Bipolar disorder also commonly referred to as the manic depressive disorder, is a brain illness that is associated with abnormal mood swings, activity and energy levels as well as the ability of the affected person to perform normal daily activities. ...
As more feminism migrates online, full-spectrum doulas remain focused on life’s physically intimate relationships: between caregivers and patients, parents and pregnancy, individuals and their own bodies. They are committed to supporting a pregnancy no matter the outcome—whether it results in birth, abortion, miscarriage, or adoption—facing the question of choice head-on. ...
When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders—their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination.<BR / ...
Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, <I>Psychiatry and Its Discontents </I>provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm’s decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to m ...
In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were in ...
Este libro trata de forma amena las principales areas de la fisica que debiera conocer un profesional de la salud. Temas de mecanica, termodinamica, electricidad y magnestismo, fisica ondulatoria, fisica nuclear y fisica de laser se explican en el contexto de las ciencias medicas, incluyendo un gran numero de problemas resueltos y ejemplos. Pensado para estudiantes, es tambien material de referencia para aquellos profesionales con conocimien ...
La globalizacion y los avances tecnocientificos requieren innovaciones radicales tanto en la produccion y la gestion del saber como en las politicas educativas y la produccion cultural. Las tecnologias de la informacion son generalmente consideradas herramientas democraticas y eficientes para las nuevas exigencias de la sociedad, cuando, en realidad, son mas el problema que la solucion. Esta contradiccion se radicaliza tambien porque la mayoria ...
Based on the Autism Works Now!® Workplace Readiness Workshop, this interactive resource shows how to help students aged 14-17 develop the necessary transition skills for getting and keeping a meaningful job, with accompanying worksheets available to download. Structured around 2-hour weekly sessions over an eight month period, the program is ideal for teaching to groups of students with autism. It covers essential topics such as organization an ...
From reviews: "Histological and Histochemical Methods is a tour de force wholly suited to the modern age of histology and Professor Kiernan has triumphed again. To cover so much ground clearly and concisely while including the justification of the underlying chemistry makes this book unique. There should not be a histology laboratory or an undergraduate library that does not own a copy." Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2016, 91(2): ...
