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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMen at Risk offers an incisive critique of several decades of HIV prevention programming that has largely rendered heterosexually-active men invisible to public health knowledge and practice.It wrestles candidly with the many conceptual, methodological, and political dilemmas of feminist work on masculinities.But, it also points to important successes and opportunities in gender-transformative and intersectional work with men and boys. Dworkins account of this terrain is thoroughgoing and expert, but also forceful and politically clear-eyed. -- Christopher J. Colvin,Senior Researcher in HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town, South AfricaA timely and evocative contribution to the growing literature globally on masculinity and HIV prevention. With a focus firmly on heterosexual mens practices and experiences, Men at Risk fills a major gap.A & must read for scholars of gender and sexuality in relation to HIV, and a valuable resource to inspire policy makers and program developers. -- Peter Aggleton,author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS

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Book SynopsisWritten with wisdom, genuine humor, and downtoearth observations, We Know How This Ends is far more than a memoir about life with ALS. It is a dignified, courageous, and unflinching look at how acceptance of loss and inevitable death can lead us all to a more meaningful and fulfilling life.Trade Review "Security and immortality are both superstitions; the best we can do is make an adventure of our lives. In this exquisite book, Bruce H. Kramer finds adventure in the most unlikely of places: the death sentence that is ALS. We Know How This Ends is a moving tale that teaches us more about living well than any self-help book ever can."—Dan Buettner, New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest "The revelatory journey that Bruce H. Kramer and Cathy Wurzer take us on is full of insight, wisdom, sorrow—and joy. This beautiful book should be required reading for all patients, caregivers, and clinicians to better understand that there can be growth and peace and exuberant life even while dying."—Jon Hallberg, M.D., University of Minnesota "As Bruce’s yoga teacher, student, and friend, I have witnessed the story behind this magnificent tale of becoming. I have watched his strength, his grace, and his willingness to love. Bruce’s prose is courageous and penetrating, elegant and unprecedented. This book will change your life."—Matthew Sanford, author of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence "Bruce H. Kramer turns his diamond-hard diagnosis like a prism, reflecting light and joy in surprising places. We need to hear this story now. The honesty and clarity of Kramer and Cathy Wurzer invite us to consider how we live in the face of impending death or unwanted change."—Susan Allen Toth, author of No Saints around Here: A Caregiver’s Days "Yet what comes through most powerfully in Kramer's story is not the pain but the quiet surge of gratitude and joy he has discovered in confronting his imminent death."—Next Avenue, Twin Cities Public Television"Poetic and practical in embracing the inevitable."—MinnPost"Kramer is an excellent writer, a former college professor of education, spinning language in fascinating ways to make the reader stop and think, fell, and explore the profound lessons of a man facing death. He show great wisdom, and the lessons presented in his book apply to all."—Mainstay"We Know How This Ends is a hopeful book. And a serious, joyful, literate, nuanced, bracing and funny book."—The Huffington Post"There are so many true words of wisdom in this book. "—The Caregivers’ Living Room"Kramer is a powerful writer with a gift for crafting fresh descriptions, situations and emotions that are often reduced to clichés. He provides anyone with a terminal disease, and anyone caring for someone with one, with an eloquent guidebook on how to cope with eventual loss and embrace the days that are left."—The National Book Review"A gripping account."—Star TribuneTable of ContentsContentsPrologueCathy Wurzer1. Parallel Lives2. The Footman Snickers3. A House Built on Sand4. A Delicate Dance5. Disease and Dis Ease6. Faith, Part I: Fulfilling What Is Meant to Be7. The Tell8. It Isn’t Just about You9. The Gift10. Happy Anniversary11. Faith, Part II: It’s Your Choice12. Handbook for the Recently Dis Eased13. Time Traveling14. Tripping the Light Fantastic15. Killing the Buddha16. The Gravity of It All17. Ready to Fall18. The Metrics of Measurement19. A Death-Defining Feat20. The Non–Bucket List21. The Widening Gyre22. Faith, Part III: Wrestling with Angels23. Inside Out24. Dis Ease Yoga25. Faith, Part IV: What’s Love Got to Do with It?26. We Know How This EndsAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.Trade Review“This is an impressive work.… The reader feels comfortable in the hands of a mature and competent expert who has followed the history of blood transfusion for years, and has indeed already contributed important articles on the subject.”“Motivated by the desire to contextualize the relationship between HIV/AIDS and blood transfusion in sub-Saharan Africa, Schneider seeks to historicize the policies and practices of giving and receiving blood in this region…. This book provides a thought-provoking introductory platform that will stimulate further studies.” * African Affairs *“With numerous charts and graphs, images and analysis of recruitment posters, and detailed national case studies (featuring the Belgian Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Senegal), this initial examination of blood transfusion in sub-Saharan Africa over the twentieth century is an important contribution to the history of global health as it intersects with the African past.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“The impact of transfusions in colonial Africa on the emergence of AIDS has not been told. Schneider’s book skillfully fills this void with his firsthand investigations of the history of transfusions in Africa. The book provides a new and critical framework for understanding how transfusing blood may have catapulted simian viruses from remote places in Africa to pandemic AIDS status.”“This impressive historical account renders an authoritative account of the the establishment of Transfusion Medicine in sub-Saharan Africa. This book should prove to be a valuable resource for many years to all those interested in the ongoing history of this specialty.”“This book is a background-primer that can give continuing guidance to changes still taking place in sub-Saharan Africa. Since blood transfusion is a part of so many other medical activities it is also valuable in providing understanding of how those [activities] developed in Africa.”

