Quality of Life: Concept, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780415323543 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quality of life is one of the most important issues facing the world today and is central to the development of social policy. This innovative book discusses this crucial topic, assessing the criteria for judging attempts to raise quality of life, including the satisfaction of basic and social needs, autonomy to enjoy life and social connectivity. It considers key topics such as:
Quality of life is one of the most important issues facing the world today and is central to the development of social policy. This innovat... |
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692,17 zł |
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life
ISBN: 9780415390699 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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:
This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost imposs... |
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692,17 zł |
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life
ISBN: 9780415390712 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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:
This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost imposs... |
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266,56 zł |
Exercise Leadership in Cardiac Rehabilitation: An Evidence-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780470019719 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides physiotherapists and exercise professionals with a comprehensive resource on the exercise components and skills of constructing and teaching CR exercise. It addresses the scope of knowledge and skills required by exercise specialists developing, delivering and teaching exercise based CR programmes. It has an evidence-based framework, and provides practical advice and suggestions based on the clinical experience of the contributing authors. Among the topics covered are assessment, exercise monitoring, the use of music, safety, teaching skills and maintaining physical...
This book provides physiotherapists and exercise professionals with a comprehensive resource on the exercise components and skills of constructing and...
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301,96 zł |
Men's Health: Perspectives, Diversity and Paradox
ISBN: 9780632052882 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With recent social trends and developments in health care policy, the health of men is high on the political agenda.
Men's Health: Perspectives, Diversity and Paradox examines and clarifies what is known about the socialisation of boys and men. The book shows how this influences the ways in which they maintain their health, how they respond to illness, and why they do or do not seek help. It also includes personal stories and poems by men. The text reviews research on health, gender and masculinity, and describes recent research on the health of men at work. The research forms the... With recent social trends and developments in health care policy, the health of men is high on the political agenda.
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388,31 zł |
Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History
ISBN: 9780691006659 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945. How could men and women who were trained to care for their patients come to kill or assist in murder or mistreatment? This is the central question pursued by Bronwyn McFarland-Icke as she details the lives of nurses from the beginning of the Weimar Republic through the years of National Socialist rule. Rather than examine what the Party did or did... This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with ment... |
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588,06 zł |
Teaching about Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity: Exercises and Planned Activities
ISBN: 9780761906957 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book of structured activities for use in teaching about culture, ethnicity and diversity comprises easy-to-use classroom and training exercises that are both engaging to participants and effective as learning tools. The contributors offer tools to those teachers and trainers who strive to increase understanding of and communication between ethnic and racial groups. The book is arranged so that users may easily draw upon the activities to involve students and bring abstract concepts into the realm of the students' own experiences.
This book of structured activities for use in teaching about culture, ethnicity and diversity comprises easy-to-use classroom and training exercises t...
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620,38 zł |
Qualitative Research in Health: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780761961048 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a practical introduction to the main theories and methods of qualitative research for the health sciences. The book covers the range of methods, including ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, biography, action research, historical research, discourse analysis and more.
Offers a practical introduction to the main theories and methods of qualitative research for the health sciences. The book covers the range of methods...
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220,42 zł |
Signs and Symptoms
ISBN: 9780781770439 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring a uniquely visual two-page-spread design that is great for rapid reference or review, In a Page Signs & Symptoms, Second Edition provides a quick overview of the 100 disorders and medical issues most commonly encountered on the wards or in the clinic. Each problem is presented on a two-page spread in boxes with consistent headings including introduction; etiology, pathophysiology and risk factors; patient presentation; differential diagnosis; diagnostic evaluation; treatment and management; and prognosis and complications. Bulleted key points appear under each heading. This... Featuring a uniquely visual two-page-spread design that is great for rapid reference or review, In a Page Signs & Symptoms, Second Edition provides... |
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311,68 zł |
How to Get Families More Involved in the Nursing Home: Four Programs That Work and Why
ISBN: 9780789002051 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health care providers and social workers at nursing homes may feel they have little time to design programs for the family members of their residents, yet you will learn in How to Get Families More Involved in the Nursing Home that the benefits of such programs are immense and the time investment will pay off. You learn of four family programs that can be put into use immediately or can be changed or expanded to fit the needs of an individual setting. In addition, you will witness how educational workshops, support groups, family councils, and holiday socials increase family involvement in...
Health care providers and social workers at nursing homes may feel they have little time to design programs for the family members of their residents,...
