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Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Chris Bombardier is on a mission to become the first person with severe hemophilia to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on each continent. He’s completed five of the climbs already, but he next faces the big one: Everest. Having trained with his mentor “Crazy Uncle Dave,” under his expert doctors' supervision and with his adoring wife's support, Chris is prepared for the mountain. What he’s not as prepared for are the Nepalese...
2) No Limits
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Shot over 25 years, NO LIMITS is a ‘7 Up’ inspired long form narrative documentary that follows the lives of our disabled protagonists over the course of decades, and reveals how changes in societies attitudes to disability have affected them. This is a continuation of director John Zaritsky's research on thalidomide, its effect on survivors, and their fight for justice.
3) Doctors
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Young learners are introduced to this community helper in a beginning reader that's perfect for curious kids. Early readers will learn how different doctors help people stay healthy. Full color images and carefully leveled text highlight what doctors do, where they work, and how they help the community by taking care of people.
Author
Publisher
Fox Chapel Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies is a comprehensive guide including 100+ recipes and nearly 70 applications to understanding how to use herbs and oils to help the mind, body and soul. Herbal remedies include everything from teas to ointments to tonics and tinctures. They help with ailments such as bug bites and stings, food poisoning, insomnia, shingles, sore throat, acne, arthritis and so much more! Easy to follow chapters are divided by...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Author
Publisher
F.A. Davis Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Building on the success of previous editions, Medical Terminology Systems, the updated 8th edition, continues its well-established record of presenting medical word building principles based on competency based curricula. Because of the pedagogical success of previous editions, this edition continues its structural design as a textbook-workbook that complements all teaching formats, including traditional lecture, distance learning, and independent...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
What's Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiency; cancer; endometriosis; alcoholism; severe depression; PTSD. Western medicine, which intends to cure illness...
Publisher
Cine Qua Non
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with current attempts to ban it, this film draws startling parallels with the battle waged over nearly two decades to keep RU486, now called mifepristone, from the U.S. market. The story of the pill's tangled and fascinating history begins with its invention in France, travels to Germany, England, India, Brazil, China and finally to clinical trials in the United States. Featuring rare historical footage of political, scientific, corporate,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on, as do the pervasive societal stigmas and ignorance that shape women's health and relationships with their own bodies. The author draws back the curtain on the collective medical...
Author
Series
Shi ye volume 95
Publisher
Ri yue wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited follow up title to Chris Enss's bestselling Doctor Wore Petticoats, profiles 10 new female physicians of the Old West, published in time for Women's History Month. Given the media coverage during the 2020 pandemic, the celebration of the heroics of health care workers and women's work are trending subjects"--
Author
Series
Xin shi ye xi lie volume 120
Publisher
Cai shi wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...
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