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Negotiating Health Care

The Social Context of Chronic Illness

By: Sally E. Thorne

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Negotiating Health Care

The Social Context of Chronic Illness

By: Sally E. Thorne

Contributing a unique perspective to health reform, Negotiating Health Care presents the findings of a large qualitative investigation of the experiences of the chronically ill within today′s health care system. The author develops the argument that chronic illness and acute illness are social experiences of a vastly different order that lead to different health care consequences, especially in a health system geared to the "miracle cure." From interviews with chronically ill patients, Thorne discusses the onset of their diseases, handling acute episodes, and their attempts to normalize life. The author also examines the interpersonal experience with health care providers exploring the issues of trust, confidence, and compliance. The institutional experience can, and often does, pose daunting problems for the chronically ill because of organizational and sociocultural issues, health care politics and ideology, and the individual patient′s response to the system. In her concluding chapter, Thorne proposes future directions for health care organization, biomedical technology, and social policy. Students and professionals in the fields of nursing, allied health/medical sciences, and human services will find Negotiating Health Care a valuable resource. "This book is highly recommended for all health care professionals and anyone involved in legislation regarding chronic health care on a national basis. The book also could be very useful for lay people who are chronically ill and for their caregivers and families." --Rehabilitation Nursing "Finally, a window is opened to the experience of chronic illness as it exists within the North American health care system. Just in time. Every health care provider and reformer who looks inside will be changed by the reflections of themselves they see. This book is a courageous voice for both the bolder, more conclusive clinical research and for the chronically ill who may yet show us a better way." --William L. Miller, M.D., The University of Connecticut "Although there are a number of texts available on chronic illness, Dr. Thorne′s approach to the topic is unique in that it provides a graphic illustration of how the beliefs and values guiding the health care system contribute to problems which the chronically ill encounter in obtaining care. By setting the experience of chronic illness in the broader context of the health care system, the [book] provides some clear guidelines for needed changes, something I have not found elsewhere. . . . This is a valuable piece of work . . . which is a valuable contribution to our understanding of chronic illness and which provides a guide both to practice and to health policy revision." --Lee Walker, R.N., Ph.D., The University of Utah "This extraordinary book provides rich description and unique insights into the illness experience. Data obtained from interviews with 91 informants provides remarkable detail, strong linkages to existing theory, and powerful development of the illness trajectory. The book is well documented, methodologically rigorous, and presented in a refreshing style. Dr. Thorne has written a classic! Negotiating Health Care will become the book of the 90s for anyone interested in providing humanistic care." --Jan Morse, R.N., Ph.D., College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University "The book provides a view into the major issues adults with chronic illness experience in obtaining health care, a perspective that is rarely available to those of use who use the health care system mainly for acute problems, or indeed, who are the providers. The book is powerful, intense, and often uncomfortable reading; the ′patients′ own words should sensitize all of us who work with the chronically ill. Verbatim accounts of patients′ experiences are woven into a lucid and perceptive view of the structure and organization of Canadian health care, which should be read by health policymakers in all the western industrialized countries." --Juliene G. Lipson, Ph.D., F.A.A.N., University of California, San Francisco "Thorne takes a unique approach in providing a graphic illustration of how the beliefs and values guiding the health care system contribute to the problems the chronically ill encounter in obtaining care. . . . Those concerned with the evolving social and health policy in the United States would be well served in reading Negotiating Health Care." --Academic Library Book Review

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SAGE Publications

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1452253986

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Ninetails

Nine Tales

By: Sally Wen Mao

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Ninetails

Nine Tales

By: Sally Wen Mao

“A sumptuous and lively collection, leaping from story to story in much the same way a fox does — surprisingly, gracefully, and with impressive aim. I loved this book.” – Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Get in Trouble and The Book of Love “What I love most about Ninetails is its fierce allegiance to underdogs of all kinds, its careful and myriad empathy for its characters, but also its pure and artisanal delight in language and fictive possibilities.” —Ocean Vuong, New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous and Time is a Mother A “lyrical and virtuosic” fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (Gina Chung). A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by fox hunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as “paper children” in America find their pasts—and their hopes for the future—embodied in the foxes that haunt the harbor in 1900s Angel Island. In the nine tales of Ninetails, acclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao reimagines the fox spirit from Asian folklore—a shapeshifter, shaman, and seductress—as an icon of vengeance, solidarity and liberation. The characters of her stories are varied—from silicone sex dolls who come to life with new purpose, to women whose crushes manifest as stones—but they all reach for a common purpose: to find truth and belonging in a difficult world determined to consider them alien. With the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, Ninetails is both timeless—unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years—and timely in its contemporary political urgency.

