Social Medicine

This book includes a wealth of information and recipes to help you reclaim your enthusiasm for your cooking if you've recently been diagnosed with diabetes or if you've been living with diabetes for years. One of the realities that a persons with diabetes must face is how to cope with the disease on a daily basis. What should I do? What should I avoid doing? What should I eat? What is the best way to avoid suffering? The list of inquiries goes on and on. It might become exhausting at times, especially if you become entirely immersed in the process.

Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis. You'll also discover what happens when the brain doesn't work the way it should, causing problems such as insomnia, ADHD, depression, or addiction.

Dr. Kevin Hoffarth graduated from medical school in 2000 and completed his family medicine residency at Creighton University in 2003. In his first 10 years as a family physician, he worked in every area of medicine possible; from births to deaths and everything in between. During those years in the trenches, he realized that how he was taught to approach the ailments of his patients could be vastly improved upon. It was then that he decided to embark on a medical journey to seek out and learn the new philosophies and ways of more effectively treating 21st century medical issues.

Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives", Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care.

In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century.

A neurological trait that creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings, synesthesia is examined in this illuminating audiobook by pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic who reminds us that each individual's perspective on the world is thoroughly subjective.

Cognitive behavior therapy, which has been adapted to treat so many problems, has also brought data-driven and data-yielding treatment to insomnia. Focusing on this evidence-based modality, cognitive behavioral treatment of insomnia (CBT-I) is a much-needed treatment manual that provides clinicians with the whys and hows of this approach in concise and practical terms.

Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event.

In Healing: Beyond Pills & Potions, Dr. Steve Bierman draws on 40 years of clinical experience to restore Mind to medicine and Humanism to healing. Citing case histories from his own remarkable emergency medicine and medical hypnosis practices, Dr. Bierman compels us to acknowledge what material science refuses to see - namely, that Mind Matters. Then, in easy digestible steps, he teaches us how simple refinements of everyday communication (speech and gestures) can enable us to achieve stunningly positive outcomes and lasting cures.

Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy provides an in-depth and exciting account of the history, philosophy, and experience of homeopathic medicine. At the core of Impossible Cure is the amazing story of how the author's son was cured of autism with homeopathy. It also includes dozens of other testimonials of homeopathic cure, for a variety of physical, mental, and emotional conditions.

From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world’s most commonly used weedkiller is responsible for debilitating chronic diseases, including cancer, liver disease, and more....

If you're a medical professional or nursing student, then you know how important it is to have a strong grasp of medical terminology. After all, this is the language that you'll be using on a daily basis to communicate with colleagues, patients, and doctors. But let's face it, medical terminology can be pretty daunting. Where do you even start?

The world lost a courageous leader and a treasured friend with the passing of Vine Deloria Jr. He was, and is, one of the greatest spiritual thinkers of our time. Before his death, Deloria was reexamining native spirituality. His years of collecting native stories of the medicine men and exploring spirituality from different perspectives are brought together in this audiobook.

This book gives hope to everyone connected to endometriosis. That includes every woman and young girl who has it, and the women and men in their lives who know something is wrong, but do not know what it is or what to do about it. This book is written at a level that everyone with ties to this disease can relate to and understand, but it is also for doctors with good intentions who lack the knowledge of how to diagnose or treat it.

Women of all ages are using cannabis to feel and look better. For rookies and experienced marijuana users alike, this lively, information-filled audiobook is just the supportive guide you need to find the right dose to relieve anxiety, depression, and inflammation, and mitigate the onset of dementia and other signs of aging. Plus boost moods, ease aches, even lose weight, and get restful sleep. And a dose just for fun? Well, that works, too!

Way of the Ancient Healer provides an overview of the rich tradition of Filipino healing practices, discussing their origins, world influences, and role in daily life. The book combines years of historical research with detailed descriptions of the spiritual belief system that forms the foundation of these practices. Giving listeners a rare look at modern-day Filipino healing rituals, the book also includes personal examples from author Virgil Mayor Apostol's own experiences with shamanic healing and dream interpretation.

What if I told you that all the research needed to end the disease of cancer forever has already been completed? Would you believe it? Well, now you don’t have to! Cancer: The Metabolic Disease Unravelled is your complete guide to the revolutionary scientific discoveries made over the past 150 years that reveal exactly what cancer is, what cancer isn’t, and the most efficient ways to heal it - without causing patients any harm whatsoever in the process.

In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.

Forget what you've learned in nursing school and get ready to glimpse the essential study strategies. Commit to passing the NCLEX. Repeat after me, "Repetition is the key." Your time is precious so allow our book to show you the structure and style of the NCLEX.

The book describes how to cure sciatica and spinal stenosis and prevent them from recurring. The cure replaces surgery and other standard treatments based on expensive scans and tests which cannot cure these conditions because they do not address the root cause of the problems. The author cured himself of sciatica and spinal stenosis (he was diagnosed with both) by correcting the muscle imbalances through personal effort alone. The cure is permanent and within reach of everyone.