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by Ambroise Pare (Author)Ambroise Par , born in France around 1510, was chief surgeon to both Charles IX and Henri III. In one of the first attempts to explain birth defects, Par produced On Monsters and Marvels, an illustrated encyclopedia of curiosities, of monstrous human and animal births, bizarre beasts, and natural phenomena. Janice Pallister's acclaimed English translation offers a glimpse of the natural world as seen by an extraordinary Renaissance natural philosopher. Number of Pag...

Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS - Paperback

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by Deborah B. Gould (Author)In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more-even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author's time as a member of the organization, Moving Politics is ...

Death, Dissection and the Destitute - Paperback

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by Ruth Richardson (Author)In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death...

Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research - Paperback

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by Laura Stark (Author)Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as their present, and Behind Closed Doors is the first book to meld firsthand observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the United States in the decades a...

The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 - Paperback

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by Charles E. Rosenberg (Author)Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narr...

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by Tim Brown (Author)T.J. Brown, PSP - FTD is an ordinary family man with an extraordinary story. He is from Toronto, On but has called the small town of Ayr, in southwestern Ontario home for the past twenty-five years. He worked in the automotive parts manufacturing sector until five years ago when he had to leave work life due to illness. Tim has been blogging his PSP journey, sharing his personal experiences with this disease as well as FTD - frontotemporal dementia. His readership spans t...

Just Another Day in the Retirement Home: A Journey of the Heart - Paperback

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by Janet V. Fraser (Author)"Just Another Day in the Retirement Home" is a memoir about an eight year journey experienced by Janet Fraser, whose aging parents were living their final years in a retirement home. It is a poignant journey of the heart, from the first realization that life is about to change when the roles of parent and child are reversed, through the confusion of navigating the health care system, to the progression of dementia and all the adjustments and surprises that happen al...

Nobody Walks Alone: Overcoming the Darkness of EMS - Paperback

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by Dale M. Bayliss (Author)This book will demonstrate that with the right people placed together working in the Emergency Medical Services at just the right time, in the right place, along with the right desire to help we make a difference. Along with the right Basic Life Support / Advanced Life Support equipment at their disposal they can make most outcomes better. It is so unpredictable, scary, traumatic, and overwhelming what we walk into on our emergency calls as a Paramedic, but no matte...

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care - Paperback

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by W. Richard Scott (Author)Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying sets of organizing principles. This book examines the transformations that have occurred in medical care systems in the San Francisco Bay area since 1945. The authors describe these changes in detail and re...

The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850-1950 - Hardcover

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by Chandak Sengoopta (Author)Less than a century ago, physicians, scientists, and cultural commentators became fascinated by the endocrine glands and the effects of their secretions on our bodies and minds. Of all the characteristics supposed to be governed by them, the attributes of sex evoked the wildest interest. The gonads, it was revealed, secreted chemicals that not only influenced the biological expressions of sex, but seemed to generate the vitality and energy that made life worth liv...

Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice - Paperback

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by Nancy G. Siraisi (Author)Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.Back JacketFollowing a survey of ancient, early medieval, and Islamic medicine, Siraisi discusses the categories and conditions of m...

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by Morteza Khaleghi (Author)The relapse rate for addicts in conventional treatment programs is a shocking 70-90%, despite the best efforts of family members, doctors, and the addicts themselves. Drawing on the latest addiction research, Creative Care founders Morteza and Karen Khaleghi argue that the reason so many addicts fail to make headway is because, too often, they focus on the addiction only, and not the many factors that contribute to it. Readers will learn how to: * recognize what pe...

Working with Bereavement: A Practical Guide - Paperback

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by Janet Wilson (Author)A practical guide for those who work with the bereaved in a variety of settings, from nurses and social workers to volunteers. Covering ethics, cultural issues and support networks, an essential text for those seeking to build understanding and skills in order to offer better support to the dying and the bereaved.Back JacketWorking with the bereaved can be challenging and emotionally draining, and yet practitioners from a range of disciplines are routinely required to ...

Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox - Paperback

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by G. Williams (Author)The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully exterminated (30 years ago next year) by a public health campaign.Author BiographyGARETH WILLIAMS is Professor of Medicine and former Dean of Faculty at the University of Bristol, UK. He has written or co-authored over 20 books, including the Textbook of Diabetes (named BMA Book of the Year) and has contributed to more 30 oth...

Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm - Paperback

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by G. Gunderson (Author), J. Cochrane (Author)The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities.Author BiographyGARY GUNDERSON Senior Vice President for Health and Welfare Ministries for Methodist Healthcare and the Director for the Interfaith ...

Patient Safety: An Essential Guide - Paperback

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by Heather Gluyas (Author), Paul Morrison (Author)How can we make health care processes safer and more consistent? How do we improve care outcomes for patients? With a range of coaching tips, activities, scenarios and reflective exercises, this book enables you to translate current research on patient safety in to everyday good practice, by increasing understanding of the key concepts and helping you to develop strategies to minimise the risk of patient harm. It focusses on Human Factors to s...

