Understanding Chronic Illness: The Medical and Psychosocial Dimensions of Nine Diseases
- ISBN-10
- 002918200X
- ISBN-13
- 9780029182000
- Category
- Chronic diseases
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Authors
- Toba Schwaber Kerson, Lawrence A. Kerson
Description
... and eventual damage to the brain. Other causes of dementia include less common diseases of the nervous system: multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Pick's disease, and 72 UNDERSTANDING CHRONIC ILLNESS.
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