False Hopes

Author : Richard A. Rettig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199748242
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Hope written by Richard A. Rettig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s, a promising new treatment for breast cancer emerged: high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation or HDC/ABMT. By the 1990s, it had burst upon the oncology scene and disseminated rapidly before having been carefully evaluated. By the time published studies showed that the procedure was ineffective, more than 30,000 women had received the treatment, shortening their lives and adding to their suffering. This book tells of the rise and demise of HDC/ABMT for metastatic and early stage breast cancer, and fully explores the story's implications, which go well beyond the immediate procedure, and beyond breast cancer, to how we in the United States evaluate other medical procedures, especially life-saving ones. It details how the factors that drove clinical use--patient demand, physician enthusiasm, media reporting, litigation, economic exploitation, and legislative and administrative mandates--converged to propel the procedure forward despite a lack of proven clinical effectiveness. It also analyzes the limited effect of technology assessments before randomized clinical trials evaluated decisively the procedure and the ramifications of this system on healthcare today. Sections of the book consider the initial conditions surrounding the emergence of the new breast cancer treatment, the drivers of clinical use, and the struggle for evidence-based medicine. A concluding section considers the significance of the story for our healthcare system.

Author : Dane Calloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737655817
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Heros False Hopes written by Dane Calloway and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Callahan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813526744
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Hopes written by Daniel Callahan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text exposes the cause of the health care crisis and proposes an alternative to make care affordable and available to all. It shows how the quest for perfection is the core of the crisis, and suggests a medicine that bows to the limits of human nature and gives priority to meeting basic needs.

Author : Tim Bouverie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0451499840
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appeasement written by Tim Bouverie and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II"--

Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher : New York : J.W. Lovell Company ; Toronto : Willing & Williamson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Hopes written by Goldwin Smith and published by New York : J.W. Lovell Company ; Toronto : Willing & Williamson. This book was released on 1883 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Curtis Hutson
Publisher : Sword of the Lord Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873982795
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Hopes of Heaven written by Curtis Hutson and published by Sword of the Lord Publishers. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meli Raine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781691104802
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Hope (False #2) written by Meli Raine and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She thinks she's fooled me. But I've known all along.Almost.Lily is hiding something, a secret so big, she came out of a year-long coma and her first instinct was to lie.Who does that? Someone who is afraid. No--not afraid.Terrified. And it's my job to take that fear away.My partner and I have spent countless man-hours hunting down the cold-blooded killer who did this to her. Meanwhile, Lily's spent her waking hours recovering. Getting stronger. Getting smarter.Staying beautiful.Never get involved emotionally. That's my dictate. Never get attached.When you realize you're caught in a triangle, it turns out there is no exit.Crossing a line is easy. Holding a line takes strength.Lily's shooter knows that she's my weakness.And he's about to exploit that by breaking a line and escaping, claiming a hostage in the process.One I have to get back.No matter what it takes.

Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Hopes written by Goldwin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald N. Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226726681
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollow Hope written by Gerald N. Rosenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition of his landmark work, Rosenberg himself steps back into the fray, responding to criticism and adding chapters on the same-sex marriage battle that ask anew whether courts can spur political and social reform. Finding that the answer is still a resounding no, Rosenberg reaffirms his powerful contention that it’s nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation. The reason? American courts are ineffective and relatively weak—far from the uniquely powerful sources for change they’re often portrayed as. Rosenberg supports this claim by documenting the direct and secondary effects of key court decisions—particularly Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. He reveals, for example, that Congress, the White House, and a determined civil rights movement did far more than Brown to advance desegregation, while pro-choice activists invested too much in Roe at the expense of political mobilization. Further illuminating these cases, as well as the ongoing fight for same-sex marriage rights, Rosenberg also marshals impressive evidence to overturn the common assumption that even unsuccessful litigation can advance a cause by raising its profile. Directly addressing its critics in a new conclusion, The Hollow Hope, Second Edition promises to reignite for a new generation the national debate it sparked seventeen years ago.

Author : Jason Sautel
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1400216486
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rescuer written by Jason Sautel and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He helped save people every day—but he had no idea how to save himself. Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood—until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face to face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well. In the following months, a series of traumatic emergency calls—some successful, others impossible-to-forget failures—drove Jason deeper into depression. Even as he continued his lifesaving work, he realized he could never rescue everyone, and he had no idea how to save himself. In the end, Jason was forced to confront the truth: only the relentless power of love could pull him back from his own deadly fall. Action-packed, spiritually honest, and surprisingly romantic, The Rescuer transports readers inside the pulse-pounding world of firefighting and into the heart of a man who needed to be broken before he could finally be made whole.