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Examines hundreds of violent offenders with combat experience that uncover the disturbing truths of why post-traumatic stress injury is on the rise, how it's threatening society, and how the military is failing to properly address this serious issue.

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Helps those considering breast reduction or breast lift surgery make an informed decision by evaluating the entire experience - from the first consultation to post-surgical care. This work discusses topics such as choosing the right surgeon, determining personal goals, preparing for surgery, incision placement, anaesthesia, and potential risks.

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Explains how rhinoplasty - or nose reshaping - is accomplished. This book addresses questions from various stages of the process, including the choice of a doctor, the surgery itself, and getting back to work afterwards.

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This book explores the ways in which nurses can engage with and influence the formation of health policy now, and for the future.

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Derek Milne presents an introduction to the psychology of mental health nursing for student nurses and qualified staff. The book is structured to reflect a problem-solving approach to mental health nursing. The recurring theme is that the major challenges of nursing can be reduced to manageable steps by the use of a systematic strategy.

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Psychotherapy with Women provides an account of current feminist practice in working with women within the helping professions bringing together contributions from eminent women psychotherapists. A range of issues are explored including sexuality, ageing, family dynamics, disability and ethnicity.

Based on some 30 years of research on people who claim to remember past lives, this work encompasses the full spectrum of theory and case study on the subject to date.

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Divided into four parts, this book covers the basic principles of community based health care, starting a programme, setting up specific programmes and managing programmes. It is designed for both rural and urban locations; and contains over 250 diagrams, illustrations and tables.

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'The search for health needs' was first identified in the 1970s as a principle that informs and underpins the practice of health visiting. This book draws together research in this area, and presents it to draw out the practical implications. The aim is to further good practice from an informed and evidence-based perspective.

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This is a collection of photos of the Royal Women's Hospital that chronicles the old hospital, the construction of the new hospital and the recent move to the new site. Includes a timeline of key events in the hospital's history and quotes from the clinicians who have worked at the hospital over the years.

These volumes by a team of internationally recognized experts reflect and highlight both recognized and under-recognized events that cause trauma.

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With the aim of helping people to keep healthy animals, this book covers a wide range of things that affect the health of livestock, from diarrhoea to rinderpest, and from traditional remedies to the use of modern medicine. The text also includes advice on care, feeding and handling of animals.

Aims to bring together authorities who have made contributions in fashioning a form of healthcare that honors all we are - body, mind, spirit.

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A deep, science-backed look at how the coronavirus pandemic will change the way we live forever -- from renowned physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis.

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A life-changing memoir of the power of mindfulness and how it helped a boy without hope to find a new future. Now a leading neurosurgeon, Dr James Doty shares practical tips for meditation and visualisation techniques in this inspiring true story of the woman who taught him to think magically.

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From Hippocrates to gene therapy, bloodletting to DNA

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(Paperback, Third Edition)

Illuminates an often overlooked but vitally important area of diabetes management and suggests strategies to help clinicians provide state-of-the-art foot care. Health care professionals and students alike will find practical advice on detecting and managing diabetes-related foot complications.

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Faced with a diagnosis of diabetes, many people try to supplement their prescriptions with "natural" remedies. Taking an evidence-based approach, this book describes the popular complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) substances, presenting what is known about the product, the mechanism of action, and the potential adverse effects.

(Paperback, Third Edition)

Suitable for nurses who work with diabetes patients, this work offers advice on the fundamentals of diabetes care and related nursing issues. It includes the fundamentals of diabetes care, guidelines for the lifelong management of both acute and chronic complications associated with diabetes, risk factors and psychological issues.

(Hardback)

A clinically oriented, practical reference for veterinarians, biologists, zoologists and wildlife carers.