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Multiple Sclerosis
The History of a Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal!
The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of young adults, usually beginning with episodic attacks of neurologic symptoms, then entering a...
Blood Sugar
Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in medical journals for decades. Blood Sugar analyzes and...
Testing Fate
Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In today’s world, responsible biocitizenship has become a new way of belonging in society. Individuals are expected to make “responsible” medical choices, including the decision to be screened for genetic disease. Paradoxically, we have even come to see ourselves as having the right to be responsible...
My Ambulance Education
Life and Death on the Streets of the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
The brutally honest story of an emergency medical technician.
At 18, Joseph Clark started working as an ambulance attendant to pay his way through college. For the next seven years he worked New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods as an emergency medical technician (EMT), dealing with...
The Other End of the Stethoscope
The Physician's Perspective on the Health Care Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
In this book, I hope to enlighten readers about the physician's life, and how the current medical climate has affected everything we do, every decision we make and our career satisfaction. The deterioration of the doctor-patient relationship has gotten worse and worse, fraught with mistrust from both...
River of Stone, River of Sand
A Story of Medicine and Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In 1964, newly-minted physician Stephen C. Joseph, just out of his internship, undertakes a two-year assignment as the Peace Corps Physician in Nepal. The job has two facets: responsibility for the health and medical care of a hundred young Peace Corps Volunteers scattered over the roadless hills...
Diagnosing Giants
Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar...
History of Medicine, Second Edition
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This practical handbook provides readers with a quick but comprehensive overview of the major infectious disease topics and clinical approach to diagnosis and management. Covering the core areas of importance to students, residents, fellows, and practitioners in any discipline, the book presents a...
Josie's Story
A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal).
Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s...
by Nikolaos Giantsios, Konstantinos Giantsios
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
When the mechanisms of automation in the human body are in trouble the result is morbid manifestations, often appearing as clinical entities of obscure aetiology. These can in a surprising number of cases be enlisted as facet syndromes since they respond to treatment when treated as such. They involve...
by Brain S. Langton
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Part one of A First Step - Understanding Guillain-Barr Syndrome is a true, blow-by-blow account of the Author's encounter, as a healthy Canadian businessman, with a rare and devastating disease, Guillain-Barr Syndrome (G.B.S. for short). It describes his seven-month long struggle for life in 'Intensive...
The Good Doctor
A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care
As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the...
The Patient's Playbook
How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error—mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it’s readily available and we’re entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it.
The Patient’s...