Sick And Tired

In their revolutionary approach to healing the sick and tired body and soul, the authors bring together and interpret the work of prominent researchers and offer an elegantly simple, practical program for the restoration of health.

Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of labour studies, public health, ergonomics, epidemiology, sociology and law, Sick and Tired examines the inequalities in workplace health and safety. Using an anti-oppressive framework, chapters interrogate a wide range of issues, including links between precarious employment and mental health, the inverse relationship between power and occupational health through the experiences of women, immigrants and older workers, and the need for creative strategies that promote health and safety in ways that support empowerment and equity.

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of medicine and the American cultural emphasis on productivity intersect to stigmatize those with fatigue. Without an agreed-upon approach to confirm the problem through medical diagnosis, it is difficult to convince others that it is real. When fatigue limits our ability to work, our society sees us as burdens or worse. With her engaging and informative style, Abel gives us a synthetic history of fatigue and elucidates how it has been ignored or misunderstood, not only by medical professionals but also by American society as a whole.

Unlike a leg in a cast, invisible chronic illness (ICI) has no observable symptoms. Consequently, people who suffer from chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and many other miseries often endure not only the ailment but dismissive and negative reactions from others. Since its first publication, Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired has offered hope and coping strategies to thousands of people who suffer from ICI. Paul Donoghue and Mary Siegel teach their readers how to rethink how they themselves view their illness and how to communicate with loved ones and doctors in a way that meets their needs. The authors' understanding makes readers feel they have been heard for the first time. For this edition, the authors include a new introduction drawing on the experiences of the many people who have responded to the book and to their lectures and television appearances. They expand the definition of ICI to include other ailments such as depression, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. They bring the resource material, including Web sites, up to the present, and they offer fresh insights on four topics that often emerge: guilt, how ICI affects the family, meaningfulness, and defining acceptance.

If you had more energy, what would you do? Recharge your body with a burnout-beating plan from the celebrity trainer and New York Times–bestselling author. Stop saying “If only . . .” and get yourself on track to health, happiness, and that youthful glow you thought you lost forever. Jackie Warner, personal trainer to the stars, has the answer to the energy crisis in your life, and it’s not in the next cup of coffee you’re reaching for. It’s getting rid of your energy-sapping lifestyle. This Is Why You’re Sick and Tired goes to the root of your energy problem to give you the tools you need to rehabilitate your body on the cellular level and target the cells and hormones critical to energy, vitality, and weight loss. Each week of this three-phase plan offers a new diet and exercise program that alters chemistry in stages, working with your brain and body to balance and release a new set of chemicals and patterns. The diet has been carefully coupled with a progressive style of training that adapts and changes each week along with your foods and your body chemistry. Once you’ve completed the reset, you’ll be fully prepared to live a new, energetic, positive lifestyle!

A feminist manifesto exposing the everyday sexism that teenage girls face.

The treatment of the disease follows its own direction for one lonely and scared patient, but nevertheless, a unique human being. In a startling revelation, a glaring omission in the therapeutic content of his three programs is discussed. Bill feels this area must be included in all areas of treatment.

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect and highlights the ways black health activists created public health programs and influenced public policy at every opportunity. Smith also sheds new light on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment by situating it within the context of black public health activity, reminding us that public health work had oppressive as well as progressive consequences.