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Women and Health
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ISBN: 0080543855 0122881451 Year: 1999 Publisher: Burlington : Elsevier Science,

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Women and Health is a comprehensive reference which addresses health issues affecting women of all ages--adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic which concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues ranging from osteoporosis to breast cancer and other cancers, domestic violence, sexually transmitted diseases, occupational hazards, eating disorders, heart disease and other chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and societal and behavioral influences on health. Women and Health covers not o

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Health --- Women's Health --- Population Characteristics --- Health Care --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Population Heterogeneity --- Population Statistics --- Characteristic, Population --- Characteristics, Population --- Heterogeneity, Population --- Population Characteristic --- Statistics, Population --- Woman's Health --- Womens Health --- Health, Woman's --- Health, Women's --- Health, Womens


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Integrative medicine.
ISSN: 18790232 10962190 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York, NY : Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,

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Medicine --- Complementary Therapies --- Delivery of Health Care --- Therapeutics --- Alternative medicine --- Médecine --- Alternative medicine. --- Medicine. --- Complementary Therapies. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Therapeutics. --- Therapy --- Treatment --- Therapeutic --- Therapies --- Treatments --- Disease --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Alternative Therapies --- Therapy, Alternative --- Therapy, Complementary --- Alternative Medicine --- Complementary Medicine --- Medicine, Alternative --- Medicine, Complementary --- Therapies, Alternative --- Therapies, Complementary --- Medical Specialities --- Medical Specialties --- Medical Specialty --- Specialities, Medical --- Specialties, Medical --- Specialty, Medical --- Medical Speciality --- Speciality, Medical --- Complementary medicine --- Healing systems --- Systems, Healing --- Systems, Therapeutic --- Therapeutic systems --- therapy --- Integrative medicine --- Health Workforce --- Medical care. --- Médecines parallèles --- Médecines parallèles. --- Prestation de soins. --- Thérapeutique. --- Medical treatment --- Treatment of diseases --- Treatments for diseases --- Clinical medicine --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians


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Nursing & health sciences.
ISSN: 14422018 14410745 Year: 1999 Publisher: [Carlton, Vic, Australia] : Blackwell Pub.,

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Nursing --- Medical care --- Nursing. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Nursing Care. --- Medical care. --- Sciences de la santé --- Soins infirmiers. --- Soins médicaux. --- Health & Medicine (General) --- Clinical nursing --- Nurses and nursing --- Nursing process --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Care, Nursing --- Management, Nursing Care --- Nursing Care Management --- Disease --- Patient Care --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Nursings --- nursing --- Delivery of Health Care --- Nursing Care --- Care of the sick --- Medicine --- Public health

The corporate practice of medicine : competition and innovation in health care
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ISBN: 0520923766 0585277087 9780520923768 9780585277080 0520220765 0520220757 Year: 1999 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press

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Medical corporations --- Professional Practice --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Patient Care Management --- Health Services Administration --- Organization and Administration --- Health Care --- Delivery of Health Care --- Professional Corporations --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medical Professional Practice --- Corporate Practice --- Corporate Practices --- Corporation, Professional --- Corporations, Professional --- Practice, Corporate --- Practices, Corporate --- Professional Corporation --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Administration and Organization --- Administrative Technics --- Administrative Techniques --- Coordination, Administrative --- Logistics --- Supervision --- Technics, Administrative --- Techniques, Administrative --- Administration --- Administrative Coordination --- Administrative Technic --- Administrative Technique --- Technic, Administrative --- Technique, Administrative --- Administration, Health Services --- Health Services --- Care Management, Patient --- Management, Patient Care --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Practice, Professional --- Practices, Professional --- Professional Practices --- organization & administration

The disordered body : epidemic disease and cultural transformation
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ISBN: 0585286329 9780585286327 0791443655 0791443663 9780791443651 9780791443668 1438406088 Year: 1999 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,

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"The Disordered Body presents a fascinating look at how three epidemics of the medieval and Early Renaissance period in Western Europe shaped and altered conceptions of the human body in ways that continue today. Authors Suzanne E. Hatty and James Hatty show the ways in which concepts of the disordered body relate to constructions of disease. In so doing, they establish a historical link between the discourses of the disordered body and the constructs of gender. The ideas of embodiment, contagion and social space are placed in historical context, and the authors argue that our current anxieties about bodies and places have important historical precedents. They show how the cultural practices of embodied social interaction have been shaped by disease, especially epidemics."--Jacket.

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Epidemics --- Medical anthropology. --- Human body. --- Disease Outbreaks --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Human Body --- Philosophy, Medical --- Medical anthropology --- Human body --- Philosophy --- Culture --- Public Health --- Art --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Humanities --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Epidemiology & Epidemics --- Infectious Disease Outbreaks --- Outbreaks --- Disease Outbreak --- Disease Outbreak, Infectious --- Disease Outbreaks, Infectious --- Infectious Disease Outbreak --- Outbreak, Disease --- Outbreak, Infectious Disease --- Outbreaks, Disease --- Outbreaks, Infectious Disease --- Cultural Anthropology --- Material Culture --- Ethnography --- Culture, Material --- Ethnographies --- Material Cultures --- Qualitative Research --- Medical Philosophy --- Body Parts --- Body Parts and Fluids --- Body, Human --- Human Figure --- Bodies, Human --- Figure, Human --- Figures, Human --- Human Bodies --- Human Figures --- Parts, Body --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Arts --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Beliefs --- Cultural Background --- Cultural Relativism --- Customs --- Background, Cultural --- Backgrounds, Cultural --- Belief --- Cultural Backgrounds --- Cultural Relativisms --- Cultures --- Relativism, Cultural --- Relativisms, Cultural --- Pharmacy Philosophy --- Philosophical Overview --- Hedonism --- Stoicism --- Overview, Philosophical --- Overviews, Philosophical --- Pharmacy Philosophies --- Philosophical Overviews --- Philosophies --- Philosophies, Pharmacy --- Philosophy, Pharmacy --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- History. --- Social aspects. --- History --- Social aspects --- Anthropological aspects --- Pandemics

Psychiatric Home Care : Clinical and Economic Dimensions
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ISBN: 1281033316 9786611033316 0080515347 0585492182 012490940X Year: 1999 Publisher: Burlington : Elsevier Science,

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In this economic-clinical review of home care services, the reader finds a brief economic history of psychiatric services in this country, several models of psychiatric care, an illustration of the burdens borne by families when such services are unavailable, and strategies for developing ""managed care-friendly"" services programs. This book addresses real-world issues of designing services models that meet the clinical needs of an underserved population while also appealing to the economic imperatives of managed care.Key Features* Economic models of home care in a managed car

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Home care. --- Home care services. --- Home nursing. --- Home-based mental health services. --- Home-based mental health services. Home-based mental health services--United States. --- Mental Disorders. --- Mentally ill. --- Psychiatric nursing. --- Home-based mental health services --- Nursing Services --- Nursing Care --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Community Health Services --- Health Services --- Specialties, Nursing --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Nursing --- Health Occupations --- Health Care --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Psychiatric Nursing --- Mental Disorders --- Mental Health Services --- Home Care Services --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatry - General --- Care Services, Home --- Home Care --- Services, Home Care --- Domiciliary Care --- Care, Domiciliary --- Care, Home --- Home Care Service --- Service, Home Care --- Health Services, Mental --- Services, Mental Health --- Services, Mental Hygiene --- Mental Hygiene Services --- Health Service, Mental --- Hygiene Service, Mental --- Hygiene Services, Mental --- Mental Health Service --- Mental Hygiene Service --- Service, Mental Health --- Service, Mental Hygiene --- Behavior Disorders --- Diagnosis, Psychiatric --- Mental Disorders, Severe --- Psychiatric Diagnosis --- Disorder, Mental --- Disorder, Severe Mental --- Disorders, Behavior --- Disorders, Mental --- Disorders, Severe Mental --- Mental Disorder --- Mental Disorder, Severe --- Severe Mental Disorder --- Severe Mental Disorders --- Mental Health Nursing --- Nursing, Psychiatric --- Psychosocial Nursing --- Nursing, Mental Health --- Nursing, Psychosocial --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Health Professions --- Health Occupation --- Health Profession --- Occupation, Health --- Occupations, Health --- Profession, Health --- Professions, Health --- Nursings --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Nursing Specialties --- Nursing Specialty --- Specialty, Nursing --- Services, Health --- Health Service --- Service, Health --- Community Healthcare --- Health Services, Community --- Services, Community Health --- Community Health Care --- Care, Community Health --- Community Health Service --- Community Healthcares --- Health Care, Community --- Health Service, Community --- Healthcare, Community --- Healthcares, Community --- Service, Community Health --- Care, Nursing --- Management, Nursing Care --- Nursing Care Management --- Disease --- Patient Care --- Services, Nursing --- Nursing Service --- Service, Nursing --- Behavioral home care --- Home-based psychiatric services --- Home-based psychological services --- In-home psychological services --- In-home psychosocial care --- Psychiatric home care --- nursing --- Mentally Ill Persons --- Occupations --- Education, Nursing, Continuing --- Public Health Administration --- Social Work --- Community Health Planning --- Community mental health services --- Home care services --- Psychiatric Diseases --- Psychiatric Disorders --- Psychiatric Illness --- Psychiatric Disease --- Psychiatric Disorder --- Psychiatric Illnesses --- trends. --- economics. --- nursing. --- Psychiatric nursing

