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Aging with Dignity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9789188168900
Pub Date: 05 May 2017
Description:
Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. The worldwide population is aging and countries are facing ongoing challenges in caring for their elderly. Will countries be able to overcome these challenges?
Battlefield Surgeon Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813167237
Pub Date: 20 May 2016
Series: American Warriors Series
Illustrations: 74 b&w photos
Description:
In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912--1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment.
Environment, Society and the Black Death Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781785700545
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social factors pushed Europe into a deep crisis that lasted for more than a century. The plague and the crisis, and in particular their short-term and long-term consequences for society, have been the matter of continuous debate.
Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780819575890
Pub Date: 06 Oct 2015
Illustrations: 33 facsimiles, 25 illus.
Description:
Prior to 1972, visitors to Connecticut state mental hospitals might have noticed a six-year-old chronically depressed girl crouching in the corner of a chaotic cafeteria, or a seven-year-old autistic boy sleeping on a cot next to a seventy-year-old schizophrenic man. Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth tells the story of one of the first milieu based therapeutic hospitals specializing in children's care, located in Middletown, Connecticut. Richard J.
Behind the Mask Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781910742044
Pub Date: 19 Sep 2015
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
This is the story of a boy from a small Irish village who became an adventurer, a humanitarian and a doctor to the stars. Part travelogue, part thriller, part celebrity tell-all, you’ve never read anything quite like it.Patrick Treacy grew up in rural Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
Born to be Beautiful Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781909718869
Pub Date: 19 Apr 2015
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Pregnancy can be both mentally and physically taxing. During her own pregnancy, Donna Kennedy developed a plan to stay in shape and confident while still being healthy. In Born to be Beautiful, Kennedy shares this plan with readers to show expecting mothers that it is possible to have a healthy baby without sacrificing the body you want.
Baby Ava Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781907593505
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2015
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Baby Ava tells the story of two parents' struggle to conceive, beginning with Caroline’s life-threatening illness and covering their journey to a surrogacy clinic in India, the birth of their daughter by a surrogate mother, and their subsequent battle with the authorities to get an Irish passport for little Ava. Any couple’s decision to have a baby is a momentous occasion, but for Caroline and Niall O’Flaherty, this decision brought them down a road of emotional and physical stress and heartache. As Caroline was unable to carry a baby to full term, the pair unsuccessfully explored IVF treatment and adoption, before finding a glimmer of hope through Dr Patel's Infertility Clinic in India.
Memoirs of a Medical Maverick Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9781907593024
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2015
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Memoirs of a Medical Maverick offers a unique and often surprising insight into the rich, varied and extraordinary life of one of the most prominent, respected and outspoken medical men in Ireland. As the son of a well-known politician and national military hero, some might think Risteárd Mulcahy's life would have been one of comfort and privilege - but they'd be wrong. A refreshingly candid memoir, Medical Maverick charts the personal and professional life of a true Irish progressive.
Memoirs of a Medical Meverick Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9781907593079
Pub Date: 19 Feb 2015
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
This is the autobiography of one of the most renowned and ground-breaking physicians Ireland has ever produced, Risteárd Mulcahy - internationally-renowned cardiologist and health campaigner, researcher, historian, exercise enthusiast and environmentalist. Medical Maverick offers a unique and often surprising insight into the rich, varied and extraordinary life of one of the most prominent, respected and outspoken medical men in Ireland. As the son of a well-known politician and national military hero, some might think Risteárd Mulcahy's life would have been one of comfort and privilege - but they'd be wrong.
Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 446
ISBN: 9781782972358
Pub Date: 16 Sep 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources.
RRP: £65.00
AIDS and the Social Sciences Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780813155098
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
Though more than 150,000 AIDS-related deaths have been reported worldwide and between 5 and 10 million people are now infected with its precursor, HIV-1, the deadly and relatively new AIDS virus is still a mystery. AIDS and the Social Sciences: Common Threads, an enlightening examination of the AIDS epidemic from the viewpoints of various social sciences, provides us with clues to that mystery. The essays' original research and firsthand accounts from social scientists offer an excellent overview of the research agendas and directions for a disease that is an increasing presence in our society.
Childhood Asthma Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781907593000
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2014
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Peter Greally first encountered asthma as a young boy when he would wake in the middle of the night, gasping for air. He was brought to an eminent professor of pediatrics, who proclaimed that his symptoms were due to anxiety. Eventually, one morning after such an episode, a young, enlightened family doctor saw him and diagnosed asthma.
Is the Health Service for Healing Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781905483150
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2014
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
This candid examination by campaigner, Irish Heart Foundation founder and former St Vincent's consultant cardiologist Risteárd Mulcahy looks back and forward at the Irish health system and its evolution, current difficulties and probable future state. Is The Health Service for Healing? is an honest and often critical examination of the way the Irish health system has evolved and the difficulties it finds itself in now.
Medicine, Healing and Performance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781782971580
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w illustrations
Description:
Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick.
Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781782971894
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the diseases identified. Such assemblages represent the cumulative effects of human attitudes, decisions and influences regarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect and exploitation of animals which result in a range of conditions, non-infectious diseases and injuries that can be recognised on ancient skeletal material.
Chimes of Time Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789088900945
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists - many of whom are a rare assemble of outstanding academics and clinicians - with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes. It provides a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, many contributions self-confessional, disclosing details of their own personal pain and suffering with critical life events including either physical or psychological illnesses, and a description of their own resources and strengths.