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Channel Metrics: UK Critical Illness Insurance – Trends in Consumer Distribution Channel Usage $652.00 Channel Metrics is a series of 25 briefings and an overview report based on original consumer research with a total sample of 3,600 respondents investigating trends in consumer distribution channel usage in UK financial services. In addition to gathering data for overall take-up rates and annual churn rates across the various financial products and services considered, the research also yields res… |
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Health Insurance, including: Accidental Death And Dismemberment Insurance, Long Term Care Insurance, Preferred Provider Organization, Critical Illness … (agriculture) Convention, 1933 (shelved) $12.05 Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We belie… |
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Critical care: as more Americans contend with serious illnesses, insurers are trying to dispel misconceptions and show how critical insurance can fill … Insurance): An article from: Best’s Review $9.95 This digital document is an article from Best’s Review, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2649 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Critical care: a… |
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Cardiovascular Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury $29.99 This book provides comprehensive information on the cardiovascular system in pediatric critical illness and injury in a repackaging of the relevant chapters from the popular "Pediatric Critical Care Medicine" edited by Wheeler, Shanley and Wong. |
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The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach $179.98 THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH presents a comprehensive overview that examines health and illness in a narrative style, engaging readers and challenging them to question previously held beliefs about health, illness, and health care. |
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Critical Condition $22.91 Academy Award-nominated director Roger Weisberg tackles one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary politics by exploring just what happens when the uninsured get sick. The prospect of dealing with the health care system can be a horrifying one for those suffering through illness without the benefit of insurance, and by exploring a number of cases in which the desperate and afflicted attempted to get help from an uncaring and unsympathetic system, Weisberg presents a heartfelt case for change. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Explaining Illness $23.32 Understanding one's health conditions plays a key role in a patient's response to illness, influencing stress levels and the likelihood of following treatment regimens and advice. Thus, the explanation of illness is a critical component of the interaction |
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Neurologic Complications of Critical Illness $150.48 Consults in the Intensive Care Unit to evaluate and manage acute neurological clinical problems are usually of considerable complexity and are the most challenging ones. This single authored monograph is the standard reference on neurological complications of critically ill patients and has been the first and only book of its kind. This comprehensive book will assist the neurologist to recognize and treat complex neurological complications in critically ill patients admitted to medical, surgical, trauma, and transplant intensive care units. Every chapter provides a representative selection of the state of the art in the intensive care unit, necessary for an understanding of critical care medicine. It offers practical advice on how to best deal wtih coma after cardiopulmonary resuscitation, failure to awaken after surgery, delirium, new onset seizures, generalized weakness, acute paraplegia, movement disorders, and many other manifestations of a neurologic emergency. Other topics include neurologic complications after organ transplantation, spinal cord injury after thoracoabdominal surgery, neurologic complications of invasive procedures and devices, complications from cardiac surgery, traumatic brain, spine, and peripheral nerve injury, and environmental injuries such as hypothermia and near drowning. This book also addresses end of life care in the intensive care unit and the responsibilities of the consulting neurologist. This third edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded with new chapters on viral infectious outbreaks (West Nile and tick-borne encephalitis), intoxication, poisoning, and chemical and biowarfare. The book closes with a new chapter that provides a practical model on how to best approach these complex patients and five common scenarios are discussed. This third edition adds more than 100 new figures, tables and helpful maangement algorithms, and over 500 new references. All major topics are discussed systematically, thoroughly, and logically. This book is a key practical text for neurologists, intensivists, trauma surgeons, transplant surgeons, and trainees, but also is essential for the critical care nursing staff. |
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The Respiratory Tract in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury $29.99 This book provides comprehensive information on the respiratory tract in pediatric critical illness and injury in a repackaging of the relevant chapters from the popular "Pediatric Critical Care Medicine" edited by Wheeler, Shanley and Wong. |
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Critical surgical illness $8.48 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Endocrinology of Critical Illness $104.41 This book is in Used condition |
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Illness $18.76 Illness |
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Physical Illness and Drugs of Abuse $47 A comprehensive and critical review of recent literature regarding the relationships between physical illness and drugs of abuse. |
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The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, 5th Edition $132.49 This highly readable text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the sociology of health, including both micro and macro-level topics. Readers will appreciate the critical perspective that enables students to question their previously-held beliefs about health and illness. In THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, Dr. Weitz examines health and medicine, emphasizing the effects of power, and how social forces create illness, affect our ideas about the meaning of illness and disability, structure health care institutions, and affect the work and social position of health care workers. This text uses sociological perspective to thoroughly examine the social construction and cultural forces of health and illness, the social determinants and consequences of health status, and how health care systems operate in other parts of the world. THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH focuses on health within the United States, but also examines global health care issues. |
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The Central Nervous System in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury $29.99 This book provides comprehensive information on the science and practice of critical care medicine in a re-packaging of the relevant chapters from the popular "Pediatric Critical Care Medicine" edited by Wheeler, Shanley and Wong. |
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Health, Illness, and the Social Body: A Critical Sociology (4th Edition) $53.17 This text presents a critical, holistic interpretation of health, illness, and human bodies that emphasizes power as a key social-structural factor in health and in societal responses to illness. This text covers a range of contemporary issues in the field including the epidemiology of AIDS in Africa, the health impacts of globalization and inequality, the dominance of the medical establishment in U.S. health care policies and institutional arrangements, health care reform, AIDS, women’s care, and environmental and occupational issues. For anyone interested in a theoretical interpretation of health and illness in today’s society. |
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Mental Illness $3.98 - Current book and periodical bibliographies – Lists of organizations to contact – Critical thinking activities and discussion questions – Illustrations, inserts, and cartoons – Titles continually revised and updated – Biographical sketch of authors – Paper and durable library bindings |
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Health, Illness and Culture $62.5 This book offers a broad overview and critical analysis of the present state of the field of "illness narratives," encompassing clinical case studies, ethnographic field studies and autobiographical case studies. |
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The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, 6th Edition $139.99 Extremely student friendly and completely up to date, THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH, 6e delivers a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview that exposes the ethical dilemmas of modern health care and challenges readers to think analytically. Offering a sociological perspective on current topics, its unique critical perspective enables you to question your previously held beliefs about health and illness. Dr. Weitz’s thorough discussions of health and medicine emphasize the effects of power and how social forces create illness, affect our ideas about the meaning of illness and disability, structure health care institutions, and impact the work and social position of health care workers. While the text focuses on health within the United States, it also examines global health care issues. |
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The Grey Zone of Health and Illness $20 With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies the Grey Zone as the persistence and function of ambiguity in everyday life that requires a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramifications in the academy and beyond. |
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Insurance Against Poverty $156.48 Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack of insurance and social protection therefore constrains investment, growth, and poverty reduction. Public action to remedy this deficiency is merited, but what form should it take? This book evaluates alternatives in widening insurance and social protection provision, including sustainability and poverty effects, in thorough, up-to-date thematic papers and case studies, development assessments, and policy analyses. |
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Health and Illness in a Changing Society $68.48 Health and illness are intensely personal matters. It seems self evident that health is a basic necessity of the "good life," though it is often taken for granted. Illness, on the other hand challenges our sense of security and may introduce acute anxiety into our lives. "Health and Illness in a Changing Society" provides a lively and critical account of the impact of social change on the experience of health and illness. It also examines the different sociological perspectives that have been used to analyze health matters. While some of the ideas developed in the last twenty years remain relevant to social research in health today, many are in need of urgent revision. |