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic.Trade Review“The most comprehensive account yet published of HIV’s emergence and dispersal across the African continent, this richly detailed, multidisciplinary collection traces the varied origins of the multiple strains of HIV. This superb book adds new understanding to the ecological, medical, and sexual contexts within which AIDS epidemics first developed.” -- Shane Doyle, professor of African history, University of LeedsThe Histories of HIVs sets the tone for how collaborative science can and should tackle the emergent pandemics of our time. In combining epidemiology, virology, history, and anthropology, the contributors demonstrate powerfully how the origin and spread of epidemics can be uncovered: causes must not be isolated to viral fragments moving between simians and humans but should instead encompass the social and cultural history of the people whose lives and illnesses generated this history. Required reading for anyone interested in epidemic disease. -- Catherine E. Bolten, author of Serious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection“The Histories of HIVs provides a balanced examination of the emergence of HIV viruses. This impressive volume, which combines historical epidemiology and anthropology with the main achievements of virology and immunology, contributes to our understanding of the ways some HIV viruses provoked epidemics or became pandemic. The Histories of HIVs is a brilliant achievement that is a pleasure to read.” -- Kalala Ngalamulume, coeditor of Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives"Compared to conclusions based solely on biomedical/molecular analyses, this multidisciplinary approach offers a perspective not readily available through conventional epidemiologic paradigms. Adding another layer to ongoing investigations of the many mysteries surrounding HIV/AIDS, this multiauthored text highlights multiple potential pathways of viral spillover and continued transmission. Schneider … has edited an informative, well-written book that will be of considerable interest to students of epidemiology, infectious diseases, and the history of medicine. Highly recommended. * Choice *“I particularly admire the authors’ collective ability to distill such a breadth of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research into language that is accessible to newcomers to the field, including undergraduate students. The methodical approach, the ways authors refer back and forth to each other’s work, and their fair-minded treatment of various claims including those that lack evidentiary support, build steam…. [For the ] many readers who have legitimate worries about the integrity of scientific research and Western health interventions in African history … the way authors acknowledge those concerns and take the time to walk us through critique and countercritiques will be profoundly eye-opening and likely convincing.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[T]his book makes a convincing argument that any history of HIV must account for the fact that this virus emerged multiple times, in multiple geographic locations, and from two different types of primates. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic.Trade Review“The most comprehensive account yet published of HIV’s emergence and dispersal across the African continent, this richly detailed, multidisciplinary collection traces the varied origins of the multiple strains of HIV. This superb book adds new understanding to the ecological, medical, and sexual contexts within which AIDS epidemics first developed.” -- Shane Doyle, professor of African history, University of LeedsThe Histories of HIVs sets the tone for how collaborative science can and should tackle the emergent pandemics of our time. In combining epidemiology, virology, history, and anthropology, the contributors demonstrate powerfully how the origin and spread of epidemics can be uncovered: causes must not be isolated to viral fragments moving between simians and humans but should instead encompass the social and cultural history of the people whose lives and illnesses generated this history. Required reading for anyone interested in epidemic disease. -- Catherine E. Bolten, author of Serious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection“The Histories of HIVs provides a balanced examination of the emergence of HIV viruses. This impressive volume, which combines historical epidemiology and anthropology with the main achievements of virology and immunology, contributes to our understanding of the ways some HIV viruses provoked epidemics or became pandemic. The Histories of HIVs is a brilliant achievement that is a pleasure to read.” -- Kalala Ngalamulume, coeditor of Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives"Compared to conclusions based solely on biomedical/molecular analyses, this multidisciplinary approach offers a perspective not readily available through conventional epidemiologic paradigms. Adding another layer to ongoing investigations of the many mysteries surrounding HIV/AIDS, this multiauthored text highlights multiple potential pathways of viral spillover and continued transmission. Schneider … has edited an informative, well-written book that will be of considerable interest to students of epidemiology, infectious diseases, and the history of medicine. Highly recommended. * Choice *“I particularly admire the authors’ collective ability to distill such a breadth of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research into language that is accessible to newcomers to the field, including undergraduate students. The methodical approach, the ways authors refer back and forth to each other’s work, and their fair-minded treatment of various claims including those that lack evidentiary support, build steam…. [For the ] many readers who have legitimate worries about the integrity of scientific research and Western health interventions in African history … the way authors acknowledge those concerns and take the time to walk us through critique and countercritiques will be profoundly eye-opening and likely convincing.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[T]his book makes a convincing argument that any history of HIV must account for the fact that this virus emerged multiple times, in multiple geographic locations, and from two different types of primates. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisThe American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. This work offers an examination of how the nation attempted, with mixed results, to negotiate the fears and concerns brought on by the epidemic. It traces a slow separation between official advice and that provided by those on the front lines in the battle against AIDS.Trade Review“A book of life-and-death importance on the politics of safe-sex. I can think of few other books that contribute so significantly to both cultural criticism and, in every sense of the term, public health.”—Constance Penley, author of The Future of an Illusion and coeditor of Male Trouble“An urgent and important work. Once again, Patton’s usual brilliance is much in evidence—her irreverent and eclectic roving around different cultural and disciplinary domains, her perceptive readings of specific texts, her ear to various subcultural grounds, her wisdom based on personal history in the queer media and AIDS community movements.”—Thomas Waugh, author of The Fruit MachineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 1. Around 1989 3 2. Between Innocence and Safety 35 3. The Erotics of Innocence 63 4. "The Only Weapon We Have . . ." 95 5. Visualizing Safe Sex 118 Conclusion: From Visibility to Insurrection: A Manifesto 139 Notes 157 Bibliography 171 Index 177

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Book SynopsisA cultural history and sociological critique of 20th century panic, from the Cold War to contemporary psychiatryTrade Review“Jackie Orr is one of sociology’s most inventive theorists. Here in Panic Diaries she is brilliantly interdisciplinary, joining social theory with rigorous historical research, feminist criticism, and science studies to give us a genealogy of panic from its invention in nineteenth-century social science to its late-twentieth-century medicalization as panic disorder. And more, all of this is cut through with autobiographic experimental writing that makes your heart beat faster—a first-hand experience of panic. A book to read, a book to teach.”—Patricia Ticineto Clough, author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Technology“Packed with original interpretations of historical material, textually innovative, and theoretically brilliant, this book is full of mind-blowing insights for anyone interested in the science and culture of panic.”—Emily Martin, author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction“Brilliantly inventive. . . . Though [Orr] makes a compelling argument about the manipulation of ‘panic’ by everyone, from transnational drug companies to the entire field of psychiatry, it’s her personal revelations that will cut right through you in this remarkable read.” -- Diane Anderson-Minshall * Curve *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue 1 1. History, Memory, Story: Openings 3 2. The Martian in the Machine: Panic Theory and Theaters of War 33 3. “Keep Calm!” for the Cold War: Diary of a Mental Patient 79 4. Performing Methods: Cybernetics, Psychopharmacology, and Postwar Psychiatry 165 5. Panic Xanax: A Patient Diary 211 Epilogue 275 Notes 281 Bibliography 323 Index 347

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Book SynopsisFor more than twenty years Josie Méndez-Negrete has endured the emotional journey of watching her son Tito struggle with schizophrenia. Her powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with this mental illness.

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Book SynopsisThe Children of Africa Confront AIDS depicts the reality of how African children deal with the AIDS epidemic, and how the discourse of their vulnerability affects acts of coping and courage.Trade Review“A stellar contribution in the best tradition of applied social science while providing a bridgehead into the courageous world of the African orphan.” * Africa Today *

