Enfermedad y adicción: aspectos sociales

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  • Inner Sky
    Steven Layer
    A conversation about resistance...to life's experiences. If I had one afternoon to spend with my friend Lily, just diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, what would I say?  I had been where she is now, yet against all the odds found the way to experience a complete and spontaneous healing. The secrets I was shown are the opposite of what society teaches us. This was not...
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    28,77 €

  • Puedo salir adelante, no moriré como drogadicto
    Joaquín Albino Castillo Rocha / Oliverio Castillo
    Testimonio sobrela drogodependencia y la decisión de superarla.El autor nos enesña el caminodesde la autodestrucción hacia la recuperación y la dignidad personal. No es un discurso clínico,nos ofrece una mirada humana y esperanzadora sobreel cambio interior y la posibilidad real de salir adelante y dejar las drogas. 10 ...
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    16,12 €

  • Adicto
    Juan Javier Estamates Gavarain
    ’Como consejero en adicciones con cédula profesional y años de experiencia tratando con pacientes de adicciones, puedo contarte un sinfín de historias así como métodos, instrucciones y prevención en el uso y abuso de sustancias legales e ilegales. Sin embargo, en Adicto. Una historia de éxito al superar la adicción pretendo compartirte mi experiencia desde el punto de vista del...
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    11,96 €

  • Mientras te Olvido
    Nacarid Portal Arráez / Nacarid Portal Arráez
    es un libro lleno de procesos internos que cuenta la historia de una chica, que cuando cumplía ocho años con su pareja, se encontró con su abandono -sin despedida y sin ninguna explicación-. Una cama vacía y un aniversario incompleto porque él no volvió. A través de este libro totalmente color, con un diseño de primera y muchas emociones... te encontrarás con un manual de super...
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    24,44 €

  • Tratado de excitantes modernos
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Cuando un hombre de genio lleva una vida intelectual y amorosa a la vez, muere como murieron Rafael y Lord Byron. Si es casto, muere por exceso de trabajo; si no lo es, lo mata el desenfreno en los placeres sensuales; no obstante, esa clase de muerte es muy poco frecuente. El exceso de tabaco, el exceso de café, el exceso de opio y de aguardiente producen graves desórdenes y c...
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    11,96 €

  • Secuestrados por las pantallas
    Carolina Pérez
    Un libro que da cuenta de los peligros del uso de las pantallas interactivas en los niños y adolescentes, explicado y fundamentado por Carolina Pérez, quien además de estar muy presente en redes sociales, realiza charlas en colegios y suele ser consultada por los medios sobre este tema, principalmente en matinales en la televisión. 10 ...
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    15,60 €

  • Breast Cancer Inside Out
    This book offers a 360° look at breast cancer from individuals who have intimate understanding of and experience with it: patients, healthcare providers, and researchers and scholars. This book is meant to be a single go-to source for people who want to understand more fully and clearly the lived experience of breast cancer. ...
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    59,80 €

  • El Maldito Camino al Anexo
    Javier Velázquez Orozco
    El Anexo es un inmueble satanizado con escasa razo´n, aunque ahi´ lleguen, recorriendo su propio camino, individuos que no son tan responsables y productivos como sus familias los necesitan. Porque no es fa´cil de entender que la adiccio´n es una enfermedad y que el adicto primero es un enfermo. Luego quiza´s el delincuente.Con frecuencia esa clase de enfermo es una persona dif...
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    15,08 €

  • Heroic Struggle
    Christine Matama
    Heroic Struggle: Coping with Chronic Illnesses guides a reader into living with a life-long disorder or disease. This is inspired by the personal experiences of the writer, who has beaten the odds, suffering from eczema for 14 years. It opens with a real-life situation and offers tips and insights for sufferers of chronic illness, victims, carers, families, friends, medical pra...
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    42,10 €

  • Ultimate Guide to Cancer Support for Patients and Caregivers
    Jo Spicer
    Do you need practical tools to help you navigate your cancer journey?Can support organisations help you? How do you find them?How do you record your doctor's advice, treatment appointments, medications, and medical procedures?The Ultimate Guide to Cancer Support for Patients and Caregivers is a Companion to Survive and Thrive! How Cancer Saves Lives, a book filled with stor...
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    8,78 €

  • Survive and Thrive! How Cancer Saves Lives
    Jo Spicer
    According to the Cancer Council, 1 in 2 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85. Similar figures are reported for the USA and UK. Inevitably everyone in these countries will be impacted by their own cancer diagnosis or that of a family member or friend. This is a unique book that provides both inspiration and proven strategies to help cancer patients,  their ...
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    13,94 €

  • Chronic Disease - A Working Hypothesis
    C. E. Wheeler / CEWheeler / Edward Bach
    'Chronic Disease - A Working Hypothesis' is a 1913 treatise by E. Bach and C. E. Wheeler on serious diseases of the body, with reference to actual cases and the experiences of esteemed doctors and surgeons of the time. This vintage volume will appeal to those with an interest in the history and development of modern medicine, and it would make for a worthy addition to collectio...
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    25,91 €

  • Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture
    Mari Armstrong-Hough
    Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise in and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their social and biomedical responses to its ascendance have diverged. To explain the e...
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    41,77 €

