The Garbage Menace
ISBN: 9789768142764 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Garbage Menace ̶ what is it, how is it hazardous, what can we do about it? The Garbage Menace is the first book in Footprint: A Belizean Environmental Series aimed at enlightening Belizeans about the issues affecting their health and environment. It shakes you to your foundations at first, and leaves you wondering if all is lost. The book then ends with loads of ideas about how we can make our country, and the world, a better place to live. It is easy reading with cartoons by the author.
The Garbage Menace ̶ what is it, how is it hazardous, what can we do about it? The Garbage Menace is the first book in Footprint: A Belizean Envi...
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64,26 zł |
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
ISBN: 9780761189251 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times bestseller. "A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes."--People A New York Times bestseller. "A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes."--People |
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81,35 zł |
The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects
ISBN: 9781491771303 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects provides a compact summary of the Ebola virus, outlining its nature, history, epidemiology, and methods of treatment. In addition, the work examines the context of the disease's outbreak by describing the people, politics, and policies in West Africa before, during, and after the recent outbreak. Finally, chapters summarize and explore the ethical issues that arise in pursuing treatments and discuss methods for improving control and prevention of additional outbreaks. Dr. Felix I. Ikuomola, a medical doctor... The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects provides a compact summary of the Ebola virus, outlining its nature, hist... |
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76,90 zł |
Inquiring Into Animal Enhancement: Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?
ISBN: 9781137542465 / Angielski / Twarda / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.
This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual iss...
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194,97 zł |
Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms
ISBN: 9781137453877 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experience of academics and professionals who constructively explore ways to integrate research evidence and practitioner knowledge into current and future initiatives.
This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experi...
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292,48 zł |
Publics and Their Health Systems: Rethinking Participation
ISBN: 9781137467164 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stewart draws on a case study of Scotland's NHS to argue that debates about citizen participation in health systems are disproportionately dominated by techniques of invited participation. Rethinking participation takes us into the realms of representative democracy, contentious protest politics and individual citizens' micro-level tactics.
Stewart draws on a case study of Scotland's NHS to argue that debates about citizen participation in health systems are disproportionately dominated b...
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331,49 zł |
Organs for Sale: An Ethnographic Examination of the International Organ Trade
ISBN: 9781137539847 / Angielski / Twarda / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surgeons in the Philippines. Utilizing unique source material she depicts a rapidly growing organ market characterized by both advanced medical technology and human trafficking.
In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surgeons...
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233,97 zł |
Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America
ISBN: 9780813062693 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Fascinating yet sobering, this volume highlights the important role that social and political causes of poverty and poor living conditions, beyond the presence of infectious pathogens themselves, play in disease epidemics and high mortality.---Megan A. Perry, editor of Bioarchaeology and Behavior: The People of the Ancient Near East
-Hutchinson effectively argues that disease is not an event but a process and then wonderfully illustrates how the interaction of culture and illness shaped the history of the eastern seaboard from the sixteenth through the nineteenth... -Fascinating yet sobering, this volume highlights the important role that social and political causes of poverty and poor living conditions, beyond th...
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515,79 zł |
The Behavioral Health Specialist in Primary Care: Skills for Integrated Practice
ISBN: 9780826129871 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patients with chronic conditions often need psychosocial support and brief counseling to help them make the lifestyle and behavioral changes required to prevent disease complications. This innovative text, with contributions from respected clinicians and researchers in all arenas of behavioral health, provides comprehensive training for all health professionals√>=including those in medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, and clinical and health psychology√>=who desire targeted evidence-based training in behavioral health skills. Rich case examples drawn from typical... Patients with chronic conditions often need psychosocial support and brief counseling to help them make the lifestyle and behavioral changes requir... |
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295,05 zł |
Politics in the Making of Hiv/AIDS in South Africa
ISBN: 9781137505002 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying the latest social theory from science and technology studies, this book offers a novel rethinking of the dynamics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. It demonstrates how political struggles, poverty, and specific policy and health promotion practices have materially shaped the South African HIV epidemic in specific and often very damaging ways.
Applying the latest social theory from science and technology studies, this book offers a novel rethinking of the dynamics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa...
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194,97 zł |
Exploring Aging Masculinities
ISBN: 9781137527561 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them. Conventionally, in Western cultures, they are seen as inevitably in decline. The book challenges these distorted images through a detailed analysis of aging men's life stories.
This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them. Conventionally, in W...
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175,48 zł |
Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms
ISBN: 9781137453860 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experience of academics and professionals who constructively explore ways to integrate research evidence and practitioner knowledge into current and future initiatives.
This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experi...
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428,99 zł |
Urbanization and Public Health in China
ISBN: 9781783268542 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic achievement are largely ignored in commentaries on the subject.Urbanization and Public Health in China seeks to redress this imbalance by bringing together academics and researchers from across China and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on public health issues resulting from urbanization. The analyses focus on issues of unequal access to health services by the most vulnerable groups: the elderly and rural-to-urban migrants. The book explores these issues through demographic,...
Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic achievement are largely ignored in co...
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683,03 zł |
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
ISBN: 9781501702303 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold soon to become the world's largest cholera epidemic in modern times. In a country that had never before reported cholera, the epidemic mysteriously and simultaneously appeared in river communities of central Haiti, eventually triggering nearly 800,000 cases and 9,000 deaths. What had caused the first cases of cholera in Haiti in recorded history? Who or what was the deadly agent of origin? Why did it explode in the agricultural-rich delta of the Artibonite River? When answers... In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold soon to become the world's large... |
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183,50 zł |
Tomcat
ISBN: 9781848425163 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the not-too-distant future, the world is better than ever. Diseases and disorders have been wiped out. But Jess doesn't belong. She slipped through the net and there's something dangerous in her DNA, something that must be 'cured'. Charlie is watching Jess. He'll do whatever it takes to keep society safe.
In the not-too-distant future, the world is better than ever. Diseases and disorders have been wiped out. But Jess doesn't belong. She slipped through...
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58,97 zł |
The Applied Anthropology of Obesity: Prevention, Intervention, and Identity
ISBN: 9781498512633 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies affecting production, distribution, and consumption of food locally and globally. The Applied Anthropology of Obesity: Prevention, Intervention, and Identity advances understanding of the many cultural factors underlying increased global obesity prevalence. This collection of chapters showcase the...
The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as...
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472,16 zł |
Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
ISBN: 9780813574394 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio using healthy children--55,000 healthy children--revealing how this long-forgotten incident cleared the path for Salk's later trial. Mawdsley describes how, in the early 1950s, Dr. William Hammon and...
Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled m...
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300,74 zł |
Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
ISBN: 9780295998077 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit" identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity. Prior to contact with European settlers, most Native American tribes held their two-spirit members in high esteem, even considering them spiritually advanced. However, after contact - and religious conversion... Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity an... |
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479,14 zł |
Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
ISBN: 9780295998503 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit" identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity. Prior to contact with European settlers, most Native American tribes held their two-spirit members in high esteem, even considering them spiritually advanced. However, after contact - and religious conversion... Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity an... |
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132,48 zł |
Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns
ISBN: 9780226382159 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate people to buy a product, support a cause, vote for a candidate, or take active steps to improve their health. But once these campaigns leave the controlled environments of focus groups, advertising agencies, and stakeholder meetings to circulate, the public interprets and distorts the campaigns in ways their designers never intended or dreamed. In...
We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Design...
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166,33 zł |