Ailments category: 10428 books
The Most Important Lesson
What My Mother Taught Me That Will Change Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Our society is buckling under the demands of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care, and now a simple but innovative approach has arrived. Laura Anthony brings you on her real-life journey of love and discovery as she cares for her mother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Tired, frustrated, and...
by Richard Melzer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised their patients to chase the cure for tuberculosis in the Southwest, where the region�s clean, dry, fresh...
An Angel at My Table
The Complete Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer
New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent...
Journey to the Finish Line
Surviving Cancer Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
On April 19, 1999, Virginia Garner swallowed capsules of an experimental drug now known as Gleevec and became one of the first few people to take an effective dose of this miracle drug that would change not only the history of chronic myelogenous leukemia, but the history of cancer as a whole.Even...
Death, Disease & Dissection
The Life of a Surgeon-Apothecary 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
“A deep dive into the education and lives of a medical professional’s life over the span of 100 years . . . A good addition to any medical historian’s library” (The Lazy Historian).
Imagine performing surgery on a patient without anesthetic or administering medicine that could kill...
Notes of a Love Song
Day-to-Day with Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When Claire Verney agreed to ‘for better or for worse, in sickness and in health’ she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband’s...
Cholera
The Victorian Plague
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
“[A] fusion of science, social, and medical history . . . fascinating . . . the understanding of and responses to cholera are covered in detail and with sensitivity” —The Victorian Web
Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major...
The Autoimmune Solution
Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Over 90 percent of the population suffers from inflammation or an autoimmune disorder. Until now, conventional medicine has said there is no cure. Minor irritations like rashes and runny noses are ignored, while chronic and debilitating diseases like Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis are handled with...
The Evil Hours
A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
“An essential book” on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians (The New York Times Book Review).
Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers....
by D. Patrick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
The author of THE WAY OF FORGIVENESS and THE BOOK OF PRACTICAL FAITH brings a spiritual perspective to the end of worry. In five concise steps, D. Patrick Miller helps readers reorganize their thought patterns so that they can deal with stress and pressure in the most creative and effective ways possible....
by Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The most up-to-date resource on nutritional supplements for the prevention and improved management of concussive injury, TBI, and PTSD
• Provides an easy-to-follow program of supplements to optimize the benefits of treatment programs and offer a method of prevention beyond the use of helmets
•...
When Germs Travel
Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like SARS make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.
In this...
Pox
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century.
At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through...
The Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly...