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Replaceable You

Adventures in Human Anatomy

by Mary Roach ...

The body is the most complex machine in the world, but what happens when the parts start to fail? Meet the scientists facing the challenge…AN AMAZON AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAROur bodies regenerate at a remarkable rate – our skin replaces itself every month, our blood every four. You can remove ninety per cent of a liver and it’ll still grow back to its original size (please do not try this at home) ... Read more

$19.31 AUD

The body is the most complex machine in the world, but what happens when the parts start to fail? Meet the scientists facing the challenge…AN AMAZON AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAROur bodies regenerate at a remarkable rate – our skin replaces itself every month, our blood every four. You can remove ninety per cent of a liver and it’ll still grow back to its original size (please do not try this at home)
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Moreau’s Other Island

by Brian Aldiss ...

Series series The Monster Trilogy
Welcome to Dr Moreau’s other island. Place of untold horros. Home of the Beast Men…Available for the first time in eBook.He stands very tall, long prosthetic limbs glistening in the harsh sun, withered body swaying, carbine and whip clasped in artificial hands. Man-beasts cower on the sand as he brandishes his gun in the air.He is Dr Moreau, ruler of the fabulous, grotesque island, where humans ... Read more

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Welcome to Dr Moreau’s other island. Place of untold horros. Home of the Beast Men…Available for the first time in eBook.He stands very tall, long prosthetic limbs glistening in the harsh sun, withered body swaying, carbine and whip clasped in artificial hands. Man-beasts cower on the sand as he brandishes his gun in the air.He is Dr Moreau, ruler of the fabulous, grotesque island, where humans
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Psoriasis Diet

Treating And Healing Psoriatic Arthritis Naturally

by Rebecca W. McGary ...

The outbreaks of Psoriasis are just in patches. These patches due to Psoriasis are called psoriatic plaques. Psoriatic plaques are patches of skin where the skin is becoming inflamed, and there has been a lot of skin production. The skin produced by your body accumulates at these patches and includes a white appearance. The patches commonly occur on your skin around elbows and legs. However, a lot ... Read more

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The outbreaks of Psoriasis are just in patches. These patches due to Psoriasis are called psoriatic plaques. Psoriatic plaques are patches of skin where the skin is becoming inflamed, and there has been a lot of skin production. The skin produced by your body accumulates at these patches and includes a white appearance. The patches commonly occur on your skin around elbows and legs. However, a lot
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Complete Mediterranean Cookbook

The Complete ATK Cookbook Simplified with Essential kitchen-tested and approved recipes for healthy living and delicious meals every day.

by Thelma Jackson ...

The long-awaited debut cookbook from the creators of The Mediterranean Diet Principles. Over 120 recipes for colorful, flavorful dishes inspired by the Mediterranean diet.Bestselling Modern Classic - America’s Kitchen’s Essential Guide to the Life-Changing Mediterranean Diet. `I want to cook everything in this book! It's not just beautiful. The recipes are fresh and exciting.” – Thelma Jackson,The ... Read more

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The long-awaited debut cookbook from the creators of The Mediterranean Diet Principles. Over 120 recipes for colorful, flavorful dishes inspired by the Mediterranean diet.Bestselling Modern Classic - America’s Kitchen’s Essential Guide to the Life-Changing Mediterranean Diet. `I want to cook everything in this book! It's not just beautiful. The recipes are fresh and exciting.” – Thelma Jackson,The
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Knee Replacement Surgery, A Simple Guide To The Procedure And Related Conditions

by Kenneth Kee ...

Knee replacement is a surgical intervention that reduces pain and enhances the quality of life in many patients with serious arthritis of the knees.Normally patients go through this surgery after non-operative treatments (such as activity modification medicines, knee injections or walking with a cane) have been unsuccessful to provide relief of arthritic symptoms.Surgeons have done knee ... Read more

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Knee replacement is a surgical intervention that reduces pain and enhances the quality of life in many patients with serious arthritis of the knees.Normally patients go through this surgery after non-operative treatments (such as activity modification medicines, knee injections or walking with a cane) have been unsuccessful to provide relief of arthritic symptoms.Surgeons have done knee
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Artificial Parts, Practical Lives

Modern Histories of Prosthetics

Edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, Stephen Mihm ...

From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings.The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light ... Read more

$31.67 AUD

From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings.The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light
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Orbital Surgery

by Francesco Bandello, Borja Corcóstegui ...

