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Book Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine

Download or read book Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine written by Paul Cerrato and published by Mayo Clinic Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern medicine, with all its virtues and flaws, needs to be re-imagined. We must embrace a better way to identify effective treatments. Artificial intelligence must be unbiased and actually improve patient care. We must rethink much of the conventional wisdom that has been handed down over the decades. Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine explains how based on our collective 100 years working at the intersection of technology and healthcare.

Book The Boundaries of Medicine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric W. Boyle
  • Publisher : ProQuest
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780549270058
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The Boundaries of Medicine written by Eric W. Boyle and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2007 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studying these relationships this dissertation employs the methodological tool of boundary analysis to examine how and where credibility is determined. The study contributes to the literature in the history of science and medicine, science studies, and US history by identifying and illustrating the techniques used in promoting multiple and contested meanings of health and medicine by evaluating the role of science in each area. In situating therapeutics at the center of medical debates, the study explains the involvement of legislative, economic, philosophical, and professional dynamics. By historicizing the dialogue between fringe and mainstream medical systems and treatments, this dissertation also seeks to inform discussions about the contemporary social and medical influence of each while providing a broader understanding of medicine's place in society.

Book The Learning Healthcare System

Download or read book The Learning Healthcare System written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As our nation enters a new era of medical science that offers the real prospect of personalized health care, we will be confronted by an increasingly complex array of health care options and decisions. The Learning Healthcare System considers how health care is structured to develop and to apply evidence-from health profession training and infrastructure development to advances in research methodology, patient engagement, payment schemes, and measurement-and highlights opportunities for the creation of a sustainable learning health care system that gets the right care to people when they need it and then captures the results for improvement. This book will be of primary interest to hospital and insurance industry administrators, health care providers, those who train and educate health workers, researchers, and policymakers. The Learning Healthcare System is the first in a series that will focus on issues important to improving the development and application of evidence in health care decision making. The Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine serves as a neutral venue for cooperative work among key stakeholders on several dimensions: to help transform the availability and use of the best evidence for the collaborative health care choices of each patient and provider; to drive the process of discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care; and, ultimately, to ensure innovation, quality, safety, and value in health care.

Book Redefining Health Care Systems

Download or read book Redefining Health Care Systems written by Robert Henry Brook and published by . This book was released on 2015-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zoobiquity

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  • Author : Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 0307958388
  • Pages : 513 pages

Download or read book Zoobiquity written by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory depiction of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind, exploring how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species. "Full of fascinating stories.” —Atul Gawande, M.D. Do animals overeat? Get breast cancer? Have fainting spells? Inspired by an eye-opening consultation at the Los Angeles Zoo, which revealed that a monkey experienced the same symptoms of heart failure as human patients, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz embarked upon a project that would reshape how she practiced medicine. Beginning with the above questions, she began informally researching every affliction that she encountered in humans to learn whether it happened with animals, too. And usually, it did: dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer, koalas can catch chlamydia, reindeer seek narcotic escape in hallucinogenic mushrooms, stallions self-mutilate, and gorillas experience clinical depression. Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers have dubbed this pan-species approach to medicine zoobiquity. New York Times Bestseller An O, The Oprah Magazine “Summer Reading” Pick A Discover Magazine Best Book

Book Boundaries in Healthcare

Download or read book Boundaries in Healthcare written by Angelica Redleaf and published by Dr Elizabeth Pilicy. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter the practice setting, every day challenges arise surrounding the issues of gender and touch. Boundaries in Healthcare is a valuable book for health care professionals in all areas of health, as well as a for patients and the general public who visit health professionals. All providers need to be aware of how to practice and provide care in a safe manner allowing for helping people without harming.

Book Reimagining Global Health

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Farmer
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2013-09-07
  • ISBN : 0520271998
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Reimagining Global Health written by Paul Farmer and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems. The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.

Book Boundaries for Women Physicians

Download or read book Boundaries for Women Physicians written by Tammie Chang and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: setting boundaries for women physicians

