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Dying to Quit

Why We Smoke and How We Stop

By: Janet Brigham

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Dying to Quit

Why We Smoke and How We Stop

By: Janet Brigham

Historians and scientists a few millennia from now are likely to see tobacco as one of the major bafflements of our time, suggests Janet Brigham. Why do we smoke so much, even when we know that tobacco kills more than a million of us a year? Two decades ago, smoking was on the decline in the United States. Now the decline has flattened, and smoking appears to be increasing, most ominously among young people. Cigar smoking is on the rise. Data from a generation of young smokers indicate that many of them want to quit but have no access to effective treatment. Dying to Quit features the real-life smoking day of a young woman who plans to quitâ€"again. Her comments take readers inside her love/hate relationship with tobacco. In everyday language, the book reveals the complex psychological and scientific issues behind the news headlines about tobacco regulations, lawsuits and settlements, and breaking scientific news. What is addiction? Is there such a thing as an addictive personality? What does nicotine do to the body? How does it affect the brain? Why do people stand in subzero temperatures outside office buildings to smoke cigarettes? What is the impact of carefully crafted advertisements and marketing strategies? Why do people who are depressed tend to smoke more? What is the biology behind these common links? These and many fundamental questions are explored drawing on the latest findings from the world's best addictions laboratories. Want to quit? Brigham takes us shopping in the marketplace of gizmos and gadgets designed to help people stop smoking, from wristwatch-like monitors to the lettuce cigarette. She presents the bad news and the not-so-bad news about smoking cessation, including the truth about withdrawal symptoms and weight gain. And she summarizes authoritative findings and recommendations about what actually works in quitting smoking. By training a behavioral scientistâ€"by gift a writing talentâ€"Brigham helps readers understand what people feel when they use tobacco or when they quit. At a time when tobacco smoke has filled nearly every corner of the earth and public confusion grows amid strident claims and counterclaims in the media, Dying to Quit clears the air with dispassion toward facts and compassion toward smokers. This book invites readers on a fascinating journey through the world of tobacco use and points the way toward help for smokers who want to quit. Janet Brigham, Ph.D., is a research psychologist with SRI International in Menlo Park, California, where she studies tobacco use. A former journalist and editor, she has conducted substance use research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the University of Pittsburgh

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Joseph Henry Press

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0309064090

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9780309064095

Women in Medicine

Getting In, Growing, and Advancing

By: Janet Bickel

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Women in Medicine

Getting In, Growing, and Advancing

By: Janet Bickel

Women in Medicine is a concise, practical resource for anyone considering a medical career, but especially women. Drawing on all the best available literature and the experience of thousands of women doctors, the book covers: getting into medical school; overcoming gender stereotypes; finding a mentor; combining parenting with a career; and maximising career development. The author also offers tips on building key professional skills, and a self-diagnostic section for readers who are preparing to begin a medical career.

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138

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SAGE Publications

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1452221693

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9781452221694

Educating For Professionalism

Creating A Culture Of Humanism In Medical Education

By: Delese Wear,Janet Bickel

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Educating For Professionalism

Creating A Culture Of Humanism In Medical Education

By: Delese Wear,Janet Bickel

The thirteen essays in Educating for Professionalism examine the often conflicting ethical, social, emotional, and intellectual messages that medical institutions send to students about what it means to be a doctor. Because this disconnection between what medical educators profess and what students experience is partly to blame for the current crisis in medical professionalism, the authors offer timely, reflective analyses of the work and opportunities facing medical education if doctors are to win public trust. In their drive to improve medical professionalism within the world of academic medicine, editors Delese Wear and Janet Bickel have assembled thought-provoking essays that elucidate the many facets of teaching, valuing, and maintaining medical professionalism in the middle of the myriad challenges facing medicine at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The collection traces how the values of altruism and service can influence not only mission statements and admission policies but also the content of medical school ethics courses, student-led task forces, and mentoring programs, along with larger environmental issues in medical schools and the communities they serve. Contributors: Stanley Joel Reiser Jack Coulehan Peter C. Williams Frederic W. Hafferty Richard Martinez Judith Andre Jake Foglio Howard Brody Sheila Woods Sue Fosson Lois Margaret Nora Mary Anne C. Johnston Tana A. Grady-Weliky Cynthia N. Kettyle Edward M. Hundert Norma E. Wagoner Frederick A. Miller William D. Mellon Howard Waitzkin Donald Wasylenki Niall Byrne Barbara McRobb Edward J. Eckenfels Lucy Wolf Tuton Claudia H. Siegel Timothy B. Campbell

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University of Iowa Press

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158729334X

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9781587293344

Charter Conflicts

What Is Parliament's Role?

By: Janet L. Hiebert

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Charter Conflicts

What Is Parliament's Role?

