Health/Medicine
| author: National Health Strategy | shelved under: Health/Medicine | | date: 1992 | publisher: National Health Strategy | | content type: book | | description: A research paper conducted by the National Health Strategy with contributors: Australian Institute of Health, Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Community Services and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Covers the challenge of reducing health inequalities within Australia. It explores the nature and extent of these inequalities.
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| author: Norman Doidge | shelved under: Health/Medicine | | date: 2010 | publisher: Scribe | | content type: book | | description: A book on neuroplasticity by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D. It features studies of several patients suffering from neurological disorders and details how the brain adapts to compensate for their disabilities. Interviews with the patients and doctors make up a large portion of the contents. Doidge uses examples of previous work carried out by neuroscientists such as Paul Broca and Paul Bach-y-Rita to show that the brain is adaptive, and thus plastic.
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| author: David Satterthwaite (Editor), Roger Hart (Editor), Caren Levy (Editor), Diana Mitlin (Editor), David Ross (Editor), Jac Smit (Editor), Carolyn Stephens (Editor) | shelved under: Environment/Ecology | | date: 1996 | publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd | | content type: book | | description: Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment - and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid agencies.
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