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by Judith Lothian, Charlotte DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
For a Safe and Healthy Birth… Your Way! Giving Birth with Confidence will help take the mystery out of having a baby and help you better understand how your body works during pregnancy and childbirth, giving you the confidence to make decisions that best ensure the safety and health of you and your...
Your Health Destiny
How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth:...
Practice Matters
The Early Years of Modern General Practice within the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
What has gone wrong with the NHS, and in particular with general practice? Why can't we get an appointment to see our GP? And who is our GP, anyway?
The UK National Health Service is always in crisis, yet it has been shown, time and time again, that the public value it more highly than anything...
Alfalfa to Ivy
Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Joseph B. Martin traces his climb from a Mennonite farm in the village of Duchess, Alberta to Dean of Harvard Medical School in his memoir, Alfalfa to Ivy. Readers are rewarded with an intimate perspective on academic politics and health care in Canada and the U.S. that Martin is perfectly poised...
Murderous Minds
Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain: Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“Part true crime, part neuroscience and a page-turner from start to finish,” this is a look at the biology behind violent psychopathic behavior (Kirkus Reviews).
How many times have you seen a murder on the news or on a TV show like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and said to yourself,...
The Autoimmune Solution
Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Over 90 percent of the population suffers from inflammation or an autoimmune disorder. Until now, conventional medicine has said there is no cure. Minor irritations like rashes and runny noses are ignored, while chronic and debilitating diseases like Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis are handled with...
Run, Don't Walk
The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Med ical Center
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, darkly funny, and totally unique debut memoir from physical therapist Adele Levine.
In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape. As body armor and advanced trauma care...
by Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The most up-to-date resource on nutritional supplements for the prevention and improved management of concussive injury, TBI, and PTSD
• Provides an easy-to-follow program of supplements to optimize the benefits of treatment programs and offer a method of prevention beyond the use of helmets
•...
Blood
An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives...
by Peter Tishler, Christine Wenc, Joseph Loscalzo
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
CELEBRATING THE HISTORY OF AMERICA'S LANDMARK INSTITUTION
The fascinating true story of Brigham and Women's Hospital
Founded in 1913, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was the first medical institution since John Hopkins to foster clinical clerkships of medical students in the environment of...
Inventing the Feeble Mind
A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness,...
Forensics
What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Bestselling author of Broken Ground “offers fascinating glimpses” into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe).
The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them....
Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction
Creative and Cognitive Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
What if we could resolve childhood trauma early, rather than late?
We are understanding more and more about how early traumatic experiences affect long-term mental and physical health:
Physical impacts are stored in muscles and posture
Threats of harm are stored as tension
Overwhelming...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
This volume presents cutting-edge cognitive and behavioral applications for understanding and treating trauma-related problems in virtually any clinical setting. Leading scientist-practitioners succinctly review the "whys," "whats," and "hows" of their respective approaches....