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Book Reviews
Book Reviews: 23 July - 29 July 2007

  1. The Internet and health communication-Experiences and expectations
  2. Sorrow's web-Hope, help and understanding for depressed mothers and their children
  3. The hypochondriac's guide to life and death
  4. The pregnancy herbal
  5. RealAge-Are you as young as you can be ?
  6. The price of motherhood


1) The Internet and health communication-Experiences and expectations

The book provides an in depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the internet revolution. The contributors represent a wide range of expertise and provide an extensive variety of examples from the micro to the macro, including information about HMO website, internet pharmacies, and web enabled hospitals, to vividly illustrate their findings and conclusions. The volume is thus a valuable resource for both students and researchers.

Authors: Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz
Publishers: Sage Publications Inc.
Date of Publication: 2001
No. of pages: 459


2) Sorrow's web-Hope, help and understanding for depressed mothers and their children

The author advice's on how to recognize the symptoms of depression and protect children from their impact, to choose among the range of medical and psychotherapeutic options available. The author also outlines a strategy for fathers that will help them and the marriage weather the crisis, and also ensures that the illness does not return. The book points the way to sustaining and regaining a loving relationship between the mother and child.

Authors: Anne Sheffield
Publishers: Anne Sheffield
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 285


3) The hypochondriac's guide to life and death

The author examines the mind of a hypochondriac, such as how one's doctor can kill one, ulcers and others visceral fears, the snaps, crackles and pops, of one's body that spell disaster, the things that can take an eye out and interpreting doctor speak. The author thus conjures up a hilarious prescription for the hypochondriac that lurks inside all of us.

Authors: Gene Weingarten
Publishers: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 1998
No. of pages: 208


4) The pregnancy herbal

It offers a wealth of accessible information on common pregnancy complaints, remedies, receipes for a nature based diet, massage and aroma therapy treatments, herbal day spa and also first aid for mother and baby. The author gives women the key to enjoying every stage of one's pregnancy-from before conception to after birth along with a totally natural and safe regimen for lasting health and beauty.

Authors: Jaqulene Harper - Roth
Publishers: Three rivers press
Date of Publication: 2001
No. of pages: 310


5) RealAge-Are you as young as you can be ?

The book is a age reduction program that can make one live and feel upto 26 years younger. It consists of 44 scientifically proven steps that delay aging, control how one's genes affect one's health, learn the value of each step to one's real age and also increase one's vitality in mind and body.

Authors: Michael F.Roizen
Publishers: Cliff Street Books
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 335


6) The price of motherhood

The book shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made dependent by a society that exploits those who perform the most critical work. The author proves that although women have been liberated, mothers have not. The book offers a much needed accounting of the penalties that mothers pay for performing the most important job in the world.

Authors: Ann Crittenden
Publishers: Henry Holt and Company
Date of Publication: 2001
No. of pages: 319

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