Medical & Nursing

25001 books

Statistical Models in Toxicology - Paperback

$103.66

by Mehdi Razzaghi (Author)Statistical Models in Toxicology presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of statistical theory topics that occur in toxicology. The attention given by statisticians to the problem of health risk estimation for environmental and occupational exposures in the last few decades has created excitement and optimism among both statisticians and toxicologists. The development of modern statistical techniques with solid mathematical foundations in the twentieth centu...

Integrating Nutrition Into Practice - Paperback

$102.04

by Mary J. Marian (Editor), Gerard Mullin MD (Editor)Integrative medicine is an approach to wellness that makes use of both conventional and alternative therapies to achieve optimal health and healing. Nutrition-based therapies are consistently among the highest used alternative therapies to treat a wide variety of illnesses. This book provides consumers and health care professionals with practical guidance on integrating nutrition therapies into disease prevention and management. It provides...

Hematopathology Q Bank: Board-Style Review - Paperback

$107.98

by Hany Sakr (Author)For many years, we have noticed the lack of a concise, yet comprehensive, "question-and-answer style" book that thoroughly covers hematology, hematolymphoid neoplasms, and coagulation disorders and renders them in an easy and digestible manner to the busy hematopathologists and fellows in training. There are many excellent textbooks written by experts in the field, which are indispensable. However, and for sake of board exam cramming, these may not be the preferred source...

Sold Out

Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History - Paperback

$18.99

by Yasmeen Abutaleb (Author), Damian Paletta (Author)Instant #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerNow in paperback and with a new afterword, Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta's definitive account of the Trump administration's tragic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the chaos, incompetence, and craven politicization that has led to more than a half million American deaths and counting.Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics wa...

Sold Out

$26.99

by Megan Giddings (Author)Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murde...

Molecular Mechanisms of Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Development of Inner Ear Therapeutics - Hardcover

$63.83

by Srdjan M. Vlajkovic (Guest Editor)The sense of hearing is vulnerable to environmental challenges, such as exposure tonoise. More than 1.5 billion people experience some decline in hearing ability during theirlifetime, of whom at least 430 million will be affected by disabling hearing loss. If notidentified and addressed in a timely way, hearing loss can severely reduce the quality oflife at various stages. Some causes of hearing loss can be prevented, for example fromoccupational or leisur...

Sold Out

Neurosurgery for Neurologists, an Issue of Neurologic Clinics: Volume 40-2 - Hardcover

$169.27

by Russell R. Lonser (Editor), Daniel K. Resnick (Editor)In this issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Russell R. Lonser and Daniel K. Resnick bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Neurosurgery for Neurologists. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as indications and advances in surgical epilepsy, critical care management of traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical mimics, surgical neuro-oncology, and more. Contains 16 relevant, practice-oriented topics includin...

Sold Out

The Big Book of the Human Body - Hardcover

$29.95

by Katharine Marsh (Author)The human body is truly an amazing thing. Capable of awe- inspiring feats of speed and agility, while being mind-blowing in complexity, our bodies are unmatched by any other species on Earth. In The Big Book of the Human Body, we explore our amazing anatomy in fine detail before delving into the intricacies of the complex processes, functions and systems that keep us going. For instance, did you know you really have 16 senses? We also explain the weirdest and most...

Sold Out

$15.95

by Eve Smith (Author)When a one-night stand leads to a long-desired pregnancy, Susan will do anything to ensure her husband won't find out ... including the unthinkable. But when something horrendous is unleashed around the globe, her secret isn't the only thing that is no longer safe... 'An astute, well-researched and convincing novel of ideas' The Times 'If you could create a perfect baby through genetic engineering, would you? A disturbing and interesting thriller, perfect for book club di...

Everyday Lessons In Emotional Intelligence - Paperback

$14.02

by Amala Luncheon (Author), Terrin Jaiga Callender (Author)The world is evolving every day in newer ways than before. We see numerous discoveries made daily, while technology takes new leaps practically every day. Human beings are living life in the fast lane and don't have time to look back to learn from their mistakes, or sit back and simply relax. In this time of mental and physical fluctuation, it is crucial to look within and understand what is going inside one's complex mind. Everyday L...

Sold Out

Christianity and Modern Medicine: Foundations for Bioethics - Paperback

$32.38

by Lindsay C. Leonard (Editor), Mark Foreman (Editor)Raises and considers common issues, cutting through the moral fog in medical science Christianity and Modern Medicine raises moral questions that were merely hypothetical just decades ago. Moreover, traditional moral models are incessantly challenged by the medical community at large, shifting the conversation to patient and societal rights within a framework of moral relativism and rendering the decision-making process morally vague and co...

