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  • Someone Else’s Problem
    Timothy Lesaca
    In medicine, a referral can be placed, a consent form signed, a training completed, and a discharge summary sent-while the person who needed help is still left to make the system work.Someone Else’s Problem examines what happens when health care passes its unfinished work to patients and clinicians. Through cases involving emergency dispatchers, military sexual trauma, suicide ...
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    12,84 €

  • The Moral Geography of Power
    Timothy Lesaca
    Power is measured not only by those who exercise it, but by those who bear its consequences.The Moral Geography of Power brings together five historical narratives that explore courage, authority, leadership, and the human cost of decisions made far from those who must live with them.From the brutal captivity of Ernest Gordon on the Burma Railway to Tommy Macpherson’s hidden wa...
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    21,23 €

  • The Hidden Architecture of Care Essays on Systems, Medicine, and Human Responsibility
    Timothy Lesaca
    Modern medicine possesses extraordinary knowledge. It can diagnose earlier, treat more effectively, and extend lives once thought beyond saving. Yet knowledge alone does not guarantee care. Between what medicine knows and what patients receive stands a complex architecture of institutions, policies, incentives, regulations, and decisions that shape who receives help, when they ...
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    19,07 €

  • What Doctors See
    Timothy Lesaca
    What Doctors See is a collection of 31 essays by psychiatrist Timothy Lesaca, MD, originally published in KevinMD and brought together here in a thematically organized volume.Drawing on more than four decades of clinical experience, Dr. Lesaca explores the realities that shape modern medicine beyond the diagnosis itself. These essays examine the lived experience of illness, phy...
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    19,06 €

  • Black Water, Human Hands
    Timothy Lesaca
    Black Water, Human Hands is a deeply researched and emotionally powerful examination of the Buffalo Creek flood of February 26, 1972-one of the deadliest and most preventable industrial disasters in American history. In the narrow coal hollows of Logan County, West Virginia, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company collapsed after days of heavy rain, unleashing more ...
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    10,82 €

  • The Performance of Sovereignty
    Timothy Lesaca
    The Performance of Sovereignty: Psychological Life Inside the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines examines the psychological and political realities of the Japanese occupation during World War II and the creation of the Japanese-sponsored Second Philippine Republic.Rather than focusing primarily on military campaigns, this book explores a deeper question: what happens when a...
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    12,25 €