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by Ivy Monroe (Editor)Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) refer to a set of conditions in humans caused due to infection with HIV. The initial infection with the virus causes little or no symptoms, followed by a brief period of influenza-like illness. This period is succeeded by a long period with no symptoms. However, with the progression of the illness, a gradual shift in the immune response of the body emerges which is expressed with ...

The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court - Hardcover

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by Patricia Barnes-Svarney (Author), Thomas E. Svarney (Author)A practical, accessible, and informative guide to the science of criminal investigations.Covering the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court provides detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies. It looks at the science of law enforcement, how...

The Cauda Equina Syndrome Mastery Bible: Your Blueprint for Complete Cauda Equina Syndrome Management - Paperback

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by Ankita Kashyap (Author), Prof Krishna N. Sharma (Author)Embark on a transformative journey with "The Cauda Equina Syndrome Mastery Bible: Your Blueprint for Complete Cauda Equina Syndrome Management." This comprehensive guide delves into the intricacies of understanding and decoding Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES), offering a wealth of knowledge on triggers, risk factors, and the diverse spectrum of symptoms. From diagnosis dynamics to prognosis insights, each chapter unfolds crucial informati...

From Bullshit to Botox: A Rebel's Guide to Self-Love and Eternal Youth - Hardcover

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by Sandra Lena Silverman (Author), Erica Florentine (Author)Tired of the misinformation in the beauty industry? Turn back the hands of time with this comprehensive resource on everything you need to know about skincare, longevity, and more. Let's face it: everybody has days we wish we could look better. But navigating the labyrinth of self-care brands and unkept promises of youth elixirs can be daunting. From Sandra Lena Silverman and New York Times bestselling author Erica Florentine comes a...

Functional Anatomy of the Newborn - Paperback

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by Edmund S. Crelin (Author)The need for accurate information about the anatomy of the newborn infant led to the publication in 1968 of Dr. Crelin's large and detailed atlas, the first of its kind. The present volume is a synopsis of that atlas. Professionals and paraprofessionals who deal with the newborn will find it a highly useful and convenient reference. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1973

The Hearing-Loss Guide: Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families - Paperback

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by John M. Burkey (Author), Robert L. Daniels (Foreword by)The best advice for those with hearing loss, from a leading audiologist and from patients with personal experience Where can the most accurate and helpful information about hearing loss be found? From a friend or relative who has impaired hearing? From an experienced audiologist? Both, says the author of this essential book! In an unusual new approach, audiologist John M. Burkey offers not only specific and up-to-date information b...

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age - Paperback

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by Harold J. Cook (Author)In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook scrutinizes a wealth of historical documents relating to the study of medicine and natural history in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, Brazil, South Africa, and Asia during this era, and his conclusions are fres...

Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation - Paperback

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by Richard A. Epstein (Author)An analysis of how we regulate the pharmaceutical industry: are we protecting patients or blocking the development of useful new drugs? This book is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the pharmaceutical industry by followAuthor BiographyRichard A. Epstein is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago, and Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9...

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe - Paperback

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by Jon Arrizabalaga (Author), John Henderson (Author), Roger French (Author)A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. In this new study three experts explore th...

Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and History - Paperback

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by Mary Kilbourne Matossian (Author)Did food poisoning cause the Black Plague, the Salem witch-hunts, and other significant events in human history? In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period. "A bold book ...

The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease - Paperback

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by Alice Wexler (Author)"Detailed and evocative. . . . Wexler re-creates a picture of a long-ago place where doctors lived next-door to their patients and where generation after generation of a community's most prominent members struggled with a crippling disease."-Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal Alice Wexler is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research.Author BiographyAlice Wexler is a r...

Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel - Paperback

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by Howard Spiro (Author), H. Spiro (Author), Deborah St James (Editor)The treatment of medical illness today depends much more on science and technology than on the physician's ability to listen, comfort, and prescribe. Medicine is not only increasingly technical but is also increasingly involved with legal, governmental, and insurance constraints on patient care, and this state of affairs has done much to distance physicians from their patients. This important book seeks to restore empathy t...

Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective - Paperback

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by Robert A. Hahn (Author)The ways in which people respond to sickness differ greatly from society to society. In this book anthropologist and epidemiologist Robert A. Hahn examines how Western and non-Western cultures influence the definition, experience, and treatment of sickness. Hahn begins by developing a definition of sickness that is based on the patient's perception of suffering and disturbance rather than on the physician's assessment of biomedical signs. After reviewing the principa...

Diversity and Direction in Psychoanalytic Technique - Hardcover

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by Fred Pine (Author)New diversity in psychoanalytic technique offers analysts and therapists a wide array of treatment options. But many of these techniques, says Dr. Fred Pine, can be viewed as additions to a clinician's approach rather than substitutes. Access to more treatment choices enables the clinician to better meet the multiple challenges encountered daily in a psychoanalytic practice. Dr. Pine urges clinicians to be flexible and integrative as they select, test, and then use or rej...

Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries - Paperback

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by Meyer Friedman (Author), Gerald W. Friedland (Author)This absorbing book is the first to describe monumental medical discoveries throughout history, bringing to life the scientific pioneers responsible for them and the excitement, frustrations, and jealousies that surrounded the final achievements. Two distinguished physicians, Meyer Friedman and Gerald W. Friedland, have drawn on their many years of experience as well as on that of world-renowned antiquarian book dealers, physician collec...

Behavioral Epidemiology and Disease Prevention - Hardcover

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by Robert M. Kaplan (Editor), Michael H. Criqui (Editor)In the l nited States and in Europe there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between individual behavior and disease. The American National Academy of Sciences (Hamberg, Elliott, and Parron, 1982)' through its Institutes of Medicine, has estimated that as many as 50 percent of chronic disease cases can be traced to individual behaviors such as smoking, diet, exercise, etc. Similar conclusions have been reached by a varie...

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by Henry Harris (Author)This vivid book tells a story that spans three centuries and crosses many national boundaries-a story of scientific discovery that fundamentally changed the way we understand the basis of life. Henry Harris, one of the world's leading cell biologists, here provides a strikingly original account of how scientists came to understand that the bodies of all living things are composed of microscopic units that we now call cells. Harris turns to the primary literature-the or...

Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope: A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers - Paperback

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by Richard C. Frank (Author)A leading oncologist demystifies cancer with accurate, accessible, and honest information Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatmenAuthor BiographyRichard C. Frank, M.D., is director of cancer research at the Whittingham Cancer Center of Norwalk Hospital, medical director of Mid-Fairfield Hospice, and Clinical Assistant Attending at Weill Cornell Medical Colleg...

Beyond Gentle Teaching: A Nonaversive Approach to Helping Those in Need - Hardcover

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by J. J. McGee (Author), F. J. Menolascino (Author)This book is for caregivers: those who care for and about children and adults who reside on the very edge of family and community life. It is for those who not only want to help these distanced individuals but for those who also want to change themselves in the process. It is for parents, teachers, direct care workers, coun- selors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, advocates, and all who strive to bring about just treatment for t...

Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of

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by Frederic Lawrence Holmes (Author)In 1957 two young scientists, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a "most beautiful" experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. Yet the investigative path that led to the experiment was anything but simple, Frederic L. Holmes shows in this masterful account of Meselson and ...

Social Psychiatry Across Cultures: Studies from North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa - Hardcover

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by Rumi Kato Price (Editor), Michele S. Trimarchi (Foreword by), Brent Mack Shea (Editor)The World Health Organization's concept of health as "the condition of psychophysical and social well-being" must be translated into opera- tional terms. The objective is to place the human person within the social system, given that mental health, mental illness, and suffering are individual, despite the fact that their causes are to be sought in the society and environment that surround and interact wit...

The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture - Paperback

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by Nancy J. Chodorow (Author)In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries-Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others-turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human personal and cultural fulfillment. Now, as we enter a new millennium, Nancy J. Chodorow, well known as a feminist theorist and psychoanalyst, takes her place in this line of eminent thinkers and revitalizes their project. Psychoanalysis, she claims, offers in its clinical goa...

