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Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see -- it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine, Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm's "more is better" approach to medicine: a nearly invisible chain...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[P]hysician and ... author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a ... look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine." -Arianna Huffington, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health. Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends...
14) Earaches
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple text explains what earaches are, what causes them, and common ways to prevent them.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to rise. There is an epidemic of chronic disease in children. Even with all the money and modern innovations in science, the country's healthcare system is beyond broken. Clearly there is a glitch in the system. In Curable journalist and healthcare advocate Travis Christofferson looks at medicine through a magnifying glass and asks an important question:...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mimi's fictional village is like thousands of real villages in the developing world, where health care, especially among infants and children, is poor or uneven. As a result, every day, 21,000 children under the age of five die, most of them from diseases that could have been prevented with basic health care."--Front jacket flap.
"Mimi Malaho and her family help bring basic health care to their community. By making small changes like sleeping under...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel -- he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated,...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
"This book shows the reader how to plan for the future by preparing the following official California documents using easy-to-follow instructions: An Advance Health Care Directive, also called a "living will." It lets the reader state his or her wishes for health care if he or she becomes incapacitated and names a trusted person who will work with health care providers to be sure to get the kind of care he or she wants. A Durable Power of Attorney...
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