Nurses on the Move

Mireille Kingma

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• South African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit Filipino nurses to Los Angeles, and Chinese nurses practice their profession in Ir... Lees meer

The Informed Patient

Karen A Friedman, Sara L Merwin

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience. The Informed Patient is a guid... Lees meer

Differential Diagnoses

Paul V Dutton

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, whi... Lees meer

Cancer Crossings

Tim Wendel

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicia... Lees meer

The Complexities of Care

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline o... Lees meer

Curing Medicare

Andy Lazris

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that... Lees meer

Life Support

Suzanne Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston--a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse special... Lees meer

Doctors at War

Mark de Rond

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• 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. Mark de Rond tell... Lees meer

Beyond Medicine

Paul V Dutton

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In Beyond Medicine , Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than ... Lees meer

Circles of Exclusion

Dani Filc

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In its early years, Israel's dominant ideology led to public provision of health care for all Jewish citizens-regardless of their age, income, or abil... Lees meer

Robots Won't Save Japan

James Adrian Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, risin... Lees meer

Creating the Health Care Team of the Future

Sioban Nelson, Maria Tassone, Brian D Hodges

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate wi... Lees meer

Code Green

Dana Beth Weinberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• 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 ... Lees meer

Don't Count Me Out

Rafael Alvarez

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need... Lees meer

Wounds of War

Suzanne Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds ... Lees meer

India and the Patent Wars

Murphy Halliburton

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• India and the Patent War s contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws sh... Lees meer

Prescription for the People

Fran Quigley

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In Prescription for the People , Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He de... Lees meer

Healing Together

Thomas A Kochan, Adrienne E Eaton, Robert B McKersie, Paul S Adler

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partn... Lees meer

Home Care Fault Lines

Cynthia J Cranford

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them i... Lees meer

Never Good Enough

Ariel Ducey

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Frontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care 'reform, ' but in the mid-1990s in New York... Lees meer

The Question of Competence

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some de... Lees meer

Never Good Enough

Ariel Ducey

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Frontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care 'reform, ' but in the mid-1990s in New York... Lees meer

Creating the Health Care Team of the Future

Sioban Nelson, Maria Tassone, Brian D Hodges

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate wi... Lees meer

Deadly River

Ralph R Frerichs

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold--soon to become the world's largest... Lees meer