Life and times of Frederick Douglass : his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time, including his connection with the anti-slav... by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Animal experimentation : opposing viewpoints

Mechanosensitivity in cells and tissues

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Spencer Bower The Law of Reliance-Based Estoppel and Related Doctrines. by Feltham, Piers

Table of Contents: “…Estoppel by contract -- Estoppel by deed -- Estoppel as to title -- Part II -- Particular Applications of Reliance-Based Estoppel -- CHAPTER 9 -- Applications of reliance-based estoppel to various relationships -- Agency, partnership and ownership by estoppel -- Landlord and tenant -- Bailor and bailee -- Patentee and licensee -- Customer and banker -- Employers, trustees and members of occupational pension schemes -- Chapter 10 -- Miscellaneous estoppels -- Companies -- Contracts of insurance -- Chapter 11 -- Statutory estoppel -- Sale of goods -- Bills of exchange -- Bills of lading…”
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Nursing theories : conceptual & philosophical foundations

Table of Contents: “…Human needs and nursing theory / Jacqueline Fortin -- Adaptation as a basic conceptual focus in nursing theories / Donna Schwartz-Barcott -- The concept of self-care / Ingrid Kollak -- The concept of interaction in theory and practice / Susanne Wied -- The concept of need in nursing theory / Penny Powers -- The concept of holism / Hesook Suzie Kim -- Systems theory and nursing theories / Heiko Kleve -- Existentialism and phenomenology in nursing theories / Hesook Suzie Kim -- Humanism in nursing theory: a focus on caring / May Solveig Fagermoen -- Pragmatism, nursing, and nursing knowledge development / Hesook Suzie Kim and Björn Sjörström -- Biography and biographical work: an approach for nursing / Barbara Schulte-Steinicke -- Evidence-based nursing for practice and science / Martina Hasseler -- Transculturality and nursing / Birgit Rommelspacher -- Illness as risk: on the genesis and functioning of therapeutic deinstitutionalization / Friedrich Balke -- Postscript / Ingrid Kollak and Susanne Wied.…”
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Religion and science as forms of life : anthropological insights into reason and unreason

Table of Contents: “…McCauley -- Scientific vs. religious 'knowledge' in evolutionary perspective / Michael Blume -- Magic and ritual in an age of science / Jesper Sorensen -- Moral employments of scientific thought / Timothy Jenkins -- The social life of concepts : public and private 'knowledge' of scientific creationism / Simon Coleman -- The embryo, sacred and profane / Marit Melhuus -- The religions of science and the sciences of religion in Brazil / Roger Sansi-Roca -- Science in action, religion in thought : Catholic charismatics' notions about illness / Maria Coma -- On the resilience of superstition / Joao de Pina-Cabral -- Religion, magic and practical reason : meaning and everyday life in contemporary Ireland / Tom Inglis -- Can the dead suffer traumas? …”
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Measuring the health of persian gulf veterans : workshop summary. by Committee On Measuring The Health Of Persian Gulf Veterans, Institute Of Medicine, National Academy

Table of Contents: “….; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; DVA Persian Gulf Registry and Uniform Case Assessment Protocol; DoD Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program; POPULATION AND SURVEY SAMPLE RESEARCH; Self-Reported Illness and Health Status Among Gulf War Veterans; The National Survey of Persian Gulf Veterans and Their Families; Mortality.; Hospitalizations; Satisfaction.…”
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Religion and sexuality in cross-cultural perspective

Table of Contents: “…6 Mimesis in the Face of Fear Femme Queens, Butch Queens, and Gender Play in the Houses of Greater NewarkPart Ill/Power and Domination; 7 Tacit Containment Social Value, Embodiment, and Gender Practice in Northern Sudan; 8 Millennial Capitalism, Occult Economies, and the Crisis of Reproduction in South Africa Further Notes from the Postcolony; Contributors; Index.…”
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Love on the rocks : men, women, and alcohol in post-World War II America by Rotskoff, Lori

