Medicine: General Issues

Cracking the Medicare code Medicare For Dummies is your ultimate cheat sheet to demystifying Medicare. This newly updated guide covers the latest c...

Why is the United States the only advanced industrial democracy today without a national health insurance program? Laham aptly examines the reasons...

Essential reading for health and mental health administrators, community agencies, and policy makers as well as students and general interest reade...

Unlike earlier work in medical economics, which has focused on medical care, these ten papers stress the production and consequences of health itse...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: an uplifting account of hope and healing by GP Gavin Francis 'I cannot think of anybody - patient or doctor - who wil...

Inside Doctoring provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to become and be a physician. From pre-med to resident, the effective doctor ...

Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would ...

This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies.  The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought tog...

Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormo...

If national health insurance becomes a reality, what options should be considered for the coverage of prescription drugs? The authors—whose Pills, ...

Although American medicine has had truly impressive clinical achievements, America's health care system fails to provide equal access to reasonable...

The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies? We gaze at the w...

Pain. Vomiting. Hours and days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36...

Documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, this work analyzes the forces that shape m...

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and th...

An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film 'A heroic work of journalism on what must ...

This book offers a systematic review of major issues and trends in health care policy, including those related to physical health and disease trend...

Written by a team of nationally recognized African American social work professionals with extensive and distinguished backgrounds of HIV/AIDS serv...

This book examines nursing's feminist consciousness as the profession has developed and evolved over time. The interrelationship between the status...

This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice ...

Pain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The works of ...

The personal testimony of individuals engaged in healing practices and the opposing voices of orthodox and alternative medicines are the center of ...