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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of hereditary cancer for a general audience, with coverage of the genetic tests available for detecting risk for heritable cancers as well as options for medical and surgical treatment"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
DNA does not make us who we are. Journalist David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic "giftedness," and presents new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplines, Shenk maintains the problem isn't our inadequate genetic assets, but our inability, so far, to tap into what we already have. IQ testing and widespread acceptance of "innate"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With Eat Right 4 Your Type, Dr. d'Adamo proved that one diet plan does not fit all. Here, he provides a customized program that works with your genetic makeup to maximize health and weight loss, as well as prevent or even reverse disease. According to Dr. d'Adamo, a host of environmental factors, including diet and lifestyle, dictate how your genes express themselves. With the right tools, you can turn on the good genes and shut down the bad ones....
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At 32, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young--from cancer--and she and her sisters had grown up in time's shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head as they approached 35--the...
Author
Publisher
Primal Nutrition
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the genetic reasons behind why people feel depressed and unfulfilled in spite of positive outward circumstances, outlining simple lifestyle strategies for promoting personal contentment.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 433
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women-an unbroken line of daughters-living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How to weigh genetic factors while choosing the best psychosocial interventions. Psychosocial Interventions for Biologically Based Problems in Childhood and Adolescence explores empirically supported psychosocial interventions in light of our current understanding of the genome. It considers how interventions may be modified and enhanced as the products of genomic research continue to expand. Providing a clear, accessible assessment of our current...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade--told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege--but...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The title of this book is misleading: Bayan's story does not give license to eat fat. Instead, it exemplifies why patients need to become their own doctors and be active in taking good care of themselves. What Americans don't know can kill them, as first-time author Bayan demonstrates in his book, which is part medical memoir and part how-to advice. Cutting out fat is recognized today as one of the keys to promoting heart health, but a low-fat diet...
16) Daybreak
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a doctor's office, a man and a woman sit stunned as the doctor speaks: Blood tests show without a shadow of a doubt that the son they love so dearly, and who is now dying, is not their child. Incredible as it seems, there must have been a mix-up in the hospital where he was born. Enduring the pain of Peter's death is a blow they must bear, but Margaret and Arthur Crawfield must also confront the realization that somewhere their biological child...
18) Positive results: making the best decisions when you're at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
395 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This unique and important guidebook is a single, comprehensive source of information and advice to help women (and some men) at high risk for breast and for ovarian cancer because of family history and genetic profile. One part memoir, three parts "how to" manual, Positive Results explains in a clear and steady manner the myths and realities of "the breast cancer genes." It lays out all the options in easy-to-follow, compassionate language. It will...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 365 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us all with fragile minds. Drawing on revealing stories from his own clinical practice and insights from evolutionary biology, Nesse shows how negative emotions are useful in certain situations, yet can become overwhelming. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Low moods prevent us from wasting...
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
xi, 117 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Clinical explanations for the genetic causes of the disease women most greatly fear This book by a scientist whose background is in cellular and molecular biology examines the fearsome disease that strikes one in eight women in the United States. Although women are more likely to die of heart disease or of lung cancer, a diagnosis of breast cancer is the medical pronouncement that a woman is most likely to fear. It kills more than 40,000 Americans...
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