Health Systems & Services

This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in ...

Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this ...

Operations management is increasingly a critical skill needed in today’s health care leader. Managing your organization’s complex interdisciplinar...

The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult ope...

The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communitie...

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth livi...

Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty...

For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort an...

"Reproducing Race," an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical settin...

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly ...

The true story of an A&E doctor that became a huge word-of-mouth hit. Forget what you have seen on Casualty or Holby City, this is wh...

Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, ass...

Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on heal...

The routine confinement of the deranged in a network of specialized and purposely built asylums is essentially a 19th-century phenomenon. Likewise,...

The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the...

This book studies the way chronic and long-term illnesses are represented in media, and the issues and structures associated with them. It also exa...

The challenges facing the healthcare industry are unparalleled in scope, number, and magnitude. Organizational realignments of health care system...

This casebook provides practical recommendations on a range of issues associated with electronic-based mental health care. From technologies as si...

Blending the topics of both accounting and finance, Essentials of Health Care Finance is a relevant, readable, and easily applied resource for heal...

Life, Alice thinks, isn’t worth living. So she kills herself. But she’s stuck. A fly on the wall. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and ...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the...

As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth,...

Clinical Management in Mental Health Services is a practical guide to the day to day operational management of mental health teams. It explores bot...

Health Care Finance and the Mechanics of Insurance and Reimbursement combines financial principles unique to the health care setting with the metho...

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel ...

Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels. Relational, cultura...

Responding to the growing need for tried-and-trusted solutions to the reproductive health care issues confronting millions of women worldwide, Obst...

The Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European ...

If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In ...

Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. D...

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regula...

In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on chi...

"Uninsured in America" goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and wha...

Disease and Democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of dive...

"Life in Crisis" tells the story of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Beg...

On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. "Uncertain Suffering" provides a richly nuanced examination of what th...

What does it mean to be the nation's doctor? In this engaging narrative, journalist Mike Stobbe examines the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, em...

America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolut...

"Life in Crisis" tells the story of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Beg...

A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the ...

This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud cre...