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Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America
The Development of Social Insurance
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Over the last twenty years, historians have become increasingly interested in the role of non-state organizations in the development of welfare services. This study is particularly focused on the role of friendly societies and other insurance bodies in the provision of aid for the elderly and the sick.
Determinants of Health
An Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This collection of Michael Grossman’s most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. Each of the book’s four sections includes an introduction that contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work. An afterword...
Expedition Medicine
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between each of them and commercial provision, contributors...
by Dr. Nitin Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
For years, the centre of India’s foreign policy was Pakistan. Love it or hate it. This was the country that the external affairs ministry had to break its head over most of the times. You can’t brush off four wars (1947-48, 1965, 1971 and 1999), two conflicts (Rann of Kutch and Siachen), militancy...
Migrant architects of the NHS
South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice - and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.
Exposed Science
Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to...
by Soeren Mattke, Christopher Schnyer, Kristin R. Van Busum
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This paper describes the current state of workplace wellness programs in the United States, including typical program components; assesses current uptake among U.S. employers; reviews the evidence for program impact; and evaluates the current use and the impact of incentives to promote employee engagement.
The Development of Scientific Marketing in the Twentieth Century
Research for Sales in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The global pharmaceutical industry is currently estimated to be worth $1 trillion. Contributors chart the rise of scientific marketing within the industry from 1920-1980. This is the first comprehensive study into pharmaceutical marketing, demonstrating that many new techniques were actually developed in Europe before being exported to America.
Lettre d'un citoyen zélé
Sur les troubles qui divisent la médecine et la chirurgie
Language: French
Release Date: August 26, 2014
BnF collection ebooks - "Monsieur, Je ne regarde point d'un œil aussi désintéressé que vous l'imaginez peut-être, votre querelle avec les médecins. J'aime la vie : je ne suis pas assez mécontent de mes parents, de mes amis, de la fortune et de moi-même, pour la mépriser. La philosophie,...
by Arthur Christian, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Extrait : "Un spirituel sceptique, Paul Lacroix, a prétendu que la superstition est la conséquence parasite, mais inévitable, de la religion, et que, dans certaines âmes faibles ou peu éclairées, elle devient plus puissante que la religion même. Sans souscrire à un paradoxe qui, présenté sous...
by Jacqueline Estenne
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2018
La présente étude est née de l'observation d'une récurrence, celle du thème de la médecine dans la littérature du XVIIIe siècle, et tout particulièrement dans la production romanesque. Si ce champ de recherches a été défriché par des travaux ponctuels qui ont en quelque sorte ouvert la...
Working towards Equity
Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe...