Search results for “[Subject: sleep-medicine]”

• Author(s): Kathleen J. Sexton-Radek • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: SleepThis sourcebook presents the history of sleep disorders, from restless legs to insomnia to night terrors, alongside emerging research, illustrat...

• Author(s): E. M. Papper • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralPain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The works of Thomas ...

• Author(s): Sharon Packer • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: DreamsCinema--invented just before psychoanalysis formally developed--primed the public and scholars to rethink ideas about dreams. The author describes how sur...

• Author(s): Chester Roy Garvey • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Physiology

• Author(s): Marie E. Cargill • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Alternative TherapiesIt will be an eye opener for the public to see that acupuncture is widely practiced and that research in this area is going on . . . all...

• Author(s): Michael J. Winkelman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralResearchers, program administrators, and practicing clinicians explain the most recent developments in using psychedelic substances to treat psych...

• Author(s): Cyril H. M. D. Wecht • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralLegal Medicine explores the legal issues that arise from government policy influencing medical practice, advances in medical technology, and new d...

• Author(s): Abraham Bergman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryHistorically neither the health care system nor the government knew or wanted to know about SIDS. Bergman, who has worked with parents and...

• Author(s): Chris Hackler • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: EthicsModern medicine has put a new twist on one of our most fundamental values . . . self-determination. A patient's right to self-determination becomes a poig...

• Author(s): Eric J. Bailey • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Alternative & Complementary MedicineIn order to examine the importance of alternative medicine to the African American population, this book focuses on the...

• Author(s): Roger Bibace • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralHow does a doctor or therapist bridge the gap between particulars and generalizations regarding patients and various phenomena or diseases? The authors of...

• Author(s): Wecht • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralEstablished in 1969, Cyril Wecht's Legal Medicine series has, in the words of a review of the 1982 volume, helped validate and develop the field which it reports...

• Author(s): R. Johnstone • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Herbal MedicationsFor those who want to make educated decisions about whether, and when, to use natural products, this text explains the most current scientific ...

• Author(s): Cyril H. Wecht • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralIn the words of one reviewer Cyril Wecht's Legal Medicine has helped validate and develop the field which it reports. This field is the wide ranging are...

• Author(s): Elliot G. Mishler • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralThis is the first full-length monograph devoted to the study of the talk between physicians and patients in a medical interview. Methods are develope...

• Author(s): John L. Fiedler • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralDoes the timely treatment of mental illness result in a drop in the cost of health care, and if so, what is the cost effectiveness? T...

• Author(s): Jill Hodges • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryA multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and...

• Author(s): Arnold Birenbaum • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryThis important new study explores how American health care evolved in the 1990s, as well as the changes in public support and policy. Bir...

• Author(s): Elliot G. Mishler • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralThis is the first full-length monograph devoted to the study of the talk between physicians and patients in a medical interview. Methods are develope...

• Author(s): Osaak a. Olumwullah • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Public HealthOlumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya and analyzes the introduction an...

• Author(s): Garg • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Hospital Administration & CareThe financing of graduate medical education is likely to change significantly in the near future as third party payers are already pres...

• Author(s): Barbara M. Barzansky • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Education & TrainingFor decades, educators, historians, and social commentators accorded major responsibility for the reform of medical education in ...

• Author(s): David Ellison • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralIn 1882, Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus, signaling a redirection of medical thinking from the trial and error guesswork of individual experience ...

• Author(s): Daniel Moerman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Public HealthThis long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as divers...

• Author(s): Arthur S. Berger • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Civil ProcedureWhile health professionals may be adequately informed about the legal aspects of many specialized areas of medicine and nursing, they may not ...

• Author(s): Betty Leyerle • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care Delivery

• Author(s): Debra Roter • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Physician & Patient (incl. Narrative Medicine)The verbal and nonverbal exchanges that take place between doctor and patient affect both participants, and can ...

• Author(s): Chris Willmott • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: BiotechnologyThrough engaging case studies and clear explanations of the underlying science, this book makes the social impacts and ethical consequences of rec...

• Author(s): Kenneth Miller • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Oncology - GeneralA clear, concise, and essential guide providing key information about cancer survivors and their needs--and how those needs can best be met. ...

• Author(s): Tee L. Guidotti • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Occupational & Industrial MedicineThis set is designed to be a thorough introduction for physicians entering the occupational and environmental medicine f...