Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today.

In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, systemic problems that underlie women's experiences of feeling dismissed

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What social factors contribute to the tragic state of health care in Africa? Focusing on East African societies, this book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in African cultures. Taking in to account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health...

As a health-care professional, a licensed registered nurse, I have gained and benefited from the many and various experiences I had in the health-care industry. In this time of advancing technology of Facebook, Twitter, cell phones, computers, internet, website, satellite, information about any and everything abounds and surrounds us. Yet even if there is much that is known, the unknown seems infinite. What secret has everlasting life? This book provides...

Dans ce livre, des chercheurs, des administrateurs, des décideurs et des professionnels de la santé se penchent sur les problèmes de justice distributive engendrés par le manque de ressources dans le système de santé au Québec. Listes d'attente, pénurie de personnel et coûts élevés des médicaments menacent l'équité du système et l'égalité d'accès aux soins. De grands enjeux se dessinent, dont le plus important consiste à assurer...

Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not included. Rather, the emphasis is on the human aspects of choosing a practice and on understanding interpersonal relationships, topics that are extremely...

In an emotional story that details one woman's struggle within a medical organization that was filled with massive illegal billing, her faith shines through. Healthcare Under Duress: An Inside look at the University of Washington Billing Scandal presents one woman's personal account and experience within a prestigious University Hospital (UWP). This case is unique, representing the issuance of the largest fine ever given to a medical teaching institution...

This Caring Science in PHC, a guide for nurses in Primary Health Care, intends to lead the lecturers facilitating the Clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and diagnosis (Primary Health Care) and the basic Community Nursing Sciences students on the assessment of the client in the Primary Health Care (PHC) clinics in both rural and urban countries. The book teaches the integration of the caritas processes in the physical assessment. Lecturers and...

This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds on both sides of the Atlantic consider how the high status of the profession uniquely influences reforms. With summaries of developments in models of care, and the participation of doctors since the inception of publicly funded healthcare systems, they ask whether...

I'm a family physician. I think American healthcare costs too much, and I think physicians are part of the problem. I wrote this book because I'm worried about America's future. American businesses have become more efficient over the last 10 years, but their employees can't feel it. Workers are more productive, but the fruit of their labors is missing from their paychecks because it's being sucked into the healthcare system. As well, U.S. businesses...

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect. Kabat approaches...