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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"We take an average of 7.5 million breaths a year and some 600 million in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. "Our lungs are the lynchpin between our bodies and the outside world," writes Dr. Michael J. Stephen. And yet, we take our lungs for granted until we're incapacitated and suddenly confronted with their vital importance. In Breath Taking, pulmonologist...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a group of 5 lung diseases that limits the flow of air into and out of your lungs. This program is part of our respiratory series designed to comply with the Joint Commission standards for education of patients and family.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative, accessible guide to how our lungs work and how to protect them. Most of us pay little attention to the workings of our lungs, but the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked interest in their functioning and fear about the risks they face. Dr. MeiLan K. Han, a leading pulmonologist and a national spokesperson for the American Lung Association, takes readers on a fascinating tour of this most vital organ. Han explains the wonder of breathing...
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Open Letter edition.
Language
English
Description
"In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack where he works on writing stories to enter in regional contests across Spain, and foisting his judgements about literature on anyone who will listen as one of the last remaining members of the negacionismo poetry movement....
6) COPD
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is a long term disease of the lungs which causes shortness of breath and includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. It is one of the leading causes of death and preventable hospitalisation in Australia and places a heavy burden on patients and the healthcare system. While there is no cure for COPD, the disease can be managed to help people breathe easier, stay out of hospital and improve their quality of...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha--the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons--died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He...
Author
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Multinational companies are aggressively marketing cigarettes to young people in developing countries, with tragic social costs. This film explores the case of Indonesia - the third largest market for tobacco products in the world. Human Costs: "If I'd known I'd get this disease I would have quit a long time ago." Ujang has terminal lung cancer. At 45, he is the victim of a habit, which is killing millions in his country. Targeted by the tobacco industry's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hunter House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Take steps to have a better overall quality of life despite your degree of breathlessness or use of home oxygen. By understanding both the physical and emotional aspects of COPD, you can learn to work with your problems rather than against them.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
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