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343,47 zł |
Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care: Needs, Strategies, Ethics
ISBN: 9780789002167 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients'and families'concerns about nutrition and hydration. Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care is a comprehensive resource that provides hands-on practical information that readers can use in everyday hospice practice. The chapters identify problems, solutions, and ethical issues of nutrition and hydration in hospice care. The contributing authors provide the way for health care professionals, especially those in nursing, dietary, and pharmacy units, to jointly and effectively manage troublesome...
This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients'and families'concerns about nutrition and hydration. N...
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184,53 zł |
Long-Term Care in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Around the Asia-Pacific Rim
ISBN: 9780789019325 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop organized by the Center of Aging at the U. of Hong Kong, which aimed to canvas recent developments in long-term care for the elderly in Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. An effort was made to select contr
This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop organized by the Center of Aging at the U. of Hong Kong, which aimed to canvas recent developments ...
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692,17 zł |
The Clinical Management of Elder Abuse
ISBN: 9780789019462 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn to detect elder abuse--and provide the help that your neglected or abused elderly clients need
Even to clinicians experienced in managing difficult client situations, elder abuse is perplexing, complex, and ethically charged. This kind of abuse can be hard to detect, with its subtle manifestations and indicators that could just as easily reflect other problems or illnesses. It can seem impossible to control, particularly when the victim refuses help or denies the seriousness of mistreatment. Moreover, decision-making when dealing with interventions for elder abuse is rarely easy... Learn to detect elder abuse--and provide the help that your neglected or abused elderly clients need
Even to clinicians experienced in managing ... |
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871,62 zł |
Essential Psychology
ISBN: 9780792389576 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While this book is concerned with psychology let no reader believe that after studying it he or she will be a budding psychologist. Only those elements of psychology which are central to the adequate functioning of the professional in the health and allied caring services are covered. Many popular topics, such as intelligence, memory, concept formation, will not be found within the covers of this book. The objective of this book is to enable those professionals who have responsibility for the well-being, health and care of others to develop insight into and to become more empathetic to the...
While this book is concerned with psychology let no reader believe that after studying it he or she will be a budding psychologist. Only those element...
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385,52 zł |
They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II
ISBN: 9780803276277 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the insight and intimacy of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could have made more money as civilians, thousands chose to leave the security of home to care for the young men who went off to war. They were not saints but vibrant women whose performance changed both military and civilian nursing. Kathi Jackson's account follows army and navy nurses from the...
With the insight and intimacy of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during W...
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89,43 zł |
Improving Care in the Nursing Home: Comprehensive Reviews of Clinical Research
ISBN: 9780803943070 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAKE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAKE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
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487,66 zł |
Measurements for Long-Term Care: A Guidebook for Nurses
ISBN: 9780803953888 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This single-volume source for long-term care research instruments brings together more than 100 of the most frequently used (and some of the most difficult to find) measurement tools, providing users with immediate access to a wealth of useful information. The book includes abbreviations and acronyms, an index of instrument authors' names, an index of nursing diagnoses and related instruments, an index of subjects (client disorders and problems) and an index of instrument titles.
This single-volume source for long-term care research instruments brings together more than 100 of the most frequently used (and some of the most diff...
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733,18 zł |
Health Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780803973671 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please update Sage UK and Sage INDIA addresses on imprint page.
Please update Sage UK and Sage INDIA addresses on imprint page.
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528,10 zł |
A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
ISBN: 9780812235029 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thousands of women have served in the Nurse Corps of the U. S. Army. Many of them worked in war zones, where their extraordinary courage, resourcefulness, and toughness first astonished and then won the respect of male officers. Their skill and dedication helped to save tens of thousands of lives and made the Army Nurse Corps an essential part of the American military establishment. Until now, there has been no comprehensive work that tells that story. In this book Mary Sarnecky describes the major stages in the development of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, discusses the political and... Thousands of women have served in the Nurse Corps of the U. S. Army. Many of them worked in war zones, where their extraordinary courage, resourcef... |
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426,36 zł |
Intuition and Metacognition in Medical Education: Keys to Developing Expertise
ISBN: 9780826102133 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Mark Quirk, recipient of the 2006 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Excellence in Education award, comes the latest on improving medical education. In this volume, Quirk explores metacognition, the idea that we can think about the way we or other people think, and thus gain a better understanding of ourselves, our own cognitive processes, and the patients we seek to help. Written for medical educators--from medical school faculty to residents--this book will help you teach your students and interns how to extrapolate lessons from experience and integrate learning... From Mark Quirk, recipient of the 2006 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Excellence in Education award, comes the latest on improving medica... |
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329,16 zł |