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A memoir of Dick and Loretta Stoughton's experiences during two different medical missionary times in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

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She explores the issues surrounding sterilization decisions from the perspectives of judges, lawyers, social workers, doctors, family planners, as well as the families and individuals themselves.

Woven throughout the book are case studies of individuals ranging from mild to severe retardation.

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Providing a significant source of information for upper high school and community college students concerning steroids and their derivatives, this book provides a holistic overview of this controversial class of drugs.

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What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the labouratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.

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This book is developed around a rational planning process of six steps required to develop a strategic plan for health services. In the fast developing and dynamic field of health care, past experiences are no longer the best barometer of what a health agency ought to do in the future.

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An analysis of how local knowledge, based on the first-hand experience of community members, can strengthen science in environmental health decision making; with four case studies from a Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Covers the common affliction of stroke that comes in many different forms, which can be fatal or leave the patient disabled, and which strikes a surprising number of younger people. This volume includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of works that discuss the disease.

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This volume offers a description and analysis of subtle suicide-a psychological condition whose victims don't care if they live or die, and thus act in self-defeating, self-damaging ways.

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This bold book breaks new ground by making explicit and coherent the theoretical underpinnings of feminist therapy

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Van der Mark examines Dutch attitudes and practices surrounding birth from a sociohistorical point of view, explaining the importance of ideological consensus, the private nature of the Dutch family, the high regard for comfort and well being, and the professional development of midwives as trained and licensed practitioners.

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Delving into a topic of perennial interest and concern, particularly among teenagers, this important volume addresses the full range of issues relative to suicide and suggests ways to help those who struggle.

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This is the first book to provide a carefully designed clinical approach to supportive psychotherapy that is rigorously connected to psychodynamic theory.

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He concludes with an analysis of the medical problems associated with the Crimean War.

Using important contemporary texts, Kaufman describes the personalities who served in the British Army Medical Department during the late 18th and 19th centuries, when diseases caused a much higher mortality than injuries sustained in battle.

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This book provides an overview of the current status of simulation in various surgical disciplines and explains the science of surgical education.

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Here, psychologists, psychiatrists and other leading experts who disagree with Thomas Szasz's views on specific issues explain their reasons, with no holds barred, and Szasz replies cogently and pungently to each of them.

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Stories from much-loved Bondi vet Dr Chris Brown about his patients, their owners and the puzzling, funny and sometimes heartbreaking moments in an urban vet's day.