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In Consciousness We Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience - Hardcover

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by Hakwan Lau (Author)In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory, Lau uses various neuroscience techniques to address challenging philosophical questions about the nature of our subjective experience. Considering the qualitative nature of subjective experience, the book reviews the current cognitive neuroscience literature on conscious perception, attention, and met...

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Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality - Paperback

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by Catherine Carstairs (Author)As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change the appearance of smiles were largely unknown. Today, many Canadians enjoy straight, white teeth and far more of them are keeping their teeth for the entirety of their lives. Yet these advances have not reached everyone.The Smile Gap examines the enormous improvements that have taken...

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Patterns of Plague: Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348-1750 - Paperback

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by Lori Jones (Author)For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and how plague originated did.Through an innovative reading of medical advice literature produced in England and France, Patterns of Plague explores these changing perceptions across four centuries. When plague appeared in the...

There Is No College in COVID - Paperback

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by Jenna Goldsmith (Editor)Like so many colleges and universities across the country, OSU Cascades 'went remote' in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Faculty turned on a dime, shifting their courses from face-to-face to remote over the Spring Break holiday, and students hunkered down for a long term of Zooming.In the journal entries collected here, students reveal a range of emotional responses to being a college student during COVID, and in their own voices. We witness frustrati...

Rehabilitation Strategies for Functional Recovery in Stroke Patients - Paperback

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by Yong-Jun Cha (Author)Stroke is a disease in which cerebral function is lost due to blockage of blood supply or bleeding of brain tissue. It is associated with various neurological dysfunctions that affect movement, sensation, postural control, language, cognition, and perception depending on the location of the brain lesion and degree of damage. Balance requires highly complex interactions involving muscle strength, muscle tone, joint flexibility, balance reflexes, and visual, vestibular, ...

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Life on a Knife's Edge: A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival - Hardcover

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by Rahul Jandial (Author)A raw and unflinching account from leading neuroscientist and neurosurgeon of the valuable lessons we can learn from patients confronted with their own mortality. As one of the world's leading brain surgeons, Dr Jandial is the last hope for many patients who have extreme forms of cancer - patients who can't be saved, but deserve more time. Life on a Knife's Edge is his account of the resilience, courage and belief he has witnessed in his patients, and the lessons he ...

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Toxicology Emergencies, an Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America: Volume 40-2 - Hardcover

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by Christopher P. Holstege (Editor)In this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Christopher P. Holstege and Joshua D. King bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Toxicology Emergencies. The field of medical toxicology has grown dramatically over the past decade, with the emergence of new pharmaceuticals, abused substances, chemicals within the workplace, and agents of terrorism. In this issue, top experts in the field address some of the more common, controversi...

Social Connections and Your Health - Paperback

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by Alfred Anduze (Author)Social Connections and Your Health is a contemporary look at the origins, evolution, history, and science of human social life. In the text we look at where this behavior came from, where it is at present and where it maybe going. The biochemistry of socializing and the formation and management of social connections involving the presence and activity of feel-good hormones and feel-bad hormones vying for expression and based on genetics, environment, and oxidative str...

The Anatomical and Histological Dissection of the Human Ear: in the Normal and Diseased Condition - Paperback

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by Adam 1835-1920 Politzer (Author), George 1849-1901 Stone (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 wo...

Chart to Save Your RN License: A Comprehensive Guide to What, When, and How to Document for Nurses - Paperback

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by Lena Empyema (Author)You can be an excellent nurse in the clinical setting and still fail to prove that you are an excellent nurse if your documentation is inadequate. Having worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, I understand the obstacles nurses face. There's just not time, nor do nurses have the mental energy to meticulously document every little thing on top of the rest of their to-do list. That's part of why I became passionate about documentation education. It does...

Injuries of the Spine: With an Analysis of Nearly Four Hundred Cases - Paperback

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by John 1839-1900 Ashhurst (Author)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 preserve...

A History of the York Lunatic Asylum: With an Appendix, Containing Minutes of the Evidence on the Cases of Abuse Lately Inquired Into by a Committee, - Paperback

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by Jona (Jonathan) 1779-1837 Gray (Created by), York Lunatic Asylum (Created by), William 1759-1833 Wilberforce (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 th...

Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples: A Neurocognitive Approach - Hardcover

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by Olympia Panagiotidou (Author)This book follows the evidence for Asclepius' supplicants from the moment in which they realized that they were sick until the healing experiences, which they might have had at the asclepieia. From a historical perspective, the main features of the Asclepius cult, as they were shaped mainly in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, are examined. The cult is situated in the wider political, social, cultural, and intellectual contexts of the Graeco-Roman era, in whic...

Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples: A Neurocognitive Approach - Paperback

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The New England Journal of Medicine; 183 n.5 - Paperback

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by Massachusetts Medical Society (Created by), New England Surgical Society (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 conc...

The Ophthalmic Patient: a Manual of Therapeutics and Nursing in Eye Diseases - Paperback

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by Percy Fridenberg (Author), University of Leeds Library (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...

Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1879): the Pioneer of Anesthesia and the First to Suggest and Employ Ether Inhalation During Surgical Operations - Paperback

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by Dudley Wilmot Buxton (Author)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, ...

Horses Ill and Well: Homoeopathic Treatment of Diseases and Injuries: and Hints on Feeding, Grooming, Conditioning, Nursing, Horse-buying, &c. - Paperback

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by James D. 1889 Moore (Created by), Fairman Rogers Collection (University (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 concu...

