This book is the first comprehensive collection devoted to analyzing distinctive ethical issues arising in the delivery of hospice care and designed to promote best ethical practices for hospice care professionals and organizations in the United States.

Provides an introduction to the world of medicine and social work, as seen through the eyes of social workers. Covering varying facets of diverse illness situations, this book tells how social workers see their role and function, what they describe as the struggles and rewards of their work, and how they serve the hospital, patient, and caregiver.

Tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health.

This book entitled "How Data Can Manage Global Health Pandemics: Analyzing and Understanding COVID-19" provides guidance on these topics. While there are a few books on pandemics and COVID-19, role of technologies in pandemics, none of the books talk about all the above topics with special emphasis on data.

This book entitled "How Data Can Manage Global Health Pandemics: Analyzing and Understanding COVID-19" provides guidance on these topics. While there are a few books on pandemics and COVID-19, role of technologies in pandemics, none of the books talk about all the above topics with special emphasis on data.

What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? Documenting the use of household substances and remedies, this book looks at the emergence of modern medicine from everyday cures such as herbs, oils and foods. It also presents an investigation into the private lives of the spirited Stuarts of the 17th century.

A comprehensive look at how social policy has developed in the area of healthcare.

Includes unique photos from staff telling their stories as well as some photos of NHS murals from the artists.