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Sports provide people around the world with unmatched entertainment, from the excitement of victory to the agony of defeat. Unfortunately, it also has become painfully clear that the agony of sports goes well beyond athletes losing games or competitions. Playing through concussions, the abuse of pain medicine, the use of performance-enhancing substances, and other health-related issues have become a constant reminder that being a professional athlete can be as dangerous as it is lucrative.

In The Athlete’s Dilemma: Sacrificing Health for Wealth and Fame, John Weston Parry examines the health-related transgressions and hot-topic issues in America’s top spectator sports, particularly in football, baseball, hockey, soccer, cycling, tennis, and Olympic competitions. Parry delves into the unique health risks that pertain to each individual sport and scrutinizes how the various leagues and organizations have handled these issues. Controversies and scandals surrounding elite athletes are also included, highlighting the need for changes in how sports are governed and regulated in the United States and worldwide.

From football and soccer players returning to the field too soon after concussions to Olympic athletes using performance-enhancing substances, The Athlete’s Dilemma provides a broad perspective on the health risks prevalent in sports and what can be done to reduce these risks in the future. Accessibly written yet carefully researched, this book will be of interest to athletes of all levels, sports fans, academics, and health professionals.

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…one of the best scientific references available for acupuncture faculty and students….the author is able to effectively and efficiently bridge different approaches to auricular acupuncture as practiced in the western world for the past 50 years. – Doody’s Book Review (starred review)

The updated Second Edition of this outstanding reference guide and textbook provides a comprehensive review of both the French (after Nogier) and Chinese schools of acupuncture. The book offers a detailed description of the anatomy and morphology of the ear, acupoints on the ear and their localizations, as well as specific points for ear acupuncture. Dr. Rubach, with many years’ experience as a practitioner and teacher, provides valuable information in an easy-to-read, helpful format. You will learn how to use ear acupuncture safely and effectively. Large-format, graphic images are used to clearly show the location of points and the methods of auriculotherapy. The book includes answers to important everyday questions and is a treasury of practical information.

Special features of Principles of Ear Acupuncture, Second Edition:

A critical review of different methods of stimulation
A practical compendium of the therapeutic point combinations
Quick reference section on acupoints and localization
A question and answer section for instant review
Now includes over 30 interesting indications
The book includes special sections on the use of acupuncture in pregnancy, obstetrics, gynecology, and dentistry. Filled with tips for daily practice and an excellent reference guide, this book is a must for students and ear acupuncturists.

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Rheumatism: Its History from the Advent of Experimental Science to the Impact of Bacteriology follows Rheumatism: Its History from Paleo-pathology to the Advent of Experimental Science, which was published in 2015. The concept of the present book is that, as bacteriology developed as a scientific discipline, it gradually replaced the vague patho-physiologic concepts that explained “rheumatism.” Galen in about 200 CE displayed certainty about the basis of disease causation that remained satisfactory for 1700 years. The chronology wherein the existence of bacteria became recognized and eventually, over learned opposition became pathogens, is told in the introduction in excerpts from the writings of important participants.

The main chapters of this book portray the historical development of the understanding of five rheumatic diseases. The first is gonorrheal rheumatism, which became gonococcal arthritis. It posed the question how, even if scientists acknowledge that a specific bacterial species is the cause of local symptoms, can this unpredictably cause symptoms at different locations. A chapter on reactive arthritis describes a disease that closely mimics gonorrheal rheumatism, and is shown to be caused by several different microbes, none of which are related to the bacterium that causes gonorrheal rheumatism. Chapter Four is a scientific biography of a German surgeon that exemplifies the consequences of becoming wedded to an erroneous discovery, and the protracted influence this may have on an entire area of research. His discovery was the bacterial cause of rheumatoid arthritis. This is followed in Chapter Five by the development of understanding the cause of rheumatic fever, and how this helped to differentiate this disease from rheumatoid arthritis. Chapter Six focuses on polymyositis and dermatomyositis, related diseases that bear some resemblance to trichinosis, a parasitic infection, as well as sometimes overlapping symptomatically with the last disease to be portrayed, scleroderma or systemic sclerosis. Thus, rheumatic syndromes have become recognized both as disease entities and increasingly subdivided by immunologic distinctions, the successor to bacteriologic distinctions.

To facilitate access to the historically important references of contributors/investigators, biographical articles are inserted wherever possible. An index of these articles from both books is provided, as well as a glossary of terms with which some readers may be unfamiliar. Finally there is a bibliography of the author’s publications that pertain to the history of rheumatology and historical aspects of so-called rheumatic diseases.

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The difficulty in achieving effective translation of basic mechanistic biomedical knowledge into effective therapeutics, is the greatest challenge in biomedical research. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the reductionist approaches to understanding and manipulating the acute inflammatory response in the settings of sepsis, trauma/hemorrhage, wound healing, and related processes.

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Analyzing Health Data in R for SAS Users is aimed at helping health data analysts who use SAS accomplish some of the same tasks in R. It is targeted to public health students and professionals who have a background in biostatistics and SAS software, but are new to R.

For professors, it is useful as a textbook for a descriptive or regression modeling class, as it uses a publicly-available dataset for examples, and provides exercises at the end of each chapter. For students and public health professionals, not only is it a gentle introduction to R, but it can serve as a guide to developing the results for a research report using R software.

Features:

Gives examples in both SAS and R
Demonstrates descriptive statistics as well as linear and logistic regression
Provides exercise questions and answers at the end of each chapter
Uses examples from the publicly available dataset, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2014 data
Guides the reader on producing a health analysis that could be published as a research report
Gives an example of hypothesis-driven data analysis
Provides examples of plots with a color insert

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