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As a doctor who has been treating patients for a few decades, Dr
Zhong Nanshan's goal is to help people have a deeper understanding
of the importance of health and their current sub-health status. In
this book, Dr Zhong highlights five fundamental elements focusing
on the key to a healthy life. He leads us to gain control of our
health and lead a better lifestyle.As a result of the COVID-19
pandemic, an increasing number of people are beginning to realise
how crucial it is to have a healthy lifestyle. Without using
complex medical jargon, this book effectively guides all who are
keen to improve their health and general well-being, through
easy-to-understand procedures, colorful illustrations and
up-to-date charts.
As a doctor who has been treating patients for a few decades, Dr
Zhong Nanshan's goal is to help people have a deeper understanding
of the importance of health and their current sub-health status. In
this book, Dr Zhong highlights five fundamental elements focusing
on the key to a healthy life. He leads us to gain control of our
health and lead a better lifestyle.As a result of the COVID-19
pandemic, an increasing number of people are beginning to realise
how crucial it is to have a healthy lifestyle. Without using
complex medical jargon, this book effectively guides all who are
keen to improve their health and general well-being, through
easy-to-understand procedures, colorful illustrations and
up-to-date charts.
Driven by funding agencies, empirical research in the social
scientific study of health and medicine has grown in quantity and
developed in quality. When it became evident, in what is now a
tradition of inquiry, that people's religious activities had
significant health consequences, a portion of that body of work
began to focus more frequently on the relationship between health
and religion. The field has reached a point where book-length
summaries of empirical findings, especially those pertinent to
older people, can identify independent, mediating, and dependent
variables of interest. Every mediating variable, even if considered
as a "control" variable, represents an explanation, a small theory
of some kind. However, taken in granular form, as it were, the
multiple theories do not comprise mid-level theory, let alone a
general theoretical framework. This volume seeks to move toward
more general theoretical development.
This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical
discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in
social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist
reductivism of biomedicine that excludes Indigenous (and
non-Western) epistemologies and instead draw attention to how
illness, healing, treatment, and genetic research are socially
constructed and dependent on inherently racialist thinking. This
volume highlights how interventions into the hegemony of
biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American literature.
The book covers tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence
of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology, and the
problematics of a biomedical model of psychiatry. The book analyzes
work by Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan,
Heid E. Erdrich, Elissa Washuta and Frances Washburn. The book will
appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as
well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.
Artificial Intelligence Medicine: Technical Basis and Clinical
Applications presents a comprehensive overview of the field,
ranging from its history and technical foundations, to specific
clinical applications and finally to prospects. Artificial
Intelligence (AI) is expanding across all domains at a breakneck
speed. Medicine, with the availability of large multidimensional
datasets, lends itself to strong potential advancement with the
appropriate harnessing of AI. The integration of AI can occur
throughout the continuum of medicine: from basic laboratory
discovery to clinical application and healthcare delivery.
Integrating AI within medicine has been met with both excitement
and scepticism. By understanding how AI works, and developing an
appreciation for both limitations and strengths, clinicians can
harness its computational power to streamline workflow and improve
patient care. It also provides the opportunity to improve upon
research methodologies beyond what is currently available using
traditional statistical approaches. On the other hand, computers
scientists and data analysts can provide solutions, but often lack
easy access to clinical insight that may help focus their efforts.
This book provides vital background knowledge to help bring these
two groups together, and to engage in more streamlined dialogue to
yield productive collaborative solutions in the field of medicine.
Presenting both the concerns and problems of beer consumption as
well as the emerging evidence of benefit, Handbook of Beer Health
and Disease Prevention offers a balanced view of today's findings
and the potential of tomorrow's research.
From a beverage of warriors to a cheap and affordable commodity,
beer has been a part of our consumption for nearly 8000 years. Like
most alcoholic drinks it has been prone to abuse and in some
counties the per capita consumption of beer has led to considerable
health risks.
However, just as wine in moderation has been proposed to promote
health, research is showing that beer -- and the ingredients in
beer -- can have similar impact on improving health, and in some
instances preventing disease. For example, some cancers like
bladder cancers and the incidence of cardiovascular disease are
reported to be lower in moderate beer drinkers. Furthermore there
is a considerable body of emerging evidence to show that the
anti-oxidant capacity of beers is high. It has been argued by some
that the total antioxidants ingested in some beer drinkers equates
that consumed by red wine drinkers.
The key to this, of course, is understanding and this volume
presents a collection of the most current writings on the subject
of beer and it's potential in health.
Winner of the 2009 Best Drinks and Health Book in the World -
"Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
"*The most comprehensive coverage of the broad range of topics
related to the role of beer and beer ingredients in health
*Addresses the impact of beer and beer ingredients on cancers,
cardiovascular disease, anti-oxidant benefits, and other health
related concerns Presents a holistic view from beer brewing to the
isolation of beer-related compounds. *Appropriate for scientists
and researchers from a variety of fields and industries from beer
production to health-care professionals *Consistent organization of
each chapter provides easy-access to key points and summaries
*Self-contained chapters written by subject matter experts
Science is not a collection of facts. Science is the process by
which we draw inferences from facts. Volume I of Logic and Critical
Thinking in the Biomedical Sciences invites readers to linger over
a collection of common observations to see what inferences can be
drawn, when one applies a bit of deductive logic. If we just think
about what we observe, it is often possible to discover profound
biomedical insights. Volumes 1 and 2 of Logic and Critical Thinking
in the Biomedical Sciences are written for biomedical scientists
and college-level students engaged in any of the life sciences,
including bioinformatics and related data sciences.
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