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  • Medicine, Healing and Performance

    Edited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes, Rhiannon Pettitt ...
    Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vigor Mortis

    The Vitality of the Dead in Medieval Societies

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce, Stephen Gordon ...
    This volume explores the enduring presence and participation of the dead in the lives of premodern people from the Carolingian period to the end of the Middle Ages.Unlike modern states, which erect barriers to separate the dying and the deceased from their families, friends, and associates, premodern societies in western Europe fostered an on-going relationship between the living and the dead that ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Bovine Tuberculosis

    by A. Arunachalam, H.A. Bahamonde, L. Borrelli, S. Briggs, G. Caballé, C. Carrasco, S.X. Chang, C. Concha, S.K. Dhyani, F. Dube, C. Dupraz, M.E. Fernández, C. Figueroa, V. Gargaglione, H.E. Garrett, M.A. Gold, Professor Andrew Gordon, J. Gyenge, N.E. Hansen, M.F. Hawke, S. Jose, P.D. Kemp, R.L. Knowles, B.M. Kumar, N. Lamersdorf, G.J. Lawson, M.V. Lencinas, C.E. Lloyd, G. Martínez Pastur, R. Moore, B. Müller-Using, P. Neira, S. Ormaechea, V.P. Papanastasis, X. Peng, P.L. Peri, D.J. Pilbeam, A. Rosati, J. Ruiz-Mirazo, V. Rusch, M. Sarasola, J.M. Schwenke, V. Schwenke, R. Soler, N.B. Stolpe, L.E. Tejera, N.V. Thevathasan, A.R. von Müller, W. Wang, T. Ward, L. Zabek, E. Zagal ...
    This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing ... Read more

    $49.89 USD

  • Supernatural Encounters

    Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c.1050–1450

    by Stephen Gordon ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. Whether a pestilent-spreading corpse mobilised by the devil, a purgatorial spirit returning to earth to ask for suffrage, or a shape-shifting demon intent on crushing its victims as they slept, encounters with supernatural entities were often met with consternation and fear. Chroniclers, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Brain Trust

    The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease

    by Colm A. Kelleher, Ph.D. ...
    When the cattle-borne sickness known as Mad Cow Disease first appeared in America in 2003, authorities were quick to assure the nation that the outbreak was isolated, quarantined, and posed absolutely no danger to the general public.What we were not told was that the origins of the sickness may already have been here and suspected for a quarter of a century.This illuminating exposé of the threat ... Read more

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  • The Hearts of a Girl

    The Journey Through Congenital Heart Disease & Heart Transplant

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  • Cognitive-Behavioral Case Formulation and Treatment Design

    A Problem-Solving Approach

    by Arthur M. Nezu, PhD, ABPP, Christine Maguth Nezu, PhD, ABPP, Elizabeth R. Lombardo, PhD ...
    This user-friendly guide will help the clinician develop Cognitive-Behavioral treatment plans for 11 common psychological disorders (e.g., major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety, borderline personality disorder, anger problems). Based on a problem-solving model and empirical literature, the authors focus on two major clinical tasks involved in this process: case formulation and treatment ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Putting Your Patients on the Pump

    by Karen M. Bolderman, Nicholas B. Argento, Gary Scheiner, Susan L. Barlow ...
    In a clear and concise style, the extensively revised Putting Your Patients on the Pump offers physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinicians, and educators experience and practical guidance on how to help patients successfully manage their diabetes using an insulin pump. Ten chapters provide an in-depth description of insulin pump therapy advantages and disadvantages, pump and ... Read more

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    Fifty-nine-year-old Robert LaPlante gave up cigarettes in his twenties, was never overweight, practiced good health habits, and had run marathons and many other foot races. He lived his life in a way he believed would ward off terrible things like cancer. But in November 2008, LaPlante received the devastating diagnosis of signet ring cell adenocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that ... Read more

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  • Diabetes Case Studies

    Real Problems, Practical Solutions

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  • The Younger Next Year Back Book

    The Whole-Body Plan to Conquer Back Pain Forever

    by Chris Crowley, Jeremy James ...
    "A great book for back-pain sufferers and their caregivers alike."—Todd J. Albert MD, Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director, Hospital for Special Surgery, New YorkIf there's one lesson to learn from the national bestselling Younger Next Year series, it's that we can dramatically change our quality of life by taking the right kind of care of ourselves. This is just as true for back pain. Formulated ... Read more

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