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"This bold and witty, yet scholarly biography is the first to trace the full life and work of this highly influential and brilliant pediatrician-turned-analyst. This insightful story probes the roots i"

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This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft.

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This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft.

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Women & Psychosis is an edited collection that examines the intersection of two marginalized identities, those of women and those deemed psychotic. Told from a multitude of perspectives, Women & Psychosis brings multidisciplinary thought to the subject, from psychiatrists and clinicians tofirst-person perspectives of the women themselves.

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Women & Psychosis is an edited collection that examines the intersection of two marginalized identities, those of women and those deemed psychotic. Told from a multitude of perspectives, Women & Psychosis brings multidisciplinary thought to the subject, from psychiatrists and clinicians to first-person perspectives of the women themselves.

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Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized womens mental health.

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Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized womens mental health.

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Situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. -- .

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Pregnancy Narratives examines the stories of women who undergo complications during the reproductive process such as difficult conception, miscarriage, still birth, premature labor, and premature delivery. Hall calls attention to how the stories of pregnancy and birth that women hear prior to their pregnancy shape the narratives they later tell of their own traumatic experiences.

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Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions. -- .

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Taking a unique perspective, this book argues for a psychosocial approach to dual diagnosis and draws on this to highlight practice skills with specific groups including individuals, families and communities. The inclusion of case studies, reflection points and reflective exercises throughout help to aid learning and provide practice insight.

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In this study of the evolution of US healthcare in the 1990s, Birenbaum (pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) discusses the rise of, and backlash to, health maintenance organizations; other managed care organizations; the changing doctor-patient relationship due to managed care and infor

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Written for the educated layperson who is interested and concerned about his/her own health care future and the health care future of loved ones, this book will also be a useful reference to the legal profession in determining legal options in health care issues.

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"[Serves] as a useful guide to adolescent literature for librarians and English teachers." Curriculum Review

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In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitators guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.

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Written by an experienced R.N., this updated edition provides practical, real-world solutions to the profession's most common and difficult issues.