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Provides a variety of debates on such health issues as managed care, physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, stress and disease, spirituality and illness, anabolic steroid use, and the Atkins diet.
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This 6th edition of Taking Sides: Health and Society is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in health science and personal health. The debates are focused around issues of substance use and abuse; sexuality and gender; environment and health; the mind/body relationship and consumer health and nutrition. The student Web site, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), provides study support and links to health-related sites.
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