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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Brawley exposes the underbelly of healthcare today--the under-treatment of the poor, the over-treatment of the rich, the financial conflicts of interests physicians face, insurance that doesn't demand the best (or even cheapest) care, and a pharmaceutical behemoth concerned with selling drugs, not providing health.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Exposes that all medical models -- in research and practice -- are male-centric and shows how the biological, biochemical, psychological, and neurological differences between men and women affect issues such as preventative care, emergency care, drug prescriptions, and pain management. Also looks at how race, class, and gender identity are disproportionately affected by this.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year caused by medical error. The bill was enormous—and
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
“Public health saved your life today―you just don’t know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. Leana Wen―emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist―has...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants. Includes an afterword with facts about Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service she founded.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to rise. There is an epidemic of chronic disease in children. Even with all the money and modern innovations in science, the country's healthcare system is beyond broken. Clearly there is a glitch in the system. In Curable journalist and healthcare advocate Travis Christofferson looks at medicine through a magnifying glass and asks an important question:...
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Traditional pathways to delivering health care to the global poor are failing. Five million children die each year before their fifth birthday due to lack of basic health education, services, or low-cost treatments. Bing and Epstein show how focusing micro-innovations at the level of care is the way to end these grim health statistics"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An influential, big-picture thinker and a science writer investigate why America's health care system failed so tragically during the Covid pandemic and how the forces unleashed by the crisis could be just the medicine for its long-term cure"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Physician and author Danielle Ofri investigates how medical error could be killing 10% of patients and causing 33% of hospital deaths. These stories ask us to reconsider what happens when the medical system does us harm"--
Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there is no doubt that treatment can also sometimes cause harm. Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in...
77) Gender medicine: the groundbreaking new science of gender- and sex-related diagnosis and treatment
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional gender roles. But they are nevertheless very real, and they go well beyond the obvious sexual and reproductive variances: men and women differ in terms of digestion, which affects the way medications are absorbed. Sensitivity to pain...
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