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Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience - Paperback

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by David Denborough (Author)Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell our stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and ease our sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the wa...

Bioethics Clinical Guide Medical Students - Paperback

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by Dan C. English (Author), English (Author)From the moment medical students step into a hospital they must confront the moral implication of providing health care. In this brief textbook of medical ethics Dr. English provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of the issues students will encounter. Number of Pages: 244 Dimensions: 0.71 x 8.25 x 5.49 IN Publication Date: April 05, 2007

What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City - Paperback

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by Mona Hanna-Attisha (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power. "Stirring . . . a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that 'the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.'"--The New York Times "Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller." --O: The Oprah Magazine Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents...

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Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience - Paperback

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by Allison Pataki (Author), Lee Woodruff (Foreword by), David Levy (Epilogue by)"An inspiring, intimate memoir about faith, resilience and the tenacity of love."--People "In this emotional tale, a young couple see their lives changed in the blink of an eye--and learn to find love again."--US Weekly Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency ...

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The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out - Paperback

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by Robynne Chutkan (Author)Live Dirty, Eat Clean--because every serious disease or chronic ailment begins in our gut. The author of Gutbliss and one of today's preeminent gastroenterologists distills the latest research on the microbiome into a practical program for boosting overall health. The microbiome--the collective name for the trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive tract--is today's hottest medical news topic. Dr. Robynne Chutkan explains how the standard Western diet and ou...

The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green - Paperback

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by Gregorio Kohon (Editor)The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of the dead mother to other areas of clinical interest: psychic reality, borderline phenomena, passions and identification.The concept of the 'dead mother' describes a clinical phenomenon, sometimes difficult to identify, but always present in a substant...

Med School Uncensored: The Insider's Guide to Surviving Admissions, Exams, Residency, and Sleepless Nights in the Call Room - Paperback

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by Richard Beddingfield (Author)An entertaining insider's guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of med school--with everything pre-med and med students need to know, from day one, to maximize opportunities and avoid mistakes. Cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and recent med school grad Dr. Richard Beddingfield serves as an unofficial older brother for pre-med and incoming med students--dishing on all the stuff he would've wanted to know from the beginning in order to make the most of med sch...

Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones - Paperback

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by Nelly Oudshoorn (Author)It is now impossible to imagine a world without sex hormones. Women all over the world take hormonal pills to control their fertility and estrogen and proges-terone have become the most widely used drugs in the history of medicine. But why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Nelly Oudshoorn challenges the idea that there exists such a thing as a natural body and shows how concepts such as the hormonal body as...

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by Kimmery Martin (Author)A powerful debut novel, praised by The New York Times, Bustle, and Hypable, that pulses with humor and empathy as it explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness.... Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trau...

Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for Independence - Paperback

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by Sue Hawkins (Author)This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation. Nineteenth century nursing history has, until now, concentrated almost exclusively on nurse leaders, on the development of nursing as a profession and the politics surrounding registration. This emphasis on big themes, and reliance on the writings of nursing's upper stratum, has resulted in nursing history being littered with stereoty...

Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change Since 1995 - Paperback

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by Isabelle Werenfels (Author)This topical new book seeks to understand the relationship between elite dynamics and strategies and the lack of profound political change in Algeria after 1995, when the country's military rulers returned to electoral processes.Using evidence from extensive fieldwork, Isabelle Werenfels exposes successful survival strategies of an opaque authoritarian elite in a changing domestic and international environment. The main focus is on: the changing balance of power...

Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics - Paperback

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by Jing Bao Nie (Editor), Nanyan Guo (Editor), Mark Selden (Editor)Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these "factories of death," including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings, mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result of complex historical factors including an American cover-up of the atrocit...

The Multisensory Handbook: A Guide for Children and Adults with Sensory Learning Disabilities - Paperback

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by Paul Pagliano (Author)Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment? For people with challenging sensory and cognitive conditions, everyday life can become so unpredictable and chaotic that over time, lack of engagement can often lead to a state of learned helplessness. In this insightful text, Paul Pagliano shows how 'learned helplessness' can be transformed into learned optimism through multisensory stimulation, and explains how a programme of sup...

The Evolution of Chinese Medicine: Song Dynasty, 960-1200 - Paperback

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by Asaf Goldschmidt (Author)The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theories and practices in the Song dynasty; and the impact of Western medicine from the nineteenth century onwards. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the crucial second stage in the evolution of Chinese medicine by examining the changes in Chinese medicine during ...

An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy - Paperback

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by Joseph L. Wetchler (Editor), Lorna L. Hecker (Editor)Now in its second edition, this text introduces readers to the rich history and practice of Marriage and Family Therapy, with 32 professionals from across the US presenting their knowledge in their areas of expertise. This blend of approaches and styles gives this text a unique voice and makes it a comprehensive resource for graduate students taking their first course in Marriage and Family Therapy. The book is divided into three section...

The Flu Epidemic of 1918: America's Experience in the Global Health Crisis - Paperback

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by Sandra Opdycke (Author)In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30% in a single year, the outbreak obstructed the country's participation in World War I and imposed terrible challenges on communities across the United States.This epidemic provides an ideal lens for understanding the history of infectious disease in the United States. The Flu Epidemic of 1918 examines the impact of ...

