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This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish experience during World War II. The work should be of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and trauma researchers as well as survivors.

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Cloning, genetic screening, embryo freezing, in vitro fertilization, Norplant, RU486 - these are the technologies revolutionizing our reproductive landscape. This title analyzes the ethical, legal, and social controversies surrounding each major technology and opens up a multitude of questions such as, Do frozen embryos have the right to be born

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This is designed for the cancer patient or health professional who seeks a comprehensive overview of the available choices both in treatment and in living with cancer. Included are evaluations of a wide range of complementary therapies and traditional medicines from around the world.

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In this enlightening and compassionate guide, one of the foremost specialists in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome--himself a ten-year survivor of the disease--helps victims and their loved ones regain control of their lives. This updated edition includes new information about current medical treatments, related disorders, and strategies for living with the CFS.

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It consists of 302 entries covering, assessment of chronic pain, the human body and chronic pain, perceptions of chronic pain, treatment of chronic pain, and correlates and consequences of chronic pain.

This volume includes a select citation list of 150 articles that focus on older persons and cancer pain.

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This worldwide history of circumcision, from ancient times to the present, looks at the procedure as initiation, religious and social ritual, and indicator of ethnic and social status

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Describes the interweaving of health movements with other social movements such as women's rights, temperance, eugenics, and religious awakenings in all three reform eras.

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Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. Middle class fear of these dangerous classes and a desire to eliminate disease, crime, and other perceived health or social problems led to crusades in each of the three reform eras against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, certain foods, and sexual behaviors.

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Of particular interest to family psychologists are the chapters on family relationships, systems theories and marital and family therapy. This book is a valuable addition to the library of seasoned family psychologists as well as beginning graduate students in marriage and family therapy programs.

The Family Psychologist

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The Family Pscyhologist

Featuring 21 papers by important contributors from academia and clinical practice, this volume examines the major developments in the client-centered approach to therapy which took place in the U.S. and Europe during the 1970's and early 1980's.

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.Written for health care professionals who want to learn more about ethics but who have not had extensive training in philosophical theory, this unique volume explores what ethics has to offer the practicing physician, nurse, and allied health care worker.

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Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting addresses the reasons for focusing on understanding a childs emotional world as a way of becoming a more effective parent. The book also addresses techniques for assisting parents to accomplish this understanding.

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Clinical Problem Solving: Case Management provides a powerful and unique counseling service format for making recommendations to clients and monitoring cognitive behavioral gains. The Listen-Identify-Brainstorm-Reality-test-Encourage (LIBRE) Model and LIBRE Model Stick Figure ...

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Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work.

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In response to change in mental health practice, Collaboration in Private Practice provides an insightful guide to a successful model for independent clinicians working together under the umbrella of an independent, for-profit practiceThe Lighthouse Clinic.

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The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa -- .

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An overwhelming majority of sleep disorders remain undiagnosed and untreated. Some of the most common ones are insomnia, restless legs syndrome, parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders, excessive daytime sleepiness, night terrors, sleep apnea, periodic limb movement disorder, and narcolepsy.

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This book offers a detailed road map for overcoming sexual and relationship impasses originating from painful childhood experiences.

Large numbers of adults with histories of childhood trauma and neglect suffer persistent relationship and sexual difficulties.

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What disease is and how it affects humans is the focus of this primer. Hurster uses the Biological Laws of Disease to frame each discussion and to demonstrate how these laws relate to the prepathogenesis and pathogenesis stages of the natural history of any disease.

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What disease is and how it affects humans is the focus of this primer. Hurster uses the Biological Laws of Disease to frame each discussion and to demonstrate how these laws relate to the prepathogenesis and pathogenesis stages of the natural history of any disease.

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Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities.