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Author : Michael Rosenblum
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : 9780595284191
Author : Jonathan B. Imber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781400828890
For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and influence of Protestant and Catholic clergymen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He explains that as the influence of clergymen waned, and as reliance on medical technology increased, patients' trust in doctors steadily declined. Trusting Doctors discusses the emphasis that Protestant clergymen placed on the physician's vocation; the focus that Catholic moralists put on specific dilemmas faced in daily medical practice; and the loss of unchallenged authority experienced by doctors after World War II, when practitioners became valued for their technical competence rather than their personal integrity. Imber shows how the clergy gradually lost their impact in defining the physician's moral character, and how vocal critics of medicine contributed to a decline in patient confidence. The author argues that as modern medicine becomes defined by specialization, rapid medical advance, profit-driven industry, and ever more anxious patients, the future for a renewed trust in doctors will be confronted by even greater challenges. Trusting Doctors provides valuable insights into the religious underpinnings of the doctor-patient relationship and raises critical questions about the ultimate place of the medical profession in American life and culture.
Author : Paul Starr
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780465093038
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review
Author : Jonathan Kurland Wise,Mark Sullivan
Publisher : New York Editors, Associates
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0977498980
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF AMERICAN MEDICINE/Finding a Cure for a Terminal System From The Introduction: During the recent Supreme Court battle, great emphasis was placed on access to health care and insurance -- but health insurance reform is not the same as healthcare reform. Nothing fundamental has changed, meanwhile, about costs that will continue to skyrocket. The major businesses, including the legal industry, will obtain enormous financial gains from the new laws and regulations. The mandate to some 45 million middle-class Americans to buy insurance is another corporate giveaway. The pharmaceutical and insurance interests want to make more money off a sick population, but the system under them atrophies, it does not grow. The more the economy and the health of Americans deteriorate, the more money these businesses manage to make via the politicians they buy out. But such a system has no future as the predator ultimately drains the host. The compensatory measure is to go to Congress to get laws passed that force people to pay these companies anyway -- like the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, or the mandatory insurance law set to go into effect in 2014. This book offers some dramatic possibilities for a turnaround in our healthcare system, and not just in health insurance. The author, a doctor with 45 years of experience in American medicine, shows us how we can reverse our current, swift decline. His agenda is both comprehensive and profound.
Author : Anthony V. Bouza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489960344
No segment of American society is spared from Bouza's critical gaze in exposing the systemic excesses that are poisoning the heart of our nation. He spotlights the white-collar criminals, who quietly take pennies from each of us to create their own pots of gold. He unmasks the politicians, on both ends of the political spectrum, whose arrogance and hypocrisy speak volumes. He demonstrates how organized crime, while catering to our sinful, illicit cravings, affects our daily lives from buying a fish dinner to building a house. He uncloaks the televangelists and other fraudulent religious leaders who have transformed the ministry from a shepherd's leading the flock into a huckster's fleecing the gullible. Moreover, he reveals the abuses that have permeated the medical and other "helping" professions
Author : K. Codell Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351483964
Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. K. Codell Carter's book describes how and why bloodletting was abandoned, noting that it was part of a process in which innovation was required so that modern scientific medicine could begin. This book is a masterful study on the collapse of a traditional medical practice. Bloodletting had been a prominent medical therapy in early nineteenth-century Europe and can be traced back to Greek and Roman physicians. The Hippocratic corpus contains several discussions of bloodletting. Galen, the most famous physician in classical antiquity, wrote tracts explaining and defending the practice. It was employed in ancient Egypt and is the most commonly mentioned therapy in the Babylonian Talmud. Indeed, it was practiced in virtually every part of the ancient world. Even though the practice abruptly ceased, there was little argument against it or reason to believe it ineffective. In reality, bloodletting actually worked. However, the rise of modern medicine required not just a change in how disease and causation were conceived, but also a change in the role of medicine in society. It has been claimed that the collapse of traditional medicine was a precondition for the rise of modern medicine, but there has been little support for this assertion before now. Carter provides this missing support. The result is a fascinating study in the history of medical practice and social expectations.
Author : Daniel C. Merrill
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781493190836
America is in decline and has been for over six decades, of that there can be little doubt. The reasons for our countrys economic and moral decay are detailed in part 1 of this book. In part 2, I will suggest steps, short of a second revolution, that should be taken to rescue our floundering ship of state. Finally, in part 3, I predict what is likely to occur if we do not have the courage to institute the changes required to restore the nations economy and put its citizens back to work. I believe, as will become clear after reading the first few paragraphs of America in Decline, that the decreasing cognitive ability of our citizens over the past half century has played a major role in Americas fall from greatness. Our failure to recognize the importance of intellect, especially the concept of inherited cognitive ability, is largely responsible for most of Americas social and economic woes.
