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200 10$aMultiple sclerosis /$fLisa I. Iezzoni
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aSanta Barbara, Calif. :$cGreenwood,$d2010.
210  2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2024.
215   $a1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages) $cillustrations
225 1 $aBiographies of disease
300   $aDescription based on print version record.
311   $a979-82-16-12017-9 
311   $a0-313-36564-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acronyms; Chapter 1. Introducing the Central Nervous System and the Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis; Chapter 2. History of MS; Chapter 3. MS in Populations around the World; Chapter 4. Role of the Immune System in Causing MS; Chapter 5. Symptoms and Diagnosis of MS; Chapter 6. MS Treatments; Chapter 7. Disability and Rehabilitation Therapies; Chapter 8. Ambulation Aids and Wheeled Mobility Aids; Chapter 9. Accommodating Disability and Disability Civil Rights; Timeline; Glossary
327   $aInternet ResourcesBibliography; Index
330   $aWritten by a professor of medicine who is also personally affected by the disease, Multiple Sclerosis offers an overview of every aspect of the condition. It begins by introducing the central nervous system and describing how multiple sclerosis affects the brain and spinal cord. The author then reviews early understanding of MS, how it was first recognized as a disease, and the discoveries that have helped explain its causes. ||Moving to contemporary understanding of multiple sclerosis, the book explores the epidemiology of MS in the United States and around the world, describes MS symptoms, a
410  0$aBiographies of disease.
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615  0$aMultiple sclerosis.
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