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  • Studies of Rheumatoid Disease

    Proceedings of the Third Conference on Research in the Rheumatic Diseases Toronto, February 25-27, 1965

    Series series Heritage
    This publication is derived from the proceedings of the Third Canadian Conference on Research in the Rheumatic Diseases, sponsored jointly by the Canadian Rheumatism Association (the professional organization) and The Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society (the voluntary association). Like the previous conferences on Research in Rheumatic Diseases held in 1955 and 1960, this gathering served as ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Activities for Older People in Care Homes

    A Handbook for Successful Activity Planning

    When tasked with providing activities for older people in care homes, it can be difficult to know where to begin. What constitutes an activity? How can you make sure activities are as positive and person-centred as possible? What can you actually do? Written by an experienced activity coordinator, this handbook is an indispensable companion for others in this role. The author provides useful ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

    We live in a medical fool's paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so.Past--and present--tell us that tropical diseases are as American as the heart attack; yellow fever lived happily for centuries in Philadelphia. Malaria liked it fine in Washington, not to mention in the Carolinas where it took ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Body

    Advanced Exercises in Diagnostic Radiology Series

    This outstanding volume in the AEDR series introduces the basic concepts and limitations of MRI. Features a helpful exercise/study format, and complete coverage of MRI techniques for areas such as the neck, chest, liver/spleen, abdomen, adrenals and kidneys, pelvis, retroperitoneum, soft tissues and skeleton, and much more! ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Leprosy: A Reference Guide for Medical Practitioners, Programme Managers and Leprosy Workers

    by R. S. Misra ...
    In the present volume an assessment of the current situation of leprosy global, regional and highly endemic regions is viewed from various angles. India, being a country with the largest number of patients in the world, has been dealt with in detail, devoting a whole section to the Indian scenario. The technical problems, faced by the clinicians, paramedical workers, laboratory technicians and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Keeping Busy

    A Handbook of Activities for Persons with Dementia

    Although very little can be done to alter the course of dementia, much can be done to maximize the quality of life of people with the condition. Research as well as practical experience suggest that behavior management, especially through programs that provide meaningful and constructive activity, is currently the most effective treatment.In Keeping Busy, James Dowling describes a variety of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A endemia hansênica

    uma perspectiva multidisciplinar

    Usando metodologia originária da antropologia social e cultural, os autores exploram as representações e estratégias de pacientes e dos trabalhadores de saúde envolvidos com a hanseníase e desevendam a trama de relações, preconceitos e medos que essa doença apresenta. Estigma, depressão, negação da enfermidade, desconfiança, lesões orgânicas, mal-estar, tudo o que aparece misturado na demanda de ... Read more

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  • Bodies in Protest

    Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

    Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders

    Metabolic Bone Disease, Third Edition is the new, expanded edition of the classic text, featuring the latest advancements and research information in this fast-moving field. The Third Edition includes the most up-to-date information on molecular mechanisms, basic biology, pathophysiology, and diagnosis and management strategies of metabolic bone disease.Edited by "fathers of the field"An expanded ... Read more

    $350.99 USD

  • Glycoproteins II

    Part II of this excellent work covers proteoglycans and mucins and deals with many more examples of glycoprotein function. It also covers glycoproteins from four more species (slime mold, snails, fish, batracians).The content of the volume is very comprehensive in that most contributors are focussed on discussing, in depth, the wealth of most recent advances in their field, referring to previous ... Read more

    $373.99 USD

  • Doença

    um estudo filosófico

    Trata-se de um conjunto de artigos - cada qual com identidade própria, mas com unidade entre si - de iatrofilosofia (filosofia da medicina). Nele, a problemática complexa do adoecer é abordada a partir da estatística, da lógica, da filosofia analítica de língua inglesa e da hermenêutica de tradição alemã. O resultado é uma espécie de 'genealogia', graças ao recorte original dado pelo autor. É, ... Read more

