Magnet Therapy a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or From the Kitchen to the Parlor

Magnet Therapy - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Icon Health Publications

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to magnet therapy. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to magnet therapy.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

Interesting book: True Professionalism or Introduction to Managerial Accounting

From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care

Author: Lanita Jacobs Huey

When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: From the Kitchen to the Parlor	3
1	Negotiating Expert and Novice Identities through Client-stylist Interactions	17
2	"We Are Like Doctors": Socializing Cosmetologists into the Discourse of Science	29
3	A License to Touch: Cosmetology as a Divine Calling	47
4	Gender, Authenticity, and Hair in African American Stand-up Comedy	71
5	"BTW, How Do You Wear Your Hair?": Gender and Race in Computer-mediated Hair Debates	89
6	Constructing and Contesting Knowledge in Women's Cross-cultural Hair Testimonies	105
7	Critical Reflections on Language, Gender, and "Native" Anthropology	129
Appendix	Transcription Conventions	149
	Notes	151
	Bibliography	153
	Index	173

Rewired or Whats Wrong with Addiction

Rewired: Youth Ministry in an Age of IM and MySpace

Author: Peggy Kendall

Do you know where your church's teens hang out? Chances are that they're hanging out virtual style. MySpace and IM have redefined how the typical teenager spends time with friends. And these technologies have important implications for today's youth leader. In this valuable resource from communication professor Peggy Kendall, find the answers to key questions: How do these technologies affect relationships and communication? What are the pros and cons of using this technologies in youth ministry? What practical skills are needed to integrate these technologies in ministry? Included in the book are: A summary of current research in reader-friendly terms, Real-life insights from teens who use IM and MySpace on a regular basis, Feedback and insight from youth pastors who use IM and MySpace in their ministry, Specific tips on IM and MySpace use.

About the Author:
Peggy Kendal is associate professor of communication studies at Bethel University

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What's Wrong With Addiction?

Author: Helen Kean

"Keane's work is thoughtful and thought provoking and incorporates elements of medical history and philosophy."—Psychiatric Services

"A theoretically engaging exploration of the arbitrariness of the field of addiction studies."
—Robert Granfield, co-author of Coming Clean

We assume that there is something wrong with addiction. But how exactly is it bad to be an addict? What's Wrong with Addiction? explores the ways in which our views of addiction categorize certain ways of being as unnatural, diseased, and self-destructive, often working to reinforce existing social hierarchies. Under the rubric of addiction, pleasure and desire are demonized, while the addict is viewed as damaged and in need of physical and moral rectificaiton.

Keane examines the ambiguities in medical science's quest to construct addiction in chemical and biological terms, revealing the strains in the oppositions between disease and health, and addiction and normality. She demonstrates how these strains have become more insistent as the net of addiction has spread wider, moving beyond chemical substances to other problems of consumption and conduct such as compulsive eating and sex addiction. The book also critically examines the ideals of health, freedom, and happiness found in popular self-help literature, suggesting that it is the practices of self-surveillance and self-interrogation promoted in recovery guides which actually produce the inner self as an object of concern.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: What's Wrong with Addiction?	1
1	The Substance of Drugs	12
2	Reading the Signs of Disorder: Diagnosing Dependence	36
3	Further and Further from the Normal World: The Addicted Self	64
4	Smoking, Addiction and Time	89
5	Disorders of Eating and the Healthy Diet: How to Eat Well	110
6	Sex and Love Addiction: The Ethics and Erotics of Intimacy	137
7	The Recovery Habit	157
8	Conclusion	188
	Notes	193
	Bibliography	205
	Index	222

Loss of Self or Understanding Genetics

Loss of Self

Author: Donna Cohen

A tremendous resource for all those grappling with Alzheimer's, including patients, families, caregivers, and professionals. This fully revised and updated edition provides the latest information on causes, preventative measures, treatments, drugs, and diagnosis. Everything related to the care of the affected person is addressed from cost to stress management. But The Loss of Self goes beyond the biological, medical, and social issues to explore the emotional challenges any person dealing with the disease will experience. The book helps families and patients deal with the terrible reality of this chronic, debilitating disease through the personal stories of others. These deeply moving case studies and anecdotes give hope, dignity, and ideas for solving even the most difficult problems such as sexuality, violence, abuse, family conflict, and death. The Loss of Self is the best book available not only for those suffering from the disease, but for family members wanting to understand how to help a relative and to meet their own needs over the long years of caring.

Oliver Sacks

Anyone at all involved with Alzheimer's...should read this indispensable book.

Michael Mullan

[A]n insightful resource for families and patients struggling with Alzheimer's ....an essential tool for patients, clinicians, and families.

Irving S. Wright

[T]he most useful source of practical guidelines for the general care of patients with Alzheimer's disease yet to be published.

Publishers Weekly

Despite greater public awareness and continued research, no cure for Alzeheimer's Disease has yet been found. However, Eisdorfer, president/chief executive officer of Montefiore Medical Center and professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Cohen, a gerontologist also affiliated with Montefiore and Einstein College, believe that these accounts of how families have coped with the debilitating disease may help other afflicted families to better manage the lives of the patient and themselves. The authors advise readers on developing and implementing a comprehensive, affordable life care plan to handle both practical and emotional matters. They discuss the sensitive relationships between doctor, family and patient, and the need to consider the interests of individual family members. The selection of a nursing home and chapters on dying and the cost of care complete this compassionate and sensible guidebook. (February 24)

Library Journal

The authors offer timely and necessary advice for the families of the more than two million Americans facing various dementias. The book reflects state of the art information as well as the authors' extensive experience in assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation for dementia patients and their families. Included is practical information on ``what to do after the diagnosis, where to go for help, . . . how to care for the patient at home, when to institutionalize the patient.'' Drug information provided in the text and an appendix is particularly useful. The authors' insights and their personalized narrative make the book very readable. Although some information is duplicated elsewhere, this is the most succinctly informative and inclusive book on the topic to date. For public libraries and subject collections. Nancy B. Burrell, M.L.S., IBID Inc., Sarasota, Fla.

