Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. It is Dr. Sacks's gift that he has found a way to enlarge our experience and understanding of what the human is. The Wall Street Journal Dubbed the poet laureate ... more »

This  is a collection of all materials of medicine supplying by professors to a medical student of UTC - It also reflects the fundamental knowledges providing to a Med student in Viet Nam. Contents: Semiology of medicine - studied at 2nd year : 30 lessons Pathology of medicine - studied ... more »

The fourth leading cause of death in the United States, COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, affects an estimated 35 million Americans. Yet only half are aware that they are seriously ill. Life and Breath, by Dr. Neil Schachter, is the first book that alerts people to their risks for COPD ... more »

This important new book documents a major breakthrough in the treatment of the three most widespread learning disabilities--ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia ("clumsy child syndrome"). Although these conditions have reached epidemic proportions, treatment has been limited to ineffective behavioral ... more »

Conserver la santé et guérir les maladies : tel est le problème que la médecine a posé dès son origine et dont elle poursuit encore la solution scientifique. L'état actuel de la pratique médicale donne à présumer que cette solution se fera encore longtemps chercher. Cependant, dans sa marche à travers ... more »

Use it as a learning tool and as a reference guide to decoding medical terminology and abbreviations. Over 2,000 abbreviations including medical organizations and personnel, Latin abbreviations, Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms, List of medical roots, Measurement Units, Anatomical terms with color ... more »

Topics include: Biological & Chemical and Nuclear weapons. Nerve Agents. Radiation. Acute Radiation Syndromes and tx's.  Biotoxins. Civilian Defense Recommendations. Decontamination Procedures. Odors and detection. Infection Control Protocols.  Respiratory Protection. Explosions and Blast ... more »

In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man's struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter. Seven years ago Paul Raeburn's son, Alex, eleven, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital ... more »

From Preface: Commissioned by His Majesty's Government to study the medicinal plants of my native country, I returned there and spent two years in collecting data regarding the use that the Filipinos make of their plants in the treatment of disease. At the same time I collected and carefully preserved ... more »

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African ... more »

1909. With a Chapter on Diabetes. Partial Contents: History; Etiology; Crowded nutrition; Constipation; Micro-organisms; Local causes; Obstruction; Surgery; Symptoms; Nature cures; Complications; General treatment; Recovery. more »

Topics include: Travel / Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), how to avoid illness, flying, diving, common parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), travellers diarrhea, red eye in traveler, incubation periods for illnesses, Malaria, insect bites, tick bites, leprosy...... ... more »