David L Cantor

Reinventing Hippocrates

David Cantor

David Cantor (born 1954) is an American actor and singer from New York City best known for his stage work in musical theatre, including appearances on...

Reinventing Hippocrates (The History of Medicine in Context)

The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept that medicine has sometimes fallen short of Hippocratic ideals, these ideals are usuall...

A Liberal Tide?: Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Latin America

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent "liberal tide" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regressiv...

Clinical Neurotherapy: Application of Techniques for Treatment

Neurotherapy, sometimes called EEG biofeedback and/or neurobiofeedback involves techniques designed to manipulate brain waves through non-invasive means and are used as treatment for a variety of psychological and medical disorders. The disorders covered include ADHD, mood regulation, addiction, pai...

Cancer in the Twentieth Century

This collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, control programs emerged in the early twentieth century, and most were focused on early detection and treatment. Yet, those initiatives took very different forms in di...

Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century (Rochester Studies in Medical History)

Stress is one of the most widely utilized medical concepts in modern society. Originally used to describe physiological responses to trauma, it is now applied in a variety of other fields and contexts, such as in the construction and expression of personal identity, social relations, building and en...

El Libro de la Buena Salud: Derrumbando mitos y mentiras, reafirmando verdades para lograr bienestar total. (Volume 1) (Spanish Edition)

El libro ofrece información sobre los aspectos más importantes de la salud. Los capítulos desarrollan temas de Nutrición, Entrenamiento Físico, Manejo del Estres, Beneficios y Peligros de las Drogas más comunes, Denuncia de Mitos y Mentiras, Prevención y Consejos para obtener una Salud Optima.

The Book of Good Health --: Destroying Myths, Lies and Deceptions. Reaffirming Truths to Achieve Total Wellness

This is a guide that will help the reader to achieve a healthier, longer happier life. Nutrition, Physical Fittness, Stress, Use and Abuse of Medications, Prevention, Alternative Medicine and the Environment are the essential topics discussed.

Death and other Nuisances: A Tribute to Life

Satires, short stories, essays and poems make this book unique. Easy to read, easy to enjoy. Sparkling and witty. A place where fantasy and reality collides. Paradoxically(or not?), Death and other Nuisances is a tribute to life.