The healing heart--families : storytelling to encourage caring and healthy families / / edited by Allison M. Cox and David H. Albert ; foreword by Nancy Mellon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955954303321
• Autore: Cox Allison M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gabriola, B.C., : New Society Publishers, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-46394-2; 1-55092-315-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Classificazione: FAM000000FAM002000PER019000
• Altri autori (Persone): AlbertDavid H; CoxAllison M
• Disciplina: 808.5/43
• Soggetti: Storytelling; Tales; Narrative therapy; Therapie narrative
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Advance Praise; Half Title Page; Title Page; Publication Data; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Healing Through Story; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Children with Medical Problems Reclaim Their Lives; Stories in the Hospital and Beyond; Coping with Grief; Spiritual Healing; Teach Your Children Well; Early Childhood Interventions; Stories go to School; Adopting Families; Exploring Alternative Sexual Identities; Deconstructing Prejudice and Developing Empathy; Bibliography; Author biographies and contact information; Ecoaudit
• Sommario/riassunto: The only book of its kind that demonstrates the power of storytelling to heal.

Autoimmune disorders : symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / / Maria E. Petrov, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971294403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011
• ISBN: 1-61761-698-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Collana: Immunology and immune system disorders
• Altri autori (Persone): PetrovMaria E
• Disciplina: 616.97/8
• Soggetti: Autoimmune diseases; Autoimmunity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1 Autoimmune Liver Diseases ""; ""Chapter 2 Immunopathological Events in an Experimental Autoimmune Kidney Disease and How Those Events Can be Terminated to Regain Tolerance to Self ""; ""Chapter 3 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Severe Autoimmune Diseases: Time for a Reappraisal ""; ""Chapter 4 Thyroid Arterial Embolization for the Treatment of Gravesâ€? Hyperthyroidism ""; ""Chapter 5 New Targets and Approaches to Autoimmune-Induced Salivary Hypofunction""; ""Chapter 6 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Definition, Pathogenesis and Treatment Mariana Postal""""Chapter 7 Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Neuropsychiatric Syndromes of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (NPSLE) ""; ""Chapter 8 Cytomegalovirus-Induced Autoimmunity""; ""Chapter 9 BehÃet's Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment ""; ""Chapter 10 Immunomodulators as Therapeutic Strategies for Managing Multiple Sclerosis E. W. Brenu""; ""Chapter 11 Premenstrual Syndrome: A Disease with an Autoimmune Component? Miranda A. Farage""; ""Chapter 12 The Primary Target Antigenic Site in Heymann Nephritis is the Renal Proximal Convoluted Tubulesâ€? Brush Border Associated Zone of Cells """"Chapter 13 Dysregulation of Autoimmunity Caused by Silica Exposure: Fas-Mediated Apoptosis in T Lymphocytes Derived from Silicosis Patients ""; ""Chapter 14 Unusual Renal Localization of Vasculitis in Sjögrenâ€?s Syndrome: A Clinical Case Report""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the body actually attacks its own cells. The immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks it. The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression--medication which decreases the immune response. This book presents current research in the study of autoimmune disorders with a focus on autoimmune liver diseases; Graves hyperthyroidism; system lupus erythematosus; Behcet's disease; and Sjogren's syndrome.