Written by a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist with more than twenty years' experience helping people--from depressed teenagers to people with disabilities to older people with chronic illness--Making the Moments Count provides clear strategies for making leisure part of the caregiving experience. Drawing on the latest research in caregiving and ......
A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families
As a medical oncologist, Dr. Robert Buckman has been taking care of people with cancer for more than twenty years. For most of those years, he says, he has spent much of his time talking with patients and their familiesdescribing what is known about cancer (and what isn't), explaining why specialists have recommended one type of treatment ......
The Prevention & Treatment of Computer-Related Injuries
Calls attention to the common problems of computer use. This book offers practical advice and helpful hints intended to lessen the risk of sustaining injuries related to posture, rapid movements, and positional errors common to writers, computer users, and other occupations.
Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Doctors
Compiles medical mishaps and scandals from the past and present, including wonder drugs with terrible side effects, lobotomies performed with ice picks, and drugs worse than the diseases they are intended to treat.
An estimated 200,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1994. This book is for all the men, and their caring partners, who must confront the disease and impotence. It seeks to provide the understanding that the author struggled so long to find during his healing journey. It is intended for those who are working through recovery.
Over the past century, various men and women have forged psychology into a dynamic science, leaving behind a rich legacy of innovative research and theoretical perspectives. The volumes in the Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology series chronicle the lives of these giants in the field and outline their influences on psychology today. The first ......
Keeping Control is a compassionate, medically reliable, and thoroughly informative resource for anyone who wants to understand the possible causes of fecal incontinence, learn about important advances in management and treatment, and do something about the problem. Written by a noted Johns Hopkins physician and an experienced medical writer and ......
Presents a picture of the multibillion-dollar health-food industry and counters the false assertions of health-food hucksters with scientifically based nutrition information. This title includes appendices on balancing your diet, evaluating claims made for more than 60 supplements and food products and more.
A guide to understanding cancer and its causes, it explains what the average consumer can do to reduce the risks of contracting this most feared of diseases.
