Published September, 2020
By Peter Nan-shong Lee
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Presenting a comprehensive examination of China's medical care system, this book tackles issues of policymaking, organization, management and financing in the context of the provision of affordable care in China. Making use of extensive field investigations, it examines the re-structuring of the medical care system, from 1979 to the present day.

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Published September, 2020
By John Davis
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The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously.

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Published September, 2020
By Katie Ellis
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As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number of internationally recognised texts and objects

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Published September, 2020
By Richard R. Nelson, Ronnie Ramlogan, Davide Consoli and Andrea Mina
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This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice.

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Published September, 2020
By Martin Marafioti
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Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a prophylactic tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. The texts examined include Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, which provides the framework

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Published September, 2020
By John Eyles and Jamie Baxter
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Offering the first comprehensive and cohesive summary of the input from social science to this field, this book focuses on how humans theorize their relationships to the environment with respect to health and how these ideas are mediated through an evaluation of risk and hazards. Bringing disparate literatures from across several disciplines togeth

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Published September, 2020
By Rachel Cooper and Emmanuel Tsekleves
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This book brings together a comprehensive knowledge base on how design and designers respond to different health challenges, as well discussing emerging trends and opportunities for designers and healthcare professionals.

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Published September, 2020
By Geoffrey Purves
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Explores the process of planning and designing buildings for frontline medical practice. Taking as a starting point the concept that good design contributes directly to healthy living, this book shows beneficial effects that a good design brief can bring to the staff, patients and visitors of health care facilities.

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Published September, 2020
By Elizabeth Brodersen
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Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally?

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Published September, 2020
By Emma Tseris
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This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women's rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry.

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