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Clinical Emergency Medicine Casebook
By Joel T. Levis, Gus M. Garmel. 1970
Emergency Medicine is not divided into specific areas of practice. Emergency room visitors come in all shapes and sizes, at…
any time of day or night, with a wide range of maladies. Emergency physicians need to become experts in diverse areas of medicine and to be able to make quick and informed decisions about patient care. A cornerstone of emergency medicine training is the constant drilling and re-drilling of simulated cases and clinical scenarios. This book offers a unique yet underutilized strategy for learning: a case-based approach from real patients and actual events. Each case provides the opportunity for learning essential clinical concepts. Focused exclusively on the needs of in-training emergency physicians and nurses, the book covers more than 100 common and unusual cases in emergency medicine. The procedures have been class-tested by the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program.Depersonalization: A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome
By Mauricio Sierra. 2009
Depersonalization is a dissociative disorder, causing alteration in the perception or experience of the self and a sense of detachment…
from reality. This is a fascinating and clinically relevant phenomenon neglected within psychiatry. Far from being a rare condition, recent research has shown chronic, persisting depersonalization to be as prevalent as schizophrenia or bipolar mood disorder.Hand and Foot Reflexology
By Kevin Kunzbarbara Kunz. 1984
Here's a revolutionary way to fine-tune your relationship with your body, reduce stress, and feel better all over: Stimulate the…
reflexes in your hands and feet! It's all in this hands-on encyclopedia of personal reflexology information. Here, Kevin and Barbara Kunz (authors of The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology) bring you their unique self-health approach to wellness. Through reflexology, they teach you how to free and channel your pent-up energy -- and to prevent and correct common health problems. With more than 500 detailed instructions, this book includes: * Why your feet and hands are "important sensory organs," and their "special relationship" with your whole body. * Why reflexology works. * Specially designed pressure and movement techniques that reduce stress and actually alter the body's tension level. Fully illustrated, with step-by-step procedures, for quick and easy application! * Treatment plans for specific aliments, from acne to whiplash. * Stride Replication, the Kunzes' latest program of foot and hand relaxation. * A more in-depth look at body parts and their corresponding areas in the hands and feet -- all conveniently indexed. Whether you are using it as a quick reference or as the basis for further study. Hand and Foot Reflexology: A Self-Help Guide tells you what you need to know about the simple but potent experience of eflexology -- by yourself and for yourself.Coyote Medicine
By Lewis Mehl-Madrona, William L. Simon. 1997
Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine…
isn't about eschewing Western medicine when it's effective, but about finding other answers when medicine fails: for chronic sufferers, patients not responding to medication, or "terminal" cases that doctors have given up on. In the story of one doctor's remarkable initiation into alternative ways to spiritual and physical health, Coyote Medicine provides the key to untapped healing methods available today.Share the Care
By Cappy Capossela, Sheila Warnock, Sukie Miller. 2004
You Don't Have to Do It Alone Whether you're prepared for it or not, chances are you'll take on the…
role of caregiver when a family member or friend is affected by a serious illness or injury, or when you find your elderly parent needs help. As you'll soon discover, the range of tasks and responsibilities involved are overwhelming. Share The Care offers a sensible and loving solution: a unique group approach that can turn a circle of ordinary people into a powerful caregiving team. Share The Care shows you how to: Create a caregiver "family" from friends, real family members, neighbors, coworkers, and acquaintances. Hold a meeting to organize your group, and introduce members to the Share The Care systems that guarantee every job will be done and no one person will have to do too much. Discover the hidden talents within the group, make the most of their resources, cope with group issues, and stay together in the face of adversity. Included here are valuable guidelines, compassionate suggestions, and a simple-to-use workbook section that together offer support to free the patient from worry and the caregivers from burnout. Share The Care offers friends and family the best answer ever to the frequently asked question "What can I do?"Feeding in Domestic Vertebrates: From Structure to Behaviour
By V. Bels. 2006
Aimed at advanced students and researchers, this volume reviews current knowledge about feeding in domestic vertebrates. Early chapters outline the…
feeding structures and mechanisms of mammals and birds. Subsequent chapters discuss feeding behavior in particular species, such as chickens, pigs, rabbits, horses, herbivores, ruminants, and even ostriches. Feeding issues relating to free-range poultry and pigs are also addressed. Editor Bels is affiliated with the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Distributed in the U. S. by Oxford U. Press. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)Avian Gut Function in Health and Disease
By G. C. Perry. 2006
Peptides in Energy Balance and Obesity
By Gema Frühbeck. 2009
Obesity is one of the most relevant public health concerns today and it is now evident that body weight control…
is achieved through highly integrated physiological interactions like nutrient selection as well as being influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Moreover, energy balance regulation is a complex process aimed at maintaining constant energy stores. Presenting a detailed and comprehensive account of the roles of specific peptides in energy balance, food intake control and co-morbidities, this review provides a better understanding of the patho-physiology of energy balance and obesity.Workbook for Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care (2nd edition)
By Hartman Publishing. 2010
Welcome to the Workbook for Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care This workbook is designed to help you review what you…
have learned from reading your textbook. For this reason, the workbook is organized around learning objectives, just like the textbook and even your instructor's teaching material. These learning objectives work as a built-in study guide. After completing the exercises for each learning objective in the workbook, ask yourself if you can DO what that learning objective describes. If you can, move on to the next learning objective. If you cannot, just go back to the textbook, reread that learning objective, and try again. The answers to the work¬book exercises are in your instructor's teaching guide.Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
By Maryanne Wolf. 2007
Many scholars believe that humans are hard-wired for language, but no one, points out Wolf (child development, Tufts U.), believes…
