Preventive Medicine

Make informed decisions about the benefits of using cannabis Pot is hot-for good reason. To date, 30 states have legalized medical marijuana to the tune of nearly $11B in consumer spending. Whether it's to help alleviate symptoms of an illness or for...

Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose...

REVISED AND UPDATED with new medical research, 28 days of meals, and new recipes! Heart disease kills more people than any other medical condition. And no one is more aware of this than top cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall, who has performed over...

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! Designed for busy clinicians struggling to fit the critical issue of nutrition into their routine patient encounters, Nutrition in Clinical Practice translates the robust evidence base underlying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399933070Author Stephen R KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint New Voice PublishingPublisher New Voice PublishingDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 2mm

Learn how to take control of your health - and decrease susceptibility to infectious viral disease before it strikes. In The Virus and the Host, naturopathic doctor Chris Chlebowski, teaches readers how to take control of their health - and decrease...

Inequalities in health, in terms of both empirical evidence and policies to tackle their reduction, are currently high on the research and political agendas. This reader provides two centuries of historical context to the current debate. Poverty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916362291Author Lee AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint 1889 BooksPublisher 1889 Books

Leading researchers in the social sciences describe and explain the unequal chances of long and healthy life between social groups, ethnic groups, men and women and geographical areas.About the AuthorMel Bartley is Professor Emerita of Medical Sociology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684868639Author REAVENFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! For more than 30 years, Designing Clinical Research has set the standard as the most practical, authoritative guide for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other practitioners involved in all forms of...

First published in 1973, Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics, Fourth Edition was designed to provide medical students and other trainees with an introduction to the principles of public health with special reference to the situation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957099395Author Paul RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Elephant in the Room BooksPublisher Elephant in the Room BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936251100Author Case Adams NaturopathFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Logical BooksPublisher Logical BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'I am truly delighted to be recommending this book and suite of resources to you - I trust that you will find them as inspiring and thought provoking as I have done'Prof Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard DBE PhD FRCGP FLSWChair of the Academy of Medical Royal...

The Intervention Mapping bible, updated with new theory, trends, and cases Planning Health Promotion Programs is the "bible" of the field, guiding students and practitioners through the planning process from a highly practical perspective. Using an...

The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating...

People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition. Discrimination can pervade every part of their daily life - their personal life, working life, sense of citizenship, their...

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Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles...

A Groundbreaking Guide to the HPV Vaccine and the science, safety, and business Behind ItCancer strikes fear in people's hearts around globe. So the appearance of a vaccine to prevent cancer-as we are assured the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine...

At a time of increasing volatility in healthcare provision, we are all having to become more responsible for our own well-being. This book - an imaginative, practical and accessible guide to our inner organs - is written for anyone who wants to improve...

This unique book presents in a single collection around 50 essays by Dr Launer on reflective practice in medicine, including examples specific to medical education and multiprofessional healthcare. Based on existing contributions to the literature by Dr...

This book is a comprehensive guide to producing medical software for routine clinical use. It is a practical guidebook for medical professionals developing software to ensure compliance with medical device regulations for software products intended to be...

Climate change has been identified as the biggest global health threat of the twenty-first century. Hundreds of millions of people around the world currently suffer from allergic diseases such as asthma and allergic rhinitis (hay fever), and the...

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602201644Author Zha WeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint BetterLink Press IncorporatedPublisher BetterLink Press Incorporated

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management. It contains over twenty chapters from well-known and eminent academic authors, who were carefully selected for their expertise and...

'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible...

Whether a man is in his twenties, thirties, or sixties, he is always one day closer to being told he has a prostate problem. This growing health issue affects more than 20 million men nationwide, with more than 200,000 diagnosed with prostate cancer...

Following the events of 9/11 and in the current world climate, there is increasing concern of the impact of potential bioterrorism attacks. Spatial surveillance systems are used to detect changes in public health data, and alert us to possible outbreaks...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to love a healthcare system? It is often claimed that the UK population is unusually attached to its National Health Service, and the last decade has seen increasingly...

"Crack in America" is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism,...

This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. It will become the standard account of the way diseases arising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912664009Author Anthony CostelloFormat HardbackPage Count 525Imprint ThornwickPublisher Thornwick

Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which...

The public has taken a new level of interest in outbreak response since 2020, learning epidemiologic terms and developing diverse levels of expertise and facility. Public health professionals are now calling on citizen scientists to engage as outbreaks...

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow. Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva...

Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes. Even scientists still seem to be arguing about what causes obesity, so what hope is there for the rest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525538868Author Steven JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc