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Food for Thought offers fresh psychoanalytic insights into treating clients with eating disorders. In lively and jargon-free language, Nina Savelle-Rocklin breaks down the psychoanalytic approach to give practitioners and general readers alike a deeper understanding of the the...

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Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life. -- .

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Shows the efforts of an organization that is devoted to making the lives of children with cancer rewarding, an organization inspired by Teddi Mervis, who lost her own battle with cancer. Teddi lost her fight when she was 12 years old and this work tells the story of her three-year battle.

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Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry is the trusted introductory text for students of medicine and other health professions. It has also been the essential reference for family doctors for over quarter of a century. The fourth edition has been revised and updated in collaboration with a new generation of expert psychiatrists.

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Hoffman provides a brilliant synthesis of family therapy. Starting with Gregory Batesons seminal ideas on social fields, the book examines the key concepts of general systems theory. The author then explores the major schools of family therapy and such figures as Minuchin, Bowen, Whitaker, Haley, Erickson, and Ackerman, as well as the revolutionary work of Selvini Palazzoli.

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This is the key text for introductory level nursing, covering all the core areas. Practical and great value, it is comprehensive and also contains new chapters on cutting edge topics. Alongside an all-new companion website, this is an outstanding edition for CFP study from a tried and trusted team.

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Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. -- .

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Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. -- .

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Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last 200 years.

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The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public mental hospitals were the chief element in the Am

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This book discusses several myths of the benefits of raising awareness: awareness is enough, awareness equals acceptance, awareness is education, awareness is altruistic, and awareness equals health. It offers a model that moves from awareness to a commitment to solving and alleviating health problems through various communication methods.

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From the Chairman Emeritus of Kaiser Permanente, a manifesto for integrated health care

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The foods eaten by a nation's population play a key role in shaping the health of that society. This book presents country-specific information on how diet, food security, and concepts of health critically impact the well-being of the world's population.

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From Sign to Symbol describes emerging approaches to the unconscious experience and the development of emotional meaning in intersubjective, implicit relationships. The book presents strategies that utilize symmetrical, impactful interventions in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychotherapy supervision.

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Crumbine was a medical educator without peer, who used his department of health to disseminate the latest developments he and others throughout the world were achieving in public health.

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Professionals with different kinds of practices and training from around the country talk candidly about their work, the effect that clients have upon them, and the various professional problems they face.

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Irisdiagnosis is the Science of diagnosing illness from the marks and colour changes in the iris of the human eye, developed from the original observations and research of Ignaz von Peczley, a Hungarian, who published his findings in 1880.

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Section II (Special Issues in Geriatric Health Care) includes ethnic and minority health issues in aging, geriatric care and older women, medical ethics in geriatrics, and new reimbursement systems for medical care for the elderly.

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Professors Furley and Wilkie have provided a newly edited Greek text and a complete English translation with commentary of four of Galen's physiological treatises on respiration and the arteries. Their text is the first to make use of Arabic translations of An in arteriis and De usu pulsuum based on a Greek text that is earlier and better than the