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Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

This is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve. Many normal life processes – states as natural as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness and death – are systematically being reinterpreted as pathological so creating new markets for their treatments. In this enlightening book, Jörg Blech reveals: how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies is turning us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves against this how the medical profession has been bullied and co-opted into endorsing profitable cures for people who aren't ill fears about how pharmaceutical companies create markets by playing on the general public's concern with their health A self-help book in the truest sense, Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills reassures us about our own health. It is essential reading for doctors, nurses and patients alike.

Healing through Exercise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Healing through Exercise

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-03-24
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

In Healing Through Exercise, internationally bestselling science writer Jörg Blech sets out the actual physiological effects of exercise: it triggers the growth of new brain cells, induces stem cells in blood vessels, and reverses symptoms of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Doctors are now using exercise to combat common ailments such as heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, and depression. Every one of us—whether a healthy athlete, a patient seeking to overcome a chronic disease, or a person desiring a longer, more mentally active life—can use the new and important information in this book.

Cities Under Siege
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Cities Under Siege

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a conflict zone inhabited by lurking shadow enemies. Urban inhabitants have become targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned and controlled. Graham examines the transformation of Western armies into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces. He looks at the militarization and surveillance of international borders, the use of 'security' concerns to suppress democratic dissent, and the enacting of legislation to suspend civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism permeates the entire fabric of urban life, from subway and transport networks hardwired with high-tech 'command and control' systems to the insidious militarization of a popular culture corrupted by the all-pervasive discourse of 'terrorism.'

Unhappiness, Sadness and 'Depression'
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Unhappiness, Sadness and 'Depression'

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-08
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines existing treatments, legislation and research methodology of depression and exposes their limitations, championing psycho-social support as an alternative. Depression, affecting 350 million people according to the World Health Organisation, is almost invariably diagnosed by the criteria of the American Psychiatric Association – a definition which encompasses those with normal emotional responses to stressful life events. Tullio Giraldi discusses recent developments in popular and academic dialogue related to the use of antidepressants and recent increases in depression diagnosis and laments the rise in prescribing antidepressants despite their links to suicide and unfulfilled promises of efficacy and safety. He argues that psychotherapy is a cost effective treatment devoid of drugs' adverse effects. This work presents psycho-social support as an alternative to antidepressants, particularly for less severe cases, and as a more effective strategy for coping with the emotional challenges of today’s global reality. Patients, students of medicine and psychology, and professionals of mental health will find this work valuable.

Pachamama - Über die Liebe zwischen Natur und Mensch
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 342

Pachamama - Über die Liebe zwischen Natur und Mensch

Pachamama ist der indianische Name für Mutter Erde, die in der Sicht der indigenen Kulturen alles Leben umfasst, schenkt, nährt und beschützt. Die Menschheit hat sich im Laufe ihrer Geschichte zunehmend von der Verbundenheit mit der Natur und einem wertschätzenden Umgang mit unserem Planeten Erde entfremdet. Dieser Anthropozentrismus hat mittlerweile eine gefährliche ökologische Krise heraufbeschwört. Im ersten Band seiner musikalisch-ökologischen Liebeserklärung an die Erde betrachtet Wolfgang Bossinger diesen Prozess der Entfremdung, spürt andererseits aber auch der biophilen Verbundenheit mit dem Leben nach und zeigt Wege auf, wie die Liebe zur Erde wieder entfacht werden kann. ...

Rethinking Marxism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Rethinking Marxism

First published in 2006. This issue highlights both the often-undervalued practice of translation and the significance of rereading-and rethinking-classic Marxian texts with a symposium on Joseph Buttigieg's new edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader socio-cultural phenomenon – is manifest in the epidemic rise of burnout, depression, and chronic fatigue. It provides innovative analyses of the complex interplay between the processes involved in the production of mental health diagnoses, socio-cultural transformations, and subjective illness experiences. Using many of the existing ideologically charged exhaustion theories as case studies, the authors investigate how individual discomfort and wider social dynamics are interrelated. Covering a broad range of topics, this book will appeal to those working in the fields of psychology, sociology, medicine, psychiatry, literature, and history.

Manifesting Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Manifesting Medicine

The flesh," will be confronting big subjects: blood, life, danger, & conception. All those interested in how medicine affects the culture of the healthy well as the fate of the sick will find this volume of interest.

Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1915

Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society

Temos o prazer de lançar o primeiro livro internacional do ano de 2022 voltado a área do desenvolvimento, que tem como título Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society, essa obra contém 152 artigos voltados a área multidisciplinar, sendo a mesma pela Seven Publicações Ltda. A Seven Editora, agradece e enaltasse os autores que fizeram parte desse livro. Desejamos uma boa leitura a todos

Contemplative Thoughts in Human Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Contemplative Thoughts in Human Nature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-11
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

This book has investigated numerous phenomena of human destructive behaviors, and we have seen how much such behaviors have contributed to human suffering, agony, and aggression. And we try to answer why we behave destructively. There are myriad answers to that. But the most prominent answer is when God created the universe and humankind, the first program that was instilled in us was the human wicked, or destructive, inclination, before anything else. So since God the Almighty instilled in us such a wicked program, then we are doomed from the start. You may go further and say that its unfair that we come to this world with a bad start. As the existential thinkers put it intelligently, our existence is merely a cruel trick.