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“michael j madson”

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  • The Rise and Fall of Original OxyContin

    A Rhetorical Study of Blame, Scapegoating, and Our Unrelieved Pain

    by Michael J. Madson ...
    The United States opioid crisis has wrought devastation on a massive scale. With closure elusive, much of the blame has fallen on a single pill, a long-acting oxycodone tablet called OxyContin. Perhaps one of the most notorious prescription painkillers on the market, OxyContin may be the best documented opioid in the country due to extensive litigation, regulation, and news coverage. Analyses of ... Read more

    $106.79 CAD

  • Teaching Writing in the Health Professions

    Perspectives, Problems, and Practices

    Edited by Michael J. Madson ...
    This collection provides a research-based guide to instructional practices for writing in the health professions, promoting faculty development and bringing together perspectives from writing studies, technical communication, and health humanities.With employment in health-care sectors booming, writing instruction tailored for the health professions is in high demand. Writing instruction is ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    We all feel uncomfortable about the role of profit in healthcare, we all have a vague notion that the global $600bn pharmaceutical industry is somehow evil and untrustworthy, but that sense rarely goes beyond a flaky, undifferentiated new age worldview. Bad Pharma puts real flesh on those bones, revealing the rigged evidence used by drug companies. Bad information means bad treatment decisions, ... Read more

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  • Drug Use for Grown-Ups

    Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

    by Dr. Carl L. Hart ...
    **“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a ... Read more

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  • Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Relationships

    Edited by Kevin B. Wright, Lynne M. Webb ...
    This is the first collection of readings on computer-mediated communication focusing exclusively on interpersonal interactions. Examining messages exchanged via email, Twitter, Facebook, websites, and blogs, the authors analyze communication issues of ongoing importance in relationships including deception, disclosure, identity, influence, perception, privacy, sexual fidelity, and social support. ... Read more

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  • Pain Killer

    An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

    by Barry Meier ...
    **From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid epidemic and the secretive world of the Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma, Pain Killer is the celebrated landmark story of corporate greed and government negligence that inspired an upcoming Netflix series.“This is the book that started it all. Barry Meier is a heroic reporter and Pain Killer is a ... Read more

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  • How to Implement Evidence-Based Healthcare

    by Trisha Greenhalgh ...
    Series series How To
    British Medical Association Book Award Winner - President's Award of the Year 2018From the author of the bestselling introduction to evidence-based medicine, this brand new title makes sense of the complex and confusing landscape of implementation science, the role of research impact, and how to avoid research waste.How to Implement Evidence-Based Healthcare clearly and succinctly demystifies the ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Overdose

    Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis

    by Benjamin Perrin ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED for the 2021 BC Book Awards' George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in LiteratureSHORTLISTED for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, for both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and Jim Deva Prize for Writing That ProvokesSHORTLISTED for the 2021 J. W. Dafoe Book PrizeSHORTLISTED for the 2020 Lane Anderson Award“Overdose is a necessary and searching investigation into a ... Read more

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  • Teaching Medical Professionalism

    Supporting the Development of a Professional Identity

    Edited by Richard L. Cruess, Sylvia R. Cruess, Yvonne Steinert ...
    This book presents ideas, evidence and guidance for those interested in using the most recent advances in knowledge about learning and human development to enhance medical education's ability to form competent, caring and publicly responsible physicians. It does this by establishing the development of a professional identity in medical students and residents as a primary goal of medical education. ... Read more

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  • Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime

    How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare

    by Peter Gotzsche ...
    PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close co ... Read more

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  • Talking Back to Prozac

    What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Prozac and the Newer Antidepressants

    by Ginger Ross Breggin, Peter R. Breggin ...
    A psychiatrist takes a critical look at this SSRI and newer medications that are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in America.Prozac. Millions of Americans are on it. And just about everyone else is wondering if they should be on it, too. The claims of the pro‑Prozac chorus are enticing: that it can cure everything from depression (the only disorder for which Prozac was originally ... Read more

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  • The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change, and Organizational Development

    Edited by H. Skipton Leonard, Rachel Lewis, Arthur M. Freedman, Jonathan Passmore ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks in Organizational Psychology
    A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of leadership, change and ODPuts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly researchThematic chapters cover ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD