David Sobel

Explores ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the role of pleasure in our health.

A guide to 200 diagnostic and home medical tests.

Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions. Written by six medical professionals, this book encourages an individual approach to the process, with the ultimate goal being greater self-management. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University with hundreds of volunteers, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and thousands of people with chronic conditions all over the world.

Examines the common traps by which individuals can be manipulated, such a peer pressure, groupthink, advertising, and media, and what can be done to avoid them.