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Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
ISBN: PB: 9780226710228, ISBN: HB: 9780226108186, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized...
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£24,00
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£26,50
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Eat, Move, Sleep, Repeat Diet & Fitness for Living Long & Healthy
ISBN: PB: 9781782551874, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2020
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 illus.
Exercise and nutrition programs designed to achieve weight loss and improve health and fitness have received considerable attention in recent decades. Though a large number of books have been published on the subject, the vast majority of these books...
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£22,50
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Itch, Clap, Pox Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780300217056, Yale University Press, March 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In...
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£55,00
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My Parent's Keeper The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving
ISBN: PB: 9780300221350, Yale University Press, May 2018
352 pp., 21x14 cm
When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. Uses the latest research and draws on...
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£14,99
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Politics of Pain Medicine A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry
ISBN: HB: 9780226264059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line drawings, 2 tables
Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new fiel...
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£40,00
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Nutrition for Runners
ISBN: PB: 9781782550273, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2014
232 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 55 colour and black&white illus., 8 tables
Author of the bestseller "The Run-Walk-Run Method", Jeff Galloway now offers an expansive, state-of-the-art book on the importance of proper nutrition for runners. Jeff's trademarked Run-Walk-Run method has helped hundreds of thousands of average peo...
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£11,95
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Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax 250 Milestones in the History of Drugs
ISBN: HB: 9781402782640, GMC Group, Sterling, August 2013
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important mome...
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£25,00
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Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness
ISBN: PB: 9781563685873, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
In the mental health field, ethical guidelines are strictly enforced to ensure healthy, appropriate, effective, and productive counselor-client relationships. This volume explores ethical issues specific to working with deaf clients, which include ma...
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£56,50
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Economic Aspects of Obesity
ISBN: HB: 9780226310091, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
408 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 98 tables, 4 halftones, 30 line illus.
In the past three decades, the number of obese adults in the United States has doubled and the number of obese children almost tripled, which may lead to increased medical expenditures, productivity loss, and stress on the health care system. Economi...
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£95,50
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Running Injuries Treatment and Prevention
ISBN: PB: 9781841262840, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, August 2009
168 pp., 24x16.5 cm
The book "Running Injuries: Treatment and Prevention" offers easy to access tips on treating and avoiding injuries. It is written in a language that is easy to understand. The book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to p...
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£12,95
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