| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
162 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Perspectives on diseases and disorders |
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Perspectives on diseases and disorders.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- 1: Understanding Hepatitis -- 1: Overview of hepatitis / Thelma King Thiel -- 2: Hepatitis A causes a short-lived but potentially serious disease / Larry I Lutwick -- 3: Hepatitis B is one of the most common chronic infectious diseases / David A Cramer and Teresa G Odle -- 4: Hepatitis C can go undetected for years / Larry I Lutwick and Tish Davidson -- 5: Hepatitis D has little public awareness / Hepatitis B foundation -- 6: New Hepatitis B vaccine may help those in the developing world / Science daily -- 7: Hepatitis C is the number one reason for liver transplants / Peter Jaret -- 2: Controversies Surrounding Hepatitis -- 1: Treating prisoners with Hepatitis C is cost effective / Jennifer A Tan, Tom A Joseph, and Sammy Saab -- 2: Treating all prisoners with Hepatitis C may not be feasible / Owen J Murray, John Pulvino, Jacques Baillargeon, David Paar, and Ben G Raimer -- 3: Health care workers should be tested for Hepatitis C / David M Sine -- 4: Health care workers should not be tested for Hepatitis C / Bashyr Aziz -- 5: Hepatitis B vaccine causes multiple sclerosis / David Kirby -- 6: Hepatitis B vaccine does not cause multiple sclerosis / Immunization safety office: centers for disease control and prevention -- 7: Chimpanzees are needed for research on Hepatitis and other diseases / Foundation for biomedical research -- 8: Chimpanzees should not be used for Hepatitis research / Theodora Capaldo and Jarrod Bailey -- 3: Personal Stories About Hepatitis -- 1: Musician battles Hepatitis C / David Crosby -- 2: Officer with Hepatitis C waits for a liver transplant / Hattie Brown Garrow -- 3: Life is difficult for Chinese living with Hepatitis B / Tan Ee Lyn -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Organizations to contact -- For further reading -- Index. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher's Website: Each volume in this timely series provides essential information on a disease or disorder (including symptoms, causes, treatments and cures); presents the controversies surrounding causes, alternative treatments, and other issues; and offers first-person narratives from people coping with the disease-either as patients, family members or caregivers. Essays are carefully edited and introduced to make them easily accessible to student researchers as well as general readers. By focusing on the controversies surrounding diseases and disorders, this series supports debate assignments and helps develop critical thinking skills, and also helps patients and family members learn about and deal with a disease or disorder. Each volume includes numerous color photos, charts, graphs and tables as well as a glossary of key terms, a chronology of developments relating to the disease or disorder, a bibliography to assist with further research, a list of organizations to contact and an index. |
| Subject |
Hepatitis.
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| Added Author |
Langwith, Jacqueline.
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| ISBN |
9780737745535 hardcover |
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0737745533 hardcover |
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