Internal Medicine category: 8845 books
Medicating Race
Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race. She examines wide-ranging...
Open Heart
A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death
When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined...
Introduction to Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Getting Started
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This is the first truly foundational, introductory text designed to help novice practitioners master the fundamentals of musculoskeletal ultrasound. For the new practitioner who has yet to hold a transducer, Dr. Strakowski makes beginning easy and presents detailed step-by-step instructions for operating...
by Robert W. Biederman, Mark Doyle, June Yamrozik
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This pictorial instructional pocket guide, derived from Cardiovascular MRI Tutorial, is a quick reference for MRI technologists, technologist trainees, and radiology or cardiology residents or fellows. Routine cardiac imaging protocols are presented in step-by-step fashion for immediate reference...
Divide and Conquer
A Comparative History of Medical Specialization
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines...
The Stimulated Brain
Cognitive Enhancement Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Stimulated Brain—which garnered an Honorable Mention for Biomedicine & Neuroscience at the 2015 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers—presents the first integration of findings on brain stimulation from different research fields with a primary focus on Transcranial Electrical...
by Stephen D. Silberstein, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
A new edition to the HHC Library, Contemporary Guide to Headache and Its Disorders™ is written by Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, the Director of the Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the current editor of Headache Review. Headache patients, especially...
by Nilam J Soni, MD, MS
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
With portable, hand-carried ultrasound devices being more frequently implemented in medicine today, Point-of-Care Ultrasound will be a welcome resource for any physician or health care practitioner looking to further their knowledge and skills in point-of-care ultrasound. This comprehensive, portable...
The HDL Handbook
Biological Functions and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The HDL Handbook: Biological Functions to Clinical Implications brings laboratory research in HDL from bench to bedside in this needed resource for researchers and clinicians studying cholesterol, lipids, epidemiology, biochemistry, molecular medicine, and pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases....
by Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
High pressure in the lungs, or pulmonary hypertension, is most commonly due to smoking-related lung disease and conditions affecting the left heart, for example, high blood pressure in the arteries, faulty heart valves, and a weakened heart muscle. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), is a rare...
Polio Wars
Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforced...
SJT: Pass the Situational Judgement Test E-Book
A Guide for Medical Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
A one-stop guide to the SJT.
Written by Foundation Years’ doctors who have recently sat and passed the SJT
Co-written and quality assured by Professor of Medical Education for Clinical Practice and Dean for Students, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Summarises candidate information...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The impaired brain has often been difficult to rehabilitate owing to limited knowledge of the brain system. Recently, advanced imaging techniques such as fMRI and MEG have allowed researchers to investigate spatiotemporal dynamics in the living human brain. Consequently, knowledge in systems neuroscience...
7.0 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas
In Vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
Recent advances in MRI, especially those in the area of ultra high field (UHF) MRI, have attracted significant attention in the field of brain imaging for neuroscience research, as well as for clinical applications. In 7.0 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas: In Vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation, Zang-Hee...