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Insurance? $6 Insurance? – The Higher |
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The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, 4th Edition $118.49 Why do people get ill, and how should we care for them? These are some of the questions driving THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL APPROACH. Inside, you’ll learn about the nature of illness and how the health care industry works. Easy to understand and packed with study tools, this sociology textbook will not only get you ready to navigate the health care system, it will help you out in class as well. |
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A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness $53 A former BMA Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness and helps students to develop a critical approach to the subject. This new edition is fully updated, taking into consideration changes in the areas of sociology, social psychiatry and policy analysis and changes to policy and therapeutic law. |
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Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles $66.48 The second edition of Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles published six years after the widely acclaimed first edition, builds on the reputation of the first edition by offering a detailed examination of the developing law of insurance, combining exposition of the law with critical analysis. The book is designed with the needs of the typical undergraduate in mind, while also providing the essential framework for those studying insurance law at postgraduate level. The text is enhanced by extensive citations to case law and academic commentaries, making the book ideal for students, scholars and practitioners alike. This new edition has been substantially restructured to complement the authors Insurance Law: Cases and Materials (Hart Publishing, 2004). The book is divided into two parts. Part I considers the regulation of insurance business and the general principles underlying the law of insurance contracts. Part II examines the way in which these principles are shaped by the particular insurance context in which they operate. Insurance law is a rapidly developing subject and this edition takes account of the many significant judicial and statutory developments. The book is readable and authoritative, with a sound grasp of the realities of insurance practice; it is well sourced and generous with supplementary points. A welcome addition to the writing team is Rob Merkin, Lloyds Law Reports Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Southampton, who has contributed new chapters on reinsurance and conflicts of law.The first edition was cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Canada in Oldfield v Transamerica Life Insurance Co of Canada (2002)."Lowry & Rawlings is a welcome addition to the ranks of insurance law textbooks and a serious contender for the student readership in this field."Nicholas Legh-Jones QC, Lloyds Maritime Commercial Law Quarterly"I recommend the book for undergraduate use, and as a starting point for postgraduate use. The book is well written and full of clear explanations of a difficult field of the law." Neil Campbell, Law Quarterly Review ..".can be warmly recommended for purchase or use by lecturers and students in the subject."Dennis Dowding, The Law Teacher"a very useful text on insurance law eminently readable, good and critical it is clearly a text of the highest calibre." Reuben Hasson, Canadian Business Law Journal |
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The Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities $197.98 This book explores theoretical and practical implications of reflecting the fair value of liabilities for insurance companies. In addition, the contributions discuss the disclosure of these values to the financial and regulatory communities and auditing firms which are actually calculating this illusive but important variable. It combines contributions by distinguished practitioners from the insurance, accounting and finance fields, with those of prominent academics. One of the central themes of the collection is that adequate disclosure of the true economic value of insurance company liabilities is both possible and desirable. Wherever possible, the insurance valuation process is wedded with modern financial theory. For example, the use of option pricing theory is applied to insurance companies, where the true value of the firm’s liabilities is a critical variable. Methods such as cash flow, earned profit and indirect discount are explored. |
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State Health Insurance Market Reform $75 In this book, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policymakers and researchers. |
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Hidden Illness-White House $5.98 The serious illness of three presidents–Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy–as well as the injury Ronald Reagan received in the assassination attempt upon him have revealed our woefully inadequate system for handling presidential incapacity. The authors believe that this flawed system poses a major threat to the nation, and they provide sobering reports on how the government functioned (or failed to function) during times of presidential impairment. The public was kept in the dark regarding the gravity of the presidential condition, often unaware that critical decisions were being made while the president was suffering from a severe illness. Hidden Illness in the White House contains startling new information on the severity of Roosevelt’s illness during the crucial Yalta negotiations and the fact that Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease, a life-threatening illness, long before he was elected to the presidency. In each case the authors demonstrate that a largely successful effort was made to conceal the president’s true medical condition from the public. |
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Social Insurance and Social Justice $83 "[W]e must tell the story of how social insurance programs have assured basic economic and health security for millions of Americans .This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about these goals.". -From the Foreword by Barbara Kennelly. President and CEO,. National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. This politically charged, provocative text serves as an introduction to social insurance programs, examining all aspects of these hotly debated policies. The editors cover cutting-edge topics, including Social Security and privatization, universal health insurance, and how America's changing demographics will impact social security in the years to come. Five key sections cover the critical topics:.: Social Insurance: History, Politics, and Prospects examines the foundational social insurance principles upon which Social Security, Medicare, and other programs are based; What's at Stake identifies the risks posed to women, minorities, and the elderly if they could no longer depend on social insurance programs; The Ongoing Debates on Social Insurance discusses public opinions of social insurance programs, and responds to arguments supporting privatization; Critical Perspectives on Social Insurance Reform presents international experiences and policy trends, and analyzes reform movements from a social justice perspective; Teaching Social Insurance: Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice presents pedagogical strategies to help students understand, influence, and engage in an informed debate about social policy ;chapter |
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Sleep and Mental Illness $146.98 The diagnosis of mental illness is frequently accompanied by sleep problems; conversely, people experiencing sleep problems may subsequently develop mental illness. Sleep and Mental Illness looks at this close correlation and considers the implications of research findings that have emerged in the last few years. Additionally, it surveys the essential concepts and practical tools required to deal with sleep and co-morbid psychiatric problems. The volume is divided into three main sections: basic science, neuroendocrinology, and clinical science. Included are over 30 chapters on topics such as neuropharmacology, insomnia, depression, dementia, autism, and schizophrenia. Relevant questionnaires for the assessment of sleep disorders, including quality-of-life measurement tools, are provided. There is also a summary table of drugs for treating sleep disorders. This interdisciplinary text will be of interest to clinicians working in psychiatry, behavioral sleep medicine, neurology, pulmonary and critical care medicine. |
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Depression and Physical Illness $121.98 Depression and physical illness are intimately related. Depressed mood is thought to contribute to the development and progression of some illnesses, while physical illness can in turn increase the risk of depression. This book provides a critical overview of the evidence linking depression with several major health conditions, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic pain, disability, chronic fatigue and obesity. It also explores the biological and behavioral processes underlying the association, discussing the role of neuroendocrine, immunological and inflammatory pathways, and the relationship between depression and health behaviours such as smoking, physical activity and adherence to medical advice. It combines a thorough analysis of the clinical, biological and epidemiological data with guidance to health professionals and patients on how to manage depression in people suffering from physical illness, pointing the way to an integrated approach to health care. |
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Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance $34.99 Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups – will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries. This review explores the context under which private voluntary health insurance could contribute to an improvement in the sustainability of the health sector and financial protection in other countries. |
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Relationships in Chronic Illness and Disability $6.98 "This book . . . offers a critical review of literature on relationships and chronic illness. . . . This is a carefully constructed integration of a complex, multidisciplinary literature on the dynamic processes of relationships during long-term illness. It is essentially a scholarly work that builds a conceptual model. The authors’ use of case illustrations serves to ground and clarify the discussion. It is logical and clear. Both beginning and established scholars will find the book a highly useful resource. 5 stars " –Sara J. Knight in Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review Home Page "A recommended book for counselors and medical and academic libraries." –AIDS Book Review Journal How do relationships with friends, family, and couples change with the presence of chronic illness or disability? Adults face new relationship challenges when acquired health problems and disabilities begin to dominate their lives. Relationships in Chronic Illness and Disability explores the interpersonal issues that arise when relationships evolve under the challenges of chronic illness and disability. The authors provide a sensitive yet practical examination of three interactive relationship-illness processes: relationship change, supports and stressors, and relationship-focused coping. Interventions for nurturing close relationships under these difficult circumstances as well as issues of theory and method round out this much-needed volume. This volume from the Sage Series on Close Relationships adds to our understanding of illness-relationship processes and provides new information useful to professionals as well as researchers, students, and interns in social work, rehabilitation and occupationaltherapy, leisure studies and recreation, gerontology, psychology, nursing, and family studies. |
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Taxing Insurance Companies $51 This study is part of a series of Tax Policy Studies produced by the Fiscal Affairs Division of the OECD. It examines the difficult area of applying income taxation to the life and property and casualty insurance industries. Particularly in the case of life insurance, OECD countries have pursued a variety of methods to try to tax the income arising in insurance companies. This study analyses the policy and technical problems that arise in designing an effective means of income taxation. In addition to outlining the general approaches used by OECD countries in this area, the authors have drawn upon their extensive practical experience in designing a tax system for the insurance industry in their home country. Based on this experience, they have addressed the major policy questions faced by tax policy-makers in this area and included a critical analysis of the various technical issues which arise in turning theory into practice. |
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Work and Illness: The Cancer Patient $34.48 Is the cancer patient an object of job discrimination? Are the discriminatory claims of AIDS patients and patients of other chronic diseases accurate? According to this book the question is a moot one for its occurrence is an inevitable consequence of our social system and the characteristics of the disease. Work and Illness starts with the premise that work is a principle determinant in the quality of one’s life particularly in the presence of a chronic illness. This book forcefully concludes that the study of the impact of chronic diseases on the labor market is not only a legitimate economic study but a social imperative to action. Ivan Barofsky, who in his position at the National Cancer Institute has focused on the quality of life of the cancer patient for the last ten years, takes the first step in this process. He has compiled the best available text on what is becoming a major social concern. The book, divided into two major sections, first provides an in-depth review of the available data on the work history of the cancer patient. The second section provides specific recommendations for future research and policy issues. In addition, the book discusses: work and insurance experiences of the cancer patient; the failure of the NCI sponsored Work-able Project; research agenda; policy objectives. |
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Malingering and Illness Deception $150.48 Despite a rich and turbulent history spanning several centuries, malingering continues to be a controversial and neglected clinical condition that has significant implications for medical, social, legal and insurance interests. Estimates of malingering – the wilful, intentional attempt to simulate or exaggerate illness in the pursuit of a consciously desired end – vary greatly, despite the fact that malingering is believed to contribute substantially to fraudulent health care and social welfare costs. There is little consensus about what would constitute a coherent assessment of malingering, and base rates have been difficult to establish. Malingering remains a difficult attribution to make not least since it falls outside the remit of the formal psychiatric classifications. Labelling a person as a malingerer however, has significant medico-legal, personal and economic ramifications for both subject and accuser. Viewed in this way, malingering is not so much illness behavior in search of a disease, as the manifestation of a conflict between personal and social values. The aim of this book is to effect an integration of the different medical, forensic, neuropsychological, legal and social perspectives. The book provides an overview of progress in disparate fields relevant to the subject, including how recent social and neuroscience findings regarding volition, intentional states and theory of mind may have implications for informing detection, management and ultimately its explanation. |
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Embodiment: Clinical, Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness $57.98 "Embodiment "illustrates how we are now in an age of "body plasticity"; our body boundaries are increasingly ambiguous, allowing more "degrees of freedom" and offering more opportunities than ever before to overcome physical limitations. The book draws on research from diverse areas including health and clinical psychology, neuroscience, medicine, anthropology, and sociology.. . . |
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Acute Illness Management $21.99 The prospect of caring for acutely ill patients has the potential to overwhelm students and newly qualified health professionals, with many reporting feelings of stress, fear and inexperience. In this context, Acute Illness Management arrives as an important and much needed text covering the fundamental aspects of care in the hospital setting. This book is designed to address the student’s needs by equipping them with a practical understanding of the essential skills ranging from resuscitation to early intervention and to trauma care. It explains the rationale behind the key protocols of care highlighting the relationship between theory and practice. Key features include: -Up-to-date legal and ethical content -Tips for analysing care decisions in a critical and effective manner, and -Reflective activities and self-assessment questions to cement learning. Acute Illness Management is an invaluable resource for students and qualified practitioners in nursing and other health professions. |
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Life Insurance in India $31.67 Life Insurance in India: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategic Perspective by Dr Sadhak is a pioneering work on Indian Life Insurance Industry with a new perspective. The book is a culmination result of research and practical experience for a number of years by an internationally acknowledged fi nancial economist and practicing manager with proactive and visionary thoughts. The book has been written in the context of Globalization, Economic Reforms and Liberalization of Indian insurance and capital markets and overall fi nancial sectors. The scope and dynamics of growth of Indian Life Insurance Industry has been discussed in the light of changes in macro economic environment, demographic transition, changing market structure, changing product–market relationship, emerging convergence in fi nancial markets, etc. Dr Sadhak has also focussed on certain critical issues like Strategic Planning and Market Research, Change in Management Systems dealing with distribution and customers expectation with futuristic perspectives which, I think, would provide immensely helpful guidance to the practicing managers. Tarun Das,. ADB Adviser, Fiscal Management and Strategic Planning,. Ministry of Finance, Government of Mongolia; Former. Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance and Planning. Commission, Government of India. This first-of-its-kind book reflects on life insurance in the current context of globalization and economic reforms and traces the interdependence of life insurance and macro-economic factors. It focuses on structural change, market potential and emerging challenges for the Indian Life Insurance industry and also covers the global life insurance industry, regulatory regime, and market friendly practices abroad. Thus it provides a powerful insight into emerging trends in the Life Insurance industry as a whole. Life Insurance in India: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategic Perspective presents a detailed analysis of several strategic and managerial issues such as product–market relationship, distribution, marketing strategies and funds management, and focuses specially on the changing contours of risk management in life insurance. Primary concerns for the post-liberalized industry like structural changes in economy and financial sectors, information explosion, need for competitive management efficiency, etc., have been discussed with suggestive guidelines. A supplement on analysis of macro economic indicators and their impact on stock market investment make this book a ready manual for any practicing manager. Apart from the general reader, it will also be very useful for regulators and students of Insurance Management and training programmes of Life Insurance companies. |
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Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development $19.99 Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection against the costs of illness, household income smoothing, access to care, and market productivity. This volume is the third in a series of in-depth reviews of the role of health care financing in providing access for low-income populations to needed halthcare, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the important issues of social exclusion in government financed programs. |
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Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness $20 Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation’s jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s, which led to more patients living on their own, as the reason for this high rate of incarceration. But this explanation does not justify why our society has chosen to treat these people with punitive measures. In Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness, Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson explore how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped current policies and they identify the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. Drawing on high-profile cases, the authors provide a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, sex offenders, psychologically disturbed juveniles, the injury and death rates of mentally ill prisoners due to the inappropriate use of force, the high level of suicide, and the release of mentally ill individuals from jails and prisons who have received little or no treatment. |