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  • Doença, sofrimento, perturbação

    perspectivas etnográficas

    Primeiro volume da coleção, reúne trabalhos de 17 autores, abrangendo de maneira plural as perspectivas teóricas da área. Tem como foco principal as abordagens que evidenciam a significação ou a dimensão qualitativa, subjetiva do processo de 'enfermar'. Como o interesse não era o de produzir um volume exíguo de vertentes analíticas, a obra é composta por capítulos que se apóiam em dados oriundos ... Read more

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  • The Osteoporotic Syndrome

    Detection, Prevention, and Treatment

    Edited by Louis V. Avioli ...
    Metabolic bone degeneration (osteoporosis) affects millions of people--primarily postmenopausal women--and is directly responsible for debilitating hip, vertebral, and limb fractures in the elderly. Incorporating advances made within just the past five years, The Osteoporotic Syndrome: Detection, Prevention, and Treatment serves as an up-to-date, practical guide to the major clinical aspects of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Better ways of managing your lifestyle

    Few medical problems are surrounded by as much ignorance and prejudice as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), a diverse illness of uncertain origins and indeterminate duration. Often unfairly dismissed as the 'yuppie flu', this devastating condition afflicts increasing numbers of people throughout the world.Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is written from an unusual perspective-the author is a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness (New Edition)

    Unlike a leg in a cast, invisible chronic illness (ICI) has no observable symptoms.Consequently, people who suffer from chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and many other miseries often endure not only the ailment but dismissive and negative reactions from others. Since its first publication, Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired has offered hope and coping strategies to thousands of people who ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Images of Plague and Pestilence

    Iconography and Iconology

    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Infections and Inequalities

    The Modern Plagues

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Feeling Tired All the Time – A Comprehensive Guide to the Common Causes of Fatigue and How to Treat Them

    Overcome Your Chronic Tiredness

    Do you ever feel utterly exhausted? Perhaps you feel like falling asleep on your feet right now? If so, you are not alone! One in four people complains of feeling tired all the time, and finds it hard to maintain a normal lifestyle as a result. 'Doctor, I feel tired all the time' is the single most common complaint presented by patients to their doctors. In studies in the UK and the USA, up to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Healing Arts Therapies and Person-Centred Dementia Care

    Edited by Anthea Innes, Karen Hatfield ...
    Series series University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
    Offering practical advice for arts therapists and health care professionals, this book emphasizes the importance of putting the individual before the illness to provide holistic, person-centred support for people with dementia.The contributors are all practising healing arts therapists who show how music, dance and the visual arts can be used in partnership with person-centred care to promote ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Perspectives of People with Dementia

    Research Methods and Motivations

    People with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressing the balance and involving them in the research process. They describe the skills that researchers and care staff need, and the methods they can use, when seeking to draw out and validate the views of people with dementia successfully, and discuss ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Other Invisible Illnesses

    The Comprehensive Guide

    Revised and expanded, this edition offers the latest findings on chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and overlapping diseases such as Gulf War Syndrome. It includes new information on the interaction of the brain, emotions, and immune system as well. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wilson's Disease for the Patient and Family

    A Patient's Guide to Wilson's Disease and Frequently Asked Questions About Copper

    Wilsons Disease for the Patient and Family: A Patients Guide to Wilsons disease and Frequently asked Questions about Copper, is an essential reference book for patients with Wilsons disease and their families. In easy-to-understand language, Dr. Brewer, a world authority on Wilsons disease and copper, explains everything about Wilsons disease, from its genetic cause and mechanism of transmission, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • All About Fibromyalgia

    A Guide for Patients and Their Families

    This year, six million Americans--most of them women--will go to their doctors, complaining of an illness they have no name for. The majority will be turned away or treated for depression; the few who persist will go to an average of four doctors before they receive the correct diagnosis: fibromyalgia. In their earlier Making Sense of Fibromyalgia, noted medical writer Janice Wallace and Dr. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Living with Haemophilia

    by Peter Jones ...
    Living with haemophilia has established itself as the complete guide to haemophilia and related disorders. Written primarily for affected families, the. book also provides a useful and up-to-date guide for doctors, paramedical staff, including nurses and physiotherapists, and teachers. It explains the inheritance of haemophilia, bleeding episodes and how to control them, safe treatment including ... Read more

    $80.99 USD $61.99 USD