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Take My Prostate... Please! (hardback) - Hardcover

$43.20

by Steve Bluestein (Author)Take My Prostate...Please is comedian Steve Bluestein's delve into the world of prostate surgery. There are some people who enter a hospital and see only medicine. Steve Bluestein is different; he walks into a hospital and sees the comedy. When Steve was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he decided to document his four-month journey into the world of office appointments, medical tests and hospitalization as only he could see it.Steve Bluestein was a founding member o...

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Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal - Paperback

$16.95

by Kat Arney (Author)2020 Foreword Indie Award Winner in the "Health" Category Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment? An unwelcome genetic inheritance? Or is it just bad luck? The answer is all of these and none of them. We get cancer because we can't avoid it--it's a bug in the system of life itself. Cancer exists in nearly every animal and has afflicted humans as long as our species has walked the earth. In Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolut...

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Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer - Hardcover

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by Vinayak K. Prasad (Author)How hype, money, and bias can mislead the public into thinking that many worthless or unproven treatments are effective.Each week, people read about new and exciting cancer drugs. Some of these drugs are truly transformative, offering major improvements in how long patients live or how they feel--but what is often missing from the popular narrative is that, far too often, these new drugs have marginal or minimal benefits. Some are even harmful. In Malignant, hemat...

Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative - Paperback

$63.27

by Paul B. Armstrong (Author)How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.Armstrong argues that the ways in which stories order events in time, imitate actions, and relate our experiences to others' lives are correlated to cortical processes of temporal bindin...

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The Political Determinants of Health - Paperback

$51.84

by Daniel E. Dawes (Author), David R. Williams (Foreword by)How do policy and politics influence the social conditions that generate health outcomes?Reduced life expectancy, worsening health outcomes, health inequity, and declining health care options--these are now realities for most Americans. However, in a country of more than 325 million people, addressing everyone's issues is challenging. How can we effect beneficial change for everyone so we all can thrive? What is the great equalizer? ...

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Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs - Paperback

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by Aacvpr (Editor)Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs, Sixth Edition With Web Resource, presents the combined expertise of more than 50 leaders in the field of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), reimbursement, and public policy to empower professionals to successfully implement new CR programs or improve existing ones. Developed by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR), this guidebook offers procedures for providing patients with low-cost, high-...

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Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis - Paperback

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by Iris Kerin Orbuch MD (Author), Amy Stein Dpt (Author)From two of the world's leading experts in endometriosis comes an essential, first-of-its kind book that unwraps the mystery of the disease and gives women the tools they need to reclaim their lives from it. Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease that causes chronic pain, limits life's activities, and may lead to infertility. Despite the disease's prevalence, the average woman may suffer for a ...

Ethics for Everyone: A Skills-Based Approach - Paperback

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by Larry R. Churchill (Author)Most of us desire to be moral people, but too often we struggle to translate philosophical concepts about morality and ethics to everyday life. One way we can bridge this gap is by approaching ethics as skills that we can develop rather than a set of ideas we must grasp. Taking this practical approach, and writing especially for medicine, law, and business students trying to understand ethics in the real world Larry R. Churchill examines morality in the context o...

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First-Year Nurse: Advice on Working with Doctors, Prioritizing Care, and Time Management - Hardcover

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by Beth Hawkes (Author)An indispensable guide for first-time nurses on working with doctors, the joys of the night shift, and facing mistakes You've completed the necessary education, passed the exams, and you're finally ready for your first year as a professional nurse. But there is still trepidation, accompanied by many unanswered questions. A true first year of nursing 101 guide, this book covers topics like managing feedback, working with doctors, working night shift, and recovering fr...

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Shrinkage Estimation for Mean and Covariance Matrices - Paperback

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by Hisayuki Tsukuma (Author), Tatsuya Kubokawa (Author)This book provides a self-contained introduction to shrinkage estimation for matrix-variate normal distribution models. More specifically, it presents recent techniques and results in estimation of mean and covariance matrices with a high-dimensional setting that implies singularity of the sample covariance matrix. Such high-dimensional models can be analyzed by using the same arguments as for low-dimensional models, thus yielding a unifi...

Veterinary Anaesthesia: Principles to Practice - Paperback

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by Alexandra Dugdale (Author), Georgina Beaumont (Author), Carl Bradbrook (Author)Back JacketThorough revision of a comprehensive and highly readable textbook on veterinary anaesthesia A popular book amongst veterinary students and veterinary anaesthesia residents, the new edition of Veterinary Anaesthesia: Principles to Practice continues to be a comprehensive textbook covering the key principles of veterinary anaesthesia, encompassing a wide range of species. Fully revised, the information...

Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective - Paperback

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by Andrew Scull (Author)Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the often troubled relationship between psychiatry and the law, the linkage...

Phonological Disorders in Children: Theory, Research and Practice - Paperback

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by Mehmet S. Yavas (Editor)Originally published in 1991, the recent developments in the study of phonological disorders in children had led to a fruitful interaction between speech pathology and phonology. It is one aspect of the application of linguistic theory to the study of speech and language disorders which had opened up a new field, clinical linguistics. This book brings together the concerns of the linguist and the speech pathologist; the essays chosen share the quality of not discuss...

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by Johanna M. Selles (Author)While caring for her terminally-ill Aunt Louise, Nori McFarlane stumbles on a mystery related to her aunt's medical fellowship at a tuberculosis sanitorium in the Adirondacks in the 1950s. The discovery of her aunt's journal and conversations they have together lead Nori further into the mystery. Will Nori have the courage to follow that trail, wherever it might lead, even if it results in a radical resorting of her understanding of the past?Author BiographyJohann...

Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi - Paperback

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by Dwaipayan Banerjee (Author)In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Owing to long wait times, most urban poor cancer patients do not receive a diagnosis until it is too late to treat the disease effectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the city's largest cancer care NGO and at India's premier public heal...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets for Bipolar Disorder - Paperback

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by Portia Cruise (Author)Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets for Bipolar Disorder With the step-by-step directions and therapeutic explanations included in this worksheet designed to be simple and yet a powerful, effective tool to help mental health practitioners give their clients better help, a clearer purpose, direction, and beneficial feedback. If you suffer from any of insomnia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) psychosis, anxiety, bipolar disorder,...

Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, Volume 4: Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pain Management, Including Cognitive and Neurologic Conditions and E - Hardcover

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by Jill Stansbury (Author)The fourth in Dr. Stansbury's acclaimed five-volume masterwork for herbalists and medical professionals--the best resource available for the modern clinical practice of Western herbal medicine Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals is a comprehensive, five-volume reference for herbalists, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. Dr. Jill Stansbury draws on decades of clinical experience and her extensive research to provide an unparalleled range of h...

Endometriosis: it's not in your head, it's in your pelvis - Paperback

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by Bethany Stahl (Author)Relatable and informative, Bethany Stahl recounts authentic experiences of discovering she was living with a chronic illness for fifteen years. Diagnosing endometriosis is a battle. Stahl recounts her life from eleven to twenty-six years old. She shares the hardships of crippling pain, depression, sex, infertility, and the struggle to find a doctor to take her symptoms seriously. Join her in uncovering the truth as she strives to find the silver lining to living with ...

My Quotable Patients: You just can't make this stuff up!: Funny, Crazy or Witty Quotes and memories from your patients - Paperback

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by Kenniebstyles Journals (Author)Say What? Sometimes you can't believe what you are hearing. This well designed, well organized journal is the perfect place to write down sayings from your patients so you can look back on them later for a good laugh. This makes a great gift for any medical professional, doctors nurses, EMTs, clinical workers, medical students and more. Makes a great appreciation gift. Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.24 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 18, 2019

Nutrition - Medical School Crash Course - Paperback

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by Audiolearn Medical Content Team (Author)AudioLearn's Medical School Crash Courses presents Nutrition Written by experts and authorities in the field, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject. The content is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical Medical school Nutrition course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critic...

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Evolutionary Neuropsychology: An Introduction to the Structures and Functions of the Human Brain - Hardcover

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by Frederick L. Coolidge (Author)In Evolutionary Neuropsychology, Frederick L. Coolidge examines the evolutionary origins of the human brain's present structures and functions, and traces these origins from the first life forms, through the development of consciousness, to modern human thinking. A new multidisciplinary science, evolutionary neuropsychology embraces and uses empirical findings from the fields of evolution, neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychology, anthropology, and archaeo...

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Stop the Pain: The Six to Fix - Paperback

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by Scott Hannen (Author)Millions of people suffer from debilitating pain and inflammation each and every day. Most treatments focus on relieving or managing the pain instead of locating the cause and eliminating it. This book helps the reader understand what pain is, where it comes from, and most importantly, how to get rid of it. There are six things to fix and six protocols to help correct the imbalances that cause pain and dysfunction. Learn how to balance thyroid levels, fix the gut, revi...

The Regulation of Dietary Supplements: A Historical Analysis - Paperback

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by Stephen J. Pintauro (Author)This book documents the long, still ongoing battle between the US Food and Drug Administration and the dietary supplement industry. It presents the complex, often subtle, and sometimes overlooked series of events that had a major impact on how dietary supplements are manufactured, marketed, sold, and used today. While the first few chapters focus on some background topics, the remaining chapters walk the reader through timeline of events, legislative actions, FD...

FATIGUE FREE Made Crystal Clear! My Sounds Increase Your Life-Force Energy - Paperback

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by Dawn Crystal (Author)A Natural Alternative to Drugs for Relieving Fatigue and Enhancing EnergyDawn Crystal is a pioneer of sound-energy therapy. She makes fear- and anxiety-relieving sounds with her voice, a gift she discovered as an adult. She has done this for over twenty years, for individuals and groups. Imagine your life free of fatigue. Imagine if sources of fatigue could be relieved immediately. Imagine being fatigue free, fast and easy. This is one of Dawn's missions. She tunes int...

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A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See It - Hardcover

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by Rob DeSalle (Author), Hans Bachor (Author)A star curator at the American Museum of Natural History widens the palette and shows how the physical, natural, and cultural context of color are inextricably tied to what we see right before our eyes. Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art? Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see, embraced through the experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color ...

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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South - Hardcover

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by Chip Jones (Author)The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this "startling...powerful" (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality...

Doctoral Students: Attrition, Retention Rates, Motivation, and Financial Constraints: A Comprehensive Research Guide in Helping Graduate - Hardcover

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by Theodore Robert Regis (Author)For the past 40 years, American college and university administrators have registered record low retention and high attrition rates. Education experts and researchers have claimed the problems are embarrassing to the United States' higher education institutions. Based on the problems, graduate school administrators are unable to graduate doctoral students at U.S. population growth rates. Currently, only 1% of Americans hold PhD degrees. Compared to other indus...

Daughter, Doctor, Resurrectionist: A True Story about Medical Body Snatching in 19th Century America - Paperback

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by Edmund Michael Van Buskirk (Author)Empty graves. Coffins splintered. Bodies . . . missing. In the late nineteenth century, Fort Wayne, Indiana is rocked by an ongoing series of shocking crimes: local cemeteries are being stalked, their fresh bodies stolen. Who would do such a thing? All eyes are on the local medical college and Dr. A.E. Van Buskirk, its young demonstrator of anatomy, who must supply the medical school with subjects for dissection. With an attention to both medical history...

The Evil Eye: Thanatology and Other Essays - Paperback

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by Tarl Warwick (Editor), Roswell Park (Author)This book is a collection of various essays and speeches on the topic of medicine and medical history from Roswell Park at the dawn of the 20th century. Delving into the evil eye, the Knights Hospitaller, history of surgery, and more, it touches on occult topics frequently, history constantly, and what would now be considered quack medicine occasionally.Advocating the use of cocaine as a pain killing agent and speaking at length even about milita...

Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State - Paperback

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by John Ballatt (Author), Penelope Campling (Author), Chris Maloney (Author)At a time of renewed concern about health, social care, and national unity, the authors reassert the value of the Welfare State for society as a whole, not simply for those in need. Years of relentless regulatory and structural reforms have not prevented scandals, yet have exhausted, demoralised and alienated staff. The work we ask these people to undertake is hard. It can be frightening, risky and uncertain. It requi...

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The Vaccine Court 2.0: Revised and Updated: The Dark Truth of America's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program - Paperback

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by Wayne Rohde (Author), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Foreword by)"Here you have it, in black and white: the unfairness, the corruption and system-wide bias, documented for the world to see....This is a must-read book." --Sylvia Pimentel, vice-president of the California chapter of the National Autism Association, and founder and moderator of Sac-Autism-Biomed "Rohde's book is a must-read for all those concerned about the intended and unintended consequences of US vaccines."--Mary Holland, resear...

The Anatomy Coloring Book: The Human Body Coloring Book: The Ultimate Anatomy Study Guide - Paperback

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by Laalpiran Publishing (Author)For more than 35 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the #1 best-selling human anatomy coloring book A useful tool for anyone with an interest in learning anatomical structures, this concisely written text features precise, extraordinary hand-drawn figures that were crafted especially for easy coloring and interactive study. Organized according to body systems, each of the 162 two-page spreads featured in this book includes an ingenious color-key system ...