"Old Dorm, " which served as the first classroom and dormitory of the Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary, is a familiar tourist site--Union Cavalry General John Buford directed the opening stages of the battle of Gettysburg from the building's distinctive cupola and some o…
Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940
"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's a…
Are you risking your life when you go to the hostpital? Consider this: One study found that 1 in 4 patients are harmed by medical errors. Another reported that doctors operate on teh wrong person or the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week. Every day, medical care that's …
Ten Days in a Mad-House is pioneering journalist Nellie Bly's account of the shocking conditions she experienced as an undercover reporter in the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in 1887.
The World Health Statistics series is WHO's annual compilation. of health-related data for its 193 Member States and includes a. summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets. As with previous versio…
Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the…
Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental inst…
Readers will be surprised at many of the findings and arguments of this volume. Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to governmental social spending. When universal social programs jointly benefit the middle class and the poor, she shows, Americans sinc…
"Nonfiction, simple text with full-color photography presenting community helpers on the scene at a hospital"--
"Nonfiction, simple text with full-color photography presenting community helpers on the scene at a hospital"--
