Aggression is perhaps the most serious human problem: from family violence, to street crime, to war, it threatens not only the quality of daily life, but also life itself. This volume explores the empirical evidence on human aggression and violent crime, drawing on a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, education, law, medicine, physiology, political science, psychiatry, psychology and sociology. For the second edition, the author has completely updated the book and added new and expanded material on family violence, predicting dangerousness, the effects of pornography on aggression, sports violence, and the psychology of war and peace. From reviews of the first edition: "A solid work which should be seen as the 'basic source'."

Aggression & Crimes of Violence

Politics & Social Sciences

Goldstein, David S.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Stress is an integral part of life. But what is it, how does it affect the body, and what roles do stress and catecholamines play in acute and chronic manifestations of cardiovascular diseases? This book provides a comprehensive, science-based analysis of these issues. Scientific medicine attempts to explain diseases in terms of theories that observation or experimentation can test. The starting point for understanding the roles of stress and catecholamines in cardiovascular disorders is a theory defining stress. This book presents a new homeostatic theory of stress and distress and applies this theory to explain the important roles of endogenous catecholamines--norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine--and other effector systems in maintaining the internal environment during stress. The theory proposes coordinated activation of the body's several stress systems in primitively specific patterns during exposure to various stressors. Comparator "homeostats" interpret afferent information about specific physiological or chemical monitored variables and regulate the operations of effector systems. Via a hierarchical mosaic of central neural cell clusters, the brain constantly redefines homeostasis by resetting homeostats, especially during stress. The presentation summarizes difficult and complex literature about central neural mechanisms participating in sympathoadrenal responses to stress and analyzes theories about the roles of catecholamines in the brain. Clinical methods to assess sympathoadrenal activity are described, including the latest tracer-kinetic and nuclear scanning techniques. The possibly pathophysiologic effects of the derangement of catecholaminergic function in cardiovascular diseases receive particular attention. Attempting to separate fact from opinion, the book considers objectively several prevalent and controversial theories -inking stress and cardiovascular disease. The book concludes with the proposal of a new discipline in clinical medicine: neurocardiology.

Stress, Catecholamines, and Cardiovascular Disease

Self-Help

Stress Management

Utilizing a homeostatic approach incorporating medical practice, teaching, and research, this interdisciplinary reference fully examines the function and dysfunction of the body's autonomic systems to treat and promote better understanding of a variety of neurocardiological disorders. Highlights the roles of catecholamines, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine in autonomic systems! Ideally suited for both clinical and research purposes, The Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease 
<li>introduces a homeostat theory integrating cybernetic views of stress with principles of operation for effector systems 
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<li>documents historical breakthroughs defining neurocardiology as a discipline in medicine 
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<li>provides conceptual perspectives such as the homeostat theory of stress, defining characteristics of stress and distress, and the sources and meanings of plasma levels of catechols 
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<li>reviews the physiology of the autonomic nervous system, including the cranial and sacral divisions of parasympathetic system, the sympathetic nervous and the adrenomedullary hormonal systems, and the homeostatic roles of catecholamine functions 
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<li>surveys the interactions and responses of stress effector systems such as the pituitary-adrenocortical, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, endogenous opioid, and vasopressin systems, as well as the parasympathetic, sympathetic, and adrenomedullary systems 
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<li>presents a schema for evaluating patients with neurocardiological disorders 
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<li>discusses future trends in medical research and integrative medicine, including redirection of molecular genetics and integrative physiology to focus on mechanisms of adult health and disease 
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<li>and much more! Written by a single expert in the field to provide better cohesion on the subject, and supplemented with over 1900 literature references and over 100 figures and tables, The Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease is an invaluable and comprehensive resource for clinical neurologists and neurocardiologists, neuroscientists, physiatrists, and neurochemists; cardiologists and internists; physiologists, biochemists, endocrinologists, and pharmacologists; psychiatrists and psychologists; medical house officers, residents, and interns; and medical and graduate school students in these disciplines.</li>

The Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease (Neurological Disease and Therapy)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

CRC-Press

The NDRF Handbook for Patients With Dysautonomias

Smith, Linda Joy

Medical Books

Futura Media Services

The late Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Morrison was a powerful writer who wove stories depicting the largely overlooked Black experience in America. Her writing also explored the intersection between gender and race through the lives of Black women. Morrison's writing continues to move people and push readers to reassess their beliefs about what it means to be Black in America. Synthesizing some 250 scholarly works about Morrison's writing, this book examines eight novels as well as the short story "Recitatif" (widely taught in classrooms worldwide). They are analyzed for techniques used to deepen meaning and emotional weight, and reveal Morrison's mastery over prose.

Toni Morrison's Secret Drive: A Reader-Response Study of the Fiction and Its Rhetoric

Literature & Fiction

Campbell, Shawnrece D.

History & Criticism

McFarland

Autonomic medicine is emerging across the globe as an important subspecialty in healthcare. The overwhelming majority of medicine today is based on the assumption that a patient's autonomic nervous system is intact and functioning normally. But what if it is not? What do we do when there are abnormalities in the regulatory functions of the body, such as maintaining normal blood flow to the heart, lungs, and brain while standing upright, or sweating properly to keep cool on a hot day? Introduction to Autonomic Medicine is the starting point for understanding the crucial role the autonomic nervous system plays in all of health care.

Introduction to Autonomic Medicine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Bardolf & Company

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