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How Your Child Heals
An Inside Look at Common Childhood Ailments
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2010
Summary
Good communication between parents and doctors is the cornerstone of getting good care for the child. Doctors are increasingly pressed for time and appointment visits are shorter than ever. Unfortunately, when time is short, what often suffers is explaining to parents what to expect and why. There is another reason explaining often takes a back seat in parent-physician encounters—they are increasingly encounters between strangers. These days many children rarely see the same doctor twice, and more doctor visits happen in emergency departments and walk-in clinics, places where the doctors and families are strangers to each other. In these conditions parents need to learn how to make the most of their brief time with the doctor. This book will help them do that. This book is not a description of a laundry list of pediatric diseases. There are already plenty of those on bookstore shelves. Rather, it uses specific, familiar examples—things like ear infections, asthma attacks, broken bones, and appendicitis—to explain what is happening inside a child's body as it heals. But the book goes beyond that. It does not simply explain; it demonstrates, using vivid narrative techniques so readers can better visualize the processes being described.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0203-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0205-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
216
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Chapter 01. Inflammation: A Visit to a Sore Finger No access Pages 3 - 18
Chapter 02. Location, Location, Location: An Ear Infection’s Lesson No access Pages 19 - 36
Chapter 03. Sometimes the Body Does Silly Things: What Asthma Looks Like No access Pages 37 - 54
Chapter 04. Not All Body Parts Are Useful: A Look Inside a Sick Appendix No access Pages 55 - 70
Chapter 05. How We Know the Enemy: A Close-up View of the Immune System No access Pages 71 - 90
Chapter 06. When the Environment Attacks: Allergies and Other Encounters No access Pages 91 - 106
Chapter 07. Fevers, Aches, and Itches: Where Do Symptoms Come From? No access Pages 107 - 124
Chapter 08. How Injuries Heal: An Inside Expedition to Bruises and Broken Bones No access Pages 125 - 140
Chapter 09. What Cancer Can Teach Us about Healing No access Pages 141 - 156
Chapter 10. How Can We Help a Child Heal? No access Pages 157 - 172
Chapter 11. When Healing Fails No access Pages 173 - 188
Chapter 12. Healing and the Tree of Life No access Pages 189 - 198
Suggestions for Further Reading No access Pages 199 - 202
