Published September, 2019
By Lynnette Porter
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Preconceptions about a terminal cancer diagnosis frequently are based on popular culture depictions of cancer and dying, which can be misleading as a guide for knowing what to expect. This memoir provides one ""dead"" woman's often-irreverent guide to life that deconstructs some common preconceptions about living with a terminal diagnosis.

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Published September, 2019
By Elaine A. Moore and D. C. Lozar
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Written for anyone who has considered a career in health care - and for any patient who has had an office visit where a provider spent more time doing data-entry than examining them - this book weighs the benefits of emerging technologies against the limitations of traditional systems.

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Published August, 2019
By Edlyn Vallejo Pena
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Chronicles the experiences of ten autistic self-advocates who use rapid prompting method and facilitated communication. Their narratives document the complexities that autistic individuals navigate when choosing to use a highly controversial, alternative form of communication in educational and community settings.

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Published July, 2019
By Micah R. Sadigh
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Autogenic training equips patients to deal with chronic conditions such as anxiety disorders, recurring pain and stress. This expanded edition presents practitioners with a concise exploration of autogenic technique and its clinical use for patients, especially in treating those suffering from chronic pain syndrome and disrupted sleep.

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Published May, 2019
By Janet C. Pittard
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Published May, 2019
By Denise Martz
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Argues that women have unintentionally become their own worst enemies through their engagement in "fat talk" and "body snarking". This book reviews and analyses the origins and effects of fat talk and body shaming, and provides potential solutions that include evidence-based personal therapies and community interventions.

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Published April, 2019
By Wilfred Attenborough
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Investigates how biographical evidence has been used, misused, or not used at all by clinicians entirely reliant on biographical evidence for the influential posthumous diagnoses they have produced of Winston Churchill as a manic-depressive. Attention is also paid to the question of Churchill and "nerves", otherwise known as neurasthenia.

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Published April, 2019
By Harold M. Koenig
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A memoir of the author's medical career in the US Navy, from the Cold War 1960s to his retirement on the brink of the twenty-first century.

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Published April, 2019
By John M. Harris Jr
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A biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, that illuminates landmarks in American health care, including the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, and the revolution in laboratory medicine.

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Published March, 2019
By H. Leon Greene
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Defeat was looming for the South-as the Civil War wore on. Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn, a Confederate physician, had an idea that might turn the tide: he would bring a yellow fever epidemic to the North. Tracing the plans and movements of the conspirators, this thoroughly researched history describes in detail the yellow fever plot of 1864.

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