After modern NSW was established in 1788, the health modalities of the British settlers were quickly organised into two rival camps. On the one hand there was the formal health system, on the other there was an informal system practiced by anyone who chose to call themselves a healer. This work sets out to trace the course of the rivalries.
Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement
The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement. The author has joined seasoned scholars and younger, emerging voices together to bring fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the future of Christian life and hope.
This volume focuses on the experience of growing old as it is linked to societal factors. Ryff and Marshall construct this "macro" view of aging in society by bridging disciplines and brining together contributors from all the social sciences. The book is organized into three sections: theoretical perspectives, socioeconomic structures, and ......
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, dyspnea, and fever. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, altered mental status, and headache. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 40 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Health Care Providers
Now completely updated! The best-selling, most comprehensive guide to lupus, its complications, and management. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can attack any body organ. It is three times more common in the United States today than it was in the 1980s, so there is an increased need for accurate, practical information on this potentially ......
A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Health Care Providers
Now completely updated! The best-selling, most comprehensive guide to lupus, its complications, and management. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can attack any body organ. It is three times more common in the United States today than it was in the 1980s, so there is an increased need for accurate, practical information on this potentially ......
In 1986, Susan Campbell made the chance discovery of a hitherto unknown garden diary. She spent the next 35 years researching its background before writing this book. The diary was written between 1838 and 1865 by the father of Charles Darwin, Doctor Robert Darwin and after his death in 1848 it was continued by his sister, Susan. It describes the ......
Academic medical centers provide cutting edge acute care, train tomorrow's physicians, and carry out research that will expand the range of treatable and curable illnesses.
Revealing unexpected perspectives to the COVID-19 pandemic, Judith von Halle asks urgent and difficult questions and offers shattering insights for humanity’s further development.
The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, but more than a century would pass before a school of medicine was created at Mount Sinai. This work chronicles the development of the medical school from its origins in the 1960s to the current leadership.
Previously published as Articulation and Phonological Disorders, this classic text is the leading resource for courses on articulation, phonology, and speech sound disorders. Now in its ninth edition, the book offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of the clinical literature and evidence-based treatment available.
A practical guide to help you survive and thrive when times are tough
Sort Your Shit Out is an irreverent self-help exploration into where your shit comes from and how you can take back control. It’s a no bullshit self-help book in the style of Mark Manson’s successful book The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck with an Australian self-deprecating twang.
Our jam-packed 3-panel (6-page) guide is ideal for all sonography (ultrasound) students. This up-to-date guide features our customary easy-to-use format and informative, fluff-free style, with sections that cover all aspects of sonographyaranging from sound waves to image interpretation. Each section features "The Sonographer Knows" summary of ......
A practical reference to managing side effects associated with FDA-approved cancer immunotherapy drugs. Part One contains chapter-based overviews of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the clinic. Part Two is structured by common and uncommon toxicities that affect major organ sites throughout the body.
"This book centers on story as a means of making disability available for noticing. The framework of signs of disability forwarded in this book is drawn from the author's lived experience of disability and deafness as well as rhetoric, feminist materialist scholarship, and critical disability studies"--