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Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
ISBN: 9780767917346 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "You are a little soul carrying around a corpse." --Epictetus
"Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow." --Matthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative expose of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for... "You are a little soul carrying around a corpse." --Epictetus "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow." --Matthew 24:28
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Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture
ISBN: 9780791462324 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectification is an important element in this phenomenon, the explosive growth of "makeover culture" can be understood as a process of both abjection (ridding ourselves of the unwanted) and identification (joining the community of what Julia Kristeva calls "clean and proper bodies"). Drawing from the advertisement and advocacy of body makeovers on television,...
Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-impro...
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Cosmetic Surgery: The Cutting Edge of Commercial Medicine in America
ISBN: 9780813528601 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cosmetic surgery is big business. With demand rising, this commercial medical practice has become a modern body custom. To explain the emergence and growth of this demand, Deborah A. Sullivan looks beyond the cultural imperatives of appearance and examines the market dynamics inherent in the business and politics of cosmetic surgery. In so doing, she also considers the effect of commercialization on the medical profession.After reviewing prevailing beauty ideals, Sullivan looks at the social, psychological, and economic rewards and penalties resulting from the way we look. Following a...
Cosmetic surgery is big business. With demand rising, this commercial medical practice has become a modern body custom. To explain the emergence and g...
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Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture
ISBN: 9780813540481 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on years of research, her personal experience with cosmetic surgery, analysis of newspaper articles and television shows, and in-depth interviews with surgeons, psychiatrists, lawyers, judges, and others, Pitts-Taylor brings new perspectives to the promotion of extreme makeovers on television, the medicalization of surgery addiction, the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic. While many feel that cosmetic surgery is a deeply personal choice and that its pathology is rooted in the individual psyche, Pitts-Taylor makes a compelling...
Drawing on years of research, her personal experience with cosmetic surgery, analysis of newspaper articles and television shows, and in-depth intervi...
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The Encyclopedia of Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery
ISBN: 9780816062850 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty dedicated to the reconstruction of facial and body defects due to birth disorders, trauma, burns, and disease. The most common plastic surgery procedures include tumor removal, scar revision, hand surgery, and breast reduction, while the most popular cosmetic surgeries are Botox(R), breast augmentation, chemical peel, dermabrasion, liposuction, and rhinoplasty. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, nearly 11 million cosmetic surgery procedures and more than 5 million reconstructive plastic surgeries were performed in 2006, and the...
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty dedicated to the reconstruction of facial and body defects due to birth disorders, trauma, burns, and disease....
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Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer
ISBN: 9780824708528 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text covers tumescent liposuction and fat transfer techniques and how they have developed into extremely safe, reliable, and efficacious procedures. Thirty-five respected surgeons discuss the safety of tumescent liposuction techniques, an anatomical approach to tumescent liposuction surgery, and the latest and greatest surgical tips from the experts.
This text covers tumescent liposuction and fat transfer techniques and how they have developed into extremely safe, reliable, and efficacious procedur...
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Surgical Techniques for Cutaneous Scar Revision
ISBN: 9780824719739 / Angielski / Twarda / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume supplies information on new and innovative methods and techniques of cutaneous scar revision and removal. It discusses the prevention of postoperative complications; the biomedical properties of skin; elective incisions, excisions, and scar revisions; and more. There are over 500 photographs, drawings and tables that are designed to clarify and illustrate operative techniques step-by-step.
This volume supplies information on new and innovative methods and techniques of cutaneous scar revision and removal. It discusses the prevention of p...
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Soft-Tissue Surgery of the Craniofacial Region
ISBN: 9780824728939 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether from trauma, congenital deformity, or disease, many patients can present with disfiguring and debilitating facial defects. This reference presents a range of expertise on soft-tissue surgery of the craniofacial region for improved function and enhanced cosmetic appearance. Covering the latest technologies available, this source includes chapters on laser imaging, burns, cleft palate, and facial paralysis.
Whether from trauma, congenital deformity, or disease, many patients can present with disfiguring and debilitating facial defects. This reference pres...
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Facial Plastic, Reconstructive and Trauma Surgery
ISBN: 9780824745950 / Angielski / Twarda / 1165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores reconstructive surgery for congenital, traumatic and post-surgical facial and neck defects. Key chapters discuss wound healing, flap survival and tissue augmentation and the reconstruction of the mandible, tongue, pharynx and maxilla.
This text explores reconstructive surgery for congenital, traumatic and post-surgical facial and neck defects. Key chapters discuss wound healing, fla...
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Journeys Through Hell: Stories of Burn Survivors' Reconstruction of Self and Identity
ISBN: 9780847678921 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on detailed interviews with twenty adult burn survivors, Journeys Through Hell examines self, identity and social reality. Stouffer integrates theoretical perspectives with the survivors' own words to show how trauma affects the survivor's worldview, how support and acceptance are achieved, and how such an achievement is embedded within a social process involving not only the survivor but also doctors, nurses, therapists, friends and family members.
Based on detailed interviews with twenty adult burn survivors, Journeys Through Hell examines self, identity and social reality. Stouffer integrates t...