Liver Diet Cookbook For Beginners: The Easiest Guide To Maintain Your Renal Health Routine And To Cook 130+ Recipes In The Best Way Possible - Paperback

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by Loren Allen (Author)Confused about what to eat to keep healthy your liver? Are you currently following a Cirrhosis diet or trying to find some Cirrhosis recipes?Are you concerned about the food you'll be allowed to eat and how to keep it interesting?This book has got cirrhosis-friendly Recipes for A Balanced and Healthy Diet, has been created for you, so that finding success with the Cirrhosis diet comes easy. Plus a little guide to help you understand better your condition and what you c...

Spondylotherapy: Spinal Concussion and the Application of Other Methods to the Spine in the Treatment of Disease - Paperback

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by Albert 1863-1924 Abrams (Author), History of Medicine Collections (Duke (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 concu...

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by Suzanne H. Schrems (Author)Griffin Memorial Hospital is located at the end of East Main Street in Norman, Oklahoma. The hospital was originally started as High Gate College, a girls' school established by the United Methodist Church, South in 1890, one year after the settlement of Norman. With competition from the University of Oklahoma, High Gate College closed its doors in early 1895 and was soon bought by the Oklahoma Sanitarium Company. In 1915, the State of Oklahoma bought the Oklahom...

Nature the Best Physician; or, a Complete Domestic Herbal: Being a Brief, but Valuable Description of the Physical Properties of the Most Generally Kn - Paperback

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by Joseph 1761 or 1762-1844 N. Taylor (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...

An Account of a Useful Discovery to Distill Double the Usual Quantity of Seawater, by Blowing Showers of Air up Through the Distilling Liquor: and Als - Paperback

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by Stephen 1677-1761 Hales (Author)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 preserve...

Neuroplasticity: Simple Strategies to Better Manage Your Life (How to Boost Neurogenesis and Rewire Your Brain With Light) - Paperback

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by Susan Smith (Author)This book undertakes to accomplish three tasks in bringing the world of neuroplasticity to the everyday reader and to his or her idea of improving it in a way they see fit. It shows the reader that each person has the ability to alter and adjust the shape and resistance of his or her own mind. This is powerful information because when you alter the shape of the mind, you are essentially changing your destiny. Here is a preview of what you'll learn...- Boost neurogenesis...

The Women Artists of Bologna - Paperback

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by Laura Marie Roberts Ragg (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 pre...

How Not To Tear Your Family Apart: 3 Simple Steps to Start Critical Conversations and Help Your Family and Aging Parents Plan a Financially Stable Fut - Paperback

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by Carroll S. Golden (Author)"Carroll truly hits the mark by first identifying an issue virtually all of us will have to deal with, and then using practical, sensible, and insightful ways to approach this delicate balancing act! Kudos to her and her willingness to provide a much needed reality check." -Peter Gelbwaks CLTC Chairman Emeritus - The National LTC Network, Past Chairman - The National Alliance of Insurance Agencies Experience is an excellent teacher-but it can be a harsh master. We...

In Stroke's Shadow: My Caregiver Story - Paperback

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by Kyle Ruffin (Author)When Kyle left her marketing position at one of Philadelphia's iconic media outlets to start her own consulting business, she thought she was finally in complete control of her life. She had no idea things were about to take a sudden and dramatic turn. A few short months after launching her dream, Paula, Kyle's youthful, vibrant, and active mother, suffered the first of three strokes. Within the space of twenty-four hours, stroke catapulted the mother and daughter into ...

Advanced Play Therapy: Essential Conditions, Knowledge, and Skills for Child Practice - Paperback

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by Dee C. Ray (Author)Current play therapy resources offer details on how to conduct play therapy, but are limited in addressing the challenges that develop when therapists conduct play therapy with real-life clients. Using the Child-Centered Play Therapy Approach, Ray has written the first book to address these complex play therapy subjects. Topics covered include: integrating field knowledge of play, development, and theory into the advanced play therapist's knowledge base; working with dif...

Pediatric Focused History Taking and Clinical Examination: Hot Notes by Dr. M.O.H.M. - Paperback

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by Mohammed Imran Hadi (Author)I believe that the main object of basic medical education is to train the student to talkto and to examine a patient, in such a way that he can discover the full history of the patient's illness and elicit the abnormal physical signs to reach a differential diagnosis and suggest likely methods of treatment .. In this edition, I have attempted to describe THE STEPs in History taking and in Physicalexamination .. So, I mention a history CASE SHEETs of many medical...

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After Auschwitz: Reflections on the Future of Medicine - Paperback

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by Peter Selg (Author), Jeff Martin (Translator)"History does not repeat, but it does instruct."-- Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny)Since 2009, Peter Selg, along with Polish historians, has led seminars on medical ethics at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial for students at Witten / Herdecke University, Germany. This book was created following a public event in 2019 that investigated the "lessons of Auschwitz" for the practice of medicine in society today and in the future.As well as commemorating the...

A Q&A Approach to Organic Chemistry - Paperback

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by Michael B. Smith (Author)A Q&A Approach to Organic Chemistry is a book of leading questions that begins with atomic orbitals and bonding. All critical topics are covered, including bonding, nomenclature, stereochemistry, conformations, acids and bases, oxidations, reductions, substitution, elimination, acyl addition, acyl substitution, enolate anion reactions, the Diels-Alder reaction and sigmatropic rearrangements, aromatic chemistry, spectroscopy, amino acids and proteins, and carboh...

Bayesian Methods in Pharmaceutical Research - Paperback

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by Emmanuel Lesaffre (Editor), Gianluca Baio (Editor), Bruno Boulanger (Editor)Since the early 2000s, there has been increasing interest within the pharmaceutical industry in the application of Bayesian methods at various stages of the research, development, manufacturing, and health economic evaluation of new health care interventions. In 2010, the first Applied Bayesian Biostatistics conference was held, with the primary objective to stimulate the practical implementation of Bayesian statis...