
Advancing the Science of Implementation across the Cancer Continuum
David A. Chambers, Cynthia A. Vinson, and Wynne E. Norton (eds)
While many effective interventions have been developed with the potential to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer, they are of no benefit to the health of populations if ...
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Advances in Research and Clinical Practice
Katharine A. Phillips (ed.)
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a devastating yet underrecognized illness. People with BDD are preoccupied with the belief that they look abnormal or ugly—when they actually do not. Their ...
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Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Mental Health and Aging
Helen Lavretsky, Martha Sajatovic, and Charles Reynolds III (eds)
This book is intended to target a broad audience of clinicians, clinical researchers, students in geriatrics and gerontology fields, and family caregivers of older adults interested in ...
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Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry: A Paradigm for Integrated Care (2 ed.)
Mary Ann Cohen, Jack M. Gorman, and Scott L. Letendre (eds)
Psychiatric factors play a significant role in the ongoing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic. In less than four decades, advances in HIV medical care and research have transformed ...
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Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children
Robert Klitzman
Since the first “test tube baby” was born over 40 years ago, in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing ...
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Drug Use in Prisoners: Epidemiology, Implications, and Policy Responses
Stuart A, Kinner and Josiah D. Jody Rich (eds)
The majority of people who experience incarceration have a history of harmful alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drug use. Some discontinue use of these substances while in custody. ...
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Embodied Selves and Divided Minds
Michelle Maiese
Embodied Selves and Divided Minds examines how research in embodied cognition and enactivism can contribute to our understanding of the nature of self-consciousness, the ...
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Genetic Counseling Research: A Practical Guide
Ian M. MacFarlane, Patricia McCarthy Veach, and Bonnie S. LeRoy
Genetic Counseling Research: A Practical Guide is an online resource devoted to research methodology in genetic counseling. It offers step-by-step guidance for conducting research, from the ...
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Genomic Medicine: Principles and Practice (2 ed.)
Dhavendra Kumar and Charis Eng (eds)
This completely revised second edition of Genomic Medicine reflects the rapidly changing face of applied and translational genomics in the medical and health context and provides a ...
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Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni
Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power—an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion and ...
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Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health: Psycho-social Implications of the Reshaping of America
Eugenio M. Rothe and Andres J. Pumariega
Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health is a unique book because it explains culture and identity from a developmental perspective, exploring the psychological, social, and ...
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Inborn Errors of Metabolism: From Neonatal Screening to Metabolic Pathways
Brendan Lee and Fernando Scaglia (eds)
Works on inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) have traditionally focused on classical biochemistry, clinical presentation, and standard treatment approaches. Inborn Errors of Metabolism is an ...
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Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
James Trent
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention—all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history ...
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Landmark Papers in Pain: Seminal Papers in Pain with Expert Commentaries
Paul Farquhar-Smith, Pierre Beaulieu, and Sian Jaggar (eds)
Landmark Papers in Pain offers a comprehensive inventory of over 80 key studies in pain medicine from the last 100 years. Pain medicine, a relatively new specialty, has proven ...
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Learning While Caring: Reflections on a Half-Century of Cancer Practice, Research, Education, and Ethics
Samuel B. Hellman
Learning While Caring is about what the author has learned during his half-century career as a cancer doctor. During this time, medicine has changed greatly. It has become more ...
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Neurobiology of Addictions
Alan C. Swann, F. Gerard Moeller, and Marijn Lijffijt (eds)
This book addresses (1) candidate mechanisms across addictive behaviors, including impulsivity (Chapters 1–5); reward sensitivity (Chapter 2); behavioral sensitization and ...
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Neurobiology of PTSD: From Brain to Mind
Israel Liberzon and Kerry Ressler (eds)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a maladaptive and debilitating psychiatric disorder characterized by an extreme sense of fear at the time of trauma occurrence, with characteristic ...
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Ovarian Cancer Immunotherapy
Samir A. Farghaly (ed.)
Ovarian Cancer Immunotherapy provides a broad overview of several aspects of basic sciences and clinical and therapeutic aspects of immunotherapy for ovarian cancer, as well as ...
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The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care: Autonomy in Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Conditions
Mark Sullivan MD, PhD
In the 21st century, the primary challenge for health care is chronic illness. To meet this challenge, we need to think anew about the role of the patient in health and health care. There ...
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Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials: A Practical Guide (2 ed.)
Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer, Christopher Twelves, and Marc Buyse (eds)
Phase I trials are a critical first step in the study of novel cancer therapeutic approaches. Their primary goals are to identify the recommended dose, schedule and pharmacologic behavior ...
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