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ALIVE! Lifestyle Changes to Age-Proof Your Mind and Body - Paperback

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by Rachna Chhachhi (Author)'It's not about the years you live, it's about how much life you put in each year.'We live longer than our ancestors did, thanks to modern medicine. Yet, building a society with a healthy life expectancy has become our greatest challeng Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 0.67 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: April 13, 2021

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by Dulal Krishna Tripathi (Author), Nirmalya Tripathi (Author)1. Flow of Fluid2. Size Reduction3. Size Separation4. Mixing5. Crystallization6. Evaporation7. Heat Transfer8. Drying9. Distillation10. Filtration11. Centrifugation12. Plant location, Industrial Hazards and Plant Safety13. Material of Pharmaceutical Plant Construction, Corrosion, and its Prevention14. Material Handling System Number of Pages: 372 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2021

How to Treat Humans: An Individual Indian, Doctor's Historical Looking Glass Worldview Perspective - Hardcover

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by Wilbert James (Author), Ava Goodman (Editor), Carrie Sams-Gustafson (Editor)How to Treat Humans. An Individual Indian, Doctor's Historical Looking Glass Worldview Perspective. Provides a description of how the measured healthcare disparities observed in Indian Country can be addressed with bridging cultural gaps in understanding perspectives and fostering communication to promote trust building in the context of doctor patient relationships. Good advice for all to consider. Number of Pages...

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Has Your Child Been Traumatized?: How to Know and What to Do to Promote Healing and Recovery - Paperback

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by Melissa Goldberg Mintz (Author), Jon G. Allen (Foreword by)When your child has been through an upsetting or stressful event, it can feel overwhelming. Is your child traumatized? Are new behaviors normal, or signs of PTSD? What can you do to make your child feel safe again? Psychologist Melissa Goldberg Mintz knows what is needed to support a traumatized child--and she knows that loving parents play the most important role. In this wise and authoritative guide, Dr. Goldberg Mintz shares spe...

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Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient - Paperback

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by Theresa Brown (Author)"Unflinching. Brown writes with a winning combination of passion, humor, and medical knowledge." --The Washington Post From the mammogram that would change her life through her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, New York Times bestselling author Theresa Brown tells a poignant and powerful story about having breast cancer in the United States. Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown finds it difficult to navigate the medic...

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Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care - Hardcover

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by Guian A. McKee (Author)Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country's high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. Yet that spending has also constrained possibilities for comprehensive h...

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In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing - Paperback

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by Jody Lulich (Author)The son of a Black mother and white father overcomes family trauma to find the courage of compassion in veterinary practice Rising to accept a prestigious award, Jody Lulich wondered what to say. Explain how he'd been attracted to veterinary medicine? Describe how caring for helpless, voiceless animals in his own shame and pain provided a lifeline, a chance to heal himself as well? Lulich tells his story in In the Company of Grace, a memoir about finding courage in com...

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The Pursuit of Life: The Promise and Challenge of Palliative Care - Paperback

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by Robert Fine (Editor), Jack Levison (Editor), Kelsey Spinnato (With)This volume examines crucial concerns in palliative care, including the proper balance between comfort and cure for the patient, the integration of spiritual well-being, and the challenges of providing care in the absence of basic medical services and supplies.In the first section, palliative-care pioneers Constance Dahlin, Eduardo Bruera, Neil MacDonald, and Declan Walsh recount the early history of the discipline. Part 2 ...

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by Humaid O. Al-Shamsi (Editor), Ibrahim H. Abu-Gheida (Editor), Faryal Iqbal (Editor) 1 Introduction 2 General Oncology Care in Algeria 3 General Oncology Care in Bahrain 4 General Oncology Care in Egypt 5 General Oncology Care in Iraq 6 General Oncology Care in Jordan 7 General Oncology Care in Kuwait 8 General Oncology Care in Lebanon 9 General Oncology Care in Libya 10 General Oncology Care in Mauritania 11 General Oncology Care in Morocco 12 General Oncology Care in Oman 13 General Oncol...