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Book SynopsisThis resource gives parents and families access to the authors' expertise so they can reach a meaningful understanding of their child's DSD and make informed decisions about their child's health.Trade ReviewThis is essential reading for any family that has a child with DSD. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPreface1. An Introduction to DSDWhat is DSD?How are children with DSD identified?Did I cause my child to have DSD?Is my child a boy or a girl?Will my child grow up to be healthy and happy?2. What Type of DSD Does My Child Have?What is 46,XX DSD?What is 46,XY DSD?What other types of DSD are there?3. How Will My Newborn Baby Be Evaluated?How are different types of DSD identified?What testing is used to establish a diagnosis?How are these tests done?What will these tests tell me about my baby's condition?4. Gender Development in DSDWhat is gender?What is known about long-term gender development in people with DSD?5. Understanding and Weighing the Treatment OptionsWhat medical treatments are available for infants and children with DSD?What surgical treatments are available for infants and children with DSD?What are the pros and cons associated with these treatments?6. Educating Children about DSDIs my child healthy?Why does my child need all these doctors?Will my child grow up to look like other people?Will my child grow up to behave like other people?7. Long-term Health of People with DSDIs life expectancy different for people with DSD?Is my child at risk for other medical conditions because of DSD?How will hormone replacement affect long-term health?8. Challenges and Special CircumstancesShould I get a second opinion?What if I want to change doctors?What if I think my baby was assigned the wrong gender?What if my child thinks he or she was assigned the wrong gender?Should my child participate in a research study?9. Peer SupportWhat can peer-support groups offer?How do I find these groups?How can I start my own peer-support group?ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.Trade ReviewA wealth of information is included in a holistic, patient oriented format with helpful key questions prefacing each chapter and many supplemental, easy to understand tables and charts. Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Women and the HIV/AIDS EpidemicPart One: Adjusting to Life with HIV Infection1. Testing for HIV2. Finding a Primary Care Provider and Preparing for Your Visit3. HIV, the Immune System, and Monitoring TestsPart Two: Meeting the Challenge of HIV Infection4. Recognizing Symptoms and Preventing Complications5. Hepatitis and the Liver6. Treatments for HIVPart Three: Sexual and Gynecologic Health7. Protecting Yourself and Others8. Gynecologic Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases9. Human Papillomavirus Infections, Genital Warts, and Abnormal Pap SmearsPart Four: Reproduction10. Considering Pregnancy and Birth Control11. Pregnancy12. Menstrual PeriodsPart Five: Taking Care of Yourself: Special Considerations13. Breast Health, Bone Health, and Heart Health14. Alcohol Dependence, Drug Addiction, and Treatment15. Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse16. Managing Your Feelings17. Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, and Hospice18. Planning for the Future19. Research Studies and Clinical TrialsAppendix 1: Sample Tracking Sheet for Medications, Tests, and VaccinationsAppendix 2: Resources for People with HIVGlossaryKey ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.Trade ReviewA wealth of information is included in a holistic, patient oriented format with helpful key questions prefacing each chapter and many supplemental, easy to understand tables and charts. Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Women and the HIV/AIDS EpidemicPart One: Adjusting to Life with HIV Infection1. Testing for HIV2. Finding a Primary Care Provider and Preparing for Your Visit3. HIV, the Immune System, and Monitoring TestsPart Two: Meeting the Challenge of HIV Infection4. Recognizing Symptoms and Preventing Complications5. Hepatitis and the Liver6. Treatments for HIVPart Three: Sexual and Gynecologic Health7. Protecting Yourself and Others8. Gynecologic Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases9. Human Papillomavirus Infections, Genital Warts, and Abnormal Pap SmearsPart Four: Reproduction10. Considering Pregnancy and Birth Control11. Pregnancy12. Menstrual PeriodsPart Five: Taking Care of Yourself: Special Considerations13. Breast Health, Bone Health, and Heart Health14. Alcohol Dependence, Drug Addiction, and Treatment15. Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse16. Managing Your Feelings17. Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, and Hospice18. Planning for the Future19. Research Studies and Clinical TrialsAppendix 1: Sample Tracking Sheet for Medications, Tests, and VaccinationsAppendix 2: Resources for People with HIVGlossaryKey ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisParents, building on that foundation and acknowledging each person's contributions, interests, and aspirations, create an inclusive and resilient family.Trade ReviewThe authors show families how to be pragmatic and inclusive when solving problems and setting expectations. The real family stories and personal experiences of the authors, one of whom has such a disability, create an intimate and nonjudgmental tone with a degree of optimism that parents are likely to appreciate. A valuable resource for families looking for encouragement as they try to create an inclusive environment for their child with a physical disability. Library Journal I would highly recommend Just One of the Kids: Raising a Resilient Family When One of Your Children Has a Physical Disability as an addition to the library of any family that includes a child with a physical disability, as well as being a valuable resource to grandparents, extended family members, friends, and health care professionals who are part of this community. -- Sandra E. James Journal of Child and Family Studies This book is ideal for any parents or carers who are caring for children with physical disabilities. -- Emma Connolly Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Raising Children—Resilient and Ready for AdulthoodPart I: In the BeginningThe Webers: A young family juggles the needs of twin boys, one with and one without a physical disability1. Getting the NewsThe Hamiltons: Raising teenagers in a blended family with humor, responsibility, and respect for differences2. Coming HomePart II: All in the FamilyThe Bowers: An athletic couple sort out what works for them in raising their only child, a serious student and accomplished wheelchair athlete3. Inclusive Parenting: Make It Work for YouThe Fishers: Parents working together to build family unity and protect their children while allowing them to take healthy risks4. Brothers and Sisters: Siblings Sharing Family Life with Physical Disability in the MixThe Brandons: A family devoted to faith, education, and unconditional love, inspired by Grandfather's example and bolstered by his support5. Grandparents: Seeing through a New LensPart III: Into the Wide WorldThe Sheridan-Wolfe Family: Two women build their family by adoptingchildren who have complex disabilities and helping them reach their potential6. Opening Doors to InclusionThe O'Briens: Parents working together to help their daughters develop individual talents, support one another, and practice their faith7. Letting One Dream Go to Let Another GrowResourcesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on medicine, social science, philosophy, and religion to provide a broad perspective on aging, Aging Together offers a vision of relationships filled with love, joy, and hope in the face of a condition that all too often elicits anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.Trade ReviewA serious, scholarly, and sensitive book. -- Mary Gergen PsycCRITIQUES This must-read volume will inspire the reader to contemplate the call to care for others with self-giving love. Highly recommended. Choice This is not a how-to handbook but a kindly and perhaps over-optimistic general discussion that will be of interest to caregivers, particularly Americans, and particularly those coming from a religious background. The rest of us can all gain something from it too, however... Aging Together reminds us that warmth and friendship can be maintained in trying situations. -- Martin Guha International Psychogeriatrics Readable and useful...Anyone who wants to teach, practise or encourage person-centred care for people with dementia will find a lot in this book. -- Ibadete Fetahu Nursing Times This is not just a book about ageing, dementia, and friendship; it is a book that will take the reader on a journey that will, hopefully, leave them in a better place than where they started... An excellent account of travelling along the dementia road. -- Kathryn Mitchell Ageing and Society A compelling call to arms for a more caring, related society-a flourishing community-from which all can benefit, and in which all have a part to play. -- Justine McGovern LMSW Journal of Gerontological Social Work Aging Together offers a prophetic perspective by challenging our socially constructed versions of reality and our tendency to look for medical miracles and cures. Instead we should work to create communities that are hospitable to the cognitively impaired. -- Anthony B. Robinson Christian CenturyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dilemmas of Dementia Diagnoses2. Receiving the Diagnosis3. Personhood4. What Is Friendship?5. When Our Friends Travel the Dementia Road6. Dementia Fear and Anxiety7. Beyond Fear and Anxiety8. The Flourishing Community9. Congregations as Schools for Friendship10. The Things That Abide11. Practicing Friendship in the "Thin Places"12. Memory, Forgetting, and the Present TimeDiscussion QuestionsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe book includes suggestions for further reading, including the latest material available online.Trade ReviewHighly recommended for any patient or family member seeking a clear health book with the latest facts. Midwest Book Review Reading [ Living with Lymphoma] is an enlightening experience and all nurses caring for lymphoma patients should ensure it is on their reading list. Nursing Standard I strongly recommend this book for relatives and friends with a diagnosis of cancer. Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword, by W. Jeffrey Baker, MDPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction, by Michael R. Bishop, MDPart I1. What Is Lymphoma?2. Symptoms and DiagnosisPart II3. Chemotherapy4. Radiation Therapy and Surgery5. Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Magic Bullet Therapies6. Stem Cell Transplants7. Unconventional Therapies8. SurvivorshipPart III9. Basic Cell Biology and Cancer10. The Immune System11. Lymphoma Classification and Staging12. Possible Causes of LymphomaAfterwordAcknowledgmentsGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisEnhanced with patient stories and rounded out by a glossary of terms and an appendix describing home exercises, this is the go-to book for anyone who struggles with dizziness.Trade ReviewThis would be a brilliant read for medical students and primary care physicians. The simplified, common-sense approach, I found, made it compulsive reading, in a subject where that is the exception... It is [an] excellent value indeed. Journal of Laryngology & Otology [A] comprehensive new book. -- Jane Brody New York Times The two doctors simplify explanations of these matters, creating a survey that is packed with insights and information. Donovan's Literary Services This book is practical and useful. Easy to read and understand without being patronising. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Dizzy Spells That Occur with a Change in Position 1. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)2. Orthostatic HypotensionPart II. Dizzy Spells That Occur in Attacks but without Any Apparent Trigger3. Meniere's Disease 4. Migraine-associated DizzinessPart III. A Single Bout of Dizziness That Lasts for Days and Then Gradually Improves5. Vestibular Neuritis 6. Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs)Part IV. Constant Dizziness That Lasts 24 Hours a Day for Months and Even Years7. Dizziness and Anxiety (Chronic subjective dizziness)8. Mal de debarquement Syndrome (MdDS)9. Dizziness Due to Loss of Vestibular Function in Both Ears10. Small Vessel Ischemic Disease of the Deep White MatterAppendix: Home Exercises GlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisEnhanced with patient stories and rounded out by a glossary of terms and an appendix describing home exercises, this is the go-to book for anyone who struggles with dizziness.Trade ReviewThis would be a brilliant read for medical students and primary care physicians. The simplified, common-sense approach, I found, made it compulsive reading, in a subject where that is the exception... It is [an] excellent value indeed. Journal of Laryngology & Otology [A] comprehensive new book. -- Jane Brody New York Times The two doctors simplify explanations of these matters, creating a survey that is packed with insights and information. Donovan's Literary Services This book is practical and useful. Easy to read and understand without being patronising. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Dizzy Spells That Occur with a Change in Position 1. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)2. Orthostatic HypotensionPart II. Dizzy Spells That Occur in Attacks but without Any Apparent Trigger3. Meniere's Disease 4. Migraine-associated DizzinessPart III. A Single Bout of Dizziness That Lasts for Days and Then Gradually Improves5. Vestibular Neuritis 6. Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs)Part IV. Constant Dizziness That Lasts 24 Hours a Day for Months and Even Years7. Dizziness and Anxiety (Chronic subjective dizziness)8. Mal de debarquement Syndrome (MdDS)9. Dizziness Due to Loss of Vestibular Function in Both Ears10. Small Vessel Ischemic Disease of the Deep White MatterAppendix: Home Exercises GlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRecommended for popular science readers looking to refute the anti-vaccination debate as well as readers interested in children's public health.—Library JournalHotez's book stands tall not just because he has explained in great detail the humbling efforts of scientists like himself in developing vaccines and immunisation schedules and their intellectual mythbusting efforts after the Wakefield controversy. The reason why Hotez's book is special is that he has gone the extra mile to scientifically understand and tell the world in direct and simple words repeatedly that his daughter's autism has nothing to do with vaccines.—The LancetIn the era of 'fake news,' we need to encourage Hotez's kind of scientific engagement. Scientists are not part of our national discourse on many issues, even on issues directly relating to their expertise. That needs to change. Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism is Hotez's shot across the bow, directly aimed at the non-scientific public. Hopefully, it's a shot that will be heard around the world.—Spectator USAHotez isn't pulling any punches.—Foreword ReviewsPeter Hotez has two words for his fellow scientists: Speak up. [Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism] seeks to clear some people's muddied perspectives on autism and vaccines while also sharing his journey with his daughter Rachel.—Global Health NOWA tour de force in the field. I have read many books on vaccines and vaccine policies and this one stands out among all of them. Perhaps it is the way Dr. Hotez seamlessly weaves in his and his family's experiences with Rachel's autism. He covers the diagnosis, the daily trials and tribulations, the frustrations, and the successes. I can't recommend this book enough and hope it has a wide audience of physicians, parents, students, and policy makers.—Tracking ZebraDr. Hotez's third published book combines the deeply personal story of his experiences as the father of a child with autism and his equally intimate and detailed knowledge of both vaccine science and what's now known about what does (and does not) cause autism. As a scientist whose research focuses on developing vaccines against an array of devastating tropical diseases that overwhelmingly affect the world's poor, and as one both capable and willing to inform others in terms understandable to the general public, his viewpoint is by equal degrees credible and vitally important. This is a well-reasoned and reasonable book; a well-structured and convincing defense of true science in the age of fake news and rampant pseudoscience.—JIMLEEAUTHOR BlogWithout a shadow of doubt, [this book is] one of Dr. Hotez's most important contributions to humanity. Through its pages, Dr. Hotez wages the largest of battles: the battle against ignorance and indolence, choosing to take a step forward against the powerful and well-installed anti-vaccine movement. Dr. Hotez wrote this book as a vaccine against public skepticism by using veracity and facts. He renewed faith in the medical practice of immunization.—Bulletin of the National Academy of Medicine - VenezuelaDr. Hotez has opened his heart and mind on the pages of this important book, which reads like a psychological autopsy of a family living and struggling with debilitating illness. It is highly recommended.—The ASCO PostThe book blends the history of vaccination and the anti-vaccine movement with Hotez's personal history as an autism dad and vaccine scientist. Together, the narratives make a compelling argument for why vaccines are one of the most important tools humans have in our battle against disease—and why the turn against these life-saving shots by some requires our urgent attention.—VoxTable of ContentsForeword, by Arthur L. Caplan Preface 1. Family Interrupted 2. Saving Lives with Vaccines 3. A Mostly Noncompliant Little Girl 4. Derailment 5. Like Rome during the Roman Empire 6. The British Invasion 7. Montrose 8. Vaccines Don't Cause Autism: The Scientific Evidence 9. What Does Cause Autism? The Scientific Evidence 10. Struck by Lightning 11. Our Family's Future 12. "Science Tikkun" Epilogue: Talking Points References Index

