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Clocking In: The Psychology of Work - Hardcover

$75.60

by Rudy Nydegger (Author)Covering important topics such as job satisfaction, workplace stress, and the changing nature of jobs and careers in the 21st century, this valuable resource explores how working affects us psychologically, for better and for worse and sometimes in imperceptible ways. Although most people go to work Monday through Friday, few stop to think about the central role work plays in our lives. Besides allowing us to provide for the material needs of ourselves and our familie...

Healthcare Teamwork: Interprofessional Practice and Education - Paperback

$81.00

by Theresa Drinka (Author), Phillip Clark (Author)Both comprehensive and accessible, this is an ideal resource for anyone who plans to teach or practice integrated, cost-effective healthcare in the 21st century. Currently, there is no coordinated system for training health-profession students to address the needs of patients with complex illnesses, nor is there a coordinated system for effectively delivering care to these patients. This book explores both sides of the problem, bringing interp...

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by Tish Davidson (Author)Providing accurate, accessible information on vaccines and the controversies that surround them, this book outlines the history of vaccine regulation and interactions between vaccines and the immune system, and thoughtfully considers each vaccine debate. A part of Greenwood's Health and Medical Issues Today series, The Vaccine Debate provides a straightforward introduction to the interaction between vaccines and the immune system. The book documents the rise of the an...

An Introduction to Botanical Medicines: History, Science, Uses, and Dangers - Paperback

$63.00

by R. Johnstone (Author)For those who want to make educated decisions about whether, and when, to use natural products, this text explains the most current scientific evidence of the roles that plants can play in our health: how they can prevent, modify, or treat disease. Since antiquity, humans have used botanicals to treat various conditions affecting their organ systems, and this book is built around explaining which plants may be used for major ailments affecting the various systems. The ...

The 50 Healthiest Habits and Lifestyle Changes - Hardcover

$126.00

by Myrna Goldstein (Author), Mark Goldstein (Author)This book summarizes the findings of scientific research studies to provide readers with straightforward information on a wide variety of healthy habits and the factors that may make them difficult to follow. How can taking a yearly vacation serve to improve your health? Is there any scientific proof that skipping breakfast is detrimental to one's health? Americans are constantly bombarded with health tips from magazines, television, the Int...

Painkillers: History, Science, and Issues - Hardcover

$131.40

by Victor Stolberg (Author)This accessible, easy-to-read book provides readers with different perspectives on the subject of painkillers, examining their history, production, uses, and dangers. Many different drugs are effectively used as painkillers--substances that greatly improve the quality of life for those who suffer from temporary or recurring pain. This book presents an in-depth overview of opiates, opioids, and other painkilling substances such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug...

Peyote: History, Tradition, Politics, and Conservation - Hardcover

$135.00

by James A. Bauml (Foreword by), Stacy B. Schaefer (Foreword by), Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Editor)This book explains the role that peyote--a hallucinogenic cactus--plays in the religious and spiritual fulfillment of certain peoples in the United States and Mexico, and examines pressing issues concerning the regulation and conservation of peyote as well as issues of indigenous and religious rights. Why is mescaline--an internationally controlled substance derived from peyote--given exemptions fo...

The Affordable Care Act: Examining the Facts - Hardcover

$126.00

by Purva Rawal (Author)This is the first reference book to provide a detailed assessment of the Affordable Care Act, explaining the realities and myths surrounding one of the most divisive political struggles in recent U.S. history. The Affordable Care Act--also known as Obamacare--is one of the most controversial and politicized topics in the United States today. This timely book examines prominent claims about the legislation's drafting, debate, passage, and implementation, and discerns wha...

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by Michael Brennan (Editor)This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement--a universal experience across humanity. Written in an engaging and accessible style by leading international scholars and practitioners from within the field of death and bereavement studies, this book will have broad appeal, providing in a single volume insights from some of th...

Delivering Primary Health Care: Nurse Practitioners at Work - Hardcover

$135.00

by Michael J. Yedida (Author), Michael J. Yedidia (Author)Author Biographydida /f Michael /i J. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 30, 1981

Critical Perspectives on Health - Paperback

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by Peter Duncan (Author)This is a unique exploration of the nature of health, and the various ways in which it can be understood and interpreted. Readers are encouraged to challenge arguments and extend their thinking, helping to connect the key skills of critical analysis/reflection with the central conceptual and practical issues related to health and health care.Author BiographyPETER DUNCAN is Programme Director for the postgraduate programmes in Health Promotion and Health and Society, Ce...

Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice - Paperback

$73.71

by Glenn Laverack (Author)This highly anticipated new edition of Glenn Laverack's Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice has been fully revised throughout to provide readers with a practical understanding of how to help others to empower themselves in public health practice. The book explores the key concept of power and offers practical solutions for transforming professional power relations; it introduces a methodology to plan, implement and evaluate public health progr...

