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Be Like Others. by Eshaghian, Tanaz,film director.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by PBS in 2008.In Iran, according to Islamic law, homosexuality is punishable by death. However, sex-change operations are not only legal, they are embraced by a society that accepts male or female, but nothing in between. This is an intimate, yet alarming, exploration of the grip of Iranian theocracy and the power of internalized shame and the lengths some people will go to conform.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; Medicine.; Foreign study.; Homosexuality.; Documentary films.; Middle East.; LGBTQ.; Current affairs.; Transgender people.; Medical care.; Islam.; Iran.;
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Candace Pert : genius, greed, and madness in the world of science / by Ryckman, Pamela,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women's movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and "wellness" took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral. Candace began her career as an unbridled maverick. In 1972, as a 26-year-old graduate student at Johns Hopkins, she discovered the opiate receptor, revolutionizing her field and enabling pharmacologists to design new classifications of drugs from Prozac to Viagra to Percocet and OxyContin. The tragic irony of her breakthrough, touted as the first step to end heroin addiction, is that it helped spawn a virulent epidemic of drug dependence. Facing the largest public health crisis of the 21st century, Candace was incensed that the Hippocratic oath-"first, do no harm"--would succumb to greed, and as witness to this abuse of power, she was one of few scientists courageous enough to protest. Later, as Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace created Peptide T, the non-toxic treatment for HIV featured in Dallas Buyers Club. As the AIDS pandemic raged, triggering panic across Reagan-era America, the U.S. government poured massive amounts of money into finding a cure, sparking a battle among scientists for funding and power. Bested by rivals with competing drugs yet desperate to help, Candace went rogue, becoming a lynchpin in the black market for Peptide T. After a scandalous departure from her tenured position at the NIH, Candace launched a series of private companies with Michael Ruff, her second husband and collaborator. Naïve to the world of business, she was manipulated by investors keen to wrest control of her discoveries. But Candace too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths--singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity--would prove to be her undoing"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Pert, Candace B., 1946-2013.; Feminists; Integrative medicine; Psychopharmacologists;
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All in her head : the truth and lies early medicine taught us about women's bodies and why it matters today / by Comen, Elizabeth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.For as long as medicine has been a practice, woman's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women's healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless-a narrative written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, uninformed by women's own voices, thoughts, fears, pain, and experiences. This continuing cultural and societal legacy results in the (mis)treatment and care of women. While the modern age has seen significant advancements in the medical field, the notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on-as do the pervasive societal stigmas and ignorance that shape women's health and relationships with their own bodies. Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen draws back the curtain on the collective medical history of women to reintroduce us to our whole bodies-how they work, the actual doctors and patients whose perspectives and experiences laid the foundation for today's medical thought, and the many oversights that remain unaddressed. With a physician's knowledge and empathy, Dr. Comen follows the road map of the eleven organ systems to share unique and untold stories, drawing upon medical texts and journals, interviews with expert physicians, as well as her own observations from treating thousands of women. Empowering women to better understand themselves and advocate for care that prioritizes healthy and joyful lives-for us and generations to come-'All In Her Head' is written with humor, wisdom, and deep scientific and cultural insight. Eye-opening, sometimes enraging, yet always captivating, this shared memoir of women's medical history is an essential contribution to a holistic understanding and a much-needed reclaiming of women's history and bodies.
