epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sharma, Manoj, Branscum, Paul W., Atri, Ashutosh [Sharma, Manoj, Branscum, Paul W., Atri, Ashutosh]

stages and processes of change have been widely used in health promotion programs, the levels of change have not. The next set of theories discussed in this chapter consisted of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Kitzinger

Mutilating Sexual Surgery When I became Co-Chairperson with Baroness Caroline Cox of The Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development (FORWAD) in 1983, it was not with the idea of ...

epub |eng | | Author:James Le Fanu [Le Fanu, James]

Technology and the High Cost of Dying The third and most significant type of misuse of technology is the use of life-sustaining technologies to prolong the process of dying. The ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Nortin M. Hadler [Hadler, Nortin M.]

tioned as the primary-care practitioners of the day (and seek to do so yet again). All sorts of potions were purveyed. The nineteenth century may have witnessed Pasteur and Joseph ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Daniel Markovitz [Markovitz, Daniel]

It’s no surprise that our ability to focus on a single task without interruption is waning. To some extent, an increase in interruptions is an inevitable result of the larger, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henning Mankell [Mankell, Henning]

33 In the end I spoke to Aida as well. We were in among the banana trees, but not to look at her mango plant: we were trying to find ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Healy

FACTS ON THE GROUND Across medicine, however misleadingly certain academic papers may be written, with a few exceptions, no studies allow claims that one drug is superior to another. Even ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-26 | Author:Wakefield, Andrew J. [Wakefield, Andrew J.]

SOCIAL DEPRIVATION In common with millions of other past and present citizens of the United States, the family lived in a rural setting. Strangely, Ms. Williams in her e-mail of ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Lustig, Robert H. [Lustig, Robert H.]

Contenders or Pretenders? Many epidemiologic studies demonstrate correlations between low blood levels of antioxidants such as vitamin C and beta-carotene and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. But are these micronutrient ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Frank Langella

GEORGE C. SCOTT Actors are image, often depicting in fantasy the very qualities they wish to possess in life. In the many times I spent in George C. Scott’s company ...

epub |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

The child, then, is not taught grammar; nor does he learn it; he constructs it from the ‘meager and degenerate data’ at his disposal. And this would not be possible ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robbie Guillory [Guillory, Robbie]

Please Release Me As a student doctor, it was my duty to help file printed reports. I once came across the X-ray report of a patient with one of those ...

epub |eng | | Author:Uzodinma Iweala

DEATH On one of my trips to Nigeria, Doc and Samaila introduced me to a man named Ikenna, who ran a bar on the same military base where I happened ...

epub |eng | 2005-06-06 | Author:David Plotz

CHAPTER 8 THE SECRET OF DONOR WHITE A year passed, and I didn’t hear from Donor White. Lots of people offered to help me find him. Two private detectives volunteered ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-07 | Author:Laurie Edwards

Toward an Answer: Pain in the Twenty-First Century Like so many mythologies surrounding illness, the mythology of women in pain that has subsisted for so long exists in part because ...