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Building a Unified American Health Care System: A Blueprint for Comprehensive Reform

Gilead I Lancaster - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback

A blueprint for comprehensive, science-based health care system reform.Financial and political pressures on our health care system have negatively impacted individual care and the health system as a whole, an issue that has only become more acute because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Building...
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Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types

Allan V. Horwitz - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating and controversial history of personality disorders.The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consistently caused controversy among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists. In Personality Disorders, Allan V. Horwitz...
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When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918

Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer - Mayo Clinic Press
Format: Paperback

Maintain isolation - practice good hygiene - wear a mask - be kind. We all know these methods of fighting COVID-19, but this prescription comes from the 1918 experience of Dr. Pierre Sartor, who battled the worldwide influenza pandemic in his small town of Titonka, Iowa. Dr. Sartor wrote...
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Indigenous Public Health: Improvement through Community-Engaged Interventions (Understanding and Improving Health for Minority and Disadvantaged Populations)

Linda Burhansstipanov - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover

Income, education, job security, food and housing, and gender and race are all examples of the social determinants of health. These factors influence the health and well-being of patients, as well as how they interact with health care providers and receive health care, and unfortunately,...
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Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do: Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wendy Welch - Ohio University Press
Format: Hardcover

The firsthand pandemic experiences of rural health-care providers - who were already burdened when COVID-19 hit - raise questions about the future of public health and health-care delivery.This volume comprises the COVID-19 pandemic experiences of Appalachian health-care workers, including...
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The Book of Outdoor Games: 50 Antiboredom, Unplugged Activities for Kids and Families

Cider Mill Press - Cider Mill Press
Format: Paperback

Keeping your kids entertained and active just became a lot easier with over 50 unplugged activities in The Book of Outdoor Games.Encourage your kids to get outside for hours of fun. Build outdoor forts, create obstacle courses, or try out new jump rope games. Kids will enjoy throwbacks...
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And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy

Joshua Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a therapist as he faces his own struggles while treating patients with anxiety disorders.What goes...
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28-Day FAST Start Day-by-Day: The Ultimate Guide to Starting (or Restarting) Your Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle So It Sticks

Gin Stephens - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Gin Stephens is unstoppable! And she won't even pause until she's introduced every potential reader to Intermittent Fasting. In her 28-Day FAST Start Day-By-Day, she dispenses the "hows" and "whys" of IF day by day for a reader's first month, giving IFers...
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The Day after Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia

Joe Wallace - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

A deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.. A graphic designer, a writer, a public servant, a retired PhD, a 29-year-old with early-onset Alzheimer's. These are just some of the 50 million...
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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

Johann Hari - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it - from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies.In...
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