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1. Approaching Multivariate Analysis, 2nd Edition

   A Practical Introduction

   By Pat Dugard, John Todman, Harry Staines

   This fully updated new edition not only provides an introduction to a range of advanced statistical techniques that are used in psychology, but has been expanded to include new chapters describing methods and examples of particular interest to medical researchers. It takes a very practical approach...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sars

   Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities

   Edited by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Handbook of Neurological Rehabilitation

   Edited by Richard J. Greenwood, Thomas M. McMillan, Michael P. Barnes, Christopher D. Ward

   Changes in the focus of neurological practice worldwide have led to the need for new standard texts that reflect the current state of this expanding area of clinical expertise. The second edition of the Handbook of Neurological Rehabilitation is a major reference source that fulfils this need,...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
4. Brain Injury Treatment

   Theories and Practices

   By Jose Leon-Carrion, Klaus R. H. von Wild, George A. Zitnay

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Brain Injury Treatment: Theories and Practices is a thorough and wide-ranging account of the rehabilitation of brain injury. Written from an international perspective, this book presents a detailed discussion of the basic science of brain injury. It explains the treatments used in brain injury...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
5. The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies, Volumes 1 & 2

   By Marilyn Barrett

   A single source for accurate scientific information on herbal remedies!This comprehensive handbook (comprised of two volumes of 700+ pages each) provides a snapshot of 160 herbal products that have been tested in clinical trials. Details of the products and the clinical trials they underwent are...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. Governance of HIV/AIDS

   Making Participation and Accountability Count

   Edited by Sophie Harman, Franklyn Lisk

   Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

   Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Internet-Delivered Therapeutic Interventions in Human Services

   Methods, Interventions and Evaluation

   Edited by Jerry Finn, Dick Schoech

   There has been exponential growth in use of the Internet to deliver therapeutic and supportive human services. Online interventions are known by a variety of names, including online practice, e-therapy and others. All refer to the delivery of services over the Internet through a variety of delivery...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Prospects for the Professions in China

   Edited by William P Alford, William Kirby, Kenneth Winston

   Series: Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia

   Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make their presence felt in governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or scepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People

   Edited by Christine Ceci, Kristín Björnsdóttir, Mary Ellen Purkis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
10. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

    Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

    By Johanna Hood

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge