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Tessler and Gamache provide substantial research on the impact of mental illness on the family through interviews conducted with hundreds of family members between 1989 and 1997.

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Written by a pediatrician for pediatric clinicians on the front line, in response to the ever increasing obligations they acquire for the well being of children, this book focuses on the potential of health care to impact the social morbidities that affect children's health.

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How do doctors and nurses communicate with frightened patients who are dying, address the needs and concerns of the patients, and help the patients arrive at an acceptance of death This work deals with the relationship that the health care team has with the dying and how well that team is prepared to address the fears of the dying.

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This book examines nursing's feminist consciousness as the profession has developed and evolved over time. The last 20 years show that the profession has become actively aware of important issues such as pay equity and equal job opportunity and that nursing has become more cognizant and supportive of feminist goals on a variety of issues.

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This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities.

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The first section's chapters trace the influence of feminism on the development of feminist therapy, discuss a variety of professional issues and the goals of feminist therapy, discuss developmental issues, and examine the interface between feminist and psychotherapy systems, including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral and family systems.

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An exploration of the policy dilemmas with new fertility control techniques, this volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of the subject's technical, legal, and political dimensions.

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This bibliography provides a guide to the literature on fertility decline in Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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This work represents the most detailed bibliography yet published on the effects of alcohol consumption on a developing fetus. In addition to listing original scientific articles describing these effects, the bibliography also includes scientific and popular press reviews of the growing body of literature on fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).

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Fever has long been recognized as a symptom of disease. Until the past century it was considered a healthy sign; since then this view has changed and the use of drugs to reduce fever has grown quite common. Acting on the revival of interest as to whether the effects of fever are beneficial or harmful, Matthew Kluger and other physiologists began a

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A fascinating look at the progression of a once-discounted medical disorder, from suspicion of malingering and mental illness to mainline acceptance by the world medical community.

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To have a clear picture of developments in public financial management, a multidimensional perspective of the field is needed, since governmentsunlike for-profit organizations serve multiple and often conflicting interests.

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Vogel views health care within the context of total Sub-Saharan economic systems, emphasizing the output of health-care programs (i.e., healthier people) and the most cost-effective ways to maximize that output.

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Evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing. This book includes the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology.

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