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Looks at the development and benefits, and the psychological challenges, of the newest in reconstructive surgery - face transplants. This book begins with the story of Isabelle Dinoire, the recipient of first face transplant, her surgery and her battles with tissue rejection. It shows us how transplant recipients struggle with functional issues.

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Explores how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in Africa

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The aim of this volume is to demonstrate that sound science is prevalent in environmental decision-making processes but that it is often misinterpreted by policymakers, with critics unfairly blaming poor policy on the underlying science.

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"Special Delivery" is an obstetrician's honest account of a changing healthcare environment. A memoir spanning four decades of an academic high-risk obstetrician that follows a journey from a pre-med major to appointment as tenured full professor at three major American medical schools.

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The outcome of ten years' work, this book is a carefully planned study of brain dominance, aphasia, and other speech disturbances, and includes a discussion of the cerebral mechanisms of speech and the learning and teaching of language. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again

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This is a unique presentation of systems of traditional healing from around the world. With examples that examine traditional and modern healing systems in many different cultures around the world, this work demonstrates that most cultures perceive illness as a dislocation of the individual from his or her communal context.

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From meditation to reciting mantras or praying, spirituality is increasingly being recognised for its beneficial effects on health. This volume offers chapters showing the state of the art in understanding this connection.

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Issues of spirituality are gaining increasing prominence within the therapeutic professions. Written by a figure in this emerging domain, this book provides a creative focus for therapists wishing to consider how spirituality may inform or shape their own practice.

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Spiritually Transformative Psychotherapy offers fresh insights into counseling people with diverse spiritual and religious philosophies. Grounded in theory and research, this text focuses on building contemplative methods like meditation into practice and provides valuable applications to help clients achieve spiritual and emotional wellbeing.

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Spiritually Transformative Psychotherapy offers fresh insights into counseling people with diverse spiritual and religious philosophies. Grounded in theory and research, this text focuses on building contemplative methods like meditation into practice and provides valuable applications to help clients achieve spiritual and emotional wellbeing.

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A multifaceted exploration of the dynamics of posttraumatic body symptoms and a clinically sophisticated presentation of new therapy techniques by an internationally acclaimed roster of trauma experts.

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This volume traces the history of the field of sports medicine and offers an informative survey of the evaluation and treatment of sports injuries across the life cycle.

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This book explores how to recognize, treat, and prevent sports injuries and offers guidance on which sports and training techniques are most likely to lead to injury.

Engaging in sports has numerous health benefits, but it's an unfortunate reality that it can also lead to injury.

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This book explores how to recognize, treat, and prevent sports injuries and offers guidance on which sports and training techniques are most likely to lead to injury.

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Part of a series that provides a resource for obtaining an overview of the most controversial areas of healthcare.

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A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life. -- .

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A carefully selected array of tables and charts present authoritative statistical information, placing valuable statistics into context with introductory text.

Detailed source information in each table, figure, and chart allows the user to pursue further information and uncover the stories behind the numbers.

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