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The Inflamed Feeling: The Brain's Role in Immune Defence - Paperback

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by Mats Lekander (Author)What do feeling sick and being afraid of strangers have in common? The answer is that these feelings represent a behavioural drive which evolved in our ancestors to combat the most dangerous threat to survival: infection. Behaviour and emotions play pivotal roles in the struggle for good health. When your body is telling your brain that you are sick, you are experiencing survival strategies that developed years ago. Listening to these feelings will allow you to save e...

The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why - Hardcover

$126.54

by Steven Brown (Author)What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? There has been a surge of cognitive, biological, and evolutionary interest in the arts in recent years, most of it oriented towards individual artforms. However, there has been virtually no bridging work to integrate the arts under a single theoretical perspective. This book presents the first integrated cognitive account of the arts that unites visual art, theatre, literature, dance, and music into a s...

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by The World Famous I. B. Corduroy (Author)Lenny Stewart was a paramedic in the rural Southern California town of La Pradera. He loved his job, he loved living in La Pradera, and he loved helping people. Little did he know that one day, while he was at work, Lenny would come across a mysterious young nine-year-old boy who would change his life forever. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 05, 2021

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by Janet Gilsdorf (Author)From acclaimed author and Professor Emerita of Pediatrics and Epidemiology Janet Gilsdorf comes a captivating and timely novel about a young doctor's quest to uncover the cause of a mysterious disease killing young children, and the race to find a cure. In 1984, in the small Brazilian village of Promissão, a young child begins to fuss, her eyes turning pink and her skin flushed with heat. Four days later, she's dead. Sidonie Royal, an accomplished physician and scien...

Clinical Ethics: A Graphic Medicine Casebook - Paperback

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by Kimberly R. Myers (Author), Molly L. Osborne (Author), Charlotte A. Wu (Author)Kimberly R. Myers, M.A., Ph.D., is Professor of Humanities and Medicine and Distinguished Educator at Penn State College of Medicine and Program Director of Schwartz Center Rounds for the Penn State Cancer Institute.Molly L. Osborne, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and Integrated Ethics Program Officer.Charlotte A. Wu, M.D., is an internal medicine physic...

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Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Road Map - Paperback

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by Meredith Li-Vollmer (Author)Demonstrates how comics can address topics such as disease outbreaks, opioid addiction prevention, healthcare reform, and climate change while eliciting empathy, clarifying complexity, and broadening perspectives.Author Biography Meredith Li-Vollmer is a communications specialist for Public Health--Seattle and King County, Washington, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health....

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Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach: Paperback + eBook - Paperback

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by Frank H. Netter (Author)For students and clinical professionals who are learning anatomy, participating in a dissection lab, sharing anatomy knowledge with patients, or refreshing their anatomy knowledge, the Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy illustrates the body, region by region, in clear, brilliant detail from a clinician's perspective. Unique among anatomy atlases, it contains illustrations that emphasize anatomic relationships that are most important to the clinician in training and pract...

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Minimally Invasive Urology: Past, Present, and Future, an Issue of Urologic Clinics: Volume 49-1 - Hardcover

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by John Denstedt (Editor)This issue of Urologic Clinics provides the urologist with important updates to better manage patients requiring minimally invasive procedures. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as Focal Therapy in Urology, Advances in Ureteroscopy, New Stent Technologies, and more. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on minimally invasive urology, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under ...

Issues and Debates in Cyberpsychology - Paperback

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by Linda K. Kaye (Author)This comprehensive and accessibly written book brings together in one place for the first time the wealth of debates within cyberpsychology. Is the distinction between so-called digital natives and digital immigrants meaningful in practice? What is the difference between screen time and screen use, and why has one been pathologized while the other has not? Is social media really bad for wellbeing?This book considers these issues and more, in depth, with clear, informe...

The Ethics of Group Psychotherapy: Principles and Practical Strategies - Paperback

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by Virginia Brabender (Author), Rebecca Macnair-Semands (Author)The Ethics of Group Psychotherapy provides group psychotherapists with the ethical and legal foundation needed to engage in effective decision-making in their everyday group practices. This text provides readers with a framework for understanding ethical dilemmas through a review of major models of ethical thinking, including principlism, feminism and the ethics of care, and virtue ethics. The authors use this foundation to explo...

