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This up-to-date and important new work describes the relationship between psychological and hormonal factors found in human sexual behavior across the lifespan. Persky proposes that human sexual behavior is determined by a variety of factors, e.g.

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As the structure of the family changes with the proliferation of single parent families, working mothers, infant and day care, and societal complexities and stresses, early therapy for the mother-child dyad becomes critical.

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With the publication of this masterly new book, David Shapiro fulfills the promise made more than twenty years ago. Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character presents for the first time an approach to psychotherapy consistent with his classic work, Neurotic Styles.

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This work, which questions the medical model of psychiatry as the basis of psychotherapy, seeks to help professionals return their field to an activity that is more helpful to clients, more professional, more scientific, more moral, and more psychosocial in orientation.

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This work, which questions the medical model of psychiatry as the basis of psychotherapy, seeks to help professionals return their field to an activity that is more helpful to clients, more professional, more scientific, more moral, and more psychosocial in orientation.

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Provides an account of the battle against cholera. This work is based on documents in the naval towns of south-west England. The author's account exposes the struggles between local and national government, and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention.

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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.

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Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health How does this change over time and place Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of problem publics and their relationship with public health authorities.

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This work uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The text suggests that the choice of electroshock was connected to American enthusiasm for electricity and technology in the early 20th century.

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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.

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This updated primer on the US health care debate examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American businesses and health benefits, and the uninsured. It pays attention to failed 1994 health care reforms.

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The first qualitative research methods textbook devoted to health and clinical psychology, this edited volume examines the issues and methods at the heart of qualitative research. With contributions from world-leading researchers, it features a wealth of examples from real-life research projects, illustrating how theory translates into practice.

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Recent Ebola outbreaks have focussed the world's attention on disease and quarantine. In this first global history of quarantine, an international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce.

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Recent Ebola outbreaks have focussed the world's attention on disease and quarantine. In this first global history of quarantine, an international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce.

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The governor of Arkansas promotes his new 12-step program for people who wantto end bad habits and begin a healthy lifestyle.

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The most fatal virus known to science, rabies - a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans - kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. This book charts four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies.

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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A breakthrough therapy in the mental health field, Rebuilding Therapy was developed by psychologist Michael Gass, primarily, as a means of assisting individuals and families in rebuilding psychologically from past mistreatment, dysfunction, or trauma.

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