"Case Studies in Emergency Medicine and the Health of the Public"
Edited by Edward Bernstein, M.D. and Judith Bernstein, PhD.



Painting by JOHN VALADEZ "Bus Stop Stabbing" 1984

This textbook integrates the practice of Emergency Medicine with the social context, in which patients personal lives and public health problems come together. The book's 33 chapters, written by 59 contributors from throughout the country, include case studies on topics such as:
  • Project Assert
  • Motivating Patients for Change
  • Rape and Sexual Violence
  • Battered Women
  • Gay and Lesbian Health Issues
  • Unmet Health Care Needs of Women
  • Tuberculosis and Homelessness
  • Prisoners' Health
  • Emergency Department Staff as Victims
  • Firearm Related Injuries
  • Managed Care: New Challenges and Opportunies in Emergency Medecine
  • Ethnicity, Culture and Delivery of Health Care Services
"I teach an undergraduate course entitled Emergency Medical Services: Anatomy of Critical Performance. I have chosen this book to be the principal textbook for my course. I have been teaching this course for eleven years and have never encountered a better or more germane text...The text is highly readable, even to the non health care practioner. It is full of cases and examples and makes each area of public health and Emergency Medicine interesting and relevant."

Bruce M. Becker, MD, MPH, Brown University, School of Medicine.

To order this textbook, contact:

Jones and Bartlett Publishers: 1-800-832-0034
Case Studies in Emergency Medicine and the Health of the Public, 1996
ISBN 0-7637-0029-0
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Email ebernste@bu.edu [Edward Bernstein, M.D.]

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