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What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Danielle Ofri · Beacon Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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How refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients can lead to better healthDespite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses. However,... |
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes
Sharon Moalem · Grand Central Pub Pages: 255 Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.INHERITANCEConventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception.... |
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I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance
Leah Hager Cohen · Riverhead Hardcover Format: Print book
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A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is I dont know.In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving... |
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The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
David Stuart MacLean · Houghton Mifflin Pages: 292 Format: Hardcover
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"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." - Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up" on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then... |
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Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Jeffrey Foote · Scribner Pages: 315 Format: Hardcover
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The most innovative leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US offer a groundbreaking, science-based guide to helping loved ones overcome addiction problems and compulsive behaviors. Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends... |
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Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health
Jay Lemery · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 180 Format: Hardcover
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Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens readers about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time. The global environment... |
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir
Simon Fitzmaurice · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover
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"Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming." - Alan RickmanA luminous memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us "a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more,... |
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman · Crown; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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We are profoundly social creatures – more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food... |
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The Ministry of Thin: How the Pursuit of Perfection Got Out of Control
Emma Woolf · Soft Skull Press Pages: 230 Format: Paperback
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We're obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we'll never win, and which will never make us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching... |
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The Obesity Paradox: When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
Carl J Lavie · Hudson Street Press Pages: 268 Format: Print book
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"Most of us think that longevity hinges on maintaining a normal Body Mass Index. But research conducted over the last decade hit the media in January with explosive news: Overweight and even moderately obese people with certain chronic diseases-from heart disease to cancer- often live... |
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