Orbital surgery deals with a variety of complications occurring in the eye socket comprising inflammatory diseases like thyroid-associated orbitopathy, tumors, infections, and injuries from trauma that affect eye function. In this volume, renowned European orbital surgery experts share their professional experience and expertise. Their contributions cover basic as well as more specialized up-to ... Read more

$112.41 AUD

Orbital surgery deals with a variety of complications occurring in the eye socket comprising inflammatory diseases like thyroid-associated orbitopathy, tumors, infections, and injuries from trauma that affect eye function. In this volume, renowned European orbital surgery experts share their professional experience and expertise. Their contributions cover basic as well as more specialized up-to
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Bio-Implant Interface

Improving Biomaterials and Tissue Reactions

by J.E. Ellingsen, S.P. Lyngstadaas ...

Achieving good clinical outcomes with implanted biomaterials depends upon achieving optimal function, both mechanical and biological, which in turn depends upon integrating advances realized in biological science, material science, and tissue engineering. As these advances push back the frontiers of biomaterial medicine , the control and patterning ... Read more

$146.61 AUD

Achieving good clinical outcomes with implanted biomaterials depends upon achieving optimal function, both mechanical and biological, which in turn depends upon integrating advances realized in biological science, material science, and tissue engineering. As these advances push back the frontiers of biomaterial medicine , the control and patterning
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A History of Knowledge and Production in Powered Prosthetic Arms

by David Foord ...

This book presents a narrative and social science history of the powered upper-limb prosthesis. It examines how research, innovation and design changed in the prosthetics industry from 1945 to the present.A History of Knowledge and Production in Powered Prosthetic Arms opens with a history of artificial upper-limb making from ancient Egypt to 1945. It surveys the transition from early modern iron ... Read more

$196.00 AUD

This book presents a narrative and social science history of the powered upper-limb prosthesis. It examines how research, innovation and design changed in the prosthetics industry from 1945 to the present.A History of Knowledge and Production in Powered Prosthetic Arms opens with a history of artificial upper-limb making from ancient Egypt to 1945. It surveys the transition from early modern iron
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Additive Manufacturing for Biomedical Implants and Prosthetics

Edited by Pawan Kumar Rakesh, Pravin Kumar ...

Series series Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing
This book explains usage of additive manufacturing (AM) for the printing of biomedical implants and prosthetics. It elaborates on the basics of printing biomedical implants and prosthetics, including necessity, printing processes, materials, and standards followed by discussion of involved technologies, design and optimization, and post-processing. It further highlights patient response and risks ... Read more

$114.20 AUD

This book explains usage of additive manufacturing (AM) for the printing of biomedical implants and prosthetics. It elaborates on the basics of printing biomedical implants and prosthetics, including necessity, printing processes, materials, and standards followed by discussion of involved technologies, design and optimization, and post-processing. It further highlights patient response and risks
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Scoliosi - Risolvere senza tutori e senza medicine

by Gustavo Guglielmotti ...

Se una cosa è certa, è che le ossa non hanno la capacità di spostarsi da soli. La scoliosi è una conseguenza della tensione muscolare che si verifica nell'addome e nella schiena. Queste contrazioni non si generano a caso o per eredità genetica ma per un modo sbagliato di stare in piedi e di appoggiare i piedi quando camminiamo. Il libro spiega dettagliatamente come si deve camminare per eliminare ... Read more

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Se una cosa è certa, è che le ossa non hanno la capacità di spostarsi da soli. La scoliosi è una conseguenza della tensione muscolare che si verifica nell'addome e nella schiena. Queste contrazioni non si generano a caso o per eredità genetica ma per un modo sbagliato di stare in piedi e di appoggiare i piedi quando camminiamo. Il libro spiega dettagliatamente come si deve camminare per eliminare
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Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820–1939

Edited by Claire L. Jones ...

This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities.Through case studies that focus on hearing aids, artificial tympanums, amplified telephones, ... Read more

$160.59 AUD

This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities.Through case studies that focus on hearing aids, artificial tympanums, amplified telephones,
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Attachments to War

Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America

by Jennifer Terry ...

Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same time, the U.S. ... Read more

$43.22 AUD

In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same time, the U.S.
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Fundamentals of Amputation Care and Prosthetics

by Douglas Murphy, MD, Douglas Murphy, MD ...

