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Author : Ritchie C. Shoemaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desperation Medicine written by Ritchie C. Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shannon Brownlee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917296
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Overtreated written by Shannon Brownlee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Brownlee dissects what she calls "the medical-industrial complex" and lays bare the backward economic incentives embedded in our system, revealing a stunning portrait of the care we now receive. Nevertheless, Overtreated ultimately conveys a message of hope by reframing the debate over health care reform. It offers a way to control costs and cover the uninsured, while simultaneously improving the quality of American medicine. Shannon Brownlee's humane, intelligent, and penetrating analysis empowers readers to avoid the perils of overtreatment, as well as pointing the way to better health care for everyone.
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674265106
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Desperate Remedies written by Andrew Scull and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of American psychiatry--from the mental hospital to the brain lab--that reveals the devastating treatments doctors have inflicted on their patients (especially women) in the name of science and questions our massive reliance on meds. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once called "madness"--have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past. Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and cognitive behavioral therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Andrew Scull begins with the birth of the asylum in the reformist zeal of the 1830s and carries us through to the latest drug trials and genetic studies. He carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run mental hospitals to explain why so many of the mentally ill are now on the street and why so many of those whose bodies were experimented on were women. In his compelling closing chapters, he reveals how drug companies expanded their reach to treat a growing catalog of ills, leading to an epidemic of over-prescribing while deliberately concealing debilitating side effects. Carefully researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America's long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think and feel.
Author : Julie Livingston
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353423
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Improvising Medicine written by Julie Livingston and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
Author : Paul A. Offit, M.D.
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062223003
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Do You Believe in Magic? written by Paul A. Offit, M.D. and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly. Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our health. Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners. An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”
Author : Dr. John C. Hughes
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Fifth World Medicine written by Dr. John C. Hughes and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What begins as a hunger for authentic medicine in a young medical student evolves into a quest for an entirely new world, a Fifth World, where the line between what is material and spiritual has been dissolved. In Fifth World Medicine, you will explore the lands, myths, and prophecies of the Hopi People, chase after coyotes in the deserts of Arizona, enter a sweat lodge with a shamanic healer in the far North Country of Canada, embrace the power of silence and the medicine of enlightenment, go on a vision quest in the depths of the Grand Canyon, and find your roots in the sacred temple of the human body and the soil of Mother Earth. Fifth World Medicine dares to challenge Westerners and anyone who dwells in the Fourth World, a techno-industrial world where dualistic thinking and linear, scientific methodologies assert their hegemony—leading to disease in Mother Earth and her inhabitants. Fifth World Medicine provides an exit path for those who hunger for something more than the Fourth World. Fifth World Medicine satisfies humanity’s deep, collective hunger for lasting health as it integrates one’s spirit, mind, body, and Earth. If you feel this hunger, follow the wolf on this journey to the Fifth World—a journey guaranteed to test your worldview and entire understanding of what is true.
Author : Tizazu Fetene
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9994455788
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Tizazu Fetene and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in middle and low income countries is arguably one of the most meaningful outcomes recorded in the fight against HIV and AIDS. A record number of some 6.2 million people living with HIV and AIDS are reported to be benefiting from the treatment, which is reported to have risen by 19 per cent between 2010 and 2011 and as a result of this, the region has also enjoyed a significant decline in AIDS mortality. This volume is the outcome of the call for abstracts put out by OSSREA in 2011 for senior researchers, social scientists and practitioners to write scientific articles on issues surrounding ARVs. The volume contains eight chapters organized into four sections: ART and quality of life; Adherence to ART; Traditional medicine and ART; and Sexual behaviour of ART attendants. The chapters are contributed by Academics and researchers from three different African countries: four from Ethiopia, two from Uganda and two from Zimbabwe.
Author : Mark J. Plotkin
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140262100
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Medicine Quest written by Mark J. Plotkin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medicine Quest, Mark Plotkin moves beyond the Amazon rainforests of his classic Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice to describe the ongoing race to find new medicines for intractable diseases such as AIDS,cancer, diabetes, and tuberculosis in far-flung places all over the world. While highlighting the unlikely marriage of natural products, indigenous wisdom, and biotechnology, Plotkin details discoveries that are producing stunning results in the laboratory: painkillers from the skin of rainforest frogs, anticoagulants from leech saliva, and antitumor agents from snake venom. An entertaining and educational weave of medicine, ecology, ethnobotany, history, exploration, and adventure, Medicine Quest will thrill scientists, naturalists, and armchair explorers, and heighten our appreciation for the inexhaustible therapeutic potential of our natural world.
Author : Susanne Lundin
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1991260318
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Medicine Across Borders: Exploration of Grey Zones written by Susanne Lundin and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine Across Borders provides an interdisciplinary space to discuss the issue of substandard and falsified medical products. Scholars from social and medical sciences collaboratively contribute insight to improving safe medicine access. The circulation of medicines and medical products on the informal market is well-known. Stakeholders, including governmental agencies and biotechnic enterprises, invest much effort in designing and implementing macrolevel interventions to limit the spread of such products. Nevertheless, there is a lack of knowledge and understanding of how informal markets function in everyday medicine access and use. This applies to professionals within and beyond academia, state governments, as well as the general public. This book takes an international perspective, examining the issue of substandard and falsified medical products cross nationally. Falsified and poor-quality medicines are prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, but this book also includes research from high-income countries arguing that they too have vulnerabilities, and emphasising the need for vigilance even in well-resourced and well-regulated regimes. Medicine Across Borders: Exploration of Grey Zones provides an interdisciplinary space for a depth and diversity of material that spotlights some contemporary themes hindering access to essential medicines and driving the penetration of substandard and falsified medical products. The authors are drawn from a range of academic disciplines across the social and medical sciences presenting findings from data collected using an eclectic mix of methods and analysis. Surveys, ethnography, narrative case studies, statistical, and thematic analysis are all deployed.
Author : Morton A. Meyers
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611451620
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Happy Accidents written by Morton A. Meyers and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century.
Author : Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401088
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Wrong Medicine written by Lawrence J. Schneiderman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often, patients in American hospitals are subjected to painful, expensive, and futile treatments because of a physician’s notion of medical duty or a family’s demands. Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker renew their call for common sense and realistic expectations in medicine in this revised and updated edition of Wrong Medicine. Written by a physician and a philosopher—both internationally recognized experts in medical ethics—Wrong Medicine addresses key topics that have occupied the media and the courts for the past several decades, including the wrenching Terry Schiavo case. The book combines clear descriptions of ethical principles with real clinical stories to discuss the medical, legal, and political issues that confront doctors today as they seek to provide the best medical care to critically ill patients. The authors have added two chapters that outline theoretical, legislative, judicial, and clinical developments since the first edition. Based on the latest empirical research, Wrong Medicine continues to guide a broad range of health care professionals through the challenges of providing humane end-of-life care.
Author : George Milbry Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine written by George Milbry Gould and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : SNMA Publications
Publisher : Student National Medical Association
ISBN 13 : 1386149004
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (861 download)
Download or read book JSNMA Fall 2017 Addressing Racial Bias in Medicine written by SNMA Publications and published by Student National Medical Association. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On behalf of the SNMA Publications Committee, it is our upmost pleasure to present to you the Fall 2017 JSNMA Issue: Addressing Racial Bias in Medicine. We are truly humbled by this opportunity to feature the courageous voices of our SNMA members who undertook this controversial yet delicate topic.Their diligence and creativity, combined with that of our team, have taken our vision for this issue to unexpected heights. From opinion pieces to research articles, it provides powerful insights regarding the influence of racism throughout the many dimensions of medicine.
Author : Elliot S. Valenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Grt & Desperate Cures written by Elliot S. Valenstein and published by . This book was released on 1986-05-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel J. Alpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Education of Physicians for Primary Care written by Joel J. Alpert and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Shoemaker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620551942
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Ayahuasca Medicine written by Alan Shoemaker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s account of the journey to become an ayahuasquero, a shaman who heals with the visionary vine ayahuasca • Details the author’s training and life as a curandero using ayahuasca medicine, San Pedro cactus, tobacco purges, psychedelic mushrooms, and other visionary plants • Offers first-hand accounts of miraculous healing where ayahuasca revealed the cause of the illness, including how the author healed his mother from liver cancer • Shows how “ayahuasca tourism” symbolizes the Western world’s reawakening need to connect with the universal life force For more than 20 years American-born Alan Shoemaker has apprenticed and worked with shamans in Ecuador and Peru, learning the traditional methods of ayahuasca preparation, the ceremonial rituals for its use, and how to commune with the healing spirit of this sacred plant as well as the spirit of the San Pedro cactus and other sacred plant allies. Now a recognized and practicing ayahuasquero, or ayahuasca shaman, in Peru, he offers an insider’s account of the ayahuasca tradition and of its use for expanding consciousness and achieving healing through access to other dimensions of being. Shoemaker details his training and his own curandero practice using ayahuasca medicine, tobacco purges, psychedelic mushrooms, and other visionary plants. He discusses the different traditions of his two foremost teachers and mentors, Don Juan in the Peruvian Amazon, an ayahuasquero, and Valentin in Ecuador, a San Pedro shaman. He reveals the indispensable role played by icaros, the healing songs of the plant shaman, and offers firsthand accounts of miraculous healing resulting from ayahuasca’s ability to reveal the cause of an illness, including how he healed his mother from liver cancer. The author also addresses the rising popularity of Northerners traveling to the Amazon to seek healing and mind expansion through ayahuasca and shows how this fascination is triggered by humanity’s reawakening need to connect to the universal life force.
Author : Elisabeth Hsu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 180073557X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Chinese Medicine in East Africa written by Elisabeth Hsu and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin - locals would try out their ‘alternatively modern’ formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.
