Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional implications of the new technology. These essays explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between physicians and patients, physicians and other providers, and physicians and their home institutions.
Health Issues in Latino Males
A Social and Structural Approach
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.
Practice Under Pressure
Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
Making Room in the Clinic
Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
Cultivating Health
Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform
Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government.
From Pink to Green
Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
From Pink to Green successfully explores the intersection between breast cancer activism and the environmental health sciences, incorporating public and scientific debates as well as policy implications to public health and environmental agendas.
Medical Research for Hire
The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Under the Radar
Cancer and the Cold War
