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Smell Detectives

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors.Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities—filled with new and stronger stinks—were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and “common sense”—the olfactory experiences of common people—on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.

Novel Medicine

Andrew Schonebaum

By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus only on the “literati” aspects of the novel, showing that these texts were not merely read, but were used by a wide variety of readers for a range of purposes. The intersection of knowledge—fictional and real, elite and vernacular—illuminates the history of reading and daily life and challenges us to rethink the nature of Chinese literature.

The Clinic and Elsewhere

Todd Meyers

Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, novel pharmaceutical therapies have given rise to both new hopes for recovery and renewed fears about drug diversion and abuse. In The Clinic and Elsewhere , Todd Meyers looks at the problems of meaning caused by drug dependency and appraises the changing terms of medical intervention today.By following a group of adolescents from the time they enter drug rehabilitation treatment through their reentry into the outside world-the clinic, their homes and neighborhoods, and other institutional settings-Meyers traces patterns of life that become mediated by pharmaceutical intervention. His focus is not on the drug economy but rather on the therapeutic economy, where new markets, transactions of care, and highly porous conceptions of success and failure come together to shape addiction and recovery. The book is at once a meditative work of anthropology, a demonstration of the theoretical and methodological limits of medical research, and a forceful intervention into the philosophy of therapeutics at the level of the individual.Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nfyy21fxp8&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=12&feature=plc

Resuscitate!

Mickey S. Eisenberg, M.D.

Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among adults, yet it need not be fatal. Though survival in most communities is very poor, a few communities achieve rates as high as 50%. Why are some communities so successful in snatching life from the jaws of death? Resuscitate! describes the steps any EMS system can take to improve cardiac arrest survival. It is written for the medical directors, administrative directors, fire chiefs, dispatch directors, and program supervisor who direct and run EMS systems all across the country, and for the EMTs, paramedics, and dispatchers who provide frontline care.This second edition of Resuscitate! provides fifteen concrete steps to improve survival. Four steps will lead to rapid improvements at the local level and are relatively easy to implement. Six additional steps are more difficult to implement but also likely to improve survival. The remaining steps recommend changes at the national level.Resuscitate! is the official textbook for the Resuscitation Academy, held twice a year in Seattle. Cosponsored by Seattle Medic One, King County EMS, and the Medic One Foundation, the Academy draws attendees from throughout the world for two intensive days of classes, demonstrations, and workshops to acquire the knowledge and tools to improve survival in their own communities. This new edition includes lessons learned from attendees of the Academy as well as from the faculty's evolving thoughts on how to measure performance and improve survival, one community at a time. It also includes an addendum on the Resuscitation Academy (resuscitationacademy.org).For more than thirty years, Mickey S. Eisenberg M.D., Ph.D. , has played a leading role in developing King County, Washington's emergency response to cases of sudden cardiac arrest, a system recognized as among the very best in the nation. He is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington and serves as the medical director of King County Emergency Medical Services.

HIV Interventions

Marsha Rosengarten

Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeHIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies. In particular, the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) for the treatment of HIV was a significant landmark in the history of the disease. Treatment with ARV drug regimens, which began in 1996, has enabled many thousands to live with the human immunodeficiency virus without progressing to AIDS. Yet ARVs have also been fraught with problems of regimen compliance, viral resistance, and iatrogenic disease. Besides intensifying the technological and ethical complexities of medicine, the drugs have also affected conceptions of risk and risk practices, in turn presenting new challenges for prevention.In order to devise safer, more effective forms of treatment, prevention, and possibly cure, Marsha Rosengarten asserts, it is essential to understand the relationship between HIV, medical technologies, and ideas about the body. HIV is an entity that constitutes and is constituted by complex material and informational environments. Recognition of this two-way traffic between the medical science of HIV and the expression of HIV in individuals and societies provides a novel basis for devising new or supplementary modes of thinking about and intervening in the epidemic.Through such diverse materials as drug advertisements, pill formulations, scientific articles, clinical trials, diagnostic test results, and viral imaging as well as interviews with those living and working with HIV, Rosengarten provides numerous demonstrations of how the entities comprising the HIV epidemic – bodies, viral resistance, diagnostic results, safe sex – are forged through dynamic relations.These various phenomena challenge existing prevention models and raise social and ethical concerns about the impact of additional technologies such as HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis and the promise of vaccines and microbicides.HIV Interventions is relevant to those engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine, biotechnology, and genomics. Further, the specific focus of the project offers HIV practitioners – in the sciences and social sciences, in clinical research, clinical practice, social research, policy development and prevention education – new perspectives and analytic tools for intercepting a virus that continues to endure and, most critically, to change in the course of doing so.

Communicating with RESPECT

Andrew Rixon PhD

It's not just health professionals in Emergency Departments that need to communicate effectively under difficult conditions involving time pressure, high stress, and conflict. Executives, senior managers and leaders have this need too. Through simple, practical and effective tools validated by Emergency Department clinicians, this book provides health professionals with a team-based approach for being more effective communicators and influencers along the patient care journey. If this approach can work in the ED, we believe it can be successful in other sectors and settings too. Based on COIN for ED Professionals(TM), a peer-reviewed and published communication and influencing skills training program developed for Emergency Department health professionals, this book: –presents the RESPECT model, a 7 principled framework enabling health professionals to influence effectively and respectfully in difficult and high stress situations –introduces the approach of action learning, the secret to continuous improvement –provides a rich collection of real stories from clinicians, case-studies, exercises, activities and self-assessment tools targeting professionals seeking to significantly improve not only their own communication and influencing skills, but also those of their colleagues.

Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes

Kristy Jenkins

Manage Type 2 Diabetes the Natural Way Are you at risk for Type 2 diabetes and looking for natural ways to prevent it? Are you seeking natural remedies and therapies to complement your conventional treatment plan? Do you want more options to manage diabetes and prevent all the complications and serious health risks of this disease to live a long healthy life? Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes was written specifically for you. Every page of Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes is filled with information that can help you in your fight. Some of the most basic and frequently asked questions about the disease are addressed in this book. You can learn about your risk factors, the health consequences, and symptoms of diabetes. The differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are also explained. The book also gives you hope as it lets you know that you are not alone in battling this disease. Explore Treatment Options For Type 2 Diabetes There's no doubt that modern, conventional medicine does help control diabetes, but you don't have to limit yourself to it. Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes opens your mind to other types of healing methods, especially those that benefited people for centuries. Learn and understand how complementary care and a holistic approach to managing diabetes can benefit you and how you have more options to manage and beat diabetes. Massage Therapy, Yoga, Meditation, Supplementation with Healing Plants and Herbs, Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Biofeedback Treatment, Acupressure, Homeopathy And Others… Why Should You Consider Alternative Treatment Options To Manage Type 2 Diabetes? They Are Natural They Are Safe Some Have Helped People Lessen The Amount Of Diabetes Medication They Take They Can Improve Your Overall Wellbeing And Health They Do Not Replace Conventional Medical Care But Complement It Natural Therapies Can Enhance Your Conventional Medical Care And Improve Blood Sugar Numbers The Best Reason Of All… Any Efforts That Stabilize Blood Sugar Numbers Help To Prevent The Many Serious Complications Associated With Diabetes, Including… Heart Disease Stroke Hypertension Amputation From Nerve Damage Kidney Failure Peripheral Vascular Disease Diabetic Coma Premature Death Let Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes Be Your Companion On The Road To Health, Wellness And Freedom In Managing Diabetes Live Life Without Diabetes

PreTrain Fundamentals

Camilla Moore

PreTrain Fundamentals is an innovative approach to fitness. This six-week program is a complete exercise program of strength, stability, and flexibility training that helps you to minimizes the risk of injury. PreTrain Fundamentals begins with step-by-step instructions to activating and strengthening your core, shoulders, and back muscles. We build on these exercises with progressive movement training to restore normal movement through your hips, low back, and shoulders. Finally, you will master those movements through a high-intensity, short-duration functional training workout. PreTrain Fundamentals serves as a starting point for a new exercise program, or will complement your existing exercise routine.

Curing Meralgia Paresthetica

Godfree Roberts Ed.D.

Curing Meralgia Paresthetica is for people in pain who want immediate relief, long-term cure, and something to discuss with their physician. Written by a Meralgia sufferer, it helps you find your way out of pain quickly and safely. It covers every aspect of finding a cure for Meralgia Paresthetica: * Diagnosing Meralgia * Symptoms * Laura's Story * Understanding where it comes from and who gets it. * Emergency treatments for Meralgia * Night-time strategies for dealing with Meralgia pain * Walking and sitting with Meralgai * Long-term Meralgia treatments. * Natural remedies for Meralgia. * Pharmaceutical drugs that ease Meralgia symptoms. * Exercises to relieve and prevent Meralgia symptoms. * How doctors look at Meralgia (and what they tell each other) * Meralgia and Pregnancy * Professional treatments for Meralgia * Claiming Disability for Meralgia Sufferers (how insurers see you) * Long-term recovery from Meralgia: the author's personal story

Managing diabetes and related health challenges

Dr Arien van der Merwe

With more than 3,5 million South Africans having diabetes and more than 150 million worldwide with metabolic syndrome (which includes diabetes), often undiagnosed, this book comes at exactly the right time. Well-known South African medical doctor, author and expert on holistic integrative medicine, Dr Arien van der Merwe, explains precisely what diabetes is, its symptoms and the different types – 1, 2 and 3, what causes diabetes, from physiology to emotions, what pre-diabetes and insulin resistance are, the link between diabetes and metabolic syndrome, the connection between diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and depression and which medications may be prescribed. This clear, sensible and user-friendly book provides practical solutions for managing diabetes by changing your lifestyle – from sleep to relaxation, doing enough of the right kind of exercise, including interval and resistance training, eating correctly and sensibly, applying Intermittent Fasting (IF), managing and reducing stress and addressing underlying emotional components. Dr Van der Merwe also explains the mind-body connection, and gives advice on food supplements and herbal remedies. The book brings a message of hope: Blood sugar levels, symptoms of metabolic syndrome and other diabetes-related health challenges can be managed, sometimes even reversed. It is possible to lead a normal, active and long life!