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Book SynopsisNow completely revised and updated! The ultimate guide to taking care of your feet. Written by leading experts with decades of experience in podiatry, this new edition of The Foot Book covers everything you need to know to care for your feet. It addresses the entire foot, inside and out, describing in plain English its anatomy and biomechanical operations. The second edition also: Provides an overview of common and rare foot injuries and syndromes Includes information on alignment and balance problems, heel pain, skin and toe conditions, flat feet, arthritis, and more Offers guidance on medications, exercises, stretches, inserts, therapy, and surgery Explains how to select the right footwear and provides shoe recommendations Covers foot issues in children, athletes, people with diabetes, and people with nerve or vascular problems Includes links to supplemental videos that guide you through stretching, flexibility, and strengthening exercisesIllustrated with nearly 100 images, The FoTable of ContentsPrefacePart I. IntroductionChapter 1. A Guide to the Foot and How We WalkChapter 2. Personal Care and Professional Help for FeetChapter 3. About ShoesPart II. Foot Disorders and Other ProblemsChapter 4. Foot Alignment ProblemsChapter 5. Flat Feet and High-Arched FeetChapter 6. Skin Conditions Affecting the FootChapter 7. Toenail DisordersChapter 8. Bunions and Other Toe Conditions Chapter 9. Heel PainChapter 10. Nerve Syndromes Affecting the Foot and AnkleChapter 11. Arthritis Affecting Foot and Ankle JointsChapter 12. Tendon InjuriesPart III. People with Special Foot NeedsChapter 13. Foot Problems That Start in ChildhoodChapter 14. Common Sports Injuries and the Sports Enthusiast's FootChapter 15. Foot Health for People with DiabetesChapter 16. Orthotic Devices to Alleviate Foot ProblemsChapter 17. Puncture Wounds and Foreign BodiesResourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisA poignant autoethnography that reflects back forty years later on loving someone chronically ill.

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Book SynopsisDiary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern''s memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels—down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to Trade Review“Diary of a Detour is such a great book, excessive like Lesley Stern's own intense appetite for life that includes her wide knowledge about the intricacies of disease. It's the most pleasurable cancer book imaginable. I was riveted, the specificity of the writing is a drug. Stern has written a wonderful, stirring, magnificent book. Oh, World, you are the love object of this hardworking, self-deprecating extravagant genius.” -- Eileen Myles, author of * Evolution *“Diary of a Detour is wonderful on so many levels. Besides being an extraordinary writer, Lesley Stern is emotionally and intellectually sophisticated in such subtle and deep ways. She outlines the stakes of learning to live and feel in the grip of inescapable finitude and mortality, together with others of many kinds and species, but also alone, as irreducibly this vulnerable person and no other. I love this book.” -- Donna J. Haraway, author of * Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene *"What emerges most powerfully is Stern’s determination to live—not just to stay alive but, as Tennyson writes in 'Ulysses,' 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.' . . . A mixture of the mundane and the medical, the ordinary and the extraordinary." * Kirkus Reviews *"[Stern's] final book, the magnificent Diary of a Detour (2020) that appeared just before her passing, records how the force of obsession – obsessions with planting and tending, with chickens, with the growing and preparing of food, with the cycles of nature – literally prolonged her life, pulling her through into new and brilliant investigations, and an ever-widening collaboration with activists at all levels of the environmental movement." -- Adrian Martin * ArtsHub *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Chickens Saved My Life 1 2. The Time It Takes (By Way of an Introduction) 3 3. Secret 7 4. A Possum Fate (Averted) 9 5. Events Unfold in the Snow 12 6. Chicken Feet 17 7. Why Chickens or Homage to Gloria 18 8. Boomerang 22 9. A Way of Making Another Egg 25 10. Shivers and Shakes 28 11. The Chicken or the Egg 32 12. Strawberry/Fetish 34 13. Life after Life 40 14. The Poetry of Pigs 44 15. Some Musings on Metaphor 45 16. Tricking the Body 51 17. Chicken Joke 53 18. Nice Paint Job 57 19. Frenzied Calm 59 20. Tokhm-e Morgh 73 21. Disability 74 22. Why Me, Lord? 75 23. Five Down, Two to Go 80 24. The Warrior Song of King Gesar 81 25. Euphoria 85 26. A Fern Romance 87 27. Weeding 89 28. Untimely 92 29. Blue/Shimmer 93 30. Missed Connection 109 31. Blown through the Air 111 32. Don't Think about It (For the Moment) 114 33. Spheres of Glass 115 34. Purple Haze 123 35. Cantankerous Rooster 125 36. Dead and Alive: A Tenuous Continuum 128 37. Breakfast Anecdotes 138 38. Landscape 139 39. Tootin Pootin 143 40. Dragon Inn 150 41. All along the Highway 153 42. A Lion's Roar 156 43. The Ecology of Cancer, and What Do Ants Have to Do with It? 158 44. What Does It Matter? 164 45. So Unctuous and So Tender 166 46. Dorland 169 47. Touched by a Whale 174 48. Travel 181 49. The Answer Is Not Coming 182 50. Night Club Bouncers 184 51. All Natural 187 52. Anza Borrego 190 53. Lighten Up 197 54. Glad to Be Here (Plaintive Knowledge) 203 55. Stinging Nettles 205 56. A Talent for Cancer 212 57. Phobia: The Chickens Come Home to Roost 214 58. Walking Meditation 219 59. A Ticket for Tuppence 221 60. Reaching Yirrkala 226 61. Chookless 245 62. Chicken Shit 246 63. Mimetic Pain 250 64. You Are Mostly Not You 254 65. R.I.P. Elvis, the King of the Cats 260 66. Afterlife 263 67. Art Alive 268 68. Bodies in Pieces 271 69. A Prospect of Consolation 275 70. Fig Future 278 71. Between Fresh and Rotten 280 72. Blood Poetry 294 73. Shimmer and Glimmer 295 74. I Need an Advocate 297 75. Nameless 302 76. Fermentation Dreams 306 77. The Structure That a Life Has 309 78. Like a Cat in a Hat, Sleek and Brave: R.I.P. Ryoko 311 79. The Malvolio Gene 314 80. What Do You Expect? 318 81. Chimera 320 82. The Last Chicken Standing 335 83. Arrivderci 338 Notes 343

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Book SynopsisIn SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the epicenters of the outbreak in China and Hong Kong. As the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted issues of anti-Asian racism and sinophobia, Kong traces how Chinese people navigated the SARS pandemic and created meaning amid crisis through cultures of epidemic expression. From sentimental romances and Cantopop songs to raunchy sex comedies and crowdsourced ghost tales, unexpected and minor genres and creators of Chinese popular culture highlight the resilience and humanity of those living through the pandemic. Rather than narrating pandemic life in terms of crisis and catastrophe, Kong argues that these works highlight Chinese practices of community, care, and love amid disease. She also highlights the persistence of orientalism in anglophone accounts of SARS index patients and global reporting on COVID-era China. Kong shows hTrade Review“As we still come to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic, Belinda Kong’s SARS Stories provides a powerful testament to the ways in which cultural discourse—fiction, film, and digital media—shape our understanding of pandemic narratives. In the process, Kong reveals the often tenuous line between the truths conveyed through ‘fiction’ and the lies that sometimes haunt the ‘facts.’” -- Michael Berry, author of * Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign *“As our contemporary pandemic commonsense swings from jingoism to denialism, reading Belinda Kong’s incredibly learned and daring book has been not just enlightening but, dare I say, therapeutic. Kong has taught me to think anew about pandemic epistemologies in relation to race, empire, and power while giving name to my own desire for ‘pandemic prosociality.’ Written with warmth, curiosity, and verve, SARS Stories will speak to anyone and everyone who has tried to make sense of the past several years of pandemic life.” -- Sunny Xiang, author of * Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Pandemic Ordinariness: Epidemic Romances and Female Sentiments 33 2. Pandemic Humor: Digital Prosociality for the Epidemic Socius 77 3. Pandemic Resilience: Deextinction and the Hong Kong Cantophone 112 4. Pandemic First Patients: Deperilizing the Anglophone SARS Archive 180 Afterword 238 Notes 241 Bibliography 267 Index 285

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Book SynopsisPresents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, Shari L. Dworkin argues that the centrality of heterosexual relationship dynamics to the transmission of HIV means that both women and men need to be taken into account in gender-specific HIV/AIDS prevention interventions. She looks at the costs of masculinity that shape men's HIV risks, such as their initiation of sex and their increased status from sex with multiple partners.Engaging with the common paradigm in HIV research that portrays only womenand not heterosexually active menas being vulnerable to HIV, Dworkin examines the gaps in public health knowledge that result in substandard treatment for HIV transmission and infection among heterosexual men both domestically aTrade ReviewMen at Risk offers an incisive critique of several decades of HIV prevention programming that has largely rendered heterosexually-active men invisible to public health knowledge and practice.It wrestles candidly with the many conceptual, methodological, and political dilemmas of feminist work on masculinities.But, it also points to important successes and opportunities in gender-transformative and intersectional work with men and boys. Dworkins account of this terrain is thoroughgoing and expert, but also forceful and politically clear-eyed. -- Christopher J. Colvin,Senior Researcher in HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town, South AfricaA timely and evocative contribution to the growing literature globally on masculinity and HIV prevention. With a focus firmly on heterosexual mens practices and experiences, Men at Risk fills a major gap.A & must read for scholars of gender and sexuality in relation to HIV, and a valuable resource to inspire policy makers and program developers. -- Peter Aggleton,author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS

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Book SynopsisWhen Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a Cancer Moonshot, this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research.The author's daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront of this effort cared for his brother at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York. Wendel went in search of this extraordinary group, interviewing Lucius Sinks, James Holland, Donald Pinkel, and others in the field. If there were a Mount Rushmore for cancer research, they would be on it.Despite being ostracized by their medical peers, these doctors developed modern-day chemotherapy practices and invented the blood centrifuge machine, helping thousands of children live longer lives. Part family memoir and part medical narrative, Cancer CrossingsTrade ReviewBoth informative and compassionate, Wendel's book celebrates his brother's life and serves as a testament to the commitment of doctors who went above and beyond expectations to transform a death sentence into a survivable disease. A sensitive and thoughtful excavation of a painful period in the author's life. * Kirkus Reviews *Responds brilliantly to Sontag’s decades-old call for new metaphors, new ways of imagining cancer.... Wendel approaches an emotional and highly fraught topic with gentleness and compassion for the reader. * Washington Independent Review of Books *This fine book combines dual pleasures for readers: it's a heartfelt excavation of a painful stretch in the author's life and a history of a seminal period in oncology.... This compelling book is highly recommended for readers of The ASCO Post. * The ASCO Post *

