Help Your Child Avoid Multiple Sclerosis : A Parenting Decision
by Goldbach, Joseph V.; Goldbach, Dorothy M.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher(s): Heritage Global Pub
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Author Biography
Joseph V. Goldbach is a native of Iowa. He was graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelors Degree in Economics. In addition to being a distinguished banker, civic and church leader, he has served as director and trustee on a variety of profit and non-profit corporate boards of directors including a major-city hospital and a school for handicapped children. Dorothy Walker Goldbach is a native Nebraskan. She was graduated from Lindenwood College, St, Charles, Missouri, and did graduate work at the University of Iowa. She taught school in Nebraska. She was involved in all the school, church and community activities associated with raising two children, and was also active in several family businesses. Mr. and Mrs. Goldbach have lived in Florida since 1961. They have two sons, one a board-certified physician with a degree from the University of Florida Medical School, and the other a professional civil engineer with a degree from the University of Florida and a master's degree from Colorado State University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Why Be Worried about Multiple Sclerosis? | p. 5 |
| Let's bring MS facts closer to home | |
| How widespread is MS? How fast is it growing? | |
| The "Geographical Factor" | p. 13 |
| The history of multiple sclerosis | |
| Research on the geographical factor of multiple sclerosis | |
| Early studies through the 1960s | |
| 1970s | |
| The Kurtzke contribution | |
| Prevalence and incidence | |
| Worldwide multiple sclerosis prevalence | |
| 1980s | |
| Clusters, hot spots and epidemics | |
| We find the Nelson Thesis | |
| Observations on the Nelson Thesis | |
| The "Geographical Factor"--Current Thinking | p. 47 |
| Clusters continue to spook people | |
| Worldwide MS-geography in the 1990s | |
| United States MS-geography thinking updated | |
| More specific prevalence figures | |
| How much do we really want to know? | |
| The "Age-at-Migration" Effect | p. 71 |
| Why consider migration? | |
| Research effort and funding | |
| A new approach to fund MS research | |
| "Genetic Factors" and the "Viking Factor" | p. 91 |
| The "Viking Factor" is born | |
| The genetic puzzle | |
| A very simple look at the role of genes | |
| The "Genetic Factor" for real | |
| Genetics get personal | |
| Kurtzke thinking 1997 | |
| The Hauser Study | |
| The Need for family medical records | |
| Your Child's MS Risk Examined | p. 117 |
| Is there such a thing as childhood multiple sclerosis? | |
| Your children and MS risk | |
| Risk rate your children for MS | |
| The latency period | |
| The Fire Triangle | p. 127 |
| What does a fire triangle have to do with MS? | |
| The multiple sclerosis triangle | |
| What do we need to do? | |
| The Trigger -- The Match -- The Flaming Arrow | p. 133 |
| Animal viruses -- a flaming arrow? | |
| Dog is man's best friend? | |
| Don't overlook cats | |
| Other possible viral triggers | |
| Is There a Cure for Multiple Sclerosis? | p. 159 |
| What Should I Be Prepared For? | p. 161 |
| I think I have MS. What should I do? | |
| Let's look at symptoms | |
| Let's talk about doctors | |
| Multiple Sclerosis treatment centers | |
| Helpful and enlightening publications on MS | |
| The shock of learning you have MS | |
| How do you evaluate MS severity? | |
| Why so much fuss over a rating scale? | |
| Cognitive factors: the part of MS for which we're never ready | |
| Can counseling help? | |
| Counseling children -- and the MS parent | |
| Denial | |
| Suicide and Prayer | p. 199 |
| Multiple sclerosis and the suicide problem | |
| Psychologists and their associates | |
| The right to die | |
| Call on God | |
| How do we pray? | |
| The Internet and MS | p. 221 |
| In Summary | p. 229 |
| Where we have been -- what we need to do as parents | |
| Simple clues for a cure | |
| A personal epilogue | |
| You be the judge | |
| One final Crazy Question | |
| Glossary | p. 239 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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