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  • Mudpacks and Prozac

    Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing

    by Murphy Halliburton ...
    People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies—from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • India and the Patent Wars

    Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime

    by Murphy Halliburton ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes to analyses of globalization within the fields of anthropology, sociology, law, and public health by ... Read more

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  • Toward an Integrative Medicine

    Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the biomedical profession's increasing interest in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system. Baer examines a ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Lethal But Legal

    Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

    by Nicholas Freudenberg ...
    Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Healing Emotions

    Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health

    by Daniel Goleman, The Dalai Lama ...
    Can the mind heal the body? The Buddhist tradition says yes—and now many Western scientists are beginning to agree. Healing Emotions is the record of an extraordinary series of encounters between the Dalai Lama and prominent Western psychologists, physicians, and meditation teachers that sheds new light on the mind-body connection. Topics include: compassion as medicine; the nature of ... Read more

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  • The Grandest Challenge

    Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village

    by Abdallah Daar, Peter A. Singer ...
    The health-sciences equivalent of Thomas Friedman's bestseller The World is Flat, this inspiring and revelatory book by two of today's finest scientists shows how advances in global health will transform lives -- particularly in the developing world -- over the next decade.The Grandest Challenge begins with a simple premise: that every person's life is of equal value, regardless of where in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mindfulness

    Diverse Perspectives on its Meaning, Origins and Applications

    Edited by J. Mark G. Williams, Jon Kabat-Zinn ...
    Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common. New paradigms are emerging from a confluence of two powerful and potentially synergistic epistemologies: one arising from the wisdom traditions of Asia and the other arising from post-enlightenment empirical science ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Read more

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  • The Truth Pill

    The Myth of Drug Regulation in India

    by Dinesh Singh Thakur, Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu ...
    Since 2004, when the fraud at Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company at the time first came to light, the Indian pharmaceutical industry and clinical research organizations have been rocked by a series of scandals after investigations by American and European drug regulators. While the West has responded to concerns about quality of “Made in India” medicine by blocking exports from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Teaching Mindfulness

    A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators

    by Marc S. Micozzi, Donald McCown, Diane K. Reibel ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The applications and use of mindfulness-based interventions in medicine, mental health care, and education have been expanding as rapidly as the empirical evidence base that is validating and recommending them. This growth has created a powerful demand for professionals who can effectively deliver these interventions, and for the training of new professionals who can enter the fold.Ironically, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Foundations of EU Food Law and Policy

    Ten Years of the European Food Safety Authority

    by Alberto Alemanno, Simone Gabbi ...
    This volume presents the viewpoints of academics, food lawyers, industry and consumer representatives as well as those of EU policymakers on the first ten years of activity of one of the most prominent European agencies. Its broader purpose, however, is to discuss the future role played by EFSA within the rapidly-evolving area of EU food law and policy. By revisiting and discussing the milestones ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Buddhism and Bioethics

    by Damien Keown ...
    Buddhism and Bioethics is the first book to discuss contemporary issues in bioethics from a Buddhist perspective. Written in a clear and accessible style by a leading expert in field, and drawing on both ancient and modern sources, it shows how Buddhist ethical teachings can be applied to a range of controversial issues like abortion and euthanasia. ... Read more

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