The Medical Examiner Service: A Practical Guide for England and Wales - Paperback

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by Jason Payne-James (Editor), Suzannah Lishman (Editor)This book provides a practical guide for all those working in or with Medical Examiner Services in England and Wales. It is an adjunct to the e-learning and face-to-face training required to fulfil the Medical Examiner and Medical Examiner Officer roles.Medical Examiner Services also work closely with a wide range of stakeholders including bereavement and mortuary teams, Coroners and their Officers, Registrars, Funeral Directors and thos...

Brush Fire: Covid-19 and Our Nursing Homes - Paperback

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by Deke Cateau (Author)Brush Fire chronicles, the challenges that nursing home residents and staff experienced at A. G. Rhodes-one of Atlanta's oldest and most respected nonprofit organizations-in their difficult and lengthy battle against COVID-19. In his authorial debut, A. G. Rhodes' CEO, Deke Cateau, gives a sobering behind-the-scenes look into what his organization, and undoubtedly thousands of other senior care organizations, faced during the global pandemic. Perhaps most importantly, B...

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A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine - Hardcover

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by Ralph H. Hruban (Author), Will Linder (Author)A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women. Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in the history of medicine. When it first opened its doors in 1893, medicine was a rough-and-ready trade. It would soon evolve into a rigorous science. It was nothing short of a revolution. This transition ...

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Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine - Hardcover

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by Carole Adrienne (Author)"An exceptional look at the growth of health care spurred by the Civil War?"--David J Kent, award-winning scientist and author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America At the start of the Civil War, the medical field in America was rudimentary, unsanitary, and woefully underprepared to address what would become the bloodiest conflict on U.S. soil. However, in this historic moment of pivotal...

The Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind - Hardcover

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by Richard Restak (Author)A comprehensive guide to understanding how memory works, how memory forms, the mind-body connection, and more! In the busy, information-filled world in which we live, it's often easy to forget things and hard to keep track of how details get stored in our brain. The Complete Guide to Memory serves to provide a one-stop resource that covers the essentials on memory. World-renowned memory expert, Dr. Richard Restak, addresses the following topics in detail: How memori...

Righteous Rebels [Revised Edition]: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World - Hardcover

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by Patrick Range McDonald (Author)In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. This untold story highlights AHF's bold history of activism, its hard-charging advocacy on the behalf of vulnerable people, and it...

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Handbook of Nephrology and Hypertension - Paperback

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by Christopher S. Wilcox (Author), Michael Choi (Author), Limeng Chen (Author)Concise, thorough, and easy to use, Handbook of Nephrology and Hypertension 7th Edition, provides authoritative guidance on diagnosing and treating patients with a wide range of kidney disorders and hypertension, including coverage of dialysis and transplantation. Lead editor Dr. Christopher Wilcox and his team of section editors Drs. Michael Choi, Limeng Chen, Winfred N. Williams, and Mark S. Segal oversee a group ...

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by Amy McDonald (Author)Hospitals are places of helping and healing! This title takes beginning readers through these important community places, from exam rooms to nurseries. Short sentences and clear photos guide readers, while simple features such as diagrams and labels support the text. This peek into hospitals' many rooms and uses is sure to engage students as they take their first steps to reading independently! Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9.2 x 6.6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publica...

Rethinking Obesity: Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times - Paperback

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by Lee F. Monaghan (Author), Emma Rich (Author), Andrea E. Bombak (Author)Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centred health paradigm and world war on obesity. Building upon existing international literature...

Doctor Taylor: Medical Romance - Paperback

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by Sharon Woods (Author)AliceI finally graduated with my nursing degree and now it's time to celebrate. Out with my friends, I come across the man of my dreams. Tall, dark, and oh so sexy. When I see him with another woman, I move on, after all it's just a night out and it's time for me to focus on my career anyway.Until we end up at the same hospital. I had no idea he was a doctor, and now he's become the forbidden fruit I see every day.MikeAt this age, I've had it with relationships. Call m...

