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The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
by Charles E. RosenbergCholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new Afterword, Rosenberg discusses changes in historical method and concerns since the original publication of The Cholera Years. "A major work of interpretation of medical and social thought . . . this volume is also to be commended for its skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease."—I.B. Cohen, New York Times "The Cholera Years is a masterful analysis of the moral and social interest attached to epidemic disease, providing generally applicable insights into how the connections between social change, changes in knowledge and changes in technical practice may be conceived."—Steven Shapin, Times Literary Supplement "In a way that is all too rarely done, Rosenberg has skillfully interwoven medical, social, and intellectual history to show how medicine and society interacted and changed during the 19th century. The history of medicine here takes its rightful place in the tapestry of human history."—John B. Blake, Science
The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus
by Allen VerheyA renowned ethicist who himself faced death during a recent life-threatening illness, Allen Verhey in The Christian Art of Dying sets out to recapture dying from the medical world. Seeking to counter the medicalization of death that is so prevalent today, Verhey revisits the fifteenth-century Ars Moriendi, an illustrated spiritual self-help manual on "the art of dying." Finding much wisdom in that little book but rejecting its Stoic and Platonic worldview, Verhey uncovers in the biblical accounts of Jesus' death a truly helpful paradigm for dying well and faithfully.
The Christmas Blessing (Christmas Hope, Book #2)
by Donna VanliereDonna VanLiere captured readers' hearts with her beloved Christmas novel The Christmas Shoes. Now the story continues in The Christmas Blessing, the next book in her inspiring Christmas Hope series.... In The Christmas Shoes, young Nathan Andrews was a child who lost his mother to cancer. Now his deepest wish is to become a doctor. When a stranger named Robert gave him the money to buy his mother a pair of shoes for her last Christmas, both Robert and Nathan learned the deepest lessons of love and giving. Now a medical student in his third year, Nathan realizes there are still things to be learned about faith, blessings, and sacrifice. Lessons he will learn from Meghan Sullivan--a young woman born with a hole in her heart that has nevertheless not kept her from becoming a champion runner. And lessons learned from a young boy named Charlie, who teaches Nathan how to live a life of true courage. Together, they will help Nathan through the most difficult period in his life. The Christmas Blessing is an inspiring story about hope existing in the darkest places, and how love is always the greatest gift of all.
The Chronic Cough Enigma: How to recognize, diagnose and treat neurogenic and reflux related cough
by Suze Orman Jamie A. KoufmanIf you have confusing and unexplained breathing problems or your asthma has not responded to treatment, this book is for you. The Chronic Cough Enigma is written for people who have been coughing for months or years and cannot get useful answers from their doctors.More than 20 million Americans suffer from what is known as enigmatic chronic cough. This book provides insights from Dr. Jamie Koufman's almost forty years of successfully managing thousands of long-suffering cough patients. Indeed, the typical chronic cough patient who comes to her office has been coughing for more than a decade. This book provides the many who suffer from chronic cough new and potentially life-changing information and the potential to be cured.
The Chronic Pain Solution: Your Personal Path to Pain Relief
by James N. Dillard Leigh Ann HirschmanEvery morning, more than 50 million Americans wake up to another day in pain. If you are one of them, you know the way chronic pain can take over your life: the lost work and missed pleasures, the harsh drugs or surgeries, the feelings of anger and frustration, the endless search from doctor to doctor. It doesn't have to be that way. This remarkable book, by one of the leading pain specialists in America, puts in your hands the resources usually available only at the most sophisticated pain clinics. Recent research has shown that the solution to the puzzle of pain is almost never one "magic bullet" treatment. What works is a combination of therapies--often three or more--customized to your individual needs. Some drugs or surgeries can actually make your condition worse, while surprisingly gentle alternative therapies can provide measurable, lasting relief. The key is knowing how to combine the best of both conventional and alternative medicine. Dr. James Dillard offers you what few physicians today are trained to provide: * fascinating new information on how pain affects your body and mind--including six myths that can keep you from healing * a detailed guide to more than 40 treatment methods, from state-of-the-art microsurgery and pharmaceuticals to acupuncture, yoga, and biofeedback * individual chapters on the 12 most common types of pain, from arthritis and back pain to fibromyalgia and migraines--clearly indicating what works and what to avoid * The Pain-Control Diet--and 20 top supplements for pain relief * how to build your pain-management team and get what you need from your insurance company * checklists, self-evaluations, and guides for tracking treatment * special chapters on children, seniors, pregnant women, terminal pain--plus how you can help a loved one in pain You can take back your life from pain. The Chronic Pain Solutionwill guide you every step of the way. From the Hardcover edition.
