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The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria
ISBN: 9781610391900 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A small cadre of scientists--collaborators and competitors--are determined to develop a vaccine for malaria, a feat most tropical disease experts have long considered impossible. Skepticism, doubt, and a host of logistical and financial obstacles dog their quest. Success may ultimately elude them. Why, and how, do they persist? The kind of person who decides to combat malaria must have a very rare combination of attributes: dogged enough to keep going when results are slow; independent enough to continue, often alone, when other, more popular, causes distract attention from their work;...
A small cadre of scientists--collaborators and competitors--are determined to develop a vaccine for malaria, a feat most tropical disease experts have...
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95,59 zł |
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Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body
ISBN: 9781446208946 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursing and cultural studies.
The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursin...
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766,89 zł |
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Drug Policies, Addiction & Eradication
ISBN: 9781612090856 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents and discusses research in the study of drug policies, the effects of substance abuse and addiction and the efforts being made to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. Topics discussed include the International Drug Control Policy; Mexico's drug cartels; U.S. assistance to curve the flow of illicit drugs being brought into the country; self-regulation in the alcohol industry and alcohol treatment.
This book presents and discusses research in the study of drug policies, the effects of substance abuse and addiction and the efforts being made to st...
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646,84 zł |
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Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
ISBN: 9780520274013 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black & Blue penetrates the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about...
Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects t...
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137,29 zł |
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Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
ISBN: 9781780526324 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience.
This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditi...
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225,10 zł |
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Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
ISBN: 9780822348603 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In "Drugs for Life," Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but also came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended pharmaceutical industry conferences; spoke with marketers, researchers, doctors, and patients; and surveyed the industry's literature regarding strategies to expand markets for prescription drugs. He...
Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth...
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443,44 zł |
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The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life
ISBN: 9780816674749 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night's sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical opinion, the workplace, and popular culture. In The Slumbering Masses, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer addresses the phenomenon of sleep and sleeplessness in the United States, tracing the influence of medicine and industrial capitalism on the sleeping habits of Americans from the nineteenth century to the present. Before the introduction of... Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night's sleep. Anxieties about not gettin... |
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115,27 zł |
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Sociology for Health Professionals
ISBN: 9781446253014 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sociology is a key topic for all trainee health professionals, but many struggle to see what sociology has to offer. Based on years of experience teaching sociology to healthcare students, Lani Russell has written a truly introductory text which explains the main sociological concepts without jargon or becoming too advanced. Using carefully chosen examples, she shows how health issues are influenced by social phenomena such as class, race or sexuality and the relevance this has for practitioners.
The book includes: -The main sociological concepts relevant to... Sociology is a key topic for all trainee health professionals, but many struggle to see what sociology has to offer. Based on years of experience teac...
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166,89 zł |
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HIV and AIDS, Communication, and Secondary Education in Kenya
ISBN: 9789966734198 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study offers research into the efficacy of HIV and AIDS communication strategies for adolescents, especially with regards to selected secondary schools in Kenya. The study is a useful point of reference to both Kenyan researchers into HIV and AIDS as well as international scholars exploring Africanist perspectives of the socio-cultural dimensions of the pandemic.
The study offers research into the efficacy of HIV and AIDS communication strategies for adolescents, especially with regards to selected secondary sc...
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191,19 zł |
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The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
ISBN: 9781469607306 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "recovery movement" that has grown out of them. Moving from AA's beginnings in the mid-1930s as a men's fellowship that met in church basements to the thoroughly commercialized addiction treatment centers of today, Travis chronicles the development of recovery and examines its relationship to the broad American tradition of self-help, highlighting the roles that gender, mysticism, and bibliotherapy have played in that development.
In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "re...
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205,40 zł |
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Dangerous toilets, dollar menus, dirty looks, and discrimination: A hard look at obesity in America
ISBN: 9781479357482 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During a recent interview on a popular afternoon medical talk show, the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama said that she felt obesity was the number one threat to national security, apparently, in her opinion, surpassing terrorism, weapons of mass destruction in the hands of our enemies, and hate groups, just to name a few. The First Lady's opinion, irrational though it may seem, is a popular one; in fact, obese people are held in such low esteem in this country that prejudice and bigotry against the obese contribute to one of the last bastions of legal discrimination in the...
