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  • Unforgotten
    Bianca Brijnath
    As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dem...
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    184,32 €

  • Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
    Francis O. Adeola / Francis OAdeola
    Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent social impacts, including adverse health effects, deaths and property destruction, psychosocial problems, and community disruption. This book explains the emergence of a ...
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    74,62 €

  • Alcohol and Violence
    Kevin J. McCaffree / Kevin JMcCaffree / Robert Nash Parker
    Many people have experienced or witnessed situations in which people drinking alcohol get aggressive, obnoxious, and violent. Scientific research has shown evidence of a relationship between alcohol and violence, and even evidence that alcohol plays a role in causing violent and aggressive responses. The book explores a number of aspects of this relationship. If you have been d...
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    65,34 €

  • Through the Lens of the World Health Crisis Part 1
    Sofia Laurden Davis
    From neo-classical economic theory which one should we choose? Should we say YEY or NEY? Where should we stand when determination of profit comes first before social responsibilities? Should we make sure that social responsibility comes first before profit? Shall we apply this philosophical theory of human community lack of moral agency, but have similar full moral status, as m...
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    10,90 €

  • Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries
    Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach ...
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    148,43 €

  • 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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    156,64 €

  • The Mystery of Health and Disease (Traditional Chinese Edition)
    Hong Son Cheung / 張洪聲
    人在生命中，是無法不生病的，雖然這是事實，可是直到今天，大家對健康及疾病，這些字的意思，雖然都是很明白的，可是對健康及疾病的意義，卻還是沒能完全真正瞭解及明白。也可以說是都不太清楚。我們大家都知道什麼是健康，也知道人的身體是會生病的。病，有很多種的病，可是世界上沒有一個人真正完全知道，清楚所有的病，我當然也不能例外了，可是我是知道一些，當然我可以談這一些的病。我要聲明我不是醫生，可是因為我曾在藥廠工作過三十年，直到退休，因此在藥廠內工作時得到的知識，暸解及經驗，再加上退休後思考的所得，這些應該都是非常的寶貴及重要，我相信與大家分享這些，是非常值得的，也相信對大家一定會有些幫助的。在這本書內，為了讓讀者看時容易明白及瞭解起見，所以一切醫學及科學上的名詞都沒有，都不用，因此相信對讀者閱讀時一定會方便得很多，這本書並不是為醫學界專業人士所寫的，而是為普通一...
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    16,48 €

  • The Mystery of Health and Disease (Simplified Chinese Edition)
    Hong Son Cheung / 张洪声
    人在生命中，是无法不生病的，虽然这是事实，可是直到今天，大家对健康及疾病，这些字的意思，虽然都是很明白的，可是对健康及疾病的意义，却还是没能完全真正了解及明白。也可以说是都不太清楚。我们大家都知道什么是健康，也知道人的身体是会生病的。病，有很多种的病，可是世界上没有一个人真正完全知道，清楚所有的病，我当然也不能例外了，可是我是知道一些，当然我可以谈这一些的病。我要声明我不是医生，可是因为我曾在药厂工作过三十年，直到退休，因此在药厂内工作时得到的知识，暸解及经验，再加上退休后思考的所得，这些应该都是非常的宝贵及重要，我相信与大家分享这些，是非常值得的，也相信对大家一定会有些帮助的。在这本书内，为了让读者看时容易明白及了解起见，所以一切医学及科学上的名词都没有，都不用，因此相信对读者阅读时一定会方便得很多，这本书并不是为医学界专业人士所写的，而是为普通一...
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    16,48 €

  • 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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    141,61 €

  • A History of British Sports Medicine
    Vanessa Heggie
    A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century. ...
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    29,63 €

  • Reconstructing Obesity
    'A valuable text. The arguments and chapters are coherently linked to highlight the role of cultural assumptions in medical and social attitudes towards fatness and obesity. The volume makes a strong contribution to contextualizing ideologies on fatness and invites the reader to engage with a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives.' · Lucy Aphramor, Well Founded Ltd, Cent...
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    184,24 €

  • Hearing and the Hospital
    Tom Rice
    An original ethnography of sound and listening in one of our major institutions, Hearing and the Hospital reveals the hospital to be a space in which several modes of listening are simultaneously in play and in which different layers of auditory knowledge and experience coexist. Engaging withSound Studies, the Anthropology of the Senses, Medical Anthropology and Science and Tec...
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    114,50 €

  • Young People’s Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa
    Daniel Wight / Mary Louisa Plummer
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people’s sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based o...
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    73,91 €

  • Learning to Breathe
    Sue Fries
    Do you know what you would do if your child stopped breathing? Susan Fries notonly was confronted with this reality, but also experienced it with the added traumafrom her own childhood memories of desperately gasping for air during asthmaattacks. She was devastated to learn that her son would experience the very samesuffering she endured, along with her older sister. However, b...
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    12,23 €

  • Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia
    Fifa Rahman / Nick Crofts
    Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia is a multi-author look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in Asia, the book examines recent trends in illicit drugs, especially the present enormous amphetamine problems. It addresses recent ...
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    163,36 €

  • Heartland Tobacco War
    Andrew L. Spivak / Andrew LSpivak / Michael S. Givel / Michael SGivel
    Heartland Tobacco War chronicles the political and public relations battles between health advocates and forces supported by the tobacco industry in Oklahoma from the 1980s to the present, drawing on previously-suppressed tobacco insider documents and first-hand interviews with key players. The authors especially highlight the role of Oklahoma’s “renegade” Department of Health...
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    99,13 €

  • Medical Anthropology and the World System
    Hans Baer / Ida Susser / Merrill Singer
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    56,31 €

  • Researching AIDS, Sexuality and Gender. Case Studies of Women in Kenyan Universities
    Nyokabi Kamau
    The current HIV and AIDS regime has opened up unknown vistas in intellectual pursuits and knowledge creation. One such newly opened up area of research is studying HIV and AIDS in relation to gender issues. However, owing to the devastating nature of the epidemic, most studies tend to focus on women merely as an 'at risk' population leaving aside the wider sociological dimensio...
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    59,59 €

  • Mad Matters
    In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: 'An important new movement is sweeping through the western world.... The ’mad,’ the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society’s asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves.'Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contrib...
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    147,68 €

  • Alcohol and Violence
    Kevin J. McCaffree / Kevin JMcCaffree / Parker / Robert Nash Parker
    Many people have experienced or witnessed situations in which people drinking alcohol get aggressive, obnoxious, and violent. Scientific research has shown evidence of a relationship between alcohol and violence, and even evidence that alcohol plays a role in causing violent and aggressive responses. The book explores a number of aspects of this relationship. If you have been d...
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    141,47 €

  • Unsafe Motherhood
    Nicole S. Berry / Nicole SBerry
    Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. The author ...
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    37,90 €

  • Bullying
    Sally Kuykendall
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    56,59 €

  • Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
    Adeola / Francis O. Adeola / Francis OAdeola
    Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent social impacts, including adverse health effects, deaths and property destruction, psychosocial problems, and community disruption. This book explains the emergence of a ...
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    156,50 €

  • Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900
    Catherine Cox
    Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. ...
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    157,11 €

  • ¿Bioingeniería o medicina?
    Xavier Clèries
    La medicina asistencial contemporánea en los países tecnológicamente desarrollados abunda en situaciones delicadas y al límite de las posibilidades de la praxis clínica e incluso de la ética, que están propiciando un encarecimiento de la asistencia, el desengaño y desgaste profesional y variados esoterismos alternativos. Para hacer más llamativa la situación, la población gener...
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    22,00 €

  • HIV and AIDS, Communication, and Secondary Education in Kenya
    Ndeti Ndati
    The study offers research into the efficacy of HIV and AIDS communication strategies for adolescents, especially with regards to selected secondary schools in Kenya. The study is a useful point of reference to both Kenyan researchers into HIV and AIDS as well as international scholars exploring Africanist perspectives of the socio-cultural dimensions of the pandemic. ...
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    42,45 €

  • Caregivers of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya
    Charnetta Gadling-Cole / Mildred C Joyner / Sandra Edmonds Crewe
    Most of the HIV/AIDS caregivers in Kenya live in various parts of the country and share many of the trials and tribulations associated with providing care to someone suffering from a terminal illness. Some have been forced into the role due to the death of their love one, while others may have voluntarily taken on the responsibility on a firm belief that the care they provide w...
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    24,77 €

  • The Cult and Science of Public Health
    Kevin Dew
    ...an outstanding overview of public health, neatly traversing complex theoretical fields and developing a fascinating account of the moral significance of modern public health and its rituals...the book truly breaks new ground in allowing us to think through the complexities and paradoxes of public health as it acts at one time to free and protect the individual and at others ...
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    184,57 €

  • The War Against Counterfeit Medicne. My Story
    Dora Nkem Akunyili
    There is a general agreement that piracy; counterfeiting and passing off are unfair. However, there is often surreptitious - or even open - sympathy for, say, those who purchase counterfeit designer fashions or the latest technical gadgets. The pirate is even sometimes represented as a dared evil hero. In this book, Prof. Dora Nkem Akunyili, Director General of Nigeria’s Nation...
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    97,91 €

  • Where Did Mommy’s Superpowers Go?
    Jenifer Gershman
    In August 2011, "Where Did Mommy's Superpowers Go?" was recognized among the best in family-friendly media, products and services, earning a Silver Mom's Choice Award! Mommy and her son love to play together and act like superheroes! But one day, Mommy has something serious to discuss. She explains to her little boy that the doctor has found some "yucky stuff" in her bo...
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    10,55 €


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