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This collection of essays promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking in relation to death and dying. Across three chapters, readers will evaluate the American attitude toward death and…
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Issues surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of cancer are debated.
An unfortunate reality in our world is that discrimination, no matter how many strides we make for equality, cannot be rid of easily. This collection of essays explains this tough…
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Editor Jacqueline Langwith has compiled several essential articles that will help your readers understand suicide. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate who is at risk for suicide, what causes it…
Feeling blue is normal from time to time, but recent surveys indicate that as many as one in five teens suffers from clinical depression. This guidebook provides essential information on…
Is alternative medicine effective? Does alternative medicine help fight disease? What role should alternative medicine play in health care in the United States? These three questions provide the crux of…
This book explores the issues surrounding college by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro versus con format. Readers will evaluate how high school students should…
Emotions are a part of our lives, the highs and the lows. People who suffer with mood disorders, which include major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and seasonal affective disorder, experience…
Editor Jacqueline Langwith has compiled some startling and fascinating essays to address several issues related to water as a resource. Two essays debate whether armed conflicts will arise over future…
Worldwide, 3.3 million deaths every year result from harmful use of alcohol, according to WHO. This guidebook provides essential information on Alcoholism, but also serves as a historical survey, by…
Hepatitis simply means liver inflammation, and it covers many conditions. While some Hepatitis is due to viral infection, the liver can also be injured and become inflamed through the action…
This volume examines opposing opinions on the causes and justifications for violence.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is one of the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. This group of conditions can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is…
Learn about autoimmune diseases in the Perspectives on diseases and orders book.
The 1918 flu pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million people. While this is unusual for communicable diseases, it is always…
Explores the issues surrounding child abuse by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.
Discusses issues surrounding the divorce rate in America.
Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications –
A compilation of opposing viewpoints on the issue of stem cell research.
Provides essential information on Celiac disease including symptoms, causes, treatments, cures, etc. and presents the controversies surrounding causes, alternative treatments, and other issues.
Discusses issues related to postpartum depression.
A discussion of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), possible causes and controversial theories of causation, and testimonies of parents who lost their infant children to the syndrome.
Covers symptoms, causes and effects, treatments, cures and medical advances for childhood obesity.
Covers symptoms, causes and effects, treatments, cures and medical advances for human papillomavirus (HPV).
Provides essential information on the symptoms, causes, treatments, controversies, and other issues related to sports injuries.
The issues surrounding adoption continue to be debated. This assembly of essays looks at how adoption should be viewed, what types of adoption should be encouraged, and at what policies…
Jacqueline Langwith
Covers symptoms, causes and effects, treatments, cures and medical advances for lung cancer.
Provides essential information on Cerebral Palsy (including symptoms, causes, treatments and cures); presents the controversies surrounding causes, alternative treatments, and other issues; and offers first-person narratives from people coping with…
This volume examines schizophrenia, its causes and treatments, and controversies in perceptions of the disorder.
This collection of essays examines issues related to pollution. Included articles explore the question of whether air and water pollution remain serious environmental problems, the issues related to global warming…
The impact of a growing population on the planet and how global warming effects that population in turn.
