Medicine
Written for consumers, patients, and families seeking reliable information about nontraditional therapies, the American Cancer Society's "Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods" is a quick and easy guide to the latest information about complementary and alternative methods most commonly available to people with cancer. It includes more than 250 entries covering a broad range of topics, such as herbs, vitamins, minerals, mind/body/spirit, diet and nutrition, physical touch, and biological methods.
This title covers childbirth and what men have to do with it.In "Make Room for Daddy", historian Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a fascinating look at an important but long-neglected aspect of childbirth in America - the changing role of the expectant father.Leavitt uses fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature to offer a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s.
This second edition updates the important 1983 publication ('a gem' - Booklist/RBB) with a wealth of new information from the past 25 years. The author, a recovered anorexic, draws upon her own life experience with the disorder and with treatment, and has combined this with extensive research to produce a comprehensive account of the symptoms, causes and treatments of anorexia nervosa. In this book, she covers the paradox of self-annihilation for self-preservation, the causes of anorexia, use and misuse of the Internet, attributes of the disease, and accompanying disorders.
Far from celebrity media spotlight, ordinary individuals, many older and less advantaged, suffer the disabling pain of Parkinson's Disease (PD), an illness whose progressive symptoms often mimic old age and cause mobility impairment, communication barriers, and social isolation. At the heart of "With Shaking Hands" is the account of elder Americans in rural Iowa who have been diagnosed with PD.
A set of manuals that helps low- and middle-income countries design and implement performance-based health care provider payment systems.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common malignancy in the United States and the third leading cause of cancer mortality in both men and women. As gastroenterologists and primary care physicians are faced with patients with colorectal cancer, the future road to decreasing these numbers begins with increased knowledge and awareness of the effects that biology, genetics, environment, and lifestyle have on the disease. In "Early Detection and Prevention in Colorectal Cancer", Dr.
Addresses two key areas of health workforce policy in developing countries: the effect of government wage policies on costs and staffing levels in this public sector and of human resources management policies and practices, based on four country case studies - Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda and the Dominican Republic.
"Violence Risk Assessment for Forensic Mental Health Professionals" provides the forensic social worker, and other forensic clinicians, with the knowledge and tools needed to conduct violence risk assessments, and understand the best treatment approaches currently available for specific violent populations.
The forthcoming "Textbook of Pediatric Care: Tools for Practice" is a companion manual to "AAP Pediatric Primary Care", a comprehensive and innovative pediatric textbook based on "Hoekelman's Primary Pediatric Care"." Textbook of Pediatric Care: Tools for Practice" will provide the most frequently used forms, calculators, patient education materials and questionnaires cited in the textbook.The core components of comprehensive care to be addressed in the companion text include: engaging patients and family (educational tools, behavior modification support); decision support for clinicians in th
Digestion is the process of taking food and nutrients into the body and making them available for use in all of the body's processes. The digestive system breaks down food and extracts the important nutrients, eliminating the excess substances that cannot be used. These nutrients provide energy for the body to grow, function, and make repairs to itself.
"The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders, Third Edition" is a significant update to the original that now also includes a substantial amount of new material on memory, updated from "The Encyclopedia of Memory and Memory Disorders". More than 800 entries cover all aspects of the brain, from anatomy, function, and development to diseases and disorders.