  • Small-Pox
    Anon.
    This vintage book contains a treatise on smallpox, an infectious disease that was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980. The disease was caused by one of two virus variants, variola major and variola minor. Those who survived often had severe scarring on their skin and some were left blind. This volume describes in detail the early symptoms of small pox a...
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    22,38 €

  • The Soul of a Patient
    There is nothing quite as important as training the next gener­ation of physicians. In an increasingly complex and cruel world, finding a compassionate and skilled physician is truly a lifeline. Yes, of course we want our doctors to be up-to-date on all the latest medical knowledge and scientifically savvy; but, above all, we need physicians to be good listeners and caring prac...
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    21,27 €

  • Behind the Smile
    Anja Christoffersen
    Anja Christoffersen learned early on that you can never judge a book by its cover.Born with a congenital disability that deformed her digestive, skeletal, reproductive, circulatory, urinary and respiratory systems; she had her first surgery at five hours old. Despite a grim diagnosis, from the outside you would be unable to tell she was any different. You would never have known...
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    13,29 €

  • Deja un rato el ordenador
    Béatrice Copper-Royer / Catherine Firmin-Didot
    El ordenador ha llegado a ser el pasatiempo preferido de los niños de entre 10 y 15 años, por delante de la televisión. Dedican muchas horas a chatear, realizar búsquedas para sus trabajos escolares, enviar mails o jugar en línea… Para poder disfrutar plenamente de esta magnífica herramienta, uno tiene que saber administrar su tiempo. Pero los adolescentes tienen una tendencia ...
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    11,44 €

  • Healing Roots
    Julie Laplante
    Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This "natura...
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    44,29 €

  • Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare
    Marianne Jossen
    What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs?This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from h...
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    26,52 €

  • Germ Smart! Infectious Diseases for Kids | Children’s Biology Books
    Baby Professor
    Get smart about germs to escape them at all possibilities. This book will outline some of the most common infectious diseases known to man. Being equipped with the knowledge included in this book will help improve your child’s understanding of body processes and defenses. Are you ready for some serious discussion on diseases? Then secure a copy today! ...
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    18,19 €

  • History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies
    Mark D. Hardt / Mark DHardt
    This book examines the evolution of urban social patterns and infectious diseases. Tracing the historical record, it explores the human struggle to contain infectious disease and the adaption of microbes to these measures. ...
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    60,32 €

  • Manual de primeros auxilios
    Claudio Nazar
    Este libro presenta los principales temas y las técnicas más efectivas en la asistencia terapéutica de urgencia que se presta en caso de accidente o enfermedad repentina. Es extremadamente útil y práctico, ya que prepara en la atención de urgencia a personas que no tienen formación médica, pero que en la mayoría de estas situaciones son las primeras en acudir al auxilio de las ...
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    21,32 €

  • The Health of People
    Campaign for Social Science
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    44,21 €

  • Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia
    This bookgathers perspectives from across Asia into one place, allowing for effective advocacy. It offers a single source of material that can be used by health professionals in East and Southeast Asia on drug policy and explains recent changes towards harm reduction and treatment modalities to the general public in East and Southeast Asia. ...
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    83,62 €

  • What Are You Eating? Food Journal for Eating Healthy
    @Journals Notebooks
    Healthy eating isn’t a myth. Even if you are surrounded with so many 3-minute meals out of boxes, you can still be determined to eat healthy by keeping a journal. A journal awakens your consciousness and helps you identify opportunities as they come. Keeping a food journal will also help you break down your food’s nutritional values to determine if you’re overeating or undereat...
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    15,06 €

  • What to Eat This Week? Mixing It Up Edition Journal
    @Journals Notebooks
    Create variety in your meals by creating a meal plan. A meal plan means a list of food that you are scheduled to eat for the day or the week. You can plan for meals with the right nutritional value to boost your health and even help you lose weight. Start a meal plan now! ...
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    14,11 €

  • Unequal Health
    Grace Budrys
    Unequal Health examines why stark differences in health and well-being persist across demographic groups. The third edition features a new chapter on diet, new discussions of substance abuse and the attention it receives depending on who is using, new discussion of the Affordable Care Act and its impact, and more. ...
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    48,83 €

  • Goodbye Daddy
    Beverly Dotson
    Thoughtful and heartfelt, Goodbye Daddy is a journey of comfort, relief, enlightenment and advocacy all rolled into one woman’s insightful experiences with hundreds of families and their caregivers.Beyond the sorrow, tears, denial, disbelief and pain of losing a loved one, Beverly Dotson, a hospice and palliative care social worker, shares stories her eyes have seen and her hea...
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    19,12 €

  • How Nonprofits Work
    Grace Budrys
    How Nonprofits Work looks at nonprofit organizations through a sociological lens, identifying characteristics that make some nonprofits successful and characteristics that cause challenges, focusing on nonprofits in the health services sector. It opens with helpful background information, and then shares case studies of specific organizations. ...
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    43,47 €

  • Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance
    A practical guide on how to conduct research on the impact of corporations on global health and global health governance, which draws on the theoretical and methodological insights of a range of scholarly disciplines. ...
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    71,94 €


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