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Revolutionary Doctors

Author : Steve Brouwer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583672680
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Doctors written by Steve Brouwer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve--and largely carried out by--the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela's Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisors and organizers. This internationalist model has been a great success--Cuba is a world leader in medicine and medical training--and Brouwer shows how the Venezuelans are now, with the aid of their Cuban counterparts, following suit. But this program is not without its challenges. It has faced much hostility from traditional Venezuelan doctors as well as all the forces antagonistic to the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions. Despite the obstacles it describes, Revolutionary Doctors demonstrates how a society committed to the well-being of its poorest people can actually put that commitment into practice, by delivering essential healthcare through the direct empowerment of the people it aims to serve"--Provided by publisher.

Revolutionary Doctors

Author : Steve Brouwer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583672400
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Doctors written by Steve Brouwer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela’s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisors and organizers. This internationalist model has been a great success—Cuba is a world leader in medicine and medical training—and Brouwer shows how the Venezuelans are now, with the aid of their Cuban counterparts, following suit. But this program is not without its challenges. It has faced much hostility from traditional Venezuelan doctors as well as all the forces antagonistic to the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions. Despite the obstacles it describes, Revolutionary Doctors demonstrates how a society committed to the well-being of its poorest people can actually put that commitment into practice, by delivering essential healthcare through the direct empowerment of the people it aims to serve.

Revolutionary Doctors

Author : Steve Brouwer Brouwer
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583672396
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Doctors written by Steve Brouwer Brouwer and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela’s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisors and organizers. This internationalist model has been a great success—Cuba is a world leader in medicine and medical training—and Brouwer shows how the Venezuelans are now, with the aid of their Cuban counterparts, following suit. But this program is not without its challenges. It has faced much hostility from traditional Venezuelan doctors as well as all the forces antagonistic to the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions. Despite the obstacles it describes, Revolutionary Doctors demonstrates how a society committed to the well-being of its poorest people can actually put that commitment into practice, by delivering essential healthcare through the direct empowerment of the people it aims to serve.

Doctors for Democracy

Author : Vincanne Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521584869
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Doctors for Democracy written by Vincanne Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of the Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These doctors are trained in the Western tradition, and participate in international scientific debates, yet they have always been concerned to develop a form of medical practice that was relevant to Nepali conditions, and which could speak to local conceptions about health, and so their medical practice was always politicized. Vincanne Adams argues that the commitment of these professionals to the values of science, and to public health, was crucial in their political activity, and that ideas and practices associated with the notions of 'democracy' and of 'science' supported each other. Describing her book as 'a story that explores how very fine the line is between politics and scientific medical truth claims', it therefore encompasses both the modern political history of Nepal and the role of medicine in a poor, largely rural, Hindu kingdom.

Revolutionary Medicine

Author : Jeanne E Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081475936X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Medicine written by Jeanne E Abrams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America. Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the Founding Fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the Founders occupied a unique position regarding the development of public health in America. Historian Jeanne E. Abrams’s Revolutionary Medicine refocuses the study of the lives of George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, and James and Dolley Madison away from politics to the perspective of sickness, health, and medicine. For the Founders, republican ideals fostered a reciprocal connection between individual health and the “health” of the nation. Studying the encounters of these American Founders with illness and disease, as well as their viewpoints about good health, not only provides a richer and more nuanced insight into their lives, but also opens a window into the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, which is at once intimate, personal, and first hand. Today’s American public health initiatives have their roots in the work of America’s Founders, for they recognized early on that government had compelling reasons to shoulder some new responsibilities with respect to ensuring the health and well-being of its citizenry—beginning the conversation about the country’s state of medicine and public healthcare that continues to be a work in progress.

