Haddon's unforgettable follow-up to the international bestseller "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" proves rich comic fodder for the author's crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love--and an amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to politely go insane.
In this hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open, Montross provides an uncommon perspective on the emotional difficulty a first year medical student can face.
A guide to pregnancy after suffering the loss of an infant, miscarriage, or stillbirth. Issues discussed include: the facts about pregnancy loss and neonatal death; how to determine if you're ready for another pregnancy; common fertility myths; support after you've decided to tell people you're pregnant again; and prenatal testing risks and ...
Meier, an investigative reporter, explores the troubling history of OxyContin, the opium-derived drug prescribed for patients with chronic pain. He weaves together the stories of the profit-focused drug company that manufactured the drug (and also took it's time reporting the drug's addiction potential to the public), the DEA, the media, and the ...
Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans ...
Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even today, in this "all American city," infants of color die more than two times as often as white babies. Infant mortality is too often addressed as if it were an isolated problem, rather than part of a systemic and repeating pattern of embedded racism and ...
This is an all-in-one resource for key statistics on births, deaths, life expectancy, and marriage and divorce in the U.S. These important data include details by state and metropolitan areas, and comparisons to foreign countries. Tables, graphs, explanatory text, trends, and analyses are included.
This highly engaging and informative book explores the irony of fact versus perception and provides witty and sometimes wacky examples of the leading causes of death in this country.
Survival analysis deals with the distribution of life times, essentially the times from an initiating event such as birth or the start of a job to some terminal event such as death or pension. This book, originally published in 1980, surveys and analyzes methods that use survival measurements and concepts, and helps readers apply the appropriate ...
Andrea Wiley investigates the ecological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the peculiar pattern of infant mortality in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the western Himalayas of India. Ladakhi newborns are extremely small at birth, smaller than those in other high-altitude populations, smaller still than those in sea level ...
The statistical theory of the ordinary life table is presented in this book, with its construction explained. Topics cover measures of mortality and adjustment of rates, and other areas include survival and stages of disease, reproduction, married life, antenatal life table and ecological studies.
Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth - the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient-enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has ...
This reference work presents a statistical look at life expectancy and death rates in the United States in the 20th century. Parts I-V cover advancements in life expectancy, death rates for different ages for men and women, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and future predictors.
Is ageing inevitable, or can senescence and death be evaded? Large animals and plants always age if they live long enough; even individual cells from their bodies cannot continue living and dividing indefinitely. Whether or not single-celled organisms also age and die, and what relation sex bore to the process of senescence, was the subject of ...
With bird flu a very present threat, this is a timely and important look at the impact of quiet killers through the ages. In 1658 Oliver Cromwell, having brought a king to execution, and risen to power, died from malaria when he refused to take the Devil?s Bark, the quinine compound produced in a Catholic colony, which could have cured him. Like ...
This highly original book - the first in a series analysing historical population behaviour in Europe and Asia - pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyse the ...
Using data collected for 350 cities from around the world, the authors use a variety of analytical methods to provide a global picture of what was happening to infectious epidemic diseases at a critical period in urban evolution on the international stage. The diseases considered are diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, ...
Written by an international team of physicians experienced in all aspects of asthma care, this opportune work defines, with exceptional clarity, the atopic and environmental risk factors attributable to fatal asthma-recommending means of lowering the incidence of life-threatening episodes through timely prognosis and the start of treatment with ...
This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. This second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports ...
A detailed study of the large number of male portraits in the important Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture. Illuminated through photographs, this is a valuable reference to classical sculpture.
Addressing the question of when towns ceased to be greatly more unhealthy than rural areas, this work contains discussions of disease categories and issues concerning the different structuring of data in the British and German national contexts. Although the focus is on urban health conditions and epidemic control, these are related to a wide ...
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