Physical activity and psychological well-being

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Mad, bad and dangerous to know : reflections of a forensic practitioner by Prins, Herschel A.

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English malady : enabling and disabling fictions

Subjects: “…Mental illness in literature.…”
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Critical care manual of clinical procedures and competencies

Table of Contents: “…Competency and the relationship with integrated governanceAssessing competence: when and how; Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) and simulation; Linking the technical with humanistic care; References and further reading; Chapter 3: Recognizing and managing the critically ill and 'at risk' patient on a ward; Definition; Aims and indications; Background; Rapid response systems; Assessing and managing the deteriorating patient; ABCDE assessment process; Summary; References and further reading; Chapter 4: Admitting a critically ill patient; Definition; Aims and indications.…”
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Handbook of assessment and treatment planning for psychological disorders

Subjects: “…Mental illness Diagnosis Handbooks, manuals, etc. sh2010101262…”

Toxicity and risk : context, principles and practice by Illing, H. P. A.

Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry by Heaton, Matthew M.

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Rethinking risk assessment : the MacArthur study of mental disorder and violence

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Dying in character : memoirs on the end of life by Berman, Jeffrey, 1945-

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Hospice care for children

Table of Contents: “…Children's understanding of death -- Pain and symptom management -- Psychosocial aspects of serious illness in childhood and adolescence: curse or challenge? …”
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In sickness & in health : helping a loved one cope with an illness /

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Aseptic nursing technique at the bedside. risk assessment : type of illness /...

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Heat or hydration : science and practical application of heat illness prevention /

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Suffering in the land of sunshine : a Los Angeles illness narrative / by Abel, Emily K.

Table of Contents: “…Encountering illness -- "A real man again" -- Boosting Los Angeles -- Reforming Los Angeles -- "The old trouble" -- The "gash" in "our happiness."…”
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Brave new brain : conquering mental illness in the era of the genome / by Andreasen, Nancy C.

Table of Contents: “…Brave new brain -- A waking nightmare -- Broken brains, troubled minds -- The brain -- Mapping the genome -- Mapping the mind -- Understanding what mental illnesses are -- Schizophrenia -- Mood disorders -- Dementias -- Anxiety disorders -- O brave new world.…”
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Midwifery Practice : Critical Illness, Complications And Emergencies Case Book. by Raynor, Maureen

Table of Contents: “…Half title; Case Book Series; Title; Copyright; Praise for this book; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; CASE STUDY 1 -- Recognition of the critically ill woman; CASE STUDY 2 -- Obesity: risk management issues; CASE STUDY 3 -- Pre-eclampsia, eclampsia and HELLP syndrome; CASE STUDY 4 -- Thromboembolism; CASE STUDY 5 -- Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC); CASE STUDY 6 -- Obstetric cholestasis; CASE STUDY 7 -- Haemoglobinopathies; CASE STUDY 8 -- Antepartum and postpartum haemorrhage.…”
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Shock Therapy : a History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. by Shorter, Edward

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Patients and agents : mental illness, modernity, and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh / by Callan, Alyson

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Shock Therapy : a History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. by Shorter, Edward

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The Meaning Management Challenge : Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease /

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Final Negotiations : a Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness. by Ellis, Carolyn, 1950-

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The concepts of psychiatry : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / by Ghaemi, S. Nassir

Table of Contents: “…-- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy -- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry -- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? -- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? …”
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The female suffering body : illness and disability of modern Arabic literature / by Hamdar, Abir

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Somatic Lessons : Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature. by Cerulli, Anthony Michael

Table of Contents: “…Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Translation -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Narrativizing the Body -- Intended Audience -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2: The Patientâ€?…”
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Suffering in the land of sunshine : a Los Angeles illness narrative / by Abel, Emily K.

Table of Contents: “…Encountering illness -- "A real man again" -- Boosting Los Angeles -- Reforming Los Angeles -- "The old trouble" -- The "gash" in "our happiness."…”
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Masquerading symptoms : uncovering physical illnesses that present as psychological problems / by Schildkrout, Barbara

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Beyond myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome : redefining an illness /

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The concepts of psychiatry : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / by Ghaemi, S. Nassir

Table of Contents: “…-- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy -- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry -- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? -- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? …”
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Malady and mortality : illness, disease and death in literary and visual culture /

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Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire /

Subjects: “…Mental illness History.…”
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Remembering To Live : Illness At The Intersection Of Anxiety And Knowledge In Rural Indonesia.

Table of Contents: “…Agents of Coping; Part II Coping with Illness; Case Study: An Ill Child; 5. Naming an Illness; 6. …”
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Acupuncture for babies, children and teenagers : treating both the illness and the child / by Avern, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Foreword by Julian Scott; Acknowledgements; Notes for the Reader; Introduction; Part 1: Why Do Children Become Ill?; Introduction to the Causes of Disease; The Nature of Children; How Children Grow; Inherited, Pregnancy and Birth Factors; Emotions; The Role of the Family; The Challenges of Life; Miscellaneous Causes of Disease; External Causes of Disease; Part 2: Diagnosis of Children; Introduction to the Diagnosis of Children; Building Rapport with Children; The Diagnostic Process; Diagnosing Babies and Infants; Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture Applied to Children…”
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Materialities of Care : Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture. by Buse, Christina

“…Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs.…”
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Discourses of disease : writing illness, the mind and the body in modern China /

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Disease and Discourse -- Part 1: Hygiene and Psychosis: From Routine to Poetry -- 1: James Henderson's Shanghai Hygiene and the British Constitution in Early Modern China -- 2: Curing Unhappiness in Revolutionary China: Optimism under Socialism and Capitalism -- 3: Metaphors unto Themselves: Mental Illness Poetics and Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Poetry -- Part 2: Drugs and Cancers: From Nation to Fiction -- 4: Unmaking of Nationalism: Drug Addiction and Its Literary Imagination in Bi Shumin's Novel -- 5: Narrative as Therapy: Stories of Breast Cancer by Bi Shumin and Xi Xi -- 6: Narrating Cancer, Disabilities, and aids: Yan Lianke's Trilogy of Disease -- Part 3: AIDS and Virus: From Film to Forum -- 7: Reluctant Transcendence: aids and the Catastrophic Condition in Gu Changwei's Film Love for Life -- 8: Alone Together: Contagion, Stigmatization and Utopia as Therapy in Zhao Liang's aids Documentary Together -- 9: The Unknown Virus: The Social Logic of Bio-conspiracy Theories in Contemporary China -- Index.…”
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The myth of normal : trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture / by Maté, Gabor, Maté, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…An inaccurate map of our pain: what we get wrong about mental illness --…”
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The myth of normal : trauma, illness, & healing in a toxic culture / by Maté, Gabor, Maté, Daniel

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Psychiatric tales : eleven graphic stories about mental illness / by Cunningham, Darryl

Table of Contents: “…Dementia ward -- Cut -- It could be you -- Darkness -- Anti-social personality disorder -- People with mental illness enrich our lives -- Blood -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Suicide -- How I lived again.…”

In the kingdom of the sick : a social history of chronic illness in America / by Edwards, Laurie (Laurie Elizabeth)

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Chemotherapy in psychiatry pharmacologic basis of treatments for major mental illness / by Baldessarini, Ross J., 1937-

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Mind, Myth and Madness : Are Biological Accounts of Mental Illness Useful? /

Table of Contents: “…Theme One: Are Our Diagnoses of Mental Illnesses Real? - Part One…”
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