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  • SARS Unmasked

    Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada

    par Cathy Paterson, Michael Tyshenko ...
    Collections Livre 35 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Will SARS or another pandemic influenza reoccur and, if it does, have we learned how to manage pandemics more effectively? In SARS Unmasked risk communication expert Michael Tyshenko offers answers to this and other questions. Cathy Paterson, who worked as a nurse clinician during the Toronto SARS crisis, adds an important view from the frontlines. Their analysis reveals an out-of-control ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Infections and Inequalities

    The Modern Plagues

    par Paul Farmer ...
    Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Year the World Went Mad

    A Scientific Memoir

    par Mark Woolhouse ...
    'An essential book.' -Matt RidleyIn January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should urgently begin preparations. A few days later he received a polite reply stating only that everything was under ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe

    Modifié par Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis, Gail Bolan ...
    Collections series Medicine (R0)
    This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few ... En savoir plus

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  • And a Time to Die

    How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

    par Sharon Kaufman, M.D. ...
    A reassuring and illuminating examination on our conflicting wishes about the end of life, how the politics and routines of the American hospital have formed our understanding and experience of death, and ultimately why what we consider a "good death" is so hard to attain.In a penetrating and revelatory study, medical anthropologist Dr. Sharon Kaufman uses two years of intensive observations and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Fear

    Médecins sans Frontières and the West African Ebola Epidemic

    Modifié par Michiel Hofman, Sokhieng Au ...
    The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear, not rational planning, appeared to drive many decisions made at population and leadership levels, which in turn brought about a response that was as uneven as it was unprecedented: entire populations ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Syndemics

    A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health

    par Merrill Singer ...
    This book explains the growing field of syndemic theory and research, a framework for the analysis and prevention of disease interactions that addresses underlying social and environmental causes. This perspective complements single-issue prevention strategies, which can be effective for discrete problems, but often are mismatched to the goal of protecting the public's health in its widest sense. ... En savoir plus

    $102.99 CAD

  • Emergence of infectious diseases

    Risks and issues for societies

    par Serge Morand, Muriel Figuié ...
    Collections series Matière à débattre et décider
    From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains the constant emergence of infectious diseases? What are the related challenges?In five chapters, experts from different scientific fields analyse the ecological, social, institutional and ... En savoir plus

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  • An Introduction to the Geography of Health

    par Helen Hazen, Peter Anthamatten ...
    In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The book’s focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the ... En savoir plus

    $100.30 CAD

  • Contesting Intersex

    The Dubious Diagnosis

    par Georgiann Davis ...
    Collections Livre 17 - Alternative Criminology
    An elucidating study of the medical management of intersex diagnoses and the political engagement of intersex activists.When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis to "protect" her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology

    A Case-Based Textbook

    Modifié par Gail A. Van Norman, MD, Stephen Jackson, MD, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, MA MD, Susan K. Palmer ...
    Ethical issues facing anesthesiologists are more far-reaching than those involving virtually any other medical specialty. In this clinical ethics textbook, authors from across the USA, Canada and Europe draw on ethical principles and practical knowledge to provide a realistic understanding of ethical anesthetic practice. The result is a compilation of expert opinion and international perspectives ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • SARS in Context

    Memory, History, and Policy

    par Arthur Sweetman, Jacalyn M. Duffin ...
    Collections Livre 27 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Former Ontario Chief Coroner James Young and infectious disease expert Dick Zoutman recount their efforts to contain the mysterious new disease. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," several distinguished historians of epidemics examine how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS. They also reflect on how the advent of SARS alters their ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD