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Digital health care outside of traditional clinical settings: ethical, legal,…
A book like this is the result of the hard work of many. We thank our student line editors for their meticulous work.1 We are grateful to Laura Chong and Chloe Reichel for their administrative support in organizing the conference that gave rise to this book. We are also grateful for Laura Chong’s hard work shepherding all the many pieces of this manuscript. We thankfully acknowledge the …
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- 9781009373234
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- xvii, 196 p ; 24 cm
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In death’s waiting room
In Death's Waiting Room is a penetrating story about people suffering from dementia in a multi-cultural society, relevant to us all. Anne-Mei The carried out two years of ethnographic research in a nursing home in the Netherlands revealing what usually remains hidden from the public: the decision to stop treatment, the cultural and social gap between the Dutch occupants and the black Caribbean …
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- 9789053560778
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- 203p : ill.
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- 362.19683 ANN i
Ageing and health : the politics of better policies
One of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing populations create conflict between generations and crisis for health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is not so much demographic change as the political and policy challenge of creating fair, sustainable and effective policies for people of all ages. This book, …
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- 9781108973236
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- xvii, 188 p. ; ill
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- 362.10846 GEE a
Global health : a challenge for interdisciplinary research
Human, animal and plant health is a field of work which offers opportunities for inter- and trans-disciplinary research. The whole topic bridges the natural and social sciences. Today, in a world of global environmental change it is widely recognized that human societies and their wellbeing depend on a sustainable equilibrium of ecosystem services and the possibility of cultural adaptation to g…
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- 9783863950477
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- iv, 400 p. : ill
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- 362.1 KAP g
Quality management and accreditation in hematopoietic stem cell transplantati…
This open access book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview on how to build a quality management program for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and cellular therapy. The text reviews all the essential steps and elements necessary for establishing a quality management program and achieving accreditation in HSCT and cellular therapy. Specific areas of focus include document de…
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- 9783030644925
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- x, 181p. : ill.
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- 615.39 QUA q
British women surgeons and their patients, 1860-1918
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth …
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- 9781316911921
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- x, 305p. : ill.
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- 610.9 BRO b
Achieving person-centred health systems : evidence, strategies and challenges
The idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is advocated on political, ethical and instrumental grounds and believed to benefit service users, health professionals and the health system more broadly. However, there is continuing debate about the strategies that are availa…
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- 9781108855464
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- xxiii, 396p. : ill.
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- 362.1094 ACH a
Healers on the colonial market: native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East…
Healers on the colonial market is one of the few studies on the Dutch East Indies from a postcolonial perspective. It provides an enthralling addition to research on both the history of the Dutch East Indies and the history of colonial medicine. This book will be of interest to historians, historians of science and medicine, and anthropologists. How successful were the two medical training prog…
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- 9789067183826
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- 610.9 HES h
Charting spiritual care : the emerging role of chaplaincy records in global h…
This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland), the United States, Canada, and Australia, this edited collection provides an overview of different charting practices and expe…
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- 9783030470708
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- xv, 232p. : ill.
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- 259.4 CHA c
Healthcare, frugal innovation, and professional voluntarism : a cost-benefit …
This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of the its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning and experiential outcomes for UK health care profes…
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- 9783319483665
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- xi, 141p. : ill.
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- 362.10941 HEA h
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