John A Bishop: 8 books
Research on Economic Inequality
Poverty, Inequality and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver social mobility. It contains ten papers, some of which were presented at the third meeting of The Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility at...
by John A. Bishop, Juan Gabriel Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the measurement and causes of health inequality. This is in response to widespread concern that health disparities reflect social injustices but is also part of the trend away from the narrow focus on inequality in income to the more encompassing...
Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation
Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This volume honors the lifetime and continuing contributions of Professor Jacques Silber. The book contains 15 papers, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Sicily, July 2011. Theoretical topics covered in Volume 20 include measuring...
by John A. Maksem, Stanley J. Robboy, John W. Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
As compared with cytology’s use in other organ systems, direct cytological examination of the endometrium is not a widely practiced diagnostic procedure. This is an anomaly, because the endometrium is exceedingly available for cytological sampling, cytological sampling is comparably simple to perform,...
by John Oldfield, OAR, with a foreword by Bishop Francis A. Quinn and an afterword from Cardinal Roger Mahony
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Traces the life of this saintly man who worked with farmworkers throughout California.
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...