Medicine: General Issues

Why has health care reform proved a stumbling block for provincial governments across Canada? What efforts have been made to improve a struggling s...

This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively ...

Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag. Changing marijuana laws in the United States and Canada, the opioid cr...

For those who want to make educated decisions about whether, and when, to use natural products, this text explains the most current scientific evid...

From exotic spa treatments to euthanasia, this book examines the background and social context of medical tourism—the practice of traveling for hea...

This book provides an overview of the Health Transformation Learning Partnership (HTLP) project. This innovative project involves the transformatio...

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poo...

How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical an...

This book analyzes policy fights about what counts as good evidence of safety and effectiveness when it comes to new health care technologies in th...

The focus of this book is the journey babies have made over the past century. The rise of the middle class in America dictated major changes in the...

Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questi...

A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of huma...

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poo...

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased st...

In the nearly three decades since the AIDS epidemic was first recognized, scientists have made tremendous strides in devising treatments for people...

Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume...

A timely examination of innovations to the Canadian health care system and their impact on the delivery of services.

Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) is famous for his contributions to the understanding of epilepsy and for his discoveries of the relationship between th...

How does a doctor or therapist bridge the gap between particulars and generalizations regarding patients and various phenomena or diseases? The aut...

This engaging, nontechnical book discusses 50 health scares that captured the public's attention before fading away, covering real and perceived he...

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

Historical, sociological, and ecological analyses reveal that the health of a people is broadly determined by the strength, resilience, and vitalit...