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Book SynopsisNautilus Book Awards — Silver Award Winner2010 had been a very good year for Bruce H. Kramer. But what began as a floppy foot and leg weakness led to a shattering diagnosis: he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS is a cruel, unrelenting neurodegenerative disease in which the body’s muscles slowly weaken, including those used to move, swallow, talk, and ultimately breathe. There is no cure: ALS is a death sentence.When death is a constant companion, sitting too closely beside you at the dinner table, coloring your thoughts and feelings and words, your outlook on life is utterly transformed. The perspective and insights offered in We Know How This Ends reveal this daily reality and inspire a way forward for anyone who has suffered major loss and for anyone who surely will. Rather than wallowing in sadness and bitterness, anger and denial, Kramer accepted the crushing diagnosis. The educator and musician recognized that if he wanted a meaningful life, then embracing his imminent death was his only viable option. His decision was the foundation for profound, personal reflection and growth, even as his body weakened, and inspired him to share the lessons he was learning from ALS about how to live as fully as possible, even in the midst of devastating grief.At the time Kramer was diagnosed, broadcast journalist Cathy Wurzer was struggling with her own losses, especially her father’s slow descent into the bewildering world of dementia. Mutual friends put this unlikely pair—journalist and educator—together, and the serendipitous result has been a series of remarkable broadcast conversations, a deep friendship, and now this book.Written with wisdom, genuine humor, and down-to-earth observations, We Know How This Ends is far more than a memoir. It is a dignified, courageous, and unflinching look at how acceptance of loss and inevitable death can lead us all to a more meaningful and fulfilling life.Trade Review "Security and immortality are both superstitions; the best we can do is make an adventure of our lives. In this exquisite book, Bruce H. Kramer finds adventure in the most unlikely of places: the death sentence that is ALS. We Know How This Ends is a moving tale that teaches us more about living well than any self-help book ever can."—Dan Buettner, New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest "The revelatory journey that Bruce H. Kramer and Cathy Wurzer take us on is full of insight, wisdom, sorrow—and joy. This beautiful book should be required reading for all patients, caregivers, and clinicians to better understand that there can be growth and peace and exuberant life even while dying."—Jon Hallberg, M.D., University of Minnesota "As Bruce’s yoga teacher, student, and friend, I have witnessed the story behind this magnificent tale of becoming. I have watched his strength, his grace, and his willingness to love. Bruce’s prose is courageous and penetrating, elegant and unprecedented. This book will change your life."—Matthew Sanford, author of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence "Bruce H. Kramer turns his diamond-hard diagnosis like a prism, reflecting light and joy in surprising places. We need to hear this story now. The honesty and clarity of Kramer and Cathy Wurzer invite us to consider how we live in the face of impending death or unwanted change."—Susan Allen Toth, author of No Saints around Here: A Caregiver’s Days "Yet what comes through most powerfully in Kramer's story is not the pain but the quiet surge of gratitude and joy he has discovered in confronting his imminent death."—Next Avenue, Twin Cities Public Television"Poetic and practical in embracing the inevitable."—MinnPost"Kramer is an excellent writer, a former college professor of education, spinning language in fascinating ways to make the reader stop and think, fell, and explore the profound lessons of a man facing death. He show great wisdom, and the lessons presented in his book apply to all."—Mainstay"We Know How This Ends is a hopeful book. And a serious, joyful, literate, nuanced, bracing and funny book."—The Huffington Post"There are so many true words of wisdom in this book. "—The Caregivers’ Living Room"Kramer is a powerful writer with a gift for crafting fresh descriptions, situations and emotions that are often reduced to clichés. He provides anyone with a terminal disease, and anyone caring for someone with one, with an eloquent guidebook on how to cope with eventual loss and embrace the days that are left."—The National Book Review"A gripping account."—Star TribuneTable of ContentsContentsPrologueCathy Wurzer1. Parallel Lives2. The Footman Snickers3. A House Built on Sand4. A Delicate Dance5. Disease and Dis Ease6. Faith, Part I: Fulfilling What Is Meant to Be7. The Tell8. It Isn’t Just about You9. The Gift10. Happy Anniversary11. Faith, Part II: It’s Your Choice12. Handbook for the Recently Dis Eased13. Time Traveling14. Tripping the Light Fantastic15. Killing the Buddha16. The Gravity of It All17. Ready to Fall18. The Metrics of Measurement19. A Death-Defining Feat20. The Non–Bucket List21. The Widening Gyre22. Faith, Part III: Wrestling with Angels23. Inside Out24. Dis Ease Yoga25. Faith, Part IV: What’s Love Got to Do with It?26. We Know How This EndsAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisHow do women living with genital herpes and/or HPV (human papilloma virus) infections see themselves as sexual beings, and what choices do they make about sexual health issues? Adina Nack, a medical sociologist who specializes in sexual health and social psychology, conducted in-depth interviews with 43 women about their identities and sexuality in regards to chronic illness. The result is a fascinating book about an issue that affects over 15 million Americans, but is all too little discussed. Damaged Goods adds to our knowledge of how women are affected by living with chronic STDs and reveals the stages of their sexual- self transformation. From the anxiety of being diagnosed with an STD to issues of blame and shame, Nack-herself diagnosed with a cervical HPV infection-shows why these women feeling that they are \u0022damaged goods,\u0022 question future relationships, marriage, and their ability to have healthy children.Trade Review"Damaged Goods extends major ideas about stigma and links them to women's sexual selves. It makes the most explicit links that I have seen between sexually transmitted disease and how women construct and reconstruct their sexual selves and does so in an engaging, accessible way. Nack's emphasis on how these women see themselves as sexual beings is particularly strong. She advances the literature in this area." -Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii 1 Mixing Morality with Medicine 1 2 Sexual Invincibility 25 3 STD Anxiety 53 4 The Immoral Patient 70 5 Damaged Goods 94 6 Sexual Healing 111 7 Reintegrating the Sexual Self 136 8 From Personal Tragedies to Social Change 165 Appendix A: Gaining Entree - an Auto-Ethnographic Foundation 205 Appendix B: Research Methodology 216 Appendix C: Demographic Characteristics of Participants 226 Notes 228 Glossary 230 References 238 Index 250

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Book SynopsisHow do women living with genital herpes and/or HPV (human papilloma virus) infections see themselves as sexual beings, and what choices do they make about sexual health issues? Adina Nack, a medical sociologist who specializes in sexual health and social psychology, conducted in-depth interviews with 43 women about their identities and sexuality in regards to chronic illness. The result is a fascinating book about an issue that affects over 15 million Americans, but is all too little discussed. Damaged Goods adds to our knowledge of how women are affected by living with chronic STDs and reveals the stages of their sexual- self transformation. From the anxiety of being diagnosed with an STD to issues of blame and shame, Nack-herself diagnosed with a cervical HPV infection-shows why these women feeling that they are \u0022damaged goods,\u0022 question future relationships, marriage, and their ability to have healthy children.Trade Review"Damaged Goods extends major ideas about stigma and links them to women's sexual selves. It makes the most explicit links that I have seen between sexually transmitted disease and how women construct and reconstruct their sexual selves and does so in an engaging, accessible way. Nack's emphasis on how these women see themselves as sexual beings is particularly strong. She advances the literature in this area." -Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii 1 Mixing Morality with Medicine 1 2 Sexual Invincibility 25 3 STD Anxiety 53 4 The Immoral Patient 70 5 Damaged Goods 94 6 Sexual Healing 111 7 Reintegrating the Sexual Self 136 8 From Personal Tragedies to Social Change 165 Appendix A: Gaining Entree - an Auto-Ethnographic Foundation 205 Appendix B: Research Methodology 216 Appendix C: Demographic Characteristics of Participants 226 Notes 228 Glossary 230 References 238 Index 250