Written by experienced physiatrists, prosthetists, and therapists, this book provides an introduction to the field of amputee care and prosthetics. Dedicated chapters guide you through prescription of prostheses for the various levels and types of amputations in both the lower and upper extremity and address recent advances in functionality and safety. Pre- and post-operative care, prosthetic ... Read more

$87.11 AUD

Written by experienced physiatrists, prosthetists, and therapists, this book provides an introduction to the field of amputee care and prosthetics. Dedicated chapters guide you through prescription of prostheses for the various levels and types of amputations in both the lower and upper extremity and address recent advances in functionality and safety. Pre- and post-operative care, prosthetic
... Read more
Overcoming Depression

Hidden Secrets On How To Combat Depression

by James J. Riley ...

Depression is a state of mind disorder that has something to do with persistent and extreme feeling of sadness, low state of mind, and loss of curiosity. It is with the capacity of causing you to feel worthless. The condition produces negative effects on how you think, take action, and experience - your response to our life generally. It generally makes actions that you loved participating in ... Read more

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Depression is a state of mind disorder that has something to do with persistent and extreme feeling of sadness, low state of mind, and loss of curiosity. It is with the capacity of causing you to feel worthless. The condition produces negative effects on how you think, take action, and experience - your response to our life generally. It generally makes actions that you loved participating in
... Read more
Atlas Of Ankle Replacements, The

by Andrew J Goldberg Obe, Paul H Cooke ...

The future of ankle replacements will be governed by careful patient selection, meticulous surgical technique, and appropriate prospective follow up and reporting as well as the introduction and collaboration of joint replacement registers. There is a large uptrend in the use of ankle replacements and a need for authoritative publications that can be used as a reference internationally.The Atlas ... Read more

$86.12 AUD

The future of ankle replacements will be governed by careful patient selection, meticulous surgical technique, and appropriate prospective follow up and reporting as well as the introduction and collaboration of joint replacement registers. There is a large uptrend in the use of ankle replacements and a need for authoritative publications that can be used as a reference internationally.The Atlas
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Más allá del ojo

Beyond the eye

by Sergio D. Ozán ...

Este libro sintetiza A lo largo de mi vasta carrera como protesista y ocularista me he nutrido de experiencias de profesionales, de pacientes y de investigación. Este libro reúne todos estos conocimientos e investigaciones para contribuir aún más a la excelencia de la profesión de ocularista. En este trabajo hago referencia a todos los puntos necesarios a considerar en la adaptación de prótesis ... Read more

$7.99 AUD

Este libro sintetiza A lo largo de mi vasta carrera como protesista y ocularista me he nutrido de experiencias de profesionales, de pacientes y de investigación. Este libro reúne todos estos conocimientos e investigaciones para contribuir aún más a la excelencia de la profesión de ocularista. En este trabajo hago referencia a todos los puntos necesarios a considerar en la adaptación de prótesis
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Para Brillar

Una asombrosa historia real de una amputada cuádruple

by Desjardins Wilkens, Cyndi ...

“Amor, has estado muy enferma y tuvieron que amputarte… tus manos y pies” Su voz se quebró. Busqué alguna explicación en su cara, quería identificar alguna señal para entender por qué sentía tanto dolor por él y por mí. “….”Cyndi intentó absorber la nueva realidad de que una enfermedad infecciosa en la piel había cambiado su vida para siempre. Su más reciente recuerdo era el haber sido una gerente ... Read more

$12.42 AUD

“Amor, has estado muy enferma y tuvieron que amputarte… tus manos y pies” Su voz se quebró. Busqué alguna explicación en su cara, quería identificar alguna señal para entender por qué sentía tanto dolor por él y por mí. “….”Cyndi intentó absorber la nueva realidad de que una enfermedad infecciosa en la piel había cambiado su vida para siempre. Su más reciente recuerdo era el haber sido una gerente
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Service Dogs: A Practical Guide to Understanding Service Dogs and Everyday Assistance

Loyal Companions Changing Lives Through Training, Care, and Support

by Moses Krier ...