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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease - Paperback

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by Robert H. Lustig (Author)The landmark New York Times best seller that reveals how the explosion of sugar in our diets has created an obesity epidemic, and what we can do to save ourselves. Robert Lustig is at the forefront of war against sugar -- showing us that it's toxic, it's addictive, and it's everywhere because the food companies want it to be. His 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" has been viewed more than 7 million times. Now, in this landmark book, he documents the...

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7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back, Neck, and Shoulder Pain - Paperback

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by Robin McKenzie (Author), Craig Kubey (Author)A fully revised and updated edition of the program that's sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide--plus a new chapter addressing shoulder pain Since the McKenzie Method was first developed in the 1960s, millions of people have successfully used it to free themselves from chronic back and neck pain. Now, Robin McKenzie has updated his innovative program and added a new chapter on relieving shoulder pain. In 7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life, you'l...

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The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy - Paperback

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by Viktor E. Frankl (Author)From the author of Man's Search for Meaning, one of the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl is known as the founder of logotherapy, a mode of psychotherapy based on man's motivation to search for meaning in his life. The author discusses his ideas in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum." Originally publish...

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by Douglas Coupland (Author)On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers--modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition--before finally reuniting on a conspir...

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by Joyce Carol Oates (Author)In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives--love.In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes--the "man without a shadow"--whose devastated memory, unable to store new experiences ...

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Lange Instant Access Hospital Admissions: Essential Evidence-Based Orders for Common Clinical Conditions - Paperback

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by Anil Patel (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The most convenient, quick-access admissions guide available, packed with clinical facts, figures, and data you will refer to again and again Concise yet complete, this indispensable resource is filled with not-to-be-missed details for admissions orders and the management of newly admit...

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by Carl Djerassi (Author)"A beautifully ingenious, funny, brilliantly intelligent, and moving tale of very human scientists. A splendid novel."--Iris Murdoch At the age of 68, distinguished Princeton science professor Max Weiss is bribed into taking an early retirement. Frustratingly aware that his best years are not yet behind him, Weiss devises an inventive revenge in the form of "Dr. Diana Skordylis"--a pseudonym for a partnership among Weiss and three aging colleagues, each with an ax to...

Goodwin and Guze's Psychiatric Diagnosis 7th Edition - Paperback

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by Carol North (Author), Sean Yutzy (Author)Acclaimed for its thorough yet concise overview of the natural history of psychiatric disorders, Goodwin & Guze's Psychiatric Diagnosis has been newly and extensively updated in this seventh edition. As in previous editions, each chapter systematically covers the definition, historical background, epidemiology, clinical picture, natural history, complications, family studies, differential diagnosis, and clinical management of each disorder. Ter...

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by Mary Jo Kreitzer (Editor), Mary Koithan (Editor), Andrew Weil (Author)Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Integrative Nursing is a complete roadmap to integrative patient care, providing a guide to whole person/whole systems assessment and clinical interventions for individuals, families, and communities. Treatment strategies described in this version employ the full complement of evidence-informed methodologies in a tailored, person-centered approach to care. This text explor...

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Urban Mental Health (Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series) - Hardcover

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by Dinesh Bhugra (Editor)Over the past fifty years we have seen an enormous demographic shift in the number of people migrating to urban areas, proliferated by factors such as industrialisation and globalisation. Urban migration has led to numerous societal stressors such as pollution, overcrowding, unemployment, and resource, which in turn has contributed to psychiatric disorders within urban spaces. Rates of mental illness, addictions, and violence are higher in urban areas and changes in s...

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Essentials for Health Protection: Four Key Components - Paperback

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by Emily Ying Yang Chan (Author)The aim of health protection is to prevent and manage outbreaks of communicable and environmental diseases, and to make us better at responding to emergencies and disasters. This includes working with diseases and injuries from environmental hazard exposures and climate change. Essentials for Health Protection: Four Key Components is a guide to the reality of the field, and a discussion of how we can improve our present and future. Based on public health theori...

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Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals - Paperback

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by National Research Council (Author), Division on Earth and Life Studies (Author), Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (Author)A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory animal communities and the public at large. The Guide incorporates new scientific information on common laboratory animals, including aquatic species, and includes ex...

