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1) Invisible
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive feature documentary that tells the often ignored stories of people living with a devastating syndrome that many still believe doesn’t exist. The film also exposes the fight with insurance and drug companies for proper treatment and how access to holistic health and education is determined by class and money. Through his journey to better understand Fibromyalgia as a way of helping his mother, filmmaker Nick Demos finally...
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...
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...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This documentary is more than just a chronicle of a father, his adult son and two friends on a picturesque motorcycle ride in the Australian Outback. Drawing parallels between the early space explorers, Paul, Josh, Duncan and Ben don their riding gear and take off on a journey into their physical, mental and emotional limits. The ride will ultimately test the bonds of their friendship as they seek respite from everyday life through adventure. However,...
8) 图解十二经络调筋术
Publisher
Jiangsu feng huang ke xue ji shu chu ban she
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"According to Chinese medicine, many diseases in the human body are caused by the poor flow of qi and blood. Once the stagnation of qi and blood stasis occurs, the meridians of the human body will be blocked, resulting in stasis and pain in the corresponding areas, i.e. "pain is not passable, pass is not painful". This book illustrates the twelve meridians and channels, mainly through the basic techniques of kneading, pressing, pushing and holding...
Author
Series
Yue du jian kang xi lie. Shen xin ling shu fang volume HD3184
Publisher
Yuan shui wen hua
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
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
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the front line. Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box...
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
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
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...
16) Doctors
Author
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
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...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Recovery-physical and mental-is a red-hot topic, and the worlds of sports, technology, and commerce have all taken note. This second edition of The Athlete's Guide to Recovery helps readers sort through the hype to focus on the practices and devices that really make a difference in recovery and lead to peak performance"--
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