Healthcare Economic Reform: How and Why Physicians Must Lead Change Within Our Evolving Healthcare Economy - Paperback

$43.20

by Ellis M. Knight (Author), Eric Weaver (Foreword by)Although the healthcare delivery system is as full of committed idealists as it ever was, the difference now is that the current healthcare system operates within an economically and politically driven milieu that prevents it from delivering what it is designed to provide: high-value healthcare services for the patients it serves. The healthcare economy creates major problems with the dominant fee-for-service payment system, enables the t...

Sold Out

$19.99

by Colin Black (Author) 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin - and that's all most people know about what I do. But what happens between you conking out and waking up? And what does the anaesthetist have to do with it all? Do they just sit around playing sudoku while the rest of the team do all the hard work? And why are they so obsessed with what time you ate dinner?Join Colin Black on his journey from accidental med...

Sold Out

$27.99

by David Koepp (Author)SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW"Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down." - Stephen KingFrom the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family. In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by...

Sold Out

Say No to Arthritis: How to Prevent, Relieve and Resolve Joint and Muscle Pain - Paperback

$24.99

by Patrick Holford (Author), Christopher Quayle (Illustrator)Contrary to popular belief it is possible to prevent arthritis or greatly reduce the pain and inflammation it causes - if you eat the right foods and supplement your diet with certain herbs and nutrients. In this fully revised and updated version of Patrick Holford's classic book on the subject, he shares the latest findings from scientific studies, showing that we can do much without resorting to medication, with its unwelcome side...

Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far - Paperback

$18.99

by Paul A. Offit (Author)An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thorough research, and incredible breakthroughs have made it possible to successfully treat...

Sold Out

The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania - Paperback

$61.49

by Cristina A. Pop (Author)The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women's responses to r...

Travel and Tropical Medicine - Hardcover

$70.29

by Harunor Rashid (Editor), Ameneh Khatami (Editor)This book contains a suite of original articles, case reports, and review articles on various aspects of travel medicine ranging from refugee and immigrant health to mass gathering medicine. It contains articles on infectious and environmental hazards of travel. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: October 26, 2021

A Promise Kept: Spiritual Insights for Family Caregivers - Paperback

$12.22

by Bonita Bandaries (Author)A Promise Kept is a memoir of a caregiver's experiences learned on-the-job with direction from God's promises to guide, direct and encourage her as she fulfilled a promise to her mother to care for her at home if she became unable to care for herself.Along with support from family, friends, and professionals, caregivers daily need spiritual inspiration for strength and wisdom, guidance, and finding peace, love, and joy in the role of caring for a loved one. A Promi...

Sold Out

Helping Autistic Teens to Manage Their Anxiety: Strategies and Worksheets Using Cbt, Dbt, and ACT Skills - Paperback

$53.39

by Theresa Kidd (Author)Drawing on the author's extensive clinical and research experience, this book presents practical strategies purposefully developed for parents, therapists and teachers working with autistic adolescents experiencing anxiety. In addition, it features chapters dedicated to assisting parents in supporting their anxious child. The book outlines the co-occurence of anxiety and autism, highlights specific anxiety risks and triggers, and presents practical solutions for overco...

Vaccines in the Global Era: How to Deal Safely and Effectively with the Pandemics of Our Time - Paperback

$45.36

by Rino Rappuoli (Author), Lisa Vozza (Author)A new coronavirus, most likely spilled over from an animal species, has plunged us into the third epidemic of this kind in the last twenty years, against which there were neither vaccines nor therapies.While we argue over the future of humanity, vulnerable to the ecological and environmental degradation that has enabled the pandemic, extraordinary technologies have been developed to combat infectious diseases. In just eleven months it was possible...

Sold Out

Lo Que La Comida Le Hace a Tu Cerebro / This Is Your Brain on Food - Paperback

$19.95

by Uma Naidoo (Author)Una guía indispensable sobre los sorprendentes alimentos que combaten: toc, trastornos del sueño, TDAH, demencia, depresión, ansiedad y más. Cuando se trata de la dieta, la mayoría de las personas se preocupa por perder peso y estar en forma, pero lo que comemos afecta no sólo lo que vemos. Estudios recientes han demostrado que la alimentación tiene un efecto profundo en nuestro cerebro y en condiciones de salud mental tan variadas como el Trastorno por Déficit de Atenci...

Sold Out

$32.40

by Joshua Neves (Author), Aleena Chia (Author), Susanna Paasonen (Author)Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals Being on social media, having pornography or an internet addiction, consciousness hacking, and mundane smartness initiatives are practices embodied in a similar manner to the swallowing of a pill. Such close relations of media technologies to pharmaceuticals and pharmacology is the focus of this book. Te...

Sold Out

Learning from Covid-19: GIS for Pandemics - Paperback

$23.99

by Este Geraghty (Editor), Matt Artz (Editor)Now that the health community is in a state of reflection, how do we put the lessons learned into practice? As we step back to examine the worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time to think about how to raise the bar for our response to the next public health emergency. Now is the time to revisit health preparedness strategies and plans. And now is the time to review what the health community did that worked--and how we can do th...

Sold Out

Challenging Pregnancy: A Journey Through the Politics and Science of Healthcare in America - Paperback

$19.95

by Genevieve Grabman (Author)In Challenging Pregnancy, Genevieve Grabman recounts being pregnant with identical twins whose circulatory systems were connected in a rare condition called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Doctors couldn't "unfuse" the fetuses because one twin also had several other confounding problems: selective intrauterine growth restriction, a two-vessel umbilical cord, a marginal cord insertion, and, possibly, a parasitic triplet. Ultimately, national anti-abortion polit...

The Thriving Doctor: How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine - Paperback

$32.38

by Sharee Johnson (Author)How can you protect your right to a balanced life in a profession that demands perfection?Medical life is challenging. The culture is competitive, the environment intense, the machinery complex and unwieldy, and the expectations high. Under such constant stress, many doctors sacrifice their own wellbeing to try and provide the best possible care for their patients. We've got it backwards. Only by first looking after yourself can you truly provide the best care for ot...

Sold Out

Muscle Energy Techniques, Second Edition: A Practical Guide for Physical Therapists - Paperback

$31.95

by John Gibbons (Author)Revised and updated: a fresh new look to an established best-seller--an essential tool for physical therapists that offers unique insights into the versatile and highly effective technique of muscle energy techniques. Muscle Energy Techniques is a must-have for any student or practitioner of physical therapy, osteopathy, physiotherapy, chiropractic, or massage therapy. This practical guide--packed with full-color photographs and illustrations--fully explains the theory...

Sold Out

$55.78

by Paul Hamilton (Author)Blood Tests Made Easy is a quick reference guide designed to bring medical students up to speed when interpreting blood tests on their clinical placements. Small enough to be carried and quickly referenced on the go, this book covers everything you need to know when interpreting bloods, including the main abnormalities you are likely to encounter. Rather than focusing on theory or physiology, it is designed to provide an easy-to-follow guide to support clinical decisi...

Functional Nutrition and Bioactive Compounds: Clinical Applications - Paperback

$73.58

by Edwin Enrique Martínez Leo (Author)Nutrition plays a fundamental role in the development of living beings, and its importance has acquired a new dimension because of technological, economic, social, and political advances. Global changes in society and the increase in the prevalence of complex diseases as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative and even cancer, have led to the search and generation of therapeutic strategies in accordance with the scientific advances of...

Joey's Legacy Volume Two: Seeking Truth and Integrity in Veterinary Medicine is about the small percentage of bad actors (the Bad Guys) and the - Paperback

$34.49

by Jl Robb (Author)The Veterinary industry is one of the cleanest industries in the U.S. when it comes to the percentage of bad actors. While police departments seem to average about 15% bad cops compared to the 85% who work zealously and honestly to protect society, the percentage of bad actors in the Veterinary medicine field is remarkably low, averaging 2-5%.No one dislikes bad actor veterinarians more than the 95+% of the great veterinarians in the country dedicated to helping our pets an...

Autopsy of a Pandemic: The Lies, the Gamble, and the Covid-Zero Con - Paperback

$23.69

by Julius Ruechel (Author)In Autopsy of a Pandemic, independent investigative writer Julius Ruechel systematically dismantles the data manipulation, lies, and distorted scientific principles that have plunged the world into medical tyranny since the SARS-CoV-2 virus was first detected at the end of 2019.Part one, The Lies Exposed by the Numbers, tells the story of the pandemic using the government's own official data. What emerges is a shocking story of deliberate scientific misconduct and b...

Hidden Data: The Blind Eye of Science - Paperback

$20.50

by Helene Z. Hill (Author)Dr. Helene Hill learned this the hard way when she stumbled on evidence, nearly two decades ago, in a trash can, that a young assistant in a colleagues' lab was concealing his fabrication of data. But neither the assistant's supervisor (then an un-tenured faculty member) nor the university, nor the government watch dog charged with investigating misconduct believed Hill. The case dragged on for years, and all the while, "science" based on the original cooked study we...