Discover the incredible world of service dogs and the important roles they play in improving the lives of people with physical, emotional, and medical challenges. This informative and inspiring guide explores how specially trained service dogs provide daily assistance, emotional comfort, independence, and protection for individuals in need. Perfect for animal lovers, caregivers, and anyone curious ... Read more

$4.99 AUD

Discover the incredible world of service dogs and the important roles they play in improving the lives of people with physical, emotional, and medical challenges. This informative and inspiring guide explores how specially trained service dogs provide daily assistance, emotional comfort, independence, and protection for individuals in need. Perfect for animal lovers, caregivers, and anyone curious
... Read more
Overcoming Depression

What Medication Fail To Do

by Joseph H. Fox ...

Being depressed regularly feels like carrying an exceptionally heavy burden, however, you are not just in this struggle.The majority of us believe when we’re depressed our scenario is hopeless. That’s a blunder. Joseph H. Fox reassures us that the trick to overcoming depression is usually in harnessing our brain’s own organic antidepressant capacity to create a far more resilient mind.Uncovering ... Read more

$7.72 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

Being depressed regularly feels like carrying an exceptionally heavy burden, however, you are not just in this struggle.The majority of us believe when we’re depressed our scenario is hopeless. That’s a blunder. Joseph H. Fox reassures us that the trick to overcoming depression is usually in harnessing our brain’s own organic antidepressant capacity to create a far more resilient mind.Uncovering
... Read more
Foot Deformities and Malformations in Children

A Principles-Based, Practical Guide to Assessment and Management: eBook without Multimedia

by Vincent Mosca ...

Practical, comprehensive, and immediately applicable, Foot Deformities and Malformations in Children: A Principles-Based, Practical Guide to Assessment and Management, Second Edition, is a must-have reference for orthopaedists, foot and ankle surgeons, and podiatrists who care for children. Renowned pediatric orthopaedic foot surgeon and educator Dr. Vincent S. Mosca’s highly regarded resource now ... Read more

$290.72 AUD

Practical, comprehensive, and immediately applicable, Foot Deformities and Malformations in Children: A Principles-Based, Practical Guide to Assessment and Management, Second Edition, is a must-have reference for orthopaedists, foot and ankle surgeons, and podiatrists who care for children. Renowned pediatric orthopaedic foot surgeon and educator Dr. Vincent S. Mosca’s highly regarded resource now
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Bioinspired Devices

Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process

by Eugene C. Goldfield ...

Robotic exoskeletons that allow stroke survivors to regain use of their limbs, 3D-printed replacement body parts, and dozens of other innovations still in schematic design are revolutionizing the treatment of debilitating injuries and nervous system disorders. What all these technologies have in common is that they are modeled after engineering strategies found in nature—strategies developed by a ... Read more

$98.44 AUD

Robotic exoskeletons that allow stroke survivors to regain use of their limbs, 3D-printed replacement body parts, and dozens of other innovations still in schematic design are revolutionizing the treatment of debilitating injuries and nervous system disorders. What all these technologies have in common is that they are modeled after engineering strategies found in nature—strategies developed by a
... Read more
Animal Models in Orthopaedic Research

Edited by Yuehuei H. An, Richard J. Freidman ...

Animal Models in Orthopaedic Research is a reference book of the major animal models used in the study of orthopaedic conditions and in the in vivo study of biomaterials. Use of animal models provides important knowledge about pathological conditions that can eventually lead to the development of more effective clinical treatment of diseases in bot ... Read more

$393.57 AUD

Animal Models in Orthopaedic Research is a reference book of the major animal models used in the study of orthopaedic conditions and in the in vivo study of biomaterials. Use of animal models provides important knowledge about pathological conditions that can eventually lead to the development of more effective clinical treatment of diseases in bot
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Shine On

The Remarkable True Story of a Quadruple Amputee

by Cyndi Desjardins Wilkens ...

“Honey, you’ve been very ill and they’ve had to amputate…” His voice cracked. I searched his face, looking for some kind of clue to tell me why I sensed so much pain from him and in me. “…Your hands and feet.”Cyndi tried to grasp the new reality that flesh-eating disease had changed her life forever. Her recent memories of being a successful business manager and new mom seemed oceans away.It just ... Read more

$10.11 AUD

“Honey, you’ve been very ill and they’ve had to amputate…” His voice cracked. I searched his face, looking for some kind of clue to tell me why I sensed so much pain from him and in me. “…Your hands and feet.”Cyndi tried to grasp the new reality that flesh-eating disease had changed her life forever. Her recent memories of being a successful business manager and new mom seemed oceans away.It just
... Read more

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