Booknews

In this update of the 1986 edition, Cohen (aging and mental health, U. of South Florida) and Eisdorfer (psychiatry, U. of Miami) interweave often poignant patient stories with discussion of Alzheimer issues from suspected causes, diagnosis, and treatment of the memory-robbing disease to coping tips for caregivers. Lists Internet resources, national and international Alzheimer organizations, and US federal and state agencies on aging. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Michael Mullan
[A]n insightful resource for families and patients struggling with Alzheimer's ....an essential tool for patients, clinicians, and families.
— (Michael Mullan, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Roskamp Institute)

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Understanding Genetics: A Primer for Couples and Families

Author: Angela Scheuerl

One in every 100 Americans is born with a serious genetic disorder, and more will face a disease with genetic components in their lifetime. In the past decade, fledgling genetic science has identified more than 4,000 diseases connected to genetic factors. Genetic doctors and testing have become relatively common. But what is genetics'? How do these doctors and their tests work, and what if anything can they change? Dr. Scheuerle walks us through this new field and explains the basics, detailing diseases and disordes that can present in each life stage: in infancy and childhood, in puberty and adolescence, and in adulthood as well as old age. The text addresses genetic issues that might be considered in pregnancy and pregnancy planning. Also discussed are prenatal testing procedures, and talking about genetic disease with children and teenagers.

You Arent Alone or Path of Healing

You Aren't Alone: The Voices of Abortion

Author: Peggy Kirk

If you are considering an abortion, this book is for you. Read the stories of women and girls who have had abortions. Read about their lives and decisions. You may find a story similar to your own.

The intention is not to put a guilt trip on you, or hit you over the head with religion, or pass judgment on you. This book was written because of and for women who are in difficult situations.

The women who shared their stories are very brave. As you read about their lives you will laugh, cry, even get angry. Most of all, in reading these stories you may be better able to decide what is right for you. An abortion is a big step with life-long consequences.

In the author's experience as a marriage and family counselor, the loss of a baby in abortion causes post-abortion trauma in nearly every case. Abortion causes a permanent loss. It is because of that loss that serious problems begin to affect the lives of women who have had abortions.

There are alternatives to abortion. Thousands of loving couples who can't give birth themselves are praying daily for a woman to care enough to share her blessing of birth with them.

Others have been where you are at this moment. You are not alone.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. "Maybe All I Have to Do Is Take a Pill"
2. "I Tried to Forget"
3. "It's Either It or Me!"
4. "Our World Was Falling Apart and Nobody Cared"
5. "They Said I Wouldn't Care"
6. "It's Going to Be Easy"
7. "My Husband Didn't Want Children"
8. "I Wish I Hadn't Done It!"
9. "I Couldn't Kill My Baby"
10. "Daddies Cry, Too"
11. "I'll Never Be a Grandma"
12. "Daddy and Mommy Love Me"
13. People Who Help
14. Medical Problems Related to Abortion
15. History of Abortifacients and Contraceptives
16. Ancient and Modern Abortifacients and Contraceptives

Glossary
Bibliography

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Path of Healing: Finding Your Soul's Potential

Author: Challoner

Healings based on the holistic principle present in nature.

My Style My Place or Medicinal Herbs

My Style, My Place

Author: Allyce King

Contains a bonus CD with 20 urban-trendy designs.

Features colorful hand-drawn graphics, and a witty and conversational writing style.

Me and My Place is for the young and hip, and the young and hip at heart. With humorous stories, easy-to-follow instructions and serious support for creativity and individuality, this book understands youthful sewers, and empowers today's younger sewers to create projects that fit their personality using sewing and embroidery machines. Readers will discover instructions for more than 30 quick do-it-yourself projects for the wardrobe and the home that the authors deem useful and completely not tacky. Sewers will undoubtedly discover new avenues for expressing their personality in this book.

Book about: Blue Highways or Beneath the Neon

Medicinal Herbs: A Complete Guide for North American Herb Growers

Author: Patricia Turcott

This is the one and only book you'll need to learn, enjoy, and fully master herb gardening.

Practical, easy to use, and engagingly written, this book takes you through all stages of herb cultivation and use:

• Includes USDA Zones 3-6
• Preparing the soil
• Starting and caring for seedlings
• Placement and garden design
• Theme gardens, from Native American to Shakespearean
• Caring for container gardens
• Using nature's helpers—bees, butterflies, and birds
• Processing herbs
• Herbal use in cooking, teas, scented and decorative crafts, cleaning products, homeopathic remedies, and hygiene and beauty care

Dispersed throughout (and indexed for easy reference) are over 80 practical recipes, from New England seafood seasoning and lemon mint tea to aphid spray and moth bags to cough syrup and lozenges. There are 75 profiles of herbal plants, each summarizing appearances and uses, as well as methods of cultivation, propagation, and harvest. Turcotte's specific advice will be most useful to gardeners in zones 3-6; however, her general information on planting, growing, and harvesting, along with the recipes and plant profiles, will interest herb growers throughout North America. 33 black & white photographs, appendixes, index.