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  • 150 Years of ObamaCare

    Go behind the curtain of the creation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act.In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative written from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 21st Century Global Health Diplomacy

    Series Book 3 - Global Health Diplomacy
    Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with sensitivity to historical, political, social, economic, and cultural differences. It focuses on the interplay of globalization, economic interdependence, social justice, and the enlightened self-interests of nations. Global health diplomacy can help sustain peace and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • 9/12

    The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders

    9/12 is the saga of the epic nine-year legal battle waged by William H. Groner against the City of New York and its contractors on behalf of the more than ten thousand first responders who became ill as a result of working on the Ground Zero cleanup. These first responders—like AT&T Disaster Relief head Gary Acker and New York Police Department detectives Candiace Baker, Thomas Ryan, and Mindy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Government of Insiders

    The People Who Made the Affordable Care Act Possible

    Translated by Melanie Mauthner ...
    Discover the hidden forces that shaped one of the most significant health care reforms in US history.In A Government of Insiders, William Genieys traces the winding path from the failed health policy priorities of the Clinton administration to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Genieys uncovers the pivotal role of a committed group of unelected governmental elites known as "long-term ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Abortion

    History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler

    This book will be of interest to reproductive rights activists and students and scholars of history, political science, medicine, and law. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Abortion across Borders

    Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services

    A timely examination of how restrictive policies force women to travel both within and across national borders to access abortion services.Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Access to Medicines as a Human Right

    Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility

    According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines. Should pharmaceutical companies be ethically or legally responsible for providing affordable medicines for these people, even though they live outside of profitable markets? Can the private sector be held accountable for protecting human beings' right to health?This thought-provoking ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Achieving Health for All

    Primary Health Care in Action

    Edited by David Bishai, Meike Schleiff ...
    How did seven low- and middle-income countries, inspired by the landmark Alma-Ata Declaration, dramatically improve citizen health by focusing on primary health care?The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 marked a potential turning point in global health, signaling a commitment to primary health care that could have improved the safety of air, food, water, roads, homes, and workplaces in all 180 ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Advance Directives Across Asia

    A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis

    Edited by Daisy Cheung, Michael Dunn ...
    This book is the first to consider comprehensively and systematically the law and practice of advance directives across Asia. It will thus be important not only as a reference volume that documents how advance directives are regulated and used throughout Asia, but also as an exploration of the concept of the advance directive itself, in context. By examining how advance directives operate in Asian ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • After Morgentaler

    The Politics of Abortion in Canada

    The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive; and women’s access to abortion in Canada remains uneven and at risk of being curtailed. In After Morgentaler, Rachael Johnstone examines the state of abortion access in Canada today, maps its historical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Afterlives of Data

    Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance

    What our health data tell American capitalism about our value—and how that controls our lives.Afterlives of Data follows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape our control. Mary F. E. Ebeling's ethnographic investigation shows how information about our health and the debt that we carry becomes biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers, insurers, commercial data ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Against Security

    How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition

    How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Aging Bones

    A Short History of Osteoporosis

    Series series Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
    How osteoporosis went from a normal aging process to a disease.In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older persons was neither preventable nor ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook

    Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety

    by Dale Lyman ...
    Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook: Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety helps guide ASC administrative and security staff meet the requirements and standards of both federal and state authorities, including the Life Safety Code, a critical designation for facilities participating in Medicare (CMS) funding reimbursement. Designed for easy reference, the book assumes no code ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • American Contagions

    Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19

    A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion“Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt’s legal survey a fascinating resource”—Kirkus, starred review“Professor Witt’s book is an original and thoughtful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law. Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An Inexplicable Deception

    A State Corruption of Justice

    Series series An Inexplicable Deception
    Though traditionally used in civil cases there is no reason why criminal cases cannot be challenged pursuant to the doctrine of fraud upon the court. It is an unconscionable plan or scheme which is designed to improperly influence the court in its decision so that the judicial machinery cannot perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudging cases that are presented for adjudication ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Health and Safety Law

    A Student Reference

    by David Branson ...
    An Introduction to Health and Safety Law provides a clear, concise overview of health and safety law in the United Kingdom. With reference to the European Union, this book discusses criminal and civil liability at length to provide a clear understanding of this area of law which has been subject to change over the 20 years.Key case studies and statistical information on prosecutions, fines and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry

    Balancing Care, Cost, and Access

    Why does US health care have such high costs and poor outcomes? Dr. David S. Guzick offers this critique of the American health care industry and argues that it could work more effectively by rebalancing care, cost, and access.For decades, the United States has been faced with a puzzling problem: Despite spending much more money per capita on health care than any other developed nation, its ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Assembling Health Rights in Global Context

    Genealogies and Anthropologies

    Edited by Alex Mold, David Reubi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse?During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts – for instance in relation to HIV/AIDS – which draw on the language, institutions and procedures of human rights in the field of global ... Read more

    $64.99 USD $44.99 USD

  • Assisted Dying

    Reflections on the Need for Law Reform

    by Sheila McLean ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in the 21st Century. This book provides an in-depth critique of the arguments surrounding legislative control of such practices and particularly looks into the regulatory role of the state. In the classical ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Autonomy, Consent and the Law

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their own reasons. The notion that consent underpins beneficent and lawful medical intervention is deeply ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

    A Relational Challenge

    Series Book 8 - Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
    Alasdair Maclean analyses the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment, providing both an extensive reconsideration of the ethical issues and a detailed examination of English law. Importantly, the analysis is given a context by situating consent at the centre of the healthcare professional-patient relationship. This allows the development of a relational model that balances the agency of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Baby Markets

    Money and the New Politics of Creating Families

    Edited by Michele Bratcher Goodwin ...
    Creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple's home and the privacy of their bedroom. To the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators, surrogates, 'brokers', donors, sellers, endocrinologists, and without any traditional forms of intimacy. In direct response to the need and desire ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures

    Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK. Bassett’s Environmental Health Procedures is an established and essential reference source which provides an accessible entry into enforcement and administrative procedures for environmental health. The main legal procedures used in the environmental health field are presented as flow charts supported by ... Read more

    $200.99 USD