Ce livre provocateur – devenu un best-seller dès sa parution en langue anglaise – nous force à regarder autrement nos habitudes de consommation en nous montrant comment elles nous empoisonnent au quotidien. Toutes sortes d’objets d’usage courant à la maison ou au travail dégagent des substances toxiques en quantités non négligeables. Comment s’infiltrent-elles en nous, quels effets ont-elles sur notre santé et, surtout, comment pouvons-nous nous défendre contre cette invasion sournoise ? Rick Smith et Bruce Lourie, deux grands noms du mouvement écologiste au Canada, s’attaquent au problème en s’auto-administrant un certain nombre de ces poisons quotidiens. En quatre jours, nos deux héros intrépides, sinon téméraires, avalent et inhalent sept substances potentiellement nocives qui contaminent la planète entière. Tout en mesurant leur charge corporelle avant et après chaque expérience – avec des résultats parfois affolants –, ils nous racontent l’histoire de ces poisons ordinaires. Cette pollution insidieuse est invisible, difficile à déceler, encore plus difficile à évaluer : comment être certain des dommages exacts causés par des substances aussi répandues ? Malgré tout, l’alarme se propage. Médecins et infirmiers, mères et militantes protestent contre l’introduction de ces composés toxiques dans des objets d’usage courant sans notre consentement éclairé ni l’ombre d’une preuve d’innocuité. Les autorités commencent seulement à prendre acte. Ultimement plein d’espoir, Vilain petit canard prépare habilement ses lecteurs non seulement à assainir leur milieu de vie immédiat, mais aussi à lutter pour un monde meilleur. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur cette pollution intime et ses sources domestiques, lisez ce livre. Vous ne regarderez plus jamais un canard de bain du même œil.

A point-of-care guide for internal medicine trainees. When students and residents begin a new rotation in internal medicine, they often start from scratch, relying on their own research to prepare for consultations. What questions are crucial during history taking? What should the physical examination and investigations focus on? What should the consultation write-up include? Now, physician learners can turn to Vancouver Notes for Internal Medicine for guidance on conducting consultations in each of the core internal medicine subspecialties. Vancouver Notes provides learners with an organized approach to common presentations in internal medicine. For each subspecialty, it lays out the process for identifying key information and communicating findings and management recommendations to a patient's health-care team. Developed through the efforts of more than 90 resident physicians and faculty members at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Notes combines valuable clinical pearls in a single, accessible resource to give students and residents the tools they need to succeed from day one.

Explains this remarkable vitamin's benefits and how readers can put it to work for them.

Explains the scientific rationale behind bee foods and describes how they can improve health.

This book is important reading for anyone who wants to know how air quality relates to health and how it can be improved in their personal environments.

This anthology presents forty narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer's and other dementias on patients as well as their caregivers and family.

Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy-and the men who controlled their fate-this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women-and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

Grounded in cutting-edge science, Dr. Gundry reveals the biological mechanism that makes keto diets so successful and shows listeners how to reap the rewards of keto with less restriction.

While it never discounts the difficulties of living with autism, this book offers inspiring stories and practical advice drawn from Dr. Prizant's four-decade career. It offers a compassionate perspective that family members and professionals will find uplifting and hopeful.