Ilr Press imprint: 133 books
Life Support
Three Nurses on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston—a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging,...
Where Night Is Day
The World of the ICU
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
"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 together in the big room, then at the bedside, nurse to nurse. Morning rounds. A group of doctors moves slowly through the unit like a harrow through a field....
Curing Medicare
A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
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 the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not...
Inside Chronic Pain
An Intimate and Critical Account
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"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 articulate middle-class female white patient thinks (with all that thinking entails) when her world is irreversibly altered by pain. She does not promise...
The Big Squeeze
A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal...
Doctors at War
Life and Death in a Field Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices...
Hoping to Help
The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations,...
With God on Our Side
The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers’ rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy?...
Holding the Line
Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as...
Unfinished Business
Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California’s paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and...
Differential Diagnoses
A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care...
Dismantling Solidarity
Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to...
First, Do Less Harm
Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients’ hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of...