that about reading and writing. The act of reading is not natural, she argues, either for a child or in the evolution of the brain's capacity to learn. She loves it anyway, and here shares her knowledge and joy at learning to read in both evolutionary and development contexts; she also explores reasons that some people cannot learn to read. By the way, Proust says they were just friends; the squid is not commenting.Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth Century France
By Ian Robert Dowbiggin. 1991
Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In…
Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evolution of psychiatry during this period. In Dowbiggin's mind, this fondness for hereditarianism stemmed from the need to reconcile two counteracting factors. On the one hand, psychiatrists were attempting to expand their power and privileges by excluding other groups from the treatment of the mentally ill. On the other hand, medicine's failure to effectively diagnose, cure, and understand the causes of madness made it extremely difficult for psychiatrists to justify such an expansion. These two factors, Dowbiggin argues, shaped the way psychiatrists thought about insanity, encouraging them to adopt hereditarian ideas, such as the degeneracy theory, to explain why psychiatry had failed to meet expectations. Hereditarian theories, in turn, provided evidence of the need for psychiatrists to assume more authority, resources, and cultural influence. Inheriting Madness is a forceful reminder that psychiatric notions are deeply rooted in the social, political, and cultural history of the profession itself. At a time when genetic interpretations of mental disease are again in vogue, Dowbiggin demonstrates that these views are far from unprecedented, and that in fact they share remarkable similarities with earlier theories. A familiarity with the history of the psychiatric profession compels the author to ask whether or not public faith in it is warranted.Mycotoxins: Detection Methods, Management, Public Health and Agricultural Trade
By J. Leslie, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, A. Visconti. 2008
Mycotoxins are produced worldwide by several fungi on a wide range of agricultural commodities and are closely related to human…
and animal food chains. Examining mycotoxins and their impact from a public health viewpoint, this book provides an overview and introduction to the subject and examines the health, trade and legislation issues involved. Management of mycotoxins is discussed in detail as well as the global problems caused by mycotoxins.Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty
By Dorothy Roberts. 1997
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights…
agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear and raise children with respect and dignity in a society whose white mainstream is determined to demonize, even criminalize their lives. It gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new, and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the American polity from a black feminist perspective.Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession
By Elias Aboujaoude. 2008
In this book, we meet a man who can't let anyone get within a certain distance of his nose, two…
kleptomaniacs from very different walks of life, an Internet addict who chooses virtual life over real life, a professor with a dangerous gambling habit, and others with equally debilitating compulsive conditions. Elias Aboujaoude tells stories inspired by memorable patients he has treated, taking us from initial contact through the stages of the doctor-patient relationship.Dietary Supplements for the Health and Quality of Cultured Fish
By Heisuke Nakagawa, Minoru Sato, Delbert M. Gatlin. 2007
This book addresses current information on the effects of micronutrients and other efficacious substances from plants, animals and bacteria, with…
regard to quality and health of cultured fish. Each chapter contains tables, figures and is packed with many new references to help expand your knowledge of various aspects of fish culture technology.Public Health 101: Healthy People, Healthy Populations
By Richard Riegelman. 2010
This book provides a big-picture, population perspective on the determinants of health and disease and the tools available to protect…
and promote health. It examines the full range of options for intervention including use of the health care system, the public health system, and society-wide interventions. Students will learn how public health affects them. Using case studies, vignettes, and extensive examples, they will learn and apply frameworks for thinking about the issues of public health.The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition
By Carl F. Ameringer. 2008
This book explains how the revolution of America's market-based health care system came into being when the U.S. Supreme Court…
and Congress prompted the antitrust agencies of the federal government to change the rules of the health care system. Ameringer lays out the key events that led up to this regime change; explores its broader social, political, and economic contexts; examines the views of both its proponents and opponents; and considers its current trajectory.Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
By Ruth Rogaski. 2004
Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth…
centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng--which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"--as it emerged in the complex treaty-port environment of Tianjin.Mycoplasma Diseases of Ruminants
By Robin Nicholas, Roger Ayling, Laura Mcauliffe. 2006
Mycoplasmas are the smallest of free-living organisms and are intermediate between viruses and bacteria. Many species thrive as parasites in…
animal (including human) hosts. This book is based on proceedings of a conference held in Palermo, Italy. It reviews some of the most important mycoplasma diseases of sheep, goats and cattle including contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, contagious agalactia and calf pneumonia, which are listed by the OIE because of their economic implications.The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype about Your Health
By Robert J. Davis. 2008
It happens every day: we pick up a newspaper or magazine or turn on the television and are bombarded with…
urgent advice about how to stay healthy. Lose weight! Lower your cholesterol! Early detection saves lives! Sunscreen prevents cancer! But in many cases, pronouncements we rarely think to question turn out to be half-truths that are being pushed by various individuals or groups to advance their own agendas. The Healthy Skeptic explores who these health promoters are--from journalists and celebrities to industry-funded groups and consumer activists--what their motives are, and how they are spinning us in ways we often don't realize. This treasure trove of little-known facts, written by a seasoned health reporter, provides invaluable tips, tools, and resources to help readers think more critically about what they're being told. Becoming a healthy skeptic is vital, Davis argues, because following the right advice can have a profound impact on overall health and longevity.