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Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by Peter C. Doherty (Author)Pandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create pandemics. The reality is deadly serious but far more subtle. In Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Peter Doherty, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells, offers an essential guide to one of the truly life-or-death issues of our age. In c...

Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life - Paperback

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by Mark Lazenby (Editor), Ruth McCorkle (Editor), Daniel P. Sulmasy (Editor)The study and practice of end-of-life care has seen an increasing understanding of the need for care that integrates clinical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and ethical expertise. Yet, no one existing volume pulls together perspectives from a diverse array of religions with ethical dilemmas and clinical problems in view. Safe Passage coaches clinicians and others on the front lines of care on understanding how to...

Wild Mammals in Captivity: Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Devra G. Kleiman (Editor)Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on Wild Mammals in Captivity as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a completely updated second edition. Wild Mammals in Captivity presents the most current thinking and practice in the care and management of wild mammals in zoos and other institutions. In one comprehensive volume, the edit...

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by Nathaniel Kleitman (Author)For half a century, Sleep and Wakefulness has been a valuable reference work. It discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation. Number of Pages: 560 Dimensions: 1.16 x 9.02 x 6.11 IN Publication Date: September 15, 1987

Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America - Paperback

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by April R. Haynes (Author)Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. As April R. Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbati...

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by Michael Taussig (Author)Beauty and the Beast begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual's beauty with an often overlooked counterpart, surgeries performed-often on high profile criminals-to d...

A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School - Paperback

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by Claire L. Wendland (Author)Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as A Heart for the Work makes clear, Malawian medical students learn to confront poverty creatively, experiencing fatigue and frustration but also joy and commitment on their way to becoming physicians. The first ethnography of medical training in ...

Working With Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour - Paperback

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by Louise Doyle (Author), Brian Keogh (Author), Jean Morrissey (Author)Suicide and self-harm are world-wide public health issues that can have devastating effects on families, friends and communities. They are both a priority for anyone working in mental health, social work, emergency departments and related fields, however suicidal and self-harming behaviour can take place anywhere anytime - it may be a pupil in a school, an inmate in a prison or a colleague or family member. For this reason...

Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine - Paperback

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by Wendy Cadge (Author)While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how do today's technologically sophisticated health care organizations address spirituality and faith? Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains acr...

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Health Communication: A Media and Cultural Studies Approach - Paperback

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by Belinda Lewis (Author)This book is about communicating for health and social change. With a clear focus on public health and health promotion practice, it provides a unique introduction to media and cultural studies perspectives on health communication.Back JacketThis book is about communicating for health and social change. With a clear focus on public health and health promotion practice, it provides a unique introduction to media and cultural studies perspectives on health communication...

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Getting your head around the brain - Paperback

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by Amanda Ellison (Author)Have you ever wondered how it's possible to walk down a street, with your thoughts on what you're going to have for lunch? What's telling your legs to move while your mind is on other things? And how are you reading these words right now? The simple answer: it's your brain. Often a complex subject to tackle, this book has been written with the first-time learner in mind to guide the reader through the physiological basis of the brain-behaviour link, exploring such fa...

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The Brain Book: Development, Function, Disorder, Health - Paperback

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by Ken Ashwell (Author), Richard Restak (Foreword by) "There is something almost magical about a beautiful, colorful, well-illustrated book... It is definitely a useful special topic book in upper middle school and high school." --National Science Teachers Association Recommends "This volume is so much more than a beautifully illustrated coffee table book, it is both fascinatingly detailed and extraordinarily readable. No reference library, or lover of good books, should be without a copy." ...

Pharmacology for Midwives: The Evidence Base for Safe Practice - Paperback

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by Sue Jordan (Author)The new edition of this ground-breaking text is an essential resource for the management of drugs during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period. Fully updated in line with current midwifery practice, it includes new chapters on Disorders of the Immune System and Recreational Drugs, and expanded coverage of pain relief.Author BiographySUE JORDAN is Reader in Nursing and Midwifery at the School of Health and Human Science at Swansea University, UK.SUE JORDAN is Reader ...

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Theory for Midwifery Practice - Paperback

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by Rosamund Bryar (Editor), Marlene Sinclair (Editor)This new edition of a highly regarded classic midwifery text encourages critical thinking about the art and science of midwifery. Promoting the idea that thinking directly affects practice, it offers a clear explanation of the concepts, theories and models that shape effective evidence-informed care for women. This insightful book challenges the reader to reconsider the knowledge at the heart of your own midwifery practice. It is the essent...

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Understanding Addiction Behaviours: Theoretical and Clinical Practice in Health and Social Care - Paperback

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by G. Hussein Rassool (Author)Understanding addiction has never been more important, as many professionals, from counsellors and nurses, to social workers and health psychologists, encounter addictive behaviour on a daily basis. Looking at addiction in all of its forms, this multi-disciplinary book provides a comprehensive introduction to the substances and the activities which can lead to excessive and addictive behaviour. It discusses pharmacological addictions, including both legal and ill...

