In Patient's Best Interest
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Relying on a comprehensive survey of local newspapers and government documents, historian Galishoff here completes a two-volume history of Newark's public health policies and actions. ( Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark, 1895-1918 , Greenwood, 1975, was published earlier.) Galishoff shows how New Jersey's largest city developed politically and socially in the 19th century and how its increasing public health problems went untended because of an inflexible political establishment and unplanned, uncontrolled, urban growth that resulted in poverty, massive pollution, and poor sanitation. Galishoff believes that the national acceptance of the bacteriological causation of disease hastened the improvement in Newark's water and sewage systems, although Newarks's present pollution problems and relatively high cancer rate should redirect public health concerns back to the environment. Cogently argued, clearly written, urban social history.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813513057
ISBN13:9780813513058
Release Date:April 1988
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:214 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
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Interesting - Scholarly Research Into Women And Reproductive Health
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
In The Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions is a book about the ways that women are influenced by their doctors about reproductive issues, including the decision to have a hysterectomy, when a more conservative treatment might work just as well. I highly recommend this book to any person who works with women in health care setting, especially in poor, immigrant and under served communities. Some cultures place a high value on what someone in authority tells them, and doctors are authority figures, which can lead to women making bad choices about their reproductive health care. Cultural competency isn't a politically-correct euphemism, but a necessary component of providing services to people from different cultures and backgrounds.
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