The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000 9781351883603, 0754639339, 2005015471, 9780754639336

The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000: Essays for Charles Webster [1 ed.] 0754639339, 9780754639336

Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformatio

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A Right to Health: Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil 9780292766631

In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally establish

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The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform [1 ed.] 9780878408450

Debates over health care have focused for so long on economics that the proper goals for medicine seem to be taken for g

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Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance, 1911-1966 9780773561113

Current debates over the role of doctors in a state-run health insurance program are nothing new to Canadians. Since 191

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The Science of Integrative Medicine

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Health and Medical Practice in Iran: Traditional Culture and Modern Medicine 9781350985278, 9781786732552

Allopathy is often described as ‘western’ medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused wi

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Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services 9781447349884

In this timely analysis, Rich Moth assesses mental health services in a period of major change. Based on extended fieldw

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Health and Medical Practice in Iran: Traditional Culture and Modern Medicine (Allopathy Goes Native) 9781780760445, 9781786732552

Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are

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Handbook of School Mental Health: Innovations in Science and Practice [3 ed.] 3031200055, 9783031200052

The handbook provides thoughtful and provocative critiques of the science and practice of school mental health. It exami

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Medicine over Mind: Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era 9780813598703, 9780813598666

We live in an era in which medicalization—the process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences

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