Health Care

This volume gives practical guidance in applying Montessori principles to dementia care. It is written for family caregivers as well as for professionals. It offers information and techniques that will enable caregiving for dementia patients so they can remain at home, safe and protected, while at the same time supporting the caregiver. It uses key Montessori principles of Observation, Standardization, Simplification and Redirection, showing how they can be applied in the home.

This audiobook is read by the author, Ro Mitchell. Unlock the power of self-talk to build confidence, believe in yourself and transform your life. Have you ever felt not quite good enough? Or confident enough? Ever felt like you need to do more, be more, to fit in? You’re not alone. In this...

In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.

In the face of continuing advances in medical research and treatment, bioethical questions remain at the heart of many of our society’s difficult moral problems. Since its original publication in 1996, Gilbert Meilaender’s Bioethics has proven itself an effective introduction into this arena, providing thoughtful guidance on today’s most relevant issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction, genetic research, euthanasia, human experimentation, and much more.

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject of human Immunology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school Immunology course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master the course.

As a social worker, jail chaplain, and justice advocate, Bethany Dearborn Hiser pushed herself to the brink of burnout - and then kept going. Stress, despair, and compassion fatigue overwhelmed her ability to function. She was called to serve the abused, addicted, and homeless people in her community. Yet she was emotionally and spiritually exhausted. Something needed to change. Searching for answers, Hiser learned that trauma affects everyone who is exposed to it - not only those experiencing firsthand violence, homelessness, and addiction, but also those who are trying to help.

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s...

Unsolved Medical Mysteries: Explaining the Unexplainable is your chance to explore the strangest and most confounding cases in medical history. In 12 gripping lectures, acclaimed author, historian, and medical humanities expert Dr. Brandy Schillace guides you on a fascinating journey into the unknown, from historical enigmas to modern medical conundrums. With her unique blend of storytelling and scientific insight, Dr. Schillace digs into a range of medical mysteries

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A warm, funny, irresistible memoir that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years—from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club “A rare view of male friendship.”—NPR...

When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist, takes listeners on the journey that patient and doctor travel together.

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished.

This improved handbook answers questions around the diseases that cause dementia and provides reassurance through modern advances in our understanding of the condition.

“An essential guide” (Mark Hyman, author of Young Forever) to navigating life with the cognitive and mental health impairments that often accompany Long Covid. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the shocking mortality figures obscured the fact that death is not the only adverse outcome of the...

It’s a sad truth that we dental professionals often approach patient care like we’re herding cattle. In our haste to get as many patients processed we can overlook their individual needs. Now is the perfect time to upgrade our delivery of care to focus on the individual patient and build a case for a total body health approach to dental care. The tools you will find in this book are repeatable and effective. They are meant to be used in service to yourself, your patients, and your practice. If you want practical strategies, with a dash of humor thrown in, this is the book for you.

Découvrez le guide des injections de Botox & toxine botulique pour les infirmières spécialisées en esthétique. Ce livre complet et pratique vous accompagne pas à pas, de la compréhension de l’anatomie faciale et de la pharmacologie de la toxine botulique, aux techniques d’injection avancées, tout en couvrant les aspects essentiels de la sécurité et de l’éthique.

Unlock the secrets to mastering Medical-Surgical Nursing with the ultimate study guide designed for nursing students ready to conquer the NCLEX-RN. This high-yield crash course will help you learn more in less time, so you can study smarter, not harder, and pass your exam with confidence.

Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive, but that’s not what makes them unaffordable. Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle and political debate. And while we’ve struggled for decades to agree on solutions that serve all patients without jeopardizing the invention of new medicines, many Americans suffer because they can’t afford the drugs they need. Do we really have to choose between affordability and innovation?

Dr. Jamie Wood and Dr. Anne Peters, two of the most respected and sought-after endocrinologists, provide an easy-to-follow narrative on all aspects of the disease. Offering practical, evidence-based, and common sense help, The Type 1 Diabetes Self-Care Manual will be the go-to reference for everyone touched by type 1 diabetes.

A revolutionary invitation to tend to our fundamental need for renewal, self-care, and mindfulness by disengaging from our devices and acknowledging the ways that we are burnout, from the author of How to Breathe. “Permission to Rest shows us why slowing down is so important and exactly how to...

ارتبطتْ تجربةُ المرض تاريخياً بتصورات ومعتقدات ذات طابعٍ عابر للثقافات. وقد حاولت المجتمعات في ضوئها تأويل الألم الناجم عن تلك التجربة، وإيجاد معنى لها عبر توجيهها لاستيعاب أبعاد روحية، وقيم أخلاقية، بهدف التعايش مع مآلاتها النفسية والجسدية والاجتماعية.

يقدم هذا الكتاب مقاربة ثقافية لتجربة المرض وتمثيلاتها في السرود العربية -الروائية، والسيرية - التي توقفت عند هذه التجربة الإنسانية، واتخذتها مادة للكتابة، وكَرَّست المرض ثيمةً أو موتيفاً، وانخرطت في عملية إنتاج دلالات ثقافية واجتماعية وسياسية جديدة له عبر استثمار الإمكانات الرمزية والتأويلية التي ينطوي عليها.

يبحث الكتاب التصورات السوسيوثقافية للمرض والجسد وعلاقة المريض بالمؤسسة الطبية. وقد تم اختيار نماذجَ بعينها، بغرض مقاربةِ مقولاتِها الأدبية والفكرية والإنسانية، وما تنطوي عليه من أبعاد فكرية وجمالية وأخلاقية.