Immunization: The Reality Behind the Myth - Paperback

$99.00

by Walene James (Author)The only book that explores the vaccination issue from political, ethical, psychological, aesthetic, and spiritual perspectives. Using principles of general semantics to recognize propaganda, particularly medical propaganda, it points to the power of the media to create our reality. James suggests an unusual consciousness-raising plan of action to insure freedom of choice and non-harrassment of persons who choose to stay off the vaccine bandwagon. The author's controve...

Disabled, Female, and Proud: Stories of Ten Women with Disabilities - Paperback

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by Harilyn Rousso (Author)Women with disabilities face a double set of prejudices, based on gender and disability. The world too often sees them in terms of stereotypes: childlike, dependent, incompetent, asexual, unable to take on the role of worker, sexual partner, or mother. As a result, women with disabilities are left confused about who they are, and who they can become. In this exploration into the lives of ten women with disabilities, Rousso hopes to remedy this confusion. To some degr...

Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) - Paperback

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by Nancy Cohen (Author), Lois J. Estner (Author)The bible of cesarean prevention. Wall Street Journal A landmark event, which will change the course of obstetric care by giving parents the informtion they need to make the decisions that are best for their own families. Comprehensive, highly readable, sensitive . . . should be read by everyone who cares about someone. Marian Tompson Director, Alternative Birth Crisis Coalition American Academy of Medicine Required reading for all childbirth pr...

Birth Stories: Mystery, Power, and Creation - Hardcover

$135.00

by Jane Dwinell (Author)Jane Dwinell has written an important book using real-life scenarios to illustrate her unique philosophy of childbirth, one that can only inspire women to take greater control over how and where they give birth. From her vantage point as a birth attendant, Dwinell recounts the moving birth experiences of twenty different women. Thus the reader learns that there are no right or wrong ways to give birth. In fact, the author shows how satisfying it can be for women to exe...

Medical English Usage and Abusage - Paperback

$75.60

by Edith Schwager (Author)There are few areas of human endeavor in which precise communication is more important or in which its lack can have more devastating consequences than medicine. Edith Schwager, renowned medical editor, writer, and columnist, has created an insightful guide to improving clarity and accuracy in the writing and editing of medical works. Highly instructive and equally enjoyable, the text covers common errors in grammar and usage as well as the special problems of medica...

The Human Side of Medicine: Learning What It's Like to Be a Patient and What It's Like to Be a Physician - Paperback

$81.00

by Laurence a. Savett (Author)At a time of great change in the technology and delivery of medical care, the timelessness and permanence of the non-technical aspects of medicine--the human side--are of profound value to patients and physicians alike. With more than 30 years of medical practice, teaching, advising, and mentoring medical students and undergraduates, Savett champions two premises: first, that the importance of physicians mastering the human side of medicine is as critical as lear...

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by Laura Shanley (Author)This book reveals how giving birth is an inherently safe, relatively painless process that is best performed without the assistance of doctors or midwives, and how confidence and a positive attitude reduces fear--and therefore the pain--of labor. According to Laura Kaplan Shanley, a renowned leader in the natural-birth movement, human birth is inherently safe and relatively painless--provided we refrain from physical or psychological interference. The problems often a...

The Undreaded Job: Learning to Thrive in a Less-than-Perfect Workplace - Hardcover

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by Richard Brislin (Author)This essential guide explains how to find satisfaction in the workplace in the face of imperfections involving oneself and others. The Undreaded Job: Learning to Thrive in a Less-than-Perfect Workplace was written to help people find satisfaction in the workplace, turning work into a major contributor to overall happiness. The book is organized around issues individuals face as they try to thrive in the face of inevitable workplace imperfections. These include imper...

The Coming Shortage of Surgeons: Why They Are Disappearing and What That Means for Our Health - Hardcover

$135.00

by Thomas Williams (Author), E. Ellison (Author), Bhagwan Satiani (Author)A critical, quantitative look at the future supply and demand of surgical specialists that may foretell rationing of surgical services. The Coming Shortage of Surgeons: Why They Are Disappearing and What That Means for Our Health is the only quantitative analysis of the workforce in orthopedic and thoracic surgery, otolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, neurosurgery, and urology. It analyzes the dem...

Surviving Cancer as a Family and Helping Co-Survivors Thrive - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Kendall (Foreword by), Catherine A. Marshall (Editor)Within this book, family members will find the information they need to better understand and cope with cancer in the family, thereby helping their loved one, and themselves, most effectively. Family members of individuals diagnosed with cancer are, themselves, cancer survivors. Yet, all too often, their needs, questions, and concerns are not systematically addressed by the medical and human services systems. Surviving Cancer a...

