An invitation to health : your personal responsibility / Barbara J. Combs, consulting author, Dianne R. Hales, Brian K. Williams ; with an appendix from the revised edition of Take care of yourself, a consumer's guide to medical care, by Donald M. Vickery and James F. Fries.
Publication details: Menlo Park, Calif. : Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., c1983.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xv, 531, [118] p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:- 0805322906 (pbk.)
- 613 19 COM
- RA776 .C725 1983
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Contents
1. An Invitation to health
I. Mental Health
2. Self-Portraits : The Life of the Mind
3. Stress: A Daily Challenge
4. Solving Psychological Problems
II. America, the Drug Culture
5. Medication: The Promises of Pills and Potions
6. Psychoactive Drugs: Better Living Through Chemistry
7. Drinking the Question of Control
8. Smoking: A matter of Taste
III. Sexuality and reproduction
9. Sexuality
10. The Intimate Relationship
11. Conception and Contraception
12. Pregnancy Childbirth and Parenting
IV. Physical Health : Living Longer and Feeling Better
13. Food: You are What you Eat
14. The Joy of Fitness: Activity and Rest
15. Major Health Problems: Prevention and Treatment
16. Infectious Diseases
V. You, Society and the Quality of Life
17. You as Health Care Consumer
18. Environmental Health: Coping with Change
19. Growing Older: What Will you be Tomorrow?
20. Death and Dying: Not Fear, But Growth
Includes bibliographies and index.
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