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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andrew wister”
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  • Baby Boomer Health Dynamics

    How Are We Aging?

    by Andrew Wister ...
    Series series Heritage
    Are the baby boomers in Canada more or less healthy than previous generations? What are the implications of this for the national health care system? Baby Boomer Health Dynamic responds to the growing interest in the generation that makes up over one-third of the Canadian population – the largest segment of society – with the leading edge reaching their sixty-fifth birthday in 2011 and eighty-five ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Resilience and Aging

    Emerging Science and Future Possibilities

    Edited by Andrew V. Wister, Theodore D. Cosco ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Older aged adults face many adversities over the later life course. This edited volume will address the ways in which seniors bounce back from different types and combinations of adversity – termed “resilience”. While research has been accumulating that identifies inherent abilities and external resources needed to adapt and navigate stress-inducing experiences among aging and older adults, gaps ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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  • Seeking Sickness

    Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

    by Alan Cassels ...
    "Alan Cassels strips layers of expectation, hype, jargon, false-starts, and conflicts of interest off the medical screening mantra." —Nortin M. Hadler, author of Worried SickWhy wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right?Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors

    by Paul Dhillon, M.D. ...
    In The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors, physicians put down their stethoscopes and pick up their pens to share some of the most frightening and pivotal moments of their careers. From making igloo house calls to bandaging animal bites to performing surgeries they may have only read about in textbooks, these young doctors speak of the many rewards of practising medicine in small communities. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street JournalHailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Cannabis Spa at Home

    How to Make Marijuana-Infused Lotions, Massage Oils, Ointments, Bath Salts, Spa Nosh, and More

    by Sandra Hinchliffe ...
    The First Book to Bring Together Spa, Cannabis, and Herbal HealingThe Cannabis Spa at Home contains more than seventy-five cannabis spa recipes free of preservatives and major allergens that can be prepared in the home kitchen or professional spa with wholesome herbal ingredients.Cannabis spa isn’t new—cannabis has been used for thousands of years for external use in the traditional health ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Fiona's Fight

    by Fiona Fifield ...
    Fiona Fifield is a multiple sclerosis (MS) survivor. Her mother and sister also have multiple sclerosis and her father suffers equally debilitating ailments. In this autobiography Fiona takes you through her troubled childhood and adolescence, as well as her struggles with sobriety. She divulges the fateful accident that triggered her multiple sclerosis and its quick progression to a rare and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Sugar Wars: Getting Over Sugar Addiction

    Breaking The Addiction To Sugar

    by Betty Johnson ...
    Sugar Wars: Getting Over Sugar Addiction" is a text that places the focus on the various methods that can be used to get over the addiction to sweet treats. The rate of obesity has risen worldwide in the past few years and one of the contributing factors has been the fact that more people are eating foods that are filled with sugar.The aim that the author has is to advise the reader how to not ... Read more

    $5.96 CAD

  • A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition

    How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy

    by Ryan Meili ...
    A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. The social determinants of health – ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Complete Medical Guide and Prevention for Heart Diseases Volume VI; Atherosclerosis

    by Medical Professionals ...
    Atherosclerosis (also known as arteriosclerotic vascular disease or ASVD) is a condition in which an artery wall thickens as a result of the accumulation of fatty materials such as cholesterol. It is a syndrome affecting arterial blood vessels, a chronic inflammatory response in the walls of arteries, caused largely by the accumulation of macrophage white blood cells and promoted by low-density ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD

  • New Hope for People with Lupus

    Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions

    by Theresa Foy Digeronimo ...
    Discover Exciting New Ways to Manage LupusNow you can take control of lupus and begin living a healthier, better life—today! This thoughtful, cutting-edge book can help you manage the flare-ups, symptoms, and side effects of lupus and put you back on the path to a more enjoyable, active lifesyle. Inside is compassionate, practical, and immediate guidance for anyone affected by lupus, including: ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

    Edited by Sherry Glied, Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD