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Pills, Power, And Policy - The Struggle For Drug Reform In Cold War America And Its Consequences

by Dominique Tobbell

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 Offers a history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. This title details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs.
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What Price Better Health? - Hazards Of The Research Imperative

by Daniel Callahan

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 The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. This work exposes the ways in which such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and distorted into a harmful practice.
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Are We Ready? - Public Health Since 9/11

by David Rosner e Gerald Markowitz

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 Analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed, and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's public health infrastructure. This book explores the extent to which these emergencies permanently altered the political, cultural, and organizational life of the country.
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Searching Eyes - Privacy, The State, And Disease Surveillance In America

by Amy L. Fairchild, James Colgrove e Ronald Bayer

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 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 of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control threats to the public's health and legal and ethical concerns about privacy. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove situate the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context and show how the changing meaning and significance of privacy have marked the politics and practice of surveillance since the end of the nineteenth century.
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The Health Care Revolution - From Medical Monopoly To Market Competition

by Carl F. Ameringer

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 America's market-based health care system is the product of a revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1970s. This book tells how this revolution came into being when the US Supreme Court and Congress prompted the antitrust agencies of the federal government to change the rules of the health care system.
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Real Collaboration - What It Takes For Global Health To Succeed

by Elisabeth Hayes, Margaret Mcintyre, Mark L. Rosenberg e Nancy Wall Neill

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 Focuses on the lesson: the collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to catalyze fresh thinking, this book draws from case studies of teams struggling to combat the health threats. It is intended for those who work in global health.
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Lead Wars - The Politics Of Science And The Fate Of America'S Children

by David Rosner e Gerald Markowitz

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 Focuses on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. This book details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health agencies face today in terms of prevention strategies and chronic illness linked to low levels of toxic exposure.
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Inside National Health Reform

by John E. Mcdonough

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House On Fire - The Fight To Eradicate Smallpox

by William H. Foege

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 Tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. This title details the remarkable program that involved people from countries around the world in pursuit of a single objective - eliminating smallpox.
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Deceit And Denial - The Deadly Politics Of Industrial Pollution

by David Rosner e Gerald Markowitz

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 Details the attempts by chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. This book highlights the immediate dangers ordinary citizens face because of the relentless failure of industrial polluters to warn, inform, and protect their workers and neighbors.
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Searching Eyes - Privacy, The State, And Disease Surveillance In America

by Amy L. Fairchild, James Colgrove e Ronald Bayer

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 Presents the history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. This work situates the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context.
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The Health Care Revolution - From Medical Monopoly To Market Competition

by Carl F. Ameringer

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 America's market-based health care system is the product of a revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1970s. This book tells how this revolution came into being when the US Supreme Court and Congress prompted the antitrust agencies of the federal government to change the rules of the health care system.
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Big Doctoring In America - Profiles In Primary Care

by Fitzhugh Mullan

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 Argues that primary care is a fascinating, important, and endangered calling. This book sheds light on the political and economic contradictions that confront American medicine. It explains how the primary care movement has emerged built on the principles of 'big doctoring' - coordinated, comprehensive care over time.
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Death Is That Man Taking Names - Intersections Of American Medicine, Law, And Culture

by Robert A. Burt

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 Offers an account of psychological and social forces underlying American cultural attitudes toward death. This book maintains that unacknowledged ambivalence is likely to undermine the beneficent goals of post-1970s reforms and harm the very people these changes were intended to help.
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Sick To Death And Not Going To Take It Anymore! - Reforming Health Care For The Last Years Of Life

by Joanne Lynn

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The Employee Retirement Income Security Act Of 1974 - A Political History

by James Wooten

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 Presents a study of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This book explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress overcame strong opposition from business and organized labor to pass landmark legislation regulating employer-sponsored retirement and health plans.
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When Walking Fails - Mobility Problems Of Adults With Chronic Conditions

by Lisa Iezzoni

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 Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases and diabetes. This informed book describes the personal experiences of adults whose mobility makes it difficult for them to live as they wish.
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Pills, Power, And Policy - The Struggle For Drug Reform In Cold War America And Its Consequences

by Dominique Tobbell

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 Offers a history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. This title details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs.
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Pills, Power, And Policy - The Struggle For Drug Reform In Cold War America And Its Consequences

by Dominique Tobbell

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 Offers a history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. This title details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs.
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Experiencing Politics - A Legislator'S Stories Of Government And Health Care

by John E. Mcdonough

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 Offers an insider's account of the interface between political science and real-life politics. This title weaves together stories of politics and policy with theoretical models. It demonstrates how politics extend beyond the public sphere into many aspects of life involving diverse values and interests.
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House On Fire - The Fight To Eradicate Smallpox

by William H. Foege

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 Tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health.
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Real Collaboration - What It Takes For Global Health To Succeed

by Elisabeth Hayes, Margaret Mcintyre, Mark L. Rosenberg e Nancy Wall Neill

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 Focuses on the lesson: the collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to catalyze fresh thinking, this book draws from case studies of teams struggling to combat the health threats. It is intended for those who work in global health.
ENGLISH

Real Collaboration - What It Takes For Global Health To Succeed

by Elisabeth Hayes, Margaret Mcintyre, Mark L. Rosenberg e Nancy Wall Neill

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Focuses on the lesson: the collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to catalyze fresh thinking, this book draws from case studies of teams struggling to combat the health threats. It is intended for those who work in global health.
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Low Income, Social Growth, And Good Health - A History Of Twelve Countries

by James C. Riley

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 Studies the experience of twelve countries that have broken through the limits that low incomes so often impose on human survival. This title presents an analysis that suggests an alternative model of growth in which the measure of a nation's success is not its per capita income but the life expectancy of its population.
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