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UNINA9910703331303321 |
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Autore |
Mansfield James |
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Titolo |
Lavender |
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[Bethesda, Md.] : , : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, , 2012 |
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[Updated April 2012.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations |
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Lavenders - Therapeutic use |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 2, 2016). |
"Created March 2007"--Page [2]. |
"D366"--Page [2]. |
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Includes bibliographical references (page [2]). |
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After receiving his discharge from a two year stint in the army during the Korean War, Spencer Corbin moves to southern California, gets a job and spends his free time going to bars and movies. Not long after he arrives he begins having a series of related dreams about a beautiful woman called Lavender. He falls in love with her because she is "safe"---Spencer has no interest in marriage nor steady girl friend. One Saturday morning two beautiful women, Stefanie and Joanna, who are lesbians, move into a bungalow next to his. Stefanie is a free lance painter. Spencer asks her to paint a portrait of Lavender from his description of her. Soon Spencer falls in love with Stefanie but regards her, as with Lavender, a "safe" situation because she is in a relationship with Joanna. Ultimately, the relationship between Stefanie and Joanna cools and Stefanie falls in love with Spencer. However, Spencer never becomes aware of that and does not declare his love for her. Stefanie, who has never ever had any feelings for a man, does not declare her love for Spencer because she does not understand those feelings, and because she believes he might eventually dump her as he has done with other women. He has always made it very clear to her that he is not interested in anything smacking of a permanent relationship with a |
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woman. the Lavender dreams continue unabated throughout the novel and after a while even Stefanie begins having Lavender dreams. No matter who dreams them the same three people (Lavender, Stefanie and Spencer) are always in them. Sometimes Spencer finds it difficult to separate his dreams from the real world in which he lives. Toward the end of the novel Spencer turns his wasteful life around and, thanks in large part to his love for Stefanie, pursues and obtains his Ph.D. in History from USC (he had obtained a Masters degree in History prior to his army service). Then he is hired as a professor at USC. This is the happiest time of his life and he finally decides to tell Stefanie that he loves her regardless of how she might take the news. But something intervenes to delay that confession. in the end do the two worlds, that of the dreams and that of the real existence, merge as one, or is one world shed in deference to the other? |
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UNINA9910502589503321 |
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Autore |
Powell Lynda H. |
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Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases : Scientific Foundations / / by Lynda H. Powell, Kenneth E. Freedland, Peter G. Kaufmann |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 pages) |
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Behavioral Science and Psychology Series |
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Clinical health psychology |
Medicine, Preventive |
Health promotion |
Alternative medicine |
Therapeutics |
Health Psychology |
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention |
Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Introduction: the window of opportunity -- A selected history of randomized behavioral clinical trials: what we learned -- A clinically significant problem and a clincially significant benefit -- The process of developing a behavioral treatment for chronic disease -- The hypothesized pathway from behavioral treatment to chronic disease -- Equipoise, blinding, and investigator discipline -- Sensitivity to diversity -- Protection of randomization -- Choice of appropriate control group -- Readiness to conduct a behavioral randomized clinical trial -- Concluding remarks. |
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This is the first comprehensive guide to the design of behavioral randomized clinical trials (RCT) for chronic diseases. It includes the scientific foundations for behavioral trial methods, problems that have been encountered in past behavioral trials, advances in design that have evolved, and promising trends and opportunities for the future. The value of this book lies in its potential to foster an ability to “speak the language of medicine” through the conduct of high-quality behavioral clinical trials that match the rigor commonly seen in double-blind drug trials. It is relevant for testing any treatment aimed at improving a behavioral, social, psychosocial, environmental, or policy-level risk factor for a chronic disease including, for example, obesity, sedentary behavior, adherence to treatment, psychosocial stress, food deserts, and fragmented care. Outcomes of interest are those that are of clinical significance in the treatment of chronic diseases, including standard risk factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose, and clinical outcomes such as hospitalizations, functional limitations, excess morbidity, quality of life, and mortality. This link between behavior and chronic disease requires innovative clinical trial methods not only from the behavioral sciences but also from medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics. This integration does not exist in any current book, or in any training program, in either the behavioral sciences or medicine. |
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