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Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) - Paperback

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by Marion Nestle (Author)Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers--principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power. Billed as "refreshing," "tasty," "crisp," and "the real thing," sodas also happen to be so well established to contribute to poor dental hygiene, higher calorie intake, obesity, and t...

Healing the Distress of Psychosis: Listening with Psychotic Ears - Paperback

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by Shannon Dunn (Author)Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid. These judgmental, inaccurate interpretations and accusatory attitudes can cause iatrogenic trauma, a significant obstacle to recovery. Healing the Distress of Psychosis focuses on practice-based and evidence-informed interventions to effectively understand and communicate with people who are experiencing psych...

Patients as Art: Forty Thousand Years of Medical History in Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture - Paperback

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by Philip A. Mackowiak (Author)Patients as Art explores the capacity of art to provide a unique perspective on the history of humankind. Fearturing over 160 full-color works of art, this book offers a pictorial review of medical history stretching from Paleolithic times to the present, reflecting the ideals and sensibilities of the times in which they were created, and communicating formal, spiritual, and scientific values. Rarely have experts considered the potential clinical implications of...

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by William B. Irvine (Author)What are you? Obviously, you are a person with human ancestors that can be plotted on a family tree, but you have other identities as well. According to evolutionary biologists, you are a member of the species Homo sapiens and as such have ancestral species that can be plotted on the tree of life. According to microbiologists, you are a collection of cells, each of which has a cellular ancestry that goes back billions of years. A geneticist, though, will think of ...

Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness - Hardcover

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by Stephanie Schroeder (Editor), Teresa Theophano (Editor)Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, mental illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. The featured pieces offer personal views from both providers and clients, often one and the same, about their experiences. In the anthology, readers will a...

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by Leslie Iversen (Author)The Science of Marijuana, 3rd Edition is directed at a public interested in knowing more about cannabis, how it works, and what the hazards associated with its use may be. In terms of cannabis as a medicine, it is now sanctioned by a majority of US States, with approved medical indications that often go beyond what is really known scientifically about the effectiveness of cannabis treatment. Some countries and US States have approved full legalization of cannabis for...

Shattered Nerves: Doctors, Patients, and Depression in Victorian England - Hardcover

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by Janet Oppenheim (Author), Janet Cppenheim (Author)No Victorian portrait of nervous breakdown is more celebrated than John Stuart Mill's description of his own crisis recounted in his Autobiography. But Mill was only the most notable British Victorian to suffer from "shattered nerves," for depression appears again and again in nineteenth-century history and literature, among men and women of all classes. It was a problem that doctors struggled to understand and treat--largely unsuccessfully...

Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation - Paperback

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by John Money (Author)The diverse historical, cultural, and physiological influences that determine sexual orientation are the focus of this fascinating work by one of the foremost investigators of human sexuality. Drawing on case studies from his sexology clinic, the author explores such topics as prenatal and postnatal history, gender differentiation in childhood, and postpubertal hormonal theories. In so doing, he addresses the many enigmas of sexual orientation: What makes some children g...

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by Samuel M. Schwartz (Author), Mischa E. Friedman (Editor)Each year thousands of biomedical and behavioral researchers submit grant applications to the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) for support of their research or research training activities. The majority of these applications are submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). By describing the inner workings of the NIH extramural programs and providing practical information about grant programs and processes, this aut...

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by György Buzsáki (Author)Is there a right way to study how the brain works? Following the empiricist's tradition, the most common approach involves the study of neural reactions to stimuli presented by an experimenter. This 'outside-in' method fueled a generation of brain research and now must confront hidden assumptions about causation and concepts that may not hold neatly for systems that act and react. György Buzsáki's The Brain from Inside Out examines why the outside-in framework for un...

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by Staffan E. Norell (Author)Through a combination of descriptive text and exercises, this book presents an accessible framework for the planning and critical evaluation of epidemiologic studies. It describes the principal sources of error, their impact on the results, and the research strategies used to prevent errors. These strategies are the building blocks of epidemiologic study design which generally seek to obtain accurate results despite the employment of limited resources. The volume ...

The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know - Paperback

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by Yngvild Olsen (Author)An incisive, essential guide to understanding one of today's most urgent -- and complex -- problems. The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis of our time. Its comprehensive approach and Q&A format offer readers a practical path to understanding the epidemic from all sides. Written by two expert physicians and enriched with stories f...

Well: What We Need to Talk about When We Talk about Health - Hardcover

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by Sandro Galea (Author)"A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine." -- Arianna Huffington In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health. Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show n...

Research Methods in Health Humanities - Paperback

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by Klugman (Editor)Research Methods in Health Humanities surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, but rich enough to engage more seasoned students and scholars, this volume is an essential teaching and reference tool for health humanities teachers and scholars. Health humanities is a field committed to social justice and to applying expertise to real world concerns, c...

The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception - Hardcover

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by David Michaels (Author)Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning problems that persist despite their toll on the country's health. And ...

Bartlett's Medical Management of HIV Infection - Paperback

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by John G. Bartlett (Author), Robert R. Redfield (Author), Paul A. Pham (Author)THE PIONEERING WORK IN HIV MEDICINE, COMPLETELY REVISED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2012 The 17th edition of Bartlett's Medical Management of HIV Infection offers the best-available clinical guidance for treatment of patients with HIV. Edited by preeminent and pioneering authorities in HIV research and clinical care, it has earned its status as the definitive work for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitio...

Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Ptsd: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences - Therapist Guide - Paperback

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by Edna Foa (Author), Elizabeth A. Hembree (Author), Barbara Olasov Rothbaum (Author)Prolonged Exposure Therapy is an effective, highly flexible, and very well researched intervention to reduce the symptoms of PTSD across a variety of traumatized populations. The second edition of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences, Therapist Guide, along with the accompanying Workbook, provides all of the tools necessary for trained mental health providers to i...

Neurobehavioral Consequences of Closed Head Injury - Hardcover

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by Harvey S. Levin (Author), Robert G. Grossman (With), Arthur Lester Benton (With)Back JacketThe authors cover the full range of effects head injuries have on behavior, initial and long-term, in both children and adults. While observations are based primarily on a review of research, the book integrates clinical knowledge with findings from experimental studies. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.78 x 9.39 x 6.28 IN Publication Date: April 22, 1982

Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations - Paperback

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by Anthony McMichael (Author)When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is the ideal person to tell this story. In Climate Change and the Health of Nations, McMichael shows how th...

A Casebook of Medical Ethics - Paperback

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by Terrence F. Ackerman (Author), Carson Strong (With)Should a brain-dead woman be artificially maintained for the sake of her fetus? Does a physician have the right to administer a life-saving transfusion despite the patient's religious beliefs? Can a family request a hysterectomy for their retarded daughter? Physicians are facing moral dilemmas with increasing frequency. But how should these delicate questions be resolved and by whom? A Casebook of Medical Ethics offers a real-life view of ...

Neurosurgery: An Introductory Text - Hardcover

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by Rossitch Black (Author), Eugene Rossitch Jr. (Author), Peter M. Black (Author) Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.68 x 8.58 x 5.44 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2001

Conscious Mind in Search of a Fundamental Theory (Revised) - Paperback

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by David J. Chalmers (Author)What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminent figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerald Edelman, and Roger Penrose, all firing volleys in what has come ...

The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation - Paperback

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by George Ed Annas (Author), George J. Annas (Editor), Michael a. Grodin (Editor)The atrocities committed by Nazi physicians and researchers during World War II prompted the development of the Nuremberg Code to define the ethics of modern medical experimentation utilizing human subjects. Since its enunciation, the Code has been viewed as one of the cornerstones of modern bioethical thought. The sources and ramifications of this important document are thoroughly discussed in this book by a dis...

Life and Death Decision Making - Hardcover

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by Baruch A. Brody (Author)Integrating theory with realistic case studies, this book examines the practical application of moral theory in clinical decision-making. With forty composite cases based on actual clinical experiences, the author describes key moral problems raised by modern medicine. He then demonstrates how these dilemmas can be resolved using a problem-solving framework termed pluralistic casuistry. This approach is pluralistic in that it accepts the relevance of many different ...

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture - Paperback

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by Jerome H. Barkow (Editor), John Tooby (Editor), Leda Cosmides (Editor)Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to the emergence of a fundame...

Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia - Hardcover

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by Louis a. Schmidt (Author), Jay Schulkin (Author), Louis a. Schmidt (Editor)Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia assembles a stellar group of researchers to discuss the origins, development, and outcomes of extreme fear and shyness. By selecting the foremost experts from disparate fields, the editors provide a thorough and timely examination of the subject and present state-of-the-art research for psychologists, neuroscientists, and clinicians interested in the development and outcome o...

Statistical Methods in Epidemiology - Paperback

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by Harold A. Kahn (Author), Christopher T. Sempos (With)This book is an expanded version of the Kahn's widely used text, An Introduction to Epidemiologic Methods (Oxford, 1983). It provides clear insight into the basic statistical tools used in epidemiology and is written so that those without advanced statistical training can comprehend the ideas underlying the analytical techniques. The authors emphasize the extent to which similar results are obtained from different methods, both simple an...

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by Henry E. Sigerist (Author)Volume II details the development of medicine among the early Indo-European peoples--Greeks, Indians, and Persians. The Indo-Europeans were the first to use empirical knowledge to develop philosophical systems of medicine which looked beyond the sick man for universal laws. This volume examines the Greek rational systems which are the foundations of modern science, and the similar Near Eastern approaches, which had an additional mystic component better suited for ...

Topics in Palliative Care: Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by Russell K. Portenoy (Editor), Eduardo Bruera (Editor)Palliative care focuses on the management of disease symptoms that produce discomfort and pain, compromise function, or otherwise undermine the quality of life of patients with progressive medical disorders. It is a fundamental part of clinical practice, the necessary companion to therapies directed at the prolongation of life and the cure of disease. As a clinical specialty, palliative care is just beginning to define itself in the Unit...

The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders - Paperback

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by Bryna Siegel (Author)For thousands of loving and concerned parents of autistic children, the suspicion that something may be wrong comes long before the clinical diagnosis of autism, PDD (pervasive developmental disorder), or Asperger's syndrome. When rounds of testing and consultations confirm parents' worst fears, their emotional turmoil is matched by an overriding practical concern: What do we do next?The World of the Autistic Child is by far the most complete and comprehensive book eve...

Topics in Palliative Care: Volume 2 - Hardcover

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by Portenoy Bruera (Author), Russell K. Portenoy (Editor), Eduardo Bruera (Editor)The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. The interdisciplinary clinical purview includes those factors - physical, psychological, social, and spiritual - that contribute to suffering, undermine quality of life, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palli...

Topics in Palliative Care: Volume 3 - Hardcover

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by Russell K. Portenoy (Editor), Eduardo Bruera (Editor)Palliative care is a rapidly evolving field focused on the management of problems that undermine the quality of life of patients with progressive incurable medical disorders. It is fundamentally concerned with all factors- physical, psychological, social, and spiritual- that contribute to suffering, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palliative care is a fundamental aspect to good clinical practice, the "parallel universe" to ...