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Carl Auer Systeme Verlag
The picture books in the Carl-Auer Kids series are extraordinary: they deal with fear and anger, love, loss and courage, identity, friendship, separated parents or unusual ways of life. The books tell stories of great girls, fabulous boys and funny animals who jump into exciting adventures while learning new things.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918–48
by George Campbell Gosling, Keir Waddington
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. Payment played an important part in redefining rather than abandoning medical philanthropy, based on class divisions and the notion of financial contribution as a civic duty. With new insights on the scope of private medicine and the workings of the means test in the hospital, as well as the civic, consumer and charitable meanings associated with paying the hospital, Gosling offers a fresh perspective on healthcare before the NHS and welfare before the welfare state.
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April 2022Corona Chaos. Confessions from a pharmacist
by Simon Krivec
More than two years of pandemic is more than two years of corona clutter. Only a staggering level of helpfulness, improvisation and flexibility prevented the healthcare system from collapsing completely. In this highly topical book, pharmacist Simon Krivec tells of his incredible experiences and the stormy ups and downs of pandemic madness, missing masks and disinfectants, and the feeling of having been totally abandoned by a helpless state. We learn, for instance, of the short-term procurement of large quantities of ethanol and the transportation of the highly flammable substance, and just what lured the author – and 71,400 euros in cash – to visit the port of Neuss at night.
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Science & MathematicsFebruary 2025Assemblages of cancer
Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy
by Cinzia Greco
Assemblages of cancer illustrates the tensions in the experiences and context of breast cancer in Western Europe. Breast cancer is presented as a success story in oncology, especially in countries with advanced, universal healthcare systems. At the same time, individual experiences are shaped by uncertainty, local variability of healthcare provisions, and the need for patients to assemble information about the treatments, knowledge on healthcare systems navigation, and different processes of meaning-making to manage the uncertainty and variability characterising individual outcomes. The book explores both how individual bodies and experiences are transformed by different local medical practices, institutions and discourses of breast cancer and how patients need to find their own way in these contexts. Assemblages of cancer is based on ten years of ethnographic work with patients and medical professionals in the UK, France and Italy.
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Science & MathematicsNovember 2022Trust in the system
by Adam Hedgecoe, Des Fitzgerald, Amy Hinterberger
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January 2023Diagnosis Digital Disaster
Can the healthcare system still be saved?
by Peter Schaar
— Ways out of the digital disaster — For healthcare professionals and informed patients Modern information technologies can and should contribute to improving the quality and transparency of medical care and making healthcare more economical – and all for the benefit and well-being of patients. Well, that would be the noble approach. All the talk about health insurance cards, telematics infrastructure and electronic patient files stirs up emotions. Peter Schaar, long-standing Federal Data Protection Commissioner, brings light to the dark data and health thicket. Why are innovations in the healthcare sector met with great scepticism by many stakeholders? How can we speed up the development and implementation of meaningful ITsupported solutions? What role does the narrow, small-scale regulatory framework play – not only, but also in data protection?
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2004The UK financial system
4th Edition
by Mike Buckle, John Thompson
Substantially revised and updated, this fourth edition of The UK financial system presents a comprehensive explanation of the workings of the institutions and markets which make up the UK financial system, and discusses the issues affecting them. It presents key theoretical developments such as asymmetric information, the efficient markets hypothesis, behavioural economics and the term structure of interest rates, thus providing an analytical framework to aid understanding of the institutional structure. Several case studies are provided throughout the book looking at the failure of various financial firms and the lessons that can be learned from these. Examples include Equitable Life, Barings Bank, the Bank of International Credit and Commerce (BCCI) and Long Term Capital Management. ;
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MedicineDigitalization in the Care and Healthcare Sector
by Michael Klösch
This reference book offers a classification of common areasof digitalization in the care and healthcare sector. The authorssummarize international experience based on studiesand focus on care with relevant examples. The book takes aninterdisciplinary approach and shows how digital networkingcan improve the interaction. The authors present strategiesfor increasing the acceptance of technology in thehealthcare sector.
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MedicineCommunity and Family Health Care
Textbook for Ambulatory Care
by Daniela HändlerSchuster, Helmut Budroni (Eds.)
Communitybased nursing is diverse and complex. This textbook describes the roles of nursing professionals in a practiceoriented manner, taking into account tasks and processes for their further development. The authors clarify which concepts support nurses in dealing professionally with existential fears and selfcare. They integrate approaches of caring communities, neighborhoodbased health counseling, and disaster nursing into nursing work; and they describe nursing interventions in ambulatory care.
