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Nclex-RN Content Review Guide: Preparation for the Nclex-RN Examination - Paperback

$54.99

by Kaplan Nursing (Author)Kaplan's NCLEX-RN Content Review Guide provides comprehensive review of the essential content you need to ace the NCLEX-RN exam. The Best Review Covers all the must-know content required to pass the NCLEX-RN Content is organized in outline format and easy-access tables for efficient review Chapters follow the NCLEX's Client Need Categories so you know you have complete content coverage Kaplan's acclaimed Decision Tree and expert strategies help you master critical re...

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Head First: How the Mind Heals the Body - Paperback

$18.00

by Alastair Santhouse (Author)Now in paperback. In the tradition of Lori Gottlieb and Henry Marsh, a distinguished psychiatrist examines his own practice. Alastair Santhouse knew something was wrong the night he was on call during his medical training and got the news that a woman on the way to the ER had died in the ambulance. That meant he could go back to sleep! But he couldn't. He was overtaken with the sense that his joyful reaction was terrible failure. That night began his long journey...

Crystal Healing for Women: Gift Edition: A Modern Guide to the Power of Crystals for Renewed Energy, Strength, and Wellness - Hardcover

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by Mariah K. Lyons (Author)Gift Edition Discover the physical, mental, and spiritual healing power of crystals and awaken the healer within. Revered for their restorative powers over our health, crystals have served humanity for millennia. With Crystal Healing for Women, you can unlock the ancient secrets of healing and wisdom held within these stones. Crystal healer and Reiki Master Mariah K. Lyons shares her knowledge in this beautifully-illustrated, practical guide that helps womxn awaken ...

An Individual's Innocence Book II: The Fog of Time - Hardcover

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by James G. Yeo (Author)It has been ten years since Charles Davis was diagnosed with schizophrenia and began rebuilding his life from scratch. Waking up in a hospital ten years ago was a major turning point for Charles; now, as he grapples with a fresh wave of symptoms brought on by work stress, he's at another pivotal moment in his life. In this sequel to An Individual's Innocence: The Silent Screams, Charles recounts his past struggles and mental health recovery process to his girlfriend, M...

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by Michael T. Myers Jr (Author)The COVID-19 outbreak and response has been characterized by institutional missteps, media misinformation, and economic and social upheavals. This book is intended to de-mystify and inform in a succinct and straightforward text. The lessons shared are applicable to other infectious diseases and future inevitable pandemics. Readers will learn about the origins of COVID-19, the disease it causes, tests and how they work, therapeutics and prophylactic measures such...

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by Ken Baysinger (Author)By the time he was 77 years old, David Adelman knew that his body was failing.When he read about a seminar that would explore the medical possibilities for getting a fresh chance at being young, David's curiosity was more than just academic.Despite his skepticism, he buys a $25,000 membership in the Human Transmigration Project; and ten years later, barely clinging to life, he learns that he holds the winning ticket in mankind's greatest lottery. And this isn't a simp...

Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Early-Medieval Medicine - Paperback

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by Anne Van Arsdall (Author)Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new scholarship and new findings. New information is presented on Oswald Cockayne, the nineteenth-century philologist who first translated the Old English medical text...

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Paramedic Principles and Practice in the UK - Paperback

$152.98

by Aidan Ward (Editor)Paramedic Principles and Practice in the UK is a key textbook designed to support paramedicine students in this country throughout their studies. The volume takes a practical approach, with case histories covering a broad range of clinical presentations and treatments, all incorporating a patient-centric perspective that acknowledges the longer patient journey. This must-have textbook will not only arm readers with technical knowledge and expertise, but also with the non...

Chinese Medicine for Health: Holistic Healing, Inner Harmony and Herbal Recipes - Hardcover

$110.16

by Hai Hong (Author), Karen Wee (Author), Shan Bin Soh (Author)This contemporary introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is written in a lively and lucid way for the general reader interested in holistic healing and internal harmony. It also explains TCM to the Western physician: medical concepts are presented in a way that does not conflict with knowledge of biomedicine, helping them appreciate TCM as complementary healthcare.Beginning with an outline of fundamental entities qi, b...

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Afterglow: Ministerial Fire and Chinese Ecological Medicine - Paperback

$56.70

by Z'Ev Rosenberg (Author), Stephen Cowan (Foreword by)Inspired by personal observations of the climate crisis, as well as health issues from patients involving ministerial fire, this text dives into the concepts of ming men and ministerial fire - core concepts of Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment. This book will assist practitioners in understanding the mechanisms of treating patients with autoimmune diseases, allergies, skin disorders and arthritic disorders. With material from the cl...

