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This timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.
Drawing on ethnographic studies of the lived experiences of people with rare diseases, this volume critically examines rare, chronic diseases in the context of care, kinship, and technologies, providing in-depth analyses of local worlds that usually remain at the peripheries of medical anthropological inquiry.
Healthcare has an impact on everyone, and healthcare funding decisions shape how and what healthcare is provided. In this book, Stephen Duckett outlines a Christian, biblically grounded, ethical basis for how decisions about healthcare funding and priority-setting ought to be made. Taking a cue from the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Duckett articulates three ethical principles drawn from the story: compassion as a motivator; inclusivity, or social justice as to benefits; and responsible stewardship of the resources required to achieve the goals of treatment and prevention. These are principles, he argues, that should underpin a Christian ethic of healthcare funding. Duckett's book is a must for healthcare professionals and theologians struggling with moral questions about rationing in healthcare. It is also relevant to economists interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the application of their discipline to health policy.
Includes "Dilatory domiciles."
No. 2, pt. 2 of November issue each year from v. 19 (1963)-47 (1970) and v. 55 (1972)- contain the Abstracts of papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, 3d (1963)-10th (1970) and 12th (1972)-
The fields of rare diseases research and orphan products development continue to expand with more products in research and development status. In recent years, the role of the patient advocacy groups has evolved into a research partner with the academic research community and the bio-pharmaceutical industry. Unique approaches to research and development require epidemiological data not previously available to assist in protocol study design and patient recruitment for clinical trials required by regulatory agencies prior to approval for access by patents and practicing physicians.
Le principal objectif de cette conférence réside dans le rapprochement de différentes communautés en rassemblant cette année trois conférences (IC, CAp et RJCIA) : - Ingénierie des Connaissances : organisée depuis 1997 sous l’égide du Gracq (Groupe de Recherche en Acquisition des Connaissances), IC permet de favoriser les échanges sur le thème des mécanismes de la connaissance, en particulier les processus associant l’humain et l’environnement informatique. Elle accompagne ainsi l’essor des technologies de l’information, en inventant les théories, les méthodes et les outils permettant l’intégration de la dimension « connaissance » dans des environnements informat...
Wie ist es möglich geworden, Patient*innen nicht nur als passiv und leidend, sondern auch als eigensinnig und politisch zu verstehen? Helene Gerhards verbindet genealogische und subjektkonstitutionsanalytische Zugänge, mit denen sie die Metamorphosen des Patient*innenseins im Spannungsfeld sozialer, ökonomischer, geschichtswissenschaftlicher und medizinischer Rationalitäten von der »Geburt der Klinik« bis heute nachverfolgt. Sie zeigt, wie sich Krankenversicherungsobjekte, antipsychiatrische Bewegungen und Organisationen im Feld seltener Erkrankungen formiert haben und argumentiert, dass Patient*innen erst zu Kollektiven werden mussten, um politische Zurechenbarkeit und Agentivität zu erlangen.