Assessment of vision and hearing of deaf-blind persons
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat52819
By Lea Hyvarinen, Lindsay Gimble and Martti Sorri.
--Melbourne, Australia:
Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind
, 1990.
- Call Number
- WW 141 H999 1990
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- WW 141 H999 1990
- Author
- Hyvarinen, Lea
- Corporate Author
- Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind
- Other Authors
- Gimble, Lindsay
- Sorri, Martti
- Responsibility
- By Lea Hyvarinen, Lindsay Gimble and Martti Sorri
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, Australia
- Publisher
- Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind
- Date of Publication
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 67 p.
- ISBN
- 949390119
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Vision Tests
- Hearing Tests
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
A History of Health & Fitness : Implications for Policy Today
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43312
Roy J. Shephard.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind. Individual chapters present information extending from the earliest reaches of human history to the present day, arranged in the form of 30 thematic essays covering topics from the supposed idyll of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and its posited hea…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Shephard, Roy J.
- Responsibility
- Roy J. Shephard
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 516 p.) : 124 illus
- ISBN
- 9783319650975
- 9783319650968 (print ed.)
- 9783319650982 (print ed.)
- 9783319879499 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Policy
- Health Promotion - history
- History of Medicine
- Physical Fitness - history
- Public Policy - history
- Specialty
- History of Medicine
- Policy
- Abstract
- This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind. Individual chapters present information extending from the earliest reaches of human history to the present day, arranged in the form of 30 thematic essays covering topics from the supposed idyll of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and its posited health benefits to the evolution of health professionals and the possible contribution of the Olympic movement to health and fitness in our current society. Learning objectives are set for each topic, and although technical language is avoided as far as possible, a thorough glossary explains any specialized terms that are introduced in each chapter. The critical thinking of the reader is stimulated by a range of questions arising from the text context, and each chapter concludes with a brief discussion of some of the more important implications for public policies on health and fitness today and into the future.áThe material will be of particular interest to graduate and undergraduate students in public health, health promotion, health policy, kinesiology, physical education, but will be of interest also to many studying medicine, history and sociology.
- Contents
- 1. Those Pesky Dates: A Simple Time Line for the Evolution of Society -- 2. The Hunter-Gatherer Idyll -- 3. Irrigation and the Seductive Sedentary Lifestyle -- 4. Evolution of the Sedentary Lifestyle in Classical Culture -- 5. Were the Lights Turned Off During the “Dark Ages?” -- 6. The Renaissance: Daring to Challenge Traditional Wisdom -- 7. The Enlightenment: How Far Did Reason and Religion Influence Health and Fitness in an Age of Industrialization? -- 8. The Victorian Era: A Wealthier Society Offers New Recreational Possibilities, Especially to Women -- 9. The Modern Era: Growing Health in the Face of Unemployment and War -- 10. The Ludic Impulse: Why Did Early Societies Engage in Play? -- 11. The Classical Olympic Movement: An Early Stimulus to Health and Fitness? -- 12. The Modern Olympics: A Current Stimulus to Health and Fitness or a Five-Ring Circus? -- 13. The Early Health Professionals: Unfettered Amateurs, Servants of the Gods or Wealthy Charlatans? -- 14. Herb Gardens, Naturopathy and Human Health -- 15. Bizarre By-ways in the Search for Good Health -- 16. Caring for the Sick: Hospitals and Hospices -- 17. The Emergence of Health Science Education -- 18. Literature in the Search for Health and Fitness -- 19. Teaching Health and Fitness to the Growing Child: The Physical Educator -- 20. Co-opting Fitness and Sport for Political Objectives -- 21. Governmental Involvement in Health Care and Health Promotion -- 22. Building the Infrastructure and Regulations Needed for Public Health and Fitness -- 23. Health and Fitness in Industry: The Development of Occupational Health -- 24. Understanding the Root Causes of Ill-Health: The Emergence of Epidemiology, Bacteriology and Immunology -- 25. The Feminine Touch in Health and Fitness -- 26. The Emergence of Professional Associations and Journals in Health and Exercise Science -- 27. The Growing Knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology Through to the Enlightenment -- 28. Recent Gains in Knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology -- 29. Exercise as Medicine in Antiquity and Today -- 30. The Post-modern Era and Beyond: Meeting Future Challenges to Health and Fitness.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Petticoat doctors : the first forty years of women in medicine at Dalhousie University
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat26222
Enid Johnson MacLeod ; with an introduction by Barbara Hinds.
