Third Step Press - Eureka! memories and motivations: a strategy for creating a healing home for the stroke / brain injury patient and caregiver

Medication Education: Thinking Outside the Medicine Cabinet

Medications, prescribed by a Doctor or purchased over the counter at a pharmacy, should be safe and effective when used as directed. However, there are cases when complications can arise.

Complaints & Disorders [Complaints and Disorders]

From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this biomedical rationale was used to justify sex discrimination throughout the culture, and how its vestiges are evident in abortion policy and other reproductive rights struggles today.

Adrenaline Nation: Chronic Stress is Ruining Our Health and Bankrupting Our Economy

Adrenaline Nation is a brilliant exposé by Peter McCarthy of how chronic stress is affecting American individuals, businesses and the entire nation's economy and health care system.

Improve Your Health With Turmeric and Alum

Nature has provided mankind with a gamut of fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other sources to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These natural sources of food are rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients.

Children Health Issues

Purchase This eBook As A small Investment For Answering Common Children healt Questions Such As, Abdominal Pain, Constipation, Fever, Urinary Tract Infection, Tonsils and Tonsillitis, Pinworms and Eczema Plus Much More!

The Face of Anorexia

The Face of Anorexia - the body image is a detailed account surrounding the eating disorder known as Anorexia Nervosa. Being that anorexia is a mental disorder, Dr.

Seeking Sickness

Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry.

Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution

Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers.

Unterm Messer

Durch ihre zunehmende Ökonomisierung droht die heutige Medizin den Patienten als Individuum mehr und mehr aus dem Blick zu verlieren.

Making Medicare: New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada

The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest.

Close to Change 2nd edition: Perspectives on Change and Healthcare for a doctor, a town, and a country

On August 7, 2012 Camden Clark Medical Center announced the impending closure of the St. Joseph's Hospital campus in Parkersburg, WV.

The Hearing-Loss Guide: Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families

Although millions of people could use good advice about hearing loss, it turns out that asking is difficult, and accurate advice is hard to come by.

Challenges in Counselling: Loss

Draw upon relevant research and the author's experience to outline and contextualise the key aspects of loss: theoretical concepts, approaches and vocabulary terms. Loss and bereavement is a sensitive area; no two stories will ever be the same.

Economics Of Social Capital And Health, The: A Conceptual And Empirical Roadmap

This book defines the field of social capital and health.

Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960

Medicine on the Periphery examines the history of the public health of Yucatán, Mexico, from the 1870s through 1960.

Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

The inspiring story of how a leading innovator in patient safety found a simple way to save countless lives. First, do no harm-doctors, nurses and clinicians swear by this code of conduct.

Inside Obamacare: The Fix For America's Ailing Health Care System

Since President Obama signed it into law in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has been debated endlessly, its botched rollout sparking headlines and outrage nationwide. But very little of the conversation surrounding the ACA has focused on the health care trends that first inspired the law, as well as the early forays the Obamas made years ago in Chicago in making health care more affordable, accessible and accountable.

Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care

The Essential Patient Handbook: Getting the Health Care You Need - From Doctors Who Know

The Essential Patient Handbook was written for the millions of Americans who are dissatisfied with their medical care, and are looking for a practical no-nonsense way to get the help they need from their doctors.

Shave With a Straight Razor: A Guide for Beginners

A basic guide to getting started shaving with a straight razor. Simplified, modernized instructions.

Complete Health, Politics Poetics & Ethics Anthologies of Aristotle (12 in 1) (Illustrated)

Get Rid of the Blues

Eighty million Americans suffer from venous problems. The bad news is that vein disease is progressive, so even if it is mild and simply unattractive, it could progress to severe.

The Manner Born: Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective

This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective.

Survival Manual for Elders: Encouraging Elders' Resiliency Potential

Helps seniors and their caregivers successfully navigate the challenges of aging, make informed decisions, and focus on individualized goals of care to promote resiliency and maximum functional potential.

Des fois, je bégaie

Qu'est-ce qui me fait bégayer? Pourquoi des fois, je bégaie et d'autres non?

Understanding and Surviving Obamacare

Finally, you have found the critical and necessary book that you've heard so much about, essential information on Surviving Obamacare.

Knowing More about the Ear: Treating Deafness and other Maladies of the Ear

Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine

Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer

""Admirable. clearly written, well organized.

National Service Fifty Years Ago: Life of a Medical Conscript in West Africa

Between 1946 and 1962, following World War II (1939-45), for the first time in peace-time Britain, conscription was introduced as a partial solution to Churchill's 'cold war' strategy.

Gesundheitsmonitor 2011

Wie sieht der Versorgungsalltag der deutschen Bevölkerung aus? Welche Defizite erleben die Versicherten und welche Veränderungen sind aus ihrer Sicht notwendig, um das Gesundheitssystem zu verbessern?

ONE BODY-ONE LIFE

Comments by: (Health professionals, media, lay public) Dr Perumal has written a concise compendium of common medical conditions, which can be readily understood and used as a family reference book. I would have been grateful for an guide such as this when my children were growing up.

The Truth About Big Medicine: Righting the Wrongs for Better Health Care

Many Americans believe that their healthcare is second to none. Most patients, therefore, fail to appreciate the flaws and dangers present while receiving medical care.

The Rise and Fall of a Medical Specialty: London's Clinical Tropical Medicine

In the late nineteenth century it became clear to the British government that health hazards facing those serving in warmer climates, particularly West Africa, were unacceptable.

Hilfen im Alter kennen und nutzen

Immer mehr Menschen wollen im Alter eigenverantwortlich leben, doch was tun, wenn es alleine nicht mehr geht? Dieser praktische Ratgeber gibt Betroffenen und Angehörigen einen Überblick über alle Möglichkeiten heutiger Altenpflege.

Kya Khaye Jab Maa Bane

Alternatives to Involuntary Death

Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it. Timothy Leary brings some startlingly fresh ideas to this topic.

American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving

At some time, most families will need to provide home care for an aging family member who is ill or disabled. While home caregiving provides many benefits, it takes careful planning, support, and patience.

Nortin Hadler's Healthcare Trilogy

This three-volume set is a collection of Nortin Hadler's definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The set includes: Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Hadler's best-seller that shows consumers how to distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing, make better decisions about their personal health, and use that wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues;Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society, takes the "Hadlerian" approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry, arguing that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists and that the design of workers' compensation, disability insurance, and other "health" schemes actually thwarts getting well; andRethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society, in which Hadler offers a doctor's perspective on the medical literature as well as his long clinical experience to help readers assess their health-care options and make informed medical choices in the last decades of life.

BTEC First Health and Social Care Level 2 Assessment Guide: Unit 5 Promoting Health and Wellbeing

Take the guesswork out of BTEC assessment with sample student work and assessor feedback for all pass, merit and distinction criteria.