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  • Holding On

    African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS

    by Alyson O'Daniel ...
    Series series Anthropology of Contemporary North America
    In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the 2006 Treatment Modernization Act. At a time when social support resources were in decline and publicly ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • How Not to Die

    Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner

    by Jan Garavaglia M.D. ...
    WHEN THIS DOCTOR TALKS, YOU SHOULD LISTEN.Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia’s table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of these deaths could easily have been prevented. Although Dr. Garavaglia, or Dr. G, as she’s known to many, could not tell these individuals how to avoid their fates, we can benefit from her experience ... Read more

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  • The Antidepressant Solution

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction"

    by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. ...
    Series series A Guide for Patients and Doctors
    With the FDA's warning that antidepressants may cause agitation, anxiety, hostility, and even violent or suicidal tendencies, these medications are at the forefront of national legal news. Harvard physician Joseph Glenmullen has led the charge to warn the public that antidepressants are overprescribed, underregulated, and, especially, misunderstood in their side and withdrawal effects. Now he ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fat Land

    How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

    by Greg Critser ...
    "An in-depth, well-researched, and thoughtful exploration of the 'fat boom' in America." — The Boston GlobeLow carb, high protein, raw foods . . . despite our seemingly endless obsession with fad diets, the startling truth is that six out of ten Americans are overweight or obese. In Fat Land, award-winning nutrition and health journalist Greg Critser examines the facts and societal factors behind ... Read more

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  • Now and at the Hour of Our Death

    by Susana Moreira Marques ...
    A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira ... Read more

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  • The Secret Epidemic

    The Story of AIDS and Black America

    by Jacob Levenson ...
    Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers of young black men and women. Medical researcher Mindy Fullilove investigates the epidemic’s links to ... Read more

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  • Next Medicine

    The Science and Civics of Health

    by Walter Bortz, MD ...
    Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the world, right between Costa Rica and Slovenia. Not only do 40 million Americans lack health insurance, but more than 200,000 die each year ... Read more

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  • A Good Birth

    Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience

    by Anne Lyerly ...
    Drawing on a landmark study involving more than one hundred pregnant women and mothers, a renowned OB/GYN synthesizes the secrets to a good birth—medically and emotionally.Most doctors are trained to think of a “good” birth only in terms of its medical success. But Dr. Anne Lyerly knows firsthand that there are many other important elements that often get overlooked. Her three-year study of a ... Read more

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  • Harvard Medical School Guide to Healing Your Sinuses

    by Ralph Metson, Steven Mardon ...
    Series series Harvard Medical School Guides
    From a leading expert at one of the world's most respected medical schools----learn how to beat sinus infections once and for allNobody needs to tell you how painful and annoying sinus problems can be--the pounding headaches and congestion, the perpetually runny nose, and the debilitating fatigue, not to mention sleepless nights, lost work, and ruined vacations. Now you can do something about it ... Read more

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  • A Simple Guide to Cushing's Syndrome and Related Conditions

    A Simple Guide to Medical Conditions, #50

    by Kenneth Kee ...
    Series Book 50 - A Simple Guide to Medical Conditions
    Cushing's SyndromeWhat is Cushing's syndrome?Cushing's syndrome is a disease which is caused by the exposure of the body to excessive quantities of glucocorticoids steroids.People of all ages are affected but more are seen in females between 30 to 50 years of age.What are the causes of Cushing Syndrome?The causes are believed to be:Cushing Disease -excessive production of adrenocorticotrophin ... Read more

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  • Cover Me

    A Health Insurance Memoir

    by Sonya Huber ...
    Series series Class in America
    Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn’t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Performance Measurement for Health System Improvement

    Experiences, Challenges and Prospects

    Edited by Peter C. Smith, Elias Mossialos, Irene Papanicolas, Sheila Leatherman ...
    Series series Health Economics, Policy and Management
    In a world where there is increasing demand for the performance of health providers to be measured, there is a need for a more strategic vision of the role that performance measurement can play in securing health system improvement. This volume meets this need by presenting the opportunities and challenges associated with performance measurement in a framework that is clear and easy to understand. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD