From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Pdf Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2003-02-06
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0155085670
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This case study will be the first to deal with a topic in medical anthropology. It explores the world of folk medicine in the Caribbean (Dominica) - local beliefs and practices concerning how the body functions and malfunctions and the home remedies Dominicans use to cure common illnesses. The case study goes beyond discussing the exotic medical system of a developing country (which includes sorcery and folk-illnesses) to discuss how folk medicine flourishes in industrialized countries in a way that is little different than that practiced in Dominica. The theme is that cultural ideas about the body and uses of medicinal plants are deeply intertwined. Ideas about illness direct the consequent medical response. The book's topic is important because knowledge of local ethnomedical practice is essential for development of public health interventions in non-Western settings. This realist ethnography is aimed at any member of the generally educated population. Download From the Bush for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers (Bush School Series in the Economics of Public Policy) Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2000-02-01
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0226710130
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Medicare Reform pdf
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In 1965, landmark legislation established the national Medicare system as a means of insuring access to medical care for all elderly citizens. Today, rocketing medical costs combined with a rapidly aging population have thrown the Medicare system off balance, moving it perilously close to financial crisis. Medicare already accounts for 2.65 percent of gross domestic product, and by the year 2030 that share is expected to more than double. Further, the trust fund dedicated to Medicare hospitalization coverage is expected to be depleted by 2008. Clearly, Medicare as we know it cannot endure much longer without either imposing a massive tax burden or dissolving altogether under its own financial strain.

Medicare Reform—the first volume in a new series sponsored by the George Bush School of Government and Public Policy at Texas A&M University—tackles the current Medicare predicament head-on, delving into the fundamental issues surrounding the reorganization of the system: whethe Download Medicare Reform for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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