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  • Living Pharmaceutical Lives Living Pharmaceutical Lives
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    Living Pharmaceutical Lives

    Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life.Exploring...
    $372.01

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  • Medicine and the Marketplace Medicine and the Marketplace
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    Medicine and the Marketplace

    The emerging dominance of managed care provided by profit-seeking corporations has intensified the public's concern that traditional business goals of maximizing profits will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well-being. Society is...
    $73.52

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  • User Interface Requirements for Medical Devices User Interface Requirements for Medical Devices
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    User Interface Requirements for Medical Devices

    This book is a practical guide for individuals responsible for creating products that are safe, effective, usable, and satisfying in the hands of the intended users. The contents are intended to reduce the number of use errors involving medical devices...
    $187.84

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  • Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care
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    Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care

    Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care examines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the...
    $117.92

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  • Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine
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    Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine

    While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine - that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education - outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language...
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  • Exercise and Chronic Disease Exercise and Chronic Disease
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    Exercise and Chronic Disease

    It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An...
    $196.50

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  • Youth, The 'Underclass' and Social Exclusion Youth, The 'Underclass' and Social Exclusion
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    Youth, The 'Underclass' and Social Exclusion

    The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become...
    $413.95

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  • Choose to Lose Choose to Lose
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    Choose to Lose

    Take charge of your life with the only weight loss book that lets you choose what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat. Here is the fully revised and updated version of the book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers lose weight by...
    $51.99

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  • How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection
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    How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection

    How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection offers actionable steps for improving communication between health professionals and patients based on visual, auditory, and emotional understanding from the principles of cognitive psychology.Drawing on the...
    $375.76

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  • Artificial Intelligence Applications in a Pandemic Artificial Intelligence Applications in a Pandemic
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    Artificial Intelligence Applications in a Pandemic

    The book demonstrates unique and useful applications of AI, in particular COVID-19 and examines the challenges in the advancement of artificial intelligence in advance medical science. It will be useful to undergrad and postgraduate students, analysts,...
    $122.89

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  • Understanding Drugs Markets Understanding Drugs Markets
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    Understanding Drugs Markets

    Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding...
    $372.01

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  • Daddy Is Still Here! Daddy Is Still Here!
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    Daddy Is Still Here!

    Daddy Is Still Here! is the back story to the author's first book of the Still Here series, Mama Is Still Here! This book is about a son in his forty's caregiving journey for three individuals with three very different diseases. His mother's Alzheimer's...
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  • Studying for a Foundation Degree in Health Studying for a Foundation Degree in Health
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    Studying for a Foundation Degree in Health

    Studying for a Foundation Degree in Health is designed to provide clear, relevant knowledge and to support appropriate skills development amongst students enrolled on foundation degree and equivalent level courses, in health and social care. Combining...
    $125.51

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  • Intellectual Disability in Health and Social Care Intellectual Disability in Health and Social Care
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    Intellectual Disability in Health and Social Care

    Many practitioners within health and social care come into contact with people with intellectual disabilities and want to work in ways that are beneficial to them by making reasonable adjustments in order to meet clients' needs and expectations. Yet the...
    $162.62

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  • Welcome to My Practice Welcome to My Practice
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    Welcome to My Practice

    I love having a practice where we quicklysoothe and comfort nervous patients. Eventhough my patients are in pain and apprehensivewhen they walk into my office, theyare smiling and laughing when they walk out.Eliminating my patients’ pain is the...
    $18.30

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  • The Handbook of Forensic Mental Health in Africa The Handbook of Forensic Mental Health in Africa
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    The Handbook of Forensic Mental Health in Africa

    The Handbook of Forensic Mental Health in Africa traces the history of forensic mental health in Africa, discussing the importance of considering cultural differences when implementing Western-validated practices on the continent while establishing...
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  • Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health
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    Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health

    Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the evidence behind the UK's public health priorities into one comprehensible textbook. Taking one theme per chapter, the book examines the social and environmental influences that shape...
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  • Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context
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    Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context

    This book is the first comprehensive international overview of maternity services. Drawing on concepts of risk and social citizenship, it explores the relationship between welfare regimes and health policy by comparing and contrasting provision for...
    $401.63

