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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.

Diabetes Type I & II - Cure in 72 Hrs

Effective Medical Leadership

The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders.

Is This a Reason to Die?

The pharmaceutical corporations are milking the country by over charging for medication prescribed us by our doctors. Prescription drugs taken as directed by your doctor kills as many as 100.

The Science and Practice of Stuttering Treatment: A Symposium

Genomic Messages: How the Evolving Science of Genetics Affects Our Health, Families, and Future

It's Enough to Make You Sick: The Failure of American Health Care and a Prescription for the Cure

It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace.

AIDS Care at Home

An indispensable guide to every aspect of at-home care This thoroughly practical guide details the daily routines and unique concerns that are essential to quality at-home care of people with AIDS.

How To Get In And Out Of The Hospital. And Back To Your Own Bed!: A Manual

This book is meant to be a simple education guide for surviving a trip into a hospital setting. It is written to help anyone get themselves in and out of the hospital.

Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories: A Support Group in a Book

Replete with the powerful words of experienced caregivers, Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories is an essential guidebook for anyone who must attend to the needs of a loved one suffering from Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia. In these pages, members of caregivers' support groups - representing twenty-six families and a variety of professions and income levels - speak candidly about the challenges they have faced at every step in the caregiving process, from recognizing early symptoms of dementia to dealing with its advanced stages.

Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health

We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy.

Colon Health

Explains how to take proper care of the colon to prevent numerous ailments.

Too High a Price to Pay: The Health Care Reform Revolution - What It Is and What You Can Do

The Man Behind The Mask: Why I Choose To Not Receive The Flu Shot

""The Man Behind The Mask: Why I Choose To Not Receive The Flu Shot" details the many issues related to mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers and why the author chose to wear a mask during flu season in lieu of receiving the flu shot.

Working Relationships: Spirituality in Human Service and Organisational Life

In this illuminating and thoughtful text, Neil Pembroke shows how relationships form the heart of chaplaincy, nursing and social care practice. Developing ideas from Martin Buber and virtue theory he shows how authentic, compassionate self-communication forms the basis of relatedness in human services work.

The Wages of Sickness

The Clinton administration's failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United States. From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful crusade for compulsory health insurance in New York State.

THE "BOOMERS" ARE COMING

The foundation of democracy is the pursuit of the Greater Good. As a country, we pursue what is good for most of the people, most of the time.

Focus On Your Best Health: Smart Guide to the Health Care You Deserve

Focus On YOUR BEST HEALTH provides those making health care decisions with a roadmap for successful outcomes.

Health Care Reform and Disparities: History, Hype, and Hope

In Health Care Reform and Disparities: History, Hype, and Hope, prolific author Toni P.

Clinical Orthoptics

The Battle Over Health Care: What Obama's Reform Means for America's Future

As the most substantial health care reform in almost half a century, President Obama's health care overhaul was as historic as it was divisive. In its aftermath, the debate continues.

Rund ums Impfen

Rund ums Impfen ist ein übersichtliches Nachschlagewerk, in welchem jede Krankheit mit ihren Behandlungsmöglichkeiten, sowie die dazugehörige Impfung mit Zusatzstoffen, Nebenwirkungen, etc. beschrieben wird.

Improve Your Health With Vegetables

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.

Age through Ethnic Lenses

An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting the common needs and objectives among all aging Americans.

If You Are Well: Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer

Navigating the Healthcare Maze

The primary purpose of this book is to empower readers and encourage them to become proactive consumer-patients.

Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America

Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science.

50 Meds for a Sick Health System

America's health care system is bankrupting its people, businesses and society while it both over-treats and under-treats, with poorer results than in most of the industrialized world. Its ills are so many there is no single cure.

Health Against Wealth

The HMO system is supposed to stop greedy doctors and hospitals from viewing patients as sources of profit.

Challenges in Counselling: Research

Help both qualified and trainee counsellors understand and engage with past and current research in the field. This book both explains why research is relevant to practical counselling skills and addresses the common difficulties your students are likely to encounter when putting research into practice.

Le Corps accordé

Le yukido est au croisement de deux approches méconnues du soin par les mains: le reboutage et le seitai, auxquels l'auteur a consacré trente années de recherche.

Universal Health Care Problems In The United States Of America

This book is intended be a thought-provoking discussion of real issues in the healthcare debate as seen through the eyes of suffering consumers. "He who feels it, knows it" It is not intended as a substitute for any study generated by specialists in the fields of finance, economics, government, or healthcare related law.

Das Geheimnis der Spurenelemente und Aminosäuren

Wir haben uns auf die Analytik der lebenswichtigen (essenziellen) Aminosäuren und Spurenelemente spezialisiert. Dies sind jene, die sich der Mensch nicht selbst herstellen kann, die aber in seinem Stoffwechsel für strukturelle Aufgaben (Gewebeaufbau) und für regulierende Aufgaben (Neurotransmitter) benötigt werden.

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