Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It illuminates how forces in the health care system (“systems factors”) impact patient care before outlining strategies (“sys……続きを見る
A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.
An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically dis……続きを見る
We live in a transformational time in the history of medicine and health care. The twenty-first century will be a time of dramatic change, incredible breakthroughs, and totally altered thinking abou……続きを見る
America's health care system is unraveling, with millions of hard-working people unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Jonathan Cohn traveled across t……続きを見る
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. T……続きを見る
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. T……続きを見る
Academic global health programs are proliferating, and global health partnerships between North American academic institutions and institutions in low- and middle-income countries are steadily incre……続きを見る
New public health governance arrangements under the coalition government have wide reaching implications for the delivery of health inequality interventions.
Through the framework of understanding h……続きを見る
How can a public health approach advance efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to child trafficking?
Child trafficking is widely recognized as one of the critical issues of our day, prompting ca……続きを見る
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and Scientific American Book Club selection
Moreno pulls apart the debates on eugenics, abortion, end-of-life decisions, embryonic stem-cell research, reprodu……続きを見る
NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"
From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.
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The Black Death. Cholera. Spanish flu. Swine flu. HIV/AIDS. COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. Each of these pandemics has made (or, is making) a lasting impact on humanity. From the immediate mental image of the……続きを見る
This book examines the relationship between law and scientific advancement, with a particular focus on the theory of evolution and medical innovation. Historically, the law has struggled to keep pac……続きを見る