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Bank and Insurance Capital Management $70 In the aftermath of the financial crisis, capital management has become a critical factor in value creation for banks and other financial institutions. Although complex and subject to regulatory change, the strategic importance of capital management became apparent during the crisis and has moved the subject to the top of corporate agendas. Bank and Insurance Capital Management is an essential guide to help banks and insurance companies understand and manage their capital position. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it provides proven techniques for managing bank capital, as well as explaining key capital management perspectives, including accounting, regulatory, risk and capital management and corporate finance. It also shows how to analyze a firm’s stakeholders such as depositors, policy holders, debt holders and shareholders, and manage their expectations, and how to align risk and capital management so as to best optimize the return on capital and preserve capital in periods of stress. Economic capital is also discussed in depth, as are the practicalities of bank and insurance M&A, and the book also shows how financial innovations can be used to optimise the capital position and how diversification effects are reflected in the capital position. This book will arm readers with the knowledge and skills needed to understand how capital management can improve capital structure and performance, achieving an optimal cost of, and return on capital, creating value as a result. |
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Critical Care $8.49 CRITICAL CARE, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader, focuses on a young medical doctor, Werner Ernst, who rebels against the hospital that employs him when he realizes that the doctors favor wealthy patients and those with generous medical insurance. |
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Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office $21.38 Keep current with all the latest changes with this complete resource! Trusted by medical insurance instructors and billers for more than 30 years, Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office helps you excel at all aspects of insurance billing for a full range of today’s health care plans. In full color, this edition includes all the new regulations, such as the latest information on HIPAA, diagnostic coding, procedural coding, bill collection strategies, and Medicare.Meticulously reviewed by a panel of industry experts. Emphasis on the business of running a medical office highlights the importance of the medical insurance specialist’s role in filing clean claims, solving problems, and collecting overdue payments. Key terms are bolded at first mention, explained within the context of the discussion, and defined in the glossary. Key points summarize important chapter content. Block-by-block explanations and examples demonstrate the correct way to complete the CMS-1500 claim form. Completed sample insurance forms apply concepts to real life. Unique payer icons clarify CMS claim form completion. Form icons and Computer icons ease the transition from paper to electronic filing. Special HIPAA Alerts ensure compliance with governmental privacy regulations. Guidelines for the filing and submission of electronic claims include the do’s and don’ts for the electronic environment. Service to Patient features discuss ways to provide quality service to the patient as well as to your co-workers. A documentation chapter covers the principles of documentation and shows how proper documentation can prevent penalties and refund requests, and help you prove compliance in the case of an audit or review. An Evolve website includes supplemental Medisoft activities, self-assessment quizzes, updates of content, and web links for further research and study. A workbook contains learning tips, review exercises, cases, and critical thinking activities for hands-on experience with real-world cases. (Available separately.) Updated learning objectives correlate directly to the text, making it easier to study and to measure your progress.New CMS-1500 form filler software on Evolve provides additional exercises for hands-on practice. |
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Global Marketplace For Private Health Insurance: Strength In Numbers $20.79 Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups – will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries. This review explores the context under which private voluntary health insurance could contribute to an improvement in the sustainability of the health sector and financial protection in other countries. |
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Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance: Strength in Numbers $49.48 Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries. This review explores the context under which private voluntary health insurance could contribute to an improvement in the sustainability of the health sector and financial protection in other countries. |
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One Illness Away $45 Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. Drawing upon personal interviews with 35,000 households in different parts of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and the United States, it takes you on an illustrative journey, filled with facts, analyses, and the life stories of people who fell into abject poverty and others who managed to escape their seemingly predetermined fates. Letting a farmhand's son ordaughter remain a farmhand, even though she or he is potentially the next Einstein, is a tragedy that poor people witness time after time. Remedying this situation is crucial for making poverty history. This book addresses how equal opportunity can be promoted and how slum-born millionaires can arisein reality. Speaking to Barack Obama's message for more effective health care, One Illness Away feeds directly into current public debates. Learning from thousands of individual experiences, this book presents a clear agenda for action and provides more effective ways of keeping people out of micro poverty traps. |
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Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office [With CDROM] $3.98 WORKBOOK FOR INSURANCE HANDBOOK FOR THE MEDICAL OFFICE, 10th Edition is an essential learning resource that will enhance and improve your study of Fordney’s Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office. The workbook conveniently parallels material in the text, and provides realistic, hands-on exercises that help you apply concepts and develop important critical-thinking skills. An accompanying CD-ROM lets you practice "real world" billing with patient simulations using Altapoint and the Student Software Challenge. |
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Critical Psychiatry $68 Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical foundation for practice. This book describes an original framework for renewing mental health services in alliance with people with mental health problems. |
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Medical Complications of Psychiatric Illness $57 Intended for practitioners who treat adult medical patients, the book discusses recommendations for routine medical management and reproductive health to help ensure that psychiatrists address critical medical needs and make appropriate and timely referrals for their patients, and psychiatric disorders that most clearly can have medical complications. |
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Insurance Solutions-Plan Well, Live Better $24.95 When faced with long-term disability or chronic illness many people find the financial consequences as harrowing as the disease itself. Cooper shows that, with adequate planning, insurance should cover any and all disability-related costs. In fact by choosing the right insurance people can maximize their lifestyle and gain financial freedom. Readers will learn how to look at various insurance options – including life, disability, health, and long-term care, from a new perspective. They will discover that they do have options for reliable insurance and ultimately financial security. Cooper offers practical advice on finding insurance, evaluating its coverage, and avoiding pitfalls. Using a logical, workbook approach, this resource gives readers exercises, worksheets, and checklists to help them judge whether they are adequately prepared for dealing with disability-related costs. In a step-by-step manner they will learn how to: Catalog current illness-relevant insurance data.; Evaluate the comprehensiveness and quality of existing insurance products.; Improve their insurance plans She shows readers precisely how to foresee whether their present insurance plans will help them safeguard assets – even in the worst scenario. If readers find serious potential problems in their coverage, this excellent practical book offers concrete information for dealing with them to secure future financial goals. Packed with ideas and strategies, this handy guide will help readers find and purchase insurance that a typical insurance company might not make available to a disabled person. They will also find suggestions for obtaining insurance when traditional sources appear to closed. To assist readers with the language of insurance, the book contains glossary of terms. |
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Family Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness: $21.98 A closer look at your patient’s family situation can help you develop a more effective treatment planFamily Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness is a basic but thorough introduction to the impact family dynamics can have on a person’s health. Ideal as a supplemental training text for healthcare professionals, this unique book examines the connections between family and health, presenting a concise summary of family systems theory, basic family assessment, and the family life cycle. The book provides an understanding of how the patterns and systems found in a diverse range of family styles can create special health issues, and how the ability to assess and anticipate those issues can ensure the most comprehensive patient care and cost-effective management of time and resources.As long as families continue to be the primary environment where patients learn and develop their beliefs and overall attitudes about life, it remains essential that any primary healthcare model includes a strong background in family dynamics and the critical, pivotal points of family life. Family Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness addresses the most important aspects of family to consider when providing care, presenting practical, real-life case studies that examine the resilience, strengths, and possibilities of families, as well as the problems and dysfunctions. The book looks at how significant events, such as marriage, divorce, birth, and death affect families, and how a knowledge of special family issues, including parenting, abuse, disability, and chronic illness prepares the healthcare professional to provide effective care for traditional, single-parent, multiracial, blended, adoptive, and same-gender families.Family Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness examines: boundaries, roles, and rules triangulation subsystems scapegoating parentification healthy families the family genogram spiritual crises of family members infertility families without children intergenerational families the family in later life coping with alcoholism, dementia, bereavement, and/or mental illness and much moreFamily Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness is an essential reference for healthcare professionals, educators, parents, and family members. The book provides a practical understanding of family relationships that helps healthcare providers guide patients toward a more complete well-being. |
