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Tobacco: A Reference Handbook
ISBN: 9780874369670 / Angielski / Twarda / 419 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Indians valued tobacco as a wonder drug. When Rodrigo de Jerez, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his maiden voyage of 1492, returned to Spain with tobacco, he was accused of associating with Satan and imprisoned when his compatriots saw smoke coming out of his nose. This book covers everything from the history of tobacco to health and social issues such as targeting children. Biographical sketches of key personalities associated with tobacco range from Thomas Edison, who refused to hire anybody who smoked cigarettes, to Jean Nicot, the French Ambassador to Portugal... The American Indians valued tobacco as a wonder drug. When Rodrigo de Jerez, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his maiden voyage of 1492, ret... |
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The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests : Everything You Need to Know About the Tests Your Doctor Orders
ISBN: 9780816046515 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the rapid advances in diagnostic medicine, it is more important than ever for consumers to have access to up-to-date, objective information about the tools commonly used by physicians, hospitals and commercial labs. This second edition provides a basic understanding of these diagnostic procedures.
With the rapid advances in diagnostic medicine, it is more important than ever for consumers to have access to up-to-date, objective information about...
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1,2,3 Sinus Free: Pain Relief Without Medication
ISBN: 9781469981772 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1,2,3 Sinus Free - Pain Relief Without Medication. The author has spent a lifetime seeking relief from chronic headaches, sinus pain and catarrh. When following a food combining diet for weight loss, she discovered a miracle - not only did the excess weight vanish, but also the daily struggle against sinus pain. This book details the personal findings of the author and leads you, through a way of combining your everyday normal food intake, to relief from sinus pain.
1,2,3 Sinus Free - Pain Relief Without Medication. The author has spent a lifetime seeking relief from chronic headaches, sinus pain and catarrh. When...
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Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now: Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care
ISBN: 9781442210608 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical care, Americans often blindly accept medical advice that may or may not be relevant or even appropriate. Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now is meant to turn on its head the old notion that medical care is dictated by the doctors who offer advice. Today, it's all about the patients who receive it. Bias, financial incentives, and preventable medical error are common to the point of inevitability and have proven resistant to reform. Patients...
The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical...
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The "Cure" for Health Care Reform: Healthy Ways To Help Eliminate Your Medical Bills
ISBN: 9781466477032 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The day is coming when health insurance is not going to be affordable for most people and coverage will be extremely limited. It's time to get a reality check and prepare for the future when the insurance we take for granted now may not be there. We've been conditioned over decades that when we get sick to just go to the doctor who accepts our health insurance. This book explores a different way of thinking. It deals with simple methods to AVOID GETTING SICK IN THE FIRST PLACE. Now while not all illness is preventable, you will be amazed at just how much sickness CAN BE PREVENTED. A good...
The day is coming when health insurance is not going to be affordable for most people and coverage will be extremely limited. It's time to get a reali...
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Notes from Movers & Shakers with Parkinson
ISBN: 9780615421049 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you have been diagnosed with Parkinson Disease; if someone you love has been; if you're a caregiver to a Parkinson patient; if you are related to a Parkinson patient, you'll want to read this book. Authored by 2 people who are living with Parkinson, this practical guide with inspirational real life stories, will make you laugh and cry. This remarkable collection captures the grand achievements and every day victories of our resilient peers. This unusual collection represents the viewpoint of people who are living with PD day-to-day. Based on information from a questionnaire that was...
If you have been diagnosed with Parkinson Disease; if someone you love has been; if you're a caregiver to a Parkinson patient; if you are related to a...
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Complete Tubefeeding: Everything you need to know about tubefeeding, tube nutrition, and blended diets
ISBN: 9781470190224 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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You Must Wash Your Hands
ISBN: 9781483690490 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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California Stories: Health in a State of Extremes
ISBN: 9781468146325 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How healthy are you? Chances are, the answer to that question depends on where you live. The connection between place and health has never been clearer, and in California, health disparities from one community to the next can be shockingly large. The California Health Report at www.healthycal.org examines these gaps and reports on their origins, and on how policy makers and communities are trying to change the conditions that are largely responsible for these disparities. This volume represents some of the best of that work from the past year. We hope it opens a window into people and places...
How healthy are you? Chances are, the answer to that question depends on where you live. The connection between place and health has never been cleare...
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Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780313385674 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure. Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of... Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches t... |
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How to Increase Energy: The Energy Makeover
ISBN: 9781456486600 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feeling tired, fatigued or sluggish? Then you are not alone. Lack of energy is one of the main reasons for visiting a health professional today. What you need is Energy to Burn This latest book in the series of health books written by Health Researcher & Naturopath/Nurse, Vivienne Savill provides an indepth look at the cause of fatigue and how to treat it. How to Increase Energy, Naturally: The Energy Makeover, discusses well over 50 known contributors to fatigue and gives the reader indepth but easy to understand information, to get you feeling 100% again. From nutrient deficiencies,...
Feeling tired, fatigued or sluggish? Then you are not alone. Lack of energy is one of the main reasons for visiting a health professional today. What ...
