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Corporate Transformation Of Health Care - Part 2: Perspectives And Implications

by J. Warren Salmon

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 Illuminates the growing corporate in-roads into the health care system and its probable consequences, especially for physicians and other practitioners. This work features fourteen contributors who examine both the delivery and supply functions in the health sector in America. It also deabates varying theoretical perspectives.
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Corporate Transformation Of Health Care - Part 2: Perspectives And Implications

by J. Warren Salmon

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 Illuminates the growing corporate in-roads into the health care system and its probable consequences, especially for physicians and other practitioners. This work features fourteen contributors who examine both the delivery and supply functions in the health sector in America. It also deabates varying theoretical perspectives.
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Aids - The Politics Of Survival

by Glen Margo e Nancy Krieger

121,89€ + 10% CARD

 In one short decade, the politics of AIDS has become the politics of survival. In a world whose social order is changing before our eyes, AIDS insistently brings new meaning to the age-old question of what it is we must do to survive-as individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as members of an interdependent world. This book brings together a collection of articles that frankly discuss what it will take to stop the AIDS epidemic and deal with the devastation it has already wrought.
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Aids - The Politics Of Survival

by Glen Margo e Nancy Krieger

121,89€ + 10% CARD

 In one short decade, the politics of AIDS has become the politics of survival. In a world whose social order is changing before our eyes, AIDS insistently brings new meaning to the age-old question of what it is we must do to survive-as individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as members of an interdependent world. This book brings together a collection of articles that frankly discuss what it will take to stop the AIDS epidemic and deal with the devastation it has already wrought.
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Corporate Transformation Of Health Care - Part 1: Issues And Directions

by Warren Salmon

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 This is an essential read for today's practitioners, policy makers, healthcare analysts and providers, and all those concerned with the precarious state of America's under- and uninsured.
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Corporate Transformation Of Health Care - Part 1: Issues And Directions

by Warren Salmon

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 This is an essential read for today's practitioners, policy makers, healthcare analysts and providers, and all those concerned with the precarious state of America's under- and uninsured.
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Psychosocial Work Environment - Work Organization, Democratization, And Health : Essays In Memory Of Bertil Gardell

by Bertil Gardell, Gunn Johannson e Jeffrey Johnson

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 Dedicated to the late Bertil Gardell, a Swedish Social Scientist, this text comprises of 18 essays that shares a common vision - the impact of work on the interconnected processes of stress and disease.
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Psychosocial Work Environment - Work Organization, Democratization, And Health : Essays In Memory Of Bertil Gardell

by Bertil Gardell, Gunn Johannson e Jeffrey Johnson

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 Dedicated to the late Bertil Gardell, a Swedish Social Scientist, this text comprises of 18 essays that shares a common vision - the impact of work on the interconnected processes of stress and disease.
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Everyday Bioethics - Reflections On Bioethical Choices In Daily Life

by Giovanni Berlinguer

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 Suggests a different perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society, based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns people from around the world.
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Everyday Bioethics - Reflections On Bioethical Choices In Daily Life

by Giovanni Berlinguer

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 Suggests a different perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society, based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns people from around the world.
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Critical Perspectives On Aging - The Political And Moral Economy Of Growing Old

by Carroll Estes e Meredith Minkler

95,39€ + 10% CARD

 Brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. This work explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old.
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Critical Perspectives On Aging - The Political And Moral Economy Of Growing Old

by Carroll Estes e Meredith Minkler

95,39€ + 10% CARD

 Brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. This work explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old.
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Political And Economic Determinants Of Population Health And Well-Being: - Controversies And Developments

192,13€ + 10% CARD

 Following in the footsteps of ""The Political Economy of Social Inequalities"", this work describes and explains the health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. It also represents the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, and sociology.
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Political And Economic Determinants Of Population Health And Well-Being: - Controversies And Developments

192,13€ + 10% CARD

 Following in the footsteps of ""The Political Economy of Social Inequalities"", this work describes and explains the health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. It also represents the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, and sociology.
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Political Economy Of Social Inequalities - Consequences For Health And Quality Of Life

by Vincente Navarro

111,29€ + 10% CARD

 In the last 2 decades of the 20th century, we witnessed a growth in social inequalities within and among countries. This has had a negative impact on the health and quality of life of large sectors of the populations. This volume analyzes the reasons for this increase in inequalities and its consequences for the well-being of populations.
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Political Economy Of Social Inequalities - Consequences For Health And Quality Of Life

by Vincente Navarro

111,29€ + 10% CARD

 In the last 2 decades of the 20th century, we witnessed a growth in social inequalities within and among countries. This has had a negative impact on the health and quality of life of large sectors of the populations. This volume analyzes the reasons for this increase in inequalities and its consequences for the well-being of populations.
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Women'S Health, Politics, And Power - Essays On Sex/Gender, Medicine, And Public Health

192,13€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women''s health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women''s health movement in the 1970s. The papers in both volumes are selected from the "International Journal of Health Services", edited by Vicente Navarro. The essays in this volume were originally published in the 1980s and early 1990s. Together, they present a framework for understanding the struggles over women''s health that have occurred in this time period, and provide specific analyses of women''s health in relation to race/ethnicity and class, the work of health care, the health of women workers, international reproductive health, sexuality, AIDS, and public health policy.
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Women'S Health, Politics, And Power - Essays On Sex/Gender, Medicine, And Public Health

192,13€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women''s health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women''s health movement in the 1970s. The papers in both volumes are selected from the "International Journal of Health Services", edited by Vicente Navarro. The essays in this volume were originally published in the 1980s and early 1990s. Together, they present a framework for understanding the struggles over women''s health that have occurred in this time period, and provide specific analyses of women''s health in relation to race/ethnicity and class, the work of health care, the health of women workers, international reproductive health, sexuality, AIDS, and public health policy.
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Neoliberalism, Globalization, And Inequalities - Consequences For Health And Quality Of Life

by Vicente Navarro

102,01€ + 10% CARD

 Since US President Reagan and UK Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives. This book collects a series of articles that challenge that ideology.
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Neoliberalism, Globalization, And Inequalities - Consequences For Health And Quality Of Life

by Vicente Navarro

102,01€ + 10% CARD

 Since US President Reagan and UK Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives. This book collects a series of articles that challenge that ideology.
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Imperialism, Health And Medicine

by Vicente Navarro

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.
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Imperialism, Health And Medicine

by Vicente Navarro

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.
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Embodying Inequality - Epidemiologic Perspectives

by Nancy Krieger

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" between 1990 and 2000.
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Cancer-Gate - How To Win The Losing Cancer War

by Samuel Epstein

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 Says that the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have betrayed us. This book alleges that these institutions have spent tens of billions of taxpayer primarily targeting silver-bullet cures, strategies that have largely failed, while virtually ignoring strategies for preventing cancer in the first place.
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