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Book SynopsisChildren with autism often don't get a diagnosis in their first few years of life - but if a very young child is exhibiting red flags, what should professionals and parents do in the meantime? This book has accessible, real-world solutions for use with children birth to three, with or without an autism diagnosis. A follow-up to the bestselling Early Intervention Every Day!, this practical guide is packed with simple, highly effective suggestions for strengthening critical skills during daily routines, from dressing in the morning to getting ready for bed. Early interventionists and other professionals will learn how to coach families in weaving these activities into everyday life with their child, so that intervention continues long after the professional goes home.Discover how to: Recognize red flags for autism spectrum disorder Help children build a foundation for learning to interact, communicate, and participate in routines Strengthen skills that are especially challenging for children with autism, such as regulation, flexibility, and social communication Support families on the journey from pursuing a diagnosis to accessing services Implement concepts and teaching strategies based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) Address common challenges that occur during daily routines and activities Monitor progress to ensure that the strategies are helping children reach their IFSP goals Promote children's participation across settings: in homes, preschools, and other community settings Practical Materials: A downloadable Reinforcer Survey that helps determine specific ways to motivate a young child, tables that assist with problem-solving in order to identify possible reasons for challenging behaviors, and vignettes and case stories that illustrate effective intervention techniques.

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever, sufferers of opioid use disorder (OUD) need an authoritative guide. Brimming with expert advice and actionable tips from noted addiction psychiatrist Dr. Adam Bisaga, Overcoming Opioid Addiction demystifies addiction and destigmatises medication-assisted treatment. In this book, OUD sufferers, their loved ones, and professionals alike will learn everything they need to know, including: • The science that underlies addiction and why the opioid epidemic has taken hold and become so deadly • The different stages and effective methods of treatment, including detoxification vs. maintenance medications, as well as behavioural therapy • How to deal with relapses and how to thrive despite OUD. Complete with a brief guide tailored to families that offers crucial, life-saving information, such as how to select the best program, manage medications, and reverse an overdose, this is the ultimate guide to identifying, treating, and overcoming OUD - once and for all.

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Book SynopsisA leading oncologist at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Pamela Munster has advised thousands of women on how to deal with the life-altering diagnosis of breast cancer. But when she got a call saying that her own mammogram showed “irregularities,” she found herself experiencing a whole new side of the disease she thought she was an expert in. Weaving together her personal story with her team’s groundbreaking research on the BRCA gene—responsible for not only breast cancer but also for many other inherited cancers affecting both women and men—Twisting Fate is an inspiring guide to living with BRCA mutations. With authority, insight, and compassion, Dr. Munster uses her voice to create a safe space for genuine healing and honesty in a world otherwise dominated by fear.

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Book SynopsisThis resource guide provides a comprehensive overview of the support services and information resources available for people diagnosed with a chronic illness. It details the wide range of organizations, educational materials, books, newsletters, web sites, periodicals and databases that address 88 specific chronic illnesses.

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Book SynopsisThe Devil and Dr. Fauci is an unsparing critique of what author James Driscoll calls the "Drug Testing, Licensing, and Marketing Complex," or DTLM. Quietly dominating America's healthcare industry, the DTLM poses threats comparable in magnitude, if not in character, to those of the Military-Industrial Complex. With a satiric scalpel reminiscent of Jonathan Swift's, Driscoll eviscerates the DTLM's avatar Dr. Anthony Fauci, our age's version of the archetypal Dr. Faustus. He exposes Fauci's pivotal position in the DTLM, at whose core is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA, Driscoll asserts, has long played Mephistopheles to Fauci's Faustus, with grave consequences for American healthcare.Dr. Driscoll's book is the first to upbraid the DTLM, FDA, and Fauci for exacerbating the Covid-19 crisis. Seeking to maximize profits from patentable vaccines, they rigorously suppressed off patent prophylaxis and treatment alternatives. This was but one of many DTLM follies that raised Covid's death toll and increased its socio-economic devastation. Other prominent follies were the mask posturing, arbitrary lockdowns, and closing of churches and schools that the DTLM and its political allies used to distract from their sacrifice of public health to their own agendas.We may never know if the Chinese deliberately released the Covid-19 virus, or if they created it. Yet the world now knows the destructive potential of gain of function technology. Similar epidemics or worse will strike us. To survive next time, we will need radical reforms in the FDA and transparency for the DTLM. But the opaque FDA bureaucracy, Driscoll concludes, is only one instance in our greater problem of deficient oversight within all of our increasingly powerful and ever less accountable federal bureaucracies.

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Book SynopsisIce spiked with lavender and water chilled with a handful of blueberries and pomegranate seeds give hydration a whole new level of enjoyment. Keep it organic and sugar free with more than 50 simple yet distinctive recipes from Mimi Kirk, arguably the healthiest 80-year-old woman around. Perhaps her water really does come from the fountain of youth! Long before water infuser bottles appeared on the market, Kirk was adding berries and botanicals to her daily 64 ounces. Water might be the most important tool in the quest for vitality and long life: it aids in digestion and detoxification and helps us maintain energy and feel satiated. Hydration is the key to looking and feeling young—these simple recipes will inspire even the most resistant water drinkers to up the ante.

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Book SynopsisPoorly digested sugars and carbohydrates are often the cause of discomfort. Low-FODMAP diets, which feature foods low in these elements, have become popular aids in gut health and comfort. It can feel hard to keep track of it all, though, and sometimes a quick fix that actually helps relieve pain and bloat right away is the perfect antidote— especially when it may also result in flatter bellies. From satisfying smoothies to warm broths, creative cocktails to nutrient- packed juices, Danielle Capalino has thought of a drink for everyone and every gut. Recipes include: Sparkling Green Smoothie, Beef Broth with Lemongrass, Turmeric Chai and Orange Cranberry Cocktail. Discover the pathway to ultimate gut health by raising a delicious, probiotic- rich glass. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the low-FODMAP diet, information on probiotics, and much, much more.

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Book SynopsisInsomnia looks different for everyone. Whether it’s caused by stress, a traumatic life event or even a snoring partner, poor sleep can affect the quality of your waking life. But Dr Pedram Navab wants readers to know that it’s not a lost cause—falling asleep can be just as easy as waking up. With his cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-I) programme, paired with relatable case studies of different sleep disorders, readers are guided to new and improved sleep in as little as four weeks. In Sleep Reimagined, the six-step CBT-I programme teaches readers how to understand sleep, rewire their arousal system through therapeutic relaxation, practise sleep restriction and stimulus control, restructure attitudes towards sleep, use mindfulness intervention to continue cognitive components and prevent insomnia relapse through planning. Both comprehensive and entertaining, this book is the perfect bedside companion to discover better sleep and better life.Trade Review"Sleep Reimagined brilliantly encourages readers to use their own imagination to relate to patients from case studies, steadily building their understanding about sleep disorders while unveiling insights about treatment that the readers can then apply to their own lives." -- Gwynne Church MD, Pediatric Sleep Medicine, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital"Dr. Pedram Navab is a very skillful storyteller and has written a series of compelling vignettes to bring to life the realities of what it is like to suffer from poor sleep. Pedram uses his unique perspective to share his insights from his experience as a sleep expert to help the reader revisualize their relationship with sleep. People with insomnia, in particular, may appreciate the latter part of the book, which provides a roadmap to better sleep health." -- Rafael Pelayo MD, author of How to Sleep"For people who struggle to get a good night’s sleep, and for the people who treat patients with insomnia, this book provides a clear and concise guide to cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). The opening series of case examples highlight the usefulness of CBT-I strategies for individuals experiencing a variety of real-life challenges." -- Jennifer L. Martin, PhD, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA" Dr. Navab has taken an engaging and unique approach in Sleep Reimagined to help reinforce the importance of sleep and to make treatment interventions feel both personalized and hopeful. . . . While sleep treatment is very effective, it is not ‘one size fits all’ as many other self-help books suggest. Dr. Navab has nailed it, and I am sure this will be beneficial to many people coping with insomnia and other sleep disorders." -- Britney Blair, PsyD, DBSM, CST, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

