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Bodies Across Borders

Author : Professor Bronwyn Parry
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409457176
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Bodies Across Borders written by Professor Bronwyn Parry and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing both disciplinary and geographical boundaries, this volume draws together a number of important contributions from acknowledged leaders in three respective fields: the trade in bodily commodities, biomedical tourism and migration of health care professionals. It explores and maps out the key characteristics of this emerging, although as yet poorly researched global trade, questioning how, where and why bodies cross borders, whether this exacerbates existing health inequalities and how these circulations impact on healthcare services. In addition the book invites comparisons of the ways in which body parts, patients and medical professionals cross national borders, elucidating common themes, concerns and issues.

Patients Beyond Borders

Author : Josef Woodman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459618475
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Patients Beyond Borders written by Josef Woodman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism. Impartial and extensively researched, it is filled with authoritative and accessible advice - carefully culled from hundreds of resources around the world. Whether you're seeking dental work, heart surgery, orthopedics, cosmetic surgery, neurosurgery, or LASIK eye repair, Patients Beyond Borders is your best way to become an informed health traveler and get started on your medical travel journey.

Doctors Without Borders

Author : Renée C. Fox
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142141354X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Doctors Without Borders written by Renée C. Fox and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering medical sociologist Ren e C. Fox spent nearly twenty years conducting extensive ethnographic research within M decins Sans Fronti res/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a private international medical humanitarian organization that was created in 1971 and awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1999. Drawing on unprecedented access to MSF staff meetings, doctors, and field workers, Fox weaves a rich tapestry of the MSF experience with emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Including vivid photographs of MSF operations, Doctors Without Borders explores the organization's founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its "without borders" transnational vision.

Medicine At The Border

Author : A. Bashford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230288901
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Medicine At The Border written by A. Bashford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of international relations, bringing together leading scholars on the history and politics of global health.

Life in Crisis

Author : Peter Redfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520955188
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Life in Crisis written by Peter Redfield and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest as well as technical efficiency. It has also expanded beyond emergency response, providing for a wider range of endeavors, including AIDS care. Yet its seemingly simple ethical goal proves deeply complex in practice. MSF continually faces the problem of defining its own limits. Its minimalist form of care recalls the promise of state welfare, but without political resolution or a sense of well-being beyond health and survival. Lacking utopian certainty, the group struggles when the moral clarity of crisis fades. Nevertheless, it continues to take action and innovate. Its organizational history illustrates both the logic and the tensions of casting humanitarian medicine into a leading role in international affairs.

A Doctor Across Borders

Author : Alexander Cameron-Smith
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760462659
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Doctor Across Borders written by Alexander Cameron-Smith and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his day, Raphael Cilento was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in Australian medicine. As a senior medical officer in the Commonwealth and Queensland governments, he was an active participant in public health reform during the inter-war years and is best known for his vocal engagement with public discourse on the relationship between hygiene, race and Australian nationhood. Yet Cilento’s work on tropical hygiene and social welfare ranged beyond Australia, especially when he served as a colonial medical officer in British Malaya and in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. He also worked with the League of Nations Health Organization in the Pacific Islands and oversaw international social welfare programs for the United Nations. On one level, this professional mobility allowed ideas and practices of public health and government to circulate between colonial spaces of northern Australia, the Pacific Islands and Asia. On another, it meant that Cilento’s Pacific colonialism and colonial experience shaped his understanding of Australian national health and welfare. Rather than attempt a comprehensive biography of Cilento, this book instead uses this border-crossing career as a means to explore several material and discursive facets of Australia’s relationships to the Pacific and the world.

