy of the NHS? What are these fundamental principles? Where do they come from and why are they so important? This book tackles eac...
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683,54 zł |
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Reforming Health Care: The Philosophy and Practice of International Health Reform
ISBN: 9780471953258 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health reform has become a permanent feature of public debate. But all trends have their day, and any genuine reform process must come to an end. How will the '90s health reforms turn out? Will the public enjoy highly cost-effective health systems offering the best available health benefits? Or are the health reforms bound to fail? To study health reform it is essential to know what is actually happening to and within various health systems, and this volume includes comprehensive articles on health reform in the USA, the UK, Holland, South Africa, New Zealand and Eastern Europe. But to be...
Health reform has become a permanent feature of public debate. But all trends have their day, and any genuine reform process must come to an end. How ...
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590,54 zł |
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Research in Health Care: Design, Conduct and Interpretation of Health Services Research
ISBN: 9780471962595 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides health care professionals with a comprehensive but readable guide to the design, conduct and interpretation of health services research. It strips the research process of its technical jargon, illuminating the methods of research by an extensive use of real examples. The common pitfalls of the design and interpretation of studies are reviewed, together with guidance on how to avoid them. The result is a user-friendly text which will enable all health care professionals to carry out research with confidence and success.
This volume provides health care professionals with a comprehensive but readable guide to the design, conduct and interpretation of health services re...
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579,60 zł |
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Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California
ISBN: 9780472089352 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If a teaching hospital loses funding, what is the next option? Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California investigates the recent mergers of six of the nation's most respected teaching hospitals. The author explains the reasons why these institutions decided to change their governance and the factors that have allowed two of them to continue to operate while forcing the third to dissolve after only 23 months of operation. The case studies contained within this book rely on an impressive amount of research. Notably, instead of citing only... If a teaching hospital loses funding, what is the next option? Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California<... |
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202,14 zł |
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A History of the Atkinson Morley's Hospital 1869-1995
ISBN: 9780485115055 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors trace the history of Atkinson Morley's Hospital from the time of its inception in 1869 to the present day. The Hospital was endowed by Atkinson Morley, a London hotel owner, who was a member of the Board of Governors of St George's Hospital with the aim of providing St George's with its own convalescent facility, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. The book follows the life and times of the benefactor, the events leading up to the building of the convalescent hospital, and its trials and tribulations up to the beginning of the Second World War, including biographical...
The authors trace the history of Atkinson Morley's Hospital from the time of its inception in 1869 to the present day. The Hospital was endowed by Atk...
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285,83 zł |
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The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780520046337 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship? In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore what social transactions, decisionmaking, illness and therapy classifications, and resource allocations are used in the choice of therapy by the ill, their kinfolk, friends,...
In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize c...
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158,64 zł |
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The Making of Rehabilitation: A Political Economy of Medical Specialization, 1890-1980volume 15
ISBN: 9780520066045 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the history of one medical field--rehabilitation medicine--this book provides the first systematic analysis of the underlying forces that shape medical specialization, challenging traditional explanations of occupational specialization.
Focusing on the history of one medical field--rehabilitation medicine--this book provides the first systematic analysis of the underlying forces that ...
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201,21 zł |
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Healing the Masses
ISBN: 9780520082984 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperate economic conditions. Moreover, Cuba has sent disaster relief, donations of medical supplies and technology, and cadres of volunteer doctors throughout the world, emerging, in Castro's phrase, as a "world medical power." In her significant and timely study, Julie Feinsilver explores the Cuban...
How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo,...
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158,64 zł |
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Educated Guesses: Making Policy about Screening Tests
ISBN: 9780520083660 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A copublication with the Milbank Memorial Fund Prevention is the best cure--or is it? As medical experts hammer home the importance of annual medical checkups and routine screening for everything from high blood pressure to cancer, Americans have come to believe that frequent screening tests are essential for saving lives. But just how effective are the tests that we have come to take for granted? In this provocative book, medical economist Louise Russell challenges the standard wisdom that more is necessarily better by examining three routinely administered tests--those designed...
A copublication with the Milbank Memorial Fund Prevention is the best cure--or is it? As medical experts hammer home the importance of annu...
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170,71 zł |
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American Medicine and the Public Interest
ISBN: 9780520210097 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the American health care system. Updated with an extensive new introduction and a new bibliography, Stevens's book chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy. She details specialization's effects on health care costs and on health care providers, and her concerns are especially timely: the implications of technology and the resulting ethical...
The reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the Ameri...
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262,22 zł |
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American Medicine: The Quest for Competence
ISBN: 9780520216532 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care? These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fully explore the meaning and politics of competence in modern American medicine. Based on Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good's recent ethnographic studies of three distinct medical communities--physicians in rural California, academics and students involved in Harvard Medical School's innovative "New...
What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed h...
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201,21 zł |
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Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
ISBN: 9780520223981 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power plays, and shrewd detective work. Setting a new standard for the practice of autoethnography, Susan Greenhalgh presents a case study of her intense encounter with an enthusiastic young specialist who, through creative interpretation of the diagnostic criteria for a newly emerging chronic disease,...
This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes t...
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158,64 zł |
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Promoting Human Wellness: New Frontiers for Research, Practice, and Policy
ISBN: 9780520226098 / Angielski / Miękka / 749 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and disease prevention. Based on award-winning lectures by University of California faculty on nine campuses as part of the Wellness Lectures Program jointly funded by The California Wellness Foundation, Health Net, and the University of California, the volume aims to widen the scope of health care research and policy to promote wellness rather than focus on illness and disease, and to incorporate proactive, interdisciplinary approaches to health care....
This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and dis...
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262,22 zł |
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The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances
ISBN: 9780520239555 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that others will never knowchallenges that begin with a greater risk of infant mortality and extend well into adulthood in the form of health and developmental problems. Because low birth weight is often accompanied by social risk factors such as minority racial status, low education, young maternal age, and low income, the question of causes and consequencesof precisely how biological and social factors figure into this equationbecomes especially...
Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that ot...
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164,12 zł |
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