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Preface | |
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Finding the Right Balance | |
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Promoting Healthy Behavior Change | |
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Putting Your Health in Perspective | |
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New Directions for Health | |
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Reducing Health Disparities: New Challenges | |
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Preparing for Better Health in the Twenty-First Century | |
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Gender Differences and Health Status | |
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Improving Your Health | |
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Choosing a Behavior-Change Strategy | |
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Changing Your Behavior | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well | |
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Defining Psychosocial Health | |
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Factors That Influence Psychosocial Health | |
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Enhancing Psychosocial Health | |
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When Psychosocial Health Deteriorates | |
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Suicide: Giving Up on Life | |
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Seeking Professional Help | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges | |
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What Is Stress? | |
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The Body's Response to Stress | |
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Stress and Your Health | |
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Sources of Stress | |
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Stress and the College Student | |
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Managing Your Stress | |
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Developing Your Spiritual Side: Mindfulness | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy Environments | |
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Violence in the United States | |
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Costs of Violence | |
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Societal Causes of Violence | |
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Intentional Injuries | |
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Reducing Your Risk | |
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Unintentional Injuries | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships | |
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Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others | |
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The Communication Process: Getting Started | |
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Improving Your Communication Skills | |
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Characterizing and Forming Intimate Relationships | |
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Gender Issues in Relationships | |
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Overcoming Barriers to Intimacy | |
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Committed Relationships | |
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Staying Single | |
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Success in Relationships | |
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Having Children ... or Not? | |
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When Relationships Falter | |
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Getting Help | |
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Building Better Relationships | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior | |
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Your Sexual Identity | |
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Sexual Anatomy and Physiology | |
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Expressing Your Sexuality | |
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Difficulties That Can Hinder Sexual Function | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions | |
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Methods of Fertility Management | |
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Abortion | |
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Planning a Pregnancy | |
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Pregnancy | |
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Childbirth | |
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Infertility | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Choosing a Health Lifestyle | |
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Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health | |
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Assessing Eating Behaviors: Are You What You Eat? | |
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Eating for Health | |
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Obtaining Essential Nutrients | |
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Can Food Have Medicinal Value? | |
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Gender and Nutrition | |
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Vegetarianism: Eating for Health | |
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Improved Eating for the College Student | |
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Food Safety: A Growing Concern | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Managing Your Weight: Finding a Health Balance | |
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Determining the Right Weight for You | |
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Assessing Fat Levels | |
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Risk Factors for Obesity | |
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Managing Your Weight | |
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Trying to Gain Weight | |
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Thinking Thin: Body Image and Eating Disorders | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Personal Fitness: Improving Health through Exercise | |
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Physical Fitness, Activity, and Exercise | |
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Benefits of Regular Physical Activity | |
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Improving Cardiorespiratory Fitness | |
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Why Are Flexibility and Stretching Exercises Important? | |
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Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance | |
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Body Composition | |
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Fitness Injuries | |
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Creating Your Own Fitness Program | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Avoiding Risks from Harmful Habits | |
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Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness | |
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Defining Addiction | |
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The Addictive Process | |
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Types of Addiction | |
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How Addiction Affects Family and Friends | |
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Treatment for and Recovery from Addiction | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus | |
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Alcohol: An Overview | |
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Physiological and Behavioral Effects of Alcohol | |
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Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | |
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Recovery | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges | |
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Our Smoking Society | |
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Tobacco and Its Effects | |
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Health Hazards of Smoking | |
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) | |
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Tobacco and Politics | |
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Quitting | |
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Caffeine | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse | |
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Drug Dynamics | |
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Using, Misusing, and Abusing Drugs | |
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Illicit Drugs | |
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Controlled Substances | |
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Illegal Drug Use in the United States | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Preventing and Fighting Disease | |
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Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk | |
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An Epidemiological Overview | |
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Understanding the Cardiovascular System | |
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Types of Cardiovascular Disease | |
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Reducing Your Risk for Cardiovascular Diseases | |
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Women and Cardiovascular Disease | |
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New Weapons Against Heart Disease | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Cancer: Reducing Your Risk | |
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An Overview of Cancer | |
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What Causes Cancer? | |
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Types of Cancers | |
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Facing Cancer | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities | |
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Assessing Your Disease Risks | |
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Types of Pathogens and Routes of Transmission | |
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Your Body's Defenses: Keeping You Well | |
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Emerging and Resurgent Diseases | |
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Sexually Transmitted Infections | |
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HIV/AIDS | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Noninfectious Conditions: The Modern Maladies | |
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Chronic Lung Diseases | |
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Neurological Disorders | |
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Gender-Related Disorders | |
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Digestion-Related Disorders | |
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Musculoskeletal Diseases | |
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Other Maladies | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Facing Life's Challenges | |
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Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Process | |
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Growing Old: Life Passages | |
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Health Issues for an Aging Society | |
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Theories on Aging | |
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Changes in the Body and Mind | |
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Health Challenges of Older Adults | |
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Strategies for Healthy Aging | |
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Caring for Older Adults | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Dying and Death: The Final Transition | |
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Understanding Death | |
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The Process of Dying | |
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Life-and-Death Decision Making | |
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Making Final Arrangements | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally | |
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Overpopulation | |
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Air Pollution | |
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Water Pollution | |
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Noise Pollution | |
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Land Pollution | |
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Radiation | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services | |
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Responsible Consumerism: Choices and Challenges | |
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Taking Responsibility for Your Health Care | |
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Choices in Health Products: Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs | |
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Choices in Medical Care | |
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Health Care Organizations, Programs, and Facilities | |
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Issues Facing Today's Health Care System | |
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Third-Party Payers | |
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Taking Charge | |
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers | |
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CAM: What Is It and Who Uses It? | |
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Alternative Medical System Options | |