Dying Green

Christine Vatovec

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Through an engaging comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an... Lees meer

Pink and Blue

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-sp... Lees meer

Tainted Earth

Marianne Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore--including arsenic, lead, and cad... Lees meer

Patients as Policy Actors

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of... Lees meer

Testing Baby

Rachel Grob

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to dete... Lees meer

Making Room in the Clinic

Julie A Fairman

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In Making Room in the Clinic , Julie Fairman examines the context in which the nurse practitioner movement emerged, how large political and social mov... Lees meer

The Sounds of Furious Living

Matthew Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious "gay cancer" first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would com... Lees meer

Nursing with a Message

Patricia D'Antonio

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation's health care crisi... Lees meer

The Love Surgeon

Sarah B Rodriguez

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Dr. James Burt believed women's bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called "love surgery,... Lees meer

Dying Green

Christine Vatovec

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The slow violence being inflicted on our environment--through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution--also represents an impending publ... Lees meer

Broadcasting Birth Control

Manon Parry

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations, and legislation that shaped... Lees meer

History and Health Policy in the United States

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways o... Lees meer

Comrades in Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive mov... Lees meer

Prelude to Hospice

Emily K Abel

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people app... Lees meer

Importing Care, Faithful Service

Stephen M Cherry

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Every year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, the... Lees meer

Bishops and Bodies

Lori Freedman

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• One out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish... Lees meer

Healthcare and Human Dignity

Frank M McClellan

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go... Lees meer

Smoking Privileges

Laura D Hirshbein

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges , Laura... Lees meer

The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and u... Lees meer

Children and Drug Safety

Cynthia A Connolly

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Winner of the 2018 Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association​ Children and Drug Safety traces ... Lees meer

Fighting for Our Lives

Susan M Chambré

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• In the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, New York City was struck like no other. By the early nineties, it was struggling with more known cases than ... Lees meer

Fit to Be Tied

Rebecca M Kluchin

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pi... Lees meer

The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy

Gerald N Grob, Howard H Goldman

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that m... Lees meer

Smoking Privileges

Laura D Hirshbein

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges , Laura... Lees meer