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  • World Drug Report 2016
    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    The World Drug Report provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the world's illicit drug markets. Chapter one of the World Drug Report 2016 provides a global overview of the latest statistics, trends and developments with respect to opiates, cocaine, cannabis and synthetic drugs, ranging from production to trafficking as well as consumption and the health cons...
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    103,15 €

  • God Can
    Kevin Dennis
    Drug addiction is sweeping across our country - from small towns and communities to large cities. When my wife and I encountered the demon of drug addiction in the life of our adult daughter, we searched frantically for something that would help. The resources we found lacked the insight and help that we needed. Our prayer is that this little book will help many navigate the co...
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    12,67 €

  • A Journey With Alzheimer's
    Brenda L Golden
    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 a parent who needs increasing levels of caregiving.  Itl contains perceived and recognized emotions in the person having Alzheimer...
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    4,30 €

  • The Link between Masculinity, Alcohol and HIV/Aids in Malawi
    Norwegian Church Aid
    It is common knowledge that HIV is widespread in Malawi as it is in many other countries of Southern Africa. It is also a well-known fact that women suffer most and frequently are blamed the most. Many attempts are being made to address the pandemic and reduce the suffering, and often women are the focus. This book differs in that it looks at the other side, men. It contends th...
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    36,12 €

  • Competent National Authorities under the International Drug Control Treaties 2015
    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    This directory lists competent national authorities empowered to issue certificates and authorization for the import and export of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances; and competent national authorities empowered to regulate or enforce national controls over precursors and essential chemicals; International bodies that might assist national competent authorities in case ...
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    47,77 €

  • Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2015
    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    This annual report prepared by The Board provides a comprehensive account of the global drug situation, analyses trends in drug abuse and drug trafficking and suggests necessary remedial action. Divided into four parts, it covers the following topics: drugs and corruption, functioning of the international drug control system, analysis of the world situation and finally, a set o...
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    53,24 €

  • Precursors and Chemicals Frequently Used in the Illicit Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2015
    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    Prepared by the Board, this annual report presents an analysis of the information at its disposal and, in appropriate cases, an account of the explanations, if any, given by or required of Parties, together with any observations and recommendations which The Board desires to make. This report is submitted to the Economic and Social Council through the Commission, which may make...
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    40,92 €

  • From Birth Until Sunset
    Marie DiMercurio RT(R)MHSc
    Finally a book that tells the truth of how the standard American diet which has been adopted by most of the world has betrayed us and is destroying our bodies and complicating our health. The SAD offers synthetic chemicals into our diet and environment, which accumulates within the human body, thus promoting disease. A lifetime following the standard American diet and lifestyle...
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    15,34 €

  • The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism
    Kathy Merlock Jackson / Kathy Shepherd Stolley / Lisa Lyon Payne
    The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism: Celebrity Treatment argues that celebrity cases and media content drive awareness of medical tourism among Americans at a time when the medical system is under intense scrutiny. By popularizing international sites for treatment, procedures not available in the US, and different approaches to patient...
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    133,24 €

  • The Applied Anthropology of Obesity
    The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies affecting production, distribution, and consumption of food locally and globally. ...
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    133,21 €

  • History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies
    HARDT / Mark D. Hardt / Mark DHardt
    Beginning in the mid-19th century tremendous gains were made in the historical struggle with infectious diseases. The emergence of modern medicine and epidemiology, and the establishment of public health measures, helped urban populations overcome a historical death penalty. The conquest of infectious disease has created a human hubris. It is a collective self-delusion that inf...
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    142,82 €

  • Urbanization and Public Health in China
     Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic achievement are largely ignored in commentaries on the subject.Urbanization and Public Health in China seeks to redress this imbalance by bringing together academics and researchers from across China and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on public health iss...
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    196,00 €

  • Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India
    From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be ’outsourced’ in our globalized world. One would not think so with parenthood, however, especially motherhood, as it is a fundamental activity humans have historically preserved as personal and private. In our modern age, however, the advent and accessi...
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    63,74 €

  • Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East
    Aref Abu-Rabia
    Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settle...
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    163,60 €

  • Education, Social Factors And Health Beliefs In Health And Health Care
    Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
    This volume provides a unique sociological focus on education, social factors and health beliefs in health and health care, including a review of the literature to date. ...
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    308,45 €

  • The Role of Emotions in Preventative Health Communication
    Jessica Gall Myrick
    Health-related media permeate our modern experience, from using an online search engine to reading a pamphlet about vaccinations at the doctor’s office or watching a television news report on the dangers of sitting too much. This book makes the argument that if prevention-focused health messages are to motivate behavior change, they must tug at the heartstrings, and researchers...
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    148,20 €

