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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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Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care.

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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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This book is a philosophical analysis of the development and production of the anti-diphtheria serum in France from 1894 to 1900. Jonathan Simon's unique approach considers serum, a medicinal drug, as a technological object and analyzes its insertion into the therapeutic environment of diphtheria.

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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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Through fourteen medical narratives of pediatric patients and their families, this book analyzes how one makes sense of difficult medical journeys.

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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. . . .

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Directed to mental health professionals and graduate students in the mental health disciplines, we present a new way to augment the cost- effectiveness of current face-to-face (f2f) mental health based on talk, and, offer an alternative in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches. Dista

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This challenging and insightful work wrestles with the difficult treatment problems confronting both culturally and socially oppressed clients and psychotherapists in a society where diversity has often been resisted.

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Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart is designed to help therapists understand the many losses in divorce and the mourning process that is necessary for each family member in order to move on. Joshua Ehrlich describes how therapists ...

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Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Prince

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One of the most exciting medical developments during the past thirty years has been the rebirth of family medicine as a dynamic specialty.

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A unique resource for the general public and students interested in immigration and public health, this book presents a comprehensive history of public health and draws 10 key lessons for current immigration and health policymakers.

The period of 1820 to 1920 was one of mass migration to the United States from other nations of origin.

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Some of the problems facing the American medical profession today stem from an underlying cultural phenomenon--the evolution of the image of the doctor as an omnipotent and infallible individual.

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The verbal and nonverbal exchanges that take place between doctor and patient affect both participants, and can result in a range of positive or negative psychological reactions-including comfort, alarm, irritation, or resolve.