A review of the scientific literature as it pertains to Gulf War illnesses, Depleted uranium
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ISBN: 0585344930 9780585344935 083302681X 9780833026811 083302681X Year: 1999 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : <1998-©2001> Rand,

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Uranium --- Radiation Effects --- Persian Gulf Syndrome --- Metals, Heavy --- Occupational Diseases --- Radiation --- Actinoid Series Elements --- Radiologic Health --- Metals --- Diseases --- Elements --- Electromagnetic Phenomena --- Public Health --- Elements, Radioactive --- Inorganic Chemicals --- Physical Phenomena --- Environment and Public Health --- Phenomena and Processes --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Health Care --- Pathology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Physical Phenomenon --- Physical Process --- Physical Concepts --- Physical Processes --- Concept, Physical --- Concepts, Physical --- Phenomena, Physical --- Phenomenon, Physical --- Physical Concept --- Process, Physical --- Processes, Physical --- Chemicals, Inorganic --- Radioactive Elements --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Electrical Phenomena --- Electrical Phenomenon --- Electromagnetic Phenomenon --- Electromagnetics --- Electrical Concepts --- Electromagnetic Concepts --- Concept, Electrical --- Concept, Electromagnetic --- Concepts, Electrical --- Concepts, Electromagnetic --- Electrical Concept --- Electromagnetic Concept --- Electromagnetic Phenomenas --- Phenomena, Electrical --- Phenomena, Electromagnetic --- Phenomenon, Electrical --- Phenomenon, Electromagnetic --- Health, Radiologic --- Radiological Health --- Health, Radiological --- Radiations --- Diseases, Occupational --- Occupational Illnesses --- Disease, Occupational --- Illnesse, Occupational --- Illnesses, Occupational --- Occupational Disease --- Occupational Illnesse --- Heavy Metals --- Gulf War Syndrome --- Syndrome, Gulf War --- Syndrome, Persian Gulf --- Effects, Radiation --- Effect, Radiation --- Radiation Effect --- Metals, Actinide --- Actinides --- Actinoids --- Metals, Actinoid --- Actinide Metals --- Actinoid Metals --- Elements, Actinoid Series --- Radioisotopes --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Dose Hypofractionation --- Accidents, Occupational --- Industry --- Occupational Medicine --- Karoshi Death --- Heavy Metal Poisoning --- Environmental Exposure --- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity --- Radiation Genetics --- Radiation Tolerance --- Radiation Dose Hypofractionation --- Element --- Metal --- Heavy Metal --- Metal, Heavy --- Heavy metals. --- Toxic metals --- Poisons --- Gulf War syndrome --- Persian Gulf War syndrome --- Persian Gulf War, 1991 --- Syndromes --- Health aspects

Forensic epidemiology
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ISBN: 0585128723 9780585128726 0809322226 Year: 1999 Publisher: Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press

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Forensic epidemiology. --- Expert Testimony. --- Epidemiology. --- Forensic epidemiology --- Public Health --- Jurisprudence --- Social Control, Formal --- Medicine --- Health Occupations --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Sociology --- Health Care --- Social Sciences --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Expert Testimony --- Epidemiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Legal & Forensic Medicine --- Social Epidemiology --- Epidemiologies, Social --- Epidemiology, Social --- Social Epidemiologies --- Disease --- Expert Opinion --- Expert Witness --- Expert Opinions --- Expert Testimonies --- Expert Witnesses --- Opinion, Expert --- Testimony, Expert --- Witness, Expert --- Witnesses, Expert --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- General Social Development and Population --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- Health Professions --- Health Occupation --- Health Profession --- Profession, Health --- Professions, Health --- Occupations --- Medical Specialities --- Medical Specialties --- Medical Specialty --- Specialities, Medical --- Specialties, Medical --- Specialty, Medical --- Medical Speciality --- Speciality, Medical --- Health Workforce --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Public Policy --- Constitutional Law --- Court Decision --- Law --- Legal Aspects --- Legal Obligations --- Legal Status --- State Interest --- Litigation --- Medical Jurisprudence --- Aspect, Legal --- Aspects, Legal --- Constitutional Laws --- Court Decisions --- Decision, Court --- Decisions, Court --- Interest, State --- Interests, State --- Jurisprudence, Medical --- Law, Constitutional --- Laws --- Laws, Constitutional --- Legal Aspect --- Legal Obligation --- Litigations --- Obligation, Legal --- Obligations, Legal --- State Interests --- Status, Legal --- Defamation --- Lawyers --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Legal epidemiology --- Medical jurisprudence --- epidemiology

