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Product Description: This groundbreaking book brings together the latest discoveries about the immune system in both Eastern and Western medicine to show how a balanced system can help strengthen the body.

Profiling human skin as a real and symbolic boundary between human beings and the external world, a biological and cultural study discusses the skin's vulnerability to pollutants, the risks of cosmetic procedures, and ways to keep skin healthy.

Product Description: Book by Lappe, Marc, Burrell, Fred

A cautionary study of drug-resistant disease cites indiscriminate antibiotic usage, global ecosystem disruption, and shortsighted approaches to disease control as the direct cause of emerging resistant diseases. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: When Antibiotics Fail documents the problem noticed in the mid-eighties of the over-reliance of the medical establishment on antibiotics. Biologist and toxicologist Mark Lappe was among the first medical professionals to sound an alarm aabout the effects of ignoring the natural defenses of the immune system and our tendency to substitute the shot-gun use of broad-spectrum antibiotics...read more

Offers a new perspective on the interaction of disease, human evolution, and modern medicine, and examines the common roots of the AIDS epidemic, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and autoimmune diseases

Product Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to obtain such information? What will be the consequences for health care, health insurance, employability, and research priorities? And, more broadly, how will attitudes toward human differences be affected, morally and socially, by the setting of a genetic "standard"?The compatibility of individual rights and genetic fairness is challenged by the technological possibilities of the future, making it difficult to create an agenda for a "just genetics...read more

Charts both individual and global episodes of toxicity and discusses the myths that have perpetuated them

In an examination of the social and ethical implications of recombinant DNA technology the author reviews key genetic discoveries, identifies potential ecological hazards, and criticizes the laissez-faire economics and lack of long-range planning surrounding the work

Explains the development, use, and abuse of antibiotics, how germs build up their resistance, and suggests alternative treatments