Disease & Health Issues

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 *...

For the Public Good: Women, Equity and Health in Rural India details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local solutions to solve intractable global...

For the Public Good: Women, Equity and Health in Rural India details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local solutions to solve intractable global...

On July 1, 2003, work-hour reforms were enacted nationally for the roughly 129,000 resident physicians in the United States. The reforms limit weekly work hours (a maximum of eighty per week) and in-hospital call (no more than once every three nights),...

2021 Honorable Mention for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s Rosaldo Book Prize Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives. In Delivering Health, author Lydia Z. Dixon uncovers the ways such outcomes have been shaped...

On July 1, 2003, work-hour reforms were enacted nationally for the roughly 129,000 resident physicians in the United States. The reforms limit weekly work hours (a maximum of eighty per week) and in-hospital call (no more than once every three nights),...

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...

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are...

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 9781953534194Author Daisy HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783085040Author Susan KippaxFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths...

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978829862Author Serge BouznahFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804673539Author Young Dreamers PressPage Count 131Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 345g

Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Health Sector: Ebola Affected Countries in West Africa examines the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis in three West African countries. The authors argue that this public health disaster was exacerbated by the lack of...

Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now a chronic but manageable disease. These proclamations have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601222Author Emily KenwayFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Seal Press (CA)Publisher Seal Press (CA)Weight(grams) 494g

A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. "biocultures"-where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab...

Analyzing asthma care in the twenty-first century Asthma is not a new problem, but today the disease is being reshaped by changing ecologies, healthcare systems, medical sciences, and built environments. A global epidemic, asthma (and our efforts to...

An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer's disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. In...