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Books: Medical: Health Risk Assessment
Risk Analysis and the Security Survey, Third Editionby James F. Broder List Price: $59.95 Available from Amazon $59.95 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review 'it provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the vital subjects of risk analysis and the art/science of conducting and producing effective, results-oriented security surveys. It is written to meet the needs of security professionals from student to master. Broder and his contributing authors have addressed today's changes while retaining the spirit, quality, and fundamental principles described in the first edition. As we evolve into an information based society, the principles and advice in this book will serve the reader well, particularly when dealing with the increasing demands of asset protection, information protection, high technology issues, terrorism, and unkown risks. An excellent book in its original iteration, this edition is far superior to the first. It is highly recommended both an as excellent resource and as a study aid the CPP examination.' - Security Management This text sets out to understand the principles of risk analysis and to relate these to security students and professionals. Its aim is to help those individuals produce more effective results-oriented security surveys geared to the ever-changing needs of the organization. -The Computer Law and Security Report The text takes the reader through the relevant issues based on a fundamental philosophy of risk control that the program should be as self-sufficient as possible in all matters pertaining to security. -The Computer Law and Security Report As a study text for those involved in security risk analysis this book would be an important addition to a professional's library, but it would also be very valuable to an investigator involved in post-incident investigations. -The Institute of Professional Investigators The 1984 edition was still in the ASIS "top-ten" before the compilation of this volume, indicating what security professionals think of it's value as a security text book. -The Institute of Professional Investigators --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description Security and risk management are principally concerned with the protection and conservation of corporate assets and resources. The task of protection continues to be an increasingly complex one in a time when technology is creating new products (and thus risk) at an explosive rate. Add this to the crime rate -- now aggravated by domestic and international terrorism -- and the importance of risk analysis and evaluation to design proper protection becomes self-evident. With an awareness of the growing threat of global terrorism, the third edition of RISK ANALYSIS AND THE SECURITY SURVEY has been completely updated. It includes two new chapters covering disaster recover planning, mitigation, and the evolving methodologies that are a result of the Homeland Security Act. The following topics will also be added and covered among the various chapters: contingency planning, testing of disaster response plan, managing during a crisis, maintaining and testing a response plan (team drills, etc.), bomb threats and suicide bombings, and prevention techniques to better prepare business for new post 9/11 security risks. - Covers business Impact Analysis (BIA), Project Planning, Data Collection, Data Analysis and Report of Findings, and Prediction of Criminal Behavior - Presents updated statistical information and practical case examples - Helps professionals and students produce more effective results-oriented security surveys |
To Your Health: How to Understand What Research Tells Us about Risk by Helena Chmura Kraemer, et al List Price: $49.95 Available from Amazon $49.95 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting or questionable results in the scientific literature in order to guide their patients to the best possible decisions. The situation is not much easier for scientists who may waste years of their productive life, and considerable resources, basing their research efforts on what prove to be misleading earlier research findings. What this book does is to present, in non "academese" and with many examples from the general media and scientific journals, a guide to a critical reading of research reports, which, in turn, serves as a guide to researchers as to which approaches are likely to be regarded with raised eyebrows, and what they need to do to generate results that will be taken seriously. This stimulating and helpful book was written for informed consumers and physicians as well as for scientists evaluating the risk research literature or contemplating projects on risk research. |
The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition, Vol. One: Patients, Doctors, and Illnessby Nancy M. P. King (Editor), et al List Price: $22.95 Available from Amazon $22.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today’s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. The first edition of The Social medicine Reader was a single volume. This significantly revised and expanded second edition is divided into three volumes to facilitate use by different audiences with varying interests. Praise for the 3-volume second edition of The Social medicine Reader: “A superb collection of essays that illuminate the role of medicine in modern society. Students and general readers are not likely to find anything better.”—Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard medical School Praise for the first edition: “This Reviewer strongly recommends The Social medicine Reader to the attention of medical educators.”—Samuel W. Bloom, JAMA: The journal of the American medical Association Volume 1: A woman with what is quite probably a terminal illness must choose between courses of treatment based on contradictory diagnoses. A medical student causes acute pain in his patients as he learns to insert a central line. One doctor wonders how to react when a patient asks him to pray with her; another struggles to come to terms with his mistakes. A physician writes in a prominent medical journal about facilitating a dying woman’s wish to end her life on her own terms; letters to the editor reflect passionate responses both in support of and in opposition to his actions. These experiences and many more are vividly rendered in Patients, Doctors, and Illness, which brings together nineteen pieces that appeared in the first edition of The Social medicine Reader and eighteen pieces new to this edition. This volume examines the roles and training of health care professionals and their relationship with patients, ethics in health care, and end-of-life experiences and decisions. It includes fiction and nonfiction narratives and poetry; definitions and case-based discussions of moral precepts in health care, such as truth telling, informed consent, privacy, and autonomy; and readings that provide legal, ethical, and practical perspectives on many familiar but persistent ethical and social questions raised by illness and care. Contributors: Yehuda Amichai, Marcia Angell, George J. Annas, Marc D. Basson, Doris Betts, Amy Bloom, Abenaa Brewster, Raymond Carver, Eric J. Cassell, Larry R. Churchill, James Dickey, Gerald Dworkin, James Dwyer, Miles J. Edwards, Charles R. Feldstein, Chris Feudtner, Leonard Fleck, Arthur Frank, Benjamin Freedman, Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, Lawrence D. Grouse, David Hilfiker, Nancy M. P. King, Perri Klass, Melvin Konner, Bobbie Ann Mason, Steven H. Miles, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Timothy E. Quill, David Schenck, Daniel Shapiro, Susan W. Tolle, Alice Stewart Trillin, William Carlos Williams Publisher Description "Patients, Doctors, and Illness is a rich collection of classics and good new surprises."