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Postpartum psychiatric illness : a picture puzzle / edited by James Alexander Hamilton and Patricia Neel Harberger.

Other author/creatorHamilton, James Alexander, 1907-
Other author/creatorHarberger, Patricia Neel.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992.
Descriptionxx, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Patterns of postpartum illness ; The issue of unique qualities / James Alexander Hamilton -- The problem of terminology / James Alexander Hamilton, Patricia Neel Harberger, and Barbara L. Parry -- Cries for help / Patricia Neel Harberger, Nancy Gleason Berchtold, and Jane Israel Honikman -- Prediction, recognition, and prevention / Elizabeth K. Herz -- Recent clinical management experience / Ricardo J. Fernandez -- Maternity blues : a model for biological research / Jan L. Campbell -- The mother and baby unit : an important approach to treatment / Joan Sneddon -- The integrated care of hospitalized women with postpartum psychiatric illness / Deborah A. Sichel and Jeanne Watson Driscoll.
Contents The provision of services for postpartum mental illness in the United Kingdom / Ian Brockington -- Rituals and support : an anthropological view of postpartum depression / Laurence Dean Kruckman --Endocrinology of the postpartum period / Robert B. Filer -- The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and mood disorders related to pregnancy / Roger Smith and Bruce Singh -- Endocrine function and hormonal treatment of postpartum psychosis / Junichi Nomura and Tadaharu Okano -- Psychiatric manifestations in patients with postpartum hypopituitarism / J.C. Davis and M.T. Abou-Saleh -- Reproductive-related depressions in women : phenomena of hormonal kindling? / Barbara L. Parry.
Contents Prophylactic measures / James Alexander Hamilton and Deborah A. Sichel -- Toward the diagnosis of postpartum psychotic depression / Bernhard Pauliekhoff -- Major postpartum depression / Galina M. Gorodetsky, Richard H. Trapnell, and James Alexander Hamilton --Infanticide and the law in England and Wales / R. Kumar and Maureen Marks -- Postpartum psychosis, infanticide, and criminal justice / Daniel Maier Katkin -- Postpartum disorders and the law / Susan A. Hickman and Donald L. LeVine -- Medical insurance litigation problems of postpartum patients / Mark D. DeBofsky -- Husband support : a neglected aspect of postpartum psychiatric illness / Robert Hickman -- Information and its applications / James Alexander Hamilton, Patricia Neel Harberger, and Robert M. Atkins.
General note"Appendix: The words of Marcé": p. [325]-[342].
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 91030386
ISBN0812231376
ISBN9780812231373
ISBN0812213858
ISBN9780812213850

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Laupus Books - Stacks WQ 500 P858 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold