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The journal of a young Australian woman who was forced to leave her husband and 3 young children when she was diagnosed with leprosy (Hansen's Disease). Assigned to a leper colony on Peel Island, this is her story about those lost years that would change her life forever. ... Read more

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Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Text presents successful tricks and techniques of two highly experienced orthopedic surgeons. Focuses on foot and ankle procedures. Provides more than 300 clear, annotated drawings and integrates pathologic and biomedical background for each procedure. For orthopedic surgeons. Softcover. ... Read more

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This new book in the successful Healthy Living series - inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients - addresses an issue that is endemic among older Americans.

The good news is that we are living longer: The bad news is that many aging people are living with some type of pain. In fact, 66 million people (nearly 1 in 3 adults) have doctor-diagnosed arthritis; 23.2 million people are living with chronic joint pain. Here is a book to offer them information and inspiration in an easy-to-read, trusted formula.

In the Healthy Living series, Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with the nation’s top medical experts and organizations to give emotional support and important information to people with specific medical needs. The books feature approximately twelve positive, heartwarming stories from real people, followed by relevant expert medical advice that will positively impact the reader’s life. Subjects such as diet, psychological issues, family relations, and alternative therapies exist side-by-side with traditional subjects such as understanding common medical terms, the effects of treatment options, and the doctor-patient relationship. Each book contains source notes and a resources section for more information and support.

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This new series from Chicken Soup for the Soul - inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients - is the perfect blend of emotional support and vital information on breast cancer including:

• understanding your diagnosis
• working with your doctor
• talking with friends and family
• treatment options
• from baldness to breastforms
• emotional healing
• conquering side effects
• alternative therapies
• finding support groups
• thriving with breast cancer
  

Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with top doctors to give you the information you need to survive-and the positive inspiration to thrive. Each book features beautifully written stories plus information on diet, lifestyle, diagnosis, procedures, caregiving, emotional issues and alternative therapies from some of the world's foremost experts.

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Asthma is a chronic condition that affects all areas of your life—or even worse, that of your children. This book shows people how to prevent asthma flare-ups, support loved ones and not let this condition negatively affect your activities, your goals or your psychological approach to life.

In the Healthy Living series, Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with the nation's top medical experts and organizations to give emotional support and important information to people with specific medical needs. The books feature approximately twelve positive, heartwarming stories from real people, followed by relevant expert medical advice that will positively impact the reader's life. Subjects such as diet, psychological issues, family relations, and alternative therapies exist side-by-side with traditional subjects such as understanding common medical terms, the effects of treatment options, and the doctor-patient relationship. Each book contains source notes and a resources section for more information and support.

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a treasure!! quick, easy, and recipes taste great!
A long time ago I found this little cookbook in a used book store for $1.50.I picked it up and used it a few times and then a few more times and now it's one of my favorite cookbooks.The recipes are easy, healthy, and my family loves them!My husband always tell me that I cook such great fish--he's mistaken, it's just great recipes from this little cookbook.I do experiment a little and use different fish for some of the recipes than it suggests, but they've all turned out great! ... Read more

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Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. Reproducible self-care guides to be given as handouts to cancer patients. Developed for Cancer Symptom Management, 2nd ed., c1999. With CD-ROM, nurses can customize and print out guides for patients. Licensing data is not cited. Three-hole punched with perforated pages. ... Read more

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Healthy Living Series: Breast Cancer*Important Facts*Inspiring StoriesThe best inspiration meets the best information: *Understading your diagnosis*Working with your doctor*Talking with friends and family treatment options*From baldness to breastforms*Emotional healing, conquering side effects, alternative therapies*Finding support groups*Thriving with breat cancer ... Read more

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A cross-disciplinary approach to the complex problems of obesity. ... Read more

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Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology isolates bacteria in laboratory rodents and rabbits to assist veterinary pathologists and other animal caretakers in the management of these organisms. This book emphasizes those bacteria known to interfere with research protocols, and offers methods for isolation and differentiation among related bacteria. It also enables the bacteriologist to isolate and identify bacteria being part of the normal flora of these animals. In the first part of the book, information is given on how to sample and cultivate from the animals.Hereafter, general descriptions on various identification procedures are given.Topics include sampling and isolation techniques, staining methods, serology, PCR and other important tools.In the second part of the book, important laboratory animal bacteria have been described in relation to both characteristics of the agent and characteristics of infection.All categories of bacteria are systematically dealt with in order to help in their isolation and identification when examining rodents and rabbits. Traditional lab animals (mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils and rabbits) harbor bacteria different from those found in humans and farm animals. Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology is an invaluable guide bacteriological monitoring of research colonies. ... Read more

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Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease (or leprosy) has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, the closed doors of the nation's last center for the treatment of leprosy hold stories of sadness, separation, and even strength in the face of what was once a life-wrenching diagnosis.

