Each murder trial brings its own tangle of evidence, legal parameters, medical factors, social circumstances, and personalities. The tangle gets trickier when we must keep in mind that: "A person shall not be criminally responsible...
Medicine, health and fitness
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Author:Semrau, Stanley, Gale, JudySummary: - Author:Kim JaskenSummary:
The arrival of spring 2020 held nothing but promise for the Jasken family. With plans for camping trips and yard upgrades, life was moving along as usual. But fate had other plans. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, their...
- Author:Griffin, ScottSummary:
In 1996, Scott Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180 to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors and...
- Author:Edelson, MiriamSummary:
Jake is celebrating his tenth birthday. That's a remarkable feat, because at birth he was given only three years to live. Miriam Edelson is his mother, a dedicated fighter for Jake and families in similar situations. Edelson poses...
- Author:Devaney, JulieSummary:
Her weakest moment spawned a crusade for change. Julie Devaney takes us on a journey through the health care system as she is diagnosed and treated for ulcerative colitis. In and out of emergency rooms in Vancouver and Toronto, she’s...
- Author:Silver, Marc, Silver, MayaSummary:
Collects stories and advice from over one hundred teens who have dealt with a parent battling cancer.
- Author:Harshaw, William A.Summary:
At the age of 37, Bill Harshaw was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. The news changed his life forever,bringing forth a saga that will give hope to not only Parkinsonians, but to people with chronic disease everywhere. My Second Life...
- Author:Narcotics Anonymous World ServicesSummary:
The Basic Text is just that, the basic text of Narcotics Anonymous. It includes and expands upon the readings in "The Little White Booklet," and is the cornerstone of the Narcotics Anonymous program.
- Author:Lye, Harriet AlidaSummary:
"I need people to know that I exist, that their experiment worked, that by some combination of luck and science, I'm alive." In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just fifteen years...
- Author:Higgins, Edmund S., George, Mark S.Summary:
Little information from this complex and evolving field of neuroscience has been readily accessible to the clinical psychiatrist on the front lines of patient care, let alone to the resident preparing for the Boards. There thus has...
- Author:Grisel, JudithSummary:
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show...
- Author:Crellin, John K.Summary:
Although primarily associated with filling doctors’ prescriptions and selling medicines and other items for self-care, historically drugstores have also been operated as general stores, selling an intriguing range of toiletries,...
- Author:Lamm, Steven, Stevens, SidneySummary:
Dr. Lamm explains how to care for your gut and avoid or reverse many debilitating and life-threatening conditions.
- Author:Powers, RonSummary:
Ron Powers offers a searching narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. This is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been...
- Author:Hemmenway, NicoleSummary:
At seventeen, Nicole believed her life was just beginning. She was a senior in high school looking forward to college and living on her own. However, all her dreams vanished the moment she became injured. Diagnosed with the neurological...
- Author:Norbye, Bente, Butler, Lorna, Exner-Pirot, HeatherSummary:
The provision of northern health care entails many unique challenges and circumstances that are rarely represented in mainstream health sciences education. This open access, online resource consists of 38 short chapters from a variety...
- Author:Malkan, StacySummary:
Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they’ve kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the...
- Author:Burcaw, ShaneSummary:
A picture book answering the questions young children ask Shane Burcaw about his wheelchair and life with Spinal Muscular Atrophy with equal parts optimism, humor, and empathy.
- Author:Lessard, PierreSummary:
Un livre percutant et essentiel pour participer en pleine conscience au Grand Œuvre de transformation de la société humaine et de l’ensemble même de la matrice terrestre. La transformation sera aussi au cœur de l’ADN, des glandes et des...
- Author:Kear, Nicole C.Summary:
This funny and poignant memoir is written by a woman who, at the age of nineteen, is told she'll be blind by thirty and how she chooses to hide her blindness--until she no longer can.
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