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Queen of the Professions: The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America is a colorful yet authoritative work of social history offering readers a sturdy platform from which to confront looming issues about the future of American medical care. Its unique perspective brings crucial context to current debates about modern medicine.

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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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Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

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Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

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Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare in America but not on how to do it. In Reforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate. They identify and analyse the three leading approaches to reform.

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This book provides an alternative to narratives that privilege the biomedical perspective on womens invisible illnesses. The contributors include women who exude diversity as it relates to race and ethnicity, career, religious experience, education, social support, and interpersonal relationships.

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This book presents a comprehensive and scientific review of the research during the past fifty years on the relationship between religion and health in later life. Next investigated are the impacts on health of private religious activity, community religious involvement, and personal religious experience.

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This revealing book tackles the daunting problem of increasing chronic illness in America, offering fresh ideas for the ways in which the challenge can be successfully managed.

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This volume focuses on a study of the trends in disaster and health risk reporting and offers guidelines on how to report the dangers of these risks more accurately.

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This volume focuses on a study of the trends in disaster and health risk reporting and offers guidelines on how to report the dangers of these risks more accurately.

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This work is a selectively annotated bibliography of research from areas of group therapy, group psychotherapy, group counseling, and psychodrama. The authors present a balanced sampling of empirical research with a wide range of research methods, analytic methods, and instruments so as to facilitate cross-fertilization of research efforts.

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But there is also a troubling suspicion among a growing number of scientists who support the ABC model that certain opponents may simply be AIDS profiteers, more interested in protecting their incomes than battling the disease.

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Examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture.

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Thousands of American service members are returning from their tours of duty with physical and/or psychological disabilities.

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Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the 'MPD' community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. This book scrutinizes today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory.

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This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .