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• Author(s): Maureen C. McHugh • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Healthy LivingThis groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and sugge...

• Author(s): Marie E. Cargill • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Alternative TherapiesConfronted almost weekly with media coverage of often conflicting medical research findings, women are looking for ways to put this info...

• 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): 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): 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): Thomas E. Bevan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesThis text starts with the history of transgender science and provides current, evidence-based information on theories and treatment procedur...

• Author(s): Linda H. Connor • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: HealingWhat is the current state of traditional healing practices in contemporary Asian societies? How are their practitioners faring in the encounter with We...

• Author(s): Stephen Joseph Williams • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesHow do you go about choosing between health insurance plans . . . selecting a hospital. . .choosing a doctor? These are just some of...

• Author(s): Michael Lemay • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesA unique resource for the general public and students interested in immigration and public health, this book presents a comprehensive history ...

• Author(s): Karin J. Berntsen • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesA nation watched in horror as 17-year-old Jessica Santillian died needlessly after a heart-lung transplant in 2003. She had been given org...

• 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): 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): Toni Miles • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesThis book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud c...

• Author(s): Eric W. Boyle • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesThis timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely co...

• 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): Theresa Drinka • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesBoth comprehensive and accessible, this is an ideal resource for anyone who plans to teach or practice integrated, cost-effective healthcare ...

• Author(s): Deborah Dove Gordon • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Health Care IssuesA health care executive at Harvard explains how to become a savvy consumer and get the value we all deserve for our health care spending...

• Author(s): Madelon L. Finkel • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Women's Health - GeneralThis book, written for the layperson, provides evidence-based material explaining the complex and evolving evidence of the benefits ...

• 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. 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): Arlene Katzman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Safety & Security - Personal Safety & Self-DefenseChemical Contamination and Its Victims is a comprehensive analytical study of three major problems su...

• 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): Phyllis Tilson Piotrow • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralEffective communication is the key to encouraging healthy behavior. Documenting a revolution in both theory and practice, Johns Hopkins Universi...