Cuban Health Care

Author : Don Fitz
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1583678603
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Health Care written by Don Fitz and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Cuban health care system became the blueprint for accessible medical care around the world Quiet as it’s kept inside the United States, the Cuban revolution has achieved some phenomenal goals, reclaiming Cuba’s agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent – and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fitz combines his deep knowledge of Cuban history with his decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to bring us the story of how Cuba’s health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century. Fitz weaves together complex themes in Cuban history, moving the reader from one fascinating story to another. He describes how Cuba was able to create a unified system of clinics, and evolved the family doctor-nurse teams that became a model for poor countries throughout the world. How, in the 1980s and ‘90s, Cuba survived the encroachment of AIDS and increasing suffering that came with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and then went on to establish the Latin American School of Medicine, which still brings thousands of international students to the island. Deeply researched, recounted with compassion, Cuban Health Care tells a story you won’t find anywhere else, of how, in terms of caring for everyday people, Cuba’s revolution continues.

Revolutionary Doctors

Author : Steve Brouwer Brouwer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583672699
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Doctors written by Steve Brouwer Brouwer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela’s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisors and organizers. This internationalist model has been a great success—Cuba is a world leader in medicine and medical training—and Brouwer shows how the Venezuelans are now, with the aid of their Cuban counterparts, following suit. But this program is not without its challenges. It has faced much hostility from traditional Venezuelan doctors as well as all the forces antagonistic to the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions. Despite the obstacles it describes, Revolutionary Doctors demonstrates how a society committed to the well-being of its poorest people can actually put that commitment into practice, by delivering essential healthcare through the direct empowerment of the people it aims to serve.

The American Medical Ethics Revolution

Author : Robert Baker
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801861703
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The American Medical Ethics Revolution written by Robert Baker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-12-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D.--from the Introduction "Canadian Bulletin of Medical History"

How Doctors Think

Author : Jerome Groopman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547348630
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book How Doctors Think written by Jerome Groopman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

DMT: The Spirit Molecule

Author : Rick Strassman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779732
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book DMT: The Spirit Molecule written by Rick Strassman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. • A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research. • Provides a unique scientific explanation for the phenomenon of alien abduction experiences. From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. His detailed account of those sessions is an extraordinarily riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. DMT, a plant-derived chemical found in the psychedelic Amazon brew, ayahuasca, is also manufactured by the human brain. In Strassman's volunteers, it consistently produced near-death and mystical experiences. Many reported convincing encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences, aliens, angels, and spirits. Nearly all felt that the sessions were among the most profound experiences of their lives. Strassman's research connects DMT with the pineal gland, considered by Hindus to be the site of the seventh chakra and by Rene Descartes to be the seat of the soul. DMT: The Spirit Molecule makes the bold case that DMT, naturally released by the pineal gland, facilitates the soul's movement in and out of the body and is an integral part of the birth and death experiences, as well as the highest states of meditation and even sexual transcendence. Strassman also believes that "alien abduction experiences" are brought on by accidental releases of DMT. If used wisely, DMT could trigger a period of remarkable progress in the scientific exploration of the most mystical regions of the human mind and soul.

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

Author : Eric Topol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465025501
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Destruction of Medicine written by Eric Topol and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.

Why We Revolt

Author : Victor Montori
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795352956
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Why We Revolt written by Victor Montori and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mayo Clinic physician and founder of The Patient Revolution offers a “thoroughly convincing. . . call to action for medical industry reform” (Kirkus). Winner of the 2018 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence, Why We Revolt exposes the corruption and negligence that are endemic in America’s healthcare system—and offers a blueprint for revolutionizing patient care across the country. Through a series of essays and first-hand accounts, Dr. Victor M. Montori demonstrates how the system has been increasingly exploited and industrialized, putting profit before patients. As costs soar, the United States continues to fall behind other countries on patient outcomes. Offering concrete, direct actions we can take to bring positive change to the healthcare system, Why We Revolt is an inspiring call-to-action for physicians, policymakers, and patients alike. Dr. Montori shows how we can work together to create a system that offers tailored healthcare in a kind and careful way. All proceeds from Why We Revolt go directly to Patient Revolution, a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Montori that empowers patients, caregivers, community advocates, and clinicians to rebuild our healthcare system.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

