While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived pe…
"Portrait and interviews that will illustrate the whole story of dementia; not only fear, loss, and despair, but also the love, connection, dignity, and the powerful humanity that always remain"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Examines the US securitization of the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak, exploring how Ebola was understood as a security threat and how this impacted on the US response to the health crisis"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A leading researcher explores digital disparity and the pandemic and asks: how did people of different backgrounds use digital media to negotiate the challenges of isolation, unemployment, home schooling, remote work, and COVID-19 itself? And how did digital technology intersect with existing social and economic disparities? Although it is undeniable that technologies helped facilitate numerou…
"An A-Z glossary of "cultures of contagion", conceived literally and metaphorically, and approaxched from multiple historical perspectives"--Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy. Contact tracing is key to containing and controlling the spread of a virus in a pandemic. South Korea, China, and Singapore were among the few countries that quickly employed contact tracing after the emergence of COVID-19; the United States did not.…
"Shows the flaws in using "the war metaphor" to understand and organize our response to pandemics and urges its abandonment"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A trade book on Alzheimer's disease - its human face, some insights into its biology, the discoveries that seemed a path to prevention if not cure, 25 years without progress, and a new path forward"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."An original approach to memory development that views memory as a continuous process of growth and loss over the human lifespan rather than as a series of separate periods. Until recently, the vast majority of memory research used only university students and other young adults as subjects. Although such research successfully introduced new methodologies and theoretical concep…
This book provides up to date information about IBS and its developments in the last decade and provides ways of controlling IBS based on the authors' long experience in treating IBS patients. Although IBS is a tortuous disorder and interferes with the patients’ daily activities, it does not develop into a serious disease or kill its sufferer. Understanding and learning ways of controlling IB…