By: Janet L. Hiebert

Although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is twenty years old, little is known about how it affects those who wield power, what influence it has on legislative decisions, or to what extent the government believes it should be constrained by Charter concerns. For most laws Parliament has the final word on how social policy is balanced against protected rights. Thus the extent to which legislation is sensitive towards rights depends on how those who develop, propose, and assess policy view the Charter. How influential are governmental legal advisors? How risk averse or risk tolerant are government ministers when pursuing legislative goals that may result in Charter challenges? How capable is Parliament in requiring government to justify and explain legislative choices that may impair rights? In Charter Conflicts Janet Hiebert examines these questions while analyzing the Charter's influence on controversial legislative decisions such as social benefits for lesbians and gay men, the regulation of tobacco advertising, the rules of evidence for sexual assault trials, the use of DNA for law enforcement purposes, and the rules for police searches of private residences. She questions the broadly held assumption that only courts are capable of respecting rights, arguing that Parliament shares responsibility with the judiciary for resolving Charter conflicts. She views the Charter's significance less in terms of the judiciary overruling Parliament than in the incentives and pressures it provides for public and political officials to satisfy themselves that legislation is consistent with protected rights.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773570373

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9780773570375

Limiting Rights

The Dilemma of Judicial Review

By: Janet Hiebert

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Limiting Rights

The Dilemma of Judicial Review

By: Janet Hiebert

Hiebert (political studies, Queen's U.) discusses the issue of who should be responsible for determining whether Canadian legislation conflicting with the rights of the Charter should be upheld as a reasonable limit on protected rights. She provides an extended analysis of Supreme Court decisions involving limits on protected rights, the issues surrounding judicial review, and the considerable influence exerted by Canadian politician over which legislation is considered for review. Canadian card order number C96-900197-5. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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198

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773514317

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9780773514317

Bioethics and the Law

By: Janet L. Dolgin,Lois L. Shepherd

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Bioethics and the Law

By: Janet L. Dolgin,Lois L. Shepherd

Bioethics and the Law takes a multidisciplinary approach that combines legal discussion with jurisprudential, philosophical, and sociological materials. Strong expressions of different points of view highlight debates about bioethical issues. The text underscores the need to mediate between the law's focus on broad rules and the bioethicist's concern with context and detail. Students are required to consider the ethical implications of health care as a business, face the shifting parameters of the provider/patient relationship in healthcare, and understand the role of government in designing and implementing healthcare programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. Bioethics and the Law supplements the traditional focus of bioethics on the interest of the individual with a second focus on the socio-economic developments that shape healthcare. Connecting broad public healthcare issues to concerns of the individual patient/healthcare consumer, the text promotes understanding of unsettling and complex situations and shows the implications of bioethical developments for understandings of personhood. A helpful glossary defines basic terms and several short appendices summarize recent developments in science and technology.

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1146

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Aspen Publishing

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154380313X

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9781543803136

Tigers

By: Victor Gentle,Janet Perry

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Tigers

By: Victor Gentle,Janet Perry

Introduces tigers and their behavior and habitat.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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0836830296

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9780836830293

Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health

A Biobehavioral Approach

By: Lynn T. Kozlowski,Jack E. Henningfield,Janet Brigham

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Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health

A Biobehavioral Approach

By: Lynn T. Kozlowski,Jack E. Henningfield,Janet Brigham

When smokers inhale smoke into their lungs, they take the drug nicotine into their bodies and brains, where it affects how the smokers feel and act. When smokers display their cigarettes, they are saying something symbolic and personal about themselves. And when smokers smoke, they put themselves at risk, often knowingly, of early disability or death. Smoking is one of the world′s most pressing public health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health reviews the severe problems caused by smoking and examines individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Cigarettes are the most popular, most addictive, and most deadly form of tobacco use, with cigarette design contributing directly to the dangers of smoking; most of the book focuses on this predominant form of nicotine use.

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210

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SAGE Publications

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1452264325

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9781452264325

Ecological Indicators

Volume 1

By: Daniel H. McKenzie,D. Eric Hyatt,V. Janet McDonald

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Ecological Indicators

Volume 1

By: Daniel H. McKenzie,D. Eric Hyatt,V. Janet McDonald

Today environmental problems of unprecedented magnitude confront planet earth. The sobering fact is that a whole range of human activities is affecting our global environment as profoundly as the billions of years of evolution that preceded our tenure on Earth. The pressure on vital natural resources in the developing world and elsewhere is intense, and the destruction of tropical forests, wildlife habitat, and other irreplaceable resources, is alarming. Climate change, ozone depletion, loss of genetic diversity, and marine pollution are critical global environmental concerns. Their cumulative impact threatens to destroy the planet's natural resources. The need to address this situation is urgent. More than at any previous moment in history, nature and ecological systems are in human hands, dependent on human efforts. The earth is an interconnected and interdependent global ecosystem, and change in one part of the system often causes unexpected change in other parts. Atmospheric, oceanic, wetland, terrestrial and other ecological systems have a finite capacity to absorb the environmental degradation caused by human behavior. The need for an environmentally sound, sustainable economy to ease this degradation is evident and urgent. Policies designed to stimulate economic development by foregoing pollution controls both destroy the long-term economy and ravage the environment. Over the years, we have sometimes drawn artificial distinctions between the health of individuals and the health of ecosystems. But in the real world, those distinctions do not exist.

