Public Health category: 1911 books
by Bob Xu, Chun-Su Yuan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This is a concise handbook providing a quick clinical reference on Chinese medicinal treatments for many diseases, based on Traditional Chinese Medicine theory and practice. Organized by different clinical conditions and diseases, it provides clinicians and healthcare professionals with definitions...
Uncivilised Genes
Human evolution and the urban paradox
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
In Uncivilised Genes: Human Evolution and the Urban Paradox, Gustav Milne explores how we can reconfigure our lifestyles and urban environments, based on an understanding of our prehistoric past, in order to bring about a richer future for mankind.
We evolved as hunter-gatherers over a period...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Castéra-Verduzan, France, August 1-16, 1981
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
The focus of this book lies on novel aspects of rehabilitation medicine used as a treatment tool in both physical and mental spheres.
The articles cover a diverse spectrum, such as rehabilitation in orthopedic pathologies, the exemplary of which is knee joint degeneration, in perioperative...
Living Safely, Aging Well
A Guide to Preventing Injuries at Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
As we age, our sense of balance and our vision, hearing, and cognition become less sharp. Aging-related changes greatly increase our risk of injury. In Living Safely, Aging Well, nationally recognized safety expert Dorothy A. Drago spells out how to prevent injury while cooking, gardening, sleeping,...
Human Physical Fitness and Activity
An Evolutionary and Life History Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The science of human physical activity and fitness is ripe for a novel theoretical framework that can integrate the ecological, genetic, physiological and psychological factors that influence physical activity in humans. Physical inactivity dominates most developed nations around the world, and...
by France Meslé, Vladimir Shkolnikov, Serhii Pyrozhkov
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these catastrophes but do not distinguish...
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
A "powerful and indispensable book" (Gerald Markowitz) on the devastating consequences of environmental racism -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.
Did you know...
Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000...
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are...
Sometimes Brilliant
The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in...
The World's Emergency Room
The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care....
by Susan Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This is not Jamaica ER of the UK's Channel 4. It's a kinder, more respectful & less invasive self expose of a Jamaican doctor's journey into and through medicine. Maybe a milder, Jamaican, version of Blood, Sweat & Tea. Even so, it is no less eye opening, even shocking, & can be funny...
Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist
A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An absorbing and touching read, this collection of true stories is the first book by a Canadian doctor on the topic of refugee health.
Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees.
An...
Epidemic
Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Wilson examines the global response to a deadly outbreak and exposes the current holes in a global health system that is unprepared to handle the next big outbreak.
The heartbreaking story of the devastation wrought in three desperately poor countries — and the heart stopping truth about how close the world came to a global pandemic.