Download or read book A Physician in the Age of Liberal Reform written by Andrew W. Keitt and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish physicians constituted a crucial political force in the nineteenth century during the tumultuous process of nation-building that followed the War of Independence against the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. Many participated in the Cortes of Cádiz, which drafted Spain’s first constitution in 1812 and went on to prove highly influential in the public sphere and legislature during the liberal revolution that undertook the establishment of a new, and precarious, political order. Andrew W. Keitt’s A Physician in the Age of Liberal Reform excavates the life and work of one such doctor, Ildefonso Martínez y Fernández, whose brief career coincided with the consolidation of the liberal revolution and the drive to improve and professionalize Spanish medicine. Born in 1821, Martínez was a polymath and activist whose prolific literary and scholarly output made him a fixture in the political and intellectual ferment of midcentury Spain until his untimely death in 1855 during a devastating outbreak of cholera. He produced a significant body of intellectual research, made key contributions to the profession, and cultivated a deep engagement with the political struggles of the period. His impassioned endeavors, as chronicled by Keitt, highlight the efforts of Spanish physicians to mobilize medical science toward forging a new political culture for liberal Spain.
Download or read book Healing the Heart written by Deepak Chopra and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite advances in conventional treatment, heart disease remains the leading cause of death among adults in the West. Fast-paced lifestyles, high stress levels, poor diets and addiction to unhealthy activities such as smoking and drinking are contributing factors. In Healing the Heart, Dr Deepak Chopra shows how to reduce your risk of coronary disease by following an individually tailored regime, based on ancient Ayurvedic principles. There is advice on diet, exercise, meditation and self-awareness, designed to promote a healthy heart by opening the energising and healing pathways that unite mind, body and spirit.
Download or read book The Best Masterpiece is your Life written by Jorge Ps and published by Jorge P.. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have any question about: What is the sense of your life?, What are you doing here?, Who are you?, What are the main goals of your life?, What can i do to feel better daily?, Am i doing the best i can in my life?, What about God is helping me, or not?, Can i ask for help to anyone to pass a complicated situation?, What is the spirit?, Are we alone in this universe?, Where is God?, Am i following the correct path or am i lost?, Why am i so sad?, What can i do to be happy?, Why am i experimenting difficult situations in my life?, Exists any technique to improve your self confidence?, Can i restore from my diseases?, Can i help others with their diseases?, Am i feeling that i don't find my place in this world?, What can i do to attract jobs, money, or someone to my life?, Do i deserve to enjoy the life? How can i eliminate my own borders? Am i strong enough to overcome from any situation?, Am i worrying about others instead of myself? This book will be your answer. Thanks for reading, and remember to share it if you like it.
Download or read book Finding the Right Words written by Cindy Weinstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This memoir tells the story of a man's deterioration from Alzheimer disease from two perspectives. His daughter, an English professor at Caltech, describes her father's dementia, using her expertise in language and literature as a way to frame his loss of words, spatial orientation, identity, behavioral decorum, and memory. The physician, an academic neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco, explains the science behind Alzheimer disease using his expertise in neurology, articulating to a general audience how dementia assaults the brain"--
Download or read book El cerebro y las enfermedades del alma written by Juan Lerma and published by Espasa. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los secretos del cerebro al descubierto en este maravilloso ensayo El conocimiento del cerebro ha avanzado de forma considerable en las últimas décadas y, sin embargo, aún estamos a años luz de poder explicar todas sus peculiaridades. Pero al menos sabemos que aquellas características que distinguen a un individuo, como su consciencia, sus recuerdos o sus emociones, provienen del funcionamiento de este maravilloso y complejísimo órgano. En este apasionante texto, el prestigioso neurocientífico Juan Lerma y el biólogo José Luis Rozas plantean uno de los grandes retos a los que se enfrenta la ciencia actualmente: comprender cómo funciona el cerebro, así como entender sus enfermedades y cómo estas se pueden considerar afecciones del alma. Algunas de estas dolencias, como la esquizofrenia, la depresión o el alzhéimer, destruyen la misma esencia de la persona, y quizá por eso tienen un coste social y sanitario enorme. A partir de la neurociencia, una disciplina relativamente joven, los autores ofrecen respuestas a estos y otros problemas y desentrañan la complejidad del cerebro y sus mecanismos.
Download or read book La Production Du Corps written by Maurice Godelier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans quelle mesure le corps fait-il l'identité d'un être humain ? Et pour combien de temps si quelque chose survit de lui, après sa mort, ce n'est pas tout à fait son corps ? Dans toutes les cultures, il semble que l'humanité, sous des formes diverses, ait été amenée à imaginer l'être humain comme composé de deux parties : une partie périssable et une partie qui continue d'agir bien au-delà de la mort, même si elle n'est pas immortelle. Ces deux parties ne se réduisent pas nécessairement à un corps visible et à un animal double, invisible, mais qui meurt quand l'autre meurt. Chez les Maenge de Nouville-Guinée, l'individu a deux âmes, même s'il n'a qu'un seul corps. De nombreuses sociétés pensent qu'il faut plus de deux êtres humains pour faire un être humain. Il faut que l'esprit d'un ancêtre, ou l'action d'un dieu vienne sinon animer ce corps, du moins le rendre complet, le compléter. Chaque personne naît donc, s'étant inscrite en soi, formant comme une sorte d'intimité impersonnelle, un ensemble d'idées, d'images, de valeurs, par lesquelles l'ordre ou les désordres qui s'impriment dans son corps. règne dans sa société. Seize anthropologues et historiens ont exploré ces réalités culturelles dispersées dans l'espace et le temps.
Download or read book On Being Ill written by Virginia Woolf and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf’s daring essay on how illness transforms our perception, plus an essay by Woolf’s mother from the caregiver’s perspective: “Revelatory.” —Booklist This new publication of “On Being Ill” with “Notes from Sick Rooms” presents Virginia Woolf and her mother, Julia Stephen, in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay “On Being Ill,” Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being’s experience, it is not celebrated as a subject of great literature in the way that love and war are embraced by writers and readers. We must, Woolf says, invent a new language to describe pain. Illness, she observes, enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness; it is “the great confessional.” Woolf discusses the taboos associated with illness, and she explores how it changes our relationship to the world around us. “Notes from Sick Rooms,” meanwhile, addresses illness from the caregiver’s perspective. With clarity, humor, and pathos, Julia Stephen offers concrete information that remains useful to nurses and caregivers today. This edition also includes an introduction to “Notes from Sick Rooms” by Mark Hussey, founding editor of Woolf Studies Annual, and a poignant afterword by Rita Charon, MD, founder of the field of Narrative Medicine. In addition, Hermione Lee’s brilliant introduction to “On Being Ill” offers a superb overview of Woolf’s life and writing. “Woolf’s inquiry into illness and its impact on the mind is paired with her mother’s observations about caring for the body. Julia Stephen . . . had no professional training but took to heart Florence Nightingale’s precept that every woman is a nurse and emulated Nightingale’s best-selling Notes on Nursing with her own “Notes from Sick Rooms.” In this long-overlooked, precise, and piquant little manual, Stephen is compassionate and ironic, observing that everyone deserves to be tenderly nursed while addressing the small evil of crumbs in bed. This unprecedented literary reunion of mother and daughter is stunning on many fronts, but physician and literary scholar Rita Charon focuses on the essentials in her astute afterword, writing that Woolf’s perspective as a patient and Stephen’s as a nurse together illuminate the goal of care—to listen, to recognize, to imagine, to honor.” —Booklist “Woolf and Stephen will certainly change the way readers think of illness.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.
Download or read book Analysis of People According to Their Personality written by Jamie Gutierrez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-12-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Joseph Esterly, aka Joe Easter, is a worn out ex-cop who works the security detail at an Atlantic City casino. There he encounters Myra Manning, aka Eunice Beautemps, an escaped fugitive from the law and a resourceful and violent thief who humiliates him in her efforts to remain at large. He tracks her single-mindedly as she shifts identities and entangles innocent dupes in her corrupt scams. She is sharp-tongued and ruthless; he is deadpan and dogged. Cautious adversaries until they are driven to raw confrontation, they then clash violently. In a double-twist climax, justice emerges as the fur flies, and vengeance is done from an unforeseen blind side. THE JERSEY BOUNCE is a story of perseverance and the uses of revenge. It is a backdoor look at the harsh light and shrill workings of today's casino fantasy.
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Download or read book Ventilatory Support and Oxygen Therapy in Elder Palliative and End of Life Care Patients written by Antonio M. Esquinas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to non-invasive mechanical ventilation in palliative medicine, focusing on why and when it may be necessary. Physicians will find a practical guide to this specific context, particularly focused on pulmonary function and physiology in the elderly, and on ventilatory management in surgery and chronic stable conditions. The book provides detailed information on the rationale for invasive and non-invasive ventilation, the different modes of ventilation, indications and contraindications, prognostic factors, and outcomes. It addresses in detail the role of postoperative mechanical ventilation following various forms of surgery, and discusses key aspects of withdrawal from ventilatory support. Attention is also devoted to the use of mechanical ventilation within and beyond the ICU. The concluding part of the book focuses on important topics such as ethics, legal issues, home mechanical ventilation, drug therapy, rehabilitation and end-of-life. Its multidisciplinary approach, bringing together contributions from international experts in different specialties, ensures that the book will be of interest to a broad range of health professionals involved in the management of older patients admitted to the ICU, including intensivists, anesthesiologists, and geriatricians.
Download or read book Gender Women and Health in the Americas written by Elsa Gómez Gómez and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metabolic Miracle written by Dr. Carlos Jaramillo and published by Planeta México. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all like to eat, but we are doing it wrong, and it gets worse every day. Deceived by the food industry, advertising, culinary fake news, and Aunt Bertha's nutrition advice, with every bite we are making nefarious decisions that steal our energy and make us both ill and fat. How can we stop this cycle? Who should we believe? How can we change our habits without becoming rigid and boring? In this book, renowned doctor Carlos Jaramillo offers robust answers to these questions and states that the key to optimal weight and health is our metabolism. Understanding what it is, how it operates, and what we can do to make it work in our favor is fundamental. And it is what the reader will accomplish on these pages.
Download or read book Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains written by Ruth Hill and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sceptres and Sciences argues convincingly that previous research on the Hispanic Late Baroque has underweighted the ideologies of ethnicity and empire embedded in Cartesianism and French neoclassicism. "... a masterful work of scholarship... should become essential reading in the field of Colonial and Spanish Enlightenment Studies."—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Download or read book Craft written by Gabriela Herstik and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infuse a drop of magick into your everyday life. Writer, fashion alchemist and modern witch, Gabriela Herstik, unlocks the ancient art of witchcraft so that you can find a brand of magick that works for you. From working with crystals, tarot and astrology, to understanding sex magick, solstices and full moons; learn how to harness energy, unleash your inner psychic and connect with the natural world. Full of spells and rituals for self-care, new opportunities and keeping away toxic energy, Craft is the essential lifestyle guide for the modern woman who wants to take control and reconnect with herself. After all, empowered women run the world (and they’re probably witches).
Download or read book Leningrad Siege and Symphony written by Brian Moynahan and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “gripping story” of a Nazi blockade, a Russian composer, and a ragtag band of musicians who fought to keep up a besieged city’s morale (The New York Times Book Review). For 872 days during World War II, the German Army encircled the city of Leningrad—modern-day St. Petersburg—in a military operation that would cripple the former capital and major Soviet industrial center. Palaces were looted and destroyed. Schools and hospitals were bombarded. Famine raged and millions died, soldiers and innocent civilians alike. Against the backdrop of this catastrophe, historian Brian Moynahan tells the story of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Seventh Symphony was first performed during the siege and became a symbol of defiance in the face of fascist brutality. Titled “Leningrad” in honor of the city and its people, the work premiered on August 9, 1942—with musicians scrounged from frontline units and military bands, because only twenty of the orchestra’s hundred members had survived. With this compelling human story of art and culture surviving amid chaos and violence, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony “brings new depth and drama to a key historical moment” (Booklist, starred review), in “a narrative that is by turns painful, poignant and inspiring” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “He reaches into the guts of the city to extract some humanity from the blood and darkness, and at its best Leningrad captures the heartbreak, agony and small salvations in both death and survival . . . Moynahan’s descriptions of the battlefield, which also draw from the diaries of the cold, lice-ridden, hungry combatants, are haunting.” —The Washington Post
