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Robots Won'T Save Japan - An Ethnography Of Eldercare Automation

by James Adrian Wright

218,63€ + 10% CARD

 Robots Won''t Save Japan addresses the Japanese government''s efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for eldercare, and a critical shortage of care workers. Drawing on ethnographic research at key sites of Japanese robot development and implementation, James Wright reveals how such devices are likely to transform the practices, organization, meanings, and ethics of caregiving if implemented at scale. This new form of techno-welfare state that Japan is prototyping involves a reconfiguration of care that deskills and devalues care work and reduces opportunities for human social interaction and relationship building. Moreover, contrary to expectations that care robots will save labor and reduce health care expenditures, robots cost more money and require additional human labor to tend to the machines. As Wright shows, robots alone will not rescue Japan from its care crisis. The attempts to implement robot care instead point to the importance of looking beyond such techno-fixes to consider how to support rather than undermine the human times, spaces, and relationships necessary for sustainably cultivating good care.
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The Poor And The Perfect - The Rise Of Learning In The Franciscan Order, 1209â€“1310

by Neslihan Senocak

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 One of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging in sackcloths, led by a man who called himself simple and ignorant, turned in a short time into a very popular and respectable order, featuring cardinals and university professors among its ranks. Within a century of its foundation, the...
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Courting Sanctity - Holy Women And The Capetians

by Sean L. Field

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 The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into "Saint Louis" to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity, Sean L. Field argues that, in fact...
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Becoming German - The 1709 Palatine Migration To New York

by Philip L. Otterness

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 Becoming German tells the story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America, the Palatine migration of 1709, tracking their journey from Germany to London to New York City and into the frontier areas of New York.
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Anti/Vax - Reframing The Vaccination Controversy

by Bernice L. Hausman

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 In Anti/Vax, Bernice L. Hausman challenges the widespread perception of vaccine skepticism shaped by media, celebrities, and internet misinformation. She explores other motivations behind vaccine hesitancy, including distrust of pharmaceutical companies and the belief that illness plays a role in good health. Seeking to reframe the conversation, she shows that when resistance to vaccination is portrayed as scientific illiteracy, denial of scientific facts, or simply as irrational, we lose opportunities to understand many people''s real concerns. Anti/Vax reveals that resistance to vaccination consolidates a number of cultural issues—from critiques of medicalization to concerns about government overreach—and raises questions about public health norms. Researched and published before the Covid-19 pandemic, Hausman''s rich exploration of the cultural themes animating vaccine skepticism continues to illuminate controversies over vaccination today.
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The Politics Of The Headscarf In The United States

by Aubrey L. Westfall, Bozena C. Welborne, Sarah A. Tobin e Özge Çelik Russell

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 The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the U.S. setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim identity in...
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Deadly River - Cholera And Cover-Up In Post-Earthquake Haiti

by Ralph R. Frerichs

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 In Deadly River, Ralph R. Frerichs tells the story of the Haitian cholera epidemic, of a French disease detective determined to trace its origins so that he could help contain the spread and possibly eliminate the disease, and the political intrigue that has made that effort so difficult.
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Hoping To Help - The Promises And Pitfalls Of Global Health Volunteering

by Judith N. Lasker

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 Hoping to Help is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of global health volunteering, based on research into how it currently operates, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it might be organized to contribute most effectively.
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Doctors At War - Life And Death In A Field Hospital

by Mark De Rond

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 Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan.
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Creating The Health Care Team Of The Future - The Toronto Model For Interprofessional Education And Practice

by Brian D. Hodges, Maria Tassone e Sioban Nelson

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 This book shows how medical schools and teaching hospitals can implement the University of Toronto's successful model for interprofessional medical education, providing a step-by-step guide for deans, faculty, administrators, and health care providers.
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Cleaning Up - How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers And Endangering Patients

by Dan Zuberi

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 Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences of outsourcing hospital cleaning and food preparation from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality.
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Bedside Manners - Play And Workbook

by Lisa Hayes, Scott Reeves e Suzanne Gordon

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 A play about workplace relations among physicians, nurses, others who work in health care, and patientsâ€"and how their interaction affects the quality of patient care, for better or worse.
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Where Night Is Day - The World Of The Icu

by James Kelly

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 Where Night Is Day is a nonfiction narrative grounded in the day-by-day, hour-by-hour rhythms of an ICU.
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From Silence To Voice - What Nurses Know And Must Communicate To The Public

by Bernice Buresh e Suzanne Gordon

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 The comprehensively revised and updated third edition of From Silence to Voice will help nurses construct messages using a range of traditional and new social media that accurately describe the true nature of their work.
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Big Squeeze - A Social And Political History Of The Controversial Mammogram

by Handel E. Reynolds

14,56€ + 10% CARD

 This concise book chronicles the often turbulent history of screening mammography since its introduction in the early 1970s.
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Question Of Competence - Reconsidering Medical Education In The Twenty-First Century

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 Experts from the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands explore medical competency from different perspectives in order to spark thoughtful discussion and debate on the subject.
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Beyond The Checklist - What Else Health Care Can Learn From Aviation Teamwork And Safety

by Bonnie Blair O'Toole, Patrick Mendenhall e Suzanne Gordon

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 Beyond the Checklist argues that lives could be saved and patient care enhanced by adapting the relevant lessons of aviation safety and teamwork.
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Complexities Of Care - Nursing Reconsidered

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 "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the...
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Nursing Against The Odds - How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses And Patient Care

by Suzanne Gordon

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 In this book, Suzanne Gordon draws on in-depth interviews with nurses and other health care professionals, research studies, and extensive firsthand reporting to better understand the myriad causes of and possible solutions to the current nursing crisis.
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Life Support - Three Nurses On The Front Lines

by Suzanne Gordon

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 Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Bostonâ€"a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unitâ€"providing a vivid, engaging, and intimate portrait of the importance of nurses in patients' lives.
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Safety In Numbers - Nurse-To-Patient Ratios And The Future Of Health Care

by John Buchanan, Suzanne Gordon e Tanya Bretherton

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 The first book to examine the arguments for and against mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research to focus on two case studies (California and the Australian state of Victoria).
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Code Green - Money-Driven Hospitals And The Dismantling Of Nursing

by Dana Beth Weinberg

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the...
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With God On Our Side - The Struggle For Workers' Rights In A Catholic Hospital

by Adam D. Reich

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 When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy? In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California. Based on his own work as a volunteer organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Reich explores how both union leaders and hospital leaders sought to show they were upholding the Catholic "mission" of the hospital against a market represented by the other. Ultimately, workers and union leaders were able to reinterpret Catholic values in ways that supported their efforts to organize.More generally, Reich argues that unions must weave together economic and cultural power in order to ensure their continued relevancy in the postindustrial world. In addition to advocating for workers' economic interests, unions must engage with workers' emotional investments in their work, must contend with the kind of moral authority that Santa Rosa Hospital leaders exerted to dissuade workers from organizing, and must connect labor's project to broader conceptions of the public good.
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First, Do Less Harm - Confronting The Inconvenient Problems Of Patient Safety

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 In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical.
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