Social Medicine

In this comprehensive, evidence-based guide for adults and children with food allergies and those who care for them, Dr. Scott H. Sicherer provides all the critical information you need on preventing, testing, living with, and treating food allergies. Organized in an accessible Q&A format and illustrated with case studies, the book explains how to prevent exposure to a known allergen at home, at work, at school, in restaurants, and elsewhere. Emphasizing recent advances, Sicherer touches on everything from handling an anaphylactic emergency to diagnosing allergies and intolerances.

Written by an elite team of 60 doctors and men’s health experts, The 21st Century Man reveals insider secrets that men in midlife and beyond need to recover, rebuild, and maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and sexual health. It's the book all men will want after turning 40 to feel great, look good, and have better physical intimacy for the rest of their lives. This selection provides common-sense measures men can take to minimize infectious illness, prevent injury to their back and hands, avoid hearing problems, practice good foot care, and optimize their sleep.

You want to be healthy. We all do. But what if your idea of health is wrong? This book exposes the cultural lie that has been infusing society for far too long...that health is merely physical. The Holo State uncovers and unpacks this lie by providing a simple and clear framework on how you can become truly healthy.

In This Is How You Vagina, Dr. Nicole Williams presents listeners with a much-needed education on the history, science, and attitudes of the most fascinating and misunderstood part of the female anatomy: the vagina. She covers valuable information about sexual function, childbirth, and physiology and provides answers to her patients' (and probably your) most asked questions. She matter-of-factly dispels the most common myths and misinformation concerning female genitalia. You will learn what's normal and what's not, including that, yes, yours is most certainly normal too.

Melania Rizzoli, medico chirurgo, ha la capacità di rendere chiare e immediate nozioni di medicina che interessano a tutti ma sulle quali spesso si fa molta confusione. I pezzi che compongono questo libro sono la summa della divulgazione medica: si parla del cancro, il nemico numero uno contro il quale la stessa autrice ha dovuto lottare, e del nuovo nemico che sta sconvolgendo le nostre vite, il Coronavirus.

When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849, there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark - "What, trust a woman doctor - never!"

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities. Headed by Jackie Banes, who oversees the care of a diabetic grandmother, a husband on kidney dialysis, an ailing father, and three children, the Banes family contends with countless medical crises.

La innovación es la actividad más importante de nuestra época: trae progresos espectaculares a nuestro nivel de vida, pero también, en ocasiones, cambios inquietantes a la sociedad.

With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out-of-control, profits-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on the failures of the pharmaceuticals industry, including the treatment of children with antipsychotics and disastrous PTSD protocols for veterans.

The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the 21st century. In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited smoking in bars, outlawed trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas, among other groundbreaking actions.

The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health-care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system.

The intellectual foundation established by the Kalkiism Research Center in Nepal, composed of a team of 50 leading economists and 50 top medical professionals, has strongly advocated for free health care for all citizens in Nepal. Interestingly, this appears to be merely a byproduct of a cashless economy where all banks are owned by the government. Another byproduct is the eradication of the inhumane dowry system, which has long dehumanized half the population. A third benefit is the elimination of corruption.

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

Over the last decade, Kevin Dedner has been on a mission to explore this powerful and troubling question, shining an unconventional spotlight on the impact of racism on mental health. In his debut book, The Joy of the Disinherited, Dedner articulates his call for urgent change: We must knock down the invisible barriers that make it harder for Black people to get the mental health care they need and deserve.

It is no secret that bioidentical hormones have revolutionized modern medicine. While its science is more advanced than ever before, it can often be difficult for even experts in this field to separate fact from fiction. Indeed, the inaccuracy of information surrounding bioidentical hormones often leaves confusion in its wake, particularly when it comes to potential side effects and several myths that exist.

Whether you are a doctor, nurse, student, or otherwise interested listener, the stories here will help you to understand how medicine works and how medical error can happen. The lifelong process of learning that is a medical career requires healthcare workers to find a way to live through these setbacks without either becoming too adept at putting them 'down to experience' and forgetting their social significance, or 'burning out' and leaving medicine.

In order to resolve the significant racial, ethnic, language, and financial inequities that exist in healthcare quality and access, health systems must undertake the development of systematic approaches to advance diversity, inclusion, and health equity.

From the author of The Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare and The Good Doctor comes a book that explores how the persistent pandemic has revealed what excellence in healthcare truly means and presents an action plan to achieve it.

射精は一日にしてならず――陰茎の機能をできる限り引き出し維持するためには、正しい扱い方の体得が必要だ。

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