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cultures of drink in Prohibition and post-repeal America -- Dissolute manhood and the rituals of intemperance ; Righteous womanhood and the politics of temperance ; Depression, war, and the rise of social drinking ; Drink, gender, and sociability in the 1930s and 1940s -- Engendering the alcoholic -- From intemperance to alcoholism ; Diagnosing the alcoholic man ; Problem drinkers and returning veterans in postwar popular culture -- Alcoholics Anonymous and the culture of sobriety -- Social foundations of mutual help in the 1930s and 1940s ; Early membership of Alcoholics Anonymous ; Gendered rituals of fellowship ; Gendered narratives of illness and recovery -- Dilemma of the alcoholic marriage -- Diagnosing the alcoholic's wife ; Wives of AA and Al-Anon in the 1940s and 1950s ; Rehabilitating the alcoholic marriage -- Drink and domesticity in postwar America -- Alcoholic culture of the postwar suburbs ; Alcohol and family trouble in postwar fiction and popular culture ; Drinking, consumerism, and the cultural significance of alcoholism.…”
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Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems. by Wilce Jr., James M.

Table of Contents: “…Childhood stress: endocrine and immune responses to psychosocial eventsCultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men; Life event stress and immune function in Samoan adolescents: toward a cross-cultural psychoneuroimmunology; Civilization and its stressed discontents: from individual stress to cross-national comparisons; The enigma of hypertension and psychosomatic illness: lessons for psychoneuroimmunology.…”
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Putting a name to it : diagnosis in contemporary society by Jutel, Annemarie

Table of Contents: “…diagnosis and the patient-doctor relationship -- Illness and disease -- Medical authority -- Changing roles in diagnosis -- What next? …”
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Empires and Anarchies. by Morton, Michael Quentin

Table of Contents: “…The Oil Game, 1903-28; 5. Birds of Ill Omen, 1928-45; 6. Pumping Dust, 1945-71; Arabia and The Gulf; 7. …”
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Multiple Medical Realities : Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine. by Johannessen, Helle

Table of Contents: “…Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion; Chapter 10. Experiences of Illness and Self; Chapter 11. The War of the Spiders; Chapter 12. …”
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The cognitive psychology of planning

Table of Contents: “…Davies -- Planning and ill-defined problems / Thomas C. Ormerod -- Working memory and planning / K J Gilhooly -- Planning and the executive control of thought and action / Geoff Ward -- Adult aging and cognitive planning / Louise H. …”
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Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire : Rhetoric and Performance in a Theology of Eros. by Hughes, Carl S.

Table of Contents: “…Desiring “The Oneâ€?â€? in Vaudev ille, Marriage, and Beyond -- 2. Vor Frue Kirke as Stage: Aesthetics and Desire in Liturgy and Sacrament -- 3. “The Woman Who Was a Sinnerâ€?…”
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General consent in Jane Austen : a study of dialogism by Seeber, Barbara Karolina, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"I see every thing -- as you can desire me to do" : the scolding and schooling of Marianne Dashwood in Sense and sensibility -- " Exactly the something which her home required" : the "unmerited punishment of Harriet Smith in Emma -- "A corrupted, vitiated mind" : the decline of Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park -- "You are never sure of a good impression being durable" : the fall of Louisa Musgrove in Persuasion -- "An itch for acting" : Playing with Polyphony in Mansfied Park -- "Surely this comparison must have its use" : the "very strong resemblance" in Sense and sensibility -- "My expressions startle you" : an "injured, angry woman" in Persuasion -- "We must forget it" : the "unhappy truth" in Pride and prejudice -- "No tread of violence was ever heard" : Silent suffering in Mansfield Park -- "Unnatural and overdrawn" : "Alarming violence" in Northanger Abbey -- "This ill-used girl, this heroine of distress" : the "diabolical scheme" in Lady Susan.…”
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Government Formation. by Andeweg, Rudy W.

Table of Contents: “…Coalition bargaining in an unforgiving environment: the case of Bondevik II in Norway; 5. Successful failure: ill-conceived pre-commitments and welcome bargaining failure paving the way to minority government in Austria.…”
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New Body-Mind Approach. by Stora, Jean Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER FIVE Lucien: type 2 diabetic the patient's cultural dimension, denial of illness and narcissistic problematic; CHAPTER SIX Alicia: "when I've had the transplant, will I feel better?"…”
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Music therapy in children and young people's palliative care

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 6 -- Fostering the Relationship Between Parent and Child using Music Therapy; Chapter 7 -- From Small Beginnings; Chapter 8 -- 'Performing, Sharing and Celebrating Life' -- Chapter 9 -- Continuing to Sing'The Screams Crashed Into Silence'; Chapter 10 -- A Therapeutic Songwriting Project for Young Adults with Life-Shortening Illnesses; About the Contributors; Index; Blank Page…”
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Let's Talk About Death : Asking the Questions that Profoundly Change the Way We Live and Die. by Gordon, Steve

Table of Contents: “…-- Afterword: Reaping the Benefits of Our Exchange -- Appendices: Resources and Inspirations for Continued Thinking about Mortality -- Appendix A -- Suggested Resources and Inspirations for Ordinary Mortals -- Suggested Resources and Inspirations for Caregivers -- Suggested Resources and Inspirations for Individuals with Life-Changing Illness and Their Families -- Appendix B -- Suggested Resources and Inspirations for Group Discussion -- Suggested Works of Literature Dealing with Mortality -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Distance Writing and Computer-Assisted Interventions in Psychiatry and Mental Health. by L'Abate, Luciano

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Distance Writing and Computer-Assisted Interventions in Psychiatry and Mental Health; 2 Explorations into the Health Benefits of Disclosure Inhibitory Cognitive and Social Processes; 3 Focused Expressive Writing, Immune Functions, and Physical Illness; 4 Comparison of Distance Emotional Expression with Psychotherapy; 5 A Meta-analytic Evaluation of Workbook Effectiveness in Physical and Mental Health; 6 A Feedback-Driven Computer Program for Outpatient Training; 7 Computer Workbooks in Psychotherapy with Psychiatric Patients.…”
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Graphic medicine manifesto by Czerwiec, MK (MaryKay), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Comics and the Iconography of Illness (Ian Williams) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: The Crayon Revolution (MK Czerwiec) -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Comics Bibliography -- Author Biographies and Acknowledgments -- Credits…”
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Stages of reality : theatricality in cinema

Table of Contents: “…Self-adaptation: queer theatricality in Brad Fraser's Leaving Metropolis and Robert Lepage's La face cachée de la lune -- Brechtian television: theatricality and adaptation of the stage play -- Cinéma du Grand Guignol: theatricality in the horror film / André Loiselle -- 'I'll show them!' Creating legal spectacles in revenge cinema / R.J. …”
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The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees by Gambold, Anna Rosina, -1821

Table of Contents: “…Significant events and themes at Springplace Mission between 1805 and 1821 -- Conversion, Moravian style -- Principal converts to the Moravian Church -- James Vann's rejection of Christianity -- Annuity distribution at Vann's plantation -- Cherokee education, Moravian style -- Children's illnesses at the mission -- Removal of children from the mission school -- Rumors of mistreatment of students -- Runaway students -- Rumors of abductions -- Rumors of hunger -- Children's "errant" behavior -- A child's death at the mission -- Use of alcohol -- Travelers and notable visitors -- Earthquakes -- Creek War of 1813-14 -- Continuity of traditional Cherokee cultural traits -- Cherokees' concept of land and land values -- Voices in Cherokee councils -- Moravians and the U.S. government -- Cherokee agricultural practices -- Cherokee traditional rituals and contact with Christianity -- Trade -- Cherokee law and punishment -- Green corn ceremony -- Ball play -- Cherokee origin stories -- Cherokees' responses to Christian images -- Epilogue.…”
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The depression helpbook

Table of Contents: “…-- Reversing the downward spiral of depression -- Making your own decision about treatment -- Working with your doctor -- What you should know about antidepressants -- What you should know about psychotherapy -- When is treatment finished -- What family and friends should know -- Plain talk about suicide -- Depression and your body -- Depression and chronic medical illness -- Depression and women's health -- Food, alcohol, and drugs -- Relaxing -- Exercising -- Getting a good night's sleep -- Making time for enjoyment -- Thinking more constructively -- The other people in your life -- Intimacy and sex when you are depressed -- Managing at work when you are depressed -- Managing depression day by day -- Planning for better living -- Maintaining gains and preventing relapse -- Living your plan -- Appendix : a primer on antidepressant.…”
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Practical guide to emergency ultrasound

Table of Contents: “…The history and philosophy of emergency ultrasound --Fundamentals of ultrasound --Trauma --Echocardiography --Lung and thorax --Inferior vena cava --A Problem-based approach to resuscitation of acute illness or injury: resusciative ultrasound --Critical procedures for acute resuscitations --Right upper quadrant: liver, gallbladder, and billiary tree --Abdominal aorta --Kidneys --Bedside sonography of the bowel --Abdominal procedures --Pelvic ultrasound in the nongravid patient --First trimester pregnancy --Second and third trimester pregnancy --Lower extremity venous studies --Arterial emergencies --Scrotal emergencies --Skin and soft tissue --Musculoskeletal --Soft tissue and musculoskeletal procedures --Eye emergencies --Infections of the head and neck --Head and neck procedures --General pediatric problems --Pediatric abdominal emergencies --Pediatric procedures --Implementing ultrasound into the community emergency department --Implementing ultrasound into the academic emergency department --Implementing ultrasound in the prehospital setting --Implementing ultrasound in developing countries.…”
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Voices from Africa and Beyond : a Collection of Poems.

