Catalog Search Results
Author
Physical Desc
xxi, 360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How did we, as a society, get to this point? It's a question that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Powers set out to answer in this gripping, richly researched social and personal history of mental illness. Powers traces the appalling narrative -- from the sadistic abuse of "lunaticks" at Bedlam Asylum in London seven centuries ago to today's scattershot treatments and policies. His odyssey of reportage began after not...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
Author
Physical Desc
xxix, 306 pages : chart ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America's broken mental health care system As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, "Our house is on fire and you're telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?" Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not...
Author
Physical Desc
x, 324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes an uncompromising yet life-affirming look at the lives of eight remarkable individuals, people who have found a way to make a life for themselves within the community of homelessness. Shows how their descent into society's basement has been exacerbated by the forces of gentrification and the increasing criminalization of homeless people, while exposing the draconian changes to the mental health care system that have brought us here.
Author
Language
English
Description
In Under the Skin, Anstey explains why these ten individuals are so important, highlighting how their mammoth contributions still resonate in the post-Covid era. And, ultimately, how these ten forebearers helped to create an institution which defines Britain to this day. This insider's story of the realities of front-line NHS clinical services during ten years of underfunding takes the reader on a fast-moving and emotional journey of discovery, from...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book, I hope to enlighten readers about the physician's life, and how the current medical climate has affected everything we do, every decision we make and our career satisfaction. The deterioration of the doctor-patient relationship has gotten worse and worse, fraught with mistrust from both ends of the stethoscope. If we are to turn the current situation around, we must understand the issues. My purpose is to inform and educate people about...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Este libro explora los significados, las posibilidades y los límites de la humanización de la salud principalmente desde la perspectiva de la bioética y de las ciencias humanas y sociales, renunciando a la racionalidad empresarial y a la retórica publicitaria que puede tener el concepto. Además, formula propuestas y sugerencias para una verdadera transformación cultural y estructural de las profesiones y de los servicios de salud, cuyo ejercicio...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Las lesiones de piel representan un importante problema de salud pública que precisa ser reivindicado por sus implicaciones en términos sanitarios y sociales. Este libro constituye un motor de cambio en la forma en que se han asumido las intervenciones preventivas y terapéuticas de las úlceras por presión y otras lesiones relacionadas con la dependencia.
Author
Language
English
Description
The growing older people population and their increasing needs for care is now presenting significant difficulties to both national government and local authorities because of constriction of formal caregivers and family units. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which older people services operate everywhere attracts a range of responses from the very enthusiastic to the very dismissive and hostile response. Thus, family...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sanitarians often wonder about the effectiveness of their site evaluations, whether or not the client listens and why noncompliance persists. Their academic training emphasizes a three-pronged approach (education, consultation and enforcement) toward the analysis and abatement of sanitation concerns; socio-economic factors, however, emphasize the use of legal means to gain compliance. Enforcement and legal actions push most clients toward short-term...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Doce relatos basados en hechos reales sobre las relaciones profundas y complejas que se establecen entre los profesionales de la salud y sus pacientes. La frustración de la hija de una mujer con demencia, el bloqueo emocional de un joven con cáncer, el conflicto con un paciente en urgencias, o la gestión de las emociones al final de la vida, se entremezclan con el peso de la vocación, los miedos, las trabas, las dudas y los éxitos del personal...
Author
Language
English
Description
Almost every patient who is hospitalized gets started on a medication. Most patients get started on multiple new medications and will continue some or all of their chronic medications. Alteration in pharmacotherapy is the most common medical intervention in hospitalized patients. Medication errors and side effects are unfortunately not uncommon and can potentially result in morbidity and rarely mortality. Even when mild, they increase patient dissatisfaction...
Author
Language
English
Description
A medical travelogue for patient enlightenment about obtaining economical, quality medical care. There is concise disclosure of essential evaluations that are often omitted in basic examinations. There is instructive case material highlighting available medical revelations that enable the restoration of health and happiness.
Author
Language
English
Description
There is nothing quite as important as training the next generation of physicians. In an increasingly complex and cruel world, finding a compassionate and skilled physician is truly a lifeline. Yes, of course we want our doctors to be up-to-date on all the latest medical knowledge and scientifically savvy; but, above all, we need physicians to be good listeners and caring practitioners. Conceptualized by thoughtful educators at Harvard Medical School,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Respiratory Care Review: An Intense Look at Respiratory Care Through Case Studies contains 15 case studies relating to some of the more common cardiopulmonary conditions. Challenging case discussion questions give respiratory care students the opportunity to review respiratory care content and to practice critical thinking skills in preparation for the NBRC CRT and RRT exams.
Looking for an older book we don’t have?
Printed books not owned by Santa Fe Public Library that were released more than 6 months ago can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Limit: 3 per calendar month.
Looking for a newer item we don’t have?
Suggest the library purchase a new book, DVD, audiobook, or music CD through your account. Limit: 30 active requests at a time. Submit Purchase Suggestion