Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Aging Bones
A Short History of Osteoporosis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate...
How Literature Plays with the Brain
The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
"Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain...
Ending Medical Reversal
Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic...
Doctors Without Borders
Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This study of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) casts new light on the organization’s founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its "without borders" transnational vision.
Pioneering medical sociologist Renée C....
The Global War on Tobacco
Mapping the World's First Public Health Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The tobacco industry has capitalized on numerous elements of globalization—including trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, and global communications—to expand into countries where effective tobacco control programs are not in place. As a consequence, tobacco is currently the leading...
Introduction to U.S. Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Health care reform has dominated public discourse over the past several years, and the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act, rather than quell the rhetoric, has sparked even more debate. Donald A. Barr reviews the current structure of the American health care system, describing the historical and...
Just and Lasting Change
When Communities Own Their Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
How can public health workers, policy experts, and medical professionals work with members of developing nations to promote social change in rapid, cost-effective, and locally appropriate ways? In Just and Lasting Change, Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor present readers with an innovative, proven, and...
Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health activities...
Telling Genes
The Story of Genetic Counseling in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the United States work in clinics, community and teaching hospitals, public health departments,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
The single greatest way to improve health and quality of life is not by developing new medical approaches, but by addressing harmful personal behaviors. These behaviors—which include tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, diet, and physical activity—play a significant role in the risk for and development,...
An Equation for Every Occasion
Fifty-Two Formulas and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
With this fun romp through the world of equations we encounter in our everyday lives, you’ll find yourself flipping through the stories of fifty-two formulas faster than a deck of cards. John M. Henshaw’s intriguing true accounts, each inspired by a different mathematical equation, are both succinct...
Living with HHT
Understanding and Managing Your Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare genetic disorder that causes blood vessel abnormalities in the nose, skin, gastrointestinal tract, lungs, brain, and liver. Nosebleeds are the most common symptom of HHT, but abnormal vessels in other organs, if they are not diagnosed and treated,...
by Justin O. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it’s a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the test case.
In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a...