10 articles in this issue
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David A. Korn
Public health has a tradition of addressing emerging and complex health matters that affect the whole population as well as specific groups. AIDS, environmental tobacco smoke and violence are examples of contemporary health concerns that have benefited fr... see more
Julie E. Scott
With the global spread of commercial gambling, the casino industry is fast establishing itself in many of the world's peripheries - economically and politically marginal locations, simultaneously remote from, but dependent on metropolitan centres of finan... see more
Jennifer Zechmeister
Daniela Dombrowski,Ambros Uchtenhagen,Jürgen Rehm
In April 2000, a new law came into effect in Switzerland that permits casino gambling with unlimited stakes for the first time since 1921. Casinos can now be run only with a concession granted by a newly established federal agency. In addition to economic... see more
Linnea W. Powell
Len Henriksson
Alexander Blaszczynski,Fiona Maccallum
This paper describes a single case study of analgesia induced by gambling. The subject is a 48-year-old male diagnosed with pathological gambling problems, suffering chronic back pain resulting from a road trauma. The reported intensity of arousal associa... see more
Alex Blaszczynski
Durand F. Jacobs,Rina Gupta,David Hodgins