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Each Woman's Menopause: An Evidence Based Resource: For Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Practice Nurses and Allied Health Professionals - Paperback

$161.98

by Patricia Geraghty (Editor)This book is designed to meet the needs of nurse practitioners, other advanced practice nurses, and allied health professionals working in women's health, primary care, and other specialties. The multiple roles the clinician embraces in menopause management include that of direct caregiver, manager of therapeutics, educator, and interdisciplinary team member or leader. This book provides updated, evidence based information on the menopause transition from the late...

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Cerebral Palsy: A Practical Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals - Hardcover

$178.18

by Psiche Giannoni (Editor), Liliana Zerbino (Editor)This book helps rehabilitators and caregivers understand the multifaceted needs of children with cerebral palsy or other neuromotor impairments in order to plan and implement an effective treatment regimen. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience spanning several decades, it addresses the sensitive challenge of rehabilitation, which cannot and must not be confined by the rigid schemes of established schools. In particular, the book pro...

Food Legumes: Physicochemical and Nutritional Properties - Hardcover

$54.04

by Ryszard Amarowicz (Guest Editor)This new MDPI book should be of interest to a wide range of readers. Students of a variety of faculties, employees of the food industry, producers of functional food, farmers, and nutritionists will certainly be interested. The book provides new information on legumes, their nutritional value, the content of biologically active compounds, and changes in the activity of these compounds as a result of the application of various technological processes. The boo...

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Practitioner Research for Social Work, Nursing, and the Health Professions - Paperback

$72.83

by Payam Sheikhattari (Author), Michael T. Wright (Author), Gillian B. Silver (Author)An invaluable tool for health and social work students and professionals who want to improve their practice through collaborative research with patients, clients, and colleagues.Throughout history, some of the most prominent contributors to health and social sciences have been men and women comfortable with both practice and academia. But today, research in health-related fields is increasingly conducted in ...

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Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms Us Health Care - Hardcover

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by Laura Katz Olson (Author)Revealing the dark truth about the impact of predatory private equity firms on American health care.Won Gold from the Axiom Book Award in the Category of Business Ethics, the Benjamin Franklin Awards by the Independent Book Publishers Association and the North American Book Award in the Catergory of Business Finance, Finalist of the American Book Fest Best Book Social Change and Current Events by the American Book FestPrivate equity (PE) firms pervade all aspects o...

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Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation: Creating Behavioral, Environmental, and Policy Change - Paperback

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by Lawrence W. Green (Editor), Andrea Carlson Gielen (Editor), Judith M. Ottoson (Editor)A time-tested, landmark approach to health promotion and communication projects and everything that goes into making them successful.For more than 40 years, the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, developed in the early 1970s by Lawrence W. Green and first published as a text in 1980 with Marshall W. Kreuter, Sigrid G. Deeds, and Kay B. Partridge, has been effectively applied worldwide to address a broad range of heal...

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Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink - Hardcover

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by Timothy J. Hoff (Author)With family doctors increasingly overburdened, bureaucratized, and burned out, how can the field change before it's too late?Over the past few decades, as American medical practice has become increasingly specialized, the number of generalists--doctors who care for the whole person--has plummeted. On paper, family medicine sounds noble; in practice, though, the field is so demanding in scope and substance, and the health system so favorable to specialists, that it c...

Bizarre Bioethics: Ghosts, Monsters, and Pilgrims - Paperback

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by Henk A. M. J. Ten Have (Author)The focus of bioethical debates on exceptional cases neglects the underlying values--like justice and community--that would lend to a broader, more well-rounded understanding of today's world.Discussions of ethical problems in health care too often concentrate on exceptional cases. Bioethical controversies triggered by experimental drugs, gene-edited babies, or life extension are understandably fascinating: they showcase the power of medical science and techn...

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Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell - Paperback

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by Paul A. Lombardo (Author)This updated edition includes a new afterword that identifies the role the Buck story plays in the Supreme Court's review of emerging state laws that seek to limit access to abortion."Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Few lines from U.S. Supreme Court opinions are as memorable as this declaration by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the landmark 1927 case Buck v. Bell. The ruling allowed states to forcibly sterilize residents in order to prevent "feebl...

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Mind, Mood, and Memory: The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis - Hardcover

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by Anthony Feinstein (Author), Alan Thompson (Foreword by)A unique resource for all health care practitioners caring for people with multiple sclerosis.Endorsed by The Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis CentersMultiple sclerosis (MS), a progressive neurologic disease, is characterized by a host of physical symptoms. But the neurobehavioral consequences of MS can be as devastating and debilitating as physical symptoms, and they are often unreported and undertreated. In this new book, Dr. Anthony...

The Simply Renal Diet Cookbook: Low Sodium, Potassium, and Phosphorus Easy and Healthy Renal Diet Recipes to Help You Manage Kidney Disease - Hardcover

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by Beryl Ramirez (Author)Have you just recently found out about your health problem and have been wondering what you can or can't eat?Or maybe, you have a worrying family history, want to prevent future consequences, and live a healthy and long life?If you answered "Yes" to at least one of these questions, please read on...We both know that just reducing the amount of junk food is not enough to reverse, or at least to stop the Kidney Illness. To do that, we need a proven approach that would g...

Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice - Paperback

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by Nicholas Mazza (Author)In this third edition of Poetry Therapy, Dr. Mazza expands on poetry therapy applications and techniques, carefully illustrating the use of poems, expressive writing, and symbolic activities for healing, education, and community service.Building on the definition and foundation of poetry therapy, chapters discuss using Mazza's poetry therapy model with individuals, families, groups, and communities. Featuring over a hundred new references and practice experiences, th...

Seeking Justice: Courtroom Drama in a Medical Malpractice Setting - Paperback

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by Roland J. Beckerman (Author)Roland J. Beckerman is a Southern man that grew up learning right from wrong in a healthy family environment. He had many successes in most of the things he attempted to do as a young man. As he continued to age, he became versed on many subjects and excelled in most of his endeavors. His experiences led him to be able to put this book together and in chronological order of truths during a specific period of his life, all while making it flow into seemingly a ne...

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Eating Disorders: A Comprehensive Guide to Medical Care and Complications - Paperback

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by Philip S. Mehler (Editor), Arnold E. Andersen (Editor)A comprehensive guide on how to diagnose, treat, and care for those with eating disorders.Eating disorders, which include such conditions as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and pica, represent a challenge to both patients and health care providers alike. For more than 20 years, health care providers have turned to the expert advice found in Eating Disorders to keep up to date with the latest research in the field and to help them provi...

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by Lata Kanyal Butola (Author)The term Vitamin B12 is used as a generic descriptor for the cobalamins; cobalt containing compound possessing the corrin ring having the biological activity of vitamin. The active coenzyme forms of Vitamin B12 are methylcobalamine and deoxyadenosylcobalamin. Dietary sources of vitamin B12 are of animal origin and include meat, eggs, milk, dairy products, fish and poultry. Vitamin B12 is absent in plant foods and humans obtain small amount of Vitamin B12 from the...

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Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness - Paperback

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by Rick Hanson (Author)LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER - "An easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today's increasingly complex world."--Lori Gottlieb, MFT, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential--to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. And now recent science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being are based on equally remarkable...

Cuando la boca calla, los órganos hablan...: Revelando los mensajes de los sintomas - Paperback

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by Adalberto de Paula Barreto (Author)Esta obra presenta una síntesis de la experiencia profesional, personal y cultural del Profesor Adalberto Barreto, médico psiquiatra brasileno. Claramente inspirado de sus innumerables lecturas, este libro es también la huella de toda la riqueza de Brasil, tierra de inmigración incomparable. De esta manera el trabajo de A. Barreto es alimentado de los acercamientos psico-energéticos y simbólicos de los síntomas según las distintas culturas y tradiciones a...

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by Sanjay Gupta (Author) Number of Pages: 284 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 28, 2021

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by Daniel Burow (Author)Discover the story of how a licensed psychologist discovered another way to help himself and his clients to change. Excerpt; Dear reader, I'm Daniel Burow. I'm a highly educated psychologist who had already been in practice for 15 years when I first made contact with Master Hypnotist Society founder Scott McFall back in 2005.That experience was confusing, irritating...and profoundly awesome, in the truest sense of the word. When my own practice started to flail in my g...

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Medical Tests Sourcebook, 7th Edition - Hardcover

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by Kevin Hayes Provides basic consumer health information about endoscopic, imaging, laboratory, and other types of medical testing for disease diagnosis and monitoring, along with guidelines for screening and preventive care testing in children and adults. Number of Pages: 600 Dimensions: 2.28 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: November 26, 2021

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Sourcebook, 7th Edition - Hardcover

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by Kevin Hayes Provides consumer health information about alternative and complementary medical therapies, including dietary supplements, mind-body medicine, and manipulative and body-based therapies, along with facts about alternative treatments for specific diseases and conditions. Number of Pages: 600 Dimensions: 2.28 x 9.29 x 6.22 IN Publication Date: December 03, 2021

A Cure for Crohn's: The untold cause and emerging treatment for Crohn's disease: The untold cause and emerging treatment for Crohn's disea - Hardcover

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by David N. Armstrong (Author) "A Cure for Crohn's" is a true-life medical mystery of how the cause of a disease that affects 1.5 million Americans, mostly adolescents, has been kept undercover from the public.A Cure for Crohn's examines an extremely complex and controversial topic. It explains the radical rethinking of Crohn's disease from an "idiopathic" disease (unknown cause) to a proven zoonotic disease (transmitted from birds to animals to man), caused by the bacterium mycobacterium avi...