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Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing $127.5 "The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing" advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry. The editors provide a blueprint for guiding research and teaching agendas for the first quarter of the 21st century. In a series of essays, this volume offers a systematic view of the critical questions that face our understanding of the role of social forces in health, illness and healing. It also provides an overall theoretical framework and asks medical sociologists to consider the implications of taking on new directions and approaches. Such issues may include the importance of multiple levels of influences, the utility of dynamic, life course approaches, the role of culture, the impact of social networks, the importance of fundamental causes approaches, and the influences of state structures and policy making. |
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Policies and Perceptions of Insurance Law in the Twenty-First Century $88.98 This book offers a lively, critical introduction to the subject of insurance law, presenting the rules in both their legal and socio-economic contexts. It examines the growth of contemporary ‘compensation culture’ and assesses the culture’s impact on the development of insurance law and policy. Throughout, the presentation of the English law of insurance is placed in comparative perspective, with broader contract law and the law from the US, Europe and Australia. |
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Recovering from Mental Illness for Clients and Caregivers $14.48 Recovering from Mental Illness for Clients and Caregivers is a self-help book designed to assist those with mental illness as they progress away from disabling symptoms toward empowered recovery and remission of their illness. It is also designed to be empowering for family members and caregivers of those with mental illness. The preface contains the story of how the author progressed through the mental health system and used services and experience to work toward higher education and recovery. Chapters occur in the order of the most helpful information first. Topics and subheadings include aRemission and Recovery, a aRelapse and Hospitalization, a aLife After the Hospital and Basic Needs, a aObtaining Services, a aEducation, a aIdentity, a etc. The author uses critical-thinking exercises to help illustrate possible outcomes of pathological and healing experiences. The critical-thinking exercises consider more than one perspective. The uniqueness of this work is due to reflection on both sides of treatment boundaries: that of the client-self and the counselor-self. |
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A Delicate Balance: Living Successfully with Chronic Illness $17.48 Chronic physical illnesses-such as lupus, Sjogren’s syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, inflammatory bowel disorders, Lyme disease, interstitial cystitis, multiple sclerosis-take their toll on every aspect of a person’s life. Though millions of people manage to cook, care for children, or work despite their disability, they do so with fatigue, pain, and the grinding uncertainty of living with chronic illness.A thoughtful exploration of this experience, "A Delicate Balance" provides both up-to-date practical advice and inspiration for the millions of Americans who struggle daily against chronic illness. From locating a suitable health-care provider and making sense of the powerful emotions that accompany chronic illness, to seeking accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and applying for Social Security Disability Insurance, "A Delicate Balance" is informed by in-depth, personal interviews with patients, care providers, and family members. The result is a compassionate and immensely hopeful book for anyone touched by a chronic disease. |
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The Law and Practice of Marine Insurance: Deduced from a Critical Examination of the Adjudged Cases, the Nature and Analogies of t $40.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE. CONTENTS. Definition of Marine Insurance?Not merely a branch of municipal law?Con- ridered by the French jurist and by Blaclutone a part of the law of nations? In what sense this assertion is true?How far the laws and usages of other nations are to be received as authority?Remarks on a passage in the preliminary discourse of Mr. Marshall?Inquiry whether Marine Insurance was known to the Ancients?Silence of the Roman law not conclusive?Reply to the argument of Mr. Park relative to the limited extent of ancient commerce, and the paucity of the risks to which it was exposed?Presumption arising from the prevalence of Bottomry?Passages cited by Eraerigon from Livy and Suetonius as historical proof that Insurance was not unknown?His interpretation of these passages vindicated? Conclusion that the Roman government in the cases mentioned was the insurer in the strict sense of the term?Weakness of the objection that no premium was paid? Explanation of the silence of the Roman law?Insurance probably not a branch of general law, but merely a local usage?As such not meant to be superseded? Reasons why the contract of Bottomry regulated by the Digest and Insurance omitted?The Digest not meant to embrace a complete code of maritime law? Many important subjects in respect to which there must have been existing regulations omitted?Reasons that led to the omission may equally apply to Marine Insurance?Probable solution of the difficulty, that subjects omitted were embraced in the Rhodian laws, which were then in force?These laws not eitant? Collection published under that name spurious?Conclusion?The reasonable presumption that Insurance was known to the Romans has not hitherto been refuted. Marine Insurance is, in few words, a contract of indemnity against the per… |
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Health Insurance Today: A Practical Approach [With CDROM] $3.48 Master the skills you’ll need for professional success in health insurance billing with this essential practice tool Each chapter draws on material from the latest edition of Health Insurance Today: A Practical Approach to bring you the most practical, up-to-date preparation for the tasks you’ll encounter on the job. Comprehensive review questions, critical thinking exercises, and application-based activities help you reinforce what you’ve learned and gain valuable experience working with real-world scenarios. |
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Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, by Conrad, 7th Edition $28.6 This book is in Used condition |
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Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, by Weitz, 3rd Edition $23.24 This book is in Used condition |
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Health, Illness, and the Social Body: A Critical Sociology, by Freund, 4th Edition $59.72 This book is in Used condition |
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Social Insurance – A Program of Social Reform $35.48 AMEEICAN SOCIAL PROGRESS SERIES SOCIAL INSURANCE A PROGRAM OF SOCIAL REFORM BY HENRY ROGERS SEAGER PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY THE KENNEDY LECTUKES FOR 1910, IN THE SCHOOL OP PHILANTHROPY, CONDUCTED BY THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 AJU rights reserved COPTBIOHT, 1910, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and clectrotypcd. Published June, 1910. J. 8. Cashing Co. Berwick A Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U. S. A. PKEPACB THE chapters which follow reproduce, with slight modifications, six lectures delivered on the John Stuart Kennedy Foundation in New York in Feb ruary, 1910. Addressed to students of the School of Philanthropy, they treat of problems that in terest particularly workers among the poor. The policies which they advocate are new and untried only in the sense that they have not yet been intro duced in the United States. Most of them are in actual operation in other countries, and every year adds to the available information in regard to their tendencies and effects. It has seemed to me that the time was oppor tune for bringing these policies together into a constructive program of social reform. The evils to which they relate are of growing importance in the United States. If we can cope with them along the lines suggested, not only will much misery and suffering be averted, but the time, thought, and money that are now expended in trying to PREFACE relieve this misery and suffering will be available for other purposes. It was with the hope that they might contribute something toward this end that the lectures were first conceived, and in the same hope they are now offered to a larger public, NEW YORK, March,1910. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGB I. THE COMMON WELFARE …. 1 II. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS, ILLNESS, AND PRE MATURE DEATH PREVENTION . . 24 III. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS, ILLNESS, AND PRE MATURE DEATH COMPENSATION . . 53 IV. UNEMPLOYMENT CAUSES AND REMEDIES . 84 V. PROVISION FOR OLD AGE . . . .115 VI. NEXT STEPS IN SOCIAL ADVANCE 1 . . 146 SOCIAL INSURANCE CHAPTER I THE COMMON WELFARE AMONG the many characteristics which foreign observers have ascribed to Americans are two about which there has been little difference of opinion. We are good-natured, and we are indi vidualists. Sermons have been preached against our good nature, so I need not dwell upon it. Much more important is our individualism, our absorp tion in individual interests and our reluctance to undertake things in combination with our neighbors or through the government. That individualism is an American characteristic is proved by a number of familiar facts. Thus, the phrase, social re form, w r hich, in other countries, suggests compre hensive plans of state action, is still usually associated in the United States with the welfare departments of private corporations, privately endowed schools of philanthropy, or such splendid examples of private beneficence as the Russell Sage in SOCIAL INSURANCE Foundation. Aga |
