"The slow violence being inflicted on our environment-through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution-also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard healthcare practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in...

Examines the causes and treatment of asthma and discusses how to deal with the environmental triggers that may stimulate an attack.

Discusses the effects of alcohol on the human body, the dangers of alcohol abuse, and alcoholism treatment and prevention.

Discusses the positive and negative effects of a variety of drugs, including tobacco, caffeine, and illegal street drugs.

Presents basic information about what cancer is, what causes it, how it is treated, how people deal with it, and what it is like to have a friend with cancer.

Learn all about blindness and visual disorders.

Discusses drugs in general, their addictive properties, the health risks involved, and how to get help.

Using simple text and pictures, this book explains the different types of diabetes, and how it is lived with.