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Heart Attack: Will it happen to me? - Hardcover

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by Arash Bereliani (Author)Are you concerned about the potential effects of heart disease for yourself or a loved one?Are you curious what really causes a heart attack?Are you confused with all the information, myths and contradictory studies surrounding heart health?Are you interested in learning about the most recent advances in heart disease?And FINALLY, do you want to know how you can effectively prevent heart attacks and heart disease?Then, you should read this book This book will teach ...

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by Sylvia K. Dorisme (Author)Thriving on Purpose is a book written by Sylvia K. Dorisme, Founder of Zeal Technical Institute. Sylvia has an incredibly powerful story and has undoubtedly defied the odds in her life time and again. Having migrated to the United States at 14 years old, she had a vision to become the first college graduate in her family, and has successfully fulfilled that vision. Over the past 10+ years, she has grown Zeal Technical Institute (previously known as Southwestern Vo...

The Divine Imprint: Finding God in the Human Mind - Paperback

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by Russell Stannard (Author)The so-called New Atheists receive much publicity, but their demand to be provided with incontrovertible evidence for the existence of God, and that such evidence must come from a scientific examination of the physical world, is the wrong approach. As many theologians and philosophers have claimed, the search for God begins by looking inwards into oneself. But what does that mean? Surely looking inwards we find nothing but the contents of one's own mind. Where does...

The Powerful Bond between People and Pets: Our Boundless Connections to Companion Animals - Hardcover

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by P. Elizabeth Anderson (Author)An engaging and science-based examination of people and companion animals, this book shows how their lives are inextricably intertwined, what the impact has been on culture and on society, the reasons people go to great lengths to care for and protect their beloved animals, and why the grief when they are lost is so profound and unique. Anderson, a longtime animal welfare advocate, also shows how we conversely ignore the suffering of some animals. She explains...

Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England - Hardcover

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by Mary Carpenter (Author)This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in their own words. Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in 19th-century England. It's a story of how a diverse and competitive assortment of apothecary apprentices, surgeons who learned their trade by doing, and physicians schooled in ancient Greek medicine but lacking in ...

Religion and Healing in Native America: Pathways for Renewal - Hardcover

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by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien (Editor)What it means to be healthy or to heal is not universal from culture to culture, from religion to religion. Indeed, in many cultures religion and healing are intimately tied to each other. In Native American communities healing is conceived as the place where ideas about the body and selfhood are brought to light and expressed within healing traditions. Healing is defined as self-making, and illness as whatever compromises one's ability to be oneself. This ...

Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders - Paperback

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by Donald J. Kiesler (Author)Kiesler's Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorder goes beyond recent volumes which argue that psychotropic medications are being overused and abused in contemporary mental health settings. Elliott Valenstein, for example, an emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan, recently argues that people should be highly suspicious of the claim that all mental illness is primarily a biochemical disorder. In his 1998 book, Blaming th...

Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America - Hardcover

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by Thomas Szasz (Author)In recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. Behaviors previously seen as virtuous or wicked, wise or unwise are now dealt with as healthy or sick--unwanted behaviors to be controlled as if they were health issues. The modern penchant for transforming human problems into diseases and judicial sanctions into treatments, replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to th...

Inside the Minds of Healthcare Serial Killers: Why They Kill - Hardcover

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by Katherine M. Ramsland (Author)In 2004, Charles Cullen was arrested and charged in the deaths of more than 30 patients in his care. Crossing several jurisdictions in seven counties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he was stopped after a fifteen-year spree at ten institutions. While many people do not think of healthcare workers as serial killers, their profession is disproportionately represented among the serial killer population, and they tend to be more prolific than other serial killers,...

A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World - Hardcover

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by Lois Magner (Author)A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World offers readers answers to specific questions, as well as the challenge of a narrative that will stimulate their curiosity and encourage them to ask questions about the theory, practice, and assumptions of modern medicine. This work provides a broad introductory overview of the history of major infectious diseases, including their impact on different populations, the recognition of specific causative agents, and th...

The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie - Paperback

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by Michael C. Gerald (Author)Poisoning occurs in over half of Agatha Christie's many novels and stories. In fact, she used a larger number and broader selection of poisons and medicines, for a wider variety of purposes, with greater frequency, ingenuity, and scientific accuracy than any other detective fiction writer. Yet very little has been written on the use of drugs, poisons, and chemicals in Christie's fiction. The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie entertainingly and authoritatively fills...

Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience - Paperback

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by Des Fitzgerald (Author)In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, Fitzgerald examines what it means to do scientific research in the ambiguous terrain of autism research, a field marked by shifting horizons of uncert...

Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine - Paperback

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by John M. Riddle (Author)For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40-80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dioscorides himself thought it was self-evident): he failed to describe hi...

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America - Paperback

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by Melanie A. Kiechle (Author), Paul S. Sutter (Foreword by), Paul S. Sutter (Editor)What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what const...

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons - Paperback

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by Gordon Schendel (Author)A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a young medical-school graduate cleaning a machete wound in a rat-infested thatched hut; a world-renowned scientist doing research in Mexico City-all were part of the mid-twentieth century medical scene in Mexico, a country of great cultural, socioeconomic, and geographical contrasts. Gordon Schendel, in collaboration with Dr. José Alvarez Amézquita and Dr. Miguel E. Bustamante, relates the history o...

The Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture - Paperback

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by Sharon R. Kaufman (Author)Escape Artist based on Glenn Lovell s extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bad Day at Black Rock. Lovell examines Sturges s childhood in California during the Great Depression; his apprenticeship in the editing department of RKO Pictures, where he worked...