The Church of 80% Sincerity
by Anne Lamott David RocheThe Church of 80% Sincerity shares the inspiring, poignant, wickedly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking story of motivational speaker David Roche's journey from shame to self-acceptance. Born with a severe facial deformity, David's life has been anything but easy. Still, over time, he's learned to accept his gifts as well as his flaws, and to see that, sometimes, they are one and the same. In this compelling book, he shares his hard-earned lessons, providing an irresistible and unforgettable glimpse of his (and everyone's) inner beauty and offering profound encouragement in dealing with whatever life brings.
The Circadian Clock
by Urs AlbrechtThe purpose of this volume is to provide historical and current information about the circadian clock, molecular properties of clock components and their roles in health and disease. The Circadian Clock aims to give an integrated view how the biochemistry and physiology of an organism is organized over the 24 hours of a day and how disturbance of clock function can lead to disease. Outline: - Historical overview - Transcriptional Regulation of circadian clocks - Non-Image Forming Photoreception - Interplay Between Circadian Clocks and Metabolism - Clocks, Cell Cycle and Cancer - Circadian Neural Networks - Circadian Neural Networks - Circadian Clocks and Sleep a) Clocks and Sleep in animals b) Homeostatic and Circadian Regulation of Human Sleep - Clocks, Brain Function and Dysfunction - Systems Biology and Modeling of Circadian Rhythms - Comparative Clocks.
The Circadian Diabetes Code: Discover the Right Time to Eat, Sleep, and Exercise to Prevent and Reverse Prediabetes and Diabetes
by Satchin Panda PhDAvoid, manage, and even reverse diabetes and prediabetes just by changing when—not what—you eat with this authoritative guide from the author of The Circadian Code.Today, one in ten Americans is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and one in three already has prediabetes. Prescription medications used to treat this chronic disease have unwanted side effects and at best, only manage the symptoms. What&’s more, the restrictive dieting protocols used to manage diabetes are difficult to maintain over time. Yet the latest science shows that a simple approach that aligns your daily lifestyle—when you eat, sleep, and exercise—with your body&’s inherent circadian rhythm can be just as effective. Best of all, following this program can enhance every other aspect of your health, from losing weight to boosting immunity. In The Circadian Diabetes Code, senior Salk Institute researcher and internationally-acclaimed author of The Circadian Code, Satchin Panda, Ph.D., shares his groundbreaking program. You will learn the best way to adopt intermittent fasting, the worldwide phenomenon that started in Dr. Panda&’s lab, which has been used as an effective weight loss strategy for almost a decade. Now, you can use this same strategy to optimize your blood glucose response and naturally lower your risk for developing &“the sinister friends of diabetes&”: heart disease and obesity. The truth is, intermittent fasting is much easier that you think. You will learn how to:Identify your optimal eating zonePlan your meals according to your circadian rhythmExercise at the right time to control blood glucose levelsGet the best night&’s sleep to reset your brain and bodyOptimally time medication, as neededAnd much more!
The Circuitry of the Human Spinal Cord
by David Burke Emmanuel Pierrot-DeseillignyStudies of human movement have proliferated in recent years. This greatly expanded and thoroughly updated reference surveys the literature on the corticospinal control of spinal cord circuits in human subjects, showing how different circuits can be studied, their role in normal movement and how they malfunction in disease states. Chapters are highly illustrated and consistently organised, reviewing, for each pathway, the experimental background, methodology, organisation and control, role during motor tasks and changes in patients with CNS lesions. Each chapter concludes with a helpful résumé that can be used independently of the main text to provide practical guidance for clinical studies. The final four chapters bring together the changes in transmission in spinal and corticospinal pathways during movement and how they contribute to the desired movement. This book is essential reading for research workers and clinicians involved in the study, treatment and rehabilitation of movement disorders.
The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History)
by María Jesús SantesmasesThis book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
The Citadel: A Novel (Longman Fiction Ser.)
by AJ CroninA groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner: &“[A] fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor&” (The Atlantic Monthly). The Citadel follows the life of Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish doctor, as he navigates the challenges of practicing medicine across interwar Wales and England. Based on A.J. Cronin&’s own experiences as a physician, this book boldly confronts traditional medical ethics, and has been noted as one of the inspirations for the formation of the National Health Service. This story has been adapted into several successful film, radio, and television productions around the world, including the Oscar-nominated 1938 film starring Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, and Rex Harrison. &“One of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world.&” —The New York Times
The Citizen Patient
by Nortin M. HadlerConflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like. Central to this vision is a shared understanding of the primacy of the relationship between doctor and patient. Hadler shows us that a new approach is necessary if we hope to improve the health of the populace. Rational health care, he argues, is far less expensive than the irrationality of the status quo.Taking a critical view of how medical treatment, health-care finance, and attitudes about health, medicine, and disease play out in broad social and political settings, Hadler applies his wealth of experience and insight to these pressing issues, answering important questions for Citizen Patients and policy makers alike.
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 2 Diploma in Care for the Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship
by Maria Ferreiro PeteiroExcel in Adult Care with the ideal companion for the Level 2 Diploma, published in association with City & Guilds and written by expert author, Maria Ferreiro Peteiro.-Enhance your portfolio with key advice and activities linked to assessment criteria, making it easier to demonstrate your knowledge and skills. -Manage the demands of your course with assessment criteria translated into simple, everyday language and practical guidance.-Understand what it means to reflect on practice with 'Reflect on it' activities, and guidance on how to write your own reflective accounts.-Learn the core values of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment required as an Adult Care worker.-Summarise and check your understanding with 'Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours' tables at the end of each learning outcome.-Successfully apply Adult Care theory in the workplace, using real-world case studies to guide you.-Expand your learning with access to popular optional units available online.
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 2 Diploma in Care for the Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship
by Maria Ferreiro PeteiroExcel in Adult Care with the ideal companion for the Level 2 Diploma, published in association with City & Guilds and written by expert author, Maria Ferreiro Peteiro.-Enhance your portfolio with key advice and activities linked to assessment criteria, making it easier to demonstrate your knowledge and skills. -Manage the demands of your course with assessment criteria translated into simple, everyday language and practical guidance.-Understand what it means to reflect on practice with 'Reflect on it' activities, and guidance on how to write your own reflective accounts.-Learn the core values of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment required as an Adult Care worker.-Summarise and check your understanding with 'Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours' tables at the end of each learning outcome.-Successfully apply Adult Care theory in the workplace, using real-world case studies to guide you.-Expand your learning with access to popular optional units available online.
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care Second Edition
by Maria Ferreiro PeteiroExcel in Adult Care with our second edition textbook (for the 3096-31 specification) by learning the core values of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment required as an Adult Care worker.- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills required with detailed coverage of all mandatory units.- Understand what it means to reflect on practice with 'Reflect on it' activities, and guidance on how to write your own reflective accounts.- Learn how to apply your knowledge to the workplace with case studies that use real-life scenarios.- Ensure you have a thorough understanding of important terms, concepts and information with key terms and relevant legislation highlighted throughout.- Enhance your portfolio with key advice and activities linked to assessment criteria, making it easier to demonstrate your knowledge and skills
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care Second Edition
by Maria Ferreiro PeteiroExcel in Adult Care with our second edition textbook (for the 3096-31 specification) by learning the core values of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment required as an Adult Care worker.- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills required with detailed coverage of all mandatory units.- Understand what it means to reflect on practice with 'Reflect on it' activities, and guidance on how to write your own reflective accounts.- Learn how to apply your knowledge to the workplace with case studies that use real-life scenarios.- Ensure you have a thorough understanding of important terms, concepts and information with key terms and relevant legislation highlighted throughout.- Enhance your portfolio with key advice and activities linked to assessment criteria, making it easier to demonstrate your knowledge and skills
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care for the Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship
by Maria Ferreiro PeteiroExcel in Adult Care with the ideal companion for the Level 3 Diploma, published in association with City & Guilds and written by expert author in Health and Social Care, Maria Ferreiro Peteiro.-Enhance your portfolio with key advice and activities linked to assessment criteria, making it easier to demonstrate your knowledge and skills. -Manage the demands of your course with assessment criteria translated into simple, everyday language and practical guidance.-Understand what it means to reflect on practice with 'Reflect on it' activities, and guidance on how to write your own reflective accounts.-Learn the core values of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment required as an Adult Care worker.-Summarise and check your understanding with 'Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours' tables at the end of each learning outcome.-Successfully apply Adult Care theory in the workplace using real-world case studies to guide you.-Expand your learning with access to popular optional units available online.