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Health Equality and Social Justice in Old Age: A Frontline Perspective - Paperback

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by Riaz Dharamshi (Author)The first lesson is that success looks like whatever your patient describes it as ... Some want to be pain free, to breathe a little easier, to make it to their grand-daughter's wedding ... to be with their cats. Some want me to do everything I can to cure them, while others want to die soon.Geriatric care and the frailty of old age can sometimes be reduced to a pain score chart rather than an inevitability that needs to be approached with humanity and empathy. Dr Ri...

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by Kimmery Martin (Author)Three doctors' lives are transformed on the front lines of a new pandemic in this heart-wrenching yet ultimately inspiring novel by acclaimed author Kimmery Martin. Hannah, Compton, and Kira have been close friends since medical school, reuniting once a year for a much-needed vacation. Just as they gather to travel in Spain, an outbreak of a fast-spreading virus throws the world into chaos. When Compton Winfield returns to her job as an ER doctor in New York City, sh...

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Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works - Paperback

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by Marc Dingman (Author)The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre. This book shows a whole other side of how brains work - from the patient who is afraid to take a shower because she fears her body will slip down the drain to a man who is convinced, against all evidence, that he is ...

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Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques - Hardcover

$181.37

by Carolyn Kisner (Author), Lynn Allen Colby (Author), John Borstad (Author)The premier text for therapeutic exercise Here is all the guidance you need to customize interventions for individuals with movement dysfunction. You'll find the perfect balance of theory and clinical technique--in-depth discussions of the principles of therapeutic exercise and manual therapy and the most up-to-date exercise and management guidelines.Immersive Cases Online--NEW! Six multimedia clinical scenarios let y...

The Reasoning of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Hardcover

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by Song Xuan Ke (Author)This book is intended as an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for students, practitioners, or lay people with a general interest in Chinese medicine. It provides a clear and compact delivery of TCM's reasoning, history, philosophy, theory, and treatment principles. The author has approached this from the perspective of the reasoning behind Chinese medicine, its philosophical foundations, and its approach to treatment. The text is accompanied by clear a...

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by Lauren M. Sompayrac (Author)How the Immune System Works How the Immune System Works provides a concise and accessible overview of how the immune system protects us from disease. Written in a lively and engaging style, this unique book makes it easy to see the big picture of the immune system--without any confusing jargon or complex technical details. Now in its seventh edition, this popular book features an entirely new chapter that describes the role of the immune system in fighting COVID...

The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapies - Paperback

$90.70

by Helen Payne (Editor), Sabine Koch (Editor), Jennifer Tantia (Editor)There is a growing interest in embodied approaches to psychotherapy internationally. This volume focuses on the respective focal professions of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) and body psychotherapy (BP), addressing the psychotherapeutic need for healing throughout the lifespan. Within embodied clinical approaches, the therapist and client collaborate to discover how the body and movement can be used to strengthen posit...

The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis - Paperback

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by Ginny Russell (Author)The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretati...

Consumer Health Informatics: Enabling Digital Health for Everyone - Paperback

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by Catherine Arnott Smith (Author), Alla Keselman (Author)"An engaging introduction to an exciting multidisciplinary field where positive impact depends less on technology than on understanding and responding to human motivations, specific information needs, and life constraints."-- Betsy L. Humphreys, former Deputy Director, National Library of MedicineThis is a book for people who want to design or promote information technology that helps people be more active and informed participants in ...

The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality - Paperback

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by Russell Shuttleworth (Editor), Linda Mona (Editor)This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully captures the diversity of issues and outlooks. Organised into six parts, the contributors explore long-standing issues such as the psychological, interpersonal, social, political and cultural b...

Ereshkigal's Vengeance: Race for a Cure Against a Pandemic - Paperback

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by Carl T. Seaborn (Author)Sarah and Ralph are a happy couple in Boston. Sarah tries to get pregnant, but doesn't succeed right away. After a hormone cure and a miscarriage, Sarah turns out to have become infertile. She's not alone. There is a worldwide epidemic that is making women infertile. Humanity is in danger of dying out in the long run. The passionate epidemiologist Shira Fox desperately searches for the cause and a solution, which can be found far in the past. 2.23.22: Sarah and Ralp...

Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America - Hardcover

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by Monique Rainford (Author)A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. But Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them. Pregnant While Black is a hopeful exploration of the issues pregnant Black women face in America. Within these pages, Dr. Rainford draws on over twenty years of experience working in obstetrics and g...

