Reconciling Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge
This book examines the use of expert testimony across the legal system, including the issues faced by mental health professionals when they are called upon to serve as expert witnesses.
The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness, Second Edition, by Dr. Gutheil, is a highly readable and practical update of his successful first edition. The focus of the new volume is to guide readers to become, improve, and successfully market a career as a psychiatric expert witness.
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's ability to express needs and desires. But how do you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life? The Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit (ECAT) for ......
Volume 1: Foundations and Context of Health Psychology; Volume 2: Clinical Interventions and Disease Management in Health Psychology; Volume 3: Health Psychology and Public Health
The 3-volume APA Handbook of Health Psychology describes in detail the basic foundations and context of health psychology, major issues in health psychology relating to public health and disease prevention, and major clinical approaches to health psychology. Volume 1, Foundations and Context of Health Psychology explores the conceptual ......
Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State
Introduces a vision for the future of health equity and explains practical policy measures for how to achieve it. Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. Ultimately, this only makes the problem ......
A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.
The compelling autobiography of a nurse-turned-state senator determined to make health care equitable and available for all. From her childhood in Jamaica to her early days in nursing and, eventually, to her entry into politics, Shirley Nathan-Pulliam has exemplified what it means to translate principles and values into action through legislation ......
The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its ......
Explores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability. Complex contemporary experiences with disease, death, and disability in the United States have made the concept of human dignity seem outdated. In Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care, Christa Teston challenges conventional notions of dignity and, based on ......
