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Itch, Clap, Pox Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

Gallagher Noelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300217056, Yale University Press, March 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In...

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Nutrition

Sport

Integrated Periodization in Sports Training & Athletic Development Combining Training Methodology, Sports Psychology, and Nutrition to Optimize Performance

Bompa Tudor, Howell Scott, Blumenstein Boris, Hoffmann James, Orbach Iris

ISBN: PB: 9781782551416, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, August 2018
250 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 150 black&white illus.

"Integrated Periodization in Sports Training & Athletic Development" considers the large problem of training specialists working in isolation and builds a case for integrated periodization as conceived by Tudor Bompa. The book begins by defining peri...

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Public Health

Insider Trading How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts

Pfeffer Naomi

ISBN: HB: 9780300118551, Yale University Press, June 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits. Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Insights in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426679, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 63 line drawings, 114 tables

The fraction of the population over age sixty-five in many developed countries is projected to rise, in some cases sharply, in coming decades. This has drawn growing interest to research on the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they...

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Genetics

In Search of Cell History The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

Harold Franklin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226174280, ISBN: HB: 9780226174143, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With "In Search of Cell History", Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial ta...

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Sign Language

Public Health

Investigations in Healthcare Interpreting

Nicodemus Brenda, Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563686122, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables

In healthcare, the accuracy of interpretation is the most critical component of safe and effective communication between providers and patients in medical settings characterized by language and cultural barriers. Although medical education should pre...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903132, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 figures, 86 tables

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in...

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Sign Language

Public Health

In Our Hands Educating Healthcare Interpreters

Swabey Laurie, Malcolm Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781563685217, Gallaudet University Press, February 2012
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 8 figures

Deaf Americans have identified healthcare as the most difficult setting in which to obtain a qualified interpreter. Yet, relatively little attention has been given to developing evidence-based resources and a standardized body of knowledge to educate...

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