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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 €

  • 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 co...
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    11,96 €

  • 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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    40,07 €

  • 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 €

  • Sharks upon the Land
    Seth Archer
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    58,93 €

  • 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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    38,43 €

  • 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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    127,29 €

  • 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 €

  • Fat Tactics
    Erec Smith
    Using Anthony Giddens’ Structuration theory and rhetorical theory, this book identifies fat acceptance activists’ tactics to end fat stigma. The book covers the benefits and detriments of social media in fat acceptance activism, the importance of symbolism and rhetorical savvy, and the use of narrative in fat activism. ...
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    108,83 €

  • Curing our Ills
    Ama de-Graft Aikins
    Millions of Ghanaians live with diabetes, hypertension, stroke, cancers and other major chronic diseases. Millions more are at risk of getting these conditions. Individuals living with chronic conditions experience many disruptions, especially at the early stages of diagnosis and adjustment. The disruptions are physical (medical complications), psychological (depression), mater...
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    40,97 €

  • HIV on TV
    Malynnda A Johnson / Malynnda A. Johnson / Malynnda AJohnson
    In the 80’s and 90’s it was Designing Women and The Real World, today it’s Grey’sAnatomy and How to Get Away with Murder. 35 years since HIV hit prime time it remains a hot topic for TV producers to include in storylines. While the motivationbehind creating an HIV narrative is sometimes the disseminate facts about HIV and STIs, farmore often it is the sexy ratings a show can re...
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    122,34 €

  • 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 €

  • Reducing Race Differences in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising
    Stephany De Scisciolo / Teresa L Scheid / Teresa L. Scheid / Teresa LScheid
    Reducing health disparities by increasing access to health information is a national health policy priority. Evidence exists that direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCA) is effective in educating consumers about health issues. However, racial disparities exist in such advertising. In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a report that included recomme...
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    129,44 €

  • 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 líneaPara poder disfrutar plenamente de esta magnífica herramienta, uno tiene que saber administrar su tiempo. Pero los adolescentes tienen una tendencia na...
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    10,35 €

  • From Disability Theory to Practice
    From Disability Theory to Practice pays tribute to Professor Jerome Bickenbach’s highly influential and immensely important work. Professor Bickenbach is a scholar, policy-maker, and activist, of international stature. This volume brings together ten friends, mentors, and mentees, who have penned eight chapters engaging in topics that range, as the title suggests and as Profe...
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    136,36 €

  • Free Your Voice Heal Your Thyroid
    Rosanne M Lindsay / Rosanne M. Lindsay
    Today, the silent epidemic of thyroid disease is not only a universal phenomenon but also a reflection of how people have lost their collective voice. Silence and powerlessness go hand in hand. When we suppress our ability to speak our truth, we manifest it in the physical. Women are ten times more likely than men to be diagnosed with thyroid disease, of which 80 percent is aut...
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    15,91 €

  • 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 €

  • The politics of health promotion
    Naja Vucina / Peter Triantafillou
    This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations in Denmark and England. Based on a detailed account of obesity control and mental recovery programs, the book shows that these interventions are supported by a form of optimistic vitalism that seems to have no political limitations. ...
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    157,68 €

  • Community-Oriented Education for Health Professionals
    Francis Sarr
    This book provides a framework for curriculum planning and makes the argument for an integrated and interdisciplinary training of health professionals at the community level in The Gambia. The benefits of such an approach are immense given that it is responsive to the socio-economic and cultural needs and demands of the community, which are central to the health of the communit...
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    32,19 €

  • The Big Data Agenda
    Annika Richterich
    This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomed...
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    72,87 €

  • The Big Data Agenda
    Annika Richterich
    This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomed...
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    28,12 €

  • Journey of a Medicine Man
    Richard Bartlett
    This Powerful Book Documents Astonishing Miracles and Demonstrates to the World that God is Still Healing, Loving, and Redeeming All of His Creation. For as long as he could remember, Dr. Richard Bartlett wanted to be a missionary. Even in medical school, his original plan was to take his surgical skills overseas. Dr. Bartlett was called by God from West Texas and was led acros...
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    11,72 €

  • Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer
    Dinah A Tetteh / Dinah A. Tetteh / Dinah ATetteh
    Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer examines the embodied experience of ovarian cancer by critically analyzing impacts of normative social and medical discourses-including discourses of risk, choice, early detection, lack of reliable screening tests for ovarian cancer, feminine beauty, and self-advocacy-on women’s communicative responses to the dis...
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    115,76 €

  • Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons
    Salvador Jiménez Murguía
    Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions, is vulnerable to social manipulation. Within jail and prison settings, food becomes both a mechanism of control and resistance. In the former, the type of food, its quality, its quantity, and the symbolic significance of its presence or absence all contri...
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    115,75 €

  • 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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    63,93 €

  • Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature
    Laura Deane
    This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account of women’s madness and masculine colonial psychosis from a feminist postcolonial pers...
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    136,16 €


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