Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Social Poison
The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821–1926
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This comparative history examines the divergent paths taken by Britain and France in managing opiate abuse during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Though the governments of both nations viewed rising levels of opiate use as a problem, Britain and France took opposite courses...
Politics in the Corridor of Dying
AIDS Activism and Global Health Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Few diseases have provoked as many wild moralistic leaps or stringent attempts to measure, classify, and define risk and treatment standards as AIDS. In Politics in the Corridor of Dying, Jennifer Chan documents the emergence of a diverse range of community-based, nongovernmental, and civil society...
by William E. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The immune system has incredible power to protect us from the ravages of infection. Boosted by vaccines, it can protect us from diseases such as measles. However, the power of the immune system is a double-edged sword: an overactive immune system can wreak havoc, destroying normal tissue and causing...
by Gary B. Ferngren
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era.
Ferngren first describes how early Christians...
The Traumatized Brain
A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
A traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event, affecting an individual’s lifestyle, ability to work, relationships—even personality. Whatever caused it—car crash, work accident, sports injury, domestic violence, combat—a severe blow to the head results in acute and, often, lasting symptoms....
Fixing the Poor
Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary...
Treatment of Child Abuse
Common Ground for Mental Health, Medical, and Legal Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Acclaimed as a milestone resource by the Journal of Child and Family Studies, Treatment of Child Abuse has been updated and expanded with ten completely new chapters. The second edition adds the expertise of co-editors Rochelle F. Hanson, Ph.D., and John Sargent, M.D., along with chapters from many...
Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation
A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying The Perspectives of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The Perspectives approach to psychiatry focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice and research: disease, dimensional, behavior, and lifestory. In Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation, Drs. Margaret S. Chisolm and Constantine G. Lyketsos underscore the benefits of this approach, showing how it improves...
Adolescent Depression
A Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In Adolescent Depression, psychiatrists Francis Mark Mondimore, MD, and Patrick Kelly, MD, explain that serious depression in adolescents goes beyond "moodiness." Depression is in fact an illness—one that can be effectively treated. The authors describe the many forms of depression and...
Living with Lymphoma
A Patient's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
When neurobiologist Elizabeth M. Adler was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma almost twenty years ago, she learned everything she could about the disease, both to cope with the emotional stress of her diagnosis and to make the best possible decisions for her treatment. In Living with Lymphoma, she...
The 36-Hour Day
A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers...
Depression and Anxiety in Later Life
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Physical problems and emotional stresses, such as bereavement, health conditions, pain, concerns about the future, side effects of medications, and the accumulated effects of lifestyle choices, may lead to depression or anxiety in older people. However, as Drs. Mark D. Miller and Charles F. Reynolds...
by Tammi L. Shlotzhauer, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which inflammation plays a major role in causing joint problems. Warmth and swelling in the joints, along with significant stiffness and pain, can make daily life difficult. Many people with rheumatoid arthritis also experience fatigue, low-grade fever,...
Your Child with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
A Family Guide for Caregiving
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common condition in children and adolescents. Parents and other family members typically have many questions about the diagnosis, symptoms, and treatments associated with various forms of IBD including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and indeterminate colitis....