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Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care, 3rd Edition $89.99 The medical sociology course looks at the distribution of health and illness, the nature of the health care system, the roles of mainstream and alternative health care providers, and the experiences of those who live with illness or disability. Rose Weitz adds to this traditional subject matter a critical approach which emphasizes the effects of power, such as how gender, ethnicity, and social class affect individuals’ experiences of health and illness and how social forces create illness and affect our ideas about the nature of illness. This text concentrates on health within the United States, but also looks at health care issues globally in order to provide a perspective to the American experience. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of sociology of health, including both micro- and macro-level topics. It emphasizes the sociological issues far more than the other available textbooks. The book is highly readable, and grabs students attention in a way that is rare for a textbook. It has been thoroughly updated; more than 40 percent of the references were published in the last five years. |
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Illness as Metaphor $9.9 Illness as Metaphor |
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Chronic Illness $117.76 Chronic Illness |
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The Etiquette of Illness $12.19 The Etiquette of Illness |
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Anatomy of an Illness $10.6 Anatomy of an Illness |
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The Insurance Cyclopeadia $34.11 The Insurance Cyclopeadia |
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Insurance Adjuster $25.74 Insurance Adjuster |
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Insurance Dictionary $11.65 Insurance Dictionary |
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Health Insurance Today: A Practical Approach $63.56 Learn to complete and submit clean claim forms for major insurance carriers. Health Insurance Today, 3rd Edition, provides case studies for each of the chapters covering these major payers so you can learn how to abstract the information from the patient’s chart to complete the CMS-1500. You will learn to complete and submit paper claims, but the emphasis is on electronic claims filing, keeping you up-to-date on HIPAA, electronic health records, and the latest industry standards. Select exercises on the companion Evolve Resource site let you gain experience entering information into a practice management program; producing an electronic CMS-1500; and submitting a claim electronically. Learning objectives makes learning easier and more meaningful Direct, conversational writing style makes reading and absorbing the material more enjoyable “What Did You Learn?” review questions ensure that you understand the material already covered, before progressing to the next section. “Imagine This!” scenarios help you apply information from the book to real-life situations “Stop and Think” exercises let you apply critical thinking skills to solve a problem or answer a question. HIPAA Tips help you understand this very important piece of legislation. Activities on the Evolve site give you hands-on practice electronically completing a claim form as efficiently as possible. More content on electronic medical records to reflect the future of record-keeping Thoroughly updated chapters include more in-depth information and guidelines on achieving and succeeding in a health insurance career Revised information covering the latest Medicare updates keeps you in-step with the latest Medicare practices Chapters include more content on ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and updates to the CPT and HCPCS so you know all the latest information in the field Medisoft Activities on the Evolve Learning Resource site help to reinforce information and provide additional opportunities for practice |
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National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada $26.95 After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insuranceùor no insuranceùfor everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each countryùthe politics of race in the U.S. and territorial politics in Canada, especially the tensions between the national government and the province of Quebec.In addition to the politics of race and territory, Boychuk sifts through the numerous factors shaping health policy, including national values, political culture and institutions, the power of special interests, and the impact of strategic choices made at critical junctures. Drawing on historical archives, oral histories, and public opinion data, he presents a nuanced and thoughtful analysis of the evolution of the two systems, compares them as they exist today, and reflects on how each is poised to meet the challenges of the future. |
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Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy $3.48 During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness–even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities. Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost, has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such a priority in the financing of health services. The increasing burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve this problem without increasing the already high cost of health care–but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant or marginally effective. There could be no more timely subject today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made at government levels, he has extensively researched published and unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could profoundly affect all Americans. |
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A Critical Wound $7.79 This book has been written for the millions of those, both young and old, who are afflicted with or deal with a loved one who has fallen victim to an eating disorder, but continue to hide their pain. Written in novel form it is intended to be a fascinating, yet frightening story of four individuals, as they go through their day to day lives, trying to deal with their illness. Knowing that what they are doing is wrong, but initially afraid to get the help they so desperately need. Eating Disorders are never cured, only controlled and so many people have the wrong idea or stereotype of those afflicted. They are not bad kids or adults, just trying to get attention, it is so much more than that. Eating Disorders are valid illnesses. Whether one is under or overweight, it could be due to any number of things. Sexual and emotional abuse is among the top five, as well as drug and exercise abuse and of course peer pressure. The psyche allows us to believe that weight is one thing we can have absolute control over and thus victims pride themselves in acquiring that control. Victims and their families, must be educated, to help identify a problem that is starting or exists and in seeking help before it goes beyond critical to a fatal wound. |
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Assessment of Parenting Competency in Mothers with Mental Illness $29.48 The stakes are undeniably high when it comes to deciding whether a mother with mental illness can raise her child in a safe, nurturing environment. Now, mental health professionals will have sound assessment strategies that fairly evaluate the parenting competency of mothers with a wide range of mental illnesses. Going beyond measuring only the mother’s degree of mental illness, the safety of the environment, or the rate of child development, this groundbreaking resource integrates multiple approaches so that professionals get the full picture of parenting competency. Mental health professionals will – assess with confidence–this program is backed by more than 10 years of refinement and testing – enhance every part of their parenting evaluation process, including home visits, sharing results with the family, and testifying in court – discover the eight critical principles for ensuring that an assessment is sound – learn about available assessment instruments and get guidance on when to use each – limit bias by recognizing factors that can influence assessment results – get keen insight into life with mental illness through the compelling stories of mothers and children |
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How Do Families Cope with Chronic Illness? $5.98 Because chronic disorder is becoming an ordinary feature of family life and development, understanding its impact has become critical. This volume, and the conference proceedings it reports, represents a major effort to examine the family’s response to chronic physical or psychopathological illness in one or more of its members. Recent data are revising our notions of chronic illness. Evidence is mounting that chronic psychiatric disorders reflect, in part, abnormalities of brain structure and function. In this sense, they are, in part, medical disorders. On the other hand, a number of traditionally labeled medical disorders produce a broad range of psychological symptoms and are exquisitely sensitive to psychosocial influences. Families undergo a complex process of adaptation during which their response to stress and their fundamental beliefs about learning and parenting change. These beliefs endure and are difficult to alter. By examining the processes in a wide range of chronic conditions, this volume helps to identify the common, underlying processes of adaptation. The first three chapters concern the families’ responses to disorders that are distinctly medical; the next three focus on families’ responses to "grey zone" disorders or anomalies that appear early in life, minor physical anomalies, and communication handicaps; and one chapter focuses exclusively on schizophrenia. The last chapter reflects an effort to develop a model based on the experience of researchers with both psychiatric and medical illness. |
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Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology $29 The popular and critically acclaimed teaching tool – movies as an aid to learning about mental illness – has just got even better! Now with even more practical features and expanded contents: full film index, ‘Authors’ Picks’, sample syllabus, and more international films. Films are a powerful medium for teaching students of psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, and even literature or media studies about mental illness and psychopathology. “Movies and Mental Illness”, now available in an updated edition, has established a great reputation as an enjoyable and highly memorable supplementary teaching tool for abnormal psychology classes. Written by experienced clinicians and teachers, who are themselves movie aficionados, this book is superb not just for psychology or media studies classes, but also for anyone interested in the portrayal of mental health issues in movies. The core clinical chapters of “Movies and Mental Illness” each use a fabricated case history and Mini-Mental State Examination along with synopses and scenes from one or two specific, often well-known films to explain, teach, and encourage discussion about the most important disorders encountered in clinical practice. Each chapter also includes: Critical Thinking Questions (to consider when viewing the core movie/s); “Authors’ Picks” (Top 10 Films); ‘What To Read if You Only Have Time to Read One Book/Paper’; and, suggested topics for class discussions. Other features of the new, expanded edition include: Full index of films; Sample course syllabus; Ratings of more than 1,250 films (expanded by 25 per cent!); and, other fascinating appendices, such as ‘Top 50 Heroes and Villains’, psychotherapists in movies, misconceptions about mental illness in movies, and recommended websites. |
