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  • The end of medicine as we know it - and why your health has a future

    by Harald H.H.W. Schmidt ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Medicine itself is sick. We hardly understand any disease and therefore need to chronically treat symptoms but not the causes. Consequently, drugs and other therapies help only very few patients; yet we are pumping more and more money into our healthcare system without any added value.Thus, the internationally renowned physician researcher, Harald Schmidt, predicts the end of medicine as we know ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Ezekiel Emanuel, Harald Schmidt, Andrew Steinmetz ...
    Budgets of governments and private insurances are limited. Not all drugs and services that appear beneficial to patients or physicians can be covered. Is there a core set of benefits that everyone should be entitled to? If so, how should this set be determined? Are fair decisions just impossible, if we know from the outset than not all needs can be met? While early work in bioethics has focused on ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Church Reform and Leadership of Change

    Edited by Harald Askeland, Ulla Schmidt ...
    Series Book 12 - Church of Sweden Research Series
    Reforms and processes of change have become an increasingly pervasive characteristic of European Protestant churches in the last fifteen to twenty years. Driven by perceptions of crises, such as declining membership rates, dwindling finances, decreasing participation in church rituals, and less support of traditional church doctrine, but also changes of governance of religion more generally, many ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reactive Oxygen Species

    Network Pharmacology and Therapeutic Applications

    Edited by Harald H. H. W. Schmidt, Pietro Ghezzi, Antonio Cuadrado ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in almost every human disease phenotype, without much, if any, therapeutic consequence foremost exemplified by the failure of the so-called anti-oxidants. This book is a game changer for the field and many clinical areas such as cardiology and neurology. The term ‘oxidative stress’ is abandoned and replaced with a systems medicine and network ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality

    Edited by Harald Walach, Stefan Schmidt, Wayne B. Jonas ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated understanding of consciousness. Individual chapters discuss ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications

    Edited by Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
    This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are so called “higher states of consciousness” that some ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

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    by Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre ...
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  • How Your Brain Works

    Inside the most complicated object in the known universe

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    Ever wondered what's going on inside your head?You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are somehow conjured up by 1.4 kilograms of grey matter inside your skull. That might seem impossible, but science has advanced so much that we now understand not just its structures and inner workings but also how it can give rise to perception, consciousness, ... Read more

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  • The Lucky Years

    How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health

    by David B. Agus, M.D. ...
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  • Health Care in Canada

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