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March 2021Systemically Relevant
Behind the scenes of nursing
by Maximiliane Schaffrath
In 2008, the banks that had been bailed out with billions by the government were considered “systemically relevant”, in the corona pandemic of 2020 it was members of poorly paid professions such as healthcare workers. Reading Maximiliane Schaffrath‘s book on the situation regarding healthcare and nursing staff, it seems almost miraculous that Germany had managed to escape a corona disaster for so long. She gives a very personal and gripping account of the stages in her own training – and the unsustainable conditions that are suffered not only by the people who are supposed to care for and look after us, but also by everyone who depends on them.
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PsychologyIntegrating Digital Tools Into Children’s Mental Health Care
by Deborah J. Jones, Margaret T. Anton
How to use digital tools in children’smental healthcare according to the latestevidence• Expert authors examine theevidence-base• Provides hands-on exercises forselecting digital tools• Includes downloadable handoutsand formsPractitioners need to know the evidencebehind using digital mentalhealth approaches and tools, includingtelemental health visits. This accessiblebook provides that help, as the authorsguide the reader through the rationale,options, and strategies forincorporating digital tools into children’smental healthcare drawing ontheir extensive knowledge of both currentresearch and clinical practice.
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2020Zinc and Vitamin C
A strong team against coughs and sneezes. Patient guide
by Uwe Gröber
This patient guide provides readers with the latest medicallyand scientifically-based information on how zinc and vitamin C can efficiently and cheaply ■ strengthen their immune system ■ successfully help treat colds ■ shorten the duration of illness ■ improve their quality of life!
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MedicineEvolution and Health
How Do Lifestyle and Diet Inflence Medicine and Our Health?
by Nicole Bender, Lotte Habermann-Horstmeier (Eds.)
Today, we live in a new, anthropogenic environment that differs signifcantly from the environments to which we have adapted in the course of our evolution. This has signifcant effects on us humans, our health, and our social interaction. But how does the complex interaction between humans and the environment work from an evolutionary perspective? How does evolution affect our biology and behavior? What role do genetic and epigenetic aspects play here? And what inflence does this have on the development of diseases such as diabetes mellitus type 2, cardiovascular diseases, allergies, autoimmune diseases or mental disorders? The book attempts to provide answers to these complex questions and allows an exciting evolutionary view of our future with new approaches for individual lifestyle opportunities, but also for future public health measures.
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MedicineJuly 2023Germs and governance
The past, present and future of hospital infection, prevention and control
by Anne Marie Rafferty, Marguerite Dupree, Fay Bound Alberti
Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infection control. Combining historical case-studies with practitioner experiences, this volume offers a new understanding of the emergence of theories of germ transmission and containment and how these theories played out in real-world environments, networks and professional organisations. Exploring the historical context in which technologies like gloves were developed and popularised, as well as how relationships between communities and hospitals, doctors and nurses, and the emerging role of hospital bacteriologists have shaped infection control practices, the collection emphasises the diverse contexts in which ideas about germs, infection and safety circulated. The volume also addresses the historical neglect of the critical role of nurses in the development and success of infection control measures.
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Geography & the EnvironmentAugust 2020Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city
by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Susan Parnell
The imperatives of public health shaped our understanding of the cities of the global north in the first industrial revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are doing so again today, reflecting new geographies of the urban age of the twenty-first. Emergent cities in parts of the globe experiencing most profound urban growth face major problems of economic, ecological and social sustainability when making sense of new health challenges and designing policy frameworks for public health infrastructures. The rapid evolution of complex 'systems of systems' in today's cities continually reconfigure the urban commons, reshaping how we understand urban public health, defining new problems and drawing on new data tools for analysis that work from the historical legacies and geographical variations that structure public health systems.
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MedicineJanuary 2025
Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820
by Alannah Tomkins
This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best of their ability, and often performed well, despite multiple threats to nurse reputations on the grounds of gender norms and social status. Chapters consider nursing in the home, in general hospitals, in specialist institutions like the Royal Chelsea Hospital and asylums, plus during wartime, illuminated by multiple accounts of individual nurses. In these settings, it employs the sociological concept of 'dirty work' to contextualise the challenges to nurses and nursing identities.
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June 2024At the Very Bottom of the System
How migrant workers ensure prosperity for us
by Sascha Lübbe
The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those affected resist.
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