Recent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movements encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in womens health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement organizations.
In "Put Your Health in Your Own Hands," Bob draws on his personal experience as a physician assistant in family practice to show you many natural ways to improve your health. You will learn about your present level of health and how to overcome any obstacles that might be preventing you from reaching your health goals. By following these simple guidelines, you will learn how to convert your potential for amazing health into a reality.
What if one of the most effective tools you have to restore your health is not surgery or medications, but your own hands? Incredibly, your hands can heal you -- with the "energy medicine" of Pranic Healing. A powerful system that is rapidly increasing in popularity, Pranic Healing works with your own natural, vital energy -- which is also called prana -- to accelerate your body's innate self-healing ability. Amazingly easy to learn and apply, Pranic Healing uses a series of powerful but simple methods to generate energy, including non-touch hand movements; energetic hygiene, the practice of keeping your personal energy tank clean and full; breathing; and brief meditations. Using these unique techniques, you can identify, clear, and purify unhealthy, imbalanced energy and replace it with fresh energy that helps your body heal itself from a wide range of physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms and disorders. A self-healing guide for 24 ailments, including physical and sports injuries, chronic arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, hypertension, headaches, backaches, congestion and colds, menstrual cramps, even depression and stress-related disorders, is included. With step-by-step instructions, line drawings, and numerous real-life medical stories, Your Hands Can Heal You demonstrates and explains a revolutionary program that anyone can use to harness the energy of body, mind, and breath to produce health and facilitate repair. Personally trained by Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, who developed Pranic Healing, the authors, Master Co and Dr. Robins, provide the same detailed guidance in Your Hands Can Heal You as in the popular Pranic Healing workshops. Additionally, they present, for the first time in any book, the Grandmaster's special modifications to the breathing practices that can dramatically increase your power and energy and rejuvenate and balance your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual body. This exciting new mind-body heath reference proves that you can heal yourself -- with your own two hands.
Thumbs up foods are just the beginning! A fantastic book that associates each finger with foods to eat, making choices easy and fun! Cyndi Dale, author of The Subtle Body Encyclopedia Here is a must-have book for every parent trying to teach their children healthy eating habits. Lindsey Smith, author of Junk Foods & Junk Moods This book helps parents start their kids on a healthy path that will benefit them the rest of their lives. Lisa Mentgen-Gordon, CEO, Healing Touch Program The illustrations are luminous and help kids take a colorful, energetic interest in what they eat. Marla Feingold, Certified Clinical Nutritionist and Dietician
The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs. The present Guidelines are intended to be implemented in any situation in which health care is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore, this concept applies to all settings where health care is permanently or occasionally performed, such as home care by birth attendants. Definitions of health-care settings are proposed in Appendix 1. These Guidelines and the associated WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy and an Implementation Toolkit (http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/) are designed to offer health-care facilities in Member States a conceptual framework and practical tools for the application of recommendations in practice at the bedside. While ensuring consistency with the Guidelines recommendations, individual adaptation according to local regulations, settings, needs, and resources is desirable. This extensive review includes in one document sufficient technical information to support training materials and help plan implementation strategies. The document comprises six parts.
Nonfiction. Health, Self-Help, Physio- Philosophy. The physio-philosophy of Jin Shin Jyutsu is a traditional Japanese healing art for harmonizing life energy. In HEALTH IS IN YOUR HANDS, bestselling author and authorized Jin Shin Jyutsu instructor Waltraud Riegger-Krause makes Jin Shin Jyutsu conveniently accessible as a hands-on practice to anyone interested in sharing and benefiting from its therapeutic and salutary powers. Besides offering an astute, yet simply and clearly written introduction to the foundations and complexities of Jin Shin Jyutsu, HEALTH IS IN YOUR HANDS lays out a wide variety of treatments for a broad range of symptoms and conditions. What makes HEALTH IS IN YOUR HANDS truly revolutionary and indispensable, however, is its comprehensive flash- card set for immediate hands-on Jin Shin Jyutsu application, which, owing to its visual aids and multicolored arrangement, allows you to quickly learn the connections between the depths, energy locks and organ flows, and to choose the appropriate cards and practice the appropriate flows for any given symptoms. HEALTH IS IN YOUR HANDS is nothing less than a veritable Jin Shin Jyutsu First Aid Kit together with a thorough presentation of this healing art all in one.
Your Health in Your Hands is a clear guide to using Ayurveda to restore and maintain good health, written by Dr Smita Naram, a leading Ayurvedic doctor with a wealth of experience to share with all of us. She begins by telling the stories of patients who have used Ayurveda to restore balanced health to themselves, to give us a clear understanding of how this effective and profound, ancient Indian system of medicine and life works to restore health and well-being.This understanding leads to the core of Your Health in Your Hands, a manual of practical and proven ways in which we ourselves can make a real difference to our health. It focuses on 11 groups of common health issues which are often seen in Ayushakti clinics; Joint Pain; Skin Disorders and Skin Care; Stress and Depression; Sleep Disorders; Reducing Weight; Diabetes; Reducing High Cholesterol;Balancing High Blood Pressure; Coughs and Colds; Hair Loss and Hair Care; and Common Digestive Disorders.This is followed by Dr Smita Naram's valuable insights into Diet, Health and the Stages of Life, so we can be clear about how our diets need to change according to the stage of life we are living, and shows us how our health is truly in our own hands.
World renowned Acupressurist Dr.Devendra Vora has analysed that the pressure applied on certain points located in the palms and soles helps to stimulate all organs of the body, prevents diseases and assists in maintaining good health. Acupressure also enables one to diagnose and cure disease like Common Cold, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Migraine, Paralysis and even Cancer. Dr. Devendra Vora has proved that all dreaded diseases like Allergy, Cancer, Thalassaemia and HIV/AIDS are only Paper Dragons which can be easily defeated. The learned author has shown how all these dreaded diseases can be prevented and cured. And all that without any cost or side effects.
The Fascial Distortion Model (FDM) was introduced by the American physician Stephen Typaldos (1957-2006). In this model all injuries and other conditions causing pain or disability are seen as arising from specific distortions of the connective tissue. This highly illustrated and very practical text and manual covers in detail the theoretical framework of the model, and approaches to manual therapy treatment based on an understanding of the FDM. The authors systematically cover all disorders likely to be encountered by the therapist, and provide comprehensive guidance about when it is appropriate to use FDM and how best to employ these approaches in treatment. The book is therefore of interest and value to all practitioners who want to understand the FDM and to incorporate its techniques into their therapeutic practice. This is also a comprehensive textbook and manual for anyone studying on FDM courses and for specific qualifications.