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Theater of Disorder
Oxford University Press, USA 2001; US$ 34.99Preface. 1. The Theater of Disorder. 2. Basic Research and Observations. 3. Anthropological and Historical Studies. 4. Playing the Hypnotic Game. 5. Hysteria and Hysteria-like Disorders. 6. Multiple Personality Disorder. 7. Recovered Memory Roles. 8. Self-Knowledge, the Unconscious, and the Future of Illness Roles. Notes. Index more...
Explaining Illness
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 49.95Understanding one's health conditions plays a key role in a patient's response to illness, influencing stress levels and the likelihood of following treatment regimens and advice. Thus, the explanation of illness is a critical component of the interactions between health care providers and their patients. Emphasizing these exchanges and their potential... more...
Expert Patient Policy
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2009; US$ 110.00The increase of chronic illness as a leading cause of death has given rise to expert patient initiatives. Caring for chronically ill people places a tremendous economic burden on the health care system, informal carers, the labor market and benefit system. more...
Medical Negligence
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 144.95Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient. This book explores the legal principles and conundrums which arise when determining a healthcare professional's liability in negligence towards a wide variety of... more...
Take as Directed
ECW Press 2010; US$ 13.95A detailed account of how to navigate Canada's health care systemespecially in relation to medication safetythis is a firsthand description of the inner workings of the nation's doctor's offices, pharmacies, hospitals, and more. This definitive resource outlines the current situation; identifies key safety and efficacy issues; proposes... more...
A Life in Pieces
Ebury Publishing 2008; US$ 17.33In 1989 a woman named Karen showed up at author and psychiatrist Richard Baer's practice, terribly frightened and at breaking point. She explained that her husband beat her, her mother stole from her; she was in tremendous physical pain and wanted to die. Within a few sessions she also revealed that her father and grandfather had raped and tortured... more...
Overdiagnosed
Beacon Press 2011; US$ 24.95From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses.... more...
Medicine in Translation
Beacon Press 2010; US$ 24.95From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a ?born storyteller,? a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world?s cultures. In Medicine in Translation she introduces us, in vivid,... more...
Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 95.00The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication brings together the current body of scholarly work in health communication. With its expansive scope, it offers an introduction for those new to this area, summarizes work for those already learned in the area, and suggests avenues for future research on the relationships between communicative processes... more...
Prayers and Rituals at a Time of Illness and Dying
Templeton Press 2011; US$ 9.99In the course of caring for the ill or dying, health care professionals are sometimes the only ones available to provide spiritual comfort to their patients. In our modern pluralistic society, where patients could come from any number of religious traditions, it can often be difficult to find exactly the right words in these situations. Prayers... more...









