Popular medicine & health
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Popular medicine & health
Paperback. A physician, medical researcher, and feminist scholar integrates up-to-date medical research with practical information for use in women's daily lives. She offers a way of looking at health issues affecting women that accentuates their living better rather than just longer. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804731379
- ISBN
- 9780804731379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.76
€ 46.99
€ 41.76
Paperback. The National Institutes of Health Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is the largest research study designed to test strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, and osteoporotic fractures - leading causes of death, and decreased quality of life for older women. This book evaluates whether the effort can be justified scientifically. Editor(s): Thaul, Susan; Hotra, Dana. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454. "1Kg. Paperback. Good copy with clean cover and tight binding, very slight rubbing to cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-93). Executive summary -- Women's health initiative -- IOM study -- Findings and suggestions -- Clinical trial -- Observational study -- Community prevention study -- Recommendations -- Responses to the statement of task -- Description of the NIH women's health initiative -- History of Institute of Medicine involvement -- Committee selection and participation -- Statement of task -- Committee activities -- Clinical trial -- Rationale -- General issues -- Integration of the CT with other components of the WHI -- Design and methods -- Factorial design -- Sample characteristics -- Proposed analytic techniques -- Ethics: consent and stopping rules -- Minority analysis plan -- Specifying the relationship of intervention an effect -- Outcome definition and measurement -- Recruitment and retention -- Adherence -- Secular trends -- Provision of health car." Keywords: "Health, Family & Lifestyle - Women's Health & Lifestyle - General,Subjects - Health, Family & Lifestyle - General,Subjects - Health, Family & Lifestyle - Medical & Heal"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- National Academy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- SKU
- KEX0069425
- ISBN
- 9780309049894
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 16.99€ 4.99
€ 16.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Icon Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 8
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780500133
- ISBN
- 9781780500133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.02
€ 5.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: VFDW; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583229279
- ISBN
- 9781583229279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.22
€ 17.99
€ 16.22
Paperback. Ina May Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species. Num Pages: 266 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: VFDW; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Pinter & Martin Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905177585
- ISBN
- 9781905177585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.38
€ 13.99
€ 11.38
Paperback. A memoir, which talks about the author (and her husband's) trials and tribulations with IVF. Poked and prodded by endless doctors, pumped full of an exotic cocktail of drugs and forced to try to have sex at the most inopportune moments, she pulls no punches in her account of this process. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BG; VFDW; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KLN0018241
- ISBN
- 9780552154383
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: MBDP; MMJT; VFD; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442253087
- ISBN
- 9781442253087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.04
€ 43.04
Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies, and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. Ilana Lowy follows the disease from antiquity to the 21st century, tracing both medical progress and social change. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCL; PDZ; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199548811
- ISBN
- 9780199548811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.85
€ 36.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: VFDW; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books,U.S. Haarlem
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781556432910
- ISBN
- 9781556432910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.50
€ 21.99
€ 16.50
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Myriad Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908434289
- ISBN
- 9781908434289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.17
€ 17.99
€ 14.17
Paperback. The author describes the different categories and causes of challenging behaviour in people with dementia, and provides tried-and-tested models which aid identification, assessment and treatment. A thorough evaluation of the use of psychotropic medication is provided, as well as of a wide range of psychological and biopsychosocial interventions. Series Editor(s): Downs, Murna. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSG; MJND; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849051088
- ISBN
- 9781849051088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.63
€ 34.63
Paperback. 'wonderful, moving, humorous .. extremely poignant' Charlie Mortimer, Dear Lupin Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; BM; VFDM; VFJJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473638198
- ISBN
- 9781473638198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. This book offers an accessible and sympathetic introduction for relatives, carers and professionals looking after or training to work with people with dementia. Drawing on the two 'laws of dementia', the author explains the causes of communication problems, mood disturbances and 'deviant' behaviours. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MJND; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843103219
- ISBN
- 9781843103219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.20
€ 25.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: VFD; VFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493010035
- ISBN
- 9781493010035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.47
€ 27.99
€ 26.47
Paperback. Sweetening The Pill questions the truth of all that we have come to believe about the birth control pill and asks whether, under the cover of liberation, hormonal contraceptives have oppressed women. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: MBNH4; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780996073
- ISBN
- 9781780996073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.42
€ 17.99
€ 16.42
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- LID Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907794346
- ISBN
- 9781907794346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.81
€ 13.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JHB; JMU; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 327
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331260
- ISBN
- 9781349331260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.05
€ 64.05
Hardcover. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- ECW Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781770411739
- ISBN
- 9781770411739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.79
€ 36.99
€ 29.79
Paperback. Research shows that Chinese medicine can be very effective in supporting the treatment of cancer by orthodox Western methods. Henry McGrath draws on his many years as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine to explain how Chinese medicine approaches cancer in terms of understanding and treatment. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: VFD; VXHT1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848190139
- ISBN
- 9781848190139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.88
€ 27.88
"Mariel Hemingway and Bobby Williams share their dynamic and authentic approach to living mindfully and healthfully, offering concrete action steps that readers can take and even track through a simple point-earning system"--Jacket. Num Pages: colour illustrations. BIC Classification: VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Changing Lives Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780988247611
- ISBN
- 9780988247611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.21
€ 26.99
€ 23.21