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Regional Cultures and Mortality in America
ISBN: 9781107079632 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across the contiguous 48 states, populations in states with more activist civic cultures have lower mortality than states that do not follow this model. Several different factors can be pointed to as causes for this discrepancy - net income, class inequality, and the history of settlement in each of the different states and regions. These observations are true of Non-Hispanic Whites and African Americans but not of American Indians, and Hispanics, neither of which is fully integrated into the state political culture and economy in which it resides. In Regional Cultures and Mortality in...
Across the contiguous 48 states, populations in states with more activist civic cultures have lower mortality than states that do not follow this mode...
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Generation Rx: A Story of Dope, Death and America's Opiate Crisis
ISBN: 9781619025530 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?
These are the harrowing questions that plagued Erin Marie Daly after her youngest brother Pat, an OxyContin addict, was found dead of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty. In just a few short years, the powerful prescription painkiller had transformed him from a fun-loving ball of energy to a heroin addict hell-bent on getting his next fix. Yet even as Pat s addiction destroyed his external life, his internal struggle with opiates was far more heart-wrenching.... What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?
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Hiv/AIDS Communication in South Africa: Are You Human?
ISBN: 9781137491282 / Angielski / Twarda / 89 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS.
Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life an...
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201,24 |
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The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance
ISBN: 9781137384928 / Angielski / Twarda / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy.
Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcar...
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805,10 |
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The Thirteenth Step: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
ISBN: 9780231172363 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past thirty years have witnessed a revolution in the science of addiction, yet we still rely on outdated methods of treatment. Expensive new programs for managing addiction are also flourishing, but since they are not based in science, they offer little benefit to people who cannot afford to lose money or faith in their recovery. Clarifying the cutting-edge science of addiction for both practitioners and general readers, The Thirteenth Step pairs stories of real patients with explanations of key concepts relating to their illness. A police chief who disappears on the job...
The past thirty years have witnessed a revolution in the science of addiction, yet we still rely on outdated methods of treatment. Expensive new progr...
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The Realistic Joneses
ISBN: 9780573703102 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Realistic Joneses," we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common than their identical homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin to irrevocably intertwine, the Joneses must decide between their idyllic fantasies and their imperfect realities.
In "The Realistic Joneses," we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common than th...
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Global Epidemiology of Cancer
ISBN: 9781284034455 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 28 Chapters, Global Epidemiology Of Cancer Provides A Basic Overview Of The Most Commonly Occurring Cancers, Their Worldwide Incidence, And Mortality. Designed For The Health Sciences, Particularly Those In Epidemiology, Public Health, And Medicine, This Comprehensive Resource Is Ideal As A Primary Text For An Overview Course Or Seminar On Cancer Or Cancer Epidemiology. Key Features: •Backed With Research And Draws Upon Worldwide Information To Address The Global Landscape Of Cancer. •Offers Clear, Concise Descriptions Of Each Specific Type Of Oncologic Disease As Well As Its...
In 28 Chapters, Global Epidemiology Of Cancer Provides A Basic Overview Of The Most Commonly Occurring Cancers, Their Worldwide Incidence, And Mortali...
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Democracy, Civil Society and Health in India
ISBN: 9781137365743 / Angielski / Twarda / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule. The authors address the key issues that emerge from the country's health situation, speculating on what it will take for low-income groups to begin claiming for better social services
India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic ru...
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Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
ISBN: 9780062130853 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer's Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction. When Meryl Comer's husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease in 1996, she watched as the man who headed hematology and oncology research at the National Institutes of Health started to misplace important documents and forget... Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer's Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly person... |
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Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice: Birthing in a Contemporary Society
ISBN: 9781138015531 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and women s experience of birth. Demonstrating how empathising with women and understanding the context in which they live can affect childbirth outcomes and experiences, this evidence-based text emphasises the importance of compassionate and humane care in midwifery practice. Exploring midwifery as an art, as well as a science, the authors collected here make the case for midwives as professionals working with women rather than as... Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery ... |
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Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice: Birthing in a Contemporary Society
ISBN: 9781138015548 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and women s experience of birth. Demonstrating how empathising with women and understanding the context in which they live can affect childbirth outcomes and experiences, this evidence-based text emphasises the importance of compassionate and humane care in midwifery practice. Exploring midwifery as an art, as well as a science, the authors collected here make the case for midwives as professionals working with women rather than as... Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery ... |
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Framing Drug Use: Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime
ISBN: 9781137482235 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime.
This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and cont...
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201,24 |
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Challenges of Aging: Pensions, Retirement and Generational Justice
ISBN: 9781137283160 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading experts from diverse disciplines describe the fundamental impact demographic aging has on pension systems, on the concepts of retirement and old age, and on the balance of generational justice.
Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading ex...
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201,24 |
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Hope in Health: The Socio-Politics of Optimism
ISBN: 9780230361935 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psychological and biomedical perspectives. Importantly, Hope in Health explores how hope manifests and is sustained in various arenas of health, medicine and healthcare.
Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psy...
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Shaping Global Health Policy: Global Social Policy Actors and Ideas about Health Care Systems
ISBN: 9781137308887 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.
Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global s...
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201,24 |
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Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies
ISBN: 9781137402233 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation that serves the improvement of the human condition in a respectful and sustainable way.
This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degr...
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The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs
ISBN: 9781137523280 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal conditions into medical problems and brings out the risks that flow from this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo effect. The lingering effect of revoked diagnoses, the over-detection of lumps through breast self-examination, the occurrence in placebo groups of adverse events listed in consent forms, and the persistence of labeled as opposed to unlabeled symptoms-all illustrate the kind of signal distortion likely in a...
The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal conditions into medical problems and brings out the risks that flow from this inflationary pr...
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Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine
ISBN: 9781138823907 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures, while also considering the social, political, religious, symbolic, and metaphysical dimensions underpinning illness. Investigating how Hispanic and Lusophone writers have reflected on the personal and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses,... This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin... |
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857,10 |
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Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War
ISBN: 9780190263478 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over. Stimulants (e.g. alcohol, cocaine, and amphetamines) have been used to temporarily create better soldiers by that improving stamina, overcoming sleeplessness, eliminating fatigue, and increasing...
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throu...
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Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis
ISBN: 9781479814152 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic's Gender Revolution documentary with Katie Couric A personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communities Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological Association
When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with... Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic's Gender Revolution documentary with Katie Couric A personal, compelling perspective on ...
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