  • Science Interrogating Belief. Bridging the Old and New Traditions of Medicine in Africa
    David T. Okpako / David TOkpako
    Traditional African medicine (TAM) is an ancient healing art. In this wide-ranging study the author presents an interpretation of the beliefs that constitute the theoretical framework for TAM practices, and concludes that the beliefs share many characteristics with modern medical theory, but there are significant differences from the latter which reflect the African experience....
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    64,15 €

  • Our Unsystematic Health Care System, Fourth Edition
    Grace Budrys
    Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or 'Obamacare,' as it unfolds-including both challenges and successes. Grace Budrys traces how dissatisfied Americans have been with the country’s...
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    152,78 €

  • Our Unsystematic Health Care System, Fourth Edition
    Grace Budrys
    Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or 'Obamacare,' as it unfolds-including both challenges and successes. Grace Budrys traces how dissatisfied Americans have been with the country’s...
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    54,53 €

  • #FuckCancer The True Story of How Robert the Bold Kicked Cancer's Ass
    Robert Flores
    #FuckCancer is the true story of how one man beat the odds and kicked Cancer's ass. While many people shy away from the very word 'cancer,' Robert Flores, a mild-mannered butcher from Santana, California chose to face the demon head-on and beat stage IV colon cancer into remission. You will read, in Robert's own words, what it was like to go from diagnosis to remission and ev...
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    12,00 €

  • The Ebola Virus and West Africa
    Dr. Felix I. Ikuomola
    The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects provides a compact summary of the Ebola virus, outlining its nature, history, epidemiology, and methods of treatment. In addition, the work examines the context of the disease’s outbreak by describing the people, politics, and policies in West Africa before, during, and after the recent outbreak. Finally, chapte...
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    20,98 €

  • Religion, Flesh, and Blood
    Pamela Leong
    This is a case study of one congregation within the Unity Fellowship Church Movement that relies on therapeutic religion, a form of religion that strives to equip individuals with psychological capital, by enabling self-expressions and affirmations of social differences. The therapeutic ethic that characterizes this congregation has enabled some freedoms that are otherwise disa...
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    125,28 €

  • PTSD
    Jerry Lembcke
    Stories of soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder dominate news coverage of the return from wars in the Middle East. On the surface, the stories call our attention to psychic trauma and the need for mental health services for veterans; scratch that surface and we see that PTSD has morphed from a diagnostic category into a cultural trope with broad societal impli...
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    63,95 €

  • The Garbage Menace
    Michael FSomerville
    The Garbage Menace ̶ what is it, how is it hazardous, what can we do about it? The Garbage Menace is the first book in Footprint: A Belizean Environmental Series aimed at enlightening Belizeans about the issues affecting their health and environment. It shakes you to your foundations at first, and leaves you wondering if all is lost. The book then ends with loads of ideas about...
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    11,78 €

  • El círculo de humo
    Jordi Matamoros Sánchez
    Los años 80 fueron una época convulsa en España. Reinaba una joven democracia, con una creciente libertad entremezclada con obstinados conatos dictatoriales y empañada por una dura crisis mundial. El fracaso escolar alcanzó cotas insostenibles. El paro asoló el país, pero se cebó especialmente con la juventud.En este complicado marco, las drogas encontraron un hábitat perfecto ...
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    16,00 €

  • From Virtue to Vice
    Penny van Esterik / Richard A. O’ Connor / Richard AO' Connor / Richard AO’ Connor
    'I found this to be a top-notch scholarly work written in a way that will be accessible for diverse audiences including students, professional clinicians, academics, and the interested lay public.' · Janet Dixon Keller, University of IllinoisThe recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing t...
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    184,26 €

  • Healing Roots
    Julie Laplante
    'This book represents an interesting addition to the emerging series of articles and books dedicated to the study of the interactions between Western and African systems of knowledge...[It] is very provocative and will no doubt provoke many intellectual debates.' · Gilles Bibeau, Université de MontréalUmhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-doc...
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    184,02 €

  • Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales
    Ann Schmiesing
    Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes various representations of disability in the tales and also shows how the Grimms’ editing (or “prosth...
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    45,64 €

  • Realistic Joneses, The
    Will Eno
    In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common than their identical homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin to irrevocably intertwine, the Joneses must decide between their idyllic fantasies and their imperfect realities. ...
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    15,23 €

  • Getting Real about Alzheimers
    Kassandra King
    Getting REAL About Alzheimer's proposes a shift away from the negative beliefs that contribute to a downward spiral of dementia. A shift is possible, and you can see when it happens. The difference is huge! 'Getting REAL' is a reference to Rementia through Engagement, Assistance, and Love. As a guide for family and friends of persons with Alzheimer's as well as for professional...
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    11,09 €


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