--Kathryn Montgomery, Director of medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition: Vol. 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicineby Jonathan Oberlander (Editor), et al List Price: $22.95 Available from Amazon $22.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today’s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. The first edition of The Social medicine Reader was a single volume. This significantly revised and expanded second edition is divided into three volumes to facilitate use by different audiences with varying interests. Praise for the 3-volume second edition of The Social medicine Reader: “A superb collection of essays that illuminate the role of medicine in modern society. Students and general readers are not likely to find anything better.”—Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard medical School Praise for the first edition: “This Reviewer strongly recommends The Social medicine Reader to the attention of medical educators.”—Samuel W. Bloom, JAMA: The journal of the American medical Association Volume 3: Over the past four decades the American health care system has witnessed dramatic changes in private health insurance, campaigns to enact national health insurance, and the rise (and perhaps fall) of managed care. Bringing together seventeen pieces new to this second edition of The Social medicine Reader and four pieces from the first edition, Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine draws on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives—including political science, economics, history, and bioethics—to consider changes in health care and the future of U.S. health policy. Contributors analyze the historical and moral foundation of today’s policy debates, examine why health care spending is so hard to control in the United States, and explain the political dynamics of Medicare and Medicaid. Selections address the rise of managed care, its impact on patients and physicians, and the ethical implications of applying a business ethos to medical care; they also compare the U.S. health care system to the systems in European countries, Canada, and Japan. Additional readings probe contemporary policy issues, including the emergence of consumer-driven health care, efforts to move quality of care to the top of the policy agenda, and the implications of the aging of America for public policy. Contributors: Henry J. Aaron, Drew E. Altman, George J. Annas, Robert H. Binstock, Thomas Bodenheimer, Troyen A. Brennan, Robert H. Brook, Lawrence D. Brown, Daniel Callahan, Jafna L. Cox, Victor R. Fuchs, Kevin Grumbach, Rudolf Klein, Robert Kuttner, Larry Levitt, Donald L. Madison, Wendy K. Mariner, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Jonathan Oberlander, Geov Parrish, Sharon Redmayne, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Michael S. Sparer, Deborah Stone Publisher Description "These essays explore medicine and society, health and politics, care and economics. Along the way, they raise urgent questions about the human condition itself. Bracing, thoughtful, elegant, witty, iconoclastic -- The Social medicine Reader is a terrific book, perhaps the best collection of teaching essays on the market."--James A Morone, author of Hellfire Nation: The politics of Sin in American history and co-editor of Healthy, Wealthy and Fair: Health Care for the Good Society --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
How to Identify Suicidal People: A Systematic Approach to Risk Assessmentby Thomas W. White List Price: $23.95 Available from Amazon $16.76 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Dr. White, with over 20 years of experience in risk assess- ment, presents his revolutionary method for conducting risk assessments that will result in accurate, sensitive, effec- tive, and legally defensible assessments. Book Info Author is a clinical psychologist. Reference for mental health professionals who work with potentially suicidal people. Discusses the author's new method, an actual system, of conducting risk assessments that are clinically sound, professionally responsible, and legally defensible. Softcover. |
Health Assessment: A Nursing Approachby Jill Fuller, Jennifer Schaller-Ayers Available from Amazon $9.96 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description covers traditional physical exam techniques and history taking; guidelines for assessment of psychosocial aspects such as self-concept, roles and relationships, values, and beliefs; assessment of stress and stress responses; and more. Book Info Winona Community Memorial Hospital, MN. Second author, Jennifer Schaller-Ayers is from Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock. Textbook, for nursing students, designed to teach the 'habit of observation.' Uses the frameworks of functional health and nursing diagnoses while incorporating traditional physical exam techniques. Illustrated. Previous edition: c1994. DNLM: Nursing Assessment. |
Positive Prevention: Reducing HIV Transmission among People Living with HIV AIDS (Perspectives on Critical Care Infectious Diseases S.)by Seth C. Kalichman (Editor) List Price: $59.95 Available from Amazon $53.43 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description "This book is a 'must read' for those interested in the prevention of HIV transmission. It has enough breadth to provide a general overview of 'prevention with positives' and enough detail to satisfy and educate those already working in this area. Clinicians who want to develop or refine their approaches to counseling patients with HIV will find this book valuable." (Gary Marks, PhD., New England journal of Medicine, August 4, 2005) The CDC has made a revision in their philosophy underlying recommended prevention techniques to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The new approach focuses on "positive prevention", that is, prevention among people living with HIV/AIDS. This important distinction has resulted in the need to reexamine the behaviors around HIV transmission and the approaches to prevention when working within this diverse population. Positive Prevention is a timely volume containing the latest contributions from the top scholars in the field on preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Issues covered include unprotected sex with HIV-positive gay and bisexual men; issues around whether disclosure leads to safer sex; mental health and HIV with young adults; the impact of HIV diagnosis on sexual risk behaviors; interventions in community settings; and more. There is also a important chapter on international perspectives on "positive prevention". This volume will serve as an invaluable sourcebook for all professionals working in the field of HIV / AIDS prevention. |
Human Error in Medicineby Marilyn Sue Bogner (Editor) List Price: $49.95 Available from Amazon $46.72 On 7-18-2006 
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