The Asthma Handbook by National Asthma Campaign

The Asthma Handbook by National Asthma Campaign

Asthma, for which there is no known cure, is one of the fastest-growing illnesses in Britain - especially among children - with figures showing that one in seven suffers from it and as many as 2000 a year die from severe attacks. Offering practical help to sufferers of all ages, this book lists many of the known triggers, such as dust mites, gives advice on how to avoid them, and describes the conventional treatments available and when it is sensible to try complementary therapies. Throughout, case histories of individuals with asthma reveal how the condition has affected their lives and how they have coped with it.

Jenny Lewis is an Anglo-Welsh poet, playwright, songwriter, children's author and translator who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She trained as a painter at the Ruskin School of Art before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She has worked as an advertising copywriter and a government press officer for, among others, the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She has also written children's books and plays and co-written, with its creator, Kate Canning, a twenty-six-part children's TV animation series, James the Cat. Her first poetry sequence, When I Became an Amazon (Iron Press, 1996) was broadcast on BBC Woman's Hour, translated into Russian (Bilingua, 2002) and made into an opera with music by Gennadyi Shizoglazov which had its world premiere with the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Company in Perm, Russia, November 2017. Since 2012, Jenny has been working with the Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh on an award-winning Arts Council-funded project, Writing Mesopotamia, which aims to build bridges and foster friendships between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Her work for the theatre includes Map of Stars (2002), Garden of the Senses (2005), After Gilgamesh (2011) and, with Yasmin Sidhwa and Adnan al-Sayegh, Stories for Survival: a Re-telling of the 1001, Arabian Nights (2015). She has published two collections with Oxford Poets/Carcanet, Fathom (2007) and Taking Mesopotamia (2014). Jenny is currently completing a PhD on Gilgamesh at Goldsmiths.

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ISBN 13	9780091806736
ISBN 10	0091806739
Title	The Asthma Handbook
Author	National Asthma Campaign
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ebury Publishing
Year published	1995-08-03
Number of pages	154
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