Download or read book Health and the Rise of Civilization written by Mark Nathan Cohen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilized nations popularly assume that "primitive" societies are poor, ill, and malnourished and that progress through civilization automatically implies improved health. In this provocative new book, Mark Nathan Cohen challenges this belief. Using evidence from epidemiology, anthropology, and archaeology, Cohen provides fascinating evidence about the actual effects of civilization on health, suggesting that some aspects of civilization create as many health problems as they prevent or cure. " This book] is certain to become a classic-a prominent and respected source on this subject for years into the future. . . . If you want to read something that will make you think, reflect and reconsider, Cohen's Health and the Rise of Civilization is for you."-S. Boyd Eaton, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A major accomplishment. Cohen is a broad and original thinker who states his views in direct and accessible prose. . . . This is a book that should be read by everyone interested in disease, civilization, and the human condition."-David Courtwright, Journal of the History of Medicine "Deserves to be read by anthropologists concerned with health, medical personnel responsible for communities, and any medical anthropologists whose minds are not too case-hardened. Indeed, it could provide great profit and entertainment to the general reader."-George T. Nurse, Current Anthropology "Cohen has done his homework extraordinarily well, and the coverage of the biomedical, nutritional, demographic, and ethnographic literature about foragers and low energy agriculturists is excellent. The subject of culture and health is near the core of a lot of areas of archaeology and ethnology as well as demography, development economics, and so on. The book deserves a wide readership and a central place in our professional libraries. As a scholarly summary it is without parallel."-Henry Harpending, American Ethnologist

Download or read book The Rise of Global Health written by Joshua K. Leon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the year 2000, unprecedented resources have been committed to the complex challenge of developing global public health solutions by national governments, multilateral organizations, and civil society groups. This vast global movement is one of the most remarkable political phenomena of twenty-first-century international relations—but is it working? In The Rise of Global Health, Joshua K. Leon argues against the conventional wisdom, which argues that collective action on development issues—including controversial increases in foreign aid—is too inherently inefficient to succeed. Leon shows that public action on a global level can successfully pursue health equality. Often at the behest of grassroots activists, these disparate groups of actors are cooperating more than ever with the aim of improving our human potential through better health. Though operating at cross purposes with unequal trade agreements and other factors within the global economy harming the Global South, we learn something surprising about global health governance—it is evolving in ways more efficient than we think.

Download or read book Rise written by Misty Terrell and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayal is traumatic. Safety, trust, and self-worth are not only compromised, they are completely shattered. The life-altering discovery sends us into a valley so deep, we wonder if we will ever feel joy again. Instead, we feel damaged. Unworthy. Unloved. Ugly. We question everything. How did this happen? Am I safe? What's wrong with me? Why didn't I see this coming? Where is God and how can He help me? Will I ever trust again? Like a thick blanket of fog in a dark, cold, forest, the despair can settle in and take up residence. We feel alone. Abandoned. Is there hope? The answer is, "Yes!" Just as a compass guides a sojourner through uncharted territory, this book can guide you out of the dark. In it, you'll navigate through the forest of grief, explore the river of grace, and remove the boulders of conflict that are hindering your progress to healing. The focus is on restoring you. The goal is to reach the peak, where safety, trust, rest and joy are sure to be found. But to get there, you'll need a trail guide to help you navigate your hike up the mountain of recovery. It takes grit and grace to get there, but the best views happen after the hardest climb.The choice is yours. You can choose to stay in the forest of grief, lost in bitterness and despair, or you can RISE. Grab your backpack, hiking boots, and grit. Let's climb.

Download or read book The Courage to Rise written by Liz Arch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heal pain and triumph over trauma for good! Whether or not we’re consciously aware of it, no one is spared from trauma. From catastrophic events to everyday experiences of traumatic stress, renowned yoga teacher Liz Arch is willing to bet that trauma has touched you or someone you love and may be affecting your physical, emotional, and mental health in surprising and devastating ways, causing symptoms such as anxiety, panic, depression, mood swings, fatigue, chronic pain, and digestive issues. Following her own experience with domestic violence and an ensuing struggle with anxiety and panic attacks, Liz found her own path to holistic healing and has become an advocate for those who have suffered from trauma. In The Courage to Rise, she shows how trauma changes our brains and inhabits our bodies, creating a vicious cycle of physical and psychological distress. She offers an integrated approach to take control of your own healing and reclaim your wholeness through movement, mindfulness, and nutrition. This hopeful and accessible guide addresses the three areas where trauma lives: The body. Move stuck emotions out of your muscles and tissues through twelve signature Primal Yoga movement sequences. The brain. A series of meditations and mindfulness practices to rewire your brain and break free from repetitive thought patterns, overwhelming feelings, and painful memories. The gut. Examine foods that may be exacerbating physical and mental disease; discover the best whole foods to stave off depression and anxiety; plus, thirty delicious and nutritious gut-healing recipes. The Courage to Rise gives invaluable insight into understanding the nature of trauma and shares effective tools you can use immediately to begin regulating your nervous system, strengthening your emotional resiliency, and transforming pain into your greatest power.

Download or read book The Rise of the U S Environmental Health Movement written by Kate Davies and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, the movement has spread across the United States and throughout the world. By placing human health at the center of its environmental argument, this movement has achieved many victories in community mobilization and legislative reform. In The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, environmental health expert Kate Davies describes the movement’s historical, ideological, and cultural roots and analyzes its strategies and successes.

Download or read book Rise Heal written by Chelsey Armfield and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise & Heal is a daily guided journal with simple prompts designed for healing and self-care.

Download or read book The Rise of the Intelligent Health System written by Harry P. Pappas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I recommend that all members of the health community read this book to obtain a real snapshot of how the Intelligent Health System is being transformed via new technologies." Chris Landon MD FAAP, FCCP, FRSM Clinical Associate Professor USC Keck School of Medicine Technology Development Center Laboratory and Studio The "Intelligent Health Pavilion" as demonstrated at the annual HIMSS Conference by the Intelligent Health Association is the impetus for this book. This book documents the remarkable journey of "Intelligent Health System" and the adoption of Innovative technologies. Many showcased in real time on the trade show floor and now in this book: "The Rise of the Intelligent Health System". In each chapter of this book, authors are expressing the immense potential of merging cutting-edge technology with the complex realm of patient care and safety. The informative chapters in this book delve deep into the unfolding story of how hospitals have evolved into interactive, intelligent environments, driven by real-time data and powered by artificial intelligence. In what seems like the blink of an eye, technology has completely transformed the way we live, work, and interact with the world around us. From smartphones to self-driving cars, ChatGPT, wireless technologies, wearables, and many other innovations are reshaping our society, pushing the boundaries of what was once considered impossible. However, nowhere is the impact of technology more profound than in the field of healthcare.

Download or read book The Past Can t Heal Us written by Lea David and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lea David exposes the dangers and pitfalls of mandating memory in the name of human rights in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Download or read book Connecting care Global best Practices The Rise of Indian Digital Health Ecosystem written by Amit Srivastava and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamic domain and delves into the promise and potential pitfalls of digital health. The book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted landscape of digital health, some global digital health models, and the current progress in Healthcare Leveraging tools and technology. Through expert insights, case studies, and practical examples, we have explored the transformative potential of digital technologies in improving health outcomes, enhancing patient care, and reshaping the healthcare ecosystem. Whether you are a healthcare provider, technologist, policymaker, or simply curious about the future of healthcare, this book is intended to be a valuable resource for understanding the digital health revolution and its implications for society as a whole.

Download or read book The Rise Of The Regulatory State In The Chinese Health care System written by Jiwei Qian and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public health, this book attempts to connect recent research with policy developments in the Chinese health-care system. While there are a small number of studies on the regulations in the Chinese health-care system, this book contributes to the literature in three ways. First, a review of the recent developments in the Chinese health-care system illustrates that the capacity and incentives of the regulatory agencies matter in the implementation and enforcement of the regulations. Second, this book also shows that some institutional arrangements in the Chinese context are particularly important for configuring the capacity and incentives of the regulatory system. Third, this book lays out the mechanisms for the regulatory reform of the Chinese health-care system.

Download or read book Rise of the Modern Hospital written by Jeanne Kisacky and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise of the Modern Hospital is a focused examination of hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. This understudied period witnessed profound changes in hospitals as they shifted from last charitable resorts for the sick poor to premier locations of cutting-edge medical treatment for all classes, and from low-rise decentralized facilities to high-rise centralized structures. Jeanne Kisacky reveals the changing role of the hospital within the city, the competing claims of doctors and architects for expertise in hospital design, and the influence of new medical theories and practices on established traditions. She traces the dilemma designers faced between creating an environment that could function as a therapy in and of itself and an environment that was essentially a tool for the facilitation of increasingly technologically assisted medical procedures. Heavily illustrated with floor plans, drawings, and photographs, this book considers the hospital building as both a cultural artifact, revelatory of external medical and social change, and a cultural determinant, actively shaping what could and did take place within hospitals.

