143 books (8 pages) in this category
Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada
by Geoffrey Bilson
<p>From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the ...
ISBN: 9781442633636
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eBookMemory as Medicine
by Brett L. Walker
<p>While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, ?Do you have a family history of illness???a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and ...
ISBN: 9780295743042
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eBookby Brenda L Golden
<p>A non-fiction, in-depth narrative, that chronicles the intertwined lives of father and daughter (the author) in twenty years of dealing with the effects of Alzheimer's disease. Included is the gradual moving from parent/child relationship to
ISBN: 9780692718025
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eBookby Kristina Circelli
<p>On August 13th, 2011, sixteen-year-old Courtney Nash passed away after contracting Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba that lurks in warm waters. This is her story.</p><p>A Single Swim follows Courtney's life and death, while taking
ISBN: 9781310692543
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eBookEnvironmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
by Jessica van Horssen
<p>For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. ...
ISBN: 9780774828444
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eBookExploring The Face of AIDS film archive
by Elisabet Björklund & Mariah Larsson
<p>The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan ...
ISBN: 9781351383035
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eBookFrom Suffering to Solution
by Dr. Joseph Bradley
In Addiction: From Suffering to Solution Dr. Joseph J. Bradley, M.S., D.C., DACACD shares the heart-wrenching and compelling story of his own daughter’s journey through addiction and eventual recovery. He then presents his in-depth knowledge of ...
ISBN: 9781634134682
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eBookby Alfred R. Lindesmith
<p>This classic study is concerned with addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. Lindesmith proposes and systematically elaborates a rational, general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate the
ISBN: 9781351534000
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eBookThe Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
by Richard Saul
<p>In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder—one of the fastest growing and
ISBN: 9780062266750
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eBookAfrican Americans at Risk: Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice [2 volumes]
Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice
by Glenn L. Starks
<p>With all of the progress African Americans have made, they still face many risks that threaten the entire race or place segments in jeopardy of survival. This work examines the widespread problem and suggests solutions.</p> <p>• Examines ...
ISBN: 9781440800764
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eBookAgency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850–2000
Testing the Sen Hypothesis
by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Auke Rijpma & Jan Kok
<p>How has ‘agency’ – or the ability to define and act upon one’s goals – contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, ...
ISBN: 9781351815604
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eBookDynamics and Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa
by Anke Niehof & Gabriel Rugalema
<p>AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from AIDS exceeds that from wars, famine and floods combined. Yet ...
ISBN: 9781136536762
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eBookAlcohol and Other Drugs: Guidance and activities
by National Children's Bureau, National Ch
This activity pack will equip practitioners and policy makers with resources to improve young people's understanding of issues relating to alcohol and other drugs, and encourage young people's involvement in policy and practice development. ...
ISBN: 9781907969799
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eBookAssisted Reproduction Across Borders
Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions
by Merete Lie & Nina Lykke
<p>Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) ...
ISBN: 9781317200673
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eBookby Stuart Townsend
<p>“God! Has it come to this?” Meet Grace, white-haired, with dementia, being admitted to the daunting asylum with an unwelcome introduction from the student nurse. Then Percy, the crystal radio buff, with depression. Here is Harry, the Japanese
ISBN: 9780957278912
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eBookLife, Death, and Social Policy
by James S. House
<p>Health care spending in the United States today is approaching 20 percent of GDP, yet levels of U.S. population health have been declining for decades relative to other wealthy and even some developing nations. How is it possible that the ...
ISBN: 9781610448499
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eBookYour Chronic Illness is Not Your Kryptonite
by Lala Jackson
Achieve anything you want while living with chronic illness.</p> Are you frustrated by being constantly sidelined by your health? Do you feel like every time you dig into a project your chronic disease gets in the way? Do you worry that living ...
ISBN: 9781683503828
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eBookRacial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
by Anthony Ryan Hatch
<DIV><P>Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have ...
ISBN: 9781452950075
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eBookEmotions and Relations of Care
by Ana Dragojlovic & Alex Broom
<p>This book is a critical response to a range of problems – some theoretical, others empirical – that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. It explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are ...
ISBN: 9781317504375
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eBookBodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing
Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies
by Erik Malmqvist & Kristin Zeiler
<p>Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and ...
ISBN: 9781317510963
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