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Creating Culture through Health Leadership
ISBN: HB: 9781947602601, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...
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£30,00
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Conquest of Malaria Italy, 1900-1962
ISBN: PB: 9780300256468, Yale University Press, June 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the arm...
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£19,99
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Epidemics and Society From the Black Death to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300256390, Yale University Press, May 2020
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only inf...
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£16,99
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Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780226718767, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago – and, by inference, the state of Illinois – than any other physician. As a family physician, he trained to care for patients from birt...
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£16,00
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Anatomy and Strength Training Without Specialized Equipment
ISBN: PB: 9781782551935, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2020
152 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 408 colour illus.
Keeping in shape and showing off a toned body is not only an aesthetic advantage, but also a basic requirement for good health and total physical strength. The good news is that exercisers don't have to pump iron at a gym to achieve this! This is bec...
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£19,95
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Rotten Bodies Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300233520, Yale University Press, July 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especi...
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Speaking for the Dying Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care
ISBN: PB: 9780226615745, ISBN: HB: 9780226615608, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 13 tables
Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions – literally – will therefore be made by someone el...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World
ISBN: HB: 9781787381377, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure – a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment,...
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£25,00
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Cancer Companion An Oncologist's Advice on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery
ISBN: PB: 9780226479347, ISBN: HB: 9780226306643, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cancer. It's the diagnosis no one wants to hear. Unfortunately though, these days most of us have known or will know someone who receives it. But what's next? With the diagnosis comes not only fear and uncertainty, but numerous questions, and a lot o...
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£15,00
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£20,00
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Biotechnology and Society An Introduction
ISBN: PB: 9780226046013, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
With "Biotechnology and Society", Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, a...
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£24,00
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