Drawn from interviews with living patients and extensive research in the leprosarium's archives, "Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America" tells the stories of former patients at the National Hansen's Disease Center. For over a century, from 1894 until 1999, Carville was the site of the only in-patient hospital in the continental United States for the treatment of Hansen's disease, which is the preferred designation for leprosy.

Patients --- exiled there by law for treatment and for separation from the rest of society --- reveal how they were able to cope with the devastating blow the diagnosis of leprosy dealt them. Leprosy was so frightening and so poorly understood that entire families would suffer and be shunned if one family member contracted the disease. When patients entered Carville, they typically left everything behind, including their legal names and their hopes for the future.

Former patients at Carville give their views of the outside world and of the culture they forged within the treatment center, which included married and individual living quarters, a bar, and even a jail. Those quarantined in the leprosarium created their own Mardi Gras celebrations, their own newspaper, and their own body of honored stories in which fellow sufferers of Hansen's disease prevailed over trauma and ostracism. Through their memories and stories, we see their very human quest for identity and endurance with dignity, humor, and grace. ... Read more

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Fascinating
With a natural wonder for all things morbid and the inner lives of people that struggle, I was curious to know the details about leprosy as a disease and also about the personal details of the people that suffered with it.This book gave enough scientific facts about the disease to quench my curiousity, and also managed to give a personal perspective, delving into the details of the lives of, and even quoting, victims of the disease that lived when leprosy was still misunderstood greatly.I read the entire book, then ordered, "The Colony", a book about a leper colony that existed on an island in Hawaii.I found that book very dry, as it traced the character's lives very factually.It was so much like a history book that I couldn't even make it quite half way through.

Not comprehensive but it's a small book
I have been aware of the Carville facility since I read Betty Martin's "Miracle at Carville" as a child, and was delighted to learn about 10 years ago that at that time, she was still living.The book was very respectful of her privacy, not revealing her real name even though she died in 2002.

It was a superficial history of the facility and its newsletter, "The Star", which probably did more to promote knowledge about this interesting disease than anything else.

A Disappointment

Gaudet's book fails to tell us very much about the day to day lives of Carville's patients. Granted, she does relate stories about the Mardi Gras parade and about sneaking off the grounds (I was surprised by the largely positive reactions of the outside community). But time after time, I would read a passage and want to know more. After finishing the book, I hardly had any more knowledge about Hansen's Disease and the Carville experience than I had before I began reading it.

reflecting on carville
This book deserves a more intensive review than this, but it also deserves to be read,so I will at least share some random reflections on it.Carville is the name of a small community in south Louisiana.It is also a euphemism for the location of the hospital that for more than 100 years treatedpatients with leprosy (preferably called Hansen'sdisease.)As such Carville was a place of mystery and curiosity.Marcia Gaudet's new book ofrecollections takes the mystery out of the place and shows it to be the home of an intensely courageous group of people, stigmatized for their condition but never defeated.The book which has much to offer to the scholar and the lay reader alike records the memories of trauma and grief that Hansen'sdisease patients endured.But the book does not stop with trauma.It relates the formation and growth of a community with its own traditions (escaping through the hole in the fence),celebrations (Mardi Gras) and tall tales.For anyone with even a casual interest in the lives of people in intensely painful situations the book is an inspiration and a must read. ... Read more

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Asthma is a chronic condition that affects all areas of your life—or even worse, that of your children. This book shows people how to prevent asthma flare-ups, support loved ones and not let this condition negatively affect your activities, your goals or your psychological approach to life.

In the Healthy Living series, Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with the nation's top medical experts and organizations to give emotional support and important information to people with specific medical needs. The books feature approximately twelve positive, heartwarming stories from real people, followed by relevant expert medical advice that will positively impact the reader's life. Subjects such as diet, psychological issues, family relations, and alternative therapies exist side-by-side with traditional subjects such as understanding common medical terms, the effects of treatment options, and the doctor-patient relationship. Each book contains source notes and a resources section for more information and support.

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This new book in the successful Healthy Living formula - inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients - addresses one of America's most frustrating and dangerous recurring conditions

Diabetes isn't just an illness anymore: it is an epidemic in American society that has increasingly been explained as an outgrowth of our lifestyle choices. This book explains what causes diabetes, how to prevent it—especially how to prevent it in loved ones like husbands and children—and most importantly how to live well once you've developed the condition. Most of us know what we should do; this book gives you the inspiration you need to actually follow through.

In the Healthy Living series, Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with the nation's top medical experts and organizations to give emotional support and important information to people with specific medical needs. The books feature approximately twelve positive, heartwarming stories from real people, followed by relevant expert medical advice that will positively impact the reader's life. Subjects such as diet, psychological issues, family relations, and alternative therapies exist side-by-side with traditional subjects such as understanding common medical terms, the effects of treatment options, and the doctor-patient relationship. Each book contains source notes and a resources section for more information and support.