Health Sociology

Dr. Gilbert, assisted by Dr. Haseltine, shows that by using her “giving the body a voice” technique, sufferers can discover what the symptoms mean and how to fix the often hidden reasons for their health problems. Each chapter reveals a different way of identifying underlying issues. These original, simple, and fun techniques include role-playing, inner group therapy, dream interpretation, art interpretation, nature walks, and even conversations with death.

Dans cette méditation tout en intimité et en sensualité, l'anthropologue Françoise Héritier traque ces choses agréables auxquelles notre être profond aspire, ces images et ces émotions, ces moments empreints de souvenirs qui font le goût de notre existence, qui la rendent plus riche, plus intéressante que ce que nous croyons souvent et dont rien, jamais, ne pourra être enlevé à chacun.

Do you live with or know someone suffering from bronchitis? If so, pay close attention! There's finally an innovative new audiobook created just for people like you! And, if you really want to know the facts of bronchitis, this audiobook is definitely for YOU! This audiobook covers everything there is to know about bronchitis and it's comprehensible to the average person! In fact, some people have called it the "Bronchitis Manual "! You'll uncover a wide array of tips, including guidelines on how to deal with bronchitis today!I myself was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis several years ago, but it wasn't easy when I first found out! I mean, information on this isn't easy to come by... Especially the kind of comprehensive information I needed to understand my illness. To be quite honest with you, I got tired of looking and searching all over the place, so I decided to create this definitive audiobook on bronchitis!

Vuelve el Dr. Nico Soto con un nuevo libro que nos ayudará a seguir promoviendo nuestra salud.

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know will offer more than a user's guide to available means of contraception: it will examine how supported family-planning infrastructure impacts society as a whole.

From the best-selling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes a proven and practical workbook to help people manage their anxiety with simple daily strategies for work and for home. This audiobook is a clear, practical day-by-day workbook, written by experienced counselor and best-selling author of the classic national best seller about anxiety, Living with IT, that is intended to help people control their anxiety.

Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New Solutions for Improving Access and Services provides a fresh opportunity to improve health outcomes. Healthcare providers will learn to:

• Engage and better serve individuals across the economic spectrum
• Reduce costs while achieving more successful patient outcomes
• Communicate complex medical information more clearly

The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over. In The Persuaders best-selling author Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarisation.

In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of Black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks with Ashe's own midlife journey to lock his hair.

Your share of your health insurance premium and the amount you are paying for your yearly deductible, co-pays, and prescriptions are soaring. Don’t forget that your employer’s share of your premium is coming out of your salary. And unfortunately, you are not alone. What can you do to avoid unnecessary costs and encourage American healthcare reform? Ripped Off! is your guide to better understanding the problems of the American healthcare system and what you can do for yourself and how to help enact change.

A brilliantly simple look at how we can fix healthcare without drastic policy change and political diatribes. Since FDR, the US healthcare system has been mired in politics and policy. All the while it has only increased in complexity and cost. Today half of all personal bankruptcies are attributable to healthcare costs. Many community hospitals are barely getting by with single digit profit margins. With a system teetering on the edge of a systemic crisis, we need to turn to a brand-new approach to rescue the US healthcare system.

The growth of careers and career pathways within medicine and health care can be confusing, yet it reflects the evolution of modern medicine which relies upon a myriad of different specialists each able to contribute their own particular skills to the care and wellbeing of the patient or client. Careers within the NHS are many and varied, with opportunities to train not only as nurses and doctors but also as dieticians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists.

The Foot Health Practitioner audiobook provides great insight into the health, conditions, and treatments of the feet. It will help you take better care of your feet as well as recognise some of the signs and symptoms of the various conditions that can affect them. If you work with feet in the holistic health (reflexology and massage in particular) or beauty industries, this audiobook will help you to provide information to your clients regarding their foot health.

This book is an effort toward sensitizing the public toward the vast subject that is depression. The public even now lacks information and ideas about the real truth behind depression and its impacts. This book covers the many aspects of depression so that a listener can form a knowledge base about depression and look at it from a fresh perspective. If you are interested in looking beyond the stigma of depression or know someone who might be depressed, we hope this book comes to help in dealing with the issue with care and caution.

Epilepsy is a lightning storm in the brain - shocking isn't it. A photographer friend once said that epilepsy is a shocking development. Seizures are silent, unless you saw them having a seizure or they told you that they had epilepsy you'd never know. That is why it is called the hidden disability or hidden handicap. Mr. Miller now has had epilepsy for 43 years and four months and has gained, unwanted by him, epilepsy expertise.

Life and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions - from comas to terminal illness - are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of moral economies to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment.

Ciencia, arte y oportuniades en la madurez. Un estudio audaz y apasionante de las nuevas investigaciones que replantean un futuro mejor y más prometedor para las personas de mediana edad. Reimaginar la vida nos enseña que lo que se ha dado en llamar la «crisis de la mediana edad» no existe. Es un mito, una ilusión. Barbara Bradley Hagerty desmiente la teoría de que la madurez es la etapa en la que la vida inicia un declive inexorable.

In the course of caring for the ill or dying, health care professionals are sometimes the only ones available to provide spiritual comfort to their patients. In our modern pluralistic society, where patients could come from any number of religious traditions, it can often be difficult to find exactly the right words in these situations.

After John R. Patrick's career at IBM, he took a seat on the board of a teaching hospital. He was surprised to learn how hospitals and physicians lagged at adopting information technology, and was appalled at the needless complexity of healthcare delivery processes. Instead of shaking his head and walking away, Patrick took action.

The Vagus nerve is an incredibly important part of the body, responsible for linking our stomachs, respiratory systems, and even our brains. If this nerve is damaged or unhealthy it can have drastic impacts on our overall health - in fact, many of our modern ailments can be traced back to this nerve. But inside this audiobook, you’ll uncover the secrets of the Vagus nerve, and how you can use it to radically boost your health and well-being.