Disease & Health Issues

This book explores the social, ethical and legal implications of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Providing a comparative analysis of several European countries, the authors evaluate the varied approaches to the application of ART throughout...

The information age has revolutionized nearly every facet of human communication-from the ways in which people purchase products to how they meet and fall in love. These exciting new communication technologies can both unite and divide us. People who are...

The Promise and Perils of " Silence" or " Temoignage" During Humanitarian Crises provides readers with a nuanced study of what happens when historical and 21st century medical humanitarian communities, armed with their idealistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781395862671Author Global HealingFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Desert Thrust LtdPublisher Desert Thrust LtdWeight(grams) 163g

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis to be solved, this reference work...

Beginning in the mid-19th century tremendous gains were made in the historical struggle with infectious diseases. The emergence of modern medicine and epidemiology, and the establishment of public health measures, helped urban populations overcome a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781395863463Author Global HealingFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Desert Thrust LtdPublisher Desert Thrust LtdWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250861535Author Rina RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250849366Author Nicola TwilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780316523172Author Beth MacyFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little...

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have...

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465269010Author National Safety ComplianceFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This engaging text provides a sociological perspective on health, illness, and health care. Serving as an introduction to medical sociology for undergraduate and graduate students, it also presents a summary of the field for medical sociologists and for...

The proposed Andean Regional Initiative recognises that the problem of illegal drug trade must be addressed with a two-track strategy. Interdiction and eradication efforts must be accompanied with financial assistance that strengthens legal economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593728635Author Johann HariFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Humour is officially recognized in positive psychology as one of the 24 ‘character strengths’. However, laughter has an uneasy relationship with positive psychology, despite being key to communicating joy and happiness.The Positive Psychology of Laughter...

It's hard today to remember how recently cancer was a silent killer, a dreaded disease about which people rarely spoke in public. In hospitals and doctors' offices, conversations about malignancy were hushed and hope was limited. In this deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115366Author Julie SalamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990382362Author Jr MD John F ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Sunny Day Publishing, LLCPublisher Sunny Day Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974045726Author Michael YanuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Bioenergy PublishingPublisher Bioenergy PublishingWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982439913Author Donald RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Eyestorms BooksPublisher Eyestorms BooksWeight(grams) 229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692954973Author Robert M CanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Behavioral Health Consulting, IncPublisher Behavioral Health Consulting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578696829Author Tyler Lazarus StumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint He Who Rebels Against AllPublisher He Who Rebels Against AllWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061721779Author Lewis Mitchell CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393064407Author Erik P. EckholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307274953Author Charles BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

HIV Endurance: Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging offers an autoethnographic analysis of the lived experience of disclosing HIV to others, incorporating HIV into one’s identity, challenging HIV stigma, and aging with HIV. Charlene F. D’Amore...

In Show Me Where It Hurts, Monica Chiu argues that graphic pathography—long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired—re-vitalizes and re-visions various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172510Author Kari NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint S&s/Simon ElementPublisher S&s/Simon ElementWeight(grams) 140g

Why medication-assisted treatment, the most effective tool for battling opioid addiction, is significantly underused in the United States.Bronze Winner of the 2021 IPPY Book Award in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Gold Winner of the 2020 Foreword INDIES...

This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It argues that focusing on research-informed ideas usefully draws attention to...

In November 2014, representatives from over 170 governments, together with leaders of inter-governmental organizations and civil society - including non-governmental organizations, researchers, the private sector, and consumer representatives - converged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857289780Author Paul FrenchFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g

Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines...

The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978819658Author Vania Smith-OkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978818224Author Mette N. SvendsenFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937584832Author Jon E. MicaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine Day

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989339Author Maria Berta EcijaFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g