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Accident Analysis and Prevention
Accidents are inevitable in our lives and they affect us in many aspects ranging from economical to social, health to legal. While it is not possible to remove accidents from our lives completely, it is possible to develop new techniques or set new standards or prepare contingency plans to reduce their possibility of happening or to alleviate their consequences. This book, aiming to enlighten o…
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Crowdsourced health :how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine
Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doct…
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- 9780262334808
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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Extraordinary science and psychiatry :responses to the crisis in mental healt…
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5."Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the center of these controv…
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- 9780262341752
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- 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages).
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Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care
This work considers the question of how the direct involvement of social scientists in the practices they study can lead to the production of interesting sociological knowledge. It draws together two activities that are often seen as belonging to different realms: intervening in practices and furthering sociological understanding of them.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329439
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- 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages).
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Looking within :a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy
An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individual experience.In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the high-risk in utero surgery known as fetoscopy, considering it as both cutting-edge medical technology and as a sociocultural construction of patients, their social networks, and medica…
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- 9780262268745
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages).
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Biomedical platforms :realigning the normal and the pathological in late-twen…
Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine and its consequences, ranging from the recasting of hospital architecture to the redefinition of the human body, disease, and therapeutic practices. To describe this new alignment between the norma…
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- 9780262276870
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 544 pages) :illustrations.
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The future of brain repair :a realist's guide to stem cell therapy The Future…
"The Ultimate Therapy addresses the question: will stem cells bring about new, effective therapies for brain disorders? Stem cell therapies are the subject of enormous hype. The International Society for Stem Cell Research notes the 'near magical hold' that stem cell therapies have over patients' imaginations. This is not healthy. The intention with this book is to try to introduce some realism…
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The next 500 years :engineering life to reach new worlds
"Driven by a vision of colonizing other planets, Mason reveals unique insights into how the human body is altered during long-duration spaceflight & how genetic engineering can protect cells in space"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Coping with illness digitally
An examination of ""digital coping"" involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347648
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