Published August, 2020
By Christopher Alan Lewis
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This book provides a selection of contemporary research on the development and examination of psychometric measures for the assessment of mental health, religion and culture. This book was originally published as two special issues of Mental Health, Religion & Culture.

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Published August, 2020
By Debra M. Kawahara and Claudia Pitts
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Radical Visionaries highlights and honours those women who served as trailblazing pioneers in the development of feminist psychotherapy. Many of their contributions span their entire careers as they fought the many forms of systemic oppressions from their intersecting identities, including patriarchy, sexism, racism, classism, and heter

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Published August, 2020
By Ahmed Ragab
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This book investigates the early and foundational writings on prophetic medicine and related pietistic writings on health and disease produced during the Islamic Classical Age.

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Published August, 2020
By Ellen Perecman
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Originally published in 1989, the thesis of this volume is that atheoretical application of practical techniques in clinical neuropsychology is as ill-conceived as a neuropsychological theory that fails to acknowledge the role of historical or situational context in behaviour or task performance.

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Published August, 2020
By David Howard and Frances M. Hatfield
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Originally published in 1987, this title surveys the approaches to aphasia treatment from throughout the world that have been taken both in the past and in the present day. The authors critically examine the assumptions underlying different approaches, and show their effects on modern clinical practices.

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Published August, 2020
By Nader Ahmadi and Fereshteh Ahmadi
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This book, which takes a cultural approach to coping and health, is based on extensive empirical research which identifies the existential, religious and spiritually-oriented coping methods used by cancer patients across a range of countries in which religion plays a different role in the social and cultural life of individuals.

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Published August, 2020
By Roy Porter and W. F. Bynum
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First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed "fringe" practitioners - quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and naturalists. The essays collected in this volume all present new research on this fascinating and diverse period in the history of medicine.

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Published August, 2020
By Jo Manton
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First published in 1965. In 1865, a woman first obtained a legal qualification in this country as physician and surgeon. This full biography is based largely on unpublished material from the hospitals and medical schools where Elizabeth Garrett Anderson worked, and the private papers of the Garrett and Anderson families.

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Published August, 2020
By Mark Welford and Welford Mark
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Geographies of Plague Pandemics attempts to synthesis our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and

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Published August, 2020
By John Martyn Chamberlain
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This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters written by professional practitioners and social scientists from the UK, South America, Australia

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