Download or read book Mental Health Gender and the Rise of Sport written by Gerald R. Gems and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport explores the historical role of sport in the prescription for mental and physical health through the epidemic of neurasthenia, a debilitating neurological disorder that afflicted American society throughout the latter nineteenth century. Gerald R. Gems argues that the practice of sport and sport spectatorship, which grew concomitantly with the onset and spread of neurasthenia, provided both a physical preventative and a psychological escape to redress the perceived causes of the epidemic. Sports such as baseball, boxing, cycling, and football offered psychological relief from the stresses of a rapidly changing economic and social order. Cycling, in particular, provided women with the means to challenge the prescribed gender order of female domesticity, male hegemony, and the dictates of physically restrictive fashion. In the process, sport became a key component in the rise of feminism and a prescription for the epidemics that followed over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Download or read book Heal Your Power Heal Your Life written by Lane L. Cobb Cpc and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heal Your Power, Heal Your Life Are unresolved emotional issues keeping you from living a life you love? Are you ready to discover your purpose and achieve your full potential? Heal Your Power Heal Your Life: Essential Healing Practices for Women on the Rise is a must read for women who want to pursue their passions, embrace their gifts, and live their truest and most authentic life. Within these pages is a step-by-step guide for living a life of joy, freedom, enthusiasm, and authentic self-expression. Get ready! It's time for you to Heal, Grow, and Thrive! "An eye-opener. This book made me see where I was giving my power away to other people and taught me how to take it back for good!" - Carla DuPree, M.Ed. "On point. Lane is a stand for women to be who they really are - powerful!" - Pamela Armstrong, Ph.D., Author "Depth Finder" and "Go Early Into the Unknown" "This book got me off the couch and back into the world. Lane Cobb is a miracle worker!" - DJ Watts, M.D., J.D. "Lane has inspired me to thrive in the valleys and soar over the mountain tops of my life with a new appreciation for who I AM and what I am here to accomplish!" - Reverend Dr. Lameteria D. Hall, Ph.D.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Health and Health Care written by Joan Costa-Font and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the 'public choice' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with their country's political institutions to determine health policies and outcomes. This volume will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students studying health economics, health policy and public policy.

Download or read book Rise and Be Healed written by Chad MacDonald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Chad MacDonald details how the miracle working power of God is available to every believer. In a world racked with disease, pain and suffering this timeless truth and message of divine healing and deliverance has never been more relevant. As you read through the pages of 'Rise and Be Healed' let faith arise and get ready to receive your miracle!

Download or read book Health Care and the Rise of Christianity written by Hector Avalos and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In "Health Care and the Rise of Christianity" Avalos helpfully turns our attention to the care of bodies as fundamental to the growth and expansion of early Christianity. Response to basic issues" such as cost, access to care, and perceived efficacy" helped to fashion an early Christian system of health care that was distinct from contemporary approaches. Avalos raises eminently relevant questions about the role of ideas and practices of health care in the attractiveness of new religious movements, both historically and today." " Nancy L. Eiesland, Candler School of Theology, Emory University "Professor Avalos brings his considerable expertise in medical anthropology to the study of health care systems in the ancient cultures out of which Christianity arose. His analysis of the role played by health care in the advent of Christianity is carefully constructed through cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methodologies, and presented in a readable format which makes his results easily accessible to the specialist and layperson alike. This book is a must for anyone interested in the topic, or concerned about the ethical and long term implications of a modern health system care in crisis." " Carole R. Fontaine, Andover Newton Theological School

Download or read book Break Heal Rise written by Meriam Ben Hadj Tahar and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "break heal rise" is a collection of poetry and prose on the journey of survival, of loss, of mending, of healing gloriously, and of letting go. It is divided into three chapters. The first chapter, "break," delves into the difficulty of loss and heartbreak. The second part, "heal," seeks to understand the process of mending yourself after a period of hardship. Finally, the last chapter, "rise," inspires readers to reach their potential. inhale poetry. exhale healing. this is how you break. this is how you heal. this is how you rise.