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Study Guide for The Human Body in Health and Illness $17.73 Corresponding to the chapters in The Human Body in Health and Illness, 4th Edition, by Barbara Herlihy, this study guide offers fun and practical exercises to help you review, understand, and remember basic A&P. Even if you find science intimidating, this book can help you succeed.Textbook page references are included with the questions to make information easy to find.Each chapter includes three parts:Mastering the Basics with matching, ordering, labeling, diagram reading, and coloring exercisesPutting It All Together including multiple-choice quizzes and case studiesChallenge Yourself! with critical thinking questions and puzzles |
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The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness $7.98 In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one. Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a socially stigmatized illness; the frustration of navigating the complex network of bureaucracies that govern the mental health system; and most of all, the difficulty negotiating an "appropriate" level of involvement with the mentally ill loved one while maintaining enough distance for personal health. Throughout, Karp sensitively explores the overarching question of how people strike equilibrium between reason and emotion, between head and heart, when caring for a catastrophically ill person. The book concludes with a critical look at what it means to be a moral and caring person at the turn of the century in America, when powerful cultural messages spell out two contradictory imperatives: pursue personal fulfillment at any cost and care for the family at any cost. An insightful, deeply caring look at mental illness and at the larger picture of contemporary values, The Burden of Sympathy is required reading for caregivers of all kinds, and for anyone seeking broader understanding of human responsibility in the postmodern world. |
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Endocrinology of Critical Disease $32.98 Expert clinicians comprehensively review the endocrine and metabolic responses to critical illness, explore the mechanisms and outcomes (positive and negative) of those responses to severe stress, and consider possible endocrine interactions that are not yet fully defined. The contributors explain in detail the endocrine response to a multitude of critical illnesses, including cancer, liver failure, renal failure, trauma, burns, AIDS and other infections, starvation, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, and organ transplants. The book offers significant basic knowledge of high clinical relevance by collating and defining the numerous interactions of the endocrine system and critical disease states, by discussing the basic pathophysiological processes involved, and by reviewing the clinical relevance of such responses. |
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Critical Care in Childbearing for Midwives $65.48 Critical Care in Childbearing for Midwives is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide surrounding the support, care and management of critically ill women in childbearing specifically written for midwives. Many women who have higher-risk pregnancies, complications or medical conditions require specialist obstetric or multidisciplinary care. Increasingly women, whose condition deteriorates and becomes critical during childbirth, are being cared for by midwives in obstetric high dependency units within the labour ward, rather than being cared for by nurses in ITU. Critical Care in Childbearing for Midwives explores all aspects of management, support and care of childbearing women who become critically ill due to pre-existing conditions or who develop critical illness as a result of complications of childbearing. It examines predisposing factors which result in the need for critical care, addresses specialist monitoring technology and skills, and explores autonomous practice and team approaches to providing care for critically ill women in childbearing. |
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Social Insurance and Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the Campaign Against Entitlements $66.48 " W]e must tell the story of how social insurance programs have assured basic economic and health security for millions of Americans .This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about these goals." -From the Foreword by Barbara Kennelly President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare This politically charged, provocative text serves as an introduction to social insurance programs, examining all aspects of these hotly debated policies. The editors cover cutting-edge topics, including Social Security and privatization, universal health insurance, and how America’s changing demographics will impact social security in the years to come. Five key sections cover the critical topics: Social Insurance: History, Politics, and Prospects examines the foundational social insurance principles upon which Social Security, Medicare, and other programs are based What’s at Stake identifies the risks posed to women, minorities, and the elderly if they could no longer depend on social insurance programs The Ongoing Debates on Social Insurance discusses public opinions of social insurance programs, and responds to arguments supporting privatization Critical Perspectives on Social Insurance Reform presents international experiences and policy trends, and analyzes reform movements from a social justice perspective Teaching Social Insurance: Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice presents pedagogical strategies to help students understand, influence, and engage in an informed debate about social policy |
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This Is Critical $6 This Is Critical – Critical Bill |
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Advanced Practice in Critical Care $33.99 Advanced Practice in Critical Care provides experienced critical care nurses with a clear and distinct evidence base for contemporary critical care practice. Central to the book is the application of research and evidence to practice and therefore, case studies and key critical care clinical situations are used throughout to guide the reader through the patient care trajectory. Each chapter introduces an initial patient scenario and as the chapter progresses, the patient scenario develops with the theoretical perspectives and application. In this way, it is evident how multi-organ dysfunction develops, impacting upon and influencing other body systems, demonstrating the multi-organ impact that is often experienced by the critically ill patient. In this way, consequences of critical illness such as acute renal failure, haemostatic failure and liver dysfunction are explored. Throughout the text, key research findings and critical care treatment strategies are referred to, applied and evaluated in the context of the given patient case study. Advanced assessment techniques are explained and the underlying pathophysiology is discussed in depth. Advanced Practice in Critical Care is an essential resource for experienced practitioners within critical care whom primarily care for patients requiring high dependency or intensive care. |
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From Few to Many: Ten Years of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia $28.48 In the 1990s the nation of Colombia introduced mandatory health insurance, with the goals of improving access to care and protecting the population from impoverishing and inefficient spending as well as the hardships of illness and care-seeking. Financed through a combination of payroll contributions and general taxation, this comprehensive plan included a contributory regime for those able to pay and a fully subsidized regime for the extremely poor. From Few to Many presents the results and lessons drawn from a decade of reform implementation. The authors examine changes in the financing and delivery of health care; the impact of insurance on financial protection, equity, access, and utilization of care; and the regulatory framework accompanying reform. |
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The Insurance Company $6 The Insurance Company – Isaac Hayes |
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Critical Thinking For Medical Assistants, Online Video Series, Program 5: Insurance and Coding; Individual access, 1st Edition $7.49 This six program DVD series is now available online! With a focus on critical thinking skills, such as how to properly respond to realistic but difficult workplace situations, and the soft skills such as communication and patient education, learners will seek to utilize this and the Delmar’s Skill and Procedures DVD series and eVideos to ensure that they are covering the “procedural/show me” approach and the “critical thinking/analytical” approach to working as a medical assistant in the medical office. |
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Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families Into Caregivers $19.98 Combining powerful personal stories with astute analysis and recommendations, "Always on Call" reveals the hidden struggles of the more than 25 million family caregivers in the United States. While family members have always provided care for one another, recent changes in health care have placed tremendous new responsibilities on themaresponsibilities that, only a decade ago, were a routine part of hospital care. The prevalence of chronic rather than acute illness, trends toward shorter hospital stays, increased outpatient care, and limited insurance benefits for in-home care now leave family caregiving as the only option for many Americans. This book, first published in 2000 and now substantially updated, presents an intimate look at the world of family caregiving. The compelling narratives by caregivers capture the intensity of the caregiving experience, while chapters by noted health care professionals, many of whom speak of their own experiences, analyze the impact of caregiving, urge more professional advocacy on behalf of caregivers, and offer insightful suggestions for building partnerships for change and fostering improvement. This second edition includes: – caregiving as a workplace dilemma – the added burdens of end-of-life caregiving – clinician-family conflicts (and new approaches for resolving them) – new federal and state policy initiatives – resources for families and professionals – a new section on innovative caregiving programs – new chapter on the financial impact of caregiving Designed for family caregivers, health professionals, administrators, pastoral care providers, policymakers, patient and caregiver advocates, and human resource professionals, "Always on Call" is an essential book for understanding the current realities of family caregiving. Equally important, it builds a compelling case for change. A United Hospital Fund Book |
