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| By: Gary W. Heiman ISBN: 0618696776 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Release Date: 16 July, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 1559959 | ||
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| By: Cram101 Textbook Reviews ISBN: 1428814485 Publisher: AIPI Release Date: 28 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 552625 | This is the most useless book I have ever bought. It is a waste of my time. Please don't spend your money on this book, write your own reviews. I did not find this as useful as I had hoped it would have been. It was just all definitions from each chapter period. I just bought this book "the soft cover edition" after reading all these wonderful comments on the book. I thought, wow 9.95 and stats will be mine! I suppose I did not do enough research, because when the "soft cover" edition arrived it was not the same book that showed up in "Look Inside"... In fact, it's the outline study-guide for the text. I was really upset and feel that I have been misled. I am now returning the "soft cover" edition at my own expense because amazon "is not at fault". Please be aware that the reviews that are associated with this book are for the TEXT which costs alot more. I would have been happy to buy the text but I feel that I was misinformed and I am very upset. Don't make the same mistake I did. Make sure you buy the HARD COVER, unless you really want a useless "companion to the text" soft cover! | |
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| By: Loren Pankratz ISBN: 0398068666 Publisher: C.C. Thomas Release Date: June, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 1644394 | Disappointing. Risk Management departments are known as fabricators by employees and complaining patients alike. This is a classic case of "blame the victim" - or rather, blame the patient. Compared to the number of patients who get informally or formally blacklisted by the medical community, the number of "patients who deceive" is very small. All you have to have is one doctor's office or hospital label you as a "problem patient" and your medical health can be dead in the water in that town. Hospital's risk management departments will go to untold and unethical lengths to deflect a patient's complaint and crush the patient emotionally.
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<br />Patients simply do not have the power, loyalty, money, and backing that the medical community does to fabricate a believable lie. Agencies like the Joint Commission and State Departments of Health almost always find on the side of the medical company, unless the patient has excellent evidence.
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<br />Medical retaliation toward patients who speak up is a real problem and this should be addressed. It is much more of an important subject than what a very small minority of mentally ill patients *might* do. Read "The Wall of Silence" here at Amazon for the truth. "Patients Who Deceive" illustrates a rich spectrum of problematic patient behavior. The chapters that cover specific diagnostic categories are illustrated with case examples that the author has skillfully drawn from his clinical practice. He helps the reader understand why one conclusion fits better than another. Even within a particular diagnosis, the cases he describes are widely varied, which makes the examples all the more welcome.<p>One chapter I found particularly illuminating, "Assessment Misadventure," is presumably a variation of the legal concept of "treatment misadventure." Here he describes patients who appear deceptive at first glance but for whom other explanations are found to account for their disturbing behavior.<p>A colleague who teaches both bioethics and law and medicine is confident that "Patients Who Deceive" will become an invaluable resource for both practitioners and students of health law--as well as for mental health and medical professionals. I agree. I was disappointed in this book. This was partly because I have long admired the author's work; he has written much of value about malingering, deception, factitious disorder etc. Unfortunately, the current book does not match up to the author's usual high quality. The tone is "gee whizz look at this" rather than a sober account of a troubling and fascinating area of clinical practice. The book needed much tighter editing. On balance I'm not sorry I bought the book as it has much useful clinical material in the form of clinician's "war stories". But that's all it has. | |
| By: Alexander J. Field ISBN: 0472089471 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Release Date: 22 January, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 1409960 | In Altruistically Inclined, Alex Field presents a superbly dense and provocative exploration of individual behavior and reasoning. From a background of economics, his deconstruction and reassembling of our understanding of what is rational is an ambitious challenge that Prof. Field manages to tackle and push forward without descending into the excess of intellectual obfuscation. Not that Prof. Field entirely avoids drilling so deep into subject matter that we find ourselves immersed in annotation and data such that we must occasionally come up for air before choking on the dust left by a speeding intellect. It's a delicate dance and Prof. Field is to be commended for offering his thesis not as a debunking but as a methodical enhancement to current and classical science. His map of what might be referred to as a behavioral genome is hugely detailed and while he doesn't seek to redraw the boundaries, he offers topography within those lines that suggest vastly different interpretations than prior snapshots of the surface revealed. The author succeeds in arguing his thesis from multiple perspectives and applying a command of interdisciplinary reasoning. The effect is an elegant and compelling essay that sketches a portrait of our brain that is both an x-ray into evolutionary development and a broader credible reflection that speaks to the puzzles of social and political intercourse . As Behavior sciences lean toward inexactness, Mr. Field has been able to apply formula and rigor in measuring and testing traits characterized by nuance. That Mr. Field is an economist is evidenced throughout this book - His presentation of the data leaves the reader with an audit trail and confidence that support his theory and anticipate challenges occurring to the engaged reader. Beware though, this book is not a summer breeze. Though not without humor this book is a serious tome, and not written for "the layman" . As prefaced remarks so often allude to an effort by the author to make content more accessible to the non-disciplined reader, it is refreshing that Prof. Field avoids this dumbing down pitfall and engages readers as fellow academicians. That being said, this "layman" found his way through the material and can recommend Altruistically Inclined to others inclined toward the informative. | |
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| By: W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff ISBN: 0471270814 Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 11 November, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1624127 | Corsini's is one of the top reference resources in the area of psychology. It provides broad coverage of the discipline, and is written at a level suitable for undergraduates and up. I never thought they could top the 2nd edition, but they did! | |
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| By: Robert S. Lockhart ISBN: 0716729741 Publisher: Worth Publishers Release Date: 15 December, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 944371 | Lockhart is a wonderful researcher, but he may have forgot how to organize content so that introductory students can follow his words. I would not recommend this book for intr classes. The book goes over the basic model building method of data analysis, but lacks the simplicity needed for an introductory course. The syntax and grammer was inappropriate for introductory level students. Use Sprinthall...that is an introductory text. | |
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| By: Cynthia Parshall, Judith A. Spray, John C. Kalohn, Tim Davey ISBN: 0387987312 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 19 October, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 1213207 | ||
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| By: Cram101 Textbook Reviews ISBN: 1428813926 Publisher: AIPI Release Date: 28 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1388938 | ||
| By: Dennis E. Hinkle ISBN: 0618373489 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Release Date: 26 November, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1656366 | ||
| By: Eugene B. Zechmeister, Emil J. Posavac ISBN: 0534529860 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Release Date: 10 September, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1105682 | ||
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