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Augoustides and Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia Review - Paperback

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by John G. T. Augoustides (Editor), Joel A. Kaplan (Editor)Turn to the trusted team of Drs. Joel A. Kaplan and John G.T. Augoustides for focused, comprehensive guidance on topics relevant to certification examinations for adult cardiac anesthesiology practitioners. Written by current leaders in the field, Augoustides and Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia Review summarizes critical, must-know cardiac anesthesia knowledge in a concise, quick-review format-making this an indispensable review tool for ...

Master Medicine: Clinical Anatomy - Paperback

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by W. Stanley Monkhouse (Author)Master Medicine: Clinical Anatomy is brief and accessible, approached from the point of view of what you will need to know in order to understand the clinical work you will eventually be doing. It includes a wide range of self-assessment material, ideal for testing your understanding, and helping you to prepare for your exams. Concise synoptic (not telegraphic text). Appropriate self-assessment material. Only covers core, so student knows the whole book is esse...

Preparing for Osha�s Voluntary Protection Programs: A Guide to Success [With CDROM] - Hardcover

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by Brian P. Bennett (Author), Norman R. Deitch (Author)Front JacketA step-by step guide to successfully achieving VPP recognition Participating in OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) offers businesses a number of advantages including enhanced safety performance, lower injury and lost workday rates, positive public recognition, and direct impact on the bottom line. Preparing for OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs: A Guide to Success is a comprehensive guide for companies and their man...

Comparing Clinical Measurement Methods: A Practical Guide - Hardcover

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by Bendix Carstensen (Author)This book provides a practical guide to analysis of simple and complex method comparison data, using Stata, SAS and R. It takes the classical Limits of Agreement as a starting point, and presents it in a proper statistical framework. The model serves as a reference for reporting sources of variation and for providing conversion equations and plots between methods for practical use, including prediction uncertainty. Presents a modeling framework for analysis of da...

Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare - Paperback

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by Brendan McCormack (Editor), Kim Manley (Editor), Angie Titchen (Editor)In its first edition, Practice Development in Nursing made an important contribution to understanding practice development and its core components. Now fully updated to take into account the many developments in the field, the second edition continues to fill an important gap in the market for an accessible, practical text on what remains a key issue for all members of the healthcare team globally. Practice Development ...

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by Francis V. Adams (Author)Physicians have been known as healers long before they could provide cures for common ailments, but the art of healing is rarely found in the current era of managed care and five-minute office visits. Patients cry out for a physician who "cares," someone who will take the time to listen to their complaints. In Healing Through Empathy, Dr. Francis Adams illustrates the vital importance of the doctor-patient relationship through seven of his patients' histories. In ...

Neuromorphic Circuits: A constructive approach - Hardcover

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by Alice C. Parker (Editor), Rick Cattell (Editor)This book covers a constructive approach to modeling analog neuromorphic circuits with CMOS and nano transistors, focusing on the BioRC project at the University of Southern California. Number of Pages: 475 Dimensions: 1.06 x 10 x 7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 09, 2023

Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice: Theory and Practice - Paperback

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by American College of Medical Qualit Acmq (Author), Prathibha Varkey (Author)This new comprehensive resource Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice addresses the needs of physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals for up to date information about medical quality management. In reviewing the key principles and methods that comprise the current state of medical quality management in U.S. health care, this text provides a concise summary of quality improvement, p...

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by Patrick Taylor (Author)An Irish Country Love Story is the eleventh heartwarming installment in New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series. It's the winter of 1967 and snow is on the ground in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, but the chilly weather can't stop love from warming hearts all over the county. Not just the love between a man and woman, as with young doctor, Barry Laverty, and his fiancee Sue Nolan, who are making...

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Health Technology Sourcebook, Third Edition - Hardcover

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by James Chambers (Editor in Chief) Number of Pages: 648 Dimensions: 1.89 x 9.29 x 6.22 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2023

Neurovirology: Measuring, Interpreting, and Understanding Viruses - Paperback

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by Richard B. Tenser (Author)The plethora of miscommunication and disinformation about how SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) spreads suggests a widespread misunderstanding of how viruses work. This book will focus on the interpretation of scientific and medical results, giving the reader guidance on interpreting virological data, including the concepts of 'live' versus infectious virus. The first section covers the background of virology and immunology, introducing the reader to the science of virology (...