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Insurance $104.5 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Critical Health Psychology $46.48 This book provides an introduction to key theoretical and methodological issues in developing a critical health psychology. It considers alternatives to the positivist assumptions underlying traditional health psychology, and proposes a reconstructed discipline that on the one hand delves into the experience of health and illness, and on the other engages with the social and political aspects of the subject. Containing carefully edited contributions from key thinkers in the field, it provides a coherent critique of mainstream health psychology. |
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Habermas, Critical Theory and Health $59.98 The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism. This book provides an accessible introduction to his work and shows how his theories can be fruitfully applied to a wide range of topics in the sociology of health and illness including: * lay health knowledge * doctor-patient interaction * health care decision-making * health inequalities * new social movements in health * health care rationing * the Foucault perspective. Habermas, Critical Theory and Health will open up both new issues and new lines of empirical enquiry which will be of special interest to teachers and students of social theory and the sociology of health and illness and offers healthcare professionals new perspectives on their practice. |
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Critical Care Nursing DeMYSTiFieD $30 A fun, streamlined way to learn the major concepts and theories of critical care nursing – and how to apply them to real-world patient situations. Whether you’re a professional nurse who wants to transition into critical care nursing or a student seeking to excel in your advanced studies, Critical Care Nursing Demystified is the book you need to quickly and easily understand the key concepts and advanced trends of this specialty. In order to make the learning process as quick and effective as possible, each chapter contains lesson objectives, key terms, NCLEX®-style Q&A, and vignettes of nursing situations you’re likely to encounter in the workplace. You’ll also find a comprehensive final exam and coverage that includes overviews of basic anatomy and physiology of target organ systems, detailed health assessments using the body systems approach, diagnostic studies utilized to confirm an illness, common critical procedures performed, current medications used in the treatment of the critical care patient, and implementation of the nursing process to identify and solve patient concerns. Learn how to care for patients with: Critical respiratory needs; Critical cardiac and vascular needs; Critical cardiac rhythm disturbance needs; Neurological needs; Endocrine disorders; Critical renal needs; Critical hematologic needs; Trauma. Simple enough for students but challenging enough for professional nurses considering a switch from their current field to this specialty, Critical Care Nursing Demystified is the book you need to make your transition or entry into the field as smooth and painless as possible. |
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Virtual Medical Office for Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office $3.98 Gain realistic experience in a physician’s office without leaving the classroom By using Elsevier’s Virtual Medical Office learning system – an Elsevier textbook, a study guide, and interactive software – students will develop critical thinking and decision-making skills they’ll need on the job. Each study guide lesson directs the student through the textbook and software and presents exercises offering practice in coding procedures and diagnoses, filing insurance claims, troubleshooting rejected claims, catching common coding errors, evaluating the office’s compliance with HIPAA, keeping the policy manual up to date, and much more. These exercises – in combination with a simulated medical practice – bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world. Money-saving package with the textbook is also available. Search ISBN 1-4160-3037-9. |
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J.K. Lasser’s Choosing the Right Long-Term Care Insurance $20.99 A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE COMPLICATED ISSUE OF LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE “Next to buying the right long-term care insurance, buying and reading J.K. Lasser’s Choosing the Right Long-Term Care Insurance is the best investment seniors and their families can make to help insure independence and dignity in their golden years.” -Scott Harshbarger, President and CEO, Common Cause “An indispensable book for all those concerned that the cost of health care will rob their old age of dignity and independence. The author, Ben Lipson, an articulate advocate of patient rights and an authority on health insurance, provides a lucid road map in a terrain mined with hokum.” -Bernard Lown, MD, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize “Long-term care insurance is a much-needed and valuable insurance concept, marketed in a maze filled with smoke and mirrors. Most of what passes for consumer guidance is just general information and superficial advice. But Ben Lipson’s book takes you by the hand, leads you through the insurance labyrinth, and shines a much-needed light on the product.” -Charlie Sabatino, President, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Critical coverage will help you: * Decide whether you are among the 40 percent of people who do not need to buy long-term care insurance * Receive the benefits you purchased when you have to make a claim * Distinguish between fact and fiction during a sales pitch J.K. Lasser–Practical Guides for All Your Financial Needs Please visit our Web site at www.jklasser.com |
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A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader $32.48 Essays on literature and life from the activist and scholar Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American scholarship as well as a widely read chronicler of the African American gay experience. His novels Trouble the Water and Vanishing Rooms still receive considerable attention, as do his collections of poetry and his major work of criticism, Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature. In A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader, scholars Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride have collected, for the first time in a single volume, the eight critical essays Dixon published during his lifetime. The volume divides Dixon’s critical output into three categories-"Writing Black Diaspora Theory," "Writing African American Cultural Theory," and "Writing African American Literary Criticism"-and closes with a speech Dixon gave to the queer writers’ conference, OutWrite, in 1992, just months before he succumbed to an AIDS-related illness. What emerges from the essays collected here is the voice of a confident, engaging scholar, who tackles a wide range of literary and cultural topics. Dixon examines the trickster characters of Charles W. Chesnutt, the friendship between the Haitian novelist Jacques Roumain and Langston Hughes, and the aesthetic importance of black speech in the novels of Gayl Jones. His address to OutWrite serves as a poignant record of Dixon’s knack to wax elegiac and poetic and to synthesize criticism, activism, and art. The introduction places Dixon in the contexts of African American cultural history and gay/lesbian critical discourse. Justin A. Joyce is a doctoral candidate in the department of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Dwight A. McBride is Leon Forrest Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in America and Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. |
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Workbook to Accompany Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement $3.98 The restructured chapter content of the workbook offers application-based assignments with more critical thinking components. The assignments require learners to demonstrate an understanding of the content rather than simple recall of facts. Chapter 1 provides guidelines for professional development as well as initiating a job search, with numerous resources identified. Chapters 2-17 offer an in-depth review of health insurance billing and reimbursement concepts. |
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Study Guide for the Human Body in Health and Illness $3.48 Each chapter includes three parts: Part I, Mastering the Basics, with matching, labeling, and coloring exercises; Part II, Putting It All Together, containing multiple-choice practice quizzes, completion exercises, and case studies; and Part III, Challenge Yourself which has critical thinking questions. Textbook page references are included with the questions so information can be easily accessed. |
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Outlines & Highlights for Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach by Rose Weitz, ISBN: 9780495598879 $38.48 Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. |
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A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era $13.98 Critical illness is a fact of life. Even those of us who enjoy decades of good health are touched by it eventually, either in our own lives or in those of our loved ones. And when this happens, we grapple with serious and often confusing choices about how best to live with our afflictions. "A Life Worth Living "is a book for people facing these difficult decisions. Dr. Robert Martensen draws on decades of experience with patients and friends to explore the life cycle of serious illness. He connects personal stories with reflections on mortality, human agency, and the value of cutting-edge technology in caring for the critically ill. Timely questions emerge: To what extent should efforts to extend human life be made? What is the value of nontraditional medical treatment? How has the American healthcare system affected treatment of the critically ill? And finally, what are our doctors’ responsibilities to us as patients, and where do those responsibilities end? Using poignant case studies, Martensen demonstrates how we and our loved ones can maintain dignity and resilience in the face of life’s most daunting circumstances. |
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The Microeconomics of Insurance $110.48 The Microeconomics of Insurance presents the core elements of the microeconomic analysis of insurance markets. The aim of this analysis is to understand how insurance markets work, their fundamental economic functions, and how efficiently insurance markets perform. Topics include the variables influencing the demand for insurance, the supply of insurance, premium setting, regulation of insurance markets, adverse selection and moral hazard. It is presented in a straightforward manner such that it is accessible to senior undergraduate and graduate economics students, insurance professionals, and researchers. |
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