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Rewriting Nursing History

Edited by Celia Davies ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Originally published in 1980, this book written by nurses, historians and sociologists, challenges conventional forms of nursing history. Rather than a chronology of events or a focus on great men or women as instigators of change, the contributions address specific questions to historical data, posing and evaluating contrasting interpretations. They set out quite deliberately to ask new questions ... Read more

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Originally published in 1980, this book written by nurses, historians and sociologists, challenges conventional forms of nursing history. Rather than a chronology of events or a focus on great men or women as instigators of change, the contributions address specific questions to historical data, posing and evaluating contrasting interpretations. They set out quite deliberately to ask new questions
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Better Health in Harder Times

Active Citizens and Innovation on the Frontline

Edited by Celia Davies, Jan Walmsley, Mike Hales, Ray Flux ...

For years the NHS has been the most trusted of public institutions and the envy of many around the world. But today there is turmoil. Painful shortcomings in clinical care and patient experience, together with funding cuts, threaten to dig deep into service levels and standards. Seventy years of technically advanced medicine provided free to the population has produced a widespread perception of ... Read more

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For years the NHS has been the most trusted of public institutions and the envy of many around the world. But today there is turmoil. Painful shortcomings in clinical care and patient experience, together with funding cuts, threaten to dig deep into service levels and standards. Seventy years of technically advanced medicine provided free to the population has produced a widespread perception of
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Interpreting Professional Self-Regulation

A History of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

by Abigail Beach, Celia Davies ...

Interpreting Professional Self-Regulation analyses the contribution made by the UKCC to the development of the nursing profession in this country over the last 30 years.It details the key issues the council grappled with during this time and provides in-depth analyses of the complexity of these issues.There is a general consensus that the current view of nursing's regulatory body will culminate in ... Read more

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Interpreting Professional Self-Regulation analyses the contribution made by the UKCC to the development of the nursing profession in this country over the last 30 years.It details the key issues the council grappled with during this time and provides in-depth analyses of the complexity of these issues.There is a general consensus that the current view of nursing's regulatory body will culminate in
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Deadly Choices

How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

by Paul A Offit, MD ...

In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite ... Read more

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In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite
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Epic Measures

One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

by Jeremy N. Smith ...

Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. ... Read more

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Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die.
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One Bowl

A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit

by Don Gerrard ...

One Bowl proposes a simple but extraordinarily powerful idea: By adopting a single bowl as the vessel for your meals, you will become more aware of the food you eat, how you eat, and the effects (large and small) of particular foods on your body and your spiritual and physical well-being. Author Don Gerrard guides us through every process of adapting to the one-bowl philosophy of eating, including ... Read more

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One Bowl proposes a simple but extraordinarily powerful idea: By adopting a single bowl as the vessel for your meals, you will become more aware of the food you eat, how you eat, and the effects (large and small) of particular foods on your body and your spiritual and physical well-being. Author Don Gerrard guides us through every process of adapting to the one-bowl philosophy of eating, including
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The Best Care Possible

A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

by Ira Byock ...

A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a ... Read more

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A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a
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Fresh Medicine

How to Fix, Reform, and Build a Sustainable Health Care System

by Phil Bredesen ...

An authoritative, engaging, and nonpartisan look at what is wrong with American health care and how we can fix it—"told with skill and grace" (Jon Meacham, author of American Lion).Former Governor of Tennessee and CEO of HealthAmerica Corporation, Phil Bredesen "knows the American health care system inside and out. He knows both the theory and, more importantly, how things really work." In Fresh ... Read more

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An authoritative, engaging, and nonpartisan look at what is wrong with American health care and how we can fix it—"told with skill and grace" (Jon Meacham, author of American Lion).Former Governor of Tennessee and CEO of HealthAmerica Corporation, Phil Bredesen "knows the American health care system inside and out. He knows both the theory and, more importantly, how things really work." In Fresh
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Reconstruction of Social Work Through Personalisation

The Need for Policy and Practice Shift in Social Care: Family Directed Support Care Systems.

by Felix. U. A Ugwumadu ...

The growing older people population and their increasing needs for care is now presenting significant difficulties to both national government and local authorities because of constriction of formal caregivers and family units. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which older people services operate everywhere attracts a range of responses from the very enthusiastic ... Read more

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The growing older people population and their increasing needs for care is now presenting significant difficulties to both national government and local authorities because of constriction of formal caregivers and family units. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which older people services operate everywhere attracts a range of responses from the very enthusiastic
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Where to from Here?

Keeping Medicare Sustainable

by Stephen Duckett ...

Series Book 161 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues ... Read more

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Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues
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Nunavut

A Health System Profile

by Gregory P. Marchildon, Renée Torgerson ...

Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health and healthcare in the territory.Little more than a decade old, Nunavut has a population that ... Read more

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Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health and healthcare in the territory.Little more than a decade old, Nunavut has a population that
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Managing Breast Cancer: A Guide to Living Well Through Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

by Curtis L. Whitehair, M.D., FAAPMR, Editor, Eric M. Wisotzky, M.D., FAAPMR, Editor ...

Managing Breast Cancer begins by giving the reader an overview of breast cancer and its treatments. This helps the reader to understand how these treatments may affect the body. The book then discusses the common functional complications of cancer including pain, fatigue, and lymphedema, and gives practical rehabilitation management strategies for each.Noted physicians and therapists have ... Read more

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Managing Breast Cancer begins by giving the reader an overview of breast cancer and its treatments. This helps the reader to understand how these treatments may affect the body. The book then discusses the common functional complications of cancer including pain, fatigue, and lymphedema, and gives practical rehabilitation management strategies for each.Noted physicians and therapists have
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