Genetics and Mental Illness: Evolving Issues for Research and Society - Hardcover

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by L. L. Hall (Editor)''Refreshing and informative....describe s] the new complex research tools, directions and interpretations in a lucid and understandable fashion.'' --- Lancet, North American edition ''Beautifully crafted...The most significant contribution of this book involves its integration of areas that are not typically considered in genetic overviews.'' --- American Scientist, 1998 ''This book does an extraordinary job of making sense out of the many complex and controversial is...

The Practice of Forensic Neuropsychology: Meeting Challenges in the Courtroom - Hardcover

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by Robert J. McCaffrey (Editor), Arthur D. Williams (Editor), Jerid M. Fisher (Editor)The Practice of Forensic Neuropsychology focuses the awareness of neuropsychologists on the critical areas of forensic practice that should be considered during each phase of a scientific neuropsychological examination/investigation. Written by three eminent neuropsychologists and a seasoned attorney, this important book contains practical information and guidelines for conducting valid and reliable forensic...

A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss - Paperback

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by David G. Myers (Author)Some 28 million people in America and 350 million people worldwide live with hearing loss. How do these people and their families cope? What are their experiences of pain, humor, and hope? What support do medicine and technology now offer them, and what is on the horizon? In this engaging and practical book, David Myers, who has himself suffered gradual hearing loss, explores the problems faced by the hard of hearing at home and at work and provides information on th...

Type a Behavior: Its Diagnosis and Treatment - Paperback

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by Meyer Friedman (Author)Meyer Friedman, the physician who first identified Type A behavior (TAB), here offers a full description of the most effective way to correctly diagnose it. This guidebook offers a step-by-step description of his revolutionary method that has proven successful in treating thousands of TAB sufferers, in many cases, alleviating it completely. A truly unique resource, Type A Behavior features drawings and photographs illustrating the psychomotor signs of TAB. A special ...

Visceral Perception: Understanding Internal Cognition - Hardcover

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by James W. Pennebaker (Foreword by), Gyorgy Ádám (Author)Author Gyorgy Adam maintains there is a type of sensory system active within the internal organs that appears to be, in some measure, independent of the traditional senses. Variously termed viscerosensory perception, internal perception, or internal cognition, this system operates largely outside of consciousness. Adam employs the extensive data he has gathered over many years to demonstrate how "hidden" internal signals originating in...

Successful Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents - Hardcover

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by Joseph A. Durlak (Author)Successful Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents presents a wide variety of exemplary programs addressing behavioral and social problems, school failure, drug use, injuries, child abuse, physical health, and other critical issues. The validity and generality of each study's results are given special attention, and outcomes involving actual behavioral change are emphasized. A special appendix lists resources on prevention, including other texts, special j...

Conduct Disorders and Severe Antisocial Behavior - Paperback

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by Paul J. Frick (Author)As reflected in the title, the purpose of this book is to guide clinicians in understanding and treating youth with severe antisocial behavior. Children and adolescents with conduct disorders operate at quite a high cost to society. In many opinion polls, juvenile crime and violence is rated as one of the most pressing concerns for many in our society. This widespread concern has prompted professionals from many disciplines to search for more effective interventions t...

Prehistoric Iberia: Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics - Hardcover

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by Jorge Martínez-Laso (Other), Antonio Arnaiz-Villena (Editor), Eduardo Gómez-Casado (Other)The symposium "Prehistoric Iberia: genetics, anthropology and linguistics" was held in the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid on 16th -17th November 1998. The idea was bringing together specialists who could address not clearly resolved historic and prehistoric issues regarding ancient Iberian and Mediterranean populations, following a multidisciplinary approach. This was necessary in the light of the ne...

Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment - Paperback

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by Sandra Steingraber (Author)Sandra Steingraber, biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contaminations. Her scrupulously researched scientific analysis ranges from the alarming worldwide patterns of cancer incidence to the sabotage wrought by cancer-promoting substances on the intricate workings of human cells. I...

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by Sana Loue (Author), Linda S. Lloyd (Author), Daniel J. O'Shea (Author)Health professionals are often confronted with situations that demand change, including a community's inability to access adequate health care, lack of disease-specific prevention programs, or legislators who do not understand economic and noneconomic impacts of a particular disease or prevention. In such cases, advocacy may be required to move beyond the status quo. This text provides a foundation for the initiation of ...