The Growth of the Mind: An Introduction to Child-Psychology - Paperback

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by Kurt Koffka (Author)This is Volume VIII of thirty-two of a series on Developmental Psychology. Originally published in 1924, this offers a study on the introduction to Child-Psychology, translated from the Author's Gestalt-Psychologie where he shares his hypothesis in explaining the problems of childhood and mental growth. Number of Pages: 448 Dimensions: 0.91 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 08, 2015

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China - Paperback

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by Marta Hanson (Author)This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She explores the possibility of replacing older narratives that stress progress and linear development with accounts that pay attention to geographic, intellectual, and cultural diversity. By doing so her b...

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by Robin Cook (Author)In a novel as timely as it is terrifying, New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook explores the controversial clash of politics and biotechnology. When Dr. Daniel Lowell and his partner, Dr. Stephanie D'Agostino, discover a new cloning procedure that utilizes stem cells to treat otherwise incurable and degenerative diseases, they know they've hit the medical jackpot. But with their cutting-edge method pending approval, they run into a roadblock by the name of Senato...

Lunacy, Law and Conscience, 1744-1845: The Social History of the Care of the Insane - Paperback

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by Kathleen Jones (Author)This is Volume II of seven in a collection on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1955, this study presents the social history of the care of the insane from 1744 to 1845. Number of Pages: 250 Dimensions: 0.53 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 16, 2013

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by Robin Cook (Author)In Mutation, Robin Cook's masterpiece of techno-medical suspense, Dr. Cook tells a story as chilling and real as today's headlines. On the forefront of surrogate parenting and genetic research, it is the explosive tale of a brilliant doctor who sought to create the son of his dreams--and invented a living nightmare...Author BiographyRobin Cook, M.D., is the author of more than thirty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful...

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by Robin Cook (Author)It should have been a routine childbirth. But somehow, the mother died in the delivery, the baby was born brain-damaged, and Jeffrey Rhodes, the anesthesiologist, is running for his life. Charged with malpractice, he is found guilty of harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life. To clear his name, Rhodes must follow a fugitive trail into the heart of medical nightmare. A trail that, for some, may end in suicide--and for others, in the most shocking conspiracy o...

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by Robin Cook (Author)Pediatrician Melissa Blumenthal will try any scientific method available to conceive--until the horrible secrets of an urban clinic erupt in a nightmare of staggering proportions...Author BiographyRobin Cook, M.D., is the author of more than thirty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful first novel, Coma. He divides his time among Florida, New Hampshire, and Boston. His most recent novels include Host, Cell, and Nano. Num...

Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life - Paperback

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by Regula Valérie Burri (Editor), Joseph Dumit (Editor)This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its epistemic, material, and social implications. The essays look at the ways new biomedical knowledge is constructed within hospitals and academic sett...

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by Robin Cook (Author)Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it...Back JacketCharles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as...

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by Robin Cook (Author)Robin Cook's "pressure cooker of a thriller" (Booklist) takes medical technology into a new realm, where everything we know about the human body-and the universe we live in-is about to be challenged.Author BiographyRobin Cook, M.D., is the author of more than thirty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful first novel, Coma. He divides his time among Florida, New Hampshire, and Boston. His most recent novels include Host, C...

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by Robin Cook (Author)Bestselling author Robin Cook returns with another ripped-from-the- headlines thriller, as New York City medical detective Jack Stapleton investigates the promises-and deadly risks-of alternative medicine and is led deep into the heart of a religious conspiracy...Author BiographyRobin Cook, M.D., is the author of more than thirty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful first novel, Coma. He divides his time among Florida, ...

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by Robin Cook (Author)Coma--reimagined for the twenty-first century from the undisputed king of medical thrillers. Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina's Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death. Devastated by Carl's con...

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Caring for Your School-Age Child, 3rd Edition: Ages 5-12 - Paperback

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by American Academy of Pediatrics (Author), Shelly Vaziri Flais (Author)From the American Academy of Pediatrics, the most up-to-date advice for mothers, fathers, and caregivers of school-age children You've outgrown the baby books--but your school-age child needs your guidance and support more than ever. During the ages of 5 to 12, children continue to grow and develop skills and habits that will impact their future health and well-being. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the trusted orga...

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by Robin Cook (Author)A lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the foothills of the Rockies, Nano is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nanorobots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria. But when Pia Grazdani takes a job there, she's shocked by the secretive corporate culture. She's warned by her boss not to investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, ...

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Larynx Cancer, an Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America: Volume 56-2 - Hardcover

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by Karen M. Kost (Editor), Gina Jefferson (Editor)In this issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Karen M. Kost and Gina D. Jefferson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Larynx Cancer. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as perioperative assessment/prehabilitation; dysplastic lesions of the larynx; radiation for early glottic cancer; surgical management of supraglottic cancer; salvage surgery; vocal rehabilitation and quality of life; swallowing function...

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Thalassemia, an Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America: Volume 37-2 - Hardcover

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by Edward J. Benzjr (Editor), Vijay G. Sankaran (Editor)In this issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Edward J. Benz, Jr. and Vijay G. Sankaran bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Thalassemia. Top experts in the field provide an overview of the history, epidemiology, pathogenic mechanisms, and clinical management of the thalassemia syndromes. Contains 16 practice-oriented topics including molecular basis and genetic modifiers of thalassemia; fetal hemoglobin...