Chemical sensitivity describes people with numerous troubling symptoms attributed to environmental factors, from simple house paint to complex building structures and materials in offices and schools. This book examines this phenomenon and the scientific, legal, ethical, and political issues that surround it.
Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve
How do the necessities of caring for others deter, benefit, or redefine research and teaching in higher education? What have universities done to recognize the difficulties facing academic parents, single mothers and fathers, graduate students, lesbian and gay couples? What pro-family policies can be enacted during institutional budget crises? At ......
Modern medicine is one of the most successful branches of science, with a distinguished history of conquering many of the twentieth century's deadliest diseases. Yet today people are turning in record numbers to alternative therapies that have little or no scientific basis. What accounts for this flight from reason in the face of hard evidence ......
Offers hope for the millions who suffer from chronic pain. This book describes how people are living busy, normal lives - despite the pain. It offers suggestions for immediate treatment, provides reasons why exercise and movement can end chronic pain, and shows how sufferers can ease stress and begin to manage their pain.
Providing instructions addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of caregiving, this book focuses on advocacy and medical self-care. It offers comprehensive guidelines that help families supplement care. It also highlights the role that family plays in enriching the lives of nursing home residents.
New treatments and advances in therapy for the ravages of Parkinson's disease are constantly being researched and perfected for patients, yet those afflicted still must endure tremors, poor balance, speech problems, and lessened psychological well-being. Patients and families need the most up-to-date information available to improve quality of ......
New treatments and advances in therapy for the ravages of Parkinson's disease are constantly being researched and perfected for patients, yet those afflicted still must endure tremors, poor balance, speech problems, and lessened psychological well-being. Patients and families need the most up-to-date information available to improve quality of ......
Emphasises on maintaining the integrity, independence, and individuality of older persons. This book stresses the importance of communicating effectively, understanding the needs of older persons, and developing trust at various levels of service. It includes contributors from the fields of medicine, therapy, communication, psychology, and others.
Targets the root cause of public discontent with the quality of care given by hospitals, nursing homes, mental institutions, and home health care agencies. This book focuses on those aspects of the system that waste time, money, and sometimes lives. It emphasizes on the changes needed in American health care delivery.
Answers the need for an alternative to recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction. This book aims to help non-religious alcoholics to maintain philosophical integrity while achieving the goal of lifelong sobriety. It also offers insights and suggestions for developing coping skills and regaining self-esteem through self-reliance.
Designed to provide information about Alzheimer's disease and to help families who are dealing with a mentally impaired older person. This book dispels myths about "senility", explores the early symptoms and later behaviour patterns of Alzheimer's disease, and describes treatable conditions that are sometimes mistaken for Alzheimer's.
