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The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue: A New Transcript With Commentary - Paperback

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by Rob Anderson (Author), Kenneth N. Cissna (Author)A corrected and extensively annotated version of the sole meeting between two of the most important figures in twentieth-century intellectual life.The Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue offers a corrected and extensively annotated version of this central text in human sciences. Focusing on the sole meeting between these two central figures in twentieth-century intellectual life, Anderson and Cissna return to the original 1957 audio tape and t...

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by Chloe Atkins (Author), Bonnie Blair O'Toole (Foreword by), Brian D. Hodges (Afterword by)How Patients ThinkAt age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and on health professionals who refused to believe there was anything physically wrong with her. When test after test re...

With God on Our Side: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy - Hardcover

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by Adam D. Reich (Author)When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy? In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California. Based on his...

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety - Hardcover

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by Ross Koppel (Editor), Suzanne Gordon (Editor)Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well-intentioned initiatives to address these problems, threa...

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Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety - Hardcover

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by Suzanne Gordon (Author), Patrick Mendenhall (Author), Bonnie Blair O'Toole (Author)The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal?Beyond the Checklist argues that ...

Watch Your Back!: How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less--And What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Trea - Hardcover

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by Richard A. Deyo (Author)Over the past twenty years, treatment of back pain has become ever more expensive and intensive. Use of MRI scans, narcotic painkillers, injections, and invasive spine surgery have all grown by several hundred percent. In some areas of medicine, newer treatments have improved quality and duration of life, but as back pain is treated more aggressively, annual surveys of people with back pain report steadily worse impairments. In Watch Your Back!, Richard A. Deyo, MD,...

From Company Doctors to Managed Care: The United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment - Paperback

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by Ivana Krajcinovic (Author)The Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is widely acknowledged as the most innovative effort at group health care in the United States in the twentieth century. Ivana Krajcinovic describes the establishment, operation, and demise of the Fund that brought mining families from the backwater to the forefront of medical care in less than a decade. Krajcinovic analyzes the success of the Fund over nearly three decades in providing h...

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Collaborative Caring: Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care - Hardcover

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by Suzanne Gordon (Editor), David Feldman (Editor), Michael Leonard (Editor)Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, Dr. David L. Feldman, and Dr. Michael Leonard have gat...

Bedside Manners: Play and Workbook - Paperback

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by Suzanne Gordon (Author), Lisa Hayes (Author), Scott Reeves (Author)In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors, even more so than the level of staff competence and experience. This is why many schools for health professionals and major he...

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by Alan Derickson (Author)In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease--and even to acknowledge its existence--resulted in a national tragedy, the effec...

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care - Paperback

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by Suzanne Gordon (Author)In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers affect patients? These are some of the questions addressed by Suzanne Gordon's definitive account of the world's nursing crisis. In Nursing against the Odds, one of North Americ...

Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 - Paperback

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by Evelynn Maxine Hammonds (Author)Known as the "deadly scourge of childhood," diphtheria was a highly feared disease in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. In New York City alone, thousands of cases were reported each year, with large numbers of deaths. Physicians and public health experts viewed diphtheria as one of the most difficult to treat and control of all childhood diseases. In Childhood's Deadly Scourge, Evelynn M. Hammonds describes how New York City ...

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by Joseph F. Spillane (Author)Winner of the Addiction Book Award from the Society for the Study of AddictionIn 1884 American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three decades this substance derived from the coca plant became so popular that it became, ironically, a public health problem. Demand exceeded supply; abuse proliferated. The black market produced a legendary underground of "cocaine fiends." As attempts at regulation failed, Congress in 1914 banne...

Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control - Paperback

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by Caroline Jean Acker (Author)Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatrists and psychologists produced a construction of opiate addicts as deviants with inherently flawed personalities caught in the grip of a dependency from which few would ever escape. Their portrayal of the tough urban addict helped bolst...

Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now - Paperback

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by Charles E. Rosenberg (Author)Charles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinating analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how the medical profession thinks about itself and its moral and intellectual responsibilities, and what prospective patients--all of us--e...

The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution - Hardcover

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by Margaret Marsh (Author), Wanda Ronner (Author)As Louise Brown--the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization--celebrates her 30th birthday, Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner tell the fascinating story of the man who first showed that human in vitro fertilization was possible.John Rock spent his career studying human reproduction. The first researcher to fertilize a human egg in vitro in the 1940s, he became the nation's leading figure in the treatment of infertility, his clinic serving ...

Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation - Paperback

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by John D. Lantos (Author), William L. Meadow (Author)Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation.The authors assert that a dramatic shift in societal attitudes toward newborns and their medical care was a stimulus for and then a result of deve...

Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making - Paperback

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by Thomas May (Author)Issues concerning patients' rights are at the center of bioethics, but the political basis for these rights has rarely been examined. In Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making, Thomas May offers a compelling analysis of how the political context of liberal constitutional democracy shapes the rights and obligations of both patients and health care professionals. May focuses on how a key feature of liberal society--namely, an i...

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by Kent Wascom (Author)From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease--Civil War New Orleans. With his virtuosic, richly historical prose, Wascom carves a tale of insurrection and ill-advised romance, spanning one year in the city at the heart of Secessia, the rebellious just-conquered south. New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infam...

Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance - Paperback

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by Guido Ruggiero (Author)Machiavelli in Love introduces a complex concept of sex and sexual identity and their roles in the culture and politics of the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's study counters the consensus among historians and literary critics that there was little sense of individual identity and almost no sense of sexual identity before the modern period. Drawing from the works of major literary figures such as Boccaccio, Aretino, and Castiglione, and rereading them against ar...

Social Work in the Hospital Organization - Paperback

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by Margaret G. Brock (Author)This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader context of health care. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.27 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1969

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by Jonathan M. Samet (Editor), John D. Spengler (Editor)During the last two decades, outdoor air pollution has decreased in the United States and in many other industrial nations. But many hazardous pollutants have been found in offices, cars, homes, and hospitals. Outbreaks of illness related to the noninjdustrial work environment have been reported with increasing frequency. And "sick-building," or "tight-building," syndrome has been recognized as a new and serious threat to public health.I...

The Nature of their Bodies: Women and their Doctors in Victorian Canada - Paperback

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by Wendy Mitchinson (Author)In documenting the changing nature of interventional medicine, Mitchinson considers the medical treatment of women within the context of what was available to physicians at the time.Author BiographyWendy Mitchinson is a Canadian historian and a Distinguished Professor Emerita in University of Waterloo. Number of Pages: 474 Dimensions: 1.11 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 01, 1991

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Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education - Paperback

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by Jonathan Kaplan (Author)Surgery is the crude art of cutting people open, yet it is also a symphony of delicate manipulation and subtle chords. So says Jonathan Kaplan in his stunning book Contact Wounds, an electrifying account of a doctor's education in the classroom, in life, and on the battlefield. Inspired by his father, a military surgeon in World War II and Israel's nascent fight for statehood, Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully understaffed South Africa...

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Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions - Paperback

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by Minta Collins (Author)Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions is a new, wide-ranging and generously illustrated study of manuscript herbals produced between 600 - 1450. The book examines the two principal herbal traditions of Classical descent: the Dioscorides manuscripts in Greek, Arabic, and Latin and the Latin Herbarius of Apulcius Platonicus. It shows how, from 1300, the illustrations of the de herbis Traetatus treatises, the first of which was British Library, MS. Egerton 747, s...

Care of Strangers Rise Amer Hosp - Paperback

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by Charles E. Rosenberg (Author)This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated. Number of Pages: 456 Dimensions: 1.39 x 9.22 x 5.92 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 19, 1995

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace - Paperback

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by Alan M. Kraut (Author), Kraut (Author)This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the associations of Haitians and AIDS, the author shows how immigrant groups have been regularly slandered as carriers of particular diseases.Back JacketEpidemics and immigrants have suffered a lethal association in the public mind, from the Irish in New York wrongly blamed for the cholera epidemic of 1832 and ...

Caring for the World: A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities - Paperback

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by Paul Drain (Author), Stephen A. Huffman (Author), Sara Pirtle (Author)Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners in this inspired guidebook for health care workers who are interested in - or already are - improving the lives of people throughout the world.Back Jacket'Caring for the World is an excellent resource for both beginners and experienced workers in the field of Global Health. Filled with remarkable sources of informa...

Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe - Paperback

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by Sorrel King (Author)Sorrel King was a 32-year-old mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter, Josie, was horribly burned by water from a faulty water heater in the family's new Baltimore home. She was taken to Johns Hopkins--renowned as one of the best hospitals in the world--and Sorrel stayed in the hospital with Josie day-in and day-out until she had almost completely recovered. Just before her discharge, however, she was erroneously injected with methadone, and died soon after....

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The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine - Paperback

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by Jonathan Kaplan (Author)The Dressing Station is a searing portrait of devastation on the battlefield that illuminates the consequences of war and the ambiguities of relief work at a time when these issues couldn't matter more. (Caroline Fraser, Outside) From treating the casualties of apartheid in Cape Town to operating on Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, Jonathan Kaplan has saved (and lost) lives in the remotest corners of the world in the most extreme condi...

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Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! - Paperback

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by Kenzaburo Oe (Author), John Nathan (Translator)Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandish...

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The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry - Paperback

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by Ellen Ruppel Shell (Author)In a rare blend of erudition and entertainment, acclaimed science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell reveals the secret history and subtle politics behind the explosion of obesity. Shell traces the epidemic's inception in the Ice Age, its rise during the Industrial Revolution, and its growth through the early days of medicine and into modernity. She takes readers to the front lines of the struggle to come to grips with this baffling plague -- from a children's food ma...