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In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

Regina Kunzel - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously...
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Vivir con diabetes / Living with Diabetes (Spanish Edition)

Dr. Franz Martín Bermudo - VERGARA
Format: Paperback

Una guía unica para comprender la diabetes y aprender cómo vivir (y vivir bien) con ella. Aunque haya datos acerca de ella desde hace siglos, es en los ultimos años que la diabetes ha empezado a ocupar un espacio mayor en las conversaciones sobre salud publica. No por nada se trata,...
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The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook: How to Prepare and Combine Plant Foods to Maintain Optimal Bone Density and Prevent Osteoporosis

Dr. Laura Kelly - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

A unique nutritional guide and cookbook -- with over 100 delicious recipes -- that can help both women and men of any age maintain optimal bone density and prevent osteoporosis.Can you have healthy bones while following a diet of more, mostly, or entirely plants? Is lower bone density an inescapable...
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Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks

Caitlin Rivers PhD - Viking
Format: Hardcover

There are few visible markers of the accomplishments of public health. When epidemiologists do their jobs, nothing happens. An outbreak does not grow into an epidemic. A child does not go hungry. A would-be smoker never lights up. In this fascinating window into the secret life of public...
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Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome (Brain and Life Books)

Andrew Spector - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome provides an overview and evidence-based guidance on a condition that afflicts millions of people around the world and their loved ones.. You will learn the most up-to-date treatment approaches to the disorder, the benefits of common medications...
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How Do You Feel?: One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine

Jessi Gold - S&S/Simon Element
Format: Hardcover

A poignant and thought-provoking memoir following one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others - perfect for fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and The In-Between.. For Dr. Jessi Gold, everything was absolutely...
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Medical Terminology Systems Updated: A Body Systems Approach: A Body Systems Approach

Barbara A. Gylys BS MEd CMA-A (AAMA) - F.A. Davis Company
Format: Paperback

A better way to learn ... a word-building and body systems approach! A true blend of words, art, and technology, Medical Terminology Systems and Medical Language Lab (MLL) work together to create an immersive, multimedia experience that tracks each student's progress until they've...
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Frog Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Amphibian Lives (Earth Day)

Marty Crump - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

An illustrated hourly guide that follows twenty-four frogs as they eat, find mates, care for their young, and survive our harsh and changing planet. In this short book, celebrated biologist Marty Crump leads readers on a worldwide field trip in search of frogs. Each chapter of Frog Day covers...
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Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine New Edition: 560 Herbs and Remedies for Common Ailments

Andrew Chevallier - DK
Format: Hardcover

Discover how to make and use natural remedies from home-grown herbs to improve your health and wellbeing.. In recent years, more people than ever have turned to natural remedies for general health and wellbeing, and for help with ailments, from the common cold to arthritis. This comprehensive...
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The Science of Menopause: Understand Your Body, Make the Right Choices

Philippa Kaye - DK
Format: Hardcover

The Science of Menopause is an informative, practical, and engaging guide to understanding what happens to women's health from your 40s onward. As we understand more each day about what hormone changes mean for women's long-term health, there is an urgent need for an evidence-based...
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