Beyond Caring

Author: Daniel F. Chambliss
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226100715
Category: Medical

Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics (Morality and Society Series)

Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals. Download Beyond Caring medical books for free.
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Author: Daniel F. Chambliss
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226101029
Category: Medical

Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics (Morality and Society Series)

Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals. Download Beyond Caring medical books for free.
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Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how patients, many weak and helpless, too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system and how ethics decisions, once the dilemmas of troubled individuals, become the setting for political turf battles between occupational interest groups. The result is a compelling combination of realism and a powerful theo Get Beyond Caring our bestseller medical books.

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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care. Both disturbing and illuminating, it immerses readers in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family beset with the devastatin

Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition

On its initial publication, Forgive and Remember emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, reflecting on the changes that have taken pl

Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the

The environment of man

Author: Richard Nathaniel T-W-Fiennes
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0856646997
Category: Medical

The environment of man (Biology and environment)

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Economic Evaluation of Interventions for Occupational Health and Safety

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Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199533598
Category: Medical

Economic Evaluation of Interventions for Occupational Health and Safety: Developing Good Practice

Undertaking economic evaluations of workplace-based occupational health and safety interventions can be difficult, reflected by the significant lack of literature, evidence and guidance on the subject. Download Economic Evaluation of Interventions for Occupational Health and Safety medical books for free.
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Social Lives of Medicines

Author: Susan Reynolds Whyte
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0521804698
Category: Medical

Social Lives of Medicines (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)

The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by anthropologists concerned solely with their social uses. Download Social Lives of Medicines medical books for free.
The text begins with examples of a mother medicating a child in various cultural contexts and ends with a broad review of the complex elements that determine the production and use of medicines. Since 1993, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology has offered researchers and instructors monographs and edited collections of leading scholarship in one of the most lively and popular subfields of cultural and social anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the CSMA series presents theme booksworks that synthesize emerging scholarship from relatively new subfields or that reinterpret the literature of older ones. Get Social Lives of Medicines our bestseller medical books.

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Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal sett

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention (New Anthropologies of Europe)

"An unparalleled study of a transforming and privatizing Russian health care system, of the promises and perils of prescriptive programs for change, that points to the areas that need change in the change-makers themselves.... part of a larger story

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness a

Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt

Why has Egypt, a pioneer of organ transplantation, been reluctant to pass a national organ transplant law for more than three decades? This book analyzes the national debate over organ transplantation in Egypt as it has unfolded during a time of majo

Environment and Health

Author: K. Duncan
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1845641302
Category: Medical

Environment and Health : Protecting our Common Future

Environmental degradation and illness and disease prevent millions of people
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Pharmageddon

Author: David Healy
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520275764
Category: Medical

Pharmageddon

This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Download Pharmageddon medical books for free.
Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials. These developments have tied the survival of pharmaceutical companies to the development of blockbuster drugs, so that they must overhype benefits and deny real hazards. Healy further explains why Get Pharmageddon our bestseller medical books.

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Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality Anyone

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trialsAare often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptionsAfor everything from a

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,1