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Dermatology and Person-Threatening Illness
This informative volume explores the psychological, social, and medical aspects of several dermatologic illnesses and the implications for the persons they affect. By examining both the implications for patients’physical appearance and the effects on patient psyche, Dermatology and Person-Threatening Illness offers health care professionals practical patient-centered assessments and treatment suggestions to help them develop successful approaches to providing patient care. The contributors’analysis of medical personnel, society's responses to the dermatologic manifestations of disease, and how these responses negatively affect those diagnosed with dermatologic diseases will further strengthen your understanding of these patients and their care. A valuable resource for professionals and students in the health care field and in mental health working with persons suffering from dermatologic diseases and their families, Dermatology and Person-Threatening Illness promotes better understanding and more effective treatment for those with physically damaging and potentially emotionally draining dermatologic diseases.
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Psychocutaneous Medicine
This reference presents research and clinical developments in the field, presenting comprehensive, problem-focused approaches to psychodermatology. It offers a panoramic perspective of worldwide research efforts to improve the understanding and treatment of the psychodermatological patient.
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Psoriasis
This volume represents an attempt by scientists in a variety of disciplines to uncover the etiology of psoriasis. These specialists are working together to achieve a common goal: the translation of basic and clinical research data into better patient care. Included in the book are major developments in analytical tools, medical technology, and the understanding of basic biological processes at the cellular and molecular levels. Also discussed are recent advances in tissue culture and genetic chemistry as well as the details revealed by electron microscopy. P soriasis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium will interest researchers and clinicians in the fields of dermatology, genetics, cellular biology, biochemistry, epidemiology, and immunology.
Archives in Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg
This is a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in Russian sources for topics in diplomatic, military, and church history; art; dance; film; literature; science; ethnolography; and geography. The first part lists general bibliographies of relevant reference literature, directories, bibliographic works, and specialized subject-related sources. In the following sections of the directory, archival listings are grouped in institutional categories. Coverage includes federal, ministerial, agency, presidential, local, university, Academy of Sciences, organizational, library, and museum holdings. Individual entries include the name of the repository (in Russian and English), basic information on location, staffing, institutional history, holdings, access, and finding aids. More comprehensive and up-to-date than the 1997 Russian Version, this edition includes Web-site information, dozens of additional repositories, several hundred more bibliographical entries, coverage of reorganization issues, four indexes, and a glossary.
Teaching Literature and Medicine
Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to disease in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska; from the stories of Anton Chekhov and of William Carlos Williams, both doctors, to the poetry of nurses derived from their contrasting experiences. These are just a few examples of the cross-pollination between literature and medicine. It is no surprise, then, that courses in literature and medicine flourish in undergraduate curricula, medical schools, and continuing-education programs throughout the Un...
