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Concepts and Practice of Humanitarian Medicine

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Right to Health
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    Chapter 2 Health and Human Rights—A Public Health Perspective
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    Chapter 3 Health for All or Hell for All? The Role of Leadership in Health Equity
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    Chapter 4 The Declaration of Alma-Ata on Primary Health Care
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    Chapter 5 Health and Human Rights: In 25 Questions and Answers
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    Chapter 6 Freedom from Fear for Human Well-being: The Need for Humanitarian Medicine in the Prevention of Torture and the Treatment of its Survivors
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    Chapter 7 Humanitarian Medicine: A Vision and Action
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    Chapter 8 Ethical Principles for Everyone in Health Care
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    Chapter 9 Quality of Life and Medical Practice
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    Chapter 10 Medical Contributors to Social Progress: A Significant Aspect of Humanitarian Medicine
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    Chapter 11 Humanitarian Medicine Applied in a Highly Specialized Field: Cardiovascular Surgery
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    Chapter 12 Humanitarian Medicine for a Developing Country: Outreach to Cuba
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    Chapter 13 Humanitarian Basic Plastic Surgery
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    Chapter 14 Find New Unity
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    Chapter 15 Health and Human Rights in International Legal Instruments
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    Chapter 16 The United Nations Today: Changes in Policies and Structures—The World Summit and UN Reform
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    Chapter 17 The Critical News Stories You Never Read
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    Chapter 18 United Nations Humanitarian Action and the Role of Non-governmental Organizations
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    Chapter 19 The UN Founding Fathers and Dr Chisholm
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    Chapter 20 Brock Chisholm—Doctor to the World
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    Chapter 21 The Language of International Humanitarian Action: A Brief Terminology
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    Chapter 22 Humanitarian Action in Major Emergencies
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    Chapter 23 The Humanitarian Postulate in Disaster Management
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    Chapter 24 Health and Social Issues of Migrants and Refugees
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    Chapter 25 Man-Conceived Disasters
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    Chapter 26 The Nuclear Issue and Pugwash
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    Chapter 27 Quantifiable Effects of Nuclear Conflict on Health and Society
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    Chapter 28 Avoidable Tragedy Post-Chernobyl—A Critical Analysis
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    Chapter 29 The Role of Science to Improve the Quality of Life: Reflections on the Post-Genomic Era
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    Chapter 30 The Ethics of Research: The Responsibility of the Researcher
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    Chapter 31 The Cost of Not Doing Health Research
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    Chapter 32 Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Medicine
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    Chapter 33 Scientists, Doctors and the Nuclear Dilemma
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    Chapter 34 Serving the Global Community Through eHealth: The Role of Academia
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    Chapter 35 The Humanization of Medicine—A Religious Viewpoint
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    Chapter 36 Urban Social Exclusion—The Samusocial Response
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    Chapter 37 Social and Medical Progress Through Patient Education in Chronic Diseases
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    Chapter 38 An Equitable Society Protects the Health of its Weakest Members: Women and Children
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    Chapter 39 The Humanitarian Force of the UN Millennium Development Goals
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    Chapter 40 Science and the Health of the Poor
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    Chapter 41 Poverty and Disease—Health and Prosperity
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Title
Concepts and Practice of Humanitarian Medicine
Published by
Springer New York, October 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-72264-1
ISBNs
978-0-387-72263-4, 978-0-387-72264-1
Editors

Gunn, S. William A., Masellis, Michele

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 1%
Belgium 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 69 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 15%
Researcher 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 16 22%
Unknown 9 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 24%
Psychology 7 10%
Social Sciences 6 8%
Engineering 5 7%
Computer Science 4 6%
Other 17 24%
Unknown 16 22%