Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have shown their ability to meet some of the challenges in the health and education sectors both in India and overseas. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been assisting the Government of India since 2006 to develop PPPs across sectors in India, through a programmatic joint PPP Initiative, Mainstreaming PPPs in India. Under the initiative, a special task team of the ADB, together with the Government of India& ...
This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book’s first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Sq ...
In an age where uncertainty rules the day, Dr. Rob Tenery has given us a book that explains how health care has evolved into a $2.6 trillion enterprise. He does this with carefully researched histories and a series of challenging and thought-provoking commentaries on the most important issues of the day. Dr. Tenery’s book focuses on a time when doctors and patients worked together to determine the best course of treatment—solutions now being ced ...
Lovely Alex Blair was not unaware of Douglas Allen's attraction. He was a young and capable doctor, and friendly with everyone at the Haddon Hospital. Alex had decided to make nursing a career after an unfortunate tragedy, In the daily round of hospital work she found satisfaction and personal contentment until the jealous envy of Night Superintendent Ellen Ridley was directed against her.<P> Alex believed that there was no place in ...
COURAGE AND LOVE<P> Lovely and dedicated Arleen Anderson, a visiting nurse in the slum section of Saltboro, Michigan knew that she would need both her courage and love of nursing to face the daily visits to her poverty-stricken patients. But Arleen also had the admiration of two very desirable men: <P> MARK WYNTER – the talented and handsome doctor who gave Arleen the courage and the hope that she needed. <P> GUY N ...
Our Collective Life is a non-fiction memoir of a person diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Identity Disorder or MPD) is a condition in which two or more distinct identities are present in the one body. In our case, we are called the Collective, a group of 19 individuals (at the time of writing) sharing a body and trying to navigate our way through this one life. We each ...
Coca is a plant with a complex array of mineral nutrients, essential oils, and varied compounds with greater or lesser pharmacological effects – one of which happens to be the alkaloid cocaine, which in its concentrated, synthesized form is a stimulant drug with possible addictive properties.
Of all the plants introduced to the world by American Indian societies, few have been as controversial as the coca bush. Part of the ...
Doctors think they heal with drugs. But only living cells can heal. When something is out of balance, your cells move to correct it because bodies want to be well. HEAL YOURSELF! HOW TO HARNESS PLACEBO POWER shows how to tap into this mysterious process to get well and stay well by harnessing your body's natural healing power—the power of placebo.These amazing effects are not just «in the mind.» They can be observed and measured in ...
