Health Care Issues

Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals is a unique collection of personal narratives that chronicle the journeys of doctors and other healthcare professionals who have been personally impacted by life-altering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945564130Author Sanjeev NandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mayo Clinic PressPublisher Mayo Clinic Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897936613Author Lani SimpsonPage Count 320Imprint Hunter House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hunter House Inc.,U.S.

'Informative, powerful' VOGUE'A fascinating and friendly guide for you to understand you better' MELISSA HEMSLEY'Amy's book is everything I should have learned at school' EMMA GANNONHormones were something Amy Thomson, founder and CEO of leading women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452296862Author Peter PronovostFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Plume

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916411203Author Paul ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Paul Clayton Education Ltd.Publisher Paul Clayton Education Ltd.Weight(grams)...

The British National Health Service remains the sacred cow of British politics - any criticism is considered beyond the pale, guaranteed to trigger angry responses and accusations of bad faith. This book argues that the NHS should not be insulated from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945564123Author Dr. Craig BowronFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Mayo Clinic PressPublisher Mayo Clinic PressWeight(grams) 284g

Epilepsy: The Facts is written specifically for sufferers of epilepsy and their friends and families. This easy-to-understand, evidence-based guide to epilepsy explains everything about the causes and effects of the disease, clearly and simply. The...

Depending on which doctor you speak with, or which websites you read, cannabis could be an appealing, low-risk medicine - even an aid to wellness - or an insidiously addictive drug rotting the brains of our youth. This dissonance confuses young people,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583334768Author Diane Roberts StolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

This clear, rigorously researched and up-to-date encyclopedia will help to assess and understand a vast range of ailments. From the common cold to chronic fatigue syndrome, and from osteoarthritis to autoimmune diseases, health issues are addressed in...

The impact of finding out your child is disabled can be wide ranging. The author's experience as a psychologist and parent of a disabled child informs this book which focuses on what helps, and hinders, parent-carers' emotional wellbeing. Research...

An incredibly important and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women in medical and social contexts. A polemic on the state of women's health and healthcare.One in ten women worldwide have endometriosis, yet it is funded at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814950794Author Sammy FayFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Jw ChoicesPublisher Jw ChoicesWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Scleroderma,a chronic autoimmune condition that causes hardening, thickening, or tightening of the skin and attacks the heart, lungs, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract,is extraordinarily difficult to diagnose and can take a huge toll on the...

'Explores the profound link between the food we eat and the way we think and feel' Radio 4 Start the Week'A powerful book that breaks down the dangerous beliefs that food is just fuel and delivers an important message we can all get behind... the...

This valuable self-help book for people affected by cancer, their loved ones and friends focuses on self-care when life hurts. It explores the impact of cancer and explains why the usual ways of coping may leave people stuck. The first book of its kind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757003509Author James B. LaValleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One Publishers

This book is written for patients and members of the public who want to understand more about the approaches, methods and language used by health-services researchers. Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is now a requirement of most major...

These books provide your students with a strong and distinctive case study approach which will contextualise key issues with the Student Textbook for BTEC National Health and Social Care. Covering the core units - enabling students to get a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593422618Author Alden WickerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525486138Author Christiane Northrup, M.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912986500Author G Edward GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Dauphin PublicationsPublisher Dauphin PublicationsWeight(grams) 543g

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. 'The NHS is an institution. But it's also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for...

"If you want to understand how the latest advances in genomics and AI can completely transform your health, and to translate this promise into practical tools that you can apply today, read this book!"-Mark Hyman, author of Young ForeverTaking us to the...

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? Yet China, the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has expanded its social health insurance system at an unprecedented rate,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527383Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

If you follow the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that things in Ireland are worse than ever. In fact, we live longer than ever before, we have never been healthier or better educated, we earn five times more than our grandparents did, our...

What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings,...

TikTok star and A&E Doctor, Emeka Okorocha fast became a go-to source for healthcare advice and support during the pandemic. Your Health in Your Hands is his handbook for preventative medicine in the form of simple lifestyle hacks and advice for...

"At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her pyjamas, grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post and was going home."When her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951563Author Shannon L FarmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint City Point PressPublisher City Point PressWeight(grams) 1828gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Millions of Americans deal with daily digestive malfunction and attribute it to genetics or faulty wiring. Jennifer Browne reveals the common denominator present in almost all chronic digestive angst: food. What we choose to fuel ourselves with has a...

Research-based advice for people who care for someone with dementia Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It's not...

The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary mode of enquiry rather than continuing to borrow research methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes. Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education,...

In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Generation Rescue's co-founder J.B. Handley offers a compelling, science-based explanation of what's causing the autism epidemic, the lies that enable its perpetuation, and the steps we must take as parents and as a...

This important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities. Moving beyond a technologically driven, medicalised approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983198239Author Carolyn J StinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Willow Island PressPublisher Willow Island PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...