Modern society faces the challenge of understanding and responding to complex health needs that go far beyond the physical aspects of illness. In an era when individual and social wellbeing is becoming a priority, the humanisation of medicine is revealing itself as...
The book focuses on the problem of cultural barriers to healthcare that arise as a result of globalisation and migration. The authors emphasise the importance of preparing healthcare staff to work with patients from different cultures and religions, who may have...
The monograph focuses on the importance of the spiritual dimension for a positive therapeutic process. It aims to make members of the medical staff involved in organising and providing patient care aware of the importance of spiritual care....
A pioneering doctor and health researcher tells the story of her perseverance and discovery. Anne McTiernan's memoir begins in 1982, shortly after she completed her PhD in public health research at the age of twenty-nine at...
Doctors deny patients access to medications related to hormonal contraception, and the issue is widely linked to feminism, biomedical ethics and applied ethics in general. Medical sexism claims that such practices violate a variety of legal standards and...
At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at boarding school. Overwhelmed with sadness at the neglect she experiences there, Anne starves herself emotionally and physically. A doctor, appalled by her excessive weight loss, forces Anne's mother to...
In Pain and Prejudice, acclaimed investigative journalist Gabrielle Jackson takes readers behind the scenes of doctors' offices, pharmaceutical companies and research labs to show that - at almost every level of healthcare - men's health claims are...
This harrowing and inspiring bestseller is the story of eight weeks in the life of a nurse in a large urban hospital. It's all here: joy and pain, death and drama, mistakes, successes and secrets. The Nurse reads like a novel, but lingers in the memory like a real...
All individuals, though different, have the same value: this is the author's relatively uncontroversial starting point. Her end point is not uncontroversial: the ideal of justice as human flourishing, based on the unique set of capacities of each...
Cancer, unlike many diseases, is not age-related; whether it is a young child of five, a young girl going to university, a pregnant mother or an old farmer, no one is spared. The emotional state of mind in the face of illness ...
Sex Matters addresses one of the most pressing but unspoken issues facing women's healthcare today: all models of research and medical practice are based on male-centred models that ignore the unique...
Modern medical technology is helping patients recover faster than ever before in history. However, the human interaction between patient and caregiver is still the basic foundation of treatment. 'I'm Here' is a personal narrative from the patient's perspective. Full of...
Nursing, medical control and the medical monopoly follow doctors' efforts to achieve a monopoly in healthcare, often by subjugating nurses - their only real competitors. Attempts to reform many aspects of care ...
This book asks whether women doctors are making a difference. Based on an extensive survey of GPs and specialists from Australia and the UK, the book evokes the culture of modern medicine by describing the experiences of the doctors themselves. Pringle applies...
The book is neatly divided into seven sections, each dealing with different aspects of healthcare in India. Apart from medicine, Dr Sen also discusses the psychology of patients and victims. The author deals with various diseases that people think they know about....