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“alex kuczynski”

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  • Beauty Junkies

    Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery

    by Alex Kuczynski ...
    A star writer for the New York Times Styles section captures the follies, frauds, and fanaticism that fuel the American pursuit of youth and beauty in a wickedly revealing excursion into the burgeoning business of cosmetic enhancement.Americans are aging faster and getting fatter than any other population on the planet. At the same time, our popular notions of perfect beauty have become so strict ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Epic Measures

    One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

    by Jeremy N. Smith ...
    Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • ADHD Nation

    Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic

    by Alan Schwarz ...
    The groundbreaking account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—and how its unchecked growth has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society. “ADHD Nation should be required reading” (The New York Times Book Review).More than one in seven American children are diagnosed with ADHD—three ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cancer Whisperer

    Finding Courage, Direction, and the Unlikely Gifts of Cancer

    by Sophie Sabbage ...
    The self-published sensation and UK bestseller that has helped thousands touched by cancer.“I have cancer. Cancer does not have me.”Sophie Sabbage was forty-eight years old, happily married, and mother to a four-year-old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Since that shocking diagnosis, she has been on a remarkable journey of healing and renewal that has reshaped her life ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Health of Nations

    Towards a New Political Economy

    by Gavin Mooney ...
    Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism.Mooney analyses how power ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Plastic Surgery

    A Problem Based Approach

    Edited by Shehan Hettiaratchy, Matthew Griffiths, Farida Ali, Jon Simmons ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Plastic Surgery, A Problem Based Approach provides a problem-based approach to solutions for common scenarios in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and serves as a practical guide to managing a plastic surgical case.This book outlines a pathway through management for the clinician, consisting of six phases:Recognition of the condition: facilitated by high quality images.General approach ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The dynamics of patient organizations in Europe

    Edited by Madeleine Akrich, João Nunes, Florence Paterson, Vololona Rabeharisoa ...
    Series series Sciences sociales
    Patient organizations today play a major role in the scientific, economic and political arenas. They have become the quasi-obliged partners of researchers, industrialists and political authorities. This book investigates this quite recent configuration by offering an in-depth exploration of three thematic issues: To what social and political stakes are patient organizations confronted as regards ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Partial Breast Reconstruction

    Techniques in Oncoplastic Surgery

    Edited by Albert Losken, Moustapha Hamdi ...
    FOUR STARS from Doody's Star Ratings™This second edition of Partial Breast Reconstruction: Techniques in Oncoplastic Surgery builds on and expands the authoritative procedures presented in the first edition, adding and updating the content with up-to-the-minute concepts, techniques, and innovations in oncoplastic breast surgery, all elucidated with hundreds of color images and illustrations.This ... Read more

    $269.99 USD

  • The Next Pandemic

    On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

    by Dr. Ali S Khan ...
    An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat -- Ebola, SARS, Zika, coronavirus -- ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rhinoplasty E-Book

    Expert Consult - Online

    by Bahman Guyuron ...
    Dr. Bahman Guyuron's Rhinoplasty shows you how to get the best results from the latest rhinoplasty techniques. The high-quality artwork and step-by-step instructions in this medical reference book provide all the guidance you need to succeed. You'll choose and apply the best approaches for particular patient populations such as cocaine users, patients with thick skin, ethnic patients, and revision ... Read more

    $267.99 USD

  • Cosmetic Surgery Narratives

    A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women's Accounts

    by Debra Gimlin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines British and American women's narratives of cosmetic surgery, exploring what those narratives say about the contemporary status of cosmetic surgery and 'local' ideas about its legitimate and illegitimate uses. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rhinoplasty: Current Concepts, An Issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery

    by Ronald P. Gruber, MD, David Stepnick, MD ...
    Series Book Volume 37-2 - The Clinics: Surgery
    Rhinoplasty is a commmon procedure that may be performed by a plastic surgeon or an otolaryngologist specializing in facial plastic surgery. This is the first issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery to bring together authors who are both plastic surgeons and facial plastic surgeons to share their expertise in performing reconstructive and cosmetic rhinoplasty procedures. ... Read more

    $75.59 USD