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My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick - Hardcover

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by Lyndsey Medford (Author), K. J. Ramsey (Foreword by)We are living in a world that is sick. Both literally sick, with 60 percent of adults in the US living with a chronic illness and rising rates of autoimmune diseases in particular, including long COVID, and figuratively sick, facing ever increasing rates of burnout, anxiety, and disconnection. As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social syst...

Textbook of Allergy for the Clinician - Paperback

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by Pudupakkam K. Vedanthan (Editor), Harold S. Nelson (Editor), Shripad N. Agashe (Editor)This is the 2nd and updated version of the Textbook of Allergy for the Clinician. It is a unique book in the field of allergy. The uniqueness lies in the international character of the book with contributors representing both the East and West. This book represents the diversity of issues affecting patients in the specialty of allergy, asthma & immunology. There is some discussion of the basic mechan...

Real-World Evidence in Drug Development and Evaluation - Paperback

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by Harry Yang (Editor), Binbing Yu (Editor)Real-world evidence (RWE) has been at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovations. It plays an important role in transforming drug development from a process aimed at meeting regulatory expectations to an operating model that leverages data from disparate sources to aid business, regulatory, and healthcare decision making. Despite its many benefits, there is no single book systematically covering the latest development in the field. Written specifica...

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by Laurie Ann Ximénez (Author) Cuántos mexicanos murieron realmente en la pandemia?Mientras que el gobierno solo admite que, hasta febrero de 2022, habían fallecido 312 mil mexicanos a consecuencia de COVID-19, el reporte de exceso de mortalidad de la misma fecha indica que el número ascendía a casi 700 mil. Ninguna dependencia ni ningún funcionario del sistema de salud reconoce la escandalosa diferencia ni las causas reales de muerte detrás de estos números. Estas son las vidas que no contar...

Bonding through Code: Theoretical Models for Molecules and Materials - Paperback

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by Daniel C. Fredrickson (Author)This timely and unique publication is designed for graduate students and researchers in inorganic and materials chemistry and covers bonding models and applications of symmetry concepts to chemical systems. The book discusses the quantum mechanical basis for molecular orbital concepts, the connections between molecular orbitals and localized views of bonding, group theory, bonding models for a variety of compounds, and the extension of these ideas to solid sta...

Ethnopharmacology of Wild Plants - Paperback

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by Mahendra Rai (Editor), Shandesh Bhattarai (Editor), Chistiane M. Feitosa (Editor)The book provides valuable information on wild plants and their ethnopharmacological properties, discussion on ethnobotany, phytotherapy, diversity, chemical and pharmacological properties including antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antiprotozal properties. The chapters include a wide range of case studies, giving updated evidence on importance of wild plant resources from different countries including Nepal, ...

Perspectives on Contemporary Pakistan: Governance, Development and Environment - Paperback

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by Ghulam Ali (Editor), Ejaz Hussain (Editor)This book analyses problems of governance, development and environment affecting contemporary Pakistan; issues that lie at the centre of federal and provincial policy deliberations, formulation and implementation. The book offers a comprehensive assessment of the policies, or lack thereof. Authors from a variety of disciplines empirically and conceptually evaluate latest developments, events and data regarding law and order, economic under-performa...

A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety - Paperback

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by Johanna Lynch (Author)This book builds on the person-centred medicine movement to promote a shift in the philosophy of care of distress. It discusses the vital importance of whole person health, healing and growth. Developing a new transdisciplinary concept of sense of safety, this book argues that the whole person needs to be understood within their context and relationships and explores the appraisal and coping systems that are part of health.Using clinical vignettes to illustrate her ar...

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Delivering Compassionate Care: A Mindfulness Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Healthcare Professionals - Hardcover

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by Sarah Ellen Braun (Editor), Patricia Anne Kinser (Editor)This textbook is an evidenced-based course for interdisciplinary healthcare professionals for improving resilience and reducing stress and burnout. This curriculum improves patient-centered care by providing training in compassion and attention. It is a structured skills-based manual complete with resources for full implementation and dissemination of this evidence-based course. This textbook addresses the gaps existing in other mind...

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Holistic Cancer Medicine: Integrative Strategies for a New Approach to Health and Healing - Paperback

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by Henning Saupe (Author)*As Seen on Chris Beat Cancer A groundbreaking, comprehensive guide on managing, treating, and preventing cancer. *Introducing: The Holistic Model of the Twelve Vital Fields* It's a sad truth of our times that one in three people will experience cancer in their lifetime. By 2040, the probability will rise to one in two. As a comprehensive guide on natural treatment, Holistic Cancer Medicine is essential reading for every cancer patient--from newly diagnosed to late st...