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Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds - Paperback

$102.60

by Jennifer C. Owen (Editor), Dana M. Hawley (Editor), Kathryn P. Huyvaert (Editor)Birds are the most diverse group of land vertebrates and have evolved to exploit almost every terrestrial niche on earth. They also serve as a natural reservoir for an array of different pathogens that pose serious health risks to human and domestic animal populations, including West Nile virus, highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, Newcastle Disease virus, and numerous enteric pathogens. Avian diseases ar...

Oxford Textbook of the Newborn: A Cultural and Medical History - Hardcover

$179.55

by Michael Obladen (Author)Well into the 20th century, one in four newborns failed to survive their first year of life. It was after World War II that medicine "discovered" the newborn as a human being entitled to medical treatment and prioritised care. Since its definition by Alexander Schaffer in 1960, neonatology has evolved into a mature, innovative, and ethical field. A large number of medical professionals' care for neonates, yet no definitive medical history of the newborn has been ava...

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Training for Community Health: Bridging the Global Health Care Gap - Paperback

$76.93

by Anne Geniets (Editor), James O'Donovan (Editor), Niall Winters (Editor)Many countries around the world rely on community health workers to provide healthcare to those without immediate access, connecting them to formal health systems, and whilst numerous Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes exist, there is little research published on the need for ongoing high-quality training and supervision, or the role technology can play in supporting this. Training for Community Health: Bridging t...

Save Her Child: A completely gripping and suspenseful crime thriller - Paperback

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by Cj Lyons (Author)She held her baby in her arms and she knew in that moment that he'd be coming for her. She couldn't tell anyone her name, she couldn't let him find her. She had to keep her child safe. In the summer heat at the Craven County Fair in rural Pennsylvania, Dr Leah Wright is shocked to find a pregnant woman hiding from view and in labor. Leah manages to deliver the baby safely, but the woman won't reveal her name. She's terrified, running from someone, and days later both she a...

Essential Oils for Healing: The Aromatherapy Guide With Essential Oil Recipes for Health (A Beginner's Guide to Making and Using Essential Oils) - Paperback

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by Donald Brady (Author)To get your hormones back into balance, you need to know which essential oils can help fortify which glands in this system. It is by creating synergistic mixtures for the glands that we can start bringing the hormones back into balance by triggering them to produce the right amount of hormones needed. Here's a preview of what you will learn- What exactly are essential oils?- History of essential oils- Health benefits of aromatherapy oils and essential oils- Household u...

Essential Oils for Beginners: Amazing and Unexpected Uses for Tea Tree Oil and Peppermint Oil (Simple Homemade Essential Oils Natural Remedies to Im - Paperback

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by Eugene Woolsey (Author)Then this is the book for you! It will go through all the benefits and applications of essential oils in your daily routine. Essential oils are the most cost efficient and natural way to apply to your skin or for certain ailments. They can be used on multiple skin types to cure anything from lack of hydration to dealing with pesky facial acne or smoothing out wrinkles. Here is a preview of what you'll learn...- What are essential oils?- What makes essential oils so s...

Essential Oils for Healing: The How and Why to Getting Started Using Essential Oils (The Complete Guide to Losing Weight Fast Using Essential Oils - Paperback

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by Benjamin Jenkins (Author)With this book you will discover the amazing properties of essential oils that help preserve beauty and health, improve your well-being and normalize your mental state. They also can ease pain, remove toxins from the body, and make your home and garden more comfortable. You will learn how to use methods and tools to get the best result and much more. Inside find: - What are essential oils and aromatherapy- A comprehensive list and properties of each essential oil m...

Essential Oil: Simple Guide for Natural Beauty and Good Health (Essential Oils and Aromatherapy - Guide for Beginners for Healing) - Paperback

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by Dorris Parker (Author)If you're looking for a way to naturally enhance your beauty, health, and overall longevity then look no further. Essential oils have been used for thousands of years for various uses. As of late they have come back into popularity and have helped millions of people with health issues, induce relaxation, and have even been shown to make the outer beauty even more beautiful. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: - Explain what happens to our hormones as we get older...

Essential Oils for Beginners: The Young Living Book Guide of Natural Remedies for Beginners (Discover the Magic Power of Essential Oils) - Paperback

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by Jeffrey McKenzie (Author)In this book you will have access to over essential oils and essential oil blends. It also gives you valuable information about other essential oil infused products. This book provides you with directions on the use of essential oils, the body systems that may benefit from essential oils, as well as other useful information that you will benefit from. These essential oils are truly great tools for our natural healing. Topics covered include: - Homemade remedies to ...

