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Book Reviews
Book Reviews: 26 Mar - 31 Mar 2007

  1. The Rights of patients
  2. Acupuncture for Americans
  3. Your Gifted Child
  4. Healthy Self-The Guide to Self Care and Wise Consumerism
  5. The Birth Day Book-A Parents Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
  6. Healing the Child Within
  7. Light Emerging-The Journey of Personal healing
  8. The Red Yeast Rice,Cholestrol Solution


1) The Rights of patients

The book covers subjects as informed consent, emergency treatment, admission and discharge, human experimentation, privacy and confidentiality, medical records and surgery. The author discusses the rights involved in pregnancy and birth medical malpractice and care of the dying also the author proposes a model patient bill of rights and a patient advocacy system to help patients exercise their rights.Among the helpful appendixes, he includes are a sample "living well" and a guide to using legal and medical literature.

Authors: Annas George J
Publishers: Southern Illinois University Press
Date of Publication: 1989
No. of pages: 312


2) Acupuncture for Americans

The author has compiled a jargon-free, straight forward volume containing a wealth of data on acupuncture's use in anesthesiology, rheumatology, neurology, psychiatry, dermatology, gastroenterology and much more. Also valuable illustrations clarify each important stimulation point for a complete, detailed look at acupuncture's role in modern medicine.

Authors: Wensel Louise Oftedal
Publishers: Reston Publishing Co.,Inc.
Date of Publication: 1980
No. of pages: 335


3) Your Gifted Child

The book is about how to recognize and develop the special talents in a child from birth to age seven. The book is for parents interested in the optimum development of their child's abilities. It also contains useful guidelines, suggestions, and advice for identifying gifted children. and fostering whatever special talents the child displays. The chapters on schooling, IQ testing, and parental responsibilities are forthright and balanced, while appendixes contain much practical information including comprehensive checklists of normative developmental skills from birth to Kindergarten.

Authors: Joan Franklin Smutny, Kathleen Veenker & Stephen Veenker
Publishers: Ballantine Books
Date of Publication: 1991
No. of pages: 212


4) Healthy Self-The Guide to Self Care and Wise Consumerism

The book will help make , medical decision making easier. It is a valuable reference tool for every household. The book also contains accurate and up-to-date information written in an easy to read and easy to follow format.

Authors: Don R..Powell
Publishers: American Institute for Preventive Medicine Press
Date of Publication: 1996
No. of pages: 192


5) The Birth Day Book-A Parents Guide to Pregnancy and Birth

The book is designed to help mothers-to-be, and their partners, feel informed and comfortable during pregnancy, labor and child birth. The book gives information about pregnancy, any problems that might arise, and treatment options. The book will help answer your questions, will assist you in carrying out a positive health care plan and will help one approach parenthood with confidence.

Publishers: Group Health Co-operative
Date of Publication: 1993
No. of pages: 224


6) Healing the Child Within

The book describes the journey of discovery and healing the fears, confusions, and unhappiness. The book begins where many others describing adult children of alcoholics have left off. It also describes and develops the concept of adult children of troubled or dysfunctional families in general, rather than focusing only on the alcoholic family.

Authors: Charles L. Whitfield
Publishers: Health Communications, Inc.
Date of Publication: 1989
No. of pages: 151


7) Light Emerging-The Journey of Personal healing

The book is an exploration of the human energy field or aura-the source of one's experience of health or illness. The author shows how one can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with.

The book explains what the healer perceives visually, audibly and how each one can participate in every stage of the healing process.

Authors: Barbara Ann Brennan
Publishers: Bantam Books
Date of Publication: 1993
No. of pages: 341


8) The Red Yeast Rice,Cholestrol Solution

The book is the latest on all available red yeast rice supplements, including cholestin and also how this ancient chinese remedy of red yeast rice can lower your LDL ( bad cholesterol ) and raise your HDL ( good cholesterol ). The red yeast rice diet, a whole foods version of the Step One Diet recommended by all red yeast rice manufacturers.

Authors: Maureen Keane
Publishers: Adams Media Corp.
Date of Publication: 1999
No. of pages: 214

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