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"Physician and author Danielle Ofri investigates how medical error could be killing 10% of patients and causing 33% of hospital deaths. These stories ask us to reconsider what happens when the medical system does us harm"--

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A profound, provocative, and addictively engaging book of open-ended medical cases that ask, "What would you do"

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Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated for their own good than at any time in history.

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A top expert on decision-making explains why it's so hard to make good choices-and what you and your doctor can do to make better ones

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In time for the 2008 US presidential elections and following on the heels of Michael Moore's Sicko, 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care offers powerful ammunition in favour of a fundamental change to American health care

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Offers readers with a programme of workouts for those seeking to begin a fitness regime based around weight training. This book contains illustrated, step-by-step exercises for both novices and seasoned weight trainers. It also includes information on personalising your workout, the concepts of fitness, and nutrition.

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This report highlights changes in general practice activity in Australia over the most recent decade (April 2001 to March 2011) of the BEACH program, a national cross-sectional study of general practice activity. Over this time 9801 participating GPs provided details of 981,000 GP-patient encounters.

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A guide to personal papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford.

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Previous edition published as: Autism tomorrow.

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A travelling exhibition celebrating a national institution and colourful part of Australian life. Captures the events, personalities and the innovations that have made surf lifesaving in Australia the vibrant movement it is today.

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A beautifully written and accessible guide to the many unexplored cultural meanings of breastfeeding in contemporary society. Essential reading for students of the body, whether in the health professions, the social sciences, or gender and cultural studies - and for all mothers who have pondered the secrets of their breastly intelligence.

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This is an account of the changing provision for the insane in north Wales from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the millennium. It sets the history of insanity in the area against a background of social and cultural issues.

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"Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology shows how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization. Christoph Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place-with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care"--

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An absorbing look at the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class and in urban development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco.

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Clinical data mining in an allied health organisation: a real world experience shows how data-mining methodology can be used to promote quality management and research in the work of allied health professions. Australian authors.

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Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. This book draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture.