Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes
ISBN: 9781978830639 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews...
Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply conteste...
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Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes
ISBN: 9781978830646 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews...
Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply conteste...
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641,95 zł |
Fundamentals of Environmental Assessment
ISBN: 9780367705923 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the "go to" book in the field of ecological risk assessment, this shorter, principles-based, updated textbook is essential for students and new practitioners who want to understand the purposes of environmental assessments and how to achieve them. It includes environmental risks to humans as well as nonhuman populations and ecosystems, and most types of environmental assessments. Drawing upon the author’s extensive experience in the field, first as a senior research staff member in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge Laboratory and then as science adviser in the United...
Based on the "go to" book in the field of ecological risk assessment, this shorter, principles-based, updated textbook is essential for students and n...
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439,99 zł |
Handbook of Global Urban Health
ISBN: 9781032475578 / Angielski / Miękka / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is intended to be a reference in global urban health for research libraries and faculty collections. It will also be appropriate as a text for university class adoption in upper-division under-graduate courses and above.
The book is intended to be a reference in global urban health for research libraries and faculty collections. It will also be appropriate as a text fo...
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217,38 zł |
Lifestyle Related Diseases Among Doctors
ISBN: 9783715187822 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,99 zł |
Industrial Hygiene: Improving Worker Health Through an Operational Risk Approach, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781032597645 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Industrial Hygiene: Improving Worker Health Through an Operational Risk Approach, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781032645889 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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673,02 zł |
Risk Management in Emergency Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
ISBN: 9780443296024 / Angielski / 28-02-2025 Książka dostępna od: 28-02-2025 |
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The Expanding Continuum of Gender-Based Violence: Trauma-Informed Care, Volume 1: Trauma-Informed Care
ISBN: 9781953119230 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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609,77 zł |
The Expanding Continuum of Gender-Based Violence: Trauma-Informed Care, Volume 2: Trauma-Informed Care
ISBN: 9781953119247 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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637,49 zł |
Child Health and the Environment
ISBN: 9780195135596 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, pediatrics, environmental health, epidemiology, and toxicology. The first three chapters provide overviews of key children's environmental health issues as well as the role of environmental epidemiology and risk assessment in child health protection. Overarching themes are the susceptibility of the rapidly developing fetus and infant to environmental toxicants, the importance of modifying factors(e.g. poverty, genetic traits, nutrition), the role...
This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, p...
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285,86 zł |
Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
ISBN: 9780195138825 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians' unaided assessments of "dangerousness" are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the...
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, cou...
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Emotion, Social Relationships, and Health
ISBN: 9780195145410 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A growing body of literature on humans and animals documents the link between social integration and affiliative relationships and a variety of health and disease outcomes, including mortality. The actual mechanisms through which these efforts occur are, however, not well understood. Emotion probably plays a central role in mediating connections between relational experiences, underlying neurobiological processes, and health outcomes. Many prior studies have focused on the size and proximity of social networks, thereby neglecting their emotional features. When studied, emotion in social...
A growing body of literature on humans and animals documents the link between social integration and affiliative relationships and a variety of health...
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229,40 zł |
The Sociology of Health Promotion : Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk
ISBN: 9780415116466 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health promotion and the new public health are now central to health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. Issues examined include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalization and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes.
Health promotion and the new public health are now central to health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health...
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The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk
ISBN: 9780415116473 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes. It will be invaluable reading for students, health promoters, public health doctors and academics.
Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiativ...
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243,26 zł |
The Microbiological Risk Assessment of Food
ISBN: 9780632059522 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Microbiological Risk Assessment of Food follows on from the author's successful book The Microbiology of Safe Food and provides a detailed analysis of the subject area including cutting-edge information on: foodborne pathogens in world trade; food safety, control and HACCP; risk analysis; the application of microbiological risk assessment (MRA) and likely future developments in the techniques and applications of MRA.
This important book focuses on what is an acceptable level of risk to consumers associated with eating food, on a daily basis, which does contain bacteria. An... The Microbiological Risk Assessment of Food follows on from the author's successful book The Microbiology of Safe Food and provides a detailed ...
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Health Needs Assessment in Practice
ISBN: 9780727912701 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a practical introduction to understanding and undertaking health needs assessment, a key issue in primary care. The different assessment methods, including surveys and patient views, are given a straightforward analysis and there is invaluable advice on how to measure their effectiveness.
This is a practical introduction to understanding and undertaking health needs assessment, a key issue in primary care. The different assessment metho...
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244,95 zł |
Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
ISBN: 9780742549074 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Threats is designed to make students, scholars, activists and policymakers think critically about how environmental and biological fears are implicated in the construction of threats to local, national and global security. Writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the authors contribute to scholarship on environment and security that engages with some of the more potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of the contemporary scene.
Making Threats is designed to make students, scholars, activists and policymakers think critically about how environmental and biological fears are im...
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The Economics of U.S. Health Care Policy: The Role of Market Forces: The Role of Market Forces
ISBN: 9780765612564 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis of the health care industry in the context of market forces driving the industry, including negotiated markets, managed care, and the growing influence of oligopolies. Written in accessible prose, without the aid of technical jargon and mathematical formulations, the content is rich with applicable, understandable economic concepts and analysis, and examples of market failure and government involvement. Some of the major policy issues covered are...
Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis o...
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Managed Care in the Inner City: The Uncertain Promise for Providers, Plans, and Communities
ISBN: 9780787946234 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managed Care in the Inner City presents a well-documented and candid look at how the managed care revolution has affected low-income and other vulnerable populations who live in inner cities. This ground-breaking book offers a thorough review of the drastic changes to the way health care is delivered in America's cities and presents sensible recommendations for creating programs that will satisfy public health agendas and also succeed from a policy and health care management perspective. Managed Care in the Inner City proposes to draw on the combined strengths of traditional providers and...
Managed Care in the Inner City presents a well-documented and candid look at how the managed care revolution has affected low-income and other vulnera...
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304,90 zł |