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  • The Yoruba Traditional Healers of Nigeria

    by Mary Adekson ...
    Series series African Studies
    This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woma ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Fix

    by Damian Thompson ...
    Addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol and sex are taking over our lives.Our most casual daily habits can quickly become obsessions that move beyond our control. Damian Thompson, who has himself struggled with a range of addictions, argues that human desire is in the process of being reshaped. Shunning the concept of addiction as disease, he shows how manufacturers are producing ... Read more

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  • 7 Top Anxiety Management Techniques : How You Can Stop Anxiety And Release Stress Today

    by Heather Rose ...
    Coping with anxiety via anxiety management can be effectively achieved if you understand what severe anxiety means and how it progresses. Anxiety disorders are labeled in various categories such as General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), social phobias and panic attacks. Regardless of how anxiety is defined, short-term relief of anxiety symptoms, with the aid of proper ... Read more

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  • Saving Gotham

    A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives

    by Tom Farley, MD ...
    The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited smoking in bars, outlawed trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas, among other ... Read more

    $19.19 USD

  • The World Health Organization between North and South

    by Nitsan Chorev ...
    Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Bedside Manners

    Play and Workbook

    by Suzanne Gordon, Lisa Hayes, Scott Reeves ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors, even more so than the level of staff competence and experience. This is why many schools for health ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture

    Something. Nothing. Everything

    Edited by Carol-Ann Farkas ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    Pain. Chronic digestive symptoms. Poor sleep. Neuropathy. Sensory disturbances. Fatigue. Panic. Constant illness and discomfort. Frequent difficulty coping with work, school, relationships.Despite the common experience of being told that it’s all in their heads, that they’re just making themselves sick, individuals with these symptoms are experiencing a very real, sometimes debilitating, illness ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Invisible Work of Nurses

    Hospitals, Organisation and Healthcare

    by Davina Allen ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is through its relationships with patients – whether these are absent, present, good, bad or indifferent – that modern day nursing is defined. Yet nursing work extends far beyond direct patient care activities. Across the spectrum of locales in which they are employed, nurses, in numerous ways, support and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Public Shaping of Medical Research

    Patient Associations, Health Movements and Biomedicine

    Edited by Peter Wehling, Willy Viehöver, Sophia Koenen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics. Influencing the research agenda, and initiating, funding and accelerating the development of diagnostic tools, effective therapies and appropriate health-care for their area of interest, they may ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Risky Pleasures?

    Club Cultures and Feminine Identities

    by Fiona Hutton ...
    In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into women's experiences of clubbing. Based on a rich ethnographic account of the Manchester club scene, Risky Pleasures? is set within the context of the theoretical literature on youth subcultures, female friendship, consumption, risk and the city. The work highlights both the producers of club scenes - promoters, DJs, dealers - and the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Gender, Health and Healing

    The Public/Private Divide

    Edited by Gill Bendelow, Mick Carpenter, Caroline Vautier, Simon Williams ...
    What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health?How is 'biology' best understood?What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our understanding of health work?Is (gender) 'equity' in health possible?How have developments such as the resurgence of emotions and the new genetics affected these and other social relations at the turn of the century?These are just some of the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Zika

    From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat

    by Debora Diniz ...
    Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty ...
    Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book PrizeThe Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the Americas are being born with severe disabilities because of it. Yet during the desolating outbreak, Brazil played host to both the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, leading many to suspect that the true impact of the virus has been subject to a cover-up of international proportions.Beginning ... Read more

    $22.19 USD