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When there is no doctor : preventive and emergency home healthcare in challenging times

Summary: "'This is a book about sustainable health, and what you can do to protect it--in bad times certainly, but also in good. I will help you ensure the health of those you love, yourself and, should you so choose, your community, if and when the world changes. World may come to mean your little town or the whole globe. It could change for a few days or weeks, or for a few years. It could change because of a flood, financial crisis, flu pandemic, or failure of our energy procurement, production or distribution systems ...'"--P.[4] of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 1934170119 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781934170113 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 194 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Port Townsend, WA : Process Media, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Our situation -- Where we are, how we got here, where we may be headed -- Where we should be going -- Preparation -- Make your body ready -- Functional fitness for a crash -- Healthy habits -- Nutritional optimization -- Make your mind ready -- Credentials vs. competencies -- Acquiring knowledge and skills -- Medical auxiliary model for sustainable health care -- Non-traditional approaches -- The village university -- Make your spirit ready -- Traits of survivors -- Your psychological survivor kit -- Planning -- First Aid kits -- Medication issues -- Sick rooms -- Special needs populations -- Planning for your pets -- Neighborhood and community analysis: Medical threat assessments -- Suggested First Aid Items (table) -- Preventive medicine -- Infection control -- Hand hygiene -- Hot hand, cold hand -- Cough etiquette -- Personal protective gear -- Sunlight -- Ventilation -- Social distancing -- Waste management -- Dealing with dead bodies -- Management of dead bodies in a disaster -- Health management -- Doing it on the cheap -- Medicine when there is no doctor -- Medicines from nature -- Improvised medicine : When nothing else is available -- Ethics when there is no doctor -- An ethic of sustainability -- Triage -- Security concerns -- Death and dying in very hard times -- Conclusion.