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  • Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences
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    Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences

    There is a growing interest in, and acceptance of, qualitative research approaches in the health science disciplines, both as standalone methodologies and integrated with quantitative designs in mixed methods approaches. This comprehensive text provides...
    $136.55

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  • Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses
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    Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses

    This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. It provides new insights into the development of nursing roles and nurse education and...
    $131.67

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  • Understanding Child Abuse Understanding Child Abuse
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    Understanding Child Abuse

    Understanding Child Abuse is the first book to look at women whose partners are child sex offenders. Much of the book is devoted to the voices of the women themselves, telling their stories and how they feel about the situations in which they found...
    $93.79

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  • Sociology and Health Sociology and Health
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    Sociology and Health

    This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. Written for anyone who is interested in health and disease in contemporary global society, this book engages...
    $413.95

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  • The Sociology and Politics of Health The Sociology and Politics of Health
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    The Sociology and Politics of Health

    Health care systems, the role of health professionals and the experience of health and illness are all undergoing change and development as we enter the twenty-first century. The Sociology and Politics of Health is a collection of key readings through...
    $87.77

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  • Women's Health and Social Change Women's Health and Social Change
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    Women's Health and Social Change

    Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between...
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  • Food, Health and Identity Food, Health and Identity
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    Food, Health and Identity

    By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices.The articles...
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  • Working with Men Working with Men
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    Working with Men

    One of feminism's key contributions to improving social work practice has been to expose the gender-blindness which has characterized social work policy and literature. Working with Men extends and diversifies this contribution by presenting a...
    $491.57

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  • Sexuality and Illness Sexuality and Illness
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    Sexuality and Illness

    This evidence-based guide educates and informs health professionals about promoting sexual wellbeing in the context of challenges from physical and mental health.Sexuality is an important aspect of quality of life for many people but can be affected by a...
    $375.76

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  • Endocrine Diseases in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period Endocrine Diseases in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
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    Endocrine Diseases in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

    This book delivers comprehensive explanations of normal hormonal physiology during pregnancy and descriptions of the hormonal pathology associated with various endocrine disease states. In addition, it serves as a relevant and synoptic resource for the...
    $159.78

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  • A Concise Guide to Continuity of Care in Midwifery A Concise Guide to Continuity of Care in Midwifery
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    A Concise Guide to Continuity of Care in Midwifery

    Continuity of care in midwifery - the most traditional way of practising - has been overlooked for much of the last century but is re-emerging as an evidence-based model of care, one which is known to benefit women. This book is a vital companion to...
    $110.48

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  • Last Years of Long Lives Last Years of Long Lives
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    Last Years of Long Lives

    The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the experiences of people over eighty years old in three important...
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  • Migration and Homing of Lymphoid Cells Migration and Homing of Lymphoid Cells
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    Migration and Homing of Lymphoid Cells

    First published in 1988: This comprehensive set is crucial to the basic understanding of the immune system and is an essential component of the design and implementation of improved immunization strategies.
    $401.63

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  • Concept Analysis in Nursing Concept Analysis in Nursing
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    Concept Analysis in Nursing

    Concept analysis is an established genre of inquiry in nursing, introduced in the 1970s. Currently, over 100 concept studies are published annually, yet the methods used within this field have rarely been questioned. In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New...
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  • Health, Illness and Culture Health, Illness and Culture
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    Health, Illness and Culture

    This book offers a broad overview and critical analysis of the present state of the field of "illness narratives," encompassing clinical case studies, ethnographic field studies and autobiographical case studies.
    $413.95

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  • Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents
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    Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents

    Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents proposes an entirely unique approach to the field of gerontology, giving dependent care receivers a voice.  Caregivers will be made aware of what care receivers truly want during life's final chapters...
    $62.78

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  • Oh Mama ... Perinatal Integrative Healthcare Oh Mama ... Perinatal Integrative Healthcare
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    Oh Mama ... Perinatal Integrative Healthcare

    A definitive guidebook to natural health wellness for the maternity journeyOh Mama is the ground-breaking handbook for Birth Practitioners overviewing perinatal integrative medicine (holistic maternal/fetal/neonatal wellness). It outlines all the major...
    $47.18

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