Table of Contents: “…On the Spiritual; Almighty God; Creation's Might; Dawn at Dusk; Humility; Illness; Peace I; Peace II; Sin; Sleep; IV. On the Lighter Side.…”
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Contribution of fiction to organizational ethics

Table of Contents: “…Comer -- A critique of business school narratives and protagonists with help from Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche / Rosa Slegers -- How stories can be used in organisations seeking to teach the virtues / Katalin Illes, Howard Harris -- Using films to teach business ethics students / Teressa L. …”
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A Toss of the Dice : Stories from a Pediatrician's Practice. by Hays, Natasha T.

Table of Contents: “…The Unkindest Cut: Terminal Illness; 23. Ariel and Alex; Epilogue; Notes; Appendix; Index.…”
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Relational Communication : an Interactional Perspective To the Study of Process and Form. by Rogers, L. Edna

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 7 Expressed Emotion and Interpersonal Control in Families of Persons With Mental IllnessChapter 8 Relational Control in Physician-Patient Interaction; Chapter 9 Organizational Relational Control Research: Problems and Possibilities; PART III: REFLECTIONS ON THE RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; Chapter 10 Overview and Future Directions; Author Index; Subject Index.…”
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Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust : the Concept of the Body Politic. by Musolff, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…Bodies and Parasites as Concepts of Political Discourse; Part I; 2 The Cognitive Import of Metaphor in Nazi Ideology; 3 Body, Nature and Disease as Political Categories in Mein Kampf; 4 The Public Presentation and Reception of Anti-Semitic Imagery in Nazi Germany; 5 Methodological Reflection: Body and Illness Metaphors in the Evolution of Western Political Thought and Discourse; Part II; 6 Solidarity and Hierarchy: The Body-State Metaphor in the Middle Ages.…”
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Everyday life in ancient Egypt and Assyria by Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916

Table of Contents: “…Cover; EVERYDAY LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND ASSYRIA; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND ASSYRIA; CHAPTER I THEBES AND THE POPULAR LIFE; CHAPTER II THE MARKET AND THE SHOPS; CHAPTER III PHARAOH; CHAPTER IV AMEN, THE GREAT GOD OF THEBES; CHAPTER V THE RECRUITMENT OF THE ARMY; CHAPTER VI LIFE IN THE CASTLE; CHAPTER VII ILLNESS AND DEATH; CHAPTER VIII THE FUNERAL AND THE TOMB; CHAPTER IX THE JOURNEY; CHAPTER X THE BATTLE; LIFE IN ANCIENT ASSYRIA; CHAPTER XI A ROYAL RESIDENCE: DUR-SARGINU; CHAPTER XII PRIVATE LIFE OF AN ASSYRIAN; CHAPTER XIII DEATH AND THE FUNERAL.…”
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Streets of Plenty Inside the World of the Homeless

Table of Contents: “…Self-Imposed Social Experiment (5:09) -- The Gathering Place: Luxury Services for the Homeless (3:08) -- Food and Shelter on the Streets (1:58) -- Street Fashion (3:03) -- How to Get on Welfare (3:02) -- Panhandling (3:09) -- Dumpster Diving (Binning) (2:20) -- Mentally Ill Living on the Streets (2:00) -- Spread of Disease in Shelters (3:22) -- Sleeping on the Street (5:05) -- Christmas Gifts (2:39) -- Hard Drugs: Reward of the High (7:54) -- Hard Drugs: Coming Down (5:08) -- Heroin Experiment (5:21) -- Addiction and Plight of the Homeless (1:55) -- World Drug Problem (1:27) -- Nightmarish Lives of Addicts (3:10) -- Addiction: Self-Imposed Slavery (1:10) -- Credits: Streets of Plenty: Inside the World of the Homeless (1:27)…”
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An Imperfect Cure Great Ormond Street