Author : Anthony Kishko
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469180342
Politicianthe dirtiest word in the English language. says Jacob Pirandello Kharinsky, a character in this book hailed as the UNDERGROUND CLASSIC OF OUR GENERATION: The DECLINE and FALL of THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA part I. (A theme which implies many things, possibilities and perspectives.) Jake Kharinsky discovers himself in an unknown labyrinth, a clandestine initiation, and is unable to recall what leads him there. Stranger than fiction events and stories unfold...with aesthetic word play, symbolism, humor and an architectured structure, as if crafted and written by a musician, to lead one into an expansion of consciousness, a journey of the mind, right into the HEART & UNCONSICOUS of AMERICA and beyond. At times, engaging a psychological evaluation of the American political mind, and ways out of the swamps and wastelands. Jakes visionary pursuits for the meaning of life and his endless patriotic studies into the nature and origins of our political, social, and cultural realities leads him to write an Underground Notebook which will one day be a condensed guide for the coming dark era of: collapse, fascism, empire, civil war and revolution, though the Notebook is written with hopes towards identifying and preventing this disaster. (The Decline and Fall fleshes out what Emmanuel Goldsteins The Book, from Orwells 1984, may look like today.) America, as we are conditioned and believe we know it to be, is dissolving before our very eyes. Ask yourself: what is it that is not being said? This analysis is not a black and white, an Us vs. Them simplification or pessimism (as many still hold to valid ideals in a system that no longer works for We the people.) There is no simple view, traveling towards our future from the elusive illusions of the past. Prophetic, DYSTOPIAN, at times surrealin a exploratory epic seeking to make sense of it all, utilizing both fiction and non-fiction. Raising questions about how the spectrums of cultures and power influence and create our realities and consciousnesshow blind wealth, corruption, greed and propaganda orbit and control our lives behind seemingly invisible curtains and veils. Dynamic changes with every chapter and the flowing weight of compelling content draws and gravitates the reader to see the world differently and envision new possibilities. ( A recipe for REVOLUTION? A GENERAL STRIKE? In the organizing a grassroots Aquarian Renaissance Movement... ) Endless hours of entertainment and edifying knowledge & inspiration.*** A book unlike ever before written, yet following through on a lineage & fusion of varied literary traditions, schools of thought, and paradigms suffused with humor and knowledge. A justified literate denial of the two party bankster corporate diseased entity of the machine grinding our lives away. A welcoming and inviting challenge to trace the angst of our contemporary American wasteland and world nightmare to blaze through this storm. , Rebridge and pick up where our ancient Renaissance and organic connections were cut off, and leave the old world behind. GET INITIATED!!! Author can be viewed reading excerpt on Youtube under: information8090: http://youtu.be/mkWyFYfT_8Q [Back cover]: A Book for both genuine LIBERALS and CONSERVATIVES, and beyond, who are utterly disgusted with Democrats and Republicans... A genre of both Kafkaesque Dystopian fiction, & non-fiction (the Orwellian BOOK within the book), inviting the reader on a journey of Mind, Concept, Metaphor and Languageof questions and provocations, Aesthetics and Spirituality; to evoke, articulate, and gather all those things that are collectively on our minds, confused yet envisioned, as a Nation, and as a World; of which we all possess pieces, and herein begin to puzzle together these telling elements: Of Politics, History, Religion, Culture, Education, Philosophy and Deconstruction of our Ideologies, whose $old out and manipulated Idea$ have warped the
Author : Jonathan B. Imber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780691168142
For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and influence of Protestant and Catholic clergymen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He explains that as the influence of clergymen waned, and as reliance on medical technology increased, patients' trust in doctors steadily declined. Trusting Doctors discusses the emphasis that Protestant clergymen placed on the physician's vocation; the focus that Catholic moralists put on specific dilemmas faced in daily medical practice; and the loss of unchallenged authority experienced by doctors after World War II, when practitioners became valued for their technical competence rather than their personal integrity. Imber shows how the clergy gradually lost their impact in defining the physician's moral character, and how vocal critics of medicine contributed to a decline in patient confidence. The author argues that as modern medicine becomes defined by specialization, rapid medical advance, profit-driven industry, and ever more anxious patients, the future for a renewed trust in doctors will be confronted by even greater challenges. Trusting Doctors provides valuable insights into the religious underpinnings of the doctor-patient relationship and raises critical questions about the ultimate place of the medical profession in American life and culture.
Author : Council on Graduate Medical Education (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : CHI:69381226
Author : Harold Underwood Faulkner
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0873321022
Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of the factory system, labour movements and foreign and domestic commerce.
Author : George Frederick Shrady,Thomas Lathrop Stedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Medicine
ISBN : CHI:78916117
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11506654
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015070358018
Author : Paul Starr
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0465079350
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review