Author : Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. M.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1583333002
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease written by Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling guide to the lifesaving diet that can both prevent and help reverse the effects of heart disease Based on the groundbreaking results of his twenty-year nutritional study, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn illustrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent the progression of heart disease but can also reverse its effects. Dr. Esselstyn is an internationally known surgeon, researcher and former clinician at the Cleveland Clinic and a featured expert in the acclaimed documentary Forks Over Knives. Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease has helped thousands across the country, and is the book behind Bill Clinton’s life-changing vegan diet. The proof lies in the incredible outcomes for patients who have followed Dr. Esselstyn's program, including a number of patients in his original study who had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of starting the program, all Dr. Esselstyn’s patients began to improve dramatically, and twenty years later, they remain free of symptoms. Complete with more than 150 delicious recipes perfect for a plant-based diet, the national bestseller Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease explains the science behind the simple plan that has drastically changed the lives of heart disease patients forever. It will empower readers and give them the tools to take control of their heart health.

Compassionomics

Author : Anthony Mazzarelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781622181063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Compassionomics written by Anthony Mazzarelli and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference, physician scientists Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli uncover the eye-opening data that compassion could be a wonder drug for the 21st century. Now, for the first time ever, a rigorous review of the science - coupled with captivating stories from the front lines of medicine - demonstrates that human connection in health care matters in astonishing ways. Never before has all the evidence been synthesized together in one place."--Amazon.

A Scientific Revolution

Author : Ralph H. Hruban
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361480
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book A Scientific Revolution written by Ralph H. Hruban and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women. Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in the history of medicine. When it first opened its doors in 1893, medicine was a rough-and-ready trade. It would soon evolve into a rigorous science. It was nothing short of a revolution. This transition might seem inevitable from our vantage point today. In recent years, medical science has mapped the human genome, deployed robotic tools to perform delicate surgeries, and developed effective vaccines against a host of deadly pathogens. But this transformation could not have happened without the game-changing vision, talent, and dedication of a small cadre of individuals who were willing to commit body and soul to the advancement of medical science, education, and treatment. A Scientific Revolution recounts the stories of John Shaw Billings, Max Brödel, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, William Halsted, Jesse Lazear, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, William Osler, Helen Taussig, Vivien Thomas, and William Welch. This chorus of lives tells a compelling tale not just of their individual struggles, but how personal and societal issues went hand-in-hand with the advancement of medicine.

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Author : Paul Starr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780465079353
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review

Dr. Atkins' Health Revolution

Author : Robert C. Atkins
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553283600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Atkins' Health Revolution written by Robert C. Atkins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution,Dr. Atkins' Superenergy Diet, andDr. Atkins' Nutrition Breakthroughushered in a new era in the way we look at health and nutrition. Now, in his most important book to date, the noted physician and best-selling author calls for dramatic changed in conventional medicine and reveals the "new medicine" of the future that us already working wonders for thousands of patients today! Dr. Atkins' Health Revolutionoffers readers a powerful new program based on a low-carbohydrate/low-sugar diet combined with nutritional supplements, biologic medicines, and the latest breakthroughs in mainstream medicine that can produce a level of health and fitness that conventional medicine alone can't offer. Dr. Atkins calls this revolutionary approach "complementary"--and explains how it is the way we will all be treated...ten years from now! Using patient-tested therapies and treatments from a wide variety of healing arts, Dr. Atkins presents a commonsense guide to alternative medicine that works. Here is the latest information on: The crucial connection between diabetes and carbohydrates. >A simple, effectivedrug-freeway to prevent headaches. Treating PMS. fibroids, and other female problemswithoutsurgery andwithouthormones. The role of chelation and EDTA therapy in treating cardiovascular disease. The many causes andmany curesof irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Plus the Atkins Center's nutritional prescriptions for insomnia, hypertension, arthritis, osteoporosis, allergies, and much, much more!