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Nutrition and Wound Healing
ISBN: 9780849317316 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With mounting evidence regarding the role of poor nutrition in the development of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, it is no secret that appropriate nutrition is crucial to optimal health. Achieving the correct balance of elements provides the body with the ability to adapt to a shifting and often hazardous environment. Never is this capability more important than when a wound is sustained and the body's first line of defense, the skin, is breached. Nutrition and Wound Healing describes the importance of several nutrients, both macronutrients and micronutrients, and...
With mounting evidence regarding the role of poor nutrition in the development of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, it is no secret...
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Biological Performance of Materials: Fundamentals of Biocompatibility, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9780849339592 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on principles of biological performance at a relatively fundamental level Examines the concept of biocompatibility and the arguments for the broader concept of biological performance Offers references, test methods, and approaches for establishing the biological performances of materials Tabulates generic materials properties Explores approaches for detecting clinical issues associated with biomaterials in animal models and in patients Covers the design, qualification, standardization, and regulation of implant materials Bioengineers need a thorough grounding in biocompatibility - the...
Focuses on principles of biological performance at a relatively fundamental level Examines the concept of biocompatibility and the arguments for the b...
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Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery
ISBN: 9780849340512 / Angielski / Twarda / 726 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering the gamut of new technologies and advancements related to limb lengthening and reconstruction, this source offers authoritative contributions from key opinion leaders on acute trauma; post-traumatic reconstruction; tumors; stature lengthening; and post-operative care provides expert surgical approaches for the hip, knee, foot, and ankle stands as a clear compendium of treatment guidelines for practitioners specializing in limb lengthening, reconstruction, and deformity correction includes tables outlining the authors' classification and treatment recommendations contains real-world...
Covering the gamut of new technologies and advancements related to limb lengthening and reconstruction, this source offers authoritative contributions...
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Indwelling Neural Implants: Strategies for Contending with the IN VIVO Environment
ISBN: 9780849393624 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite enormous advances made in the development of external effector prosthetics over the last quarter century, significant questions remain, especially those concerning signal degradation that occurs with chronically implanted neuroelectrodes.
Offering contributions from pioneering researchers in neuroprosthetics and tissue repair, Indwelling Neural Implants: Strategies for Contending with the In Vivo Environment examines many of these challenges, paying particular attention to how the healing of tissues surrounding an implant can impact the intended use of a device. The... Despite enormous advances made in the development of external effector prosthetics over the last quarter century, significant questions remain, especi...
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The Bionic Human: Health Promotion for People with Implanted Prosthetic Devices
ISBN: 9780896039599 / Angielski / Twarda / 724 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An integrated survey of best practices for the management of patients with implanted prosthetic devices and an insightful examination of the epidemiological, societal, and policy issues associated with their use. The devices covered range from breast, penile, vascular, and joint prostheses to cochlear, ossicular, and dental implants, and include cerebrospinal fluid shunts, cardiac valves, stents, and pacemakers. For each device, the authors consider its pros and cons, detail the best current strategies to keep implanted patients healthy, and evaluate the latest and most promising new...
An integrated survey of best practices for the management of patients with implanted prosthetic devices and an insightful examination of the epidemiol...
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It Ain't Over 'Till the Thin Lady Sings: How to Make Your Weight-Loss Surgery a Lasting Success
ISBN: 9780897934916 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This sensitive, sympathetic book helps readers determine whether or not weight-loss surgery is right for them. Author Michelle Ritchie shares both her personal journey as a successful weight-loss surgery patient and her professional advice as an experienced weight-loss counselor. In sometimes funny, sometimes painful prose, she discusses her life before and after surgery and bluntly analyzes her own complicity in her obesity. As she describes her four-year battle to maintain her new, healthy weight, Ritchie emphasizes personal responsibility, reminding readers that surgery is not a quick-fix...
This sensitive, sympathetic book helps readers determine whether or not weight-loss surgery is right for them. Author Michelle Ritchie shares both her...
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Transplantation and Blood Transfusion: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1983, Organized by the Red Cross Blo
ISBN: 9780898386868 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1983, organized by the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1983, organized by the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe
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Enzyme Activation in Blood-Perfused Artificial Organs
ISBN: 9780898387049 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proceedings of an interdisciplinary meeting, sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, as advised by the Committee on Medical and Public Health Research
Proceedings of an interdisciplinary meeting, sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, as advised by the Committee on Medical and Publi...
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Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture
ISBN: 9781403912992 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compete to define which procedures can be offered and how. Through its representation, cosmetic surgery impacts on us all, not just those who go 'under the knife'. This book investigates the ways in which cosmetic surgery is shaping gender, and in the process, it questions contemporary cultural studies assumptions about how we read the media.
Women's magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compet...
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Asian Facial Cosmetic Surgery
ISBN: 9781416002901 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique how-to atlas presents in-depth, detailed, richly illustrated coverage of cosmetic surgical procedures that apply specifically to the Asian patient. Dr. Park, a pioneer in this field, along with Dr. Toriumi and a host of global experts present procedures for and pitfalls of cosmetic surgery in the Asian population. Inside, you'll find coverage of techniques not typically found in other Asian cosmetic surgery texts, including the single suture technique and the debulking technique for double eyelid surgery ? anatomy for maxillofacial surgery ? premaxillary reduction ? and more.
This unique how-to atlas presents in-depth, detailed, richly illustrated coverage of cosmetic surgical procedures that apply specifically to the Asian...
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