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Explore a comprehensive selection of medical books, including medical medium books, dictionaries, and textbooks covering dermatology, human anatomy, physiology, surgery, and pediatrics.
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100 Days to a Younger Brain: Maximize Your Memory, Boost Your Brain Health, and Defy DementiaAn easy program of one-a-day exercises to assess your brain health, improve your memory, protect your brain from cognitive decline and slow the effects of dementia Living a brain-healthy life is not just to reduce the risk of dementia and other serious health issues...
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War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I AmericaWith US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper social and cultural response to...
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Gardner and Sutherland's Chromosome Abnormalities and Genetic CounselingEven as classic cytogenetics has given way to molecular karyotyping, and as new deletion and duplication syndromes are identified almost every day, the fundamental role of the genetics clinic remains mostly unchanged. Genetic counselors and medical geneticists explain the "unexplainable," helping families understand why...
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LSD: My Problem ChildAlbert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results of animal tests were so unremarkable that the chemical was abandoned. Driven by intuition, he synthesized it again in 1943, and serendipitously noticed its profound...
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HIV & Aids: A Very Short IntroductionIn 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about...
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The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex WorldElkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the...
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The Psychiatric Mental Status ExaminationDeveloped from years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents, this comprehensive text devoted solely to describing the mental status examination (MSE) fills a void in the teaching literature and will be valuable to both students first learning about the MSE and seasoned...
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Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman EmpireFrom the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from...
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Medical Terminology: A Living Language Plus Mylab Medical Terminology with Pearson Etext - Access Card PackageMedical Terminology: A Living Language uses a carefully constructed learning system to help students master and apply medical language. Organized by body system, the text places medical terms within the context of basic A&P. Instead of memorizing terms, students learn how to use word...
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Schaum's Easy Outline of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Second EditionWhen you need just the essentials of human anatomy and physiology, this Easy Outlines book is there to help If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview of human anatomy and physiology, it's got to be Schaum's Easy Outline. This book is a...
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The End of Heart Disease: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart DiseaseThe New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The End of Diabetes, and The End of Dieting presents a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse heart disease, the leading cause of death in America--coinciding with the author's new...
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A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine: Energy Healing and Spiritual TransformationAt the dawn of the 21st century, the old paradigms of medicine have begun to fall apart. A growing number of pioneering researchers embrace a new view of healing--one expounded by Dr. Richard Gerber in his groundbreaking bestseller, Vibrational Medicine.Now he shows how to...
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made ItA fascinating and entertaining look at the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesia--and the price they paid for their breakthrough.On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one operation was scheduled at Massachusetts General Hospital....That day in Boston, the operation was the routine removal...
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Living Well with Epilepsy and Other Seizure Disorders: An Expert Explains What You Really Need to KnowTreatment options, lifestyle strategies, and emotional support for two million Americans.Epilepsy, once mistakenly associated with demonic possession, has for centuries been a poorly understood illness. Today, though it affects nearly one out of every one hundred Americans, little comprehensive information can be found on...
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Holistic Pediatrician, The (Second Edition)If you're one of the thousands of parents who feel frustrated and overwhelmed by the different kinds of medical advice you're getting from doctors, homeopaths, and others, then you will find comfort -- and answers -- in this comprehensive guide to integrative medicine for...
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Prometheus and the Liver Through Art and MedicinePrometheus was punished by the supreme god Zeus for giving to mankind the Olympic fire with which they learned to think and feel. He was chained to a cliff in the Caucasus, where, to make matters worse, he was visited daily by an eagle...
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Savage & Aronson's Comprehensive Textbook of Perioperative and Critical Care EchocardiographyThoroughly revised to reflect new advances in the field, Savage & Aronson's Comprehensive Textbook of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography, Third Edition, remains the definitive text and reference on transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Edited by Drs. Alina Nicoara, Robert M. Savage, Nikolaos J. Skubas, Stanton...
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Underlying Standards That Support Population Health ImprovementThis book highlights success stories and challenges to implementing health IT standards. The narrative of each chapter demonstrates how standards further interoperable health data exchange, especially in the service of advancing tools to monitor population health. These are critical stories that demonstrate to an...
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Moneyball Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare MarketHow can a smartwatch help patients with diabetes manage their disease? Why can't patients find out prices for surgeries and other procedures before they happen? How can researchers speed up the decade-long process of drug development? How will Precision Medicine impact patient care outside...
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Culture in the Clinic: Miami and the Making of Modern MedicineAfter the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami. With this influx, the city's health care system was overwhelmed not just by the number of patients but also by the differences in culture. Mainstream medicine was often inaccessible or...
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