Table of Contents: “…(4:06) -- In Alisha's Best Interest (3:52) -- Imaan is on Hemodialysis for Two Years (3:46) -- Imaan is Terrified of Surgery (2:17) -- Alisha Surprises Everyone (3:07) -- Bethany's Quality of Life (4:34) -- Bethany Becomes Very Ill (2:31) -- Kids in the Renal Center (4:37) -- Giving Bethany Quality of Life (2:09) -- Bethany's Transplant Chances (3:36) -- Bethany's Advocates (1:57) -- Imaan is Ready (3:52) -- Imaan and Bethany (4:08) -- Imaan and Bethany in Renal Care (4:38) -- Prologue: Jack, Imaan, Alisha & Bethany (1:59) -- Credits: An Imperfect Cure: Great Ormond Street (0:38)…”
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OBQI Through the Use of Clinical Pathways

Table of Contents: “…Part One: Restorative Nursing (1:47) -- Approaches to Wellness (2:07) -- Restorative Goals (2:19) -- Chronic Illnesses (2:03) -- Avoiding a Sense of Futility (2:17) -- Patient Compliance (1:33) -- Alternative Health Care (3:28) -- OBQI Standards (1:37) -- Osteoarthritis and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (2:48) -- Review (0:55) -- Part Two: Clinical Pathways (2:49) -- Secondary Symptom, Dementia, and Parkinson's Disease (2:52) -- Clinical Observations (0:59) -- Interventions and Clinical Pathways (4:20) -- Using a Teaching Plan (4:12) -- Depression and Parkinson's Disease (2:50) -- Documenting Depression (1:33) -- COPD (3:22) -- Careing for a Patient With COPD (3:19) -- Credits: OBQI Through the Use of Clinical Pathways (0:37)…”
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Communication for nurses : talking with patients by Sheldon, Lisa Kennedy, Foust, Janice B.

Table of Contents: “…The first encounter -- The nurse as a person : theories of self and nursing -- Patients as people : standards to guide communication -- Cultural diversity : awareness and values -- Establishing a therapeutic relationship -- Interviewing skills : a clinical art and science -- Nonverbal communication : cues and body language -- The therapeutic uses of humor -- Communications during transitions in care -- Physical impairments : altering communication to meet the patients' needs -- Talking with children : working with families -- Nurses as educators : simulation and patient care -- Communicating about sexual health needs -- The experience of pain : working with patients -- Communication in life-threatening illness and spiritual care -- Anger, anxiety, and difficult communication styles -- Compassion fatigue : caring for yourself -- Communicating with peers and healthcare providers -- Electronic communication : media, social networking, and medical records -- Delegation and assertive communication -- A conclusion and a beginning.…”
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American Academy of Pediatrics textbook of pediatric care

Table of Contents: “…Pt. 1: Delivering pediatric health care -- Pt. 2: Principles of care -- Sect. 1: Pediatric assessment -- Sect. 2: Preventive pediatrics -- Sect. 3: General management of children with health and behavioral problems -- Sect. 4: Care of special population -- Pt. 3: Maternal and fetal health: effect on pregnancy outcomes and perinatal health -- Pt. 4: Care of healty and high-risk infants -- Sect. 1: Routine care issues -- Sect. 2: Assessment and physical examination of the newborn -- Sect. 3: Neonatal medical conditions -- Sect. 4: Perinatal care: caring for the high-risk infant -- Sect. 5: Neonatal outcomes -- Sect. 6: Supporting families during perinatal illness and death -- Pt. 5: Adolescence -- Pt. 6: Presenting signs and symptoms -- Pt. 7: Specific clinical problems -- Pt. 8: Critical situations.…”
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Disability in comic books and graphic narratives

Table of Contents: “…: Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Black Disability -- "You Only Need Three Senses for This": The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller -- Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman -- Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives -- Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability -- Index.…”
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Graphic medicine manifesto by Czerwiec, MK (MaryKay), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Comics and the Iconography of Illness (Ian Williams) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: The Crayon Revolution (MK Czerwiec) -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Comics Bibliography -- Author Biographies and Acknowledgments -- Credits…”
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Infectious diseases : a clinical short course by Southwick, Frederick S.

Table of Contents: “…Southwick -- Serious viral illnesses in the adult patient / Sankar Swaminathan -- Infections in the immunocompromised host / Frederick S. …”
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