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Health policy and management
RageSome reviews of the German edition of Rage, Jähzorn Theodor Itten, psychotherapist and author, has got to grips with sudden rage in both literary and therapeutic terms… Jähzorn is the very first German-language book on the subject, and is published by Springer, a... Full review
Europe's Health for SaleMarkets are a more expensive way to organise health care. They are less efficient, less equitable and less accountable to the wider public than planned, publicly funded systems: all of the evidence confirms this view. So why are marketising reforms continuing, even in the midst of... Full review
DrExam Part B MRCS OSCE Revision Guide: Book 1"the most colourful, complete & structured MRCS OSCE revision guide" Professor David Sharpe OBE The DrExam series has been developed to comprehensively address the revised Part B MRCS OSCE syllabus. Material is presented in structured question–answer format throughout,... Full review
DrExam Part B MRCS OSCE Revision Guide: Book 2"the most colourful, complete & structured MRCS OSCE revision guide" Professor David Sharpe OBE The DrExam series has been developed to comprehensively address the revised Part B MRCS OSCE syllabus. Material is presented in structured question–answer format throughout,... Full review
AbortionIn the year 2000 there were an estimated 67,800 maternal deaths due to unsafe abortions. In 2005 there were a reported 14,602 deaths by terrorist attacks. Yet while terrorism dominates the media and billions are spent on its prevention, unsafe abortion remains a silent killer. In... Full review
Female Genital MutilationFemale Genital Mutilation: Treating the Tears deals with the topical and controversial issue of female circumcision. A thoroughly researched and academic work, it aims to raise awareness not only of the physical but also the psychological effects of this procedure. Female Genital Mutilation... Full review
Health Policy ReformHealth Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way? addresses the dramatic changes that have been taking place within the world's healthcare systems since the early 1990s. It questions whether these major 'reforms' are driven primarily by the health needs of the wider population or, in... Full review
The NHS After 60Sixty years ago, in 1948, Aneurin Bevan’s bold nationalisation of private, voluntary and municipal hospitals swept away a failed market system and created the most popular of all the public services, the NHS. New Labour reforms are reversing this historic modernisation and spending more money... Full review
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