Muscular Dystrophy and Other Neuromuscular Diseases
Subtitle: Psychosocial Issues
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: March 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781560240778
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Psychiatry; Rheumatology; Muscular Dystrophy; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Social aspects; Diseases - Musculoskeletal; Neuromuscular diseases; Psychological aspects
First sentence: The percentage of our population with chronic and terminal illness is on the rise, largely due to increasing numbers of elderly and advances in medical technology and chemotherapy (Forsyth, Delaney, and Gresham 1984; Wilson and Drury 1984).