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Product details
- ISBN 9781284235197
- Weight: 822g
- Publication Date: 10 May 2022
- Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The fourteenth edition of Health & Wellness explores the many facets of personal health and self-responsibility, while focusing on the basic principles of physical, mental, and spiritual health. It provides students with the tools they need to make informed health decisions that promote lifelong wellness. Written in a personal and engaging style, the Fourteenth Edition of this best-selling text, encourages readers to be responsible for their own health-related behaviors and outlines how to improve overall health through nutrition, fitness, stress management, and maintaining an overall healthy lifestyle.
Gordon Edlin, PhD, has a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Oregon. He was a professor of genetics at the University of California, Davis, for 22 years, where his research focused on the molecular biology of microorganisms. His interest in health was dramatically increased after he was tear-gassed on the Berkeley campus in the late 1960s while protesting the Vietnam War. Although his approach to health and medicine is scientific, he also has considerable experience with alternative medicines. Eric Golanty is professor emeritus of health and wellness at Las Positas College in Livermore, California. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in human development and family studies from the University of California, Davis. He has taught personal health and human sexuality and supervised peer health counseling and health educator training at Las Positas College and UC Davis. He has taught personal health online since 2000 and has developed distance learning programs and trained faculty in educational uses of the Internet. He is co-author of the college textsHealth and Wellness,Human Sexuality: The Basics, andHuman Reproduction. He also is co-author of the pocket handbookFirst Aid for Sports Injuriesand author of the self-help book,How to Prevent and Help Heal Running and Other Sports Injuries.