Doctors Within Borders

Author : Ming-cheng Lo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234855
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Doctors Within Borders written by Ming-cheng Lo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lo's study of Japanese rule in Taiwan illuminates the ways in which the Japanese fostered the development of modern Western medicine and is crucial for a broader understanding of colonialization. Lo blends insights from social movement theory, ethnic studies and critical theory to explore the 'hybrid identities' among Taiwanese physicians hemmed in by scientific colonialism."—Richard Madsen, author of China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society "This beautifully-executed study of Taiwanese doctors—self-appointed agents of modernity—captures what happens to people and groups caught at the intersection of colonialism and professionalization. It enriches our understanding of these large-scale processes, of identity, agency and of modernity itself."—Julia P. Adams, author of The Familial State: Ruling Families and States in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming)

Abortion across Borders

Author : Christabelle Sethna
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 142142729X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Abortion across Borders written by Christabelle Sethna and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors: Barbara Baird, Niklas Barke, Anna Bogic, Hayley Brown, Lori A. Brown, Cathrine Chambers, Ewelina Ciaputa, Gayle Davis, Mary Gilmartin, Agata Ignaciuk, Sinéad Kennedy, Lena Lennerhed, Jo-Ann MacDonald, Colleen MacQuarrie, Jane O'Neill, Clare Parker, Christabelle Sethna, Sally Sheldon

Bodies Across Borders

Author : Bronwyn Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317173562
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Bodies Across Borders written by Bronwyn Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process, a genuinely globalised sphere of biomedical production and consumption. This emerging market is characterised by the circulation of bodily materials (tissues, organs and bio-information), patients and expertise across what traditionally have been relatively secure ontological and geographical borders. Crossing both disciplinary and geographical boundaries, this volume draws together a number of important contributions from acknowledged leaders in three respective fields: the trade in bodily commodities, biomedical tourism and migration of health care professionals. It explores and maps out the key characteristics of this emerging, although as yet poorly researched global trade, questioning how, where and why bodies cross borders, whether this exacerbates existing health inequalities and how these circulations impact on healthcare services. Considered together, the chapters in this volume invite comparisons of the ways in which body parts, patients and medical professionals cross national borders, elucidating common themes, concerns and issues. Contributors also pose important questions about the ethical and legal implications of the circulation of bodies across borders and evaluate current and future strategies for regulation.

Doctor Without Borders：Portrait of Carlo Urbani

Author : Lucia Bellaspiga
Publisher : Ainosco Press
ISBN 13 : 986628672X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Without Borders：Portrait of Carlo Urbani written by Lucia Bellaspiga and published by Ainosco Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Urbani was an infective disease specialist with a beaming career, one of the most experienced in the world. He has received the Nobel Peace Prize as a national president of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF). On March 29, Urbani, ironically as the very first doctor discovering Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), was killed by the mysterious virus in a remote hospital of the Far East. Doctor Without Borders: Portrait of Carlo Urbani documents his remarkable life stories by including contents of manuscripts, interviews, and letters, in an attempt to honor Urbani’s memories in every way possible.

Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309498635
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is rapidly changing lives and industries around the world. Drug development, authorization, and regulatory supervision have become international endeavors, with most medicines becoming global commodities. Drug companies utilize global supply chains that often include facilities in countries with inconsistent regulations from those of the United States, perform pivotal trials in multiple countries to support registration submissions in various jurisdictions, and subsequently market their medicines throughout most of the world. These companies operate across borders and require individual national regulators to ensure that drugs authorized for use in their countries are safe and effective, and appropriate for their health care system and their population. This process involves significant resources and often duplicative work. It is important to consider how this process can be improved in order to better allocate resources, time, and efforts to improve public health. Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World: The Need for Increased Reliance Among Regulators considers the role of mutual recognition and other reliance activities among regulators in contributing to enhancing public health. This report identifies opportunities for leveraging reliance activities more broadly in order to potentially impact public health globally. Key topics in this report include the job of medicines regulators in today's world, what policy makers need to know about today's regulatory environment, stakeholder views of recognition and reliance, as well as removing impediments and facilitating action for greater recognition and reliance among regulatory authorities.