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Springer

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1461546591

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9781461546597

The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition

By: William V. Tamborlane,Janet Z. Weiswasser

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The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition

By: William V. Tamborlane,Janet Z. Weiswasser

Discusses the nutritional requirements of children and offers recipes for healthy dishes

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Yale University Press

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0300071698

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9780300071696

Advanced Practice Nursing of Adults in Acute Care

By: Janet G Foster,Suzanne E Prevost

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Advanced Practice Nursing of Adults in Acute Care

By: Janet G Foster,Suzanne E Prevost

Written by a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Clinical Nurse Specialists, this text explores the expanding roles and responsibilities of the CNS—from core competencies and theoretical foundations for practice to caring for the hospitalized adult to shaping the healthcare system through the CNS’s spheres of influence.

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789

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F.A. Davis

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080363787X

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9780803637870

Society and Death in Ancient Egypt

Mortuary Landscapes of the Middle Kingdom

By: Janet E. Richards

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Society and Death in Ancient Egypt

Mortuary Landscapes of the Middle Kingdom

By: Janet E. Richards

Janet Richards considers social stratification in Middle Kingdom Egypt, exploring the assumption that a 'middle class' arose during this period. By focusing on the entire range of mortuary behavior, she shows how Middle Kingdom Egyptian practices and landscapes relating to death reveal information about the living society.

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270

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Cambridge University Press

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0521840333

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9780521840330

Educating For Professionalism

Creating A Culture Of Humanism In Medical Education

By: Delese Wear,Janet Bickel

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Educating For Professionalism

Creating A Culture Of Humanism In Medical Education

By: Delese Wear,Janet Bickel

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University of Iowa Press

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Women in Medicine

Getting In, Growing, and Advancing

By: Janet Bickel

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Women in Medicine

Getting In, Growing, and Advancing

By: Janet Bickel

No wonder so many women are choosing to become physicians. The field of medicine offers abundant opportunities—to take care of individuals; improve public health; advance science; make a good living; and become a leader in the community, in an academic center, and in professional organizations. The demand for women physicians is growing dramatically, as more and more women health care consumers actively and specifically seek them. Chapters cover getting into medical school, overcoming gender stereotypes, finding a mentor, combining parenting with a career, and looking ahead into the career. While women are no longer newcomers to medicine, compared to men they still face extra challenges in the development and valuing of their skills and potential. This book will help women entering medicine to maximize their options and to have the fullest possible lives and careers. Women in Medicine draws on all the best available literature and on the experience of thousands of women physicians. It is a resource for anyone considering a medical career—whether they be in junior high school or in their 40s and contemplating a major life change— but especially women. This book will be useful throughout medical education and during early career development, as it includes tips on, for instance, interviewing for a job. Another helpful feature is that each chapter, except the last, concludes with a "Diagnose Yourself" section, to assist readers in beginning necessary preparations and to offer support. An extensive reference list facilitates follow-ups on areas of special interest

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SAGE Publications

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1452239622

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9781452239620

Women in Medicine

Getting In, Growing, and Advancing

By: Janet W. Bickel

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Women in Medicine

Getting In, Growing, and Advancing

By: Janet W. Bickel

Women in Medicine' is a practical resource for anyone considering a medical career. It covers getting into medical school overcoming gender stereotypes, finding a mentor, combining parenting and maximising career development.

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Dying to Quit

Dying to Quit

Women in Medicine

Women in Medicine

Educating For Professionalism

Educating For Professionalism

Charter Conflicts

Charter Conflicts

Limiting Rights

Limiting Rights

Bioethics and the Law

Bioethics and the Law

Tigers

Tigers

Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health

Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health

Ecological Indicators

Ecological Indicators

The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition

The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition

Advanced Practice Nursing of Adults in Acute Care

Advanced Practice Nursing of Adults in Acute Care

Society and Death in Ancient Egypt

Society and Death in Ancient Egypt

Educating For Professionalism

Educating For Professionalism

Women in Medicine

Women in Medicine

Women in Medicine

Women in Medicine

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