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Penguin

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0143137891

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To Raise Up the South

Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865--1915

By: Sally G. McMillen

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To Raise Up the South

Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865--1915

By: Sally G. McMillen

In the half century after the Civil War, evangelical southerners turned increasingly to Sunday schools as a means of rejuvenating their destitute region and adjusting to an ever-modernizing world. By educating children -- and later adults -- in Sunday school and exposing them to Christian teachings, biblical truths, and exemplary behavior, southerners felt certain that a better world would emerge and cast aside the death and destruction wrought by the Civil War. In To Raise Up the South, Sally G. McMillen offers an examination of Sunday schools in seven black and white denominations and reveals their vital role in the larger quest for southen redemption. McMillen begins by explaining how the schools were established, detailing northern missionaries' collaboration in their creation and the eventual southern resistance to this northern aid. She then turns to the classroom, discussing the roles of church officials, teachers, ministers, and parents in the effort to raise pious children; the different functions of men and women; and the social benefits of such participation. Though denominations of both races saw Sunday schools as a way to increase their numbers and mold their children, white southerners rarely raised the race issue in the classroom. Black evangelicals, on the other hand, used their Sunday schools to discuss and decry Jim Crow laws, rising violence, and widespread injustices. Integrating the study of race, class, gender, and religion, To Raise Up the South provides an exciting new lens through which to view the turbulent years of Reconstruction and the emergence of the New South. It charts the rise of an institution that became a mainstay in the lives of millions of southerners.

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LSU Press

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0807127493

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9780807127490

Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants

By: Sally Francis,Maria Teresa Ramandi

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Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants

By: Sally Francis,Maria Teresa Ramandi

In Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants, Sally Francis and Maria Teresa Ramandi present the first translation into English of Johann Ferdinand Hertodt’s seminal 1671 work Crocologia, a book uniquely devoted to the medical uses of saffron. Hertodt discusses saffron’s origin, related species, cultivation, selection, properties and lists all its pharmaceutical preparations. Hertodt then journeys through diseases of the human body, presenting saffron-containing formulae for their treatment. The two authors complement the translation with a biography of Hertodt, and detail saffron’s botany, current production, uses, its changing reputation as a drug, and review findings from new medical research. There is a full Glossary, and translation of a contemporary animadversion of Crocologia by Hertodt’s rival, Wenzel Maximilian Ardensbach.

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BRILL

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9004435298

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9789004435292

Clinical Calculations - E-Book

With Applications to General and Specialty Areas

By: Joyce LeFever Kee,Sally M. Marshall,Mary Catherine Forrester,Kathryn Woods

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Clinical Calculations - E-Book

With Applications to General and Specialty Areas

By: Joyce LeFever Kee,Sally M. Marshall,Mary Catherine Forrester,Kathryn Woods

- NEW! Updated information on Antidiabetic Agents (orals and injectables) has been added throughout the text where appropriate. - NEW! Updated content on Anticoagulant Agents is housed in an all-new chapter. - NEW! Colorized abbreviations for the four methods of calculation (BF, RP, FE, and DA) appear in the Example Problems sections. - NEW! Updated content and patient safety guidelines throughout the text reflects the latest practices and procedures. - NEW! Updated practice problems across the text incorporate the latest drugs and dosages.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323674224

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Pilates

By: Cathy Meeus,Sally Searle,Stephanie Farrow

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Pilates

By: Cathy Meeus,Sally Searle,Stephanie Farrow

Each title in this series offers practical tips on a broad range of holistic and complementary therapies in a simple, easy-to-read format.

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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

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0789477785

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9780789477781

Laughter and Tears

From the Diaries Written by Their Loving Spouses

By: Matt Allen,Sally Siler

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Laughter and Tears

From the Diaries Written by Their Loving Spouses

By: Matt Allen,Sally Siler

Matt Allen - Author Peers have labeled Allen, a resident of Beaverton, OR, an unorthodox, visionary, creative, maverick engineer. The GI Bill and working as a logger allowed him to earn a BS in engineering from OSU. His positions in heavy industry and defense were devoted to applied research in manufacturing. With the desire of becoming an MD, he investigated health issues...HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart disease. Having two family members succumb to Alzheimer's, he spent two decades investigating and researching the disease as a caregiver and messenger. The emphasis of this book is toward lifestyle and supplements...exercise, nutrition, and natural medicine...the prevention of Alzheimer's. *** Sally Siler - Co-Author Sally now lives on the beach in Westport, WA, with her new husband, two dogs, and two cats. After teaching sixth-graders in Eureka, CA, for 31 years, she is enjoying the days of beachcombing, reading, and rooting for the University of Oregon Ducks. The U of O is where Yogi and Sally first met, so it holds a special place in her heart.

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1629016446

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