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Alzheimer’s and Dementia
A Practical and Legal Guide for Nevada Caregivers
by Kim Boyer, Mary Shapiro
Individuals or families receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, or brain damage from a stroke face daunting questions: how to provide for care when the patient can no longer manage his or her own affairs, how to protect their rights and property, where to go for help, and how to cope with the day-to-day challenges of fading memory and diminished cognition.... more

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Cries of Crisis
Rethinking the Health Care Debate
by Robert B. Hackey
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health care crisis are now deeply embedded in contemporary politics and popular culture.... more

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Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West
Essays on Region, History, and Practice
Edited by Martha L. Hildreth, Bruce T. Moran
This collection of eight essays examines the health, disease, and medical care of the American West—an area flanked by the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Mountains.... more

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The Lightning Stick
Arrows, Wounds, and Indian Legends
by H. Henrietta Stockel
More than simply a history of the bow and arrow, The Lightening Stick brings together a broad range of significant people and events, spiritual usages, medicinal treatments, and an unusual array of subject matter related to the weapon itself.... more

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The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West
by Diana L. Ahmad
America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West.... more

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Psychotherapy as Religion
The Civil Divine in America
by William M. Epstein
A provocative look at America on the couch. In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems.... more
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