Health Care Delivery
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Seattle’s Medic One: How We Don’t Die
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1968, Dr. Leonard Cobb, along with Seattle fire chief Gordon Vickery, began to implement something new and daring: one of the country’s first pre-hospital coronary care systems. Along with Dr. Mich… [more below]
- Author: Rapport MD, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2019
- ISBN10: 146714360X
- Language: English
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The Origins of AIDS
$43.92 Add to cartIt is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zai… [more below]
- Author: P?pin, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1108720390
- Language: English
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To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation Volume 29
$24.93 Read moreDoctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health e… [more below]
- Series: California Public Anthropology #29
- Author: Farmer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0520321154
- Language: English
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When Someone You Love Has Dementia
$13.99 Add to cartDementia affects more than 700,000 people in the UK; Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 417,000 people in the UK and some four million in the USA. While dementia affect… [more below]
- Author: Elliot-Wright, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1847094031
- Language: English
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Gray’s Anatomy
$21.99 Add to cartThe famous, unconditionally guaranteed, durable paperback edition with high-quality paper and binding.
- Author: Gray, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1257
- Publish Date: May 22 1974
- ISBN10: 0914294083
- Language: English
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Parkinson’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
$20.00 Add to cartAn indispensable resource for patients, families, and caregivers
Filled with creative tips and techniques, this updated second edition of Parkinson’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier contains
- Series: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
- Author: Peterman Schwarz, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1932603530
- Language: English
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Prepared!: A Healthcare Guide for Aging Adults
$24.95 Add to cartPrepared! A Healthcare Guide for Aging Adults is written for anyone who is or has a senior parent, spouse, or loved one with changes in health. Being prepared before, during, and after entering the he
- Author: Field, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1960136305
- Language: English
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Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, Ninth Edition
$67.50 Add to cartThe simplest, most-readable guide to navigating health care delivery in the United States
One of the most popular resources of its kind, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach provides ever- Author: Bodenheimer, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1265905029
- Language: English
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Hospitals and Health: Your Orthomolecular Guide to a Shorter, Safer Hospital Stay
$18.95 Add to cartThis book looks at how hospital care got on the wrong track, from historical and economic perspectives. It then offers suggestions for minimizing the risks of a hospital stay and ways to improve your … [more below]
- Author: Hoffer, Abram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1591202604
- Language: English
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Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics
$4.99 Add to cartThe 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring pers
- Series: Brown Democracy Medal
- Author: Tronto, Joan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: October 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1501702742
- Language: English
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Aligned: How Patients, Physicians, and Employers Are Working Together to Transform Healthcare
$19.99 Add to cartWhen something health-related goes wrong, it typically impacts lives. It’s not a broken computer, stalled vehicle, or a large home repair; it’s a loved one’s well-being on the line. In the middle of t
- Author: Dickerson, Cristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1642257176
- Language: English
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Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care
$14.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence, Why We Revolt peels back the curtain to expose the corruption and negligence present in the modern American healthcare system-and how, with f
- Author: Montori, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1893005623
- Language: English
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Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
$21.99 Add to cartThirty years ago, the head of the drug company Merck made some remarkably candid comments about his distress that his company’s market was limited to sick people. Suggesting he would like Merck to be … [more below]
- Author: Moynihan, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 23 2006
- ISBN10: 156025856X
- Language: English
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare
$24.95 Add to cartHelp your team excel.
Go from being a good practitioner to being an extraordinary leader of healthcare professionals.
If you read nothing else on leadership, read these articles. We’ve combed through hu
- Series: HBR’s 10 Must Reads
- Author: Review, Harvard Business
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1633694321
- Language: English
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
$18.95 Add to cartBetween its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolu
- Author: Nelson, Alondra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0816676496
- Language: English
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A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Family Member, and Teacher Needs to Know
$42.95 Read moreAn accessible guide to the most recent information about autism
The revised and updated second edition of A Practical Guide to Autism offers an authoritative guide to the diagnosis, assessment, and tr
- Author: Volkmar, Fred R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1119685672
- Language: English
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Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto
$26.99 Read more“Merle Hoffman has always known that in a democracy, we each have decision-making power over the fate of our own bodies. She is a national hero for us all.” –Gloria Steinem
In the wake of the- Author: Hoffman, Merle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1510776796
- Language: English
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When Winter Came: A Country Doctor’s Journey to Fight the Flu Pandemic of 1918
$21.99 Add to cartMaintain isolation – practice good hygiene – wear a mask – be kind. We all know these methods of fighting COVID-19, but this prescription comes from the 1918 experience of Dr. Pierre Sartor, who battl… [more below]
- Author: Sartor Obermeyer, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1945564156
- Language: English
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How Medicine Works and When It Doesn’t: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
$29.00 Read moreBlending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician, researcher, and science communicator gives you the tools to avoid medical misinformation and take control of your health​
- Author: Wilson, F. Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538723603
- Language: English
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The Compassion Remedy: How to leverage the psychophysiology of compassion to beat burnout, renew relationships, and enjoy greater well-being
$19.99 Add to cartDoes compassion have a place in medicine?
Compassion has long been considered a “soft” skill in health care – nice to have, but ultimately unnecessary in a science-driven field. However, recent challe
- Author: Schweikert, Catherine W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1955811377
- Language: English