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Pathology of Peritoneal Metastases: The Unchartered Fields - Paperback

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by Olivier Glehen (Editor), Aditi Bhatt (Editor)This book covers some well-known and some unexplored pathological aspects of management of peritoneal metastases and should be read by both surgeons and pathologists involved in the management of peritoneal surface malignancies. The evaluation of cytoreductive surgery specimens is explored for the prognostic information it can provide and recommendations for evaluation of such specimens are provided. The pathways and patterns of peritoneal disse...

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Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine - Hardcover

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by Peter A. Swenson (Author)An incisive look into the problematic relationships among medicine, politics, and business in America and their effects on the nation's health "A comprehensive, revealing and surprising account of the history of American medicine."--David Blumenthal, M.D., coauthor of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office and president of the Commonwealth Fund "This book is both an important contribution to the history of the American medical profession (and it...

Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma - Paperback

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by Ulf Dunkel (Editor), Rosemary Romberg (Author)The definitive book on circumcision, meriting the subtitle "Everything you wanted to know about circumcision and were afraid to ask." - This 2nd edition of Rosemary Romberg's standard work from 1985 about genital mutilation on minors has been very much revised and supplemented with current information.Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma will stand as a moving social document of our times. A thoroughly researched and balanced critique of current m...

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Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis - Hardcover

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by Sydney A. Halpern (Author)The untold history of America's mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists' aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjects "Sydney Halpern has written a compelling, if unsettling, history of hepatitis research during World War II and the Cold War. It will become a must-read for anyone interested in bioethics and medical history."--Susan E. Lederer, author of Subjected to Science and Flesh and Blood From 1942 throu...

Wife, Widow, Now What?: How I Navigated the Cancer World and How You Can, Too - Paperback

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by C. H. E. S. Rachel Engstrom (Author)"Some days I think that if I didn't have "Grayson" tattooed on my wrist, I'd never believe that it happened. When I think back on the girl who went through everything in this book...I cannot believe she faced and tackled so many fires and wars and still came out on the other side."------------When Rachel was 28 years old, her husband was diagnosed with leukemia. What they thought was the flu after working too many hours, turned out to be the life alterin...

CCM Certification Study Guide - Certified Case Manager Exam Secrets, Full-Length Practice Test, Step-by-Step Review Video Tutorials: [4th Edition] - Paperback

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by Mometrix (Editor)Mometrix Test Preparation's CCM Certification Study Guide - Certified Case Manager Exam Secrets is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Certified Case Manager Exam. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: * Practice test questions with detailed answer explanations* Tips and strategies to help you get your best test performance* A complete review of all CCM test sections* Care...

Studying Brain Activity in Sports Performance - Hardcover

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by Stéphane Perrey (Guest Editor)The improvement of exercise performance in sports not only involves the enhancement of physical strength, but also includes the development of psychological and cognitive functions. There is an increasing body of evidence to show that physical exercise is a powerful way to improve a number of aspects of cognition and brain function at the systemic and behavioral levels. Yet, several questions remain: What type of exercise program is optimal for improving cogni...

Neuropathy Getting On Your Nerves? Put Some CBD on it!: The relationship between neuropathy sufferers and the science of CBD - Paperback

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by Bao Thai D. C. (Author)If you suffer from neuropathy, I understand how tough it is to be told that nothing can be done. Every night as you go to bed, you lay there just waiting for the symptoms to start causing pain and agony. People who do not have neuropathy will never understand how hard it is to have this debilitating disease. When patients go to their doctors seeking answers, all they are left with is that nothing can be done and take this medication. It would be great if the medicati...

Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Mental Health Prevention and Treatment - Hardcover

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by Ana Fonseca (Guest Editor), Jorge Osma (Guest Editor)The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to deliver psychological services has been emerging as an effective way of increasing individual access to mental health promotion, prevention, and treatment. This Special Issue brings together different contributions focusing on the acceptability and feasibility, (cost-)effectiveness, potentialities, and limitations of ICT-based psychological services for mental health promotio...

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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19 - Paperback

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by John Fabian Witt (Author)A concise history of how American law has shaped--and been shaped by--the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating." (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times)"One wishes that, six months ago, every member of Congress and the Trump administration had been forced to read and reckon with the history Witt neatly summarizes. But now in the aftermath of a close, bitterly fou...

