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Written to encourage defensive action, Levine's book is meant both as a guide and a reference to understanding and preventing dementia. First, Levine explains the various types of dementia, its increasing incidence and current treatments, and the treatments being tested and on the horizon.

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The increasing fragmentation and rising costs of medical care highlight the need for new approaches, especially the need for alternatives for the delivery of a full range of services at the local level.

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Examines various aspects of depression, including how depression is portrayed in the arts; the demographics of the disorder - who is most likely to have depression, and what the prognosis would be. This book provides an examination of the research, and the possible treatments. It also includes a glossary of terms.

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Spike Milligan recalls the traumas of his childhood, his highly- strung mother, his largely absent father, the cruelties of a colonial upbringing, the break-up of his first marriage, the mortar bomb which blew him up in Italy and the overwork which gave him a mental breakdown during the "Goon Show".

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This work is a compilation of diverse information on depression in the elderly, covering the time period from 1970 to 1996. The information comes from many forms, including articles, audio- and videocassettes, books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, and television programs.

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Some degree of depression is commonly experienced by such a broad spectrum of the population, that depression can be viewed as the common cold of psychological disorders.

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Depression tells us of life and death, good and evil, but not sickness and health.

Keen begins with human consciousness, in contrast to the non-reflective consciousness of animals.

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A study of psychotherapy as a dual or dia-logic discourse between the rational-cognitive and the mystic-schizophrenic worlds. The author introduces the Jewish pluralistic interpretation system (PaRdeS) as a therapeutic bridge between these two worlds.

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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The right diet is the foundation for successful management of Diabetes. This revised edition is a cookbook containing over 200 recipes as well as a comprehensive guide to living well with diabetes. Published in association with the British Diabetic Association, it contains their very latest health care and nutrition advice.

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This book is a practical introductory guide for graduate students and novice psychotherapists in clinical and counseling psychology. It provides guidance on how to diagnose mental disorders and how to treat clients with common mental disorders.

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A collection of more than 50 hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix original series.ries.

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She writes of the excessive intervention she witnessed as a labour and delivery nurse in hospitals before she began attending home births as a certified nurse midwife.

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Comprising a total of 196 biographical sketches, the Dictionary offers portraits of nineteenth-century pioneers as well as more recent innovators involved in the process of professionalization in specific areas, including military and public health nursing, nursing administration, and nursing education.

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In addition to defining terms specific to gerontology (`circuit breakers,' `Detroit syndrome') and multidisciplinary terms (`suicide,' `cholesterol') pertinent to gerontology, in alphabetic order, it provides one to four references for each term.

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This medical dictionary has over 12,500 terms from British and international medical practice explained in clear English. It covers fields such as surgery, general practice, hospitals, clinics, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and other specialisms, and has example sentences and grammar notes.

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This volume introduces students to the emerging field of state mental health policy, its history, current policies, organizational models and required programming knowledge.

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A guide to schools for alternative and complementary medicine located throughout the U.S. and Canada. Organized by state (or province), each of the directory's more than 800 entries includes the school's area of speciality, key contacts, staff size, wheelchair accessibility, enrolment, programs of study, accreditation, and degrees offered.

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Examines how the American system of health care is responding to the ongoing needs of people with disabilities.

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This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . .