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Hardback. This title analyses specific case studies that provide an empirical analysis of the impact of globalization on health. The range of issues covered includes: AIDS, tobacco control, BSE/CJD, nutrition, cholera, antimicrobial resistance, WTO and global governance. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333802540
- ISBN
- 9780333802540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardback. Aiming to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, this text critically examines the assumptions and arguments of consequentialism. Essays discuss concepts such as rights, justice, innocence, natural integrity and the fundamental value of human life. Editor(s): Oderberg, David S.; Laing, Jacqueline A. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333629802
- ISBN
- 9780333629802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Paperback. Editor(s): Turner, Paul. BIC Classification: MMG. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333606681
- ISBN
- 9780333606681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.14
€ 38.14
Hardcover. Illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organization were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. This study demonstrates the importance of changing interactions between philanthropy, war, labour, capital and the state. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 411 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; MNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333556207
- ISBN
- 9780333556207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Paperback. This text looks at the psychology of women's health and health care and includes chapters on anorexia nervosa, female sexuality and health, abortion, the psychology of infertility and the psychology of lesbian health care. Editor(s): Nicolson, Paula; Ussher, Jane M.; Campling, Jo. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMC; JMH; JN; MBN; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333539620
- ISBN
- 9780333539620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.94
€ 71.94
Paperback. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFFK; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312210137
- ISBN
- 9780312210137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 193.42
€ 193.42
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 294 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619180
- ISBN
- 9780230619180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.54
€ 72.54
Hardback. This volume traces the interrelations and reciprocal influence between Florence Nightingale and important novelists of her time such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615953
- ISBN
- 9780230615953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. Diseases do not recognize national borders, and as we are gradually learning, failure to govern health effectively at a global level profoundly affects us all. This book is about how global health governance has evolved to become stronger, more complex, and more important than ever before in history. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605893
- ISBN
- 9780230605893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 365 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSJ; JKS; JPVH; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 365
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602328
- ISBN
- 9780230602328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Hardback. This book showcases international research on health care organizations. It presents diverse and multidisciplinary approaches to studying differing health care settings, in international context. These approaches range from in depth observation to questionnaire based measures, investigating a spectrum of health care professionals. Editor(s): Pope, Catherine; Braithwaite, Jeffrey; Hyde, Paula. Series: Organizational Behaviour in Health Care. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584655
- ISBN
- 9780230584655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardback. Beginning with the view that human consciousness is essentially embodied and that the way we consciously experience the world is structured by our bodily dynamics and surroundings, the book argues that emotions are a fundamental manifestation of our embodiment, and play a crucial role in self-consciousness, moral evaluation, and social cognition. Series Editor(s): Protevi, John; Wheeler, Michael. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576971
- ISBN
- 9780230576971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardback. The fifth title in an ongoing series on organizational behaviour in health care. This edition reveals the handling of organizational politics, power and change as a core aspect of effective reorganizations and explores how health care management research relates to health policy in this politically charged arena. Editor(s): McKee, Lorna; Ferlie, Ewan; Hyde, Paula. Series: Organizational Behaviour in Health Care. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542945
- ISBN
- 9780230542945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
hardcover. Exploring the rapidly increasing interest in obesity and fatness, this book engages with dominant ideas about 'fatness' and analyses the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, looking at the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFM; JFSJ1; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542587
- ISBN
- 9780230542587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
hardcover. Exploring the increasing involvement of the private sector in social policy, this collection examines the complex relationship between the public and private sectors from an international perspective, focusing on health and pension policies. Editor(s): Beland, Daniel; Gran, Brian. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKS; JPQB; KFFP; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527331
- ISBN
- 9780230527331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardback. Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, this work presents historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. Editor(s): Bivins, Roberta E.; Pickstone, John V. Num Pages: 305 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525498
- ISBN
- 9780230525498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Hardcover. The decline of infections, starvation, warfare, heart attack and stroke has allowed people to reach extreme old age but ushered in disability, dementia and degenerative disease, with profound consequences for the self and society. Dr Guy Brown explores these vital issues at various levels, from the cell, to the whole body, to society. Series: Macmillan Science. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBZ; MJX; PDZ; PSF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517578
- ISBN
- 9780230517578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Hardback. This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of international relations, bringing together leading scholars on the history and politics of global health. Editor(s): Bashford, Alison. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; JFFS; JPS; MBNS; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507067
- ISBN
- 9780230507067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Paperback. This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials related to Nazi medical atrocities and genocide. Num Pages: 494 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWXK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 494
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507005
- ISBN
- 9780230507005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.94
€ 139.94
hardcover. This book proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice. Merits and criticisms of obligation and virtue-based approaches to morality are explored. The author argues that in order to deliver morally good care, it is necessary to examine one's moral character. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506886
- ISBN
- 9780230506886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89