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by Marcia Nichols (Author)Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and death that required the intervention of the "Hero-Accoucheur," who fought valiantly to rescue the pregnant damsel-in-distress endangered by her own body. By casting themselves as...

Principles Of Human Physiology: With Their Chief Applications To Pathology, Hygiene, And Forensic Medicine - Paperback

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by William B. Carpenter (Author)Principles Of Human Physiology: With Their Chief Applications To Pathology, Hygiene, And Forensic Medicine has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally ...

A Compend Of Human Physiology; Especially Adapted For The Use Of Medical Students. - Paperback

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by Albert Philson Brubaker (Author)A Compend Of Human Physiology; Especially Adapted For The Use Of Medical Students. has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true ...

Medicine and Justice: Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 - Paperback

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by Katherine Watson (Author)This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history. It does this through the lens provided by one group of historical actors, medical professionals who gave evidence in criminal proceedings. They are the means of illuminating the developing methods and personnel associated with investigating and prosecuting crime in the eigh...

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by Jessica Strawser (Author)"Heartbreaking yet hopeful, this astute exploration of the bonds and limitations of family is a perfect book club pick." - New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson A Most Anticipated by Goodreads * SheReads * E! News * Frolic Jessica Strawser's A Million Reasons Why is "a fascinating foray into the questions we are most afraid to ask" (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author)--the story of two women who discover a bond between them that will ch...

Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine - Paperback

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by Michael J. Balboni (Author), John R. Peteet (Author)Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medical practice. The authors, all leading clinician-researchers in their fields, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the most recent empirical research of religion and spirituality within many distinct fields of medicine. Recognizing the interdisciplinary aspects of spirituality, religion...

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Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology - Paperback

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by Edward Shorter (Author)The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind. But, esteemed historian Edward Shorter argues that there has been a recent fall, as the field has seen its drug offeringsimpoverished and its diagnoses distorted by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The new drugs, such as Prozac, have been less effective than the old. The new diagno...

Patient as Victim and Vector, New Edition: Ethics and Infectious Disease - Paperback

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by Margaret Pabst Battin (Author)This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, "monumental" for its competence and comprehensiveness. It is augmented here with a new Preface on COVID-19. The book develops an ethical framework for exploring contagious infectious disease, the patient-as-victim-and-vector view, grounded in the biological fact that a person with a communicable infectious disease is not...

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Frcs Trauma and Orthopaedics Viva - Paperback

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by Nev Davies (Author), Will Jackson (Author), Andrew Price (Author)The successful FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedics Viva returns for a second edition, now including over 95 viva topics. Completely updated to include current clinical management guidelines, and exam hot topics, the book is brought to you again from the team behind the highly successful Oxfordrevision course. Based on the principle that viva candidates improve their technique by observing and learning from others, the editor team ha...

Forensic Anthropology Teams in Latin America - Paperback

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by Silvia Dutrénit-Bielous (Editor)This book charts the development of forensic anthropology teams in Latin America and surveys their main characteristics, achievements, and challenges in light of a recent past fraught with state repression and violence. The volume contains contributions by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from several Latin American universities, with chapters on Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. These countries' shared legacy is a host of human r...

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by Mark Selikowitz (Author)ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) is now recognised as one of the most common causes oflearning and behavioural difficulties in school-aged children. Symptoms include poor concentration, forgetfulness, poor organisation, impulsivity, restlessness, poor social skills, learning difficulties, low selfesteem, and defiant behaviour. Despite growing awareness of ADHD among parents and healthprofessionals, it is still widely misunderstood. This third edition ...

Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Contestations - Paperback

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by Ian Bruff (Editor), Cemal Burak Tansel (Editor)Authoritarian Neoliberalism explores how neoliberal forms of managing capitalism are challenging democratic governance at local, national and international levels. Identifying a spectrum of policies and practices that seek to reproduce neoliberalism and shield it from popular and democratic contestation, contributors provide original case studies that investigate the legal-administrative, social, coercive and corporate dimensions of authoritar...

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by Madeline Ryan (Author), Katherine Anderson (Author)The Worcester State Hospital offered a novel and compelling promise: that insanity could be cured by humane treatment in a therapeutic setting. Patients would enjoy its idyllic landscape, genteel interiors, wholesome food supplied from its farm, and the individualized attention of medical professionals. The hospital's reputation as a model institution helped to position the city of Worcester as an economic center and pioneer in social refo...