Medicine Books

When Dr. David Cundiff called me with a proposal to help research and write The Right Medicine I was intrigued but skep­ tical. His ideas for reform of the US health care system were visionary, radical, and highly original-but...

Great Health Care is enlightening and entertaining. It's a must read for physicians, patients, health policymakers and administrators, and the interested public---anyone who wants to understand what great health care is, and how we might build it...

In this book we display the fundamental structure underlying classical electro­ dynamics, i. e. , the phenomenological theory of electric and magnetic effects. The book can be used as a textbook for an advanced course in...

Models to forecast changes in mortality, morbidity, and disability in elderly populations are essential to national and state policies for health and welfare programs. This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the ...

study or teaching. This manual explores the This publication is intended for persons who are various possibilities for using the book in just planning to use my book, Building Construction about all the ways I can imagine in...

Coping With Your Grown Children is the only book to analyze-and lay out specific coping strategies for dealing with-the problems today's parents face with their adult offspring such as: • failure of the child to really "grow...

It is an honour for me to be asked to contribute a foreword to the book of my friends Therese and Ralph Spitzer. I got to know them during an assignment as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver,...

A comprehensive overview of the effects of trichloroethylene toxicity caused by real-life exposure levels highlighting how exposure to trichloroethylene may contribute to the etiology of several idiopathic human diseases. Discussion will focus on...

This book informs readers of the needs and rationale for the integration of medical and dental care and information with an international perspective as to how and where medical and dental care separated into specific domains. It provide high level...

'MacLeod's Introduction to Medicine: A Doctor's Memoir' is a collection of stories that gives the reader an insight into the humorous side of a doctor's life. There is a rich source of humor in medicine, and this book aims to share some of this.​

This book provides an extensive review of what innovation means in healthcare, with real-life examples and guidance on how to successfully innovate with IT in healthcare.

This book reviews and defines the current state of the art for informatics education in medicine and health care. This field has undergone considerable change as the field of informatics itself has evolved. Twenty years ago almost the only individuals...

Leadership and management in the context of healthcare is about improving the quality of medical care delivered at all levels. Doctors frequently lead healthcare teams with responsibility for significant clinical resource which requires management and...

This important work takes as its subject one of medicine's most pressing arenas of ethical debate. There has been a consistent interest in ethical issues arising in the context of HIV research. Ongoing international and...

This well-written book contains the analytical tools, concepts, and viewpoints needed for modern applied mathematics. It treats various practical methods for solving problems such as differential equations, boundary value...

This accessible book aims to collect in a single volume the essentials of stochastic networks. Stochastic networks have become widely used as a basic model of many physical systems in a diverse range of fields. Written by...

Acoustic and electromagnetic waves underlie a vast range of modern technology from sonar, radio, and television to microwave heating and electromagnetic compatibility analysis. Mathematical modeling of these waves has undergone...

Forest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and data-handling functionality. The authors adopt a...

Avian Flu.- Influenza: Biology, Infection, and Control.- The Past and Present Threat of Avian Influenza in Thailand.- Transmission of Avian Influenza Viruses to Humans: Viral Receptor Specificity and Distribution in Human Airways.- SARS.- Investigation...

Foundations.- Constructing Categories: Context and Consequences.- Constructs: Their Definition and Use.- Methodological Considerations.- Assessing Gender, Ethnicity, and Related Constructs.- Defining Race, Ethnicity, and Related Constructs.- Defining...

Chronic Diseases: Epidemiology and Health Care Disparities.- Health Care Costs.- Living with a Chronic Disease.- Diabetes Mellitus.- Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Fibromyalgia, and Low Back Pain.- Cardiovascular Disease.- Cancer.

Here's a conundrum: the U.S. health care system is the largest sector in the biggest economy in the world, and the US spends significantly more per capita on health care than any other country. Yet it ranks last among comparison nations on the major...

A carefully prepared account of the basic ideas in Fourier analysis and its applications to the study of partial differential equations. The author succeeds to make his exposition accessible to readers with a limited...

It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors...

""An Inquiry Into The Moral, Social, And Intellectual Condition Of The Industrious Classes Of Sheffield, Part 1: The Abuses And Evils Of Charity, Especially Of Medical Charitable Institutions"" is a book written by George Calvert Holland in 1839. The...