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Choose Life: Answering Key Claims of Abortion Defenders with Compassion - Paperback

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by John K. Goodrich (Author), Jeanette Hagen Pifer (Author)You're pro-life. But can you explain why?You already believe in choosing life. But when the counterarguments are coming at you from every angle--legal, biological, medical, ethical, moral, philosophical, and biblical--how do you defend the pro-life view? And as you defend it . . . how do you speak with wisdom, humility, and compassion?Now more than ever, the times call for a balance of truth and mercy. There are good, wise, and though...

Asesinatos sin Resolver: Los Misteriosos Crímenes de Asesinos sin Identificar que Han Marcado la Historia - Hardcover

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by Blake Aguilar (Author) Te has preguntado cuáles son los crímenes que han dejado perturbado y confundido al mundo? "Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima." - Alfred HitchcockCuando se habla de asesinos con frecuencia se recurre a las palabras "monstruos" o "perversos" para describir a estos individuos, como si fueran seres de una especie totalmente diferente a la nuestra y lejana a nuestra naturaleza. Sin embargo, la capacidad de cometer actos ...

Los Lugares más Tenebrosos del Mundo: Atrévete a Descubrir los Hechos que Ocurrieron en Estos Lugares Infernales. 2 Libros en 1 - Cementerios Embrujad - Paperback

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by Blake Aguilar (Author) Te has preguntado qué es lo que ocurre en cementerios, asilos y hospitales abandonados de noche? Qué misterios y tragedias ocultan las lápidas? Porqué estos lugares están rodeados de temas tabú en muchas culturas? Entonces sigue leyendo.."Ahora es el momento de la noche en que los sepulcros, abiertas sus losas, dejan escapar sus espíritus, que se deslizan por las sendas del cementerio." - William ShakespeareNo todos aquellos que yacen dentro de los cementerios desc...

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Covid-19 Vaccines and Effects: Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines - Paperback

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by Ken Jefferson (Author)Covid-19 Vaccines And EffectsAdverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines This book is one of a series of explanations about vaccine development and distribution. Learn more about vaccines, from how they work and how they are made, to ensuring their safety and equitable access.In the pages of this book, you will also learn about the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines This is one of the most comprehensive books about vaccines available in the market, and you will surely love...

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Take Control of Your Diabetes Risk - Hardcover

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by John Whyte MD Mph (Author)From the Chief Medical Officer at WebMD, the world's largest provider of trusted health information, learn how to reduce your diabetes risk and change your mindset from I hope I don't get diabetes to I can prevent diabetes.You have diabetes. Three words no one ever wants to hear, yet each year, over a million people in the United States alone do. So now what?Take Control of Your Diabetes Risk shares straightforward information and equips you with strategies to hel...

When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing - Paperback

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by Shawn Whatley (Author)How Successive Governments Have Weakened the Foundation of All Canadian's Social and Economic SecurityAt some point, you will find yourself lying in a hospital bed. There is a good chance that your bed will be a firm, rubber pad held secure between two rails and parked along a corridor in a busy emergency department. Moans of "Nurse!" will echo from the beds ahead of you in line. Those pleas will fall largely on deaf ears. Your hospital is underfunded and understaffed...

Manual de Primeros Auxilios: Este libro incluye: Cómo curarse de accidentes en el desierto + Cómo curarse de accidentes urbanos + Cómo actuar ante - Paperback

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by Branda Nurt (Author) Pasas mucho tiempo al aire libre? Disfruta de actividades comunes al aire libre como acampar, cazar, pescar, hacer caminatas o simplemente tomar un poco de aire fresco? Mucha gente lo hace, y mucha gente ha visto las historias de supervivencia de aquellos que enfrentaron lesiones extremas en la naturaleza. Sin embargo, la respuesta general es que esas emergencias no le ocurren a la gente común. Eso no podría estar más lejos de la verdad.En este libro, aprenderá sobre ...

Health Care Ethics for Nurses - Paperback

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by Magna Anissa Edding Aming-Hayudini (Author)This book is intended for medical practitioners specifically nurses. It is the desire of the author to simplify the Health Care Ethics in nursing practice that will help readers to embrace the significance of it. However, the legal concerns and issues are discussed in this book to educate beginning nurses, in academe and in the practice settings. It may also guide nurses to become more competent in the caring patients as possible. The author belie...

Osteopathy: Research and Practice - Paperback

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by Andrew Taylor Still (Author)Learn about the science that revolutionized 20th century medicine from the founder himself!Andrew Taylor Still liberated his practice from traditional, then futile, medicine. Having prescribed drugs for years and found them of more harm than benefit, he resorted to engineering principles and treated the human body as one magnificent machine, founding the science of osteopathy and the first school of osteopathic medicine in the world."Osteopathy is the natural wa...