Medicine
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Medicine
Hardcover. This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMB; MMGW; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574311
- ISBN
- 9780230574311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.38
€ 119.38
Hardcover. An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans. Taking as a starting point the idea that to increase longevity is a form of medical enhancement, it examines the value of living longer; the means for extending life spans; the consequences of greater longevity for the fair distribution of resources and healthcare in particular. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MFKH3; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346. 256 pages. An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans. Taking as a starting point the idea that to increase longevity is a form of medical enhancement, it examines the value of living longer; the means for extending life spans; the consequences of greater longevity for the fair distribution of resources and healthcare in particular. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: MBDC; MFKH3; PSAD. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576957
- ISBN
- 9780230576957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914. Num Pages: 235 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJM; HBTQ; MBPK; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230578074
- ISBN
- 9780230578074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579385
- ISBN
- 9780230579385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single or mixed gender classes? Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSP2; JHBK5; JNF; MBNH4; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579439
- ISBN
- 9780230579439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; KCM; KNSG; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600058
- ISBN
- 9780230600058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. This thoughtful and surprising book analyzes the effect of animal extremism on the world's scientists, their institutions, and professional societies. The Animal Research War traces the evolution of the animal rights movement, profiles its leadership, and reveals the truth behind university animal research. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFZ; MBGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600140
- ISBN
- 9780230600140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. Examines the institutionalization of self-help in the US using organizational and social movement theories. This book explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for various manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems. Num Pages: 202 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKS; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600379
- ISBN
- 9780230600379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFMA; JPQB; MBNH4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607989
- ISBN
- 9780230607989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. A lively indictment of American culture's pervasive use of the psychotherapeutic metaphor to explain behaviours, a habit that has crossed the Atlantic in recent years, arguing that psychotherapy and excessive individualism has only ensured the continuance of social problems. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC; MMJT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609457
- ISBN
- 9780230609457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. Using historical and contemporary case studies, Youde traces the shifting balance between surveillance and global public good provision and suggests that a human rights-based strategy offers a stable compromise. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619951
- ISBN
- 9780230619951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.68
€ 62.68
Paperback. Based on the author's ethnographic research in India, the book explores the psychology of Hinduism, and offers an innovative synthesis of psychoanylsis with modern anthropological theories of cultural difference. Num Pages: 306 pages, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; JHM; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078696
- ISBN
- 9780231078696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.34
€ 49.34
Paperback. Through the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects personal, family and work relationships. It draws on the experinces of black and white, heterosexual and gay, women and men with or without symtoms who show how they work through everyday life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JHBK; JHBL; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231101219
- ISBN
- 9780231101219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.16
€ 47.16
Paperback. Tackles the relationship between the privatization of risk, and focuses on - health care and health insurance; employment insecurity and labor markets; pensions, assets, and social security; the pharmaceuticals industry; and natural disasters and homeland security. Editor(s): Hacker, Jacob. Series: Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk). Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146036
- ISBN
- 9780231146036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.16
€ 34.16
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146500
- ISBN
- 9780231146500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.77
€ 142.77
Hardback. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JMC; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306309694
- ISBN
- 9780306309694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.06
€ 126.06
Hardback. Series: Emotions, Personality and Psychotherapy. Num Pages: 496 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1980.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306309861
- ISBN
- 9780306309861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.59
€ 197.59
Hardback. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JM; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306310874
- ISBN
- 9780306310874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 500 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJW; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1980.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 1978
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306311314
- ISBN
- 9780306311314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.28
€ 76.28
Paperback. Series: NATO Science Series B. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306402357
- ISBN
- 9780306402357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 173.26
€ 173.26