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Book SynopsisHearing the words "You have cancer" can be devastating-some cancer patients even say that the emotional pain and loss of certainty from hearing this are worse than the pains from the cancer, surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, and other treatments. This is the intimate journey of a melanoma and breast cancer survivor who honestly, and sometimes even humorously, shares her own story and offers supportive emotional tools to help people diagnosed with cancer, and their loved ones and caregivers, work through the emotional pain and upheaval of a cancer diagnosis. You will be supported in knowing what it feels like to hear you have cancer and be given a variety of helpful ideas to start feeling better whether you are newly diagnosed, in treatment, or months or years after treatment. If you are a caregiver, friend, or family member who wants to help, you will get a better understanding of the cancer experience as well as tools to help the person you care about.

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Book Synopsis'The wisdom and knowledge that Judy has learned from her experience with cancer can be our guide and coach.' - Bernie Siegel MD, Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and The Art of Healing This extraordinary book is for anyone whose life has been touched by cancer, whether as a patient or as someone who supports cancer patients either personally or professionally. Author Judy Erel’s brave account of her own journey, which began with the diagnosis of incurable bone marrow cancer, offers helpful, friendly guidance for every cancer challenge, from diagnosis through radiation, chemotherapy, surgery and a bone marrow transplant to remission and beyond. Throughout the book are detailed instructions for her Thought Work – practical exercises designed to create a positive, proactive mindset that maximizes recovery potential and supports conventional cancer treatment. Alongside these exercises, which include journaling, mandala creation, setting healing intentions, mindful breathing and guided meditations, Judy offers her own transformative artworks with the reminder that any creative self-expression can be healing. You absolutely do not have to be artistic to benefit from her methods as it is not the outcome but the actual physical process of doing that matters, ultimately empowering and transforming both mind and body.Trade Review"Judy Erel has a survivor personality and shares her experience with us. I have learned from my patients that self-induced healing is not a lucky spontaneous event. It takes courage and the willingness to change yourself and your life so your body gets the message. The wisdom and knowledge that she has learned from her experience with cancer can be our guide and coach. I could write a book just pointing out the wisdom she shares with us. She has learned what healing your life and body is about versus waging a war against cancer. She guides us and shows us the path to healing and how to awaken our body to the joy of life and understand the value and wisdom of our consciousness." --Bernie Siegel MD, Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and The Art of Healing

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Book SynopsisOverwhelmed, frustrated, and suffering from long haul COVID symptoms and the fallout of the pandemic? This practical guide will help you transform your struggles to lead a fulfilling, vital life right now. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the scientifically based therapeutic approach presented by Joseph J. Trunzo and Julie Luongo, offers a way out - not when you’re feeling better, but right now.

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Book SynopsisPhotography is ubiquitous. The visual image is the predominant form of communication. Arguably it is a very democratic medium, since billions of people all over the planet take photographs on their phones, and digital storage means that expensive printing is not necessary and therefore the practice is not prohibitive. Photography is important to political and social movements and connects people in emotionally meaningful relationships. This book explores the myriad ways in which photographs can be used: to document events, places or things; to consolidate personal identity; to pose a challenge to an idea or regime; to animate the inanimate (in other words, to breathe life into objects); to capture the fleeting and transitory; to create stories; to reveal what may be taken for granted, including seeing social practices; to enhance our perception and allow us to notice previously unnoticed details; to consolidate relationships; to represent the overlooked or marginalised; to commemorate; to authenticate; to tantalise. All these modes of photography have different possibilities, different intentions and different effects.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. A Brief Summary of the History & Development of Photography Chapter 3. How Are Photographs Distinctive? Chapter 4. Photographic Practice for Health & Wellbeing Chapter 5. Photography in Research (Summary of Photographic Research Methods;Photo-documentation, Photo-elicitation; Semiotic Analysis; Content Analysis) Chapter 6. An Introduction to Re-enactment Phototherapy Chapter 7. Therapeutic Photography Chapter 8. Suggestions for Further Reading

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Book SynopsisExploring the potential for storytelling as a creative practice for health and well-being, Michael Wilson considers how the art form might help us reconsider the power relationships in healthcare contexts and restore agency to patients, in partnership with medical professionals. Storytelling is explored not simply as a means of conveying information and experience from one person to another but as an act of listening, a process for thinking, evaluating and understanding. Wilson reflects on his over thirty of years of researching and practising storytelling, and blends his experience with a collection of case studies representing diverse approaches to storytelling for health, including theatre, stand-up comedy, writing, visual arts and digital storytelling. Most importantly, storytelling is approached not from the point of view of the medical practitioner or educator, or even the patient, but through the lens of those who tell stories as a creative and everyday practice. It is a book with the storyteller at its core.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Why Storytelling? Chapter 2. What Might Help: Some Theories and Thinking About Storytelling Chapter 3. Case Studies Chapter 4. Getting Engaged with Storytelling: Challenges and Opportunities Conclusion: Godfather Death

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Book SynopsisThis book puts dementia into a Christian context, insisting that loss of memory or reason does not mean a person is worthless. Dementia is in the headlines on a daily basis. Much information is available but it is all factual with no spiritual content. Yet for Christians, dementia can raise questions unlike any other condition. Why does a godly old man begin to use language that has always been anathema to him? Why does a loving mother become stubborn, and suspicious? Where is God in all of this? This book offers information and reassurance gleaned from the extensive experience of Pilgrim Homes, a network of nine Christian care homes and a foundation going back to 1807.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements 9Foreword 11Preface 13chapter 1: Finding Wonders in the Dark 17chapter 2: Where is the Real Me? 25chapter 3: The Thief that Comes to Destroy 31chapter 4: The Importance of Belonging 41chapter 5: The ‘Ifs’ that are Not Dementia 55chapter 6: Prevention 69chapter 7: Diagnosing Dementia 87chapter 8: Listening 103chapter 9: A Cup of Cold Water 119chapter 10: Sharing the Sufferings of Christ 133chapter 11: Soul Talk 147chapter 12: What’s Happening to Grandma? 161chapter 13: Serving One Another in Love 177chapter 14: This is Our Day! 195appendix: Organizations Offering Advice and Help 201Notes 209Pilgrim Homes 217

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Book SynopsisThis book describes how a new understanding of dementia is leading to better care, helping to maintain the personality of the sufferer. It also offers practical, day to day advice from a hands-on perspective, using a narrative structure. It follows the story of an older couple, Linda and Frank. Frank develops dementia. The story covers the first, early signs and the development of the disease; the couple's struggle to manage and find help, the wife's failing health and the search for a suitable care home, and life after Frank goes to live in the home. An index at the back of the book allows readers to look up help on specific topics. Throughout, the narrative keeps a clear Christian perspective. For example, Linda finds that singing familiar hymns as she dusts around the house not only helps her feel better, but lifts Frank's spirits, too, and he will sometimes join in. Each chapter concludes with a short section of devotions for carers and sufferers.

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