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“brian d nicholson”

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  • Global Health

    Edited by Ann Allen, Judy McKimm, Brian D Nicholson ...
    The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating guide for healthcare students and practitioners introduces the major themes, challenges and debates relevant to global health that will equip the ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

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  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Doctors in Denial

    Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant, wealthy multinationals influence how medical students are trained and receive information, how ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street JournalHailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Diabetes: Naturally Lower Your Blood Sugar Without Medication Using Herbal Remedies and Recipes

    by John Franz ...
    Many physicians advise their patients how to better manage diabetes, but why should they simply control it when it is possible to be rid of it once and for all?In Diabetes: Naturally Lower Your Blood Sugar Without Medication Using Herbal Remedies and Recipes, John Franz presents several natural and inexpensive solutions to do just that by putting a magnifying glass over the real cause of diabetes: ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where to from Here?

    Keeping Medicare Sustainable

    by Stephen Duckett ...
    Series Book 161 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Health of Nations

    Towards a New Political Economy

    by Gavin Mooney ...
    Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism.Mooney analyses how power ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Cure

    How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

    by David Gratzer ...
    We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book--Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Remedy and Reaction

    by Paul Starr ...

    $17.99 USD

  • The Radiology Handbook

    A Pocket Guide to Medical Imaging

    by J. S. Benseler ...
    Series series White Coat Pocket Guide Series
    Designed for busy medical students, The Radiology Handbook is a quick and easy reference for any practitioner who needs information on ordering or interpreting images.The book is divided into three parts:- Part I presents a table, organized from head to toe, with recommended imaging tests for common clinical conditions.- Part II is organized in a question and answer format that covers the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Health-Care Reform

    A Surgeon’S Perspective

    by Ashraf A Hilmy ...
    In this study, Dr. Ashraf A. Hilmy, with a surgeons objective, no-nonsense precision and an unabashed lack of political correctness, dissects the current state of health-care delivery in America. In practice since 1979, he is board certified in surgery, anesthesiology, critical-care medicine, and health-care administration. He received an MBA from the University of Texas, Pan Am with an emphasis ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dementia and Subjectivity / Demenz und Subjektivitaet

    Aesthetic, Literary and Philosophical Perspectives / Aesthetische, literarische und philosophische Perspektiven

    Edited by Daniela Ringkamp, Sara Strauß, Leonie Süwolto ...
    This volume offers new perspectives on questions which are highly relevant in the context of dementia and the arts and the humanities. The issues concern the personal identity of dementia patients, their familial relationships, advance directives and the patients’ autonomy, the cultural representation of the subjective experience of dementia, and the patients’ stigmatization due to the disease. By ... Read more

    $58.39 USD