Rural Politics Winter, Michael
1996, 20130513, 2013-05-13, 19960101
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The rural areas of Britain, Europe and the developed world are undergoing massive changes, with increasing concern about productivity, agricultural methods and environmental policy. Rural Politics ...examines the issues affecting rural areas, such as water pollution, forestry, and the greening of agricultural policy. It looks in particular at the political parameters to these issues and how concern for the countryside is essentially a part of a wider set of political processes. Rural Politics provides a much needed examination of the evolution and content of policies affecting today's countryside, both in terms of major land uses and economic and social development.
Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care profession, with 3 million registered nurses in the United States. Nurses work in a wide variety of settings, including hospitals, public health ...centers, schools, and homes, and provide a continuum of services, including direct patient care, health promotion, patient education, and coordination of care. They serve in leadership roles, are researchers, and work to improve health care policy. As the health care system undergoes transformation due in part to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the nursing profession is making a wide-reaching impact by providing and affecting quality, patient-centered, accessible, and affordable care.
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health , which made a series of recommendations pertaining to roles for nurses in the new health care landscape. This current report assesses progress made by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/AARP Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and others in implementing the recommendations from the 2010 report and identifies areas that should be emphasized over the next 5 years to make further progress toward these goals.
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era. ...Brier describes how AIDS workers--in groups as disparate as the gay and lesbian press, AIDS service organizations, private philanthropies, and the State Department--influenced American politics, especially on issues such as gay and lesbian rights, reproductive health, racial justice, and health care policy, even in the face of the expansion of the New Right.Infectious Ideasplaces recent social, cultural, and political events in a new light, making an important contribution to our understanding of the United States at the end of the twentieth century.
Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde ...chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.
More than ever before, the legal system plays a vital role in virtually every aspect of the current health care system. From the congressional debate over patients' rights legislation to judicial ...rulings on the denial of health care services, the legal system is integrally involved in the organization, financing and delivery of health care. Patients thus have a large stake in how the law influences medical care. This book explains how the legal system helps shape health care delivery and policy, explores new ways of looking at the relationship between law and medicine, and reflects on why it all matters. The story focuses on the judicial response to the advent of managed care, especially challenges to cost containment initiatives, and shows how the legal system has facilitated managed care's dominance over the health care system. An equally important part of the story is the evolution of the relationship between physicians and attorneys and how their mutual antagonism affects patient care.; In the end, the stories come together around a strategy for reconciling the difficult health policy choices the country faces and for restoring the physician-patient relationship to the centre of health care delivery.
The war on terrorism and the threat of chemical and biological weapons have brought a new urgency to already complex moral and bioethical questions. In the Wake of Terror presents thought-provoking ...essays on many of the troubling issues facing American society, written by experts from the fields of medicine, health care policy, law, political science, history, philosophy, and theology. One of the first potential casualties of catastrophic circumstances is civil liberties. In the past, medical experiments conducted for national security purposes have violated ethical standards, and this book questions whether current policy provides sufficient safeguards against further abuses. It also focuses on public health issues, offering contrasting views on the extent to which civil authorities should be allowed to restrict freedom of movement in the name of national security and debating whether aggressive public health interventions improve public confidence and cooperation or detract from them. A major area of concern is preparedness for future terrorist attacks. Chapters are devoted to ethical issues involved in the development, distribution, and rationing of vaccines and antidotes; resource allocation and medical triage; the moral duties of emergency health workers and other first responders; and the obligations of private entities such as managed care organizations and pharmaceutical companies. Contributors also address the implications of terrorism for our health insurance system and the role of genetic advances in bioterrorism. Underlying all of these issues, the authors argue, is the need to maintain a spirit of social solidarity, which can in turn only be achieved if preparations are publicly acknowledged and generally regarded as both prudent and fair.
In an effort to modernize criminal and civil
investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors-most of whom
had been trained under the tsarist regime-new authority over issues
of sexuality. ...Revolutionaries believed that forensic
medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to sexual
disorder in the new society. Bolshevik Sexual Forensics
explores the institutional history of Russian and Soviet forensic
medicine and examines the effects of its authority when confronting
sexual disorder. Healey compares sex crime investigations from
Petrograd and Sverdlovsk in the 1920s to the numerous publications
by forensic doctors and psychiatrists of the prerevolutionary and
early Soviet periods to illustrate the role that these specialists
played. In addition, Healey presents a fascinating look at how
doctors diagnosed and treated hermaphroditism, showing how Soviet
physicians revolutionized the standard scientific view in these
cases by taking into account individual desire.
This study sheds light on unexplored radical and reactionary
forces that shaped the Bolshevik "sexual revolution" as lawmakers
defined new ways of seeing sexual crime and disorder. Forensic
doctors struggled to interpret the replacement of the age of
consent with a standard of "sexual maturity," a designation that
made female sexuality a collective "resource," not part of an
individual's personality. "Innocence," "experience," and virginity
played a major role in the expertise doctors furnished in rape and
abuse trials. Psychiatrists recoiled from the language of sexual
psychology in their investigations of sex criminals. Yet in the
clinic, Soviet physicians probed the desires of the two-sexed
citizen, whose psychology served as the basis for a distinctly
modern approach to the "erasure" of the hermaphrodite.
Healey concludes that the vision of men and women as equals
after a "sexual revolution" was undermined from the outset of the
Soviet experiment. Law and medicine failed to protect women and
girls from violence, and Soviet medicine's physiological and
biological model of sexual citizenship erased the vision of sexual
self-expression, especially for women. This groundbreaking study
will appeal to Soviet historians and those interested in gender
studies, sexuality, medicine, and forensics.
This text shows how epidemiology can provide a valuable basis for health policy-making. Part I is a general introduction to health policy, relevant methods and health data, while Part II presents ...applications specific to each step of the policy cycle. Many practical examples are provided, but mathematics is kept to an elementary level. The book is intended for persons who have completed introductory courses in epidemiology and biostatistics. Its recurring theme is the interaction between health phenomena and the underlying population dynamics.
Ice. Methedrine. Crank. Crystal. Whatever its guise, the social and political contexts of methamphetamine share a certain uniqueness. Nicholas Parsons chronicles the history and mythology of ...methamphetamine in the United States from the 1940s--when it was hailed as a wonder drug--to the present. In an intriguing analysis, he also makes an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of social problems.