""An Examination Of The Practice Of Bloodletting In Mental Disorders"" is a book written by Pliny Earle in 1854. The book examines the practice of bloodletting, which was a common medical treatment for mental disorders at the time. Earle argues against...

""An Examination of Phrenology: In Two Lectures"" is a book written by Thomas Sewall and published in 1837. The book provides a critical analysis of phrenology, a pseudoscientific theory popular in the 19th century that claimed to be able to determine a...

An Exposure Of The Causes Of The Present Deteriorated Condition Of Health, And Diminished Duration Of Human Life is a book written by Joel Pinney and published in 1830. The book delves into the various factors that contribute to the declining state of...

An Exposition Of The Nature, Treatment, And Prevention Of Continued Fever is a medical book written by Henry McCormac and published in 1835. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the causes, symptoms, and treatments of continued fever, which was...

""An Essay On The Nature And Cure Of Scrophulous Disorders, Commonly Called The King�������s Evil"" is a medical book written by John Morley and published in 1781. The book is a comprehensive study of scrophulous disorders, a term used to describe a...

Doctor Yates' Essay On Bilious Epidemic Fever (1813) is a medical book written by Christopher C. Yates. The book provides a detailed study of the Bilious Epidemic Fever that occurred in the United States in the early 19th century. Yates, a practicing...

""An Essay on Burns"" is a literary work by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1910. This book is a tribute to the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who is considered one of the greatest poets of all time. Carlyle's essay is a critical analysis of Burns' life and...

""An Epitomized Review of the Principles and Practice of Maritime Sanitation"" is a book written by Joseph Holt and published in 1892. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices of maritime sanitation, with a focus on...

""An Epitome of Therapeutics"" is a medical book written by William Domett Stone and published in 1874. The book provides a comprehensive summary of the treatment of diseases as recommended by the leading British, American, and Continental physicians of...

""An Ephemeris of Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Therapeutics and Collateral Information"" is a book written by Edward R. Squibb and originally published in 1887. The book is a comprehensive guide to the field of medicine, covering a wide range of topics...

An Essay On The King�������s-Evil is a book written by Robert Willan and published in 1746. The book is a medical treatise on the disease known as scrofula, which was commonly referred to as the King's Evil in the 18th century. The condition was believed...

On The Action Of Medicines In The System is a book written by Frederick William Headland and published in 1867. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and mechanisms behind the action of medicines in the human body. Headland...

""A Review of the Present State of Uterine Pathology"" is a medical book written by James Henry Bennet and originally published in 1856. The book is a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge regarding diseases and conditions affecting the uterus...

""A Retrospect of Allopathy and Homeopathy, for the Last Thirty Years: With Cases"" is a book written by Hugh Hastings and published in 1883. The book provides a detailed account of the two major medical systems of the time, allopathy and homeopathy, and...

""A Report On A Plan For Transporting Wounded Soldiers By Railway In Time Of War"" is a book written by George Alexander Otis in 1875. The book is a detailed report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway during times of war. It discusses...

This book is a direct sequel to: B. Bcrtotri and P. Farinclla, "Physics of the Earth and the Solar System, Dynamics and Evolution. Space Navigation. Spa­ cc-Time Structure" (Kluwcr Academic Publishers, 1990). Nearly 15 years...

Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical...

1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about the history of medicine and its ethics. As usually c- ceived, history is retrograde: It is what happened yesterday, and, much as we may try, it is what...

This book is notable for its coverage of the entire range of food safety economics issues from "farm to table", including consumer issues, production supply chain coordination, and international trade. It is the first to...

Semiring theory stands with a foot in each of two mathematical domains. The first being abstract algebra and the other the fields of applied mathematics such as optimization theory, the theory of discrete-event dynamical...

This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting entitled, "The IGM/Galaxy Connection: The Distribution of Baryons at z = 0. " The meeting was held August 8 -10 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) located...

A statisticallanguage model, or more simply a language model, is a prob­ abilistic mechanism for generating text. Such adefinition is general enough to include an endless variety of schemes. However, a distinction should be...