Published August, 2021
By Harold L. Kennedy
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Published May, 2020
By J. Perry Gustafson, Paul R. Ehrlich and Peter H. Raven
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Written by expert scientists, this collection of essays addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on earth possible.

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Published February, 2019
By Mark Osteen
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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The territory of severe autism - of the child who is debilitated by the condition, who will never be cured - has been largely neglected in literature. One of Us tells that story. It thrusts the reader into the life of a child who exists in his own world and describes the immense hardships faced by those who love and care for him.

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Published February, 2017
By John C. Hagan and John C Hagan, III
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have travelled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience.

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Published February, 2017
By Aelwen D Wetherby
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Explores American medical relief to Spain and China in the 1930s and 1940s as responses to the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although serving vastly different peoples in strikingly distant landscapes, the three aid organisations focused on here illustrate a transition in how Americans responded to foreign conflict and how humanitarian aid was used as a political tool.

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Published February, 2016
By Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, Margot Ford McMillen, Richard Lael and Margot McMillen
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Fulton State Hospital was not only Missouri s first state mental asylum but also the first such institution west of the Mississippi. In tracing its founding and evolution over a century and a half, this book sheds light on both a neglected aspect of the state's history and the development of mental health care in America.

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Published November, 2015
By John Rankin
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Explores the troubled intertwining of religion, medicine, empire, and race relations in the early nineteenth century. John Rankin analyses the British use of medicine in West Africa as a tool to usher in a "softer" form of imperialism, considers how British colonial officials, missionaries, and doctors regarded Africans, and explores the impact of race classification on colonial constructs.

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Published September, 2011
By K. Patrick Ober
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Mark Twain's comments on a wide range of topics continue to be accurate, valid, and frequently amusing and his opinions on the medical field are no exception. While Twain's works are rich in medical imagery and medical themes derived from his personal experiences, his interactions with the medical profession and his comments about health, illness, and physicians have largely been overlooked.

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Published November, 2010
By Mark Osteen
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Chronicles the experience of raising a severely autistic child. In a powerful, deeply personal narrative, the author recounts the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their son's disability. It is a story that takes the reader into the life of a child who exists in his own world, and describes the hardships faced by those who love and care for him.

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Published April, 2010
By David A. Fleming and John C. Hagan
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Offers advice and solutions to professional caregivers or family members confronted with incurable illness and death. This title covers diverse aspects of end-of-life care across multiple disciplines, offering a broad perspective on such central issues as control of pain and other symptoms, spirituality, and special concerns regarding the elderly.

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