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Pacific Edge: Transforming Knowledge into Innovative Practice
 

Pacific Edge: Transforming Knowledge into Innovative Practice (Paperback)

Edited by Seve-Williams, Nuhisifa; Saafi, Etuate; Taumoepeau, Mele

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Research papers from the fourth Health Research Council of New Zealand Pacific Health Research Fono

ISBN 9781877495106
Published 28 February 2013
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Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail (Paperback)

By Druett, Joan

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Using diaries, journals and correspondence the author tells a fascinating story of remarkable men who shipped out as doctors on South Sea whalers in the early nineteenth century.

ISBN 9780415924528
Published 18 October 2001 by Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima and the Marshall Islands

Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima and the Marshall Islands (Hardback)

By Yamazaki, James N.; Fleming, Louis B.; Foreword by Dower, John W.

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Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view. In this uncommon memoir, Dr. James N. Yamazaki tells us in personal and moving terms of the h ...

ISBN 9780822316589
Published 1 June 1995 by Inbooks
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Series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
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Global Health Challenge: Essays on Aids

Global Health Challenge: Essays on Aids (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

Edited by Morrison, Gordon

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This text examines blood vaccine research; governmental strategies to contain the epidemic; media influence over the public; ways in which infections use HIV as a gateway to create sub-epidemics in developing countries; and how the epidemic can undermine a society economically an ...

ISBN 9780850926514
Published 1 January 2001 by Commonwealth Secretariat
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Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a Multisectoral Approach

Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a Multisectoral Approach (Paperback)

By Secretariat, Commonwealth

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This manual offers a number of case studies from developing and developed countries, which illustrate how programmes that promote HIV prevention by addressing gender and the social and economic factors that increase people's risk of infection are more likely to succeed in changin ...

ISBN 9780850926552
Published 1 January 2002 by Commonwealth Secretariat
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Series New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
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Mainstreaming Gender in the Health Sector
 

Mainstreaming Gender in the Health Sector (Paperback)

By Secretariat, Commonwealth

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This is the consensus built up in a series of workshops in different regions of the Commonwealth on what is the most effective way of applying Gender Management System principles and methodology to the health sector. This manual should assist other countries in adapting mainstrea ...

ISBN 9780850927337
Published 1 January 2002 by Commonwealth Secretariat
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Series New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
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The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health
 

The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health (Hardback)

By McMullin, Juliet Marie

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Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they 'fail' to seek medical care, are 'non-compliant' patients, or 'lack immunity' enjoyed by the 'mainstream' population. This title shows how it masks fundament ...

ISBN 9781598744996
Published 1 October 2009 by Left Coast Press Inc
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Series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropolgy
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Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea
 

Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea (Paperback)

By Who Regional Office for the Western Pacific

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Traditional medicine, including the knowledge, skills and practices of holistic health care, exists in all cultures. It is based on indigenous theories, beliefs and experiences, and is widely accepted for its role in health maintenance and the treatment of disease.Medicinal plant ...

ISBN 9789290612490
Published 13 July 2009
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Series Wpro Nonserial Publication
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Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown (Hardback, illustrated edition)

By Mohr, James C.

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This book examines the outbreak of plague in Honolulu in 1899/1900. One of the worst disasters in US public health history, the outbreak resulted in the accidental burning of Honolulu's Chinatown and many of the city's Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian citizens losing their homes a ...

ISBN 9780195162318
Published 28 October 2004 by Oxford University Press
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Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914
 

Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914 (Hardback)

By Coleborne, Catharine

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Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.

ISBN 9780230578074
Published 18 November 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan
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