Product Description: Straggling to lose weight? Can't seem to be able to lose that belly? Feeling tired and have no energy? If all this sounds familiar, you must declare your own personal war against wheat! And that's exactly where the WHEAT LOSS DIET comes to the rescue! Learn all about : - Why wheat and other harmful food ingredients harm our health every health and keep us fat, tired and in high risk for diabetes, heart disease and other ailments...read more

Product Description: Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood...read more

Product Description: First published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Have you ever struggled to dislodge a nostril-bound Cheerio while navigating the interstate at 70 miles an hour? Discovered exactly how many renditions of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” it takes for you to pull the car to the side of the road and weep? Or experienced just what happens when your miniature traveling companion pulls the “manual override” lever on the emergency exit door of a plane? You’re not alone...read more

Product Description: Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the "new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method...read more

Product Description: The marriage of popular GP Dr Marc DeLisle to Abigail Brent is a whirlwind, romantic affair. Abigail certainly doesn't suspect that there might be an ulterior motive to his proposal, but once at his practice on the beautiful island of Guernsey, where she is to continue her career as a midwife, she begins to realise how little she knows about her husband and his mysterious family...read more

Product Description: Robyn Seers' romance with Dr Ross St Clair had been over for two years now. She had moved to the Lake District and made a new life for herself, finding satisfaction and fulfillment in her demanding, challenging job as an ambulance woman...read more

The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, "life" and "death" may be redefined as partial or contingent ("brain death"), or reconstituted altogether ("virtual" or "artificial life"). On the other hand, the finality and "reality" of death resists such classifications. This volume reflects a growing international concern about issues such as organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research, and the necessity of cross-cultural comparison. The political economy of body parts, organ and tissue "harvesting," bio-prospecting, and the patenting of life-forms are explored herein, as well as governance and regulation in cloning, organ transplantation, tissue engineering, and artificial life systems procedures. (view table of contents)

New reproductive technologies, such as in vitrio fertilization, have been the subject of intense public discussion and debate worldwide. In addition to difficult ethical, moral, personal and political questions, new technologies of assisted conception also raise novel socio-cultural dilemmas. How are parenthood, kinship and procreation being redefined in the context of new reproductive technologies? Has reproductive choice become part of consumer culture? Embodied Progress offers a unique perspective on these and other cultural dimensions of assisted conception techniques. Based on ethnographic research in Britain, this study foregrounds the experiences of women and couples who undergo IVF, whilst also asking how such experiences may be variously understood.

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Product Description: 'Love is an item that is not on my agenda - at least for another three years'. Nurse Crystal O'Hara has her career all mapped out, and not even the attentions of the attractive Dr Craig Sands can alter it. But if she really can't stand the man why is she so annoyed when Nurse Julie Harding seems all too pleased to take up what she herself has rejected? Could it be that love has a way of ignoring things like agendas...read more

Product Description: `An excellent book. The authors have the rare capacity to handle popular culture and case studies in a theoretically informed manner. Original and well researched' - Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University Understandings of globalization have been little explored in relation to gender or related concerns such as identity, subjectivity and the body...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nicola Page would love to get the post as Staff Nurse at the Meadowlands Rehabilitation Centre, but her heart sinks when she finds out that Simon Grey will be on the interviewing panel. The four years since she last saw him should have been long enough to get over her crush on an older, married man, so why is she so afraid the job will plunge her once more into heartache...read more

When Katy Lang failed her finals, the thought of continuing nursing at St Anne's was out of the question. Sean MacInnon offered her the opportunity to nurse one of his young asthmatic patients in Yorkshire. But after he helped her, Katy began to resent Sean's way of appearing to make all her decisions for her.

Product Description: Focusing on the key themes of power, kinship, and technological innovation, this volume offers a set of carefully argued empirical studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method, as well as anthropological theory, to current debates about the reproductive processes of humans, animals, and plants...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)