Environmental cancer-- a political disease?
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ISBN: 0585344345 9780585344348 9780300148589 0300148585 0300073062 0300076347 9780300073065 0300073062 9780300076349 0300076347 Year: 1999

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Media reports on environmental cancer are frequent and frightening. Public policy-and public spending-reflect widespread concern over the presence of carcinogens in our air and water and food. Yet how reliable is mass media information about environmental cancer? How accurate are the risk assessments that underlie our public policy decisions?In this provocative book, S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman examine the controversies surrounding environmental cancer and place them in historical perspective. Then, drawing on surveys of cancer researchers and environmental activists, they reveal that there are sharp differences between the two groups viewpoints on environmental cancer. Despite these differences, a further comparison-between the views of the two groups and the content of television and newspaper accounts over a two-decade period-shows that press reports most frequently cite the views of environmental activists as if they were the views of the scientific community. These findings cast doubt on the objectivity of the news media and environmental activists. And, the authors conclude, misplaced fears about the risks of environmental cancer have seriously distorted public policy and priorities.

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Cancer --- Environmentalism --- Neoplasms --- Public Policy --- Environmental Pollution --- Social Control Policies --- Diseases --- Public Health --- Policy --- Social Control, Formal --- Environment and Public Health --- Social Sciences --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care --- Sociology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Oncology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- General Social Development and Population --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Policies --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Control Policies, Social --- Control Policy, Social --- Policies, Social Control --- Policy, Social Control --- Social Control Policy --- Pollution, Environmental --- Soil Pollution --- Pollution, Soil --- Environmental Pollutants --- Affirmative Action --- Migration Policy --- Population Policy --- Social Protection --- Social Policy --- Action, Affirmative --- Migration Policies --- Policies, Migration --- Policies, Population --- Policies, Public --- Policies, Social --- Policy, Migration --- Policy, Population --- Policy, Public --- Policy, Social --- Population Policies --- Protection, Social --- Public Policies --- Social Policies --- Policy Making --- Benign Neoplasms --- Malignancy --- Malignant Neoplasms --- Neoplasia --- Neoplasm --- Neoplasms, Benign --- Tumors --- Benign Neoplasm --- Cancers --- Malignancies --- Malignant Neoplasm --- Neoplasias --- Neoplasm, Benign --- Neoplasm, Malignant --- Neoplasms, Malignant --- Tumor --- Medical Oncology --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Greenwashing --- Sustainable living --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Environmentally induced cancer --- Environmental aspects --- Political aspects --- Environmentalism. --- Environmental aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Environmental Policy --- Medical --- Nature --- Political Science

Medicines, medical devices, and the law
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ISBN: 0511043376 9780511043376 0585223254 9780585223254 1900151073 Year: 1999 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Greenwich Medical Media Ltd

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Drugs --- Medical instruments and apparatus industry --- Products liability --- Equipment and Supplies --- Legislation, Medical --- Legislation, Drug --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Legislation as Topic --- Social Control, Formal --- Sociology --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Care --- Law - Great Britain --- Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- General Social Development and Population --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Public Policy --- Constitutional Amendments --- Health Legislation as Topic --- Laws and Statutes --- Legislation, Health --- Model Legislation --- Population Law --- Statutes and Laws --- Health Legislation --- Amendment, Constitutional --- Amendments, Constitutional --- Constitutional Amendment --- Law, Population --- Laws, Population --- Legislation, Model --- Population Laws --- Drug Legislation --- Drug Laws --- Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act --- Narcotic Laws --- Drug Law --- Law, Drug --- Law, Narcotic --- Laws, Drug --- Laws, Narcotic --- Narcotic Law --- Pharmaceutical Preparations --- Drug Prescriptions --- Medical Legislation --- Medicine --- Device, Medical --- Devices, Medical --- Equipment --- Inventories --- Medical Device --- Supplies --- Apparatus and Instruments --- Devices --- Medical Devices --- Device --- Instruments and Apparatus --- Inventory --- Supplies and Equipment --- Manufacturers' liability --- Product liability --- Tort liability of manufacturers --- Liability (Law) --- Health care technology industry --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical supplies industry --- Scientific apparatus and instruments industry --- Law and legislation --- legislation & jurisprudence

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