Book Redefining Race

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  • Author : Dina G. Okamoto
  • Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
  • Release : 2014-09-25
  • ISBN : 1610448456
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Redefining Race written by Dina G. Okamoto and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, the Pew Research Center issued a report that named Asian Americans as the “highest-income, best-educated, and fastest-growing racial group in the United States.” Despite this seemingly optimistic conclusion, over thirty Asian American advocacy groups challenged the findings. As many pointed out, the term “Asian American” itself is complicated. It currently denotes a wide range of ethnicities, national origins, and languages, and encompasses a number of significant economic and social disparities. In Redefining Race, sociologist Dina G. Okamoto traces the complex evolution of this racial designation to show how the use of “Asian American” as a panethnic label and identity has been a deliberate social achievement negotiated by members of this group themselves, rather than an organic and inevitable process. Drawing on original research and a series of interviews, Okamoto investigates how different Asian ethnic groups in the U.S. were able to create a collective identity in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Okamoto argues that a variety of broad social forces created the conditions for this developing panethnic identity. Racial segregation, for example, shaped how Asian immigrants of different national origins were distributed in similar occupations and industries. This segregation of Asians within local labor markets produced a shared experience of racial discrimination, which encouraged Asian ethnic groups to develop shared interests and identities. By constructing a panethnic label and identity, ethnic group members took part in creating their own collective histories, and in the process challenged and redefined current notions of race. The emergence of a panethnic racial identity also depended, somewhat paradoxically, on different groups organizing along distinct ethnic lines in order to gain recognition and rights from the larger society. According to Okamoto, these ethnic organizations provided the foundation necessary to build solidarity within different Asian-origin communities. Leaders and community members who created inclusive narratives and advocated policies that benefited groups beyond their own were then able to move these discrete ethnic organizations toward a panethnic model. For example, a number of ethnic-specific organizations in San Francisco expanded their services and programs to include other ethnic group members after their original constituencies dwindled. A Laotian organization included refugees from different parts of Asia, a Japanese organization began to advocate for South Asian populations, and a Chinese organization opened its doors to Filipinos and Vietnamese. As Okamoto argues, the process of building ties between ethnic communities while also recognizing ethnic diversity is the hallmark of panethnicity. Redefining Race is a groundbreaking analysis of the processes through which group boundaries are drawn and contested. In mapping the genesis of a panethnic Asian American identity, Okamoto illustrates the ways in which concepts of race continue to shape how ethnic and immigrant groups view themselves and organize for representation in the public arena.

Book Beyond Boundaries of Biomedicine

Download or read book Beyond Boundaries of Biomedicine written by Wim J. van der Steen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural forces shape much of medicine including psychiatry, and medicine shapes much of our culture. Medicine provides us with beneficial treatments of disease, but it also causes harm, increasingly so in the form of overmedication enhanced by the pharmaceutical industry. The book explores boundaries of medicine and psychiatry in a cultural setting by building bridges between unconnected literatures. Boundaries have to be redrawn since effects of the environment, biological, social and political, on health and disease are undervalued. Potential beneficial effects of diet therapies are a recurrent theme throughout the text, with particular emphasis on omega-3 fatty acids. Deficiencies of these acids in common diets may contribute to many chronic diseases and psychiatric disorders. The book uncovers limitations of evidence-based medicine, which fosters a restrictive view of health and disease. Case studies include: the biology of migraine; limitations of biological psychiatry; conventional versus alternative medicine; science, religion and near-death experiences.

Book Michelangelo s Medicine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anoop Kumar
  • Publisher : Health Emergence, LLC
  • Release : 2017-04-04
  • ISBN : 9780997339604
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Michelangelo s Medicine written by Anoop Kumar and published by Health Emergence, LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your body is much more than a collection of organs. It is a masterpiece, waiting to be discovered. Over the course of his career as an emergency physician, Dr. Anoop Kumar has come to recognize that what we have learned about the human body is remarkably incomplete and outdated. In these pages, he offers insights into: > Why reconsidering what we've been told about our bodies is essential to healing and well-being. > What the complete anatomy of a human being looks like. > How a new framework for understanding the human body will help create a more inclusive and complete health care system. > What you can do now to start experiencing well-being . Personal and profound, these pages take us inside the mind of an emergency physician as he realizes that honoring his patients and his profession requires challenging the dogma of medical science and offering a unifying vision for well-being and health care.

Book DIGITAL HEALTH MADE EASY

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  • Author : Dito Anurogo
  • Publisher : Nas Media Pustaka
  • Release : 2024-09-10
  • ISBN : 6231555127
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book DIGITAL HEALTH MADE EASY written by Dito Anurogo and published by Nas Media Pustaka. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era characterized by the rapid digitization of myriad disciplines, few areas of exploration are as crucial or as enthralling as that of Digital Health. As we stand on the precipice of a revolutionary epoch, “Digital Health Made Easy” serves as both a beacon and a touchstone, shedding light on the profound intersections of medical science, sophisticated technology, and the intricate web of ethical considerations that underpin this dynamic convergence.