Advanced Nursing Practice: Changing Healthcare in a Changing World - Paperback

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by Thomas David Barton (Author), Douglas Allan (Author)Advanced Nursing Practice is a topical and emergent area of developing health practice, but as an area that is still developing it can also be seen as one of uncertainty. This authorative text provides helps understand ANP by offering a comprehensive overview of its evolution, including practice, theory and core concepts; and a wide review of the current clinical, strategic, educational and research developments in advanced practice.This ...

Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance - Hardcover

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by S. Rushton (Editor), O. Williams (Editor)This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and material approaches to a range of important issues and crises.Author BiographyAMY BARNES is a PhD researcher in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK. SONJA BARTSCH ...

Rabies in Britain: Dogs, Disease and Culture, 1830-2000 - Hardcover

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by N. Pemberton (Author), M. Worboys (Author)Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, state officials, politicians and the public.Author BiographyNEIL PEMBERTON is a Research Associate in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology an...

A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept - Hardcover

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by C. Prüll (Author), A. Maehle (Author), R. Halliwell (Author)The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its development of during the 20th century and its current impact on drug discovery in the 21st century.Author BiographyCAY-RÜDIGER PRÜLL is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the Un...

The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment - Paperback

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by J. Moncrieff (Author)This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.Author BiographyJoanna Moncrieff is a Senior Lecturer at University College London, UK and a practising consultant psychiatrist. She is co-chair person of the Cr...

Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease - Hardcover

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by Konrad Maurer (Author), Ulrike Maurer (Author), Neil Levi (Translator)The very name Alzheimer is sure to bring a shudder. Thirty to forty million people are now afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative brain disorder that strips its victims of their identity and leaves families bereft and social services strained. Despite considerable research, the underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease remain shrouded in mystery. So, too, does the man after whom it was named. Alois Alzheimer (...

The Politics of Global Health Governance: United by Contagion - Hardcover

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by M. Zacher (Author), Tania J. Keefe (Author)Diseases do not recognize national borders, and as we are gradually learning, failure to govern health effectively at a global level profoundly affects us all. This book is about how global health governance has evolved to become stronger, more complex, and more important than ever before in history.Author BiographyTANIA KEEFE Research Associate at theCentre of International Relations, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbi...

Pain: The Science of Suffering - Paperback

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by Patrick Wall (Author)Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or switch on for no apparent reason. Many scientists, philosophers, and laypeo...

Intoxicating Minds: How Drugs Work - Paperback

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by Ciaran Regan (Author)Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires a...

The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life - Paperback

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by Ann Burack-Weiss (Author)Ann Burack-Weiss explores a rich variety of published memoirs by authors who cared for ill or disabled family members. Contrary to the common belief that caregiving is nothing more than a stressful situation to be endured, memoirs describe a life transforming experience-self-discovery, a reordering of one's priorities, and a changed view of the world. The Caregiver's Tale offers insight and comfort to individuals caring for a loved one and is a valuable resource fo...

The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known - Paperback

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by Christopher Bollas (Author)Basing his view on the object relations theories of the "British School" of psychoanalysis, Christopher Bollas examines the human subject's memories of its earliest experiences (during infancy and childhood) of the object, whether it be mother, father, or self. He explains in well-written and non-technical language how the object can affect the child, or "cast in shadow," without the child being able to process this relation through mental representations of lang...

Craving Earth: Understanding Pica: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk - Paperback

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by Sera Young (Author)Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why? Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical findings, Sera L. Young creates a portrait of pica, or nonfood cravings, from humans' earliest ingestions to current trends and practices. In engaging detail, she describes the substances most ...

Diagnosis: Schizophrenia: A Comprehensive Resource for Consumers, Families, and Helping Professionals, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Rachel Miller (Author)In this book, thirty-five young, recently diagnosed patients speak about schizophrenia and the process of recovery, while two specialists illuminate the medical science, psychoeducation, and therapeutic needs of those coping with the illness, as well as access to medical benefits and community resources. A remarkably inclusive guide, the volume informs patients, families, friends, and professionals, detailing the possible causes of schizophrenia, medications and side ...

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by Dona Reese (Author)The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work. She introduces ...

The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Clinical Practice - Paperback

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by Yanchi Liu (Author), Tingyu Fang (Translator), Laidi Chen (Translator)For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of yin-yang and the zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.Back JacketFor more than four years, Chinese ...

The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate - Paperback

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by Elliot Valenstein (Author)Like the cracking of the genetic code and the creation of the atomic bomb, the discovery of how the brain's neurons work is one of the fundamental scientific developments of the twentieth century. The discovery of neurotransmitters revolutionized the way we think about the brain and what it means to be human yet few people know how they were discovered, the scientists involved, or the fierce controversy about whether they even existed. The War of the Soups and the...