Public Health

This book presents food safety concepts and issues in a practical and applied framework for use in the classroom. It covers microbial food safety, chemical residues and contaminants, and risk assessment and food legislation. These sections can be used...

Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory chapter by the two co-editors analyzes and contextualizes current scholarly debates on the social, cultural,...

Historical, sociological, and ecological analyses reveal that the health of a people is broadly determined by the strength, resilience, and vitality of their culture. The destructive effects of oppression and exploitation on health linger and are...

The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches-from anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, public health administrators, biologists, and many others,...

Dr. Winter brings order to our understanding of nutrition, exercise, and how these factors work together in health and illness. Many diseases-cancer, heart attack, and stroke, for example-are discussed in detail. It is not a fad book-just pure facts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291159Author Marc C WillemsenFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014313645Author Sundari Mohan DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014085399Author Séverin 1851-1913 LaChapelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 286g

Health and sustainability have become ubiquitous topics in all realms of popular discourse. What these discussions often overlook is the fact that the two concepts are interrelated, and that their surrounding policies and practices can often inform and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013275814Author Aletta BonnFormat HardbackPage Count 494Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014034991Author Luigi 1475-1566 CornaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 209g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013772535Author Sir John FloyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 272g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013878022Author Jogender Lal ChundraFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013804939Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 567g

An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness. This latest book takes a more formal 'groupoid'...

At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated food, lived in decaying urban tenements, and had little access to medical care. In a city that demanded change, Los Angeles...

Examines the complex interrelationships that inform the health care system. Health care, like all social systems, is a product of thought. Up to now, our collective thinking has been based on trying to manage parts, not the whole. This book inquires into...

As a society, we are faced with a series of dilemmas-abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, organ transplant allocation, support or non-support of the elderly and fragile-that seem to offer no resolution. How do we choose between the needy and the...

Written by researchers at a federally funded outreach program to combat the spread of AIDS, this book analyzes the efforts of the Miami Community Outreach Project to intervene in AIDS-related risk behavior among intravenous drug users and their sexual...

Scholars from around the world have contributed to the first major reference book to be published on female prostitution as an international phenomenon. Experts survey and analyze the historical background, current problems and policies, and future...

In brief, concise chapters, this volume considers the status of abortion in Europe today. Each chapter provides an overview of abortion in the subject country, including the historical background; the current legal, medical, and social situation; and the...

Since the passage in 1990 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, society has made considerable strides in improving the quality of life and the productivity of individuals with disabilities. At the same time, however, the American health care system has...

In 1898 Heroin, the Bayer trademark name for diacetylmorphine, was commercially introduced to every corner of the Earth. Contrary to common assertion, Heroin was not recommended for treatment of morphine or opium habits. Rather, Heroin filled a desperate...

Nursing home reform, Professor Farmer asserts, calls for increased emphasis upon issues related to life rather than care. Organizational climate, which reflects the nursing home's unique position to impact life issues, provides a conceptual framework for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013516818Author Sir W N (Walter Noel) HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013722158Author C -E A (Charles-Edward Amo WinslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 109g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014323606Author Rhode Island School of Design MuseumFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013644245Author William 1830-1918 TebbFormat HardbackPage Count 30Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014443793Author Woodstock Sanitary Convention (1887Format PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014374769Author American Public Health AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 594g

Authors Raymond P. Daugherty and Carl Leukefeld argue for replacing the youth-based, `zero tolerance' approach to substance abuse prevention that has been dominant in the field over the past two decades. Their dynamic alternative is the Lifestyle Risk...

This volume examines models of collaboration between personnel in social service agencies, women's centers, domestic violence programs, medical and mental health settings, and law enforcement. Techniques are detailed that allow knowledge about domestic...

This book integrates the expertise of profession tion available on the various health concerns and als from a broad array of disciplines-anthro subpopulations and by the numerous method pology, health services research, epidemiology, ological...

Shuval and Bernstein examine the occupational integration of immigrant physicians from the former Soviet Union to Israel, Canada, and the United States. An analysis of general immigration policy and the licensing and employment of immigrant physicians in...

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Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book presents an insightful exploration of the theoretical and practical advances in women's health care. The opening part examines the various shapes that a new framework in women's health might take. Such...

Audit is now an essential aspect of health care provision. Increasingly, computers are becoming an integral part of the clinical audit function and this book provides an introduction to the principles of this application. It assumes to prior knowledge of...