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Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Renee R. Anspach
USA: University of California Press, 1993
In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal
intensive care units, Renée Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that
have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive
interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses,
and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns--be they premature,
terminally ill, or severely malformed--should be saved by medical technology, or
at least kept alive a little longer.



Power & Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses: Breaking Through the Inner Circle in
Clinical Care [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Maureen A. Coombs
New-York: Routledge, 2004, 148 с.
Through observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality
of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care settings. It
examines: the power held by the competing knowledge bases; the roles of the different
professions; the decision-making process; the sources of conflict; the need for change.
Drawing together sociological theories and clinical practice, Power and Conflict
Between Doctors and Nurses explores the role of nurses in delivering contemporary
health care. It makes a strong case for interdisciplinary working and is particularly
timely when health care policy is challenging work boundaries in health care.


Challenging medicine [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 25-03-2007
Ред.: Jonathan Gabe, David Kelleher, Gareth Williams
London: Routledge, 1994
Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly-developed drugs
and surgical techniques, it promises to relieve suffering, improve the quality of
life and extend the life-span. Conversely, it is expensive for the governments, insurance
companies and individuals who pay for it and sometimes appears to be insensitive
to the needs of those for whom it provides. And while recent restructuring of health
care delivery services has provided medical practitioners with new challenges, there
has been very little consideration of the range of pressures that they now face.
Challenging Medicine offers a lively appraisal of the current changes to the health
service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals.
It also provides original debate on the challenges posed from within medicine from
the nurses, managers, alternative practitioners and self-help groups and beyond to
the women's movement and the media.


Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Ред.: David Mechanic, Marian Osterweis, Arthur Kleinman
USA: National Academy Press, 1987
Pain--it is the most common complaint presented to physicians. Yet pain is subjective--it
cannot be measured directly and is difficult to validate. Evaluating claims based
on pain poses major problems for the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other
disability insurers. This volume covers the epidemiology and physiology of pain;
psychosocial contributions to pain and illness behavior; promising ways of assessing
and measuring chronic pain and dysfunction; clinical aspects of prevention, diagnosis,
treatment, and rehabilitation; and how the SSA's benefit structure and administrative
procedures may affect pain complaints.



Опубликовано на портале: 07-09-2006
Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare
system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety
of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying
sets of organizing principles.
This book examines the transformations that have occurred in medical care systems in the San Francisco Bay area since 1945. The authors describe these changes in detail and relate them to both the sociodemographic trends in the Bay Area and to shifts in regulatory systems and policy environments at local, state, and national levels. But this is more than a social history; the authors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives—including strategic management, population ecology, and institutional theory—to examine five types of healthcare organizations through quantitative data analysis and illustrative case studies.
This book examines the transformations that have occurred in medical care systems in the San Francisco Bay area since 1945. The authors describe these changes in detail and relate them to both the sociodemographic trends in the Bay Area and to shifts in regulatory systems and policy environments at local, state, and national levels. But this is more than a social history; the authors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives—including strategic management, population ecology, and institutional theory—to examine five types of healthcare organizations through quantitative data analysis and illustrative case studies.


Опубликовано на портале: 08-09-2006
The author examines the evolution of the practice and the culture of medicine in
the United States from the end of the colonial period into the last quarter of the
twentieth century. His major concerns are with the development of authority, and
the Janus image of professionalization as medicine has gained power, technical expertise,
and effective modes of diagnosis and treatment and at the same time seems to be getting
further from the patient.