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Examining Trust in Healthcare: A Multidisciplinary Perspective - Paperback

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by David Pilgrim (Author), Ivaylo Vassilev (Author)On the part of the patient, healthcare demands unconditional trust in the professional. But what is the nature of this trust, and to what extent is it justified? How significant is the fallout when it is abused? Incorporating sociological, psychological and philosophical approaches, this book examines notions of trust in the self, others and systems inthe field of healthcare. The text explores: - Rational and emotional aspects of trust power ...

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Social Approaches to Mental Distress - Paperback

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by Jerry Tew (Author)Over-reliance on biological models in mental health practice has resulted in growing discontent from practitioners and service users, who know that social factors also have a major impact on people's mental health. Social approaches enable practitioners to promote recovery in ways that move beyond the limitations of biomedical treatments. Championing a range of innovative approaches, this timely book offers a holistic model for understanding and responding to mental distr...

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The Midwife-Mother Relationship - Paperback

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by Mavis Kirkham (Author)The foundation between midwife and mother is the foundation upon which maternity care depends. Covering completely new topics areas, the new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home. This ground-breaking essential text reaffirms the fragility and the power of the relationship between midwife and mother and remains the definitive guide to the complex area of mid...

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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure - Paperback

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by Paul Offit (Author)A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder. Consequently, a number of untested alternative therapies arose, and, most tragically,...

The Risks of Prescription Drugs - Hardcover

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by Donald Light (Editor)Calling on a diverse range of experts, this book tackles critical questions about the pharmaceutical industry and the privatization of risk. To what extent does the FDA protect the public from serious side effects and possible disasters? What is the impact of giving greater roles to the private sector and markets and reducing public oversight? This volume considers whether current rules and incentives put patients at greater risk; the effect of the expansion of disease...

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Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information - Paperback

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by Paul Offit (Author)Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. Amid this onslaught of...

Moral Hazard in Health Insurance - Hardcover

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by Amy Finkelstein (Author), Kenneth Arrow (With), Jonathan Gruber (With)Moral hazard--the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others--is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow's seminal 1963 paper on this topic (included in this volume) was one of the first to explore the implication of moral hazard for health care, and Amy Finkelstein--recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on the topic--here examines ...

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by Kat Arney (Author)An award-winning author takes us into the world of DNA, exploring how it encodes our genes and make us unique. This condensed, updated version of How to Code a Human makes this remarkable history succinct and accessible.In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick solved one of science's greatest enigmas--the molecule underlying all life--and changed the face of biology. For the first time, scientists could isolate what makes us human. DNA provides a fascinating guide to the w...

Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine - Paperback

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by Ellen K. Feder (Author)Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand "the problem" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to "correct" atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychological harm. Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions--one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors--F...

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Medical Education in East Asia: Past and Future - Paperback

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by Lincoln C. Chen (Editor), Michael R. Reich (Editor), Jennifer Ryan (Editor)Pivotal to Asia's future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which offers valuable insights for other medical education systems as well. The populations in these rapidly growing countries rely on healthcare systems that can vigorously respond to the concerns of shifting demographics, dis...

If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? - Paperback

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by Arthur L. Caplan (Author)"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." --Health and Canadian Society"Insightful and thought-provoking. . . . As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly . . . we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." --The Washington Post"Caplan's views are important and instructive. . . . [This] book represents some of his best work." --New England Journal of Medicine"Caplan's [book] is thought provoking, insightful, and w...

Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research - Paperback

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by William R. LaFleur (Editor), Gernot Böhme (Editor), Susumu Shimazono (Editor)The trial of the "German doctors" exposed atrocities of Nazi medical science and led to the Nuremberg Code governing human experimentation. In Japan, Unit 731 carried out hideous experiments on captured Chinese and downed American pilots. In the United States, stories linger of biological experimentation during the Korean War. This collection of essays looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after ...

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by Lynette Jones (Author)An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays.Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of new technologies, including prosthetic hands and tactile surfaces for flat...

Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience - Paperback

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by Christopher Kaczor (Author)Questions about the dignity of the human person give rise to many of the most central and hotly disputed topics in bioethics. In A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience, Christopher Kaczor investigates whether each human being has intrinsic dignity and whether the very concept of "dignity" has a useful place in contemporary ethical debates. Kaczor explores a broad range of issues addressed in contemporary bioe...

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Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self - Hardcover

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by Marc Wittmann (Author), Philippa Hurd (Translator)A groundbreaking study of what altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us about the mystery of consciousness, perfect for readers interested in psychedelics, brain science, and meditation. During extraordinary moments of consciousness--shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication--our senses of time and self are altered; we may even f...

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by Richard E. Cytowic (Author)An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia--vividly felt sensory couplings--by a founder of the field.One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait--like perfect pitch--synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch. In this vol...

Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000 - Paperback

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by Karol K. Weaver (Author)Examines folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes to show how over the course of the twentieth century the men and women of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made.Author BiographyKarol K. Weaver is Associate Professor of History at Susquehanna University. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 15...