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The Deepest Well

Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

by Nadine Burke Harris ...

“An extraordinary, eye-opening book.” —PeopleNational Health Information Awards winner“A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowDr. Nadine Burke Harris was ... Read more

$8.99 USD

“An extraordinary, eye-opening book.” —PeopleNational Health Information Awards winner“A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowDr. Nadine Burke Harris was
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Revolution in Mind

The Creation of Psychoanalysis

by George Makari ...

"A well-written, compendious, and deeply researched history of psychoanalysis from the 1880s until World War II" ( The Journal of Modern History).In a sweeping narrative, George Makari demonstrates how a new way of thinking about inner life coalesced and won followers who spread this body of thought throughout the West. Along the way he introduces the reader to a fascinating array of characters, ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"A well-written, compendious, and deeply researched history of psychoanalysis from the 1880s until World War II" ( The Journal of Modern History).In a sweeping narrative, George Makari demonstrates how a new way of thinking about inner life coalesced and won followers who spread this body of thought throughout the West. Along the way he introduces the reader to a fascinating array of characters,
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Polit & Beck's Nursing Research

Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice

by Jane Flanagan, Cheryl Tatano Beck ...

Approachable, up-to-date, and rich with practical tips and strategies, Polit & Beck’s Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, 12th Edition, is the go-to text for teaching students how to perform research and critically appraise research reports for use in practice. Clear writing details the latest methodologic innovations in nursing, medicine, and social sciences, ... Read more

$115.99 USD

Approachable, up-to-date, and rich with practical tips and strategies, Polit & Beck’s Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, 12th Edition, is the go-to text for teaching students how to perform research and critically appraise research reports for use in practice. Clear writing details the latest methodologic innovations in nursing, medicine, and social sciences,
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Practical Bioethics

Ethics for Patients and Providers

by J.K. Miles ...

Practical Bioethics offers a mix of theory and readings, presented in a format that is succinct and approachable. Each chapter begins and ends with a case study, illustrating the core issues at play and emphasizing the practical nature of the dilemmas arising in medicine. Primary source texts are provided to flesh out the issues, and each of these is carefully edited and presented with interwoven ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Practical Bioethics offers a mix of theory and readings, presented in a format that is succinct and approachable. Each chapter begins and ends with a case study, illustrating the core issues at play and emphasizing the practical nature of the dilemmas arising in medicine. Primary source texts are provided to flesh out the issues, and each of these is carefully edited and presented with interwoven
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The Butchering Art

Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

by Lindsey Fitzharris ...

Winner, PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead WakeIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Winner, PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead WakeIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no
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Medicare for All

A Citizen's Guide

by Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson ...

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go ... Read more

$12.99 USD

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go
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Quackery

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen ...

What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, ... Read more

$15.19 USD

What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor,
... Read more
The New Public Health Law

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy

by Scott Burris, Micah L. Berman, Matthew Penn, Tara Ramanathan Holiday ...

Public health law isn't just for lawyers. Or at least it doesn't have to be. Originally published in 2018, The New Public Health Law was the first textbook to arm lawyers and public health professionals of any background with the tools to fully exploit the potential of law to improve public health. This refreshed second edition furthers the transdisciplinary approach of the first edition with key ... Read more

$46.79 USD

Public health law isn't just for lawyers. Or at least it doesn't have to be. Originally published in 2018, The New Public Health Law was the first textbook to arm lawyers and public health professionals of any background with the tools to fully exploit the potential of law to improve public health. This refreshed second edition furthers the transdisciplinary approach of the first edition with key
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The Triumph of Doubt

Dark Money and the Science of Deception

by David Michaels ...

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning ... Read more

$18.09 USD

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning
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An American Sickness

How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

by Elisabeth Rosenthal ...

**A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

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**A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking
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Charlatan

America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

by Pope Brock ...

The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA TodayIn 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest ... Read more

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The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA TodayIn 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest
... Read more
Research Methods in Health Promotion

by Laura F. Salazar, Ralph J. DiClemente, Richard Crosby ...

The bestselling textbook to understanding health research, updated and expandedResearch Methods in Health Promotion provides students and practitioners with essential knowledge and skills regarding the design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation of research in the field of health promotion. Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook has been updated with more recent research ... Read more

$85.00 USD

The bestselling textbook to understanding health research, updated and expandedResearch Methods in Health Promotion provides students and practitioners with essential knowledge and skills regarding the design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation of research in the field of health promotion. Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook has been updated with more recent research
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Getting Health Economics into Practice

by David Kernick ...

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks ... Read more

$79.99 USD

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks
... Read more
American Sirens

The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

by Kevin Hazzard ...

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world.**? "A riveting portrait ... a fascinating and deeply rewarding study of triumph in the face of adversity." -**Publishers Weekly (starred review)Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world.**? "A riveting portrait ... a fascinating and deeply rewarding study of triumph in the face of adversity." -**Publishers Weekly (starred review)Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis,
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Bellevue

Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

by David Oshinsky ...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a ... Read more

$5.99 USD

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a
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If It Sounds Like a Quack...

A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling ...

A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies.It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you turn if you can't afford doctors, or don't trust them? In this book, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the ... Read more

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A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies.It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you turn if you can't afford doctors, or don't trust them? In this book, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the
... Read more
Prescriptions for Death How Nazi Doctors Turned Science into Genocide

by Julia Wolbrook ...