Curanderismo: The Art of Traditional Medicine Without Borders

Author : Eliseo Torres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792457685
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Curanderismo: The Art of Traditional Medicine Without Borders written by Eliseo Torres and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Imperfect Offering

Author : James Orbinski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777570
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Offering written by James Orbinski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a series of stories in which I ask, again and again, 'how to be in relation to the suffering of others.' It is a personal narrative about the political journey I have taken over the last twenty years as a humanitarian doctor, as a citizen, and as a man. This is a story about a way of seeing that requires humility, so that one can recognize the sameness of self in the other. It is about the mutuality that can exist between us, if we so choose. I have come to see humanitarianism not as separate from politics, but in relation to it, and as a challenge to political choices that too often kill or allow others to be killed. Speaking is the first political act. It is the first act of liberty, and it always implicitly involves another. In speaking, one inherently recognizes that 'I am and I am not alone.' In this space lies our humanity." Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering, dispassion, and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski still believes in "the good we can be if we so choose." His chosen medium is stories from his own experience-a form of testimony from the front lines-embodied in which are warnings, hope, and lessons in how we can inject humanitarian activity into our lives. Being political, he has discovered, is not only reserved for politicians; admitting imperfection is essential to compassion. The crystal clarity of Orbinski's voice is matched by the urgency of his message; at a time of great political and moral uncertainty, An Imperfect Offering is invaluable reading for anyone who feels he/she can make a difference.

The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law

Author : Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442221135
Total Pages : 827 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law written by Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges. Central concerns include the war on terror, new forms of armed conflict and humanitarian action, the emergence of international criminal justice, and the reshaping of fundamental rules and consensus in a multipolar world. ThePractical Guide to Humanitarian Law provides the precise meaning and content for over 200 terms such as terrorism, refugee, genocide, armed conflict, protection, peacekeeping, torture, and private military companies—words that the media has introduced into everyday conversation, yet whose legal and political meanings are often obscure. The Guide definitively explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries. Written from the perspective of victims and those who provide assistance to them, the Guide outlines the dangers, spells out the law, and points the way toward dealing with violations of the law. Entries are complemented by analysis of the decisions of relevant courts; detailed bibliographic references; addresses, phone numbers, and Internet links to the organizations presented; a thematic index; and an up-to-date list of the status of ratification of more than thirty international conventions and treaties concerning humanitarian law, human rights, refugee law, and international criminal law. This unprecedented work is an invaluable reference for policy makers and opinion leaders, students, relief workers, and members of humanitarian organizations. Published in cooperation with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.

Life in Crisis

Author : Peter Redfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274849
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Life in Crisis written by Peter Redfield and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parts of the chapters were published previously.

Networks in Tropical Medicine

Author : Deborah Neill
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804781052
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Networks in Tropical Medicine written by Deborah Neill and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book shows that this transnational collaboration in a context of European colonialism, scientific discovery, and internationalism shaped the character of the new medical specialty. Even in an era of intense competition among European states, practitioners of tropical medicine created a transnational scientific community through which they influenced each other and the health care that was introduced to the tropical world. One of the most important developments in the shaping of tropical medicine as a specialty was the major sleeping sickness epidemic that spread across sub-Saharan Africa at the turn of the century. The book describes how scientists and doctors collaborated across borders to control, contain, and find a treatment for the disease. It demonstrates that these medical specialists' shared notions of "Europeanness," rooted in common beliefs about scientific, technological, and racial superiority, led them to establish a colonial medical practice in Africa that sometimes oppressed the same people it was created to help.

Is Medicine Still Good for Us? (The Big Idea Series) (The Big Idea Series)

Author : Julian Sheather
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774730
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Is Medicine Still Good for Us? (The Big Idea Series) (The Big Idea Series) written by Julian Sheather and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating entry in The Big Idea series lays out the ethical implications and the costs of modern medicine. Over the course of human history, medicine has achieved incredible successes—but at what cost? This latest book in The Big Idea series explores the state of modern medicine, examining the ethics of medical and healthcare practices and the impact they have on modern life. This fascinating analysis engages with the debate surrounding the escalating costs, both financial and ethical, of medicine today. Intelligent and provocative, Is Medicine Still Good for Us? dissects common assumptions about medicine, helping the reader create their own informed opinion about its extraordinary achievements, limitations, injustices, and inevitable failures. Dr. Julian Sheather, an ethics adviser to Doctors Without Borders, contextualizes medicine as a science, art, institution, and ideology, outlining the pros and cons of what medicine has become in the signature Big Idea textual approach. Accompanying Sheather’s text are numerous informative illustrations that deepen the reader’s understanding of the material. A timely addition to the series, this book will engage those who love to debate, who are interested in ethics and philosophy, and those working in the medical field.