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Crohn's and Colitis For Dummies
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.99Learn to: Recognize the treatment options that are right for you Manage your symptoms and avoid triggers Deal with complications The complete guide to living well with Crohn's and colitis! Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are frustrating and often debilitating diseases that have life-altering impacts on sufferers. Full of expert... more...
Living Easy with Diabetes
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableWhy did I get diabetes? Can diabetes make me go blind? Are diabetic men more likely to be impotent? Should I inject U/40 insulin with a U/100 syringe? Can I travel if I have diabetes? Should I tell my boss of my Condition? India is hurtling away to reach the 100-million-diabetic mark by 2030. This means that you and your family are at serious risk... more...
Me Medicine vs. We Medicine
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99Personalized healthcare?or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls ?Me Medicine??is radically transforming our longstanding, ?one-size-fits-all? model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetics in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual?s... more...
Public Health Law Research
Wiley 2013; US$ 90.00Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods definitively explores the mechanisms, theories and models central to public health law research – a growing field dedicated to measuring and studying law as a central means for advancing public health. Editors Alexander C. Wagenaar and Scott Burris outline integrated theory drawn from numerous... more...
The Body Economic
Basic Books 2013; US$ 26.99Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health?and have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time when constituents need them most. The result, as pioneering... more...
Transdisciplinary Public Health
Wiley 2013; US$ 90.00"This book makes a great leap in the conceptualization of transdisciplinary approaches, as well as provides concrete examples in practice, teaching, policy, and research." From the Foreword by Edward F. Lawlor, dean and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor, the Brown School; and founding director, Institute for Public Health... more...
Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day
Wiley 2013; US$ 29.95In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. more...
Structural Approaches in Public Health
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 50.95That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors ? social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental ? are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including... more...
Preventing Mental Ill-Health
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Is there any evidence that we can reduce the incidence of mental ill health? Is it possible to prevent recurrence of mental ill health? Aspirations to achieve both these goals have featured in mental health policy and practice for over 100 years. This comprehensive and accessible book draws on research on the development and persistence of behavioural... more...
Environmental Health Risk VII
WIT Press 2013; US$ 266.00Environmental Health Risk VII contains contributions presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health. Topics covered include Risk prevention and monitoring; Mitigation problems; Disaster management and preparedness; Epidemiological studies and pandemics; Control of pollution risk; Air pollution; Water... more...









