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This second volume to result from the Diebold Institute Infostructure Project focuses on the roles that information-based technology can play in improving our society's overall health and well-being and in solving the major current and anticipated future problems of the cost and quality of and access to health care.

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This comprehensive survey focuses on African healthcare and institutions from the pre-colonial era to the present time.

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This comprehensive survey focuses on African healthcare and institutions from the pre-colonial era to the present time.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

This valuable handbook makes the U.S. health care system understandable, reviews the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or "Obamacare," describes past health care reform efforts, and covers the important organizations and people involved in U.S. health care reform.

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(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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A prescription for health care for older adults and their families by using life stories to treat the "third age" stage of life.

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Used in moderation, many oils can be beneficial to one's diet and lifestyle. This book presents accurate information on more than two dozen oils, examining the health claims associated with popular oils along with the clinical research findings.

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Late in life, Heidegger became involved in a project that led to one of the first schools of existential psychotherapy - daseinanalysis. Much of this work emerged in the Zollikon Seminare. Hans Cohn explores the role of Heidegger in providing an alternative basis for psychotherapeutic practice.

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The work includes interviews with parents of children with autism and will be of wide interest to professionals, teachers, parents, and family members who can use the approach to help a child move into the social world.

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This book offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers treating patients with eating and weight concerns that replaces a failed, moralistic focus on weight and weight-loss with one of fostering health, well-being, self-efficacy, and effective self-care.

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Meth addiction also ravages life for spouses, children, and other family members, as well as communities.

In this work, two experts on methamphetamine addiction and recovery explain why this drug has such a physical, psychological, and social draw for addicts despite all the damage it causes.

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As a major transplantation center, the University of Pittsburgh has conducted more than 300 liver transplants.

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Two naturopaths introduce us to the world of brain biochemistry, translating the science into laymen's terms, so that the reader can understand the potential power of herbs and nutrients to enhance health, prevent disorders, and affect existing health disorders.

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Using a new analytical approach that fuses Traditional Chinese Medicine and Energy medicine, Higher and Higher offers a fresh perspective on every aspect of drugs from addiction to repair.

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This collection provides selected works of Hildegard E. Peplau, known for her development of an interpersonal relations theory. This work contains many papers covering not only her theory of interpersonal relations, but also basic concepts in psychology, nursing education, the therapeutic milieu, and the role of theory in nursing.

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(Hardback)

From explanations of the roles of hormones to detailed descriptions of testing options and treatment choices, this book is a guide to male hormones: What they do, what goes wrong, and what can be done about it.

Testosterone levels begin to decline in men at the age of 30.

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Medical Ethics contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on ethical reasoning and its key components; medical ethics, professional medical ethics, and bioethics; and topics in clinical ethics.

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This unique reference work traces the story of nursing from Roman times to the present, including the evolution of military nursing.

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