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If Naturopaths are "Quacks"... Then I Guess I'm a Duck: Confessions of a Naturopath
ISBN: 9781470093358 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is a Naturopath, and what does one actually do? How does a "Traditional" Naturopath differ in philosophy and scope of practice from other types of so called "alternative" practitioners? What can I expect to gain by seeking out and consulting with a practitioner like Shauna? Are my health freedoms and choices in the United States and beyond really under attack? These are just a few of the questions and answers that are addressed by Shauna K. Young, a Certified Traditional Naturopath (CTN) with a PhD in Natural Sciences, in this unconventional and revealing look at a medical art and health...
What is a Naturopath, and what does one actually do? How does a "Traditional" Naturopath differ in philosophy and scope of practice from other types o...
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Let Me Go When the Banter Stops: A Doctor's Fight for the Love of Her Life
ISBN: 9781470118181 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Let Me Go When the Banter Stops tells the true love story of Seattle physician, Dr. Linda Gromko, who finds herself in a midlife romance, only to discover that her future holds joyful new beginnings, but also the pain and heartache of letting go. Dovetailing with her earlier memoir, Complications: A Doctor's Love Story, Dr. Gromko's new book revisits the early days and challenges of her burgeoning relationship with her future husband, Steve Williams, a self-made business executive and consummate networker living comfortably with his feisty nine-year-old daughter, Brita. As Complications...
Let Me Go When the Banter Stops tells the true love story of Seattle physician, Dr. Linda Gromko, who finds herself in a midlife romance, only to disc...
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Making Medicare: New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada
ISBN: 9781442613454 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This collection fills a serious gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive policy history of Medicare in Canada. Making Medicare features explorations of the experiments that predated the federal government's decision to implement the Saskatchewan health care model,... The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian o... |
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Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Health Care Debate
ISBN: 9780874178890 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health care crisis are now deeply embedded in contemporary politics and popular culture. In Cries of Crisis, Robert B. Hackey analyzes media coverage, political speeches, films, and television shows to demonstrate the role that language and symbolism have played in framing the health care debate,...
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve th...
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A Pocket Guide to Nursing Home Care
ISBN: 9781466285613 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When you receive the shocking news that your mom or dad is in the hospital, and the next step is the dreaded nursing home, don't let the horror stories cloud your mind and wreak havoc on your emotions. This is YOUR parent, and even though you're not a medical professional, you can control a lot more than you think A Pocket Guide to Nursing Home Care is just what the doctor ordered to help you pick out an excellent facility, and get the best care while there. Ten brief, easy to read chapters will walk you through the selection process using checklists that clearly illustrate what a top...
When you receive the shocking news that your mom or dad is in the hospital, and the next step is the dreaded nursing home, don't let the horror storie...
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Don't Be Alone In The Hospital: How to protect yourself from the risks inherent in hospitalization today
ISBN: 9781477660058 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a wake up call to the prospective hospital patient and a roadmap to protecting yourself from harm in the hospital. There are few experiences in life more traumatic and stressful than being a patient in the hospital. Everything from the antiseptic smell to the staff's scrub type uniforms remind you that you are in a place that you always wanted to avoid. Even more traumatic is being injured or killed by the people, tools, and technologies in the hospital that are supposed to heal or cure you. Those people, tools, and technologies are now very sophisticated and powerful, but their...
This book is a wake up call to the prospective hospital patient and a roadmap to protecting yourself from harm in the hospital. There are few experien...
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The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change: A Policy Network Analysis of a Southeast Asian Welfare Regime
ISBN: 9789814345682 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within the last twenty years a large-scale bottom-up privatisation has taken place in Vietnam, changing and dismantling the public health care system. This process has led to severe tensions inherent in the transitional society of Vietnam between equity and access to health care support especially for the poor, elderly, migrants, and ethnic minorities on the one hand, and its efficiency on the other hand. The book traces the reform efforts to modernise the health care system by the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. The author bases her findings on little known primary...
Within the last twenty years a large-scale bottom-up privatisation has taken place in Vietnam, changing and dismantling the public health care system....
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The Sharp End of the Needle (Dealing with Diabetes, Dialysis, Transplant and the Medical Field)
ISBN: 9780982242377 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gabriel of Urantia asked the question, in the beginning of his struggle with dialysis, "God, why is this happening to me?" Throughout his 8-month dialysis experience, 3 days a week, 4 hours a day, being tied down to a chair while his blood flowed from his body through a machine and back, he realizes-from the people he meets also on dialysis and in the hospitals after post-kidney-transplant-that very bad things happen to very good people. He met young and old alike, tied down to the machines just like he was, and the young people were the hardest for him to resolve in his mind with God and...
Gabriel of Urantia asked the question, in the beginning of his struggle with dialysis, "God, why is this happening to me?" Throughout his 8-month dial...
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Epilepsy Unveiled: Caretaking, Seizures, Psychosis and Brain Surgery
ISBN: 9780985240202 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you blindly stumbling down unfamiliar paths created by living with epilepsy? Are you looking for answers as the caretaker of someone who has seizures? Is your world abnormal due to seizures? Are you witnessing irrational behaviors and unable to find an answer to them? Are you living behind closed doors and smothered by misunderstanding? Have you decided your fate is sealed and stopped looking for answers? My name is Lola Jines-Burritt and I will never stop seeking answers. My husband, Charley, and I began our journey with his epilepsy in 1980. I observed every imaginable aspect of...
Are you blindly stumbling down unfamiliar paths created by living with epilepsy? Are you looking for answers as the caretaker of someone who has seizu...
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