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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This comprehensive ebook provides authoritative information and practical advice from the nation's health experts about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and heritable disorders of connective tissue (HDCT).
Starting with the basics, and advancing to detailed patient-oriented and physician-quality...
Images of Leprosy
Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
From biblical times to the onset of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, leprosy was considered the worst human affliction, both medically and socially. Only fifty years ago, leprosy, or Hansens disease, was an incurable infectious illness, and it still remains a grave global concern. Recently,...
by Sheryl Persson
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
SMALLPOX, SYPHILIS AND SALVATION is a highly accessible, engaging look at modern medicine. Since ancient times, mankind has searched for ways to defeat disease. It has only been in the last 200 years that scientists have made major inroads in medical science, and as a result, many, many lives have been,...
Infectious Madness
The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
"Fascinating...A superb book."--Robert Sapolsky, Stanford professor of neuroscience and neurosurgery and author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
What causes mental illness? We've long blamed stress, trauma, and brain-chemistry imbalances. But a new theory is quietly achieving critical...
Facilitating Spiritual Reminiscence for People with Dementia
A Learning Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Spiritual reminiscence is a way of communicating that acknowledges the person as a spiritual being and seeks to engage the person in a more meaningful and personal way. This practical guide teaches carers how to facilitate engaging and stimulating spiritual reminiscence sessions with older people,...
Telling Tales About Dementia
Experiences of Caring
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
How does it feel when someone you love develops dementia? How do you cope with the shock, the stress and the grief? Can you be sure that you and your family will receive the support you need?
In Telling Tales About Dementia, thirty carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances...
Losing Clive to Younger Onset Dementia
One Family's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Clive Beaumont was diagnosed with Younger Onset Dementia at age 45, when his children were aged just 3 and 4. He had become less and less able to do his job properly and had been made redundant from the Army the year before.
Clive's wife, Helen, tells of how she and the rest of the family made...
Muddling Through MS
40 Years Doing It My Way
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Those with MS and the people whose lives they touch will find this book helpful in understanding the wide ranging affects with a firsthand look at what it is like to live day after day, year after year with the disease. Written by a woman who is still walking after more than 40 years, the author paints...
In the Wake of the Plague
The Black Death and the World It Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or...
Rowing Without Oars
A Memoir of Living and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Ulla-Carin Lindquist was happily married, with four adoring children and a successful career as a newscaster. All of that changed when her fiftieth birthday drew near, and she was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. In the face of this incurable, degenerative disease, Ulla kept...
Summary & Study Guide - Brain Storms
The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Comprehensive Review of Parkinson’s Disease
The must-read summary of “Brain Storms” by Jon Palfreman
When award-winning science journalist Jon Palfreman investigated a group of drug addicts who mysteriously ended up with Parkinson's-like symptoms, he never imagined that 25 years later...
Alzheimer’S Caregiving
Lessons from a Surviving Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Millions of people suffer from Alzheimers disease, other forms of dementia, and various debilitating long-term illnesses. These ailments profoundly affect relatives and friends, and there is no manual that tells you how to be a caregiver and to cope with these illnesses.
In Alzheimers Caregiving,...
Quick Creole for Medical Personnel
Hope Literature, Haitian Creole Medical Phrasebook
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Dorothy Shumans is a vibrant, devoted follower of Christ, mother of four and grandmother of nine who has served as Director of House of Hope Ministries, Inc. in Haiti for many years. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Education with certifications in Elementary Education, vocal music, Vocational...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book outlines the most updated clinical guidelines that are vital for the prevention infections and care of patients with joint infections following a replacement surgery, one of the highest volume medical interventions globally. Sections address the diagnosis, management approaches and prevention...