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Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler (Author), Joel B. Teitelbaum (Author)Given the national reckoning around structural inequity, racism, and intractable health inequalities, there is an unrequited demand among faculty and scholars who teach and write about health equity and social justice for texts that go beyond a discussion of the social determinants of health and access to care to provide analysis that offers a structural and legal lens for understanding entrenched health inequity in the U.S. The CO...

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Teachers Vs Tech?: The Case for an Ed Tech Revolution - Paperback

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by Daisy Christodoulou (Author)Author BiographyDaisy Christodoulou Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 05, 2020

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by Katie Runde (Author)A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of secrets in this "deeply felt family saga" (Entertainment Weekly) hailed as "one of the best beach reads of all time" (Today). Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But t...

Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture - Hardcover

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by David S. Dalton (Editor), Douglas J. Weatherford (Editor)Illustratingthe diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, Healthcare in Latin America is the firstvolume to gather research by many of the foremost scholars working on the topicand region in fields such as history, sociology, women's studies, politicalscience, and cultural studies. Throughthis unique eclectic approach, contributors explore the development andrepresentation of public health in countries ...

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Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages - Hardcover

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by Ruth Engs (Author)This encyclopedia explores historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western medicine but which nevertheless played an important role in the history of medicine. From placing leeches on the neck to treat a cough to using crocodile dung to prevent pregnancy, a number of medical treatments that now seem unusual were once commonplace. While a few of these remedies may have been effective, most were either useless or a...

Psychotherapy with Dignity: Logotherapy in Action - Paperback

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by Elisabeth Lukas (Author), Heidi Schönfeld (Author)Founded by Viktor E. Frankl, logotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that has proven itself over decades - through periods of war and prosperity - to work for the happiness and mitigate the unhappiness of all sorts of people. It has an impressive track record of success. It helps people to remain mentally supple in crisis situations and opens up new possibilities for discovering meaning. Its sophisticated methods all rely on the inalienable ...

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The Complete Family Guide to Dementia: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Parent and Yourself - Paperback

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by Thomas F. Harrison (Author), Brent P. Forester (Author)If you are facing the unique challenges of caring for a parent with dementia, you are not alone. What do you do when your loved one so plainly needs assistance, but is confused, angry, or resistant to your help? Where can you find the vital information you need, when you need it? Journalist Thomas Harrison and leading geriatric psychiatrist Brent Forester show that you don't have to be a medical expert to be a good care provider in thi...

When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death - Paperback

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by Juanne Nancarrow Clarke (Author)Examining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry. Number of Pages: 334 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 28, 2022

Kinesiology and Sports Science - Hardcover

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by Tilly Martin (Editor)The scientific study of human body movement is known as kinesiology. It primarily addresses the physiological, biomechanical and psychological dynamic principles and mechanisms of movement. Human kinesiology have applications in the area of biomechanics, orthopedics and sports psychology. Kinesiology involves various principles of neuroplasticity, adaptation through exercise, motor redundancy, etc. It primarily applies the sciences of biomechanics, anatomy, physiology,...

Made to Order: The Designing of Animals - Hardcover

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by Margaret E. Derry (Author)Made to Order explains more than three centuries of attitudes toward animal breeding. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 1.02 x 9.06 x 5.91 IN Publication Date: April 15, 2022

The Healing Burnout Guide: A Collection of Daily Perspectives, Reflection & Artistry - Beginner - Paperback

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by Richard C. Scepura (Author)As a nurse leader, I have witnessed many employees suffering from the effects of burnout. The benefits of performing self-reflection on the variety of topics included will help expand your emotional quotient (EQ). The global Covid pandemic has aggravated the situation bringing with it uncharted, unfamiliar waters to navigate. This is book one (Beginner) of a four-part series designed to bring you daily perspectives, reflection & artistry for self-care and per...

Elliott's Hand-book of Medical, Hygienic, Pharmaceutical and Dental Journals of the United States and Canada [microform] - Paperback

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by A R Elliott (Firm) (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved...