The Book Company: New Products - Health Policy

Back to Balance (The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:20:20 +0000

USA TODAY and Los Angeles Times Bestseller

"Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright has both the diagnosis and prescription for what ails American health care."
—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To S..

Price: $25.95

About Canada: Dental Care

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:43:55 +0000

Dental care is excluded from Canada’s universal healthcare system, with services provided based on the ability to pay. Our dental-care system is leading large segments of the population to neglect care, resulting in poor oral health and all of its consequences. This book examines the history of de..
Price: $20.00

The Value of Health (A History of the Pan American Health Organization)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:33:28 +0000

A multilayered analytical study that situates the Pan American Health Organization in a complex and shifting historical context and examines the internal dynamics of the organization in a probing critical fashion.

Marcos Cueto, a widely published medical historian, presents an appeal..
Price: $29.99

Health at Risk (America's Ailing Health System-and How to Heal It)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:47:39 +0000

In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care..
Price: $26.00

Moral Acquaintances (Methodology in Bioethics)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:59:43 +0000

From decisions about the end of life to choices about the creation of life and, more recently, to questions concerning the cost and accessibility of health care, bioethics is a field of vigorous and sometimes rancorous public debate. Indeed the moral controversies and dilemmas of medicine and h..
Price: $20.00

Medicine and the Marketplace (The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:53:32 +0000

The emerging dominance of managed care provided by profit-seeking corporations has intensified the public's concern that traditional business goals of maximizing profits will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well-being. Society is left to wonder how physicians can properly h..
Price: $40.00

Human Dignity and Bioethics

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:49:42 +0000

This collection of essays, commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics, explores a fundamental concept crucial to today’s discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular. Since its formation in 2001, the council has frequently used the term “human dignity” in its ..
Price: $40.00

Unifying for Something Greater (How laboratory medicine is driving and enabling healthcare transformation)

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:47:30 +0000

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

Building upon six years of insights from the global UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence program, Unifying for Something Greater: How laboratory medicine is driving and enabling he..
Price: $32.00

Discrimination, Equality and Health Care Rationing

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:38:54 +0000

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
When deciding who to treat, those engaged in priority-setting and resource allocation in health care need to comply with their obligations under the Equality Act 2010.
This book provides an in-depth examination of how ant..
Price: $41.95

Clients, Consumers or Citizens? (The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in England)

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:52:57 +0000

Adult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market. There is now a forty-year period to look back at to consider the thinking behind the strategy, the impacts on commissioners and providers of care, on the care workforce and on t..
Price: $42.95