Published August, 2021
By Laurel Kamada
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This five-part book addresses the basics of strokes; an east-west comparison of stroke rehabilitation between Japan and the US, advice and help for the primary caregivers and families of stroke survivors, and lessons on how to improve systems of care and rehabilitation.

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Published August, 2021
By Philip Lister
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At its centre, this book is the story of a child's psyche growing and striving to understand all she could of her experience, and of a small family coping with life's biggest challenges. It is a story of love's power to help a family cope and endure despite loss, and to grow, through darkness, back toward a full embrace of life.

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Published July, 2021
By William G. Reed
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Progressive, untreatable nerve and muscle diseases transformed the author's life from competing as a college athlete to needing a wheelchair and special equipment for day-to-day activities. While dealing with his own conditions, he was faced with the unique challenge of being the sole caregiver for his wife who was living with Alzheimer's.

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Published June, 2021
By Sheldon T. Sharpe
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The foundation of chiropractic care has always been the relationship between the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system. This book provides an in-depth review of the ways in which abnormal movement in the musculoskeletal system (particularly the spine) will result in altered nervous system function and the potential for poor health.

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Published May, 2021
By Harry Spiller
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Presents the captivating individual stories of 17 US Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen along with many day-to-day, sometimes minute-to-minute recollections of caring for both the wounded and the dead under fire.

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Published April, 2021
By William Indick
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Uses the 'media ecology' model to explore the effects of media on mental disorders. The book traces the development of media from the most basic forms to the most technologically complex media created to date, showing how each medium of communication relates to specific mental disorders.

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Published April, 2021
By Ruth D. Reichard
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Tells the story of a fearful time in America's recent history, as people in the heartland endured massive layoffs, coped with a lethal new disease and discovered a legacy of toxic waste. Now, some 30 years after Ryan White's death, this book offers a fuller accounting of the challenges that one city reckoned with during this tumultuous period.

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Published April, 2021
By Amy Daniels
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This memoir of motherhood at its hardest reveals what went on behind closed doors and beneath the smiles, as the author writes in raw, honest detail about her relationship with her spouse, juggling work demands, raising her typically developing son, and finding lasting friendships throughout each of her daughter's setbacks.

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Published February, 2021
By Dara Lovitz and David Yusko
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Emetophobia - the disproportionate fear of vomiting or being in the presence of someone vomiting - affects millions of people yet is seldom discussed. Until now. Part-memoir, part clinical history, Dara Lovitz's brutally honest account of her life as an emetophobe traces her journey from debilitating phobia to life in recovery.

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Published January, 2021
By Dana Lorene Creighton
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Drawing on research in neuroplasticity, medical records, personal correspondence and genealogy, this book highlights the gap between the experience of debilitating ailment and the impersonal aims of clinicians, and shows how the stories parents tell themselves about living with a genetic disorder influence how they communicate it to their children.

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