Health Policy category: 748 books
Women, Families, and Feminist Politics
A Global Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Women and their roles within families must be understood within the context of ethnic traditions, religion, and culture. Women, Families, and Feminist Politics: A Global Exploration combines all of these aspects to evaluate the similarities and differences of women around the world. Readers will learn...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about welfare states...
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal,...
Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry
How Psy Governs Us All
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This volume takes historical, sociological and psychological perspectives in exploring the complicity of patients, professions and governments with Psy and attempts by all three to constrain the industry's activities.
Social Security for the Elderly
Experiences from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it also documents existing policies and programs on pensions and social security, and examines their fiscal implications for the economy and society.
Ageing...
by Vlad Kravtsov, William Keller, Scott Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent. States that decide to reinvent their political authority simultaneously evaluate which current global norms are desirable and to what extent. In this study, Vlad Kravtsov...
Tell Your Children
The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis.
Recreational...
by Elliot Lander MD, Mark Berman MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The book describes the journey into the growing arena of clinical stem cell therapy by highlighting not only the road that brought a team of physicians together but also real stories from a number of their patients that were given their health back through the magic of stem cell therapy. Your fat...
Pro-Life, Pro-Choice
Shared Values in the Abortion Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In this provocative and accessible book, the author defends a pro-choice perspective but also takes seriously pro-life concerns about the moral value of the human fetus, questioning whether a fetus is nothing more than "mere tissue." She examines the legal status of the fetus in the recent...
Bottled and Sold
The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us?
Bottled and Sold shows how water wfrom being a free natural resource...
Heartificial Intelligence
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don't know ourselves?
The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today....
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have...
Gun Violence
The Real Costs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms...
Serious Fun
Ingenious Improvisations on Money, Food, Waste, Water & Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Creative and innovative solutions to difficult issues are presented in this practical guidebook for environmentally friendly living. Low-tech exercises for saving water, reducing waste, and preparing food help readers take communal actions to benefit their own neighborhoods, and the world at large, while...