Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
by Donald Abrams, Andrew Weil
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
People facing a new diagnosis of cancer are unsettled by their prognosis and treatment options, and they often seek to integrate complementary modalities into their conventional care plan, hoping to improve their chances of cure and decrease side effects. Many do so without informing their oncologist,...
Earth-honoring Faith:Religious Ethics in a New Key
Religious Ethics in a New Key
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point: change or perish. But precisely how to change...
Polio:An American Story
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and...
by David J. Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Experimental philosophy is a new movement that seeks to return the discipline of philosophy to a focus on questions about how people actually think and feel. Departing from a long-standing tradition, experimental philosophers go out and conduct systematic experiments to reach a better understanding...
American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement,...
What the Face Reveals:Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
While we have known for centuries that facial expressions can reveal what people are thinking and feeling, it is only recently that the face has been studied scientifically for what it can tell us about internal states, social behavior, and psychopathology. Today's widely available, sophisticated...
Almost Christian:What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity...
by Joel Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry,...
Snake Oil Science:The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Millions of people worldwide swear by such therapies as acupuncture, herbal cures, and homeopathic remedies. Indeed, complementary and alternative medicine is embraced by a broad spectrum of society, from ordinary people, to scientists and physicians, to celebrities such as Prince Charles and Oprah...
Epidemiology: An Introduction
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Across the last forty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the philosophy of science in its aim to study and track the distribution and determinants of health events....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
The new, completely revised, and updated edition of this classic text --sponsored by the International Epidemiological Association (IEA) and previously edited by John Last-- remains the definitive dictionary in epidemiology worldwide. In fact, with contributions from over 220 epidemiologists and other...
Do You Really Need Back Surgery?: A Surgeon's Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose Your Treatment
A Surgeon's Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose Your Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
For the half million people who undergo back surgery each year, and the additional million who are seriously contemplating it, Do You Really Need Back Surgery? is a godsend--an informed, reliable guide to when you should consider surgery and when you should not. Written by an internationally recognized...
by Gary W. Brunette, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Health risks are real and ever-changing, especially while traveling abroad. To stay abreast of the most up-to-date health recommendations, experienced travelers and health care professionals have always relied on CDC's user-friendly Health Information for International Travel (commonly known as the...