medical care

Contains fourteen essays that examine issues related to health care for military veterans, and features various arguments, and discusses the promise for lifetime health care benefits, the TRICARE system, the Veterans Administration, military doctors, misdiagnosises, and more.

Traces the efforts of Dr. Paul Farmer to transform healthcare on a global scale, documenting his visits to some of the world's most impoverished regions and the unconventional methods that enabled him to improve and save lives.

The story of an elite warrior medic who advances into combat with life-saving equipment in one hand and life-taking weapons in the other.

In a dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. --from publisher descriptioin.

An English translation of the diary of Dang Thuy Tram, a doctor who volunteered to serve in a Viet Cong battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province during the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1970, when she was killed by American forces. Includes notes, photographs, and an introduction by Frances FitzGerald.

Richard Heinzl recounts the experiences he had while spending a year in Cambodia offering medical help to the country's poorest residents and earning his credentials in order to set up a Canadian chapter of Doctors Without Borders.

Presents twenty-six articles debating issues related to aging in America, discussing the economics of supporting seniors' entitlement programs, retirement and illness, health care, and the social perception of the elderly.

Examines cultural issues in the American health care system through the case of Lia, a Hmong-American girl suffering from epilepsy whose treatment by doctors in California conflicted with the traditional healing beliefs held by her family.

Chronicles the life of Paul Farmer, focusing on his efforts to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring modern medicine to the countries and people who need them most.

Presents firsthand accounts of global poverty, arguing that promoting the social and economic rights of the poor is the most important struggle of modern times, and challenging conventional thinking on human rights by comparing the relationship between political injustices and the suffering of the powerless.