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Crisis in the Red Zone by Richard Preston
epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Richard Preston

NGALIEMA HOSPITAL, KINSHASA Midday, September 27 Ngaliema Hospital sits on a hill overlooking the Congo River at the lower expanse of the great Malebo Pool, a broad, sluggish detention of ...
( Category: Pathology August 2,2019 )
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Richard Preston

NGALIEMA HOSPITAL, KINSHASA Midday, September 27 Ngaliema Hospital sits on a hill overlooking the Congo River at the lower expanse of the great Malebo Pool, a broad, sluggish detention of ...
( Category: Pathology July 31,2019 )
You Can't Afford to Get Sick by Andrew Weil
epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Andrew Weil

Until fairly recently Americans regarded tobacco as a good thing, and our government saw no reason to discourage its use. (It included cigarettes in the emergency rations of soldiers right ...
( Category: Green Housecleaning July 14,2019 )
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté MD
epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Gabor Maté, MD [Mate, Gabor]

The same dynamics come into play with eating disorders. How, we might ask, could an activity essential for survival become so distorted, undermining a person’s health sometimes to the point ...
( Category: Social Security June 1,2019 )
The Pact by Sampson Davis & George Jenkins & Rameck Hunt & Lisa Frazier Page
epub |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Sampson Davis & George Jenkins & Rameck Hunt & Lisa Frazier Page

I rarely took time to read anything other than books assigned for class. But at a book sale my freshman year, one provocative title caught my eye: Countering the Conspiracy ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 22,2019 )
The Wild and the Toxic by Thomson Jennifer;
epub |eng | | Author:Thomson, Jennifer;

Conclusion This book opened by weaving together two claims. First, there is no way to think about our present environment without also thinking about health. Second, health and environmental activism ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 19,2019 )
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David A. Kessler
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:David A. Kessler

The second component of habit reversal is engaging in competing behaviors. To resist what Miltenberger calls “the pull of the behavior,” we need to develop and learn alternative responses that ...
( Category: Agriculture & Food Policy April 29,2019 )
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Jonathan M. Metzl

PART 3 KANSAS BENEATH THE SURFACE IT’S AUGUST 2017, almost time for the school year to begin. The principal of a large Kansas public high school spares time for a ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2019 )
The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu
epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu [Stuckler, David]

7 Returning to Work On May 4, 2012, a crowd of women waving white flags marched to the entrance of the Italian government’s Equitalia tax office in Bologna. They were ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 23,2019 )
Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession With Weight--And What We Can Do About It by Harriet Brown
epub |eng | 2015-03-24 | Author:Harriet Brown [Brown, Harriet]

My Husband Tells Me I’m Beautiful, But . . . Shannon, thirty-three, is a social worker near Raleigh, North Carolina. I’ve had body image problems for as long as I ...
( Category: Medicine March 23,2019 )
World Report 2019 by Human Rights Watch
epub |eng | 2018-01-25 | Author:Human Rights Watch

Asylum Seekers and Refugees In July, a court convicted an ethnic Kazakh Chinese citizen, Sayragul Sauytbai, a primary school teacher who spoke publicly about China’s abusive “political re-education” camps in ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 8,2019 )
Tell Your Children by Alex Berenson
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Berenson

EIGHT STUDY AFTER STUDY AFTER STUDY As journalists spread the feel-good myth about cannabis as a cure for opiates, hard evidence linking the drug to psychosis kept coming, from all ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 4,2019 )
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness by Lorber Judith & Moore Lisa Jean
epub |eng | 2002-08-19 | Author:Lorber, Judith & Moore, Lisa Jean

Female Ritual Genital Surgery For more than two thousand years, in a broad belt across the middle of Africa, various forms of female genital surgery have been used to ensure ...
( Category: General Gender Studies June 1,2017 )
Search for an Abortionist by Nancy Howell Lee
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nancy Howell Lee [Lee, Nancy Howell]

Routine Medical Aftercare One of the sources of concern to many women, including many who did not have any noticeable ill effects after the abortion, was the possibility that they ...
( Category: Abortion & Birth Control May 22,2017 )
Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload by Hobsbawm Julia
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-19 | Author:Hobsbawm, Julia [Hobsbawm, Julia]

You create this perfect profile, using your best photographs and most creative lines of text, to create this persona, and you start to believe this persona that you’ve created. You ...
( Category: Communications April 23,2017 )

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