145 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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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 from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral’s devastating effects on human health. Dependent on ...
ISBN: 9780774828444
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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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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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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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eBookAlcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness
(Dis)Orderly Spaces
by Mark Jayne & Gill Valentine
<p>While disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, social policy and the health and medical sciences have a tradition of exploring the centrality of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness to people's lives, geographers have only ...
ISBN: 9781317182672
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eBookAntiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Prospects
by Fetene, Tizazu
The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in middle and low income countries is arguably one of the most meaningful outcomes recorded in the fight against HIV and AIDS. A record number of some 6.2 million people living with HIV and AIDS ...
ISBN: 9789994455782
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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
<div> <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 ...
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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eBookBorn With a Junk Food Deficiency
How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health
by Martha Rosenberg
<p>This hard-hitting exposé blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devious, more disreputable than you could have ever ...
ISBN: 9781616145941
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eBookWhy Parents Reject Vaccines
by Jennifer A. Reich
<p><em>Honorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented by the Eastern Sociological Society</em></p> <p><em>Outstanding Book Award for the Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity presented by the American ...
ISBN: 9781479843213
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eBookCase Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance
Impacts, Influence and Accountability
by Nora Kenworthy, Ross MacKenzie, Lecturer in Health Studies, Macquarie University, Australia & Kelley Lee, Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University
<p>There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease. However, limited analysis has been undertaken of the increasing corporate involvement in collective action ...
ISBN: 9781783483587
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