Many of today's learning environments are dominated by technology or procedure-driven approaches that leave learners feeling alone and disconnected. The authors of Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals...
Medicine, health and fitness
- Author:Perry, Beth, Park, Caroline, Melrose, SherriSummary:
- Author:Clement, Brian R.Summary:
Le poisson n’a jamais autant été à l’honneur sur les tables. Les gens du monde entier en mangent de plus en plus. En dépit d’un courant alimenté par les nutritionnistes experts qui prétendent que le poisson est une alternative saine à...
- Author:Berardi, JohnSummary:
With thousands of certifications, seminars, websites, and gurus promising advice, it's difficult for even the best pros to turn their passion for health and fitness into meaningful-and measurable-success. Enter Change Maker. In this...
- Author:Trudeau, MargaretSummary:
In this deeply moving memoir, Margaret Trudeau speaks with candour and insight about the illness that silently shaped her life -- a life lived often in turbulence and in the public's fascination. Plagued since childhood by extreme moods...
- Author:Pierrette DotriceSummary:
Après ses aventures colorées au pays des loups spirituels, Chaperon Roux entreprend, à présent, le plus exquis, et aussi et le plus éprouvant des voyages: la découverte de sa féminité. D'abord garçon manqué, puis petite...
- Author:Lyss, Alan P., Fagundes, Humberto M., Corrigan, PatriciaSummary:
Each year, more than one million people get treated for cancer, and most of these will undergo chemotherapy, radiation therapy or both. This reassuring, optimistic guide helps people get a handle on treatment options and explains in...
- Author:Bakan, JoelSummary:
In the tradition of Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death, an eye-opening work of investigative journalism that challenges our common wisdom about pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of a baby’s life, showing how the mother...
- Author:Gibson, RosemarySummary:
Examination of the manufacturing process and government trade policies related to pharmaceuticals sold in the United States. Uses specific cases to illustrate the differences in regulations, companies' moves to China, and the risks of...
- Author:Cyr, RenéeSummary:
La grossesse est une période de bouleversements qui soulève de nombreuses questions notamment sur l’alimentation. Est-il vrai qu’on doit « manger pour deux » ? Comment traiter les nausées ? De quelle façon composer des menus simples et...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Joelle Pouliot was a nurse with a comfortable life in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Then she volunteered for a 6-week stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. She arranged a temporary leave-of-absence from her...
- Author:O'Brien, Joyce, Siegel, BernieSummary:
Life is good for Joyce and Kevin—traveling, having fun with friends, holding down a successful Wall Street career, building their dream home and planning a big family. Then, in what feels like an instant, the young couple’s dream life...
- Author:Tate, Nikki, Wuthrich, BelleSummary:
With many jurisdictions considering whether or not to implement new assisted-death legislation, Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die is a timely look at the subject for teen readers who may not yet have had much experience with death and...
- Author:Hamblin, JamesSummary:
The things we do every day to keep ourselves clean can have surprising and unintended effects, as this entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics reveals Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and...
- Author:Stephens, Gin.Summary:
Clean(ish) leads readers to a focus on real foods and a healthier home environment free of obvious toxins, without fixating on perfection. By living clean(ish), our bodies' natural processes become streamlined and more effective,...
- Author:McDiarmid, Joy S.Summary:
Clickety Clack is Joy McDiarmid’s self- portrait of bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable for a woman coming of age in the 1950s. Amidst gender and sexuality confusion, this Winnipeg woman...
- Author:Ivey, Donna M., Boyer, J. PatrickSummary:
This is the story of Rene M. Caisse of Bracebridge, Canada and describes her extraordinary perseverance to obtain official recognition of her herbal cancer remedy she called Essiac, her name spelled backwards. Rene Caisse was thrust...
- Author:Terfera, David, Jegtvig, ShereenSummary:
Clinical anatomy is the study of human anatomy as it relates to clinical practice. Unlike a basic anatomy and physiology course designed to teach general anatomical knowledge, clinical anatomy focuses on specific structures and issues...
- Author:Hess, Cathy ThomasSummary:
This useful resource will help both clinicians and institutions deliver wound care that's both appropriate for patient needs and cost-effective for the institution. Featuring important new information on documentation regulations,...
- Author:Scheiman, Mitchell, Wick, BruceSummary:
This fourth edition of Clinical Management of Binocular Vision uses the past five years of research studies and literature to provide an accurate look at today's diagnosis and treatment of binocular vision. Written with an emphasis on...
- Author:Bennett, Edward S., Henry, Vinita AlleeSummary:
Designed to be used as a quick reference, this fourth edition of the Clinical Manual of Contact Lenses allows readers to easily find the topic and information they need without having to search through an entire chapter to find it....