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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe is diagnosed with Huntington's disease. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while his daughter Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
"From award-winning,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A leading researcher and family therapist reframes our understanding of the American ADHD epidemic, and offers parents and educators the possibility of a healthier, less medicated future for their children. She delves into the subject, investigating how specific cultural and social conditions, doctors, Big Pharma, the food industry, modern approaches to education, and the evolution of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM)...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the author's family experiences in the wake of her newborn daughter's baffling stroke traces the ensuing year of testing, treatments, and stress that challenged her faith in medicine and compelled her investigation into historical and alternate practices.
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides a two-volume set that contains 425 alphabetically arranged essays on a variety of topics, including substances of abuse, treatment and addiction overviews, organizations and foundations dedicated to treatment and prevention, physiological and psychological issues and behaviors, trends and statistics, and social contexts and concerns related to substance abuse and treatment such as advertising and media influence, aging, ethnicity, and children...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Robert Martensen, a physician, historian, and ethicist, draws on decades of experience with patients and friends to explore the life cycle of serious illness, from diagnosis to end of life. He connects personal stories with reflections upon mortality, human agency, and the value of "cutting-edge" technology in caring for the critically ill. Timely questions emerge: To what extent should efforts to extend human life be made? What is the value of nontraditional...
6) Eating with your anorexic: how my child recovered through family-based treatment and yours can too
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Merck Research Laboratories
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
[third edition].
Physical Desc
xlii, 2, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: This comprehensive medical resource, The Merck Manual-Third Home Edition, extensively covers health care for newborns, the elderly, and everyone in between. The new Third Home Edition provides the same authoritative information doctors have relied on in The Merck Manual, for more than a century, in easy-to-understand, everyday language. Previous editions have sold more than 3 million copies. Written by more than 200 internationally...
Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Fourth edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons.
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Third edition, revised, updated, and expanded.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 753 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to health, diet, alternative medicine, and natural food presentation teaches readers how to apply Chinese medicine and the five-element theory to a contemporary diet and treat illness and nervous disorders through food choices.
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