Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel / / by Magdy El-Salhy, Jan Gunnar Hatlebakk, Trygve Hausken

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300240203321
• Autore: El-Salhy Magdy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-15642-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (95 p.)
• Disciplina: 610; 613; 614.44; 616.33; 616.39
• Soggetti: Gastroenterology; Metabolism - Disorders; Health promotion; Metabolic Diseases; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Irritable bowel syndrome: what is it? -- 2. The digestive tract and how it works -- 3. The cause of irritable bowel syndrome -- 4. How is irritable bowel syndrome diagnosed? -- 5. Treatment options without medication -- 6. Treatment options involving medication -- 7. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
• Sommario/riassunto: This easy-to-read book gives sufferers of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) strategies to improve both their symptoms and quality of life. Up-to-date information about IBS is provided and developments in the understanding and management of IBS from the last decade are discussed, by authors who are gastroenterologists with long experience of working with IBS patients. Each chapter begins with a summary containing the most important points, and includes a large number of illustrations. Thus, the reader can obtain a quick overview by simply reading the summary of each chapter and going through the ; illustrations; chapters of interest can be read in more detail when more time is available. Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel helps patients suffering from this disorder to manage it and to prevent it from interfering with their everyday activities.

Cultural Psychology and Qualitative Methodology : Theoretical and Empirical Considerations / / by Carl Ratner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968882203321
• Autore: Ratner Carl
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1997
• ISBN: 1-4757-2681-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1997.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 262 p.)
• Collana: Path in Psychology, Published in Cooperation with Publications for the Advancement of Theory and History in Psychology (Path)
• Disciplina: 150; 155.8
• Soggetti: Psychology - Methodology; Ethnopsychology; Psychological Methods; Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Shortcomings of Positivistic Methodology for Researching Cultural Psychology -- 2. Principles of Qualitative Methodology for Psychology -- 3. The Cultural Character of Psychology -- 4. Qualitative Methodology for Describing the Cultural Character of Psychology -- 5. Qualitative Cultural Psychological Methodology and Science -- 6. Sociopolitical Underpinnings of Positivism and Qualitative Cultural Psychological Methodology -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: Qualitative methodologies in cultural psychology often lack the objective and verifiable character of quantitative analysis. Author Carl Ratner corrects this shortcoming by rigorously systematizing qualitative methods. The book discusses, for example, means of systematizing such subjective reports as interviews, letters, and diaries, which often ; yield valuable data that is not easily quantified. Ratner argues that "complex psychological phenomena are expressed through extended responses" and hence are best studied by new, more regularized qualitative methods that go beyond measuring simple, overt responses.