Healthy Foods: Fact versus Fiction - Hardcover

$120.60

by Myrna Goldstein (Author), Mark Goldstein (Author)This book presents research findings about 50 foods that are commonly touted as healthy and educates readers about the medical problems they purportedly alleviate or help prevent. It is always in the best interest of those who market foods to make grandiose claims regarding their nutritional value, regardless of whether actual scientific proof exists to support such a claim. Even diligent and educated consumers often have difficulty discerni...

Understanding the Mammography Controversy: Science, Politics, and Breast Cancer Screening - Paperback

$45.00

by Madelon Finkel (Author)Writing to be understood by the layreader, Finkel shows how breast cancer develops and explains the controversy surrounding mammography. How valid are the screenings? Who should be screened? How frequently? At what age? Should women be screened at all? This book dissects the issues to help present answers. Above all, says Finkel. Women need to make informed decisions, and to do what they need to understand the potential benefits and potential harms accompanying mammo...

Vitamin Discoveries and Disasters: History, Science, and Controversies - Hardcover

$135.00

by Frances Frankenburg (Author)A new work on the history of vitamins and the brilliant men and women who discovered the existence and nature of these small molecules so vital to our health. Vitamin Discoveries and Disasters: History, Science, and Controversies describes the emergence of nutritional science and its contributions to our understanding of how the body functions. It is an absorbing look at the men and women, many little known in their lifetimes, whose medical detective work helped...

The Pain Detective: Every Ache Tells a Story: Understanding How Stress and Emotional Hurt Become Chronic Physical Pain - Hardcover

$99.00

by Hillel Finestone (Author)Sure to be welcomed by the thousands suffering persistent pain, this volume explores what physicians often ignore--how psychological and social issues can influence health, illness, pain, and recovery. "Pain is everywhere and everyone is talking about it," says Dr. Hillel Finestone, M.D., a researcher and rehabilitation specialist whose work has been featured in publications as diverse as The Lancet, and USA Today. The key to understanding causes and solutions for ...

A Guidebook for Raising Foster Children - Paperback

$63.00

by Susan McNair Blatt (Author)Foster parents need wisdom to guide foster children to enable them to have a meaningful experience. This book, written by a pediatrician, with the help of foster parents, provides guidance and suggestions to maximize the experience for foster families and assist them in the process. With the help of many foster parents, this book contains practical suggestions for those who care for foster children. It addresses many of the major and minor problems that may arise...

Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness - Hardcover

$135.00

by Teresa Twomey (Author)Offering an understanding of postpartum psychosis, this riveting book explains what happens and why during this temporary and dangerous disorder that develops for some women rapidly after childbirth. Most of us are familiar with the baby blues, a passing sadness that strikes 50 to 75 percent of new mothers after delivery. And most of us understand postpartum depression, a sadness post-delivery that lingers for weeks or months for an estimated one in every 10 new mothe...

An Introduction to Botanical Medicines: History, Science, Uses, and Dangers - Hardcover

$171.00

by Antoine Al-Achi (Author)For those who want to make educated decisions about whether, and when, to use natural products, this text explains the most current scientific evidence of the roles that plants can play in our health: how they can prevent, modify, or treat disease. Since antiquity, humans have used botanicals to treat various conditions affecting their organ systems, and this book is built around explaining which plants may be used for major ailments affecting the various systems. T...

The Criminalization of Medicine: America's War on Doctors - Hardcover

$117.00

by Ronald Libby (Author)Medical doctors have been made political scapegoats for the financial crisis of healthcare and the failed war on drugs in the United States, says author Ronald Libby. In order to combat health fraud and abuse, the government launched tough new laws and guidelines designed to battle rising urban violent crimes, illegal drugs, and terrorism. But, by eliminating safeguards to protect the innocent, those same laws and guidelines also made it far easier for agents and prose...

Ayurveda: A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional Indian Medicine for the West - Hardcover

$117.00

by Frank John Ninivaggi (Author)Derived from prehistoric sages living in ancient India some r c9730 years ago, Ayurveda denotes life wisdom. The medical system of India, it is arguably the oldest medical tradition that exists. This book translates the Eastern wisdom into terms and concepts Westerners can understand, and Ninivaggi presents the text with both scholarship and compassion. He explains how Ayurveda can promote physical and mental health by targeting threats from acute and chronic s...

Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History - Hardcover

$180.00

by Victoria Sherrow (Author)Examines the ways in which hair has served as a signifier of class, gender, ethnicity, conformity/non-comfority, authority, and power throughout history. Countless issues and examples are explored in this volume including: hair styles of royalty; wigs worn by lawmakers and judges; ceremonial hairstyles of tribes throughout the world; Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads; hair in the counterculture (including the musical Hair); skinheads, Mohawks and punk style; the hairsty...