Published February, 2015
By Niki Vermeulen, Bart Penders, John N. Parker and John Parker
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
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Bringing together detailed research from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, this book sheds light on the features, environments, and relationships that characterise collaboration in health care and research, exploring changing patterns of collaboration and examining the causes and consequences of team work in the health domain.

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Published February, 2015
By Susan J. Elliott, JD. MEd., Assoc Prof Isaac Luginaah, Assoc Prof Rachel Bezner Kerr, Dr Allison Williams, Isaac Luginaah and Rachel Bezner Kerr
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Health problems in a developing context take on much higher rates of prevalence as a result of the varied cultural, structural and economic vulnerabilities of the people they impact. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the dialectic relationships between health and development.

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Published February, 2015
By Nana K. Poku, Jeremy R. Youde, Sara E. Davies and Professor Nana K Poku
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
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Asks leading contributors in the field to engage with five key issues attached to international disease outbreak surveillance - transparency, local engagement, practical needs, integration, and appeal - to show the political effect of these technologies on those who use surveillance, those who respond to surveillance, and those being monitored.

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Published January, 2015
By Dr Julia Smith, Julia Smith and Julia L. T. Smith
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
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The lack of attention that has been given in theory and in practice to the mental health support needs of disabled women who experience mental distress has resulted in an insufficient knowledge base of how to support disabled women who may require some form of mental health support. This book deals with this topic.

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Published December, 2014
By Katerina Sideri, Professor John Braithwaite, Professor Tom D. Campbell and Professor Peter Drahos
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The focus of this book is on regulatory agencies, such as the European Patent Office and the World Trade Organisation, and their role and function in the regulation of the bioeconomy.

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Published November, 2014
By Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart
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Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood.

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Published September, 2014
By Andrew F. Cooper, John J. Kirton, Franklyn Lisk, Hany Besada, Professor Andrew F Cooper, Professor John J Kirton, Professor Miranda A. Schreurs and Mr. Konrad Von Moltke
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Today's era of intense globalization has unleashed dynamic movements of people, pathogens, and pests that overwhelm the static territorial jurisdictions on which the governance provided by sovereign states and their formal intergovernmental institutions is based. This book insightfully explores the challenges this creates in ways that put the perspectives of Africans themselves at centre stage.

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Published September, 2014
By Patrick Waterson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
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Researchers, healthcare managers and human factors practitioners who need to know the latest developments within the theory and application of Patient Safety Culture within healthcare should read this book.

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Published September, 2014
By Adrian Wilson
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Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes: e.g. the routines of the all-female early-modern childbirth ritual, the different ways that male practitioners were summoned to such occasions, the functioning of voluntary hospitals, the protocols underlying patient records.

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Published September, 2014
By Jonathan Xavier Inda
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Racial Prescriptions explores the politics of dealing with health inequities through targeting pharmaceuticals at specific racial groups based on the idea that they are genetically different. Drawing on the introduction of BiDil to treat heart failure among African Americans.

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