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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

GREENWOOD SERIES
Health and Medical Issues Today

From the latest developments in treatment to updates on public health threats, information about health and medicine impacts lives
more directly than almost any other subject. Despite a wealth of coverage online and in print media, there is still an overwhelming
need for a single source to which a reader can turn for accurate, current information on an issue of concern.
The series Health and Medical Issues Today provides just such one-stop resources for those seeking solid overviews of the most
controversial and persisting issues in health and psychology. Each volume offers a balanced, in-depth introduction to the medical,
scientific, legal, and cultural aspects of subjects ranging from obesity to sports medicine, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and tobacco use.

Concussions FORTHCOMING NEW

WILLIAM PAUL MEEHAN III
The Body Size Drug Resistance
and Health Debate SARAH E. BOSLAUGH

CHRISTINE L. B. SELBY

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brain injury that considers historical, “ Due to the overall superior
medical, research-based, and legal and Has the connection between body size quality of this work, it is most
ethical perspectives. and overall health been overstated for highly recommended for all
decades? This book examines how our readership levels.
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dogged efforts to eradicate obesity may
• Examines the topic of concussions —Choice, July 1, 2017
from historical and legal/ethical be doing more harm than good and Written in clear, nontechnical language,
perspectives as well as medical explores alternative ways to measure and
perspectives and provides insights encourage health. this investigation of drug resistance
into current issues and controversies provides readers with an overview of
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• Provides a full complement of • Presents a different perspective on the scientific issues, the current scope
research tools for students: a the nation’s “obesity epidemic” with of the problem nationally and globally,
timeline, glossary, index, and sources information about the effectiveness and the measures that can be taken to
for additional information of the current method of measuring combat this public health crisis.
obesity, body mass index (BMI)
WILLIAM PAUL MEEHAN III, MD, SARAH E. BOSLAUGH, PhD, MPH,
is director of the Micheli Center for CHRISTINE L. B. SELBY, PhD, is is a technical writer and editor as well
Sports Injury Prevention, director of the associate professor of psychology at as an adjunct faculty member in the
Sports Concussion Clinic, and director Husson University, Bangor, ME. School of Public Health, Saint Louis
of research for the Brain Injury Center University.
at Children’s Hospital Boston.
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