--Lawrencetown Beach, NS:
Pottersfield Press
, c1990.
- Call Number
- WZ 150 M165 1990
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Nova Scotia Hospital
Although medicine was historically the realm of women, in Victorian era Halifax, a few brave women dared to become doctors. This is the story of the first 46 women who became doctors during the first forty years, from 1894 - 1933.
- Call Number
- WZ 150 M165 1990
- Author
- MacLeod, Enid Johnson
- Responsibility
- Enid Johnson MacLeod ; with an introduction by Barbara Hinds
- Alternate Title
- the first 40 years of women in medicine at Dalhousie University
- Place of Publication
- Lawrencetown Beach, NS
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Date of Publication
- c1990
- Physical Description
- 127 p.
- ISBN
- 0919001602
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Dalhousie University - Faculty of Medicine - history
- Students, Medical - Female - Nova Scotia - Biography
- Physicians, Women - Nova Scotia - Biography
- Education, Medical - Nova Scotia - Halifax - history
- Abstract
- Although medicine was historically the realm of women, in Victorian era Halifax, a few brave women dared to become doctors. This is the story of the first 46 women who became doctors during the first forty years, from 1894 - 1933.
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Copies
- 2
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Sexual medicine in clinical practice
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat32387
Klaus M. Beier, Kurt K. Loewit, authors.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2013.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
Call it a remnant of our Victorian past, but sexual concerns lag behind other aspects of health, both in the training of physicians and therapists and in the way they impart this knowledge to clients. But as sexuality gains recognition as crucial to one's quality of life, evidence-based methods of understanding and discussing sex are imperative'and not only in treating pathology.Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice provides framework, rationale, and strategies for both approaching sexual proble…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Beier, Klaus M
- Other Authors
- Loewit, Kurt K
- Responsibility
- Klaus M. Beier, Kurt K. Loewit, authors
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 149 p. : 10 ill.)
- ISBN
- 9781461444213
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Disorders of sex development
- Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological
- Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Philosophy (General)
- Abstract
- Call it a remnant of our Victorian past, but sexual concerns lag behind other aspects of health, both in the training of physicians and therapists and in the way they impart this knowledge to clients. But as sexuality gains recognition as crucial to one's quality of life, evidence-based methods of understanding and discussing sex are imperative'and not only in treating pathology.Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice provides framework, rationale, and strategies for both approaching sexual problems and addressing patients' questions about sexual health, behavior, and relationships. Analyzing sexuality along three dimensions'attachment, reproduction, and desire' this concise manual offers a biopsychosocial lifespan model readily translatable into clinical work. This "syndyastic" framework integrates attachment and relational theory to reinforce the bond between intimacy and connectedness, and models nonjudgmental approaches to disorders of sexual function, maturity, preference, and behavior. The authors' salutogenic rather than pathogenic focus lets clients become major players in their own healing, and the therapist or doctor serve as expert and guide. Among the topics covered: The communicative function of sexuality.The spectrum of sexual disorders. Principles of diagnostics in sexual medicine. Disease-centered versus client-centered aspects of sexual therapy. Therapeutic approaches for sexual traumatization. New challenges, including preventing child sexual abuse and online sex crime. Plus case studies, interdisciplinary references, and ethical issues. A timely, perspective- and practice-altering volume, Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice is essential reading for family and primary care physicians, family and sex therapists, health psychologists, and psychiatrists.
- Contents
- 1. Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice An Overview -- 2. Interdisciplinary References in Sexual Medicine -- 3. Basic Understanding of Human Sexuality -- 4. The Spectrum of Sexual Disorders -- 5. Principles of Diagnostics in Sexual Medicine -- 6. Principles of Therapy in Sexual Medicine -- 7. New Challenges for Sexual Medicine -- References -- Index.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada : 50th anniversary 1897-1947 / [John Murray Gibbon].
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat14608
Gibbon, John Murray, 1875-1952.
--Montreal, PQ:
Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
, 1947.
- Call Number
- WY 195 V64 1947
- Location
- Aberdeen Hospital
- Call Number
- WY 195 V64 1947
- Place of Publication
- Montreal, PQ
- Publisher
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
- Date of Publication
- 1947
- Physical Description
- [vii], 124 p., [30] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other Subjects
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
- Other Subjects
- Nursing -- History
- Nurses
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Aberdeen Hospital
