Health systems and services Books

‘Bad Science’ hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating,...

In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff looks back to our ancestors for solutions to our failing modern-day parenting theories. When Dr Michaeleen Doucleff became a mother, she examined the studies behind modern parenting guidance and...

Practical and positive ways of adapting to chronic pain. Chronic pain has been described as a silent epidemic. More than one in ten people - over ten per cent of the population - suffer from persisting pain. Over the last month, how often have you: 1...

Traditional Healers of the Central Desertcontains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert...

An invaluable resource for everyone concerned for the vulnerable people in their lives.Estimates suggest almost half of the adult population will someday be a caregiver, whether for an aging parent, an ailing partner, or a disabled family member. It is a...

HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses provided crucial care to those living with and dying from the virus. They negotiated homophobia and complex family dynamics...

Sex Cells is a clear-eyed report on the still-pitched battle to get the scientific and medical world to recognize that women are not small men.The idea that our biological sex impacts our health seems like such a simple concept. Unfortunately, it has...

"Jae Oh's Maximize Your Medicare is the best book I've read on understanding all of the Medicare options and how Medicare intersects with other health insurance options." -Wade Pfau, Professor of Retirement Income at The American CollegeIncludes the Most...

A practical and extensive resource guide by Mayo Clinic Press for women who want to understand and take charge of their own health, presented in short, easy-to-digest chapters.Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long...

For every man regardless of hair pattern, shoe size or IPA preference Man Overboard! by Mayo Clinic Press helps you understand your health and live your best life with this humorous but authoritative manual for the aging male. Let's face it, guys: we...

Modern science has shown that the widely held beliefs of clinicians about urinary tract infection (UTI) are wrong. A large body of meticulous, rigorous data, from different centres around the world makes this point. How can it be that doctors continue to...

WITH A FOREWORD BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEEA renowned cardiologist and Harvard professor spells outthe future digital shift of medicine - and how it will impact the lives not only of patients and health care professionals but of all humans.Future care is...

A browsable, illustrated one-stop shop for reliable and updated information on the signs, symptoms, tests, treatment and prevention of most common health conditions.Allergies, breast cancer, hyperthyroidism, PTSD, shin splints - when you've got questions...

This book is a detailed and a thorough review of recovery from cosmetic surgery. The book has chapters on essential information that will help those interested in the topic. The book has very specific instructions to guide you for safe and complete...

"Understanding COVID" reminds people of the core fact that makes the Scientific Method possible: Science requires the ability to question. Experimentation and questioning have always been the foundations of science, yet in our modern era it seems...

As the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders grows each year, new discoveries and controversies arise. Andrew Wakefield explores many of these in his thorough investigation of the recent trial case of the "Arizona 5," which...

From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this...

The follow-up to the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy: new ways of imagining what LGBTQ+ health care should look like.What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the...

One of America's top doctors rips the Band-Aid off to expose the American health care systemLegislation written by drug and insurance companies, malpractice by corrupt and incompetent doctors, misguided and dishonest medical policy-the reality may be...

Brian Boyle tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him,...

Join a high-powered lawyer on his fight for life against brain cancer and his continuing efforts to remainForever Optimistic.At age fifty-five, Robert S. Brams, a former college athlete, was in perfect health. Bob was blessed with a beautiful family,...

The Vaccine Court looks at the mysterious and often unknown world of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), the only recourse for seeking compensation for those who have been injured by a vaccine. The NVICP, better known as the...

Learn how to unlock your own good medicine cabinet to discover the energy healing that will bring you health and joy. Hilary Crowley is the resident energy healer at a general family medical center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Working alongside...

Drawing on fifty years of experience caring for children and adults, Dr. Moskowitz examines vaccines and our current policy regarding them. Weaving together a tapestry of observed facts, clinical and basic science research, news reports from the media,...

The explosive true story of fraud, embezzlement, and government betrayal.In 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carried out a secret mission to bury, skew, and manipulate data in six vaccine safety studies, in a coordinated effort to control...

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin.Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a...

We need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body's health, but also the health of that "piece of divinity in us."Medicine, so long as you don't need it, is a tangential part of life, just one more profession among...

The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums-not to mention the stability of state and federal government...

Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that we largely take for granted. But the road there wasn't easy. Making Medicare is a comprehensive account of the Australia's long, tortuous and unconventional path towards...