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An American Sickness

Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407180
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

The Morning Sickness Companion

Author : Elizabeth Kaledin
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466882565
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Morning Sickness Companion written by Elizabeth Kaledin and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's frustrating and a nuisance--and it can be a major obstacle to experiencing the joy of pregnancy. But morning sickness doesn't always strike in the morning, and for many women it doesn't even strike--it's an ever-present part of their pregnancy, with symptoms ranging from mild nausea and exhaustion to crippling depression and physical illness. We all know the standard suggestions--crackers and tea, Jell-O and ginger ale--but when they don't seem like enough, what can women really do to manage their symptoms and recover the happiness their pregnancy should bring? As debilitating as morning sickness is, we don't hear much about it. But finally, just when it seems as though there's nothing out there, women have somewhere to turn. Elizabeth Kaledin's The Morning Sickness Companion is a book by and for women suffering morning sickness. Morning sickness is a reality of pregnancy--many women are affected--and this book is dedicated to them. It fills a major void in pregnancy literature, providing a brief history of morning sickness, all the latest scientific thinking, research on its emotional toll, and lots of reassuring tips and advice from other women about what they ate, how sick they really were, sources of relief, and how to survive, since the fact is it is nearly inevitable. Engaging, warm, often funny, and always informative, The Morning Sickness Companion offers women who are suffering the wisdom and comfort they really need.

Ghost Sickness

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Sickness written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories of Sickness

Author : Howard Brody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199759790
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Sickness written by Howard Brody and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the sufferers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of literature and in nonfiction accounts. The exploration is primarily philosophical but incorporates approaches from literature and from the medical social sciences. When it was first published in 1987, Stories of Sickness helped to inaugurate a renewed interest in the importance of narrative studies in health care. For the Second Edition the text has been thoroughly revised and significantly expanded. Four almost entirely new chapters have been added on the nature, complexities, and rigor of narrative ethics and how it is carried out. There is also an additional chapter on maladaptive ways of being sick that deals in greater depth with disability issues. Health care professionals, students of medicine and bioethics, and ordinary people coping with illness, no less than scholars in the health care humanities and social sciences, will find much value in this volume. Unique Features: *Philosophically sophisticated yet clearly written and easily accessible *Interdisciplinary approach--combines philosophy, literature, health care, social sciences *Contains many fascinating stories and vignettes of illness drawn from both fiction and nonfiction *A new and comprehensive overview of the "hot topic" of narrative ethics in medicine and health care

A Deeper Sickness

Author : Margaret Peacock
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807040304
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Deeper Sickness written by Margaret Peacock and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing chronicle by two leading historians, capturing in real time the events of a year marked by multiple devastations. When we look back at the year 2020, how can we describe what really happened? In A Deeper Sickness, award-winning historians Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson set out to preserve what they call the “focused confusion,” and to probe deeper into what they consider the Four Pandemics that converged around the 12 astonishing months of 2020: • Disease • Disinformation • Poverty • Violence Drs. Peacock and Peterson use their interdisciplinary expertise to extend their analysis beyond the viral science, and instead into the social, political, and historical dimensions of this crisis. They consulted with dozens of experts and witnesses from a wide range of fields—from leading epidemiologists and health care workers to leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, district attorneys, political scientists, philosophers, and more. Their journey revealed a sick country that believed it was well, a violent nation that believed it was peaceful; one that mistook poverty for prosperity and accountability for rebellion. Organized into the journal-entries along with dozens of archival images, A Deeper Sickness will help readers sift through the chaos and misinformation that characterized those frantic days. It is both an unflinching indictment of a nation that is still reeling and a testament to the power of human resilience and collective memory. Readers can share their story and become a contributing author by visiting an interactive digital museum, where the authors have preserved dozens of more stories and interviews. Visit Margaret Peacock and Erik L. Peterson’s digital museum at adhc.lib.ua.edu/pandemicbook/.

Selling Sickness

Author : Ray Moynihan
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1926706684
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Selling Sickness written by Ray Moynihan and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, Ray Moynihan and Allan Cassels show how drug companies are systematically using their dominating influence in the world of medical science, drug companies are working to widen the very boundaries that define illness. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness, and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. Selling Sickness reveals how expanding the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt national healthcare systems all over the world. This Canadian edition includes an introduction placing the issue in a Canadian context and describing why Canadians should be concerned about the problem.

Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Múmkidag)

Author : Donald M. Bahr
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535663
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Múmkidag) written by Donald M. Bahr and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive study of shamanic theory and practice was developed through a four-person collaboration: three Tohono O'odham Indians--a shaman, a translator, and a trained linguist--and a non-Indian explicator. It provides an in-depth examination of the Piman philosophy of sickness as well as an introduction to the world view of an entire people.

Sickness, Recovery and Death

Author : James C. Riley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349106275
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Sickness, Recovery and Death written by James C. Riley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines new research data with findings from present-day health surveys to examine the history of ill health and its outcomes, whether recovery or death, in Europe and North America from the 17th century to the present. Some forecasts about future sickness rates and trends are included.

African Horse Sickness

Author : Philip S. Mellor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3709168236
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African Horse Sickness written by Philip S. Mellor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African horse sickness virus is a double-stranded RNA virus which causes a non-contagious, infectious arthropod-borne disease of equines and occasionally dogs. Nine distinct, internationally recognised serotypes of the virus have so far been identified. This book is based upon the findings of two programmes funded by the European Commission. It will be of value not only to the specialist research workers but also to veterinary workers dealing with control and to legislators seeking to promote safe international movement of equines. The topics covered include state-of-the-art discussions on diagnostics, vaccines, molecular biology, vector studies, and epidemiology.

Sleeping Sickness Bulletin ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Sickness Bulletin ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Does God Send Sickness?

Author : Troy J. Edwards
Publisher : Troy Edwards
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Does God Send Sickness? written by Troy J. Edwards and published by Troy Edwards. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “God is said in Scripture to send what he can (but doth not) hinder from being sent.” – Edward Bird (1726)God has been taking the blame for sickness and disease for centuries. We have been told that He sends sickness as an aid to spiritual growth and piety or as a punishment for sin. Vast amounts of Scripture have been cited to support this claim.This idea has contributed to the lack of faith prevalent in the church today for healing and deliverance. After all, if God gave a person sickness then His willingness to heal is questionable. Faith can only be present where the will of God is known. However, if sickness is seen as an enemy of God then faith in God’s willingness to heal is more likely to rise.Numerous apologetic books have been written in support of divine healing, but most have not dealt completely with the many Biblical passages that appear to make God the direct cause of sickness. This book is different in that it will look at these difficult Bible passages in light of the permissive idiom of the ancient Hebrew language, in which God is often said to do the things that He merely allowed or permitted to happen. Those passages in both the Old and New Testaments that make God appear to be a cold and cruel dispenser of sickness and disease will be seen in a new light. You will see God’s loving character vindicated, your Bible will be a fresh source of blessing, and your faith in God for health and healing will soar.

Sickness and Healing

Author : Simon Herrmann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643914784
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Sickness and Healing written by Simon Herrmann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the Lele people of Papua New Guinea had significant contact with the Western world and Christianity, they had developed a framework for understanding sickness and healing with a strong emphasis on the unseen world. This study examines how mature Lele Christians of the Evangelical Church of Manus assess traditional health concepts in light of their Christian faith and Scripture. By using cognitive theory as an interpretive approach, this research serves as a case study to illustrate the mental processes that take place when Christians in an animistic context make sense of their traditional culture.

Pathologic Physiology of Acute Radiation Sickness

Author : Petr Dmitrievich Gorizontov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Pathologic Physiology of Acute Radiation Sickness written by Petr Dmitrievich Gorizontov and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Observations on the rate of mortality and sickness existing among friendly societies

Author : Henry Ratcliffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Observations on the rate of mortality and sickness existing among friendly societies written by Henry Ratcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Radiation Sickness

Author : Toney Allman
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420509004
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Radiation Sickness written by Toney Allman and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Toney Allman discusses the devastating effects of radiation sickness. After exploring the fundamentals of radiation and the various methods of possible radiation exposure, Allman uses examples from Chernobyl, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as other radiation events, to outline the stages and syndromes associated with radiation exposure. The book also addresses the current concern for better treatment options and ongoing tests and studies being conducted towards this end.

Sleeping Sickness Bulletin

Author : Great Britain. Tropical Diseases Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Sickness Bulletin written by Great Britain. Tropical Diseases Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers A Synthesis of Findings across OECD Countries

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264088857
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers A Synthesis of Findings across OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with reduced work capacity manage to remain in employment. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries. It ...