Bücher der Reihe Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series

Includes articles that question each of the tenets of neoliberal doctrine, showing how the policies guided by this ideology have adversely affected human development in the countries where they have been implemented. This book assembles a series of articles that challenge this ideology.

Says that the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have betrayed us. This book alleges that these institutions have spent tens of billions of taxpayer primarily targeting silver-bullet cures, strategies that have largely failed, while virtually ignoring strategies for preventing cancer in the first place.

Provides a background to occupational stress, and traces the early work of Hans Selye and the development of bio-physiological, psychological and then sociological models of stress. This book also reports on a study of stress and ill-health in a large manufacturing organisation in Australia.

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, this title explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women.