Subjects: Sexism in medicine.; Women's health services; Women; Women;
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Totally Under Control. by Gibney, Alex,film director.; Harutyunyan, Ophelia,film director.; Hillinger, Suzanne,film director.; Gibney, Alex,actor.; Elevation Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alex GibneyOriginally produced by Elevation Pictures in 2020.An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Health.; Medicine.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; Communicable diseases.; United States--Politics and government.; Politicians.; Diseases.; Medical care.;
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Grey's anatomy. [videorecording] : more moments / by Corn, Rob.; Dempsey, Patrick,1966-; Heigl, Katherine.; Oh, Sandra,1971-; Pickens, James.; Pompeo, Ellen.; Rhimes, Shonda.; ABC Studios (Firm);
Disc 1. Dream a little dream of me -- Here comes the flood -- Brave new world.Disc 2. There's no "i" in team -- Life during wartime -- Rise up -- These ties that bind.Disc 3. In the midnight hour -- All by myself -- Wish you were here -- Sympathy for the devil.Disc 4. Stairway to heaven -- Beat your heart out -- Before and after -- An honest mistake.Disc 5. I will follow you into the dark -- Stand by me -- Elevator love letter -- Sweet surrender.Disc 6. No good at saying sorry [One more chance] -- What a difference a day makes -- Here's to the future -- Now or never.Disc 7. Bonus features.Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens, Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl.Follows the professional and romantic lives of surgical interns and residents at Seattle Grace Hospital.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Interns (Medicine); Man-woman relationships; Medical television programs.; Surgeons; Television programs.;
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Miracle Creek / by Kim, Angie,1969-author.;
"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Trials (Murder); Filicide; Mothers and sons; Immigrants; Koreans; Families; Medicine, Experimental; Secrecy;
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A wager at midnight / by Riley, Vanessa,author.;
Scarlett Wilcox is willing to live out her life as a spinster if it means being able to continue her medical research to help a friend in need. After all, few husbands would tolerate her dressing as a man to attend lectures at the Royal Academy of Science. If the Duke of Torrance finds her such a specimen, she'll agree to a marriage in name only, much to the dismay of her elder sister, the Viscountess. When she's unmasked at a lecture on ophthalmology, Scarlett prepares to be disgraced, but she's saved by Trinidadian-born physician Stephen Carew who claims her as a cousin. Dedicated to caring for his community, Stephen has no wish to marry a frivolous and privileged lady, no matter how many fall for his disarming accent and seductive charm. But Scarlett proves the opposite of any he's ever met before. Yet the pressure to marry blinds them both to the chemistry growing between them, pitting their brilliant minds against their reluctant hearts--as the Duke and Viscountess await with bated breath to see who will win ... A WAGER AT MIDNIGHT.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Deception; Man-woman relationships; Medicine; Nobility; Physicians; Regency;
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Checked / by Kadohata, Cynthia.; Zorat, Maurizio.;
To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend.Ages 10-14.LSC
Subjects: Hockey stories.; Hockey players; Doberman pinscher; Dogs; Veterinary medicine; Fathers and sons; Single-parent families; Friendship;
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Dog Man [videorecording] / by Boyd, Billy,1968-voice actor.; Davidson, Pete,1993-voice actor.; Fisher, Isla,1976-voice actor.; Gervais, Ricky,voice actor.; Hastings, Peter,screenwriter,film director.; Howery, Lil Rel,1979-voice actor.; Poppy Liu,voice actor.; Root, Stephen,voice actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Pilkey, Dav,1966-Dog Man.; Universal Studios, Inc.,film distributor.;
Pete Davidson, Lil Rel Howery, Isla Fisher, Poppy Liu, Stephen Root, Billy Boyd, Ricky Gervais.When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured on the job, a harebrained surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born! As he embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief (Lil Rel Howery, Get Out), Dog Man must stop the villainous Petey the Cat (Pete Davidson, Saturday Night Live) from cloning himself and creating an evil kitten, doubling his evil abilities. The story takes a turn when the kitten forges an unexpected bond with Dog Man and in the process, they discover the power of family to bring even the most hostile foes together.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Dog Man (Fictitious character); Police dogs; Cats; Human experimentation in medicine; Human-animal relationships; Law enforcement; Police; Criminal investigation;
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Berry itchy day / by Lankford, Raye.;
"Molly and her family take a trip to their favorite berry-picking spot, but their fun is cut short by a swarm of pesky bugs!"--Page 4 of cover.Guided reading level: L.LSC
Subjects: Indians of North America; Berries; Mosquitoes; Traditional medicine;
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