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care for the Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship
by Maria Ferreiro PeteiroExcel in Adult Care with the ideal companion for the Level 3 Diploma, published in association with City & Guilds and written by expert author in Health and Social Care, Maria Ferreiro Peteiro.-Enhance your portfolio with key advice and activities linked to assessment criteria, making it easier to demonstrate your knowledge and skills. -Manage the demands of your course with assessment criteria translated into simple, everyday language and practical guidance.-Understand what it means to reflect on practice with 'Reflect on it' activities, and guidance on how to write your own reflective accounts.-Learn the core values of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment required as an Adult Care worker.-Summarise and check your understanding with 'Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours' tables at the end of each learning outcome.-Successfully apply Adult Care theory in the workplace using real-world case studies to guide you.-Expand your learning with access to popular optional units available online.
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care: Second Edition
by Tina TilmouthDevelop best practice and improve your leadership skills with our second edition textbook (for the 3096-51 specification).- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills required with detailed coverage of all mandatory units- Apply theoretical aspects of the Diploma in the workplace, and use our 'Evidence Opportunity' feature to test your understanding of the assessment criteria- Build confidence reviewing and evaluating practice in Adult Care settings with 'Reflect On It' activities, and examples of reflective accounts- Prepare a strong portfolio, with advice and activities on how to use evidence most effectively This textbook has been fully updated to meet the requirements of the updated Skills for Care qualification criteria.
The City & Guilds Textbook Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care: Second Edition
by Tina TilmouthDevelop best practice and improve your leadership skills with our second edition textbook (for the 3096-51 specification).- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills required with detailed coverage of all mandatory units- Apply theoretical aspects of the Diploma in the workplace, and use our 'Evidence Opportunity' feature to test your understanding of the assessment criteria- Build confidence reviewing and evaluating practice in Adult Care settings with 'Reflect On It' activities, and examples of reflective accounts- Prepare a strong portfolio, with advice and activities on how to use evidence most effectively This textbook has been fully updated to meet the requirements of the updated Skills for Care qualification criteria.
The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities
by Jonathan R. Wynn Daniel Skinner Berkeley FranzA surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities. An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically underserved. In The City and the Hospital two sociologists, Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz, and a political scientist, Daniel Skinner, track the multiple causes of this problem and offer policy solutions. Focusing on three urban hospitals—Connecticut’s Hartford Hospital, the flagship of the Hartford Healthcare system; the Cleveland Clinic, which coordinates with other providers for routine care while its main campus provides specialty care; and the University of Colorado Hospital, a rare example of an urban institution that relocated to a new community—the authors analyze the complicated relationship between a hospital and its neighborhoods. On the one hand, hospitals anchor the communities that surround them, often staying in a neighborhood for decades. Hospitals also craft strategies to engage with the surrounding community, many of those focused on buying locally and hiring staff from their surrounding area. On the other hand, hospitals will often only provide care to the neighboring community through emergency departments, reserving advanced medical care and long-term treatment for those who can pay a premium for it. In addition, the authors show, hospitals frequently buy neighborhood real estate and advocate for development programs that drive gentrification and displacement. To understand how urban healthcare institutions work with their communities, the authors address power, history, race, and urbanity as much as the workings of the medical industry. These varied initiatives and effects mean that understanding urban hospitals requires seeing them in a new light—not only as medical centers but as complicated urban forces.
The City in Need: Urban Resilience and City Management in Disruptive Disease Outbreak Events
by Ali CheshmehzangiThis book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring ‘urban resilience measures’ and ‘city management issues’ during disruptive disease outbreak events. Based on the overarching concept of ‘resilience thinking’, it addresses critical issues of preparedness, responsiveness and reflectiveness in the event of outbreak, focusing on cities and how they should prepare to combat a variety of adversities and uncertainties caused by outbreaks. This comprehensive book is an essential guide for decision-makers, city authorities, planners, healthcare and public health authorities, and those communities and businesses that face disease outbreak events. It also offers a set of practical measures to support the development of tailor-made strategies in the form of an action plan. These strategies should address outbreak control and containment measures, institutional rearrangements, management of urban systems, and healthiness of the society. Divided into six chapters, this book explores important topics of ‘urban resilience’ and ‘city management’ for preparedness action plans and responsiveness planning. Further, it presents a comprehensive urban resilience approach used to support city management in the recent outbreaks in Chinese cities, which can be applied in cities around the globe to strengthen their resilience and maximise the practicality of urban resilience and minimise urban vulnerabilities during disease outbreaks. Highlighting topics such as maintaining societal well-being, community engagement, and multi-sectoral city management enhancement, this book offers a unique combination of research, practices and lessons learned to aid cities in need.
The City of Care: Strategies to Design Healthier Places (Springer Series in Design and Innovation #26)
by Anna Anzani Francesco ScullicaThe book explores care as a transition strategy to a healthier and more sustainable world. After the lesson learned from the pandemic, health as a fundamental human right is increasingly related to a care component: caring for sick people, persons with disabilities, elders, migrants and refugees, women and children, caring for bodies, minds, cities and nature. Endorsing the care system as a female knowledge based on complexity, flexibility, management of the unexpected, sense of responsibility, the project culture can extract this paradigm from the domestic perimeter, bring outside and make it accessible to all in work, politics, relationships, places and communities. The systemic connection between planet and people wellbeing will be grasped through a transdisciplinary perspective that allows to deal with the city of care at a mental, physical, social and global level. The first section addresses care and interior space, dealing with dwelling, working, proximity and cities on a human scale, with a particular attention to the post Covid conditions. The second section deals with healthcare design, the evolution and trend of healing spaces, the influence of technology and robotics on inclusive design processes. The third section considers a social care attitude and deals with the multiethnic urban dimension, care and creativity in design, society and relationships, the right to health of immigrant people.
The Clarity Cleanse: 12 Steps to Finding Renewed Energy, Spiritual Fulfilment and Emotional Healing
by Dr Habib SadeghiA GOOP insider and advisor to Gwyneth Paltrow, Emily Blunt, Tim Robbins, Stella McCartney and others, Dr Sadeghi shows you how to turn obstacles into healing and energising opportunities.Based on the powerful mind-body strategy Dr Habib Sadeghi developed to help himself recover from cancer more than twenty years ago, THE CLARITY CLEANSE will enable you to clear your mind and heal your body. The Clarity Cleanse has two components: DIETARY and EMOTIONAL. The diet is designed to negate the physical residue of repressed emotions in the organs most affected by negativity. By following this diet for 10 days a month while alternating between emotional purging exercises - 12-minute writings and 12-minute dialogues - readers will find emotional clarity, clarity of vision and clarity of action in their daily lives.With THE CLARITY CLEANSE you learn how to:· Create clear intention· Purge negative emotions· Practice compassionate self-forgiveness· Refocus negative energy to move beyond doubt and fear· Ask the kind of questions that will help your relationshipsBy following the twelve steps in this book, you will achieve a sense of peace and control, raise your self-esteem, and assert yourself in new ways to achieve positive and lasting change. Then, finally, you will be able to express your true, authentic self.
The Clear Skin Cookbook: The vital vitamins and magic minerals you need for smooth, blemish-free, younger-looking skin
by Dale PinnockFrom Dale Pinnock, aka the Medicinal Chef, comes his fully updated and revised The Clear Skin Cookbook, which shows that we can all increase the appearance and overall radiance of our skin, simply by eating the right foods and incorporating a variety of macronutrients into our diets. This full colour cookbook is the definitive guide to understanding your skin's health and rejuvenating its youthfulness.Packed with mouth watering recipes - for breakfasts, soups, starters, mains, desserts, snacks and drinks - you will soon discover how easy it is to choose and prepare dishes that are not only tasty but which also enhance skin healing and help to combat the effects of ageing. The Medicinal Chef reveals the vital vitamins and magic minerals in everyday ingredients, which can maintain optimum skin health. The book includes help for all common skin conditions, from acne and eczema to psoriasis.