- The 30-Minute Fitness Solution
- JoAnn Manson
- Patricia Amend
- Only 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise--even walking--can save your life. This is the powerful message that Dr. JoAnn Manson--one of the lead investigators of both the Women's Health Initiative and the Nurses's Health Study--and her coauthor Patricia Amend send to American women. Their book offers state-of-the-art medical research coupled with step-by-step instructions on how to maintain a physically active lifestyle in only 30 minutes a day.
- Hardcover 2001
- Chronic Pain and the Family
- Julie K. Silver
- Silver reviews the causes and characteristics of chronic pain and explores its impact on individual family relationships and on the extended family, covering such issues as employment, parenting, childbearing and inheritance, and emotional health. Silver treats aspects of chronic pain not covered in a typical office visit: how men and women differ in their experience of chronic pain, the effect of chronic pain on a toddler's behavior or an older child's performance in school, the risks of dependence on and addiction to pain medications, and practical ways for relatives beyond the immediate family circle to offer help and support to the person in pain.
- Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004
- Comparative Studies and the Right to Health
- Edited by Stephen P. Marks
- Foreword by Paul Hunt
- Contributions by Raul Pangalangan
- The right to health has been acknowledged as one of the most important human rights for economic and social development, but few efforts have been made to assess the problems and prospects for the realization of this right across national health systems. This book examines, in comparative perspective, how health and the right to health have been dealt with in six countries: the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Ghana, and Peru.
- Paperback 2008
- The Denial of Aging
- Muriel R. Gillick
- Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes
- Stephanie A. Eisenstat
- Ellen Barlow
- David M. Nathan, Consulting Editor
- Women have long needed a book devoted to their unique issues with diabetes. This up-to-date and practical guide advocates simple lifestyle changes that can help women reduce their risk of getting diabetes or, if already diagnosed, prevent the disease's most serious complications.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Global Health Challenges for Human Security
- Edited by Lincoln C. Chen
- Edited by Jennifer Leaning
- Edited by Vasant Narasimhan
- The goals of health and human security are fundamentally valued in all societies, yet the breadth of their interconnections are not properly understood. This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for global health action.
- Paperback 2004
- The Health Care Mess
- Julius B. Richmond
- Rashi Fein
- Foreword by Jimmy Carter
- In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s, showing how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care. As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insurance is poised to unravel, American leaders must again take up the question of health care. This book brings the voice of reason and the promise of compromise to that debate.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture
- Bruce Haley
- The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas.
- Hardcover 1978
- Heredity and Hope
- Ruth Schwartz Cowan
- Neither minimizing the difficulty of the choices that modern genetics has created for us nor fearing them, Cowan argues that we can improve the quality of our own lives and the lives of our children by using the modern science and technology of genetic screening responsibly.
- Hardcover 2008
- How Fat Works
- Philip A. Wood
- How Fat Works is a concise and up-to-date primer on the workings of fat. It is essential reading for professionals entering careers in medicine and public health administration or anyone wanting a better understanding of one of our most urgent health crises.
- Hardcover 2006
- Is It Me or My Meds?
- David A. Karp
- In this book, David Karp explores the relationship between pills and personhood by listening to a group of experts who rarely get the chance to speak on the matter--those who are taking the medications. Through their honest and vivid stories, this book provides unflinching portraits of people attempting to make sense of a process far more complex and mysterious than doctors or pharmaceutical companies generally admit.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- Learning to Dance
- Edited by Alicia Ely Yamin
- This book elucidates how the fields of health and human rights can better work together, including both addressing human rights implications of reproductive health interventions and fostering rights-based policies and laws relating to sexuality and reproductive health.
- Paperback 2005
- The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health
- Karen J. Carlson
- Stephanie A. Eisenstat
- Terra Ziporyn
- This exhaustive resource offers information on everything from adolescent acne to menopause in the belief that better-informed women can have better partnerships with their physicians.
- Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004
- Parkinson's Disease and the Family
- Nutan Sharma
- Elaine Richman
- Too often, with Parkinson's disease, a loved one serves as medical interpreter, patient advocate, and caregiver. Sharma and Richman draw on the latest research and clinical practice techniques to offer valuable suggestions for managing patient care and, perhaps more important, for healing the family unit.
- Paperback 2005 / Hardcover 2005
- The Smoking Puzzle
- Frank A. Sloan
- V. Kerry Smith
- Donald H. Taylor
- How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their longevity and future health if they quit later in life. Smokers over fifty revise their risk perceptions only after experiencing a major health shock. If smokers are informed of long-term consequences of a disease, and if they are told that quitting can indeed come too late, they are able to evaluate the risks of smoking more accurately, and act accordingly.
- Hardcover 2003
- Spinal Cord Injury and the Family
- Michelle J. Alpert
- Saul Wisnia
- Foreword by Cindy and Ted Purcell
- Combining clinical experience with patients’ own stories, the authors cover the causes of and prognosis for SCI through case studies, review common courses of rehabilitation, and answer the “what now?” questions—from daily routines to larger issues concerning sex, education and employment, childbearing, and parenting with SCI.
- Paperback 2008 / Hardcover 2008
- Stroke and the Family
- Joel Stein
- To the family just beginning to cope with the aftermath of a stroke, the diagnostic tests, drug regimens, rehabilitation strategies, and varied prognoses can be completely bewildering. Stein has produced a book that allows general readers and nonphysicians working with stroke survivors to make sense of the confusing variety of diagnoses and treatment options, and goes on to explore challenges the recovering stroke patient and the recovering family will face during a long recuperation with an uncertain outcome.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2004
- Stutter
- Marc Shell
- In a book that explores the phenomenon of stuttering from its practical and physical aspects to its historical profile to its existential implications, Marc Shell plumbs the depths of this murky region between will and flesh, intention and expression, idea and word. This provocative and wide-ranging book shows that stuttering has implications for myriad types of expression and helps to define what it means to be human.
- Hardcover 2006