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  • A Death Retold

    Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship

    Collections series Studies in Social Medicine
    In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight — she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan’s tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in ... En savoir plus

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  • Overdiagnosed

    Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

    From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testingGoing against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Stoned

    A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana

    A doctor discovers the surprising truth about marijuanaNo substance on earth is as hotly debated as marijuana. Opponents claim it’s dangerous, addictive, carcinogenic, and a gateway to serious drug abuse. Fans claim it as a wonder drug, treating cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma, arthritis, migraines, PTSD, and insomnia. Patients suffering from these conditions need—and deserve—hard ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $15.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • Letting Go

    how to plan for a good death

    par Charlie Corke ...
    ‘Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’As Australia's population ages, many individuals are faced with making complex medical decisions, for themselves and for others, in times of great stress. How far should doctors go when trying to prolong life? How can we decide what is ‘too far’ and ‘not far enough’ for our loved ones ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

    Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things.Patients, anxious to convey their ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • Danger Within Us

    America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

    par Jeanne Lenzer ...
    Did you know...Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Selling Our Souls

    The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

    Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

  • Evaluating Health Promotion

    Practice and Methods

    Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods. As the demands for rigorous evaluation and evidence-based decision-making increase, health promotion cannot ignore the need for accurate, reliable and valid methods to carry out evaluation. This book provides ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD

  • Wait Time

    A Memoir of Cancer

    par Kenneth Sherman ...
    Collections Livre 56 - Life Writing
    When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks. His narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or ... En savoir plus

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  • Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations

    Adopt, Abandon or Adapt?

    Collections series Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
    Innovations in management are becoming more numerous and diverse, and are appearing in organizations providing many different kinds of products and services. The purpose of this book is to examine whether some widely-promoted examples of these management innovations – ranging from techniques such as Kaizen to styles of leadership and the management of learning – can usefully be applied to ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Familiar Physician

    Saving Your Doctor In the Era of Obamacare

    Powerful forces of change are at the core of Obamacare—and they could either strengthen or destroy our family doctors. It's a perfect storm that threatens our hope for more effective and personalized medical care and it holds the potential to drive our trusted Familiar Physicians toward extinction. In the midst of the storm is a new and promising approach within Obamacare called the medical home. ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

    Co-creation and Co-destruction of Value in the Healthcare Environment

    par Rocco Palumbo ...
    Collections series Medicine (R0)
    Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis. It begins by defining patient empowerment as a collaborative partnership linking patients, providers, and systems, and examines the roles of health literacy, provider-patient and system-patient communication, and patient-centered care in the empowerment process. Models of ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD