Download or read book Walkin Over Medicine written by Loudell F. Snow and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural look at the traditional health beliefs and practices of African Americans. Representing more than twenty years of anthropological research, Walkin' over Medicine, originally published by Westview Press in 1993, presents the results of Loudell F. Snow's community-based studies in Arizona and Michigan, work in two urban prenatal clinics, conversations and correspondence with traditional healers, and experience as a behavioral scientist in a pediatrics clinic. Snow also visited numerous pharmacies, grocery stores, and specialty shops in several major cities, accompanied families to church services, and attended weddings, baptisms, graduations, and funerals.
Download or read book Walk Don t Run written by Fred A. Stutman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Doctor s Walking Book written by Fred A. Stutman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where you live or what you do, no matter how many exercise programs you've tried and failed, you can start walking today and feel better tomorrow. Here is a medically proven, up-to-date guide to help you walk your way to fitness and health.
Download or read book Let s Play Doctor written by Mark Leyner and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the bestselling series that includes "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" and "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?" are back with a hilarious look at what it takes to look, act, and talk like a real doctor.
Download or read book Walking in Divine Health written by Don Colbert and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can know what foods have the potential to poison your body and what foods provide the greatest nutritional benefits for good health. Walking in Divine Health discusses the challenges of cancer -- particularly lung, colon and breast cancers. Dr. Colbert stresses the power of prayer and shows how to act in faith to prevent cancer. Dr. Colbert discusses thoroughly the use of vitamins and minerals, giving many natural sources by which we can maintain our dietary needs for these substances.
Download or read book The Walking Doctor written by Theodore Rosen and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walking Doctor adds missing pieces to the records of immigrant Jewish America and a life in medicine. There is an American character here talking in the voice of an American immigrant, being a minority, finding a place to put down roots and to call home in America.
Download or read book Walking Out on the Boys written by Frances K. Conley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-06-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1991, Conley, the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headlines when she resigned from Stanford to protest the school's unabashed gender discrimination. In this forthright memoir, she tells her controversial story.
Download or read book The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse written by Nancy Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that bananas can cure warts; chewing on raw ginger can relieve nausea; sniffing vanilla can help suppress your appetite; or that raw potato can soothe a burn? Healing is full of curious remedies-some based on time-honored folklore, others straight from the medical journals. Nancy Butcher has gathered together some of the most unusual natural cures that have been proven effective today, and even throws in some unbelievable and-thankfully-abandoned therapies from times past. Filled with case histories of unique illnesses, historic documentation of strange medical practices, and the author's own insightful commentary, this book explains not only how to cure headaches, sleep better, and improve your sex life, but also that people with Cotard's syndrome actually believe they are dead.
Download or read book Walking Doctor written by Theodore Rosen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walking Medicine written by Gary Yanker and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lifetime guide to preventive and therapeutic exercisewalking programs.
Download or read book Walk Don t Die written by Fred A. Stutman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Stutman is one of the world's foremost authorities on the medical benefits of walking as an exercise. As a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Stutman established one of the nation's first walking programs for heart attack victims. He has done extensive research in the fields of exercise physiology and cardiac rehabilitation in private medical practice and at the U.S Naval Air Development Center. Dr. Stutman has written a total of seven books on walking and has had hundreds of articles published on the medical benefits of walking, giving him the honorary title of "DR. WALK" by his patients. In Walk, Don't Due, Dr. Stutman presents solid irrefutable medical evidence on how jogging, strenuous exercise, fad diets and sedentary life-styles can cause disease, disability and even death. Walk, Don't Die, also shows how walking controls weight, lowers blood pressure, reduces stress and tension, retards cancer, prevents heart disease and strokes, and slows the aging process. "If you want to live an additional 15, 20, even 25 years, then you'd better start walking as if your life depended on it -- It does!" Book jacket.
Download or read book Walking the Medicine Wheel written by David Kopacz and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors--a psychiatrist and holistic and integrative medicine physician and a Native American visionary--present how to use the circular pathway of the medicine wheel to re-train the nervous system of our returning veterans suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).--
Download or read book Walking Together Walking Far written by Fran Quigley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the world to control HIV/AIDS. Calling upon the resources of the Americans, the ingenuity of the Kenyans, and their shared determination to care for patients who had been given up for dead, the program has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and described as a miracle by the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. Doctors from Kenya and the United States -- employing methods once considered unfeasible, such as successfully administered antiretroviral regimes -- have created a model program for saving lives and empowering the sick and impoverished. Against formidable odds, these partners demonstrate how medicine and caring can overturn preconceived notions about Africa and help wipe out the world's most devastating pandemic.
Download or read book Vienna A Doctor s Guide written by Wolfgang Regal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is for all visitors to Vienna who are interested in the history of medicine. 15 walks through the city reveal the old medical Vienna: the Fools’ Tower, Freud’s private practice and apartment, the workplaces of many famous physicians, through the old General Hospital, the old university, and the most important pathological museums. Little-known details and anecdotes are included as well as a short history of Vienna and some gourmet tips.
Download or read book Walking Thunder written by Walking Thunder and published by Leetes Island Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A traditional Diné (Navajo) medicine woman, Walking Thunder, tells her life story and that of her people, while describing her healing methods using native plants, sand paintings, and other traditional ways.
Download or read book Walking Through the Fire written by Laurel Lee and published by Dutton. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research written by Elisa J Sobo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo combines sophisticated theoretical insights and methodological rigor with authentic, real-world examples and applications. In addition to clearly explaining the nuanced practice of ethnography and guiding the reader through specific methods that can be used in focus groups or interviewing to yield useful findings, Sobo considers the social relationships and power dynamics that influence field entry, data ownership, research deliverables, and authorship decisions. Crafted to communicate the importance of culture and meaning across the many disciplines engaged in health services research, this book is ideal for courses in such fields as public health and health administration, nursing, anthropology, health psychology, and sociology.
