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A practicing music thanatologist provides an insider's history of this remarkable profession, which combines music, medicine, and spirituality to help the terminally ill and their families face the end of life.

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My Life as a Side Effect defines depression, overthrows stereotypes, demystifies and destigmatises it. This is the diary of Milissa's depression and journey - through drugs, therapy, self-harm, relationship breakdowns, paranoia, anxiety, suicide attempts - to managing it.

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In the past fifty years scientists have begun to discover how the human brain functions. In this book Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the forefront of such research, describes the current state of knowledge about the brain and asks to what extent recent findings explain the action of the mind. He offers the general reader a glimpse of excit

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"A century ago, the living body, like most of the material world, was opaque. Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured and X-ray image of his wife's finger--her wedding ring "floating" around a white bone--and our"

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A mother's narcotics abuse can have profound effects on her pregnancy and the health of her child, both inside and outside the womb. Arranged alphabetically by author, the book lists materials dealing with the effects of the use of heroin, morphine, methadone, and related drugs on sexual function, reproduction, and the fetus.

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This anthology is the first of its kind which integrates chapters on legitimizing narrative medicine in education, practice and research, on analyzing types of patient narratives and on studying interventions applying vulnerable or shared reading, creative writing, or Socratic dialogue as a means of rehabilitation and mental care.

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This is an analysis of the issues and strategies associated with national health care. The work examines legislation pending in the U.S. Congress, proposals by academic institutions and business and industry associations, the law and legislation underlying the existing system, and critical factors contributing to the existing health care crisis.

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Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

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Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

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The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by 'technological advances in destructive capabilities' needed new type of medical service. Success meant that expert care was needed near the frontline. -- .

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An integrative overview of network approaches to neuroscience explores the origins of brain complexity and the link between brain structure and function.

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In Neural Organization, Arbib, rdi, and Szentgothai integrate structural, functional, and dynamical approaches to the interaction of brain models and neurobiologcal experiments.

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The volume finishes with a detailed overview of the development of visual functions from the perspective of neural network modeling.

This book will appeal to psychologists, visual scientists and infancy researchers with an interest in development of the visaul system from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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This new edition of one of the books most closely identified with clinical psychology since 1965 will expose a new generation to Shapiro's stunningly defining conceptualizations of the Obsessive-Compulsive, Paranoid, Hysterical, and Impulsive ways of being.

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A description of the therapist behaviours necessary for the effective application of progressive relaxation training. The guide was written to provide therapists in many disciplines, including psychology, nursing and social work, with the tools they need to train their clients in relaxation.