They wore white coats. They took oaths to heal. They believed in reason, progress, and the promise of science. And yet, in the shadowed corridors of the Third Reich, medicine became something else entirely, a weapon sharpened by ideology, wielded with clinical precision, and unleashed upon millions.Prescriptions for Death is a chilling, deeply human account of how some of the most educated minds ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

They wore white coats. They took oaths to heal. They believed in reason, progress, and the promise of science. And yet, in the shadowed corridors of the Third Reich, medicine became something else entirely, a weapon sharpened by ideology, wielded with clinical precision, and unleashed upon millions.Prescriptions for Death is a chilling, deeply human account of how some of the most educated minds
... Read more
How Contagion Works

Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate

by Paolo Giordano ...

The groundbreaking, moving essay on the coronavirus pandemic shared over 4 million times in Italy and published in 25 countries around the world-which lucidly explains how disease spreads and how our interconnectedness will save us."Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here." --Evening Standard (UK)In this ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The groundbreaking, moving essay on the coronavirus pandemic shared over 4 million times in Italy and published in 25 countries around the world-which lucidly explains how disease spreads and how our interconnectedness will save us."Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here." --Evening Standard (UK)In this
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Quick Medical Terminology

A Self-Teaching Guide

by Shirley Soltesz Steiner, Natalie Pate Capps ...

Series Book 197 - Wiley Self-Teaching Guides
The new, updated edition of the classic medical terminology reference with over 200,000 copies soldQuick Medical Terminology has long been relied on by students and medical professionals looking to build or update their medical vocabulary. This new fifth edition provides the tools and information needed to understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, along with ... Read more

$15.00 USD

The new, updated edition of the classic medical terminology reference with over 200,000 copies soldQuick Medical Terminology has long been relied on by students and medical professionals looking to build or update their medical vocabulary. This new fifth edition provides the tools and information needed to understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, along with
... Read more
Ethical Decision Making in Applied Behavior Analysis

by Dr. Ilene S. Schwartz, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Elizabeth M. Kelly, Ph.D. ...

Prepare students in applied behavior analysis (ABA) programs to navigate the complex ethical issues they’ll face in their professional practice. Aligned with the Behavior Analysis Certification Board’s most recent ethics code, this is the most student-friendly, accessible, and up-to-date ABA ethics text available.Comprehensive and expertly organized, this core text addresses the successes and ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Prepare students in applied behavior analysis (ABA) programs to navigate the complex ethical issues they’ll face in their professional practice. Aligned with the Behavior Analysis Certification Board’s most recent ethics code, this is the most student-friendly, accessible, and up-to-date ABA ethics text available.Comprehensive and expertly organized, this core text addresses the successes and
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Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...

The preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe in search of whose is best“Valuable… It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to rank the world’s health care systems.” —The New York Review of BooksOne thing we can all agree on: The United States does not have the world’s best health care—at least not for all ... Read more

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The preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe in search of whose is best“Valuable… It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to rank the world’s health care systems.” —The New York Review of BooksOne thing we can all agree on: The United States does not have the world’s best health care—at least not for all
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Psychedelics

The Revolutionary Drugs That Could Change Your Life—A Guide from the Expert

by Professor David Nutt ...

The definitive guide to the science of psychedelics—"the perfect intro for anyone curious about psychedelics and MDMA” (Ethan Nadelmann, founder and former executive director, Drug Policy Alliance)--and how they can impact our health by world-renowned, leading authority Professor David Nutt.We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of ... Read more

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The definitive guide to the science of psychedelics—"the perfect intro for anyone curious about psychedelics and MDMA” (Ethan Nadelmann, founder and former executive director, Drug Policy Alliance)--and how they can impact our health by world-renowned, leading authority Professor David Nutt.We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of
... Read more
The Doctor's Future

A Blueprint for Future-Proofing Your Profession and for Healthcare Decision Makers Leading the Evolution of AI/Robotics-Powered Medicine

by Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli ...

The future of healthcare is being written now—will you shape it, or be left behind?The future of medicine is arriving faster than most doctors, healthcare leaders, and policy makers realize. In The Doctor’s Future, visionary acute medicine physician and thriving healthcare strategist, Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli delivers an authoritative roadmap for navigating a healthcare revolution driven by ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The future of healthcare is being written now—will you shape it, or be left behind?The future of medicine is arriving faster than most doctors, healthcare leaders, and policy makers realize. In The Doctor’s Future, visionary acute medicine physician and thriving healthcare strategist, Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli delivers an authoritative roadmap for navigating a healthcare revolution driven by
... Read more
The Sleep Fix

Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More

by Diane Macedo ...

From renowned ABC News anchor/correspondent and formerinsomniac Diane Macedo, comes a practical, user-friendly guide to gettingbetter sleep. The Sleep Fix flips the switch on common advice,illuminating the reporter’s relentless search for how to get a good night’ssleep and the surprising, scientific, and practical solutions she found alongthe way.Roughlythirty percent of the population is ... Read more

$16.99 USD

From renowned ABC News anchor/correspondent and formerinsomniac Diane Macedo, comes a practical, user-friendly guide to gettingbetter sleep. The Sleep Fix flips the switch on common advice,illuminating the reporter’s relentless search for how to get a good night’ssleep and the surprising, scientific, and practical solutions she found alongthe way.Roughlythirty percent of the population is
... Read more

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