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

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

The Challenge to Change

Rebecca Kolins Givan

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in t... Lees meer

Wounds of War

Suzanne Gordon

• Hardcover | 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

Beyond the Checklist

Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall, Bonnie Blair O'Toole

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an es... 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

Safety in Numbers

Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, Tanya Bretherton

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing ... 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

Inside Chronic Pain

Lous Heshusius

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• "With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an ... Lees meer

Nurses on the Move

Mireille Kingma

• Paperback | 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 Big Squeeze

Handel E Reynolds

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to sc... Lees meer

Where Night Is Day

James Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• "There is no night in the ICU. There is day, lesser day, then day again. There are rhythms. Every twelve hours: shift change. Report: first all togeth... Lees meer

Beyond Medicine

Paul V Dutton

• Hardcover | 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

India and the Patent Wars

Murphy Halliburton

• Paperback | 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

The Big Squeeze

Handel E Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to sc... 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

Differential Diagnoses

Paul V Dutton

• Paperback | 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

Healing Together

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

• Paperback | 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

My Imaginary Illness

Chloe Atkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• How Patients Think At age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for mo... 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

The Caring Self

Clare L Stacey

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the United Sta... Lees meer

First, Do Less Harm

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems... Lees meer

Divining without Seeds

Iruka N Okeke

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness and death in Africa, yet health practitioners routinely fail to identify causative microorganis... Lees meer

Cleaning Up

Dan Zuberi

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation... Lees meer