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This book gives Alzheimer's Disease patients and their families up to date information about the current understanding of the disease and how to live with it's challenges.

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A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy.

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In addition to information about types of cancer, diagnosis, and treatment, Cancer places special emphasis on new frontiers in research, psychological aspects of a cancer diagnosis, and quality-of-life issues for those living with disease.

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Arguing that an active, low-stress lifestyle is an essential part of treating cancer, a guide on how to maximize one's recovery chances outlines a specific nutrition and exercise plan while making recommendations on reducing stress, improving sleep, and building a support network. Original. 12,500

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Based on the findings of the annual Comprehensive Cancer Care conference, a uniquely authoritative guide to the integration of conventional, complementary, and alternative cancer therapies

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"From the moment of diagnosis, the cancer patient embarks on a journey that can prove both daunting and overwhelming. Fears and choices abound, along with the need to understand the nature and ramifica"

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Uniquely qualified to tell this tale, Daniel and Baum base their study on original source material not previously available.

The story of histoplasmosis spans the twentieth century, from its discovery by Samuel Taylor Darling in Panama to the development of effective drug treatment near the century's end.

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Drugs into Bodies recounts the emergence and development of a globally oriented AIDS treatment activist movement that refused to accept that more than 40 million people with HIV in the developing world should simply be left to die.

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Provides a conceptual and historical framework for understanding the causes of cancer and other diseases that increase with age. This book interprets various observations on the age of cancer onset, the genetic and environmental causes of disease, and the organization of tissues with regard to stem cell biology and somatic mutation.

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"In the wake of COVID, it's more important than ever to understand epidemics-how they emerge and what we can do to fight back"--

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This collection of translations of some of Koch's important essays represents an important first. It includes three of his essays on anthrax, three on tuberculosis, two on cholera, one on wound infections, and a relective essay entitled On Bacteriological Research.

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AIDS has profound implications for social and family relationships, in addition to being a major health issue. This is a completely revised, updated edition of a text which addresses the issue of how AIDS and HIV affect the family. It draws material from international research and practice.

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This is the story of the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital which, before it was closed in 1996, became one of the world's foremost centres for the research and treatment of infectious diseases, especially HIV and AIDS.

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Fever has long been recognized as a symptom of disease. Until the past century it was considered a healthy sign; since then this view has changed and the use of drugs to reduce fever has grown quite common. Acting on the revival of interest as to whether the effects of fever are beneficial or harmful, Matthew Kluger and other physiologists began a

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However, medical disorders, increased globalization of the food supply, and an upsurge of processed and convenience foods that contain food additives may also cause adverse food reactions as well.

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Shows the efforts of an organization that is devoted to making the lives of children with cancer rewarding, an organization inspired by Teddi Mervis, who lost her own battle with cancer. Teddi lost her fight when she was 12 years old and this work tells the story of her three-year battle.

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An estimated 17 million people are infected with HIV today, and it is estimated that in Africa alone there will be at least 70 million people infected in the next 25 years.