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Care in Healthcare Reflections on Theory and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Ethical Challenges With a Focus on Nurses in a Home-Based Care Team’ by Pei-Yi Liu and Helen Kohlen.- 12. …”
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Care in Healthcare Reflections on Theory and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Ethical Challenges With a Focus on Nurses in a Home-Based Care Team’ by Pei-Yi Liu and Helen Kohlen.- 12. …”
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Communities of practice in health and social care

Table of Contents: “…Introducing communities of practice / Andrée le May -- The EXTRA community of practice: incubating change / Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts, and Mireille Brosseau -- The interior health nurse practitioner community of practice : facilitating NP integration in a regional health authority / Linda Sawchenko -- Developing dermatology outpatient services through a community of practice / Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall -- Practice made perfect : discovering the roles of a community of general practice / John Gabbay and Andrée le May -- Learning nursing in the workplace community / Mary Gobbi -- Communities of practice and learning health practice in developing countries / Alex le May -- Generating patient capital : the contribution of story telling in communities of practice designed to develop older people's services / Andrée le May -- What works, what counts, and what matters? …”
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Imagining illness public health and visual culture /

Table of Contents: “…Peter and public health campaigns in China, 1912-1926 / Liping Bu -- The color of money : campaigning for health in black and white America / Gregg Mitman -- Empathy and objectivity : health education through corporate publicity films / Kirsten Ostherr -- Contagion, public health, and the visual culture of nineteenth-century skin / Katherine Ott -- Maps as graphic propaganda for public health / Mark Monmonier -- "Some one sole unique advertisement" : public health posters in the twentieth century / William H. Helfand -- Nursing the nation : the 1930s public health nurse as image and icon / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Visual imagery and epidemics in the Twentieth Century / Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein -- The image of the child in postwar British and U.S. psychoanalysis / Lisa Cartwright -- Performing live surgery on television and the internet since 1945 / David Serlin -- Imagining mood disorders as a public health crisis / Emily Martin.…”
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Communities of practice in health and social care

Table of Contents: “…Introducing communities of practice / Andrée le May -- The EXTRA community of practice: incubating change / Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts, and Mireille Brosseau -- The interior health nurse practitioner community of practice : facilitating NP integration in a regional health authority / Linda Sawchenko -- Developing dermatology outpatient services through a community of practice / Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall -- Practice made perfect : discovering the roles of a community of general practice / John Gabbay and Andrée le May -- Learning nursing in the workplace community / Mary Gobbi -- Communities of practice and learning health practice in developing countries / Alex le May -- Generating patient capital : the contribution of story telling in communities of practice designed to develop older people's services / Andrée le May -- What works, what counts, and what matters? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Imagining illness public health and visual culture /

Table of Contents: “…Peter and public health campaigns in China, 1912-1926 / Liping Bu -- The color of money : campaigning for health in black and white America / Gregg Mitman -- Empathy and objectivity : health education through corporate publicity films / Kirsten Ostherr -- Contagion, public health, and the visual culture of nineteenth-century skin / Katherine Ott -- Maps as graphic propaganda for public health / Mark Monmonier -- "Some one sole unique advertisement" : public health posters in the twentieth century / William H. Helfand -- Nursing the nation : the 1930s public health nurse as image and icon / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Visual imagery and epidemics in the Twentieth Century / Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein -- The image of the child in postwar British and U.S. psychoanalysis / Lisa Cartwright -- Performing live surgery on television and the internet since 1945 / David Serlin -- Imagining mood disorders as a public health crisis / Emily Martin.…”
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The corporate transformation of health care can the public interest still be served? / by Geyman, John P., 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Health maintenance organizations (HMOS) -- Health insurance industry -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Medically-related industries -- Impacts of corporate practices on the health care system -- Compromising the integrity of research -- Disinformation and media control -- Lobbying of government -- Co-opting the regulators -- Privatization vs. public utility model of health care -- Politics and options for health care reform -- An approach to reform.…”
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The corporate transformation of health care can the public interest still be served? / by Geyman, John P., 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Health maintenance organizations (HMOS) -- Health insurance industry -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Medically-related industries -- Impacts of corporate practices on the health care system -- Compromising the integrity of research -- Disinformation and media control -- Lobbying of government -- Co-opting the regulators -- Privatization vs. public utility model of health care -- Politics and options for health care reform -- An approach to reform.…”
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Patient safety principles and practice /

Table of Contents: “…White -- Evidence-based practice to promote patient safety / Jacqueline Fowler Byers -- Putting patients in charge of their health care to promote patient safety / Tania Daniels -- Impact of nurse staffing on patient safety / Lynn Unruh -- Improving the nursing work culture / Jo Ann Miller & Mary Lou Brunell -- Using technology to improve patient safety / Debra S. …”
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Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe /

Table of Contents: “…To town to serve : urban domestic slavery in Medieval Ragusa / Susan Mosher Stuard -- Women servants in Florence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Occupations related to female biology : wet nurses and midwives. Municipal wet nurses in fifteenth-century Montpellier / Leah L. …”
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Patient safety principles and practice /

Table of Contents: “…White -- Evidence-based practice to promote patient safety / Jacqueline Fowler Byers -- Putting patients in charge of their health care to promote patient safety / Tania Daniels -- Impact of nurse staffing on patient safety / Lynn Unruh -- Improving the nursing work culture / Jo Ann Miller & Mary Lou Brunell -- Using technology to improve patient safety / Debra S. …”
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Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe /

Table of Contents: “…To town to serve : urban domestic slavery in Medieval Ragusa / Susan Mosher Stuard -- Women servants in Florence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Occupations related to female biology : wet nurses and midwives. Municipal wet nurses in fifteenth-century Montpellier / Leah L. …”
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Major incident medical management and support the practical approach in the hospital / by Carley, Simon

Table of Contents: “…-- The structured approach to the hospital response -- Planning for major incidents equipment training -- The collapsible hierarchy concept -- The clinical hierarchy -- The nursing hierarchy -- The management hierarchy -- Declaring a major incident and activating the plan -- The reception phase -- Triage -- The definitive care phase -- The recovery phase -- Incidents involving hazardous chemicals -- Incidents involving large numbers of burns -- Incidents involving large numbers of children.…”
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Major incident medical management and support the practical approach in the hospital / by Carley, Simon

Table of Contents: “…-- The structured approach to the hospital response -- Planning for major incidents equipment training -- The collapsible hierarchy concept -- The clinical hierarchy -- The nursing hierarchy -- The management hierarchy -- Declaring a major incident and activating the plan -- The reception phase -- Triage -- The definitive care phase -- The recovery phase -- Incidents involving hazardous chemicals -- Incidents involving large numbers of burns -- Incidents involving large numbers of children.…”
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Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / by Doyle, Nora

Table of Contents: “…In search of the maternal body -- The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature -- Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives -- The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother -- Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood -- The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture -- Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture -- In search of the maternal body past and present.…”
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Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / by Doyle, Nora

Table of Contents: “…In search of the maternal body -- The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature -- Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives -- The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother -- Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood -- The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture -- Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture -- In search of the maternal body past and present.…”
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Strategies in evaluation of complex health care interventions for people with physical or mental health issues

Table of Contents: “…Chan -- Strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions for children undergoing surgery / William H.C. …”
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Strategies in evaluation of complex health care interventions for people with physical or mental health issues

Table of Contents: “…Chan -- Strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions for children undergoing surgery / William H.C. …”
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Unlikely Entrepreneurs : Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 / by Wall, Barbra Mann

Table of Contents: “…Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace: the genesis -- "All the advantages of a religious life": religion, gender, and new public roles -- "Not the traditional institution": Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace, 1854-1880 -- "An institution for the community and not narrowly sectarian": Catholic hospitals, 1880-1925 -- "Debts are our only wealth": financing and marketing Catholic hospitals -- Religion, gender, and autonomy in Catholic hospitals -- "Our heels are praying very hard all day": nursing in Catholic hospitals -- Power sharing: business negotiations in Catholic hospitals -- Addressing the times: nuns and the standardization movement.…”
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Unlikely Entrepreneurs : Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 / by Wall, Barbra Mann

Table of Contents: “…Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace: the genesis -- "All the advantages of a religious life": religion, gender, and new public roles -- "Not the traditional institution": Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace, 1854-1880 -- "An institution for the community and not narrowly sectarian": Catholic hospitals, 1880-1925 -- "Debts are our only wealth": financing and marketing Catholic hospitals -- Religion, gender, and autonomy in Catholic hospitals -- "Our heels are praying very hard all day": nursing in Catholic hospitals -- Power sharing: business negotiations in Catholic hospitals -- Addressing the times: nuns and the standardization movement.…”
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