Search query: controversies in public health and health policy

Product: Disability in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies, and Controversies [2 volumes]
Description: Disability—as with other marginalized topics in social policy—is at risk for exclusion from social debate. This multivolume reference work provides an overview of challenges and opportunities for people with disabilities and their families at all stages of life.

Once primarily thought of as a medical issue, disability is now more widely recognized as a critical issue of identity, personhood, and social justice. By discussing challenges confronting people with disabilities and their families and by collecting numerous accounts of disability experiences, this volume firmly situates disability within broader social movements, policy, and areas of marginalization, providing a critical examination into the lived experiences of people with disabilities and how disability can affect identity.

A foundational introduction to disability for a wide audience—from those intimately connected with a person with a disability to those interested in the science behind disability—this collection covers all aspects of disability critical to understanding disability in the United States. Topics covered include characteristics of disability; disability concepts, models, and theories; important historical developments and milestones for people with disabilities; prominent individuals, organizations, and agencies; notable policies and services; and intersections of disability policy with other policy.

Takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying disability in America

Traces the evolution of U.S. attitudes and policies towards disability through primary documents featuring context-setting headnotes

Provides easy reference via a glossary of terms related to disability studies, including those in the areas of law, health, arts, and culture

Includes contributions from major scholars across disciplines involved in the study of disability
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Product: Controversies in Drugs Policy and Practice
Description: The rapid deepening of the global drug problem has spurred increasingly heated debate over the best solutions. For example, should drug use be an issue for healthcare services or a matter of criminal justice? Is universal abstinence both unrealistic and undesirable? Does drug legalization offer a viable answer?
This book provides a lively and thought-provoking account of some of the most pressing issues for policy makers and practitioners in the debate about drugs. Designed as a platform for further discussion, it presents the full spectrum of perspectives on chronic and contemporary challenges to drug policy and explores the reality for drug users, dealers, suppliers and producers.
Drawing on an international evidence base, the author considers:
? Drug enforcement measures: do they work and are they always ethical?
? Addiction treatment: its purpose, cost and limitations;
? Drug research: the strength of its impact on policy and practice;
? Possible solutions: from classic criminalization to radical harm reduction.
Both engaging and timely, Controversies in Drugs Policy and Practice is an essential read for all social science students taking modules related to drug use, addiction and treatment. It also makes illuminating reading for academics and practitioners working within the field.
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Product: The Data Game: Controversies in Social Science Statistics
Description: This book introduces students to the collection, uses, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. It would suit all social science introductory statistics and research methods courses. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the economy, wealth, income, poverty, labor, business statistics, and public opinion polling, with a concluding chapter devoted to the common problem of ambiguity. Each chapter includes multiple case studies illustrating the controversies, overview of data sources including web sites, chapter summary and a set of case study questions designed to stimulate further thought.
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Product: Breast or Bottle?: Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice (Studies in Rhetoric & Communication)
Description: Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical controversies and a critical examination of the ways in which medical beliefs are communicated to the public, Amy Koerber exposes layers of shifting arguments and meaning that inform contemporary infant-feeding advocacy and policy.

Whereas the phrase "breast or bottle" might once have implied a choice between two relative equals, human milk is now believed to possess unique health-promoting qualities. Although it is tempting to view this revision in medical thinking as solely the result of scientific progress, Koerber argues that a progress-based interpretation is incomplete. Epidemiologic evidence demonstrating the health benefits of human milk has grown in recent years, but the story of why these forms of evidence have dramatically increased in recent decades, Koerber reveals, is a tale of the dedicated individuals, coalitions, and organizations engaged in relentless rhetorical efforts to improve our scientific explanations and cultural appreciation of human milk, lactation, and breastfeeding in the context of a historical tendency to devalue these distinctly female aspects of the human body. Koerber demonstrates that the rhetoric used to promote breastfeeding at a given time and cultural moment not only reflects a preexisting reality but also shapes the infant-feeding experience for new mothers.

Koerber's claims are grounded in extensive rhetorical research including textual analysis, archival research, and interviews with key stakeholders in the breastfeeding controversy. Her approach offers a vital counterpoint to other feminist analyses of the shift toward probreastfeeding scientific discourse and presents a revealing rhetorical case study in the complex relationship between scientific data and its impact on medical policy and practices. The resulting interdisciplinary study will be of keen interest to scholars and students of rhetoric, communication, women's studies, medical humanities, and public health as well as medical practitioners and policymakers.
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Product: Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights
Description: Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America is the first in-depth examination of the impact of the new national health care law on American individuals, families, and businesses. Written by an esteemed quartet of experts and former health policy officials, Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America demystifies the convoluted plan that the Obama administration and a Democratic Congress pushed through, exploring its effect on real people. Eye-opening and important, it is a book that everyone in America should read—providing essential information on what’s in the new Health Care Law, how it will affect YOU, and what you can do about it.
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Product: Mammography Screening (Truth, Lies and Controversy)
Brand: CRC Press
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Product: Food in America [3 volumes]: The Past, Present, and Future of Food, Farming, and the Family Meal
Brand: ABC-CLIO
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Product: How to End the Autism Epidemic
Brand: Chelsea Green Publishing
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Product: Controversies in Public Health and Health Policy
Brand: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Product: The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Simon Schuster
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Product: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America
Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Product: Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies
Brand: Wiley-Interscience
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Product: The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
Brand: Basic Books
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Product: School Law and the Public Schools: A Practical Guide for Educational Leaders (The Pearson Educational Leadership Series)
Brand: Pearson
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Product: Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort Through the Noise Around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies (FT Press Science)
Brand: FT Press
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Product: Disability and U.S. Politics [2 volumes]: Participation, Policy, and Controversy
Brand: Praeger
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