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Autore |
Knight Isobel <1974-> |
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Titolo |
A guide to living with EhlersDanlos syndrome (hypermobility type) : bending without breaking / / Isobel Knight ; foreword by Alan J. Hakim |
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London, England ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Singing Dragon, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Joints - Hypermobility |
Pain - Treatment |
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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""A Guide to Livingwith Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: What is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome � Hypermobility Type?""; ""Chapter 2: Symptoms of EDS-HT""; ""Chapter 3: Diagnosis of EDS-HT""; ""Chapter 4: Children and EDS-HT""; ""Chapter 5: Adolescents and EDS-HT""; ""Chapter 6: Pain Management and Adults and EDS-HT""; ""Chapter 7: Other Related Physical Conditions and EDS-HT""; ""Chapter 8: Menstruation, Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Menopause and EDS-HT""; ""Chapter 9: Psychological Support and EDS-HT"" |
""Chapter 10: Physiotherapy and Pilates Management and EDS-HT""""Chapter 11: Somatic and Related Practices""; ""Chapter 12: Complementary Health � Alternative Therapies""; ""Chapter 13: Specialist Therapies and Information""; ""Chapter 14: Dancers and EDS-HT ""; ""Chapter 15: Sports and Activities ""; ""Chapter 16: I Have EDS-HT � Now What? ""; ""Glossary of Terms/Acronyms ""; ""Resources""; ""References""; ""Subject Index""; ""Author Index"" |
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Covering everything from recognising symptoms and obtaining initial diagnosis to living with the condition on a daily basis, this complete guide to living with and managing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type - formerly known as Type III) has been revised and |
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fully-updated in this accessible new edition. The author, who has the condition, looks at how it affects children and adolescents and explores pain management, pregnancy, physical and psychological aspects, and how it widely affects dancers and other performance artists. New material includes:changes in terminologyinformation on ho |
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UNINA9910797726403321 |
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Autore |
Ruben David-Hillel |
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Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-317-25992-0 |
1-315-63473-2 |
1-317-25991-2 |
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[Updated and expanded second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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First published 2012 by Paradigm Publishers. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Preface to the Second Edition; I Getting our Bearings; Some explanations; Process and product; The methodology of explaining explanation; Restricting the scope of the analysis; Scientific and ordinary explanation; Partial and full explanation; Bad explanations and no explanations; Some terminology; Theories of explanation; Dispensing with contrastives; II Plato on Explanation; The Phaedo; Platonic explanantia and explananda; Problems for the physical explainers; Some terminology |
Plato's PrinciplesPlato's (PP2); Plato's (PP1); The Theaetetus; Summary; III Aristotle on Explanation; The doctrine of the four causes; Does Aristotle have a general account of explanation?; Incidental and per se causes; Necessitation and laws in explanation; Aristotle on scientific explanation; Aristotle's demonstrations; Summary; IV Mill and Hempel on Explanation; Mill's account of explanation: laws of coexistence and succession; Mill's account of explanation: the symmetry thesis; Mill on |
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ultimate explanations; Mill on deduction and explanation; Hempel's account of scientific explanation |
Hempel's methodologyHempel on the symmetry thesis; Hempel on inductive-statistical explanation; Hempel on epistemic ambiguity; Summary; V The Ontology of Explanation; Explanation and epistemology; Extensionality and the slingshot; The relata of the explanation relation; Explaining facts; The non-extensionality of facts; Facts: worldly or wordy?; The co-typical predicate extensionality of facts; The name transparency of facts; Addendum on Gideon Rosen's conception of facts; VI Arguments, Laws, and Explanation; The standard counterexamples: irrelevance; The standard counterexamples: symmetry |
A proposed cure and its problems: the causal conditionGeneralizations get their revenge; VII A Realist Theory of Explanation; Are all singular explanations causal explanations?; What would make an explanation non-causal?; Identity and explanation; Are there other non-causal singular explanations?; Disposition explanations; Again: determinative, high dependency, and low dependency explanations; Postscript on Gideon Rosen; Notes; Bibliography; Reviews of the First Edition of Explaining Explanation; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Author |
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