Medicine

Mainstream health science has let you down.Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is ...

Examines The Pervasive Fears And Myths Surrounding Vaccines From A Mother's Perspective And Identifies The Historical And Cultural Factors That Cause People...

Poverty in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This volume...

An essential survival guide – both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, ...

“I am an assiduous reader of John Casti’s books. He is a real scientific intellectual.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author o...

Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he k...

North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many t...

In the current environment of deepening class and income inequality, it is essential to understand the socio-economic conditions that shape the health of in...

Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on 'flexibility' in c...

For Decades, Experts Have Puzzled Over Why The Us Spends More On Health Care But Suffers Poorer Outcomes Than Other Industrialized Nations. Bradley And Tayl...

A Philosophy Professor Discusses The Right To Health And Explores Both Views On The Issue Including The Idea That It Is A Fundamental Right Along The Lines ...

This Book Is An Introduction To Issues Of The Social Determinants Of Health. Social Determinants Of Health Of The Living And Working Conditions That Shape W...

Why The Modern World Forgot How To Sleep Why Is Sleep Frustrating For So Many People? While Human History Presents A Vast Diversity Of Sleeping Styles, Toda...

Decisions Made By The Food, Tobacco, Alcohol, Pharmaceutical, Gun, And Automobile Industries Have A Greater Impact On Today's Health Than The Decisions Of S...

Product Description From an award-winning science journalist, a “deeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitation” (Natur...

In This Book, Historian Judith Walzer Leavitt Tells The Remarkable Story Of Mary Mallon, The Woman Known As Typhoid Mary. Combining Social History With Biog...

national Bestseller“the Most Lacerating Tale Of Drug Addiction Since William S. Burroughs’ junky.” —the Boston Globethe Introduction, Discussion Questions,...

The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongs...

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issu...

Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatize...