A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the world continues to grapple with this public health challenge. Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS explores the limits of mainstream approaches to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and challenges readers to develop alternate solutions, emphasizing the value of critical social science perspectives. The contributors investigate traditions of inquiry - governmentality studies, institutional ethnography, and Indigenous knowledges, among others - to determine what these perspectives can bring to HIV/AIDS research, policy, and programming. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how and why critical social science is necessary for rethinking research and action required to address the epidemic.

Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries.

• Depressed and lonely, a man decides that pills and alcohol are too gentle an exit. How did he end up in the driver’s seat without his head?
• Drunken neighbours decide that beautifying the hedges on their property can be easily accomplished without hedge clippers. Removing the handlebars of a lawnmower, they lift the mower and its whirring gas powered blades, and quickly lose their buzz.
• A teenager, obsessed with self-stimulation, elects to use uncooked spaghetti during his amorous exploits with disastrous consequences that only a urologist can deal with.
• Vending machines are heavy and formidable foes; no match for an angry high school football player who wants his dollar back.
• Pool balls are round, smooth, and heavy, qualities that make them very difficult to remove from locations they should never have been placed.
• Chlorine is a concentrated toxin. Very little is required to sanitize a pool. What happens when you swim in the wrong liquid?
• Sexual escapades have been known to include all varieties of farm animals. But is it possible to fulfill one’s carnal desires with a John Deere tractor?
• A fisherman hooks a flopping one pounder, and both die in the process without jumping into the lake.

In The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat, Dr. Myers presents intriguing, humorous, unbelievable, and dark vignettes of real medical life. You’ll be surprised by the truth as patients present to their doctors with usual symptoms that are masking very unusual diagnoses, and you’ll be left wondering how anyone in the world could be affected by these one-of-a-kind medical maladies.

Wim Hof has a message for each of us: "You can literally do the impossible. You can overcome disease, improve your mental health and physical performance, and even control your physiology so you can thrive in any stressful situation." With The Wim Hof Method, this trailblazer of human potential shares a method that anyone can use-young or old, sick or healthy-to supercharge their capacity for strength, vitality, and happiness.

Wim has become known as "The Iceman" for his astounding physical feats, such as spending hours in freezing water and running barefoot marathons over deserts and ice fields. Yet his most remarkable achievement is not any record-breaking performance-it is the creation of a method that thousands of people have used to transform their lives.

In his gripping and passionate style, Wim shares his method and his story, including:

• Breath-Wim''s unique practices to change your body chemistry, infuse yourself with energy, and focus your mind
• Cold-Safe, controlled, shock-free practices for using cold exposure to enhance your cardiovascular system and awaken your body''s untapped strength
• Mindset-Build your willpower, inner clarity, sensory awareness, and innate joyfulness in the miracle of living
• Science-How users of this method have redefined what is medically possible in study after study
• Health-True stories and testimonials from people using the method to overcome disease and chronic illness
• Performance-Increase your endurance, improve recovery time, up your mental game, and more
• Wim''s Story-Follow Wim''s inspiring personal journey of discovery, tragedy, and triumph
• Spiritual Awakening-How breath, cold, and mindset can reveal the beauty of your soul

Wim Hof is a man on a mission: to transform the way we live by reminding us of our true power and purpose. "This is how we will change the world, one soul at a time," Wim says. "We alter the collective consciousness by awakening to our own boundless potential. We are limited only by the depth of our imagination and the strength of our conviction."

The Wellness Approach will uncover the common myths of medication and your health, define once and for all true health and how to attain it, reveal the main reason sick people continue to get sick, teach parents how to ensure that their children grow up healthy and strong, and prove why you can’t trust your doctor and the secrets they hide from you.

For the past 65 years, The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, now in its Thirty-Fourth Edition, has been one of the best-selling medical texts in the world. It builds upon that proud tradition—with even more of the current information you need, and delivered in a time-saving, quick-reference style. Its comprehensiveness and ease of access makes it a favorite on-call resource for housestaff and faculty around the world. Continuing the tradition of excellence, each chapter has been updated and reformatted for easier access to the information the reader needs.     Inside this edition you'll find: -New streamlined format that helps you keep pace with the latest advances in the field while removing redundancies and outdated information. -New chapter on toxicology prepares you to respond effectively to any poisoning, overdose, or exposure emergency. -Decision support algorithms for quick reference. See why The Washington Manual is the most vital on-call resource for house staff and faculty around the world!

Most people's diets are woefully inadequate for providing proper nutrition. Even good diets fail to deliver sufficient levels of nutrients. The Vitamin Cure book series highlights the safe and clinically effective use of vitamin supplements for a variety of illnesses. Research continues to prove the immense value of vitamins for maintaining health and fighting disease. The Vitamin Cure books, written by authors who are recognized experts in their field, give you authoritative, up-to-date, and practical information on taking vitamins for particular health problems.Despite millions of dollars spent on research, heart disease remains one of the main causes of death in the Western world-three in ten deaths are the result of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack, stroke, and aneurysm. Prevailing ideas in conventional medicine about heart disease are often misguided. For example, experts have often attributed cardiovascular disease primarily to "risk factors" such as high cholesterol. In fact, this does not even begin to tell the whole story.The Vitamin Cure for Heart Disease examines the true underlying causes of cardiovascular disease: inflammation and oxidation in the walls of arteries. Information on treatment and prevention focuses on safe alternatives to conventional drugs and surgery. The book shows readers how to stay heart healthy by making simple dietary changes, including reducing sugar intake; taking in adequate levels of B vitamins, as well as vitamins C and E; and supplementing the diet with fish oils.Heart attack and stroke do not have to be an inevitable part of aging. Learn to take charge of your own heart health with safe and effective therapies.

This text introduces readers to the concept of orthomolecular medicine to take control of their family's health. It covers the pros and cons of antibiotics and vaccinations and looks at natural ways to boost immune function. It includes information on healthy eating and ways to protect children from a toxic environment.

This book is about mental illness, family caregivers, Alzheimer's and dementia, and the health care system. It continues the story of the Martini family and their experiences with mental illness (which was earlier chronicled in the book Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness). In The Unravelling, Olivier Martini has lived with his mother, Catherine, since his diagnosis with schizophrenia thirty-six years ago. It hasn't always been a perfect living situation, but it's worked: Catherine has been able to help Olivier through the ups and downs of living with a mental illness, and Olivier has been able to care for his aging mother as her mobility becomes limited, and Olivier's brothers Clem and Nic have been able to provide support to both as well. But then Olivier experiences a serious health crisis at the exact same time that his mother starts slipping into dementia. All of a sudden, the precarious caregiving situation the Martini family has constructed is about to come apart. The family family's lifelong struggle with mental illness is suddenly complicated immeasurably as they begin to navigate the convoluted world of assisted living and long-term care. With anger, dry humour, and hope, The Unravelling tells the story of one family's journey with mental illness, dementia, and caregiving, through a poignant graphic narrative from Olivier accompanied by text from his brother, award-winning playwright and novelist Clem Martini.