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  • Caribbean Drugs

    From Criminalization to Harm Reduction

    The Caribbean poses a significant drugs problem for the UK and the US, as the recent phenomenon of yardie gangs in British cities graphically illustrates. But in the islands themselves ganja, crack cocaine and the policies to control them have become, as this book demonstrates, a veritable social disaster. The authors, who are among the leading local researchers and engaged professionals in the ... Læs mere

    345,96 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Late Night Fish

    Fortalt af Joe Cooper, Marcus Day ...

    Uforkortet

    26 min

    Michael and Tony are in the “Waste Management Business”. Without questions, they’ve been asked to dispose of a large “package” in a nearby lake. Join us on a tale of missing boats, existential questions, and gangster films as we take you on a trip into the average day of a “Union Representative”. ... Læs mere

    21,09 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • The Healing of America

    A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

    af T. R. Reid ...
    A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform BillBringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. ... Læs mere

    107,11 kr.

  • Lactivism

    How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

    af Courtney Jung ...
    Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given riseIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been ... Læs mere

    120,27 kr.

  • Live Strong

    Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors-from Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond

    Survivors from all walks of life talk about what “living strong” in the face of cancer means to them.Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONG™ wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight the disease every day.Now, the Lance Armstrong ... Læs mere

    59,41 kr.

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Læs mere

    80,18 kr.

  • Alzheimer's

    Hard Questions

    Caring for a loved one who is terminally ill can be tremendously stressful under any circumstances. If that person has a degenerative and dementing disease such as Alzheimer's, and is unable to participate in decisions regarding his or her care, the stress is that much greater. When it comes to making those difficult moral and ethical decisions which will preserve the dignity and integrity of the ... Læs mere

    42,41 kr.

  • Cancer in the Community

    Class and Medical Authority

    Focusing on deep conflicts between the medical establishment and the working class, Martha Balshem chronicles a health education project in “Tannerstown,” a pseudonym for a blue-collar neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia. ... Læs mere

    108,24 kr.

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health

    af Shereen Usdin ...
    Serier serie No-Nonsense Guides
    A clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, and gender. Starting with a brief history of medical progress, this guide delves into current politics of health in the contexts of big business and private health provision, media, gender, and the environment.Shereen Usdin is a medical ... Læs mere

    101,24 kr.

  • Pandemics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Serier serie What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Pandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create pandemics. The reality is deadly serious but far more subtle. In Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Peter Doherty, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells, offers an ... Læs mere

    88,11 kr.

  • How Medicaid Fails the Poor

    af Avik Roy ...
    Medicaid, America’s government-run health insurance program for the poor, should be a lifeline that provides needed health care to Americans with no other options. Surprisingly, however, it doesn’t. The medical literature reveals a $450 billion-a-year scandal: that people on Medicaid have far worse health outcomes than those with private insurance, and no better outcomes than those with no ... Læs mere

    35,06 kr.

  • Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness

    (Dis)Orderly Spaces

    While disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, social policy and the health and medical sciences have a tradition of exploring the centrality of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness to people's lives, geographers have only previously addressed these topics as a peripheral concern. Over the past few years, however, this view has begun to change, accelerated by an upsurge in interest in ... Læs mere

    667,18 kr.