Women and Health in America, 2nd Ed.: Historical Readings - Paperback

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by Judith W. Leavitt (Author)In this thoroughly updated second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt, a leading authority on the history of women's health issues, has collected thirty-five articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Timely and fascinating, this volume is organized chronologically and then by topic, covering studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the nineteenth century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book co...

Patients and Doctors: Life-Changing Stories from Primary Care - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey M. Borkan (Editor)How patients heal doctorsIn Patients and Doctors, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they'll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their thoughtful reflections on a variety of themes--from suffering to humor to death--help us to understand the experience of doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects. In settings as diverse as Slovenia and Sweden, Cambodia and New Jersey, we learn what make...

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by Olga Hasty (Author)In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in...

Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine - Paperback

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by Susan Wells (Author)"A History of Fascism is an invaluable sourcebook, offering a rare combination of detailed information and thoughtful analysis. It is a masterpiece of comparative history, for the comparisons enhance our understanding of each part of the whole. The term 'fascist, ' used so freely these days as a pejorative epithet that has nearly lost its meaning, is precisely defined, carefully applied and skillfully explained. The analysis effectively restores the dimension of evil."-...

Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador - Paperback

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by Ann Miles (Author)Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Difficult to diagnose and harder still to effectively manage, lupus challenges the very foundations of women's lives, their real and imagined futures, and their...

Teaching the Practitioners of Care: New Pedagogies for the Health Professions - Paperback

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by Nancy L. Diekelmann (Editor)Brings together interrelated essays on aspects of oral production and reception in Western European medieval contexts from modern and post-structuralist perspectives. The contributors discusss the physical, social and semiotic qualities of medieval oralism, exploring a range of issues.Author BiographyNancy L. Diekelmann is the Helen Denne Schulte Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a past president of the Society for...

Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 - Paperback

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by Ellen J. Amster (Author)The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the R...

Resuscitate!: How Your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest - Paperback

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by Mickey S. Eisenberg (Author)Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among adults, yet it need not be fatal. Though survival in most communities is very poor, a few communities achieve rates as high as 50%. Why are some communities so successful in snatching life from the jaws of death? Resuscitate! describes the steps any EMS system can take to improve cardiac arrest survival. It is written for the medical directors, administrative directors, fire chiefs, dispatch directors, an...

Rise and Fall of HMOs: An American Health Care Revolution - Hardcover

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by Jan Gregoire Coombs (Author)"Excellent. . . . This detailed analysis of how the Marshfield Clinic struggled to balance competing priorities and interest groups nicely illustrates the adage 'If you see one HMO, you've seen one HMO.'"--Joel D. Howell, The Journal of American HistoryAuthor BiographyJan Gregoire Coombs is a medical historian living near Madison, Wisconsin. Her books on health care include You Can Help: Living with the Disabled. Number of Pages: 430 Dimensions: 1.17 x 9.58 x 6....

Beyond Method: Philosophical Conversations in Healthcare Research and Scholarship - Paperback

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by Pamela M. Ironside (Editor), Curt Meine (Author)This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, and tested each other and themselves. Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: 0.74 x 9.02 x 6.08 IN Publicatio...

Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions - Paperback

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by Nancy Johnston (Editor), Theodore J. Karamanski (Author)Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, Meaning in Suffering addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing that is both methodologically rigorous and accessible, the contributors preserve first-hand experiences using narrative ethnography, existential hermeneutics, hermeneutic phe...

The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris - Hardcover

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by Anne-Christine D'Adesky (Author)The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-christine d'Adesky remembers "the poxed generation" of AIDS-their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived. D'Ade...

Optical Coherence Tomography a Clinical Atlas of Retinal Images - Paperback

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by Darrin A. Landry (Author)Optical Coherence Tomography A Clinical Atlas of Retinal Images By Darrin A. Landry, CRA OCT-C Overview Optical Coherence Tomography, A Clinical Atlas of Retinal Images is a richly illustrated and comprehensive guide to identifying anatomy and pathology of retinal disease as illustrated on OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography). Pertinent tips to acquiring quality images are outlined with both Spectral Domain and Time Domain for disease pathology, with multiple example...

Understanding Celiac Disease: An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers - Hardcover

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by Naheed Ali (Author)Celiac disease is being diagnosed more frequently, as people recognize their digestive issues may be linked to gluten intake and sensitivity to various foods that include gluten. Here, Naheed Ali reviews the biology of celiac disease, its symptoms, causes, and outcomes, and information about treatment, prevention, and living well with celiac.Author BiographyNaheed Ali, MD, is the author of The Obesity Reality (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), Understanding Alzheimer's (R...

Because We Care: A Handbook for Chaplaincy in Emergency Medical Services - Paperback

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by Russell N. Myers (Author)Over the past half century, the field of chaplaincy has come to a fork in the road. Many will recognize the well-traveled path of traditional chaplaincy. Others will follow the newer but clearly marked way to professional chaplaincy: a clinically trained, evidence-based discipline, reflecting and serving the diverse expressions of spirituality in modern society. Until now, chaplaincy in Emergency Medical Services has been the terra incognita, the unknown land on th...

FACILITATOR GUIDE for Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, Fourth Edition: Model and Guidelines - Paperback

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by Deborah Dang (Author), Sandra L. Dearholt (Author), Kim Bissett (Author)The dynamic and competitive US healthcare environment requires healthcare professionals who are accountable to provide efficient and effective care. New evidence is continually surfacing in nursing and medical environments. Consumer pressure and increased patient expectations place an even greater emphasis on the need for healthcare professionals to deliver true evidence-based care in their daily practice.Johns Hopkins...