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Medical Ethics - Tony Hope - Family & Health: General
Issues in medical ethics are rarely out of the media and it is an area of ethics that has particular interest for the general public, as well as the medical practitioner. This short and accessible introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine. Tony Hope deals with the thorny moral questions, such as euthanasia and the morality of killing, and also explores political questions such as: how should health care resources be distributed fairly? Each chapter in this book considers a different issue: genetics, modern reproductive technologies, resource allocation, mental health, medical research, and discusses controversial questions such as: who should have access to reproductive technology? Who should pay? Is it right to fund expensive drug treatment for individuals? Should active euthanasia be legalized? Should treatment for mental illness be imposed on patients without their consent? Who should have access to information from genetic testing? And should we require consent for the use of dead bodies or organs in medical research?
Natural Health: Overcoming Diabetes - Dr. Sarah Brewer - Coping with Problems & Illness
This unique book - one in a series of natural health guides from doctor and internationally bestselling author Sarah Brewer - provides a highly authoritative yet easy-to-follow program of complementary medicine and self-care treatments for this increasingly prevalent condition. If you are one of the millions with Diabetes, and are looking for expert advice on the steps you can take to alleviate your symptoms and enhance health and well-being, this is the book for you. Part One helps you to understand your condition, offering an insightful overview of diagnosis, monitoring and treatment, and explaining the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Part Two guides you through the many complementary and nutritional approaches to treatment, such as reflexology, acupuncture and magnetic therapy, plus the benefits of including good fats and superfoods in your diet. It also reveals how controlling your carb intake, cutting down on salt, and maintaining a healthy weight can transform how your body responds to your condition. Finally, in Part Three of this groundbreaking book, Dr Sarah Brewer offers a pioneering approach of tailor-made programs, based on the premise that we're all unique, and have different requirements depending on our age, gender, lifestyle and genetic background. Choose from The Gentle Program, The Moderate Program or The Full-strength Program - each guiding you through nutritional plans, exercise routines and therapeutic techniques - all of which empower you to take control and make real changes to your health and your life.
Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin - Popular Science
"Your Inner Fish" tells the extraordinary history of the human body and gives answers to some of the questions that only evolution can. Why do we look the way we do? Why are we able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Neil Shubin draws on the latest genetic research and his huge experience as an expeditionary paleontologist to show the incredible impact the 3.5 billion year history of life has had on our bodies. He takes readers on a fascinating, unexpected journey and allows us to discover the deep connection to nature in our own bodies.
Natural Health: Overcoming Arthritis - Dr. Sarah Brewer - Coping with Problems & Illness
This unique book - one in a series of natural health guides from doctor and internationally bestselling author Sarah Brewer - provides a highly authoritative yet easy-to follow program of complementary medicine and self-care treatments, specially designed to support the conventional treatment for arthritis. If you're suffering from this debilitating condition, and are looking for an expert to guide you through all the positive steps you can take to alleviate your symptoms and improve your day-to-day well-being, this is the book for you. Part One provides a detailed introduction to help you understand your condition, to recognise its key causes, symptoms and early-warning signs and offer insight into the methods of diagnosis and types of treatment that are available. Part Two covers the many complementary and nutritional approaches to treatment, from osteopathy, yoga, hydrotherapy, copper therapy and meditation to eating more antioxidants, eliminating trigger foods and taking regular gentle exercise (which many people with arthritis avoid because they fear it will make their joints worse - in fact, it's quite the opposite). Finally, in Part Three of this groundbreaking book, Dr Sarah Brewer offers a pioneering approach of tailor-made programs, based on the premise that we're all unique, and have different requirements depending on our age, gender, lifestyle and genetic background. Choose from The Gentle Program, The Moderate Program and The Full-strength Program - each guides you through daily nutritional plans, as well as exercise routines, therapeutic techniques and lifestyle changes, all of which empower you to take control and make real changes to your health and your life.
The Paleo Diet - Loren Cordain - Fitness & Diet
Eat for better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide-over 100,000 copies sold to date! Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet we were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight-up to 75 pounds in six months-or if you want to attain optimal health, The Paleo Diet will work wonders. Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how, by eating your fill of satisfying and delicious lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, snacks, and non-starchy vegetables, you can lose weight and prevent and treat heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, and many other illnesses. * Breakthrough nutrition program based on eating the foods we were genetically designed to eat-lean meats and fish and other foods that made up the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors * This revised edition features new weight-loss material and recipes plus the latest information drawn from breaking Paleolithic research * Six weeks of Paleo meal plans to jumpstart a healthy and enjoyable new way of eating as well as dozens of recipes * This bestselling guide written by the world's leading expert on Paleolithic eating has been adopted as a bible of the CrossFit movement The Paleo Diet is the only diet proven by nature to fight disease, provide maximum energy, and keep you naturally thin, strong, and active-while enjoying every satisfying and delicious bite.
Brave New World
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill...
Risk and Reason
No dust jacket. Risk and Reason explains the source of problems regarding such issues as safety, health, and the environment and shows what can be done about them. It points the way toward a sensible system for reducing risks, one that could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars. What should be done about airplane safety and terrorism, global warming, polluted water, nuclear power, and genetically engineered food? All over the globe, risks to safety, health, and the environment are a subject of intense interest. Too much of the time we fear the wrong things. Sometimes we make the situation even worse. Rather than investigating the facts, we respond to temporary fears. The result is a situation of hysteria and neglect - and unnecessary illness and death. Offering sound proposals for social reform, it explains how a more sensible system of risk regulation, embodied in the idea of a 'cost-benefit state', could save many thousands of lives and many billions of dollars too - and protect the environment in the process.
Pure Health - Henri Chenot - Fitness & Diet
Being in good health is primarily about creating harmony within yourself. Should this harmony be disrupted, physical illness and psychological disorders can occur. The famous detox treatment by Henri Chenot allows you to discover the harmony within, while ensuring that your genetic make-up, lifestyle and surroundings are all perfectly balanced. This amazing detox treatment fights the excess toxins that clog up your body and which are the root of illness; they can cause excess weight due to diabetes, as well as cardiovascular diseases and cancer. How can we fight these toxins? By learning how to eat in line with our own physical profile.
A Lethal Inheritance - Victoria Costello - Autobiography: General
This is a deeply personal and meticulously researched exploration of the science behind the family ties of mental illness. Every family has its secrets, but some secrets can be lethal. In Victoria Costello's family mental illness was given many different names across at least four generations until the inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered her children. In this riveting story, part memoir, part detective story, and part scientific investigation, Costello recounts how the diagnosis of her 17-year old son with paranoid schizophrenia, her own fight with clinical depression, and her youngest son's struggle with anxiety disorder compelled her to look into her family history for clues to their conditions. Along the way, she discovers startling new neuroscience and genetic findings that explain how clusters of mental illness navigate family generations. "A Lethal Inheritance" also explores cutting edge research in Britain and Europe to identify the earliest signs of mental illness.
Muscular Dystrophy
The muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that severely affect children and adults. For sufferers and their families, the illness presents enormous physical and psychological challenges. Written specifically for people with muscular...
Social Determinants of Health
Genetics and traditional risk factors such as activity, diet and tobacco use are not the best predictors of whether we stay healthy or become ill. What, then, are the predictors of adult-onset diabetes, heart attacks or stroke, and many other...
Music and the Brain
This book deals with the neurological aspects of musical experience. The first part contains 16 chapters devoted to such topics as hearing, genetics, psychology of musical talent, musical memory and brain anatomy and physiology. The second part, 8 chapters, contains chapters concerned with illness and disability such as musicogenic epilepsy, deafness, mental illness in composers and music therapy. The book is intended to appeal to a wide audience, including but beyond those practising neurological medicine. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are clean and undamaged with just slight bumping to corners and top and bottom of spine. Pages are tight, clean and undamaged. There is an ownership inscription on the front free endpaper together with light pencil marking showing previous pricing. The d/w shows signs of shelf wear, mainly along the top edge. There is an open 3mm tear on the back and a worn 5mm tear on the top right front corner. It is not price clipped.
Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness
This examination of genetic and memetic evolution shows how mental disorders can arise from gene-meme interaction. Offering examples of gene-meme interactions resulting in depression, the author proposes a genetic-memetic model for diagnosing...
Practical Paediatrics
A textbook of paediatrics that describes childhood disease within the context of social determinants of illness, such as genetic origins and social factors. It emphasises on differential diagnosis from a presenting-problem viewpoint...
DNA Vaccines
DNA Vaccines DNA vaccination is one of the most promising techniques for immunisation against diseases caused by viruses, protozoa, bacteria, and even for tumours and illnesses with genetic origins. These vaccines can be administered by direct...