Book The Digital Reconstruction of Healthcare

Download or read book The Digital Reconstruction of Healthcare written by Paul Cerrato and published by Himss Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex challenges facing healthcare are being met by the transitioning much patient care from hospitals, clinics, and offices to virtual settings. The digital reconstruction of medicine includes telemedicine, mobile apps, sensing devices, and other technologies. The book explores how these tools are meeting patient needs across the globe.

Book Uncaring

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  • Author : Robert Pearl
  • Publisher : PublicAffairs
  • Release : 2021-05-18
  • ISBN : 1541758250
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Uncaring written by Robert Pearl and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them. Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional healthcare system. But that’s only part of the problem. In this important and timely book, Dr. Robert Pearl shines a light on the unseen and often toxic culture of medicine. Today’s physicians have a surprising disdain for technology, an unhealthy obsession with status, and an increasingly complicated relationship with their patients. All of this can be traced back to their earliest experiences in medical school, where doctors inherit a set of norms, beliefs, and expectations that shape almost every decision they make, with profound consequences for the rest of us. Uncaring draws an original and revealing portrait of what it’s actually like to be a doctor. It illuminates the complex and intimidating world of medicine for readers, and in the end offers a clear plan to save American healthcare.

Book The New Era of Precision Medicine

Download or read book The New Era of Precision Medicine written by Mohamad Bydon and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Era of Precision Medicine: What it Means for Patients and the Future of Healthcare highlights aspects of precision medicine in different specialties and offers an understanding of how a biological background integrates into clinical guidelines, the therapeutic efficacy of interventions and disease prevention. The book explains how precision healthcare differs among countries, as well as how there is a collaboration among many labs to share resources and knowledge to advance the field across the globe. The book also discusses the cultural differences and cultural sensitivity that may be involved in the precision medicine approach. Finally, with regard to safety and quality outcomes, the book presents a range of current and possible future concerns related to those outcomes. Precision medicine is the new standard of quality healthcare delivery. It aims to optimize patient safety and clinical outcomes, enhance the efficacy of therapeutic interventions, and facilitate disease prevention, offering a way to customize patient care, decision-making, and clinical practice. - Highlights the characteristics of precision medicine in different areas - Offers an understanding of how a biological background integrates into clinical guidelines, the therapeutic efficacy of interventions, and disease prevention - Emphasizes how medicine has transformed from a "one-size-fits-all approach to personalized medicine influenced by individual characteristics - Introduces complex topics delivered in terms that target a broad range of audiences

Book Uncertainty in Medicine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul K. J. Han
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0190270586
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Uncertainty in Medicine written by Paul K. J. Han and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : The Challenge of Uncertainty in Medicine -- The Nature and Etiology of Uncertainty -- The Anatomy of Uncertainty -- The Natural History of Uncertainty -- The Management of Uncertainty -- A Way Forward : Systematizing Uncertainty Tolerance.

Book TechGenesis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Parker J. Maddox
  • Publisher : eBookIt.com
  • Release : 2024-07-09
  • ISBN : 1456653296
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book TechGenesis written by Parker J. Maddox and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey Through the Ages of Technological Marvels Embark on a compelling odyssey from the primitive sparks of human ingenuity to the cutting-edge advancements of our digital world. "TechGenesis: From Flintstones to AI", expertly navigates the profound story of technology's evolution, inviting readers to uncover pivotal moments that have shaped our existence. Curiosity Awaits: Imagine the thrill of discovering how early humans transformed rocks into implements, igniting a cascade of ingenuity that would one day culminate in the development of artificial intelligence. Each chapter meticulously chronicles these groundbreaking achievements, from the dawn of fire mastery to agricultural revolutions, from the invention of the wheel to the marvels of ancient engineering. A Journey Through Time: Follow the inventive spirit through the ages, witnessing the transformative power of the printing press, the adrenaline of the Industrial Revolution, and the birth of modern communication and transportation systems. Unearth the vital intersections of art, science, and technology during the Renaissance, and soar through the Age of Exploration with navigational innovations that connected the globe. Innovation Unveiled: Delve into the dynamic developments in electrical engineering, modern medicine, digital computing, and the revolutionary Internet era. Traverse through the world of mobile technology, social media evolution, and the green energies powering our sustainable future, all while pondering the ethical dimensions and societal impacts of these advances. Your Tech Odyssey: This captivating guide does more than recount historical milestones; it makes history come alive, engaging readers with a riveting narrative enriched by vivid descriptions and insightful analyses. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or a curious mind, this book provides a panoramic vista into how every tool, discovery, and innovation has become a stepping stone to the extraordinary future that lies ahead. Dive in, and let the sagas of the past inspire the visions of tomorrow.