Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Allied Health Services - General

This book explores the challenging issues associated with complementary and alternative medicine in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people's health.
Divided clearly into three sections, this book:

• sets out the general context of social change, consumption and debate around the rise of public interest in CAM
• argues for and against different classifications of CAM
• critically assesses the importance of ethics and values to CAM practice and how these inform what practitioners do
• focuses on the question of...

In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular.

Lifestyle in Medicine explores the ambiguity of the term 'lifestyle' and the way it is conceived and applied within medicine. Based on real doctor-patient consultations and in-depth interviews with doctors, the book discusses:

• the history behind current medical use of lifestyle
• the variable usage of the 'lifestyle' concept in different medical settings
• critical writings and recent shifts in sociological thinking about lifestyle
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Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CAM research.

This collection brings together leading international CAM researchers with backgrounds and expertise in a variety of areas including health social science, qualitative methodology, general practice, health services research and public health. Drawing upon their own research work and experience, the contributors explain and review core methods and research issues pertinent to contemporary CAM and its future...

Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CAM research. This collection brings together leading international CAM researchers with backgrounds and expertise in a variety of areas including health social science, qualitative methodology, general practice, health services research and public health. Drawing upon their own research work and experience, the contributors explain and review core methods and research issues pertinent to contemporary CAM and its future development. Topics discussed...

One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumatic stress after childbirth. In Birth Crisis Sheila Kitzinger explores the disempowerment and anxiety experienced by these women. Key topics discussed include:

• increasing intervention in pregnancy
• the shift in emphasis from relationships to technology in childbirth
• how family, friends and professional caregivers can reach out to traumatized mothers
• how women can work through stress to understand themselves more deeply and grow in emotional maturity
• how care and the medical system...

This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve. Many normal life processes states as natural as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness and death are systematically being reinterpreted as pathological so creating new markets for their treatments. In this enlightening book, Jorg Blech reveals:

• how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies is turning us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves against this
• how the medical profession...

This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve. Many normal life processes states as natural as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness and death are systematically being reinterpreted as pathological so creating new markets for their treatments. In this enlightening book, Jorg Blech reveals:

• how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies is turning us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves against this
• how the medical profession...

Research on ethnicity is of relevance to a wide variety of health, economic and social issues in modern societies. This is reflected in the growing body of research with a focus on ethnicity. Despite this, there are no ready sources of information on the methodological issues facing such research. This volume aims to fill that gap.
Straightforward in its approach and accessible to those who are not specialists in studies of ethnicity, "Health and Social Research in Multicultural Societies" provides essential and clear guidance on appropriate methods. Topics covered include:
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This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century. It questions the changes that are taking place in childbirth and, in particular, the effects and implications of an increase in caesarean births.

This controversial work by a practising midwife and researcher, includes discussion of:

• the context of the operation and description of it
• health systems around the world and their caesarean incidence rates
• decision-making and cultural/medical constraints
• the short and long term...

This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century. It questions the changes that are taking place in childbirth and, in particular, the effects and implications of an increase in caesarean births.

This controversial work by a practising midwife and researcher, includes discussion of:

• the context of the operation and description of it
• health systems around the world and their caesarean incidence rates
• decision-making and cultural/medical constraints
• the short and long term...

A safe, effective hormone balance program for women aged 30-50 suffering from premenopause syndrome. Restore and maintain gynecological health, sex drive, and energy.

I'm too young for menopause. So why do I feel like this? Even if you're a decade or more away from menopause, your hormones may already be out of balance, usually caused by an excess of estrogen and a deficiency of progesterone. Over 50 million women experience premenopause symptoms, including:

• Unexplained, sudden weight gain
• Severe PMS, fatigue, irritability, and mood swings
• Loss...

Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience, Julian Whitaker examines modern medicines's latest diagnostic techniques, treatment, and drugs and offers up improvements to his own comprehensive cardiac programme.

This book explores the growth of complementary medicine and its increa sing use by the medical profession. It also examines the appeal of com plementary medicine, its safety and efficacy and the direction that re search into this fascinating topic might take in years to come.

Advanced language acquisition is possible in spite of serious mental handicap. This is the conclusion reached at the end of a thorough study of the language of a Down syndrome adult woman, exhibiting virtually normal expressive and receptive grammar. This case, presented in this book, is compared to a small number of other exceptional cases of language development in mental retardation. The findings are powerful arguments against the claim that the acquisition of grammar is determined by prior nonlinguistic cognitive achievements. Moreover, data analysis and comparison with other observations...

Issues in the Developmental Approach to Mental Retardation is one of the first books exclusively devoted to applying the theories, findings and approaches used in work with nonretarded children to several types of retarded individuals. It defines the developmental approach and explores theoretical issues as they relate to retarded populations. Problems involving similar sequences of development, cross-domain relations, the environment, and motivation are all discussed, as is the importance of separating the various etiological groups for research and intervention purposes. This book will be...

'Dr. Rako discusses a growing body of information that deflates the notion that menstrual suppression is a viable option for women."
-"The New York Times"

Encouraging healthy menstruating women and even teenage girls to do away with their normal menstrual cycles by dosing themselves more or less nonstop with hormones (a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry) is, in a word, reckless. What every woman and her doctor MUST know about the actual benefits of the normal menstrual cycle-naturally lowered blood pressure, reduced risk of heart attacks and strokes, healthy bones, rhythmic...

Wild and wooley rescue stories from America's Paramedics and EMTs, wrapped around the story of an empty nest syndrome mid-life mom who shook up her life by becoming an EMT.

"A celebration of beauty in all its diversity."
Clif DeRaita, National Director of Makeup at Georgette Klinger, Inc.

"This book is touched by genuis."
Gad Cohen, celebrity stylist featured in "Glamour, Vogue," and "Cosmopolitan"

""Healthy Beauty" is a must for anyone interested in beauty."
Marietta Carter-Narcisse, Hollywood makeup expert featured in "In Style"

"In "Healthy Beauty," we can be confident of finding beauty elixirs to create not only the face we present to the world, but the peace of mind we need in the quiet of our lives."
Isisara Bey, Vice President of...

'Joe is Joe, a different label is not going to make him suddenly think he is someone else' (Joe's Mum)

Quotations like this about five year old Joe are used to illustrate this text, which draws on the experience of learning disabilities in the family. Peter Burke and Katy Cigno provide helpful definitions and reflect on some preliminary, but important theoretical ideas linking to social exclusion and vulnerability. Drawing on research and experience, different aspects of family lives are illustrated in all their diversity. The implications of stressful times, major upheavals and...