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  • Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease

    Innovating with Care

    Edited by Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It offers timely, multidisciplinary reflections on the social and ethical issues raised by promises of early diagnostics and asks under which conditions emerging diagnostic technologies can be considered a responsible innovation.The initial chapters in this edited volume provide an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • What Women Want

    by Tucker Max, Geoffrey Miller, PhD ...
    The #1 bestselling pioneer of "fratire" and a leading evolutionary psychologist team up to create the dating book for guys.Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20+ years learning what women really want from their men, why they want it, and how men can deliver those qualities.The short answer: become the best ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Status Syndrome

    How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

    by Michael Marmot ...
    Based on decades of his own research, a pioneering epidemiologist reveals the surprising factors behind who lives longer and whyYou probably didn't realize that when you graduated from college you increased your lifespan, or that your co-worker who has a master's degree is more likely to live a longer and healthier life. Seemingly small social differences in education, job title, income, even the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Bulimics on Bulimia

    Edited by Maria Stavrou ...
    Thousands suffer from bulimia secretly and in silence. They are never diagnosed and their story goes untold. Bulimics on Bulimia is a collection of accounts by people who are living with the disorder, shedding new light on the day-to-day struggle of coping with bulimia. This book challenges the stereotypical image of the bulimic teenage girl, revealing that bulimia affects a far wider range of ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Food, Sex and Salmonella

    Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick

    by David Waltner-Toews ...
    What sex is to interpersonal relationships, eating is to the human-environment relationship: a consummation of humans’ connection to the living biosphere. But while sticking one’s tongue into a new and exciting environment may be an act as old as the planet, it can also lead to some nasty surprises. In this lively look at foodborne illnesses, David Waltner-Toews discusses food-related problems ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Logic of Care

    Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

    by Annemarie Mol ...
    **Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010**What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care.Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

    Edited by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá ...
    Series Book 1 - Language at Work
    This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Driving Force

    by Michel Tremblay ...
    Translated by Linda Gaboriau ...
    In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer’s ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monologues—to settle old scores and misunderstandings between them.In an astonishing and eerie reversal of roles, in Act 2 it is Alex who visits his son Claude in the same Alzheimer’s ward and it ... Read more

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  • Moving Your Aging Parents

    Fulfilling their Needs and Yours Before, During, and After the Move

    by Nancy Wesson ...
    Series series Aging with Grace
    Will you be ready when it's time...?Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results.In this hope filled book you will learn how to:Identify needs and desires to create a quality new lifeCope with the Depression Era mind-setCreate ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Worlds of the Unborn

    by D. Lupton ...
    Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Generational Intelligence

    A Critical Approach to Age Relations

    by Simon Biggs, Ariela Lowenstein ...
    The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound ambivalence both in public and in the private sphere. In a new approach, Biggs and Lowenstein offer a critical examination of Generational Intelligence ... Read more

    $79.99 USD