During a recent interview on a popular afternoon medical talk show, the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama said that she felt obesity was ...
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45,60 zł |
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The War Against Counterfeit Medicne. My Story
ISBN: 9789788431015 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a general agreement that piracy; counterfeiting and passing off are unfair. However, there is often surreptitious - or even open - sympathy for, say, those who purchase counterfeit designer fashions or the latest technical gadgets. The pirate is even sometimes represented as a dared evil hero. In this book, Prof. Dora Nkem Akunyili, Director General of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, presents a unique study of a global phenomenon in which lawbreaking and profiteering prevail at the cost of human health and life - and of the ways in which this...
There is a general agreement that piracy; counterfeiting and passing off are unfair. However, there is often surreptitious - or even open - sympathy f...
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410,52 zł |
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Recreational & Medical Marijuana: Legalization Conflicts & Questions
ISBN: 9781628081145 / Angielski / Miękka / 87 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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443,38 zł |
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Design to Survive: 9 Ways an Ikea Approach Can Fix Health Care & Save Lives
ISBN: 9781614484332 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. spends the most in the world on health care and research, yet our outcomes are among the worst in industrialized nations. Hundreds of thousands die every year from medical harm.
Imagine a world where health care took a page from the IKEA furniture company---where expenses were streamlined, quality was predictable, customers participated, and everyone shared in the cost savings. Through colorful analogies, stories from families and top doctors, and the author s quest to find out what happened to her own father, Design to Survive serves up key strategies for patients,... The U.S. spends the most in the world on health care and research, yet our outcomes are among the worst in industrialized nations. Hundreds of thousan...
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78,03 zł |
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Framing Fat: Competing Constructions in Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9780813560915 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epidemic, however, suggests that there are multiple perspectives on the fat body, not all of which view obesity as a health hazard. Alongside public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advertisers of the fashion-beauty complex, food industry advocates at the Center for Consumer Freedom, and activists at the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
Framing Fat takes a bird's-eye view of how... According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epi...
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182,60 zł |
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Framing Fat: Competing Constructions in Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9780813560922 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epidemic, however, suggests that there are multiple perspectives on the fat body, not all of which view obesity as a health hazard. Alongside public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advertisers of the fashion-beauty complex, food industry advocates at the Center for Consumer Freedom, and activists at the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
Framing Fat takes a bird's-eye view of how... According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epi...
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699,07 zł |
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Interculturele Belastbaarheidsbepaling: Een Zoetwatervis Is Geen Zoutwatervis
ISBN: 9789031364459 / Holenderski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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222,20 zł |
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Health Communication and Breast Cancer Among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength
ISBN: 9780739185155 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength addresses how the discourse of strength constructs the identity of Black women even during times of chronic illness through the lens of Black feminist thought and womanist ideology. In doing so, Madlock Gatison explores how the narratives surrounding pink ribbon awareness and survivorship culture, religion and spirituality, and the myth of the strong Black woman impact Black female breast cancer survivors self-perceptions, views others had of them, and their ability to express their needs...
Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength addresses how the discourse of strength constr...
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455,79 zł |
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Individualized Medicine between Hype and Hope : Exploring Ethical and Societal Challenges for Healthcare
ISBN: 9783643902986 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Individualized medicine" is a catchphrase currently used to denote efforts in medical research and practice to establish tailored healthcare. The vision of "personalized" medicine has proved to be highly ambivalent, reflecting hype and hope - compared to the great expectations only very few applications have been realized up to now. The contributions to this volume discuss the challenges for patients, doctors, and the healthcare system and examine ethical and societal issues arising from one the most promising and most controversial developments in medical science and biotechnology. (Series:...
"Individualized medicine" is a catchphrase currently used to denote efforts in medical research and practice to establish tailored healthcare. The vis...
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169,96 zł |
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Mad Matters
ISBN: 9781551305349 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An important new movement is sweeping through the western world...The 'mad,' the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves." Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, it presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrised and challenges dominant...
In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An important new movement is sweeping through the western world...The 'mad,' the oppressed, the ex-inma...
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408,72 zł |
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