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Contemporary Public Health Cover Contemporary Public Health Cover
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Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813141237
Pub Date: 07 Dec 2012
Illustrations: 20 figures, 11 tables
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813180779
Pub Date: 27 Jul 2021
Description:
Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr.
History of Organ Transplantation, A Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 560
ISBN: 9780822944133
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2012
Description:
A History of Organ Transplantation is a comprehensive and ambitious exploration of transplant surgery—which, surprisingly, is one of the longest continuous medical endeavors in history. Moreover, no other medical enterprise has had so many multiple interactions with other fields, including biology, ethics, law, government, and technology. Exploring the medical, scientific, and surgical events that led to modern transplant techniques, Hamilton argues that progress in successful transplantation required a unique combination of multiple methods, bold surgical empiricism, and major immunological insights in order for surgeons to develop an understanding of the body's most complex and mysterious mechanisms.
Appalachian Health and Well-Being Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780813135861
Pub Date: 20 Apr 2012
Illustrations: 5 maps, 5 figures, 24 tables
Description:
Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and the public lacks information about both their healthcare needs and about the resources communities have developed to meet those needs.In Appalachian Health and Well-Being, editors Robert L.
Influenza Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780822961895
Pub Date: 30 Mar 2012
Description:
In 1976, the outbreak of a new strain of swine flu at the Fort Dix, New Jersey, army base prompted an unprecedented inoculation campaign. Some forty-two million Americans were vaccinated as the National Influenza Immunization Program hastened to prevent a pandemic, while the World Health Organization (WHO) took a wait-and-see approach. Fortunately, the virus did not spread, and only one death occurred.
Medicine, Morality & Political Culture Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9789185509737
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2012
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
How did governments in the past act to stop the spread of venereal disease? Did legislation reflect medical opinion, and how did it treat the interests represented by women's or homosexual organisations? How can similarities and differences in national legislation be explained?
Vitamin C for prevention of CRPS-I in traumatology and  orthopaedic surgery Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9789088900099
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2008
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, can occur after a trauma to an arm or leg. CRPS is frequently seen after wrist fractures. The diagnosis of CRPS is based on clinical signs and symptoms.
The Latin Alexander Trallianus Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780907764328
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2006
Series: JRS Monograph
Illustrations: 12 pls.
Description:
The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. The importance of the Latin Alexander in medieval medicine in the West is seen in the richness of both mainstream and secondary, excerpting manuscript-traditions. The tradition is such that the reconstructed Latin text promises to be a much more important witness to the Greek text than the Greek is to the Latin, and of course a reliable edition is a prerequisite for any systematic work on questions such as the provenance of the translation and the Latinity of the translator(s).
RRP: £65.00
Ginseng Dreams Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780813123844
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2006
Illustrations: photos
Description:
For thousands of years, cultures around the world have relied on herbal medicine for healing. Only recently have Americans flocked to once-suspect botanical treatments for the promise of good health and longevity. Among the most treasured of these plants is American ginseng, revered by millions of Asians as a virtual panacea that sustains every system of the human body.
Women Healers and Physicians Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780813109541
Pub Date: 21 Jan 1999
Description:
Women have traditionally been expected to tend the sick as part of their domestic duties; yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as healers outside the household.In this provocative anthology, twelve essays by historians and literary scholars explore the work of women as healers and physicians. The essays range across centuries, nations, and cultures to focus on the ideological and practical obstacles women have faced in the world of medicine.
The Jack Sprat Low-Fat Diet Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780813108568
Pub Date: 26 Oct 1995
Description:
This exciting work by a nationally known fitness and health expert is a realistic and practical guide to a healthier and happier lifestyle. Dr. Bryant Stamford, author of the highly acclaimed Fitness Without Exercise and a syndicated health columnist, and co-author Becca Coffin, a registered nurse, show how making the right choices in diet can improve health and reduce fat while allowing people to enjoy a fuller and more varied diet than other weight-loss plans permit.
Double Vision Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9780819562890
Pub Date: 26 Oct 1994
Description:
When Alexandra Todd's 21-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer, the family embarks on an odyssey that ultimately steers an expansive course between the gleaming technologies of traditional Western medicine and the gentle arts of alternative healing.
Dr. Anderson's High-Fiber Fitness Plan Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813118673
Pub Date: 21 Jun 1994
Illustrations: figures, tables
Description:
This pioneering work by internationally known physician Dr. James W. Anderson is a quick and easy guide to a healthier lifestyle.
Sociomedical Perspectives on Patient Care Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813108193
Pub Date: 10 Aug 1993
Description:
Social change has placed new demands on the practice of medicine, altering almost every aspect of patient care relationships. Just as medicine was encouraged to embrace the biological sciences some 100 years ago, recent directives indicate the importance of the social sciences in understanding biomedical practice. Humanistic challenges call for changes in curative and technological imperatives.
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813117812
Pub Date: 18 Mar 1992
Illustrations: 8 illustrations, 4 tables
Description:
The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 million. The full scale of the epidemic and the tentative, troubled southern response to it are for the first time fully examined by John Ellis in this new book.At the national level, southern congressional leaders fought to establish a strong federal health agency, but they were defeated by the young American Public Health Association, which defended states' rights.
Appalachian Mental Health Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813116143
Pub Date: 29 Sep 1988
Description:
This volume is the first to explore broadly many important theoretical and applied issues concerning the mental health of Appalachians. The authors -- anthropologists, psychologists, social workers and others -- overturn many assumptions held by earlier writers, who have tended to see Appalachia and its people as being dominated by a culture of poverty.While the heterogeneity of the region is acknowledged in the diversity of sub-areas and populations discussed, dominant themes emerge concerning Appalachia as a whole.