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Medical

1989

Atlas of Human Anatomy


Frank H. Netter - 1989
    In over 540 beautifully colored and easily understood illustrations, it teaches the complete human body with unsurpassed clarity and accuracy. This new edition features 45 revised, 290 relabeled and 17 wholly new plates, drawn fully in the tradition of Frank Netter, and includes more imaging and clinical images than ever before. Six Consulting Editors have worked together to ensure the new edition's accuracy and usefulness in the lecture theatre, classroom and dissection lab. Ninety plates from the book as well as a powerful and varied bank of ancillary material, unique to this atlas, are available online through www.netteranatomy.com.Includes uniquely informative drawings that allow you - and have allowed generations of students - to learn structures with confidence. Associates normal anatomy with an application of that knowledge in a clinical setting. Offers a strong selection of imaging to show you what is happening three dimensionally in the human body, the way you see it in practice.Provides clinically applicable information right from the start, to mirror the way that most anatomy courses are now taught.At www.netteranatomy.com, you'll access...- Over 90 of the most important anatomy illustrations from the book.- Interactive Anatomy Dissection Modules.- Radiographs, CT scans, MRIs, and angiograms, with labels on/off buttons for self testing.- QuickTime movies of stacked, transverse, and sectional images from the Visible Human Project (VHP).- Review Center with Identification Spot Tests and USMLE-style multiple-choice questions.- Integration links to other STUDENT CONSULT titles.- and more!

Seeing Voices


Oliver Sacks - 1989
    Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."

Histology: A Text and Atlas: With Correlated Cell and Molecular Biology


Michael H. Ross - 1989
    It combines a detailed textbook that emphasizes clinical and functional correlates of histology with a beautifully illustrated atlas featuring full-color digital micrographs of the highest quality.This edition includes over 100 new illustrations, more Clinical Correlation boxes on the histology of common medical conditions, and new information on the molecular biology of endothelial cell function. Terminology throughout the text is consistent with Terminologia Anatomica.A powerful interactive histology atlas CD-ROM for students is included with the book and features all of the plates found in the text with interactive functionality.

Forensic Pathology (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations)


Vincent J.M. Di Maio - 1989
    The medical examiner is primarily concerned with violent, sudden, unex pected, and suspicious deaths and is responsible for determining the c ause and manner of death, identifying the deceased, determining the ap proximate time of death and injury, collecting evidence from the body, issuing the death certificate, and documenting these events through a n official autopsy report. The basis of the medicolegal investigation is forensic pathology. Written for both medical and investigative pro fessionals, Forensic Pathology, Second Edition presents an overview of medicolegal investigative systems. Completely updated, the book exami nes investigative techniques and procedures that lead to obtaining acc urate conclusions of death by homicide, accident, or suicide.

Anatomy of Domestic Animals: Systemic and Regional Approach


Chris Pasquini - 1989
    Helpful Veterinary Anatomy Textbook.

It's All in Your Head: The Link Between Mercury Amalgams and Illness


Hal A. Huggins - 1989
    Forty years ago, Dr. Hal Huggins questioned this practice, and now legions of dentists, researchers, and citizens are adding their voices of concern.  It’s All in Your Head looks at past research on mercury toxicity and dental amalgams as well as current scientific findings that can no longer be ignored. It describes the possible effects of mercury toxicity, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Hodgkin’s disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and virtually all autoimmune disorders. Written in easy-to-understand language, It’s All in Your Head explodes the claim that mercury amalgams are safe. If you think your worries are all in your head, you may be right.

Basic Surgical Techniques


R.M. Kirk - 1989
    The full range of surgical procedures is comprehensively reviewed in a clear how-to-do-it style. Thoroughly updated and modernized throughout, this latest edition includes new information on laparoscopic procedures and minimal access surgery. Each chapter is now introduced with a summary box, outlining the key issues that are covered. The book also includes nearly 100 completely new illustrations.. This comprehensive text provides guidance on the full range of surgical procedures and goes into more depth than competing publications and course information.. New, modern design, and the use of key points boxes to introduce each chapter ensures this book is even easier to find your way around.. With new information on current techniques, such as minimal access surgery.. 75 brand new illustrations. More information on modern procedures, such as laparoscopy.. Key points boxes introduce every chapter. Book is printed and designed in two colours

Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit


Norman Cousins - 1989
    "An eloquent plea for two needed emphases: more humane doctor-patient relations, and greater patient involvement in the struggle with disease."—Melvin Konner.

Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility


Leon Speroff - 1989
    While adhering to the style and relevance of the first edition, the editors set out to provide the latest information and research on reproductive physiology, contraception, infertility, and clinical endocrinology. Heavy emphasis is also placed on progestins and hormone administration and therapy within several chapters of the text. Comprehensive, relevant, and highly informative, this edition truly lends itself to the improvement of patient care in the field of clinical reproductive endocrinology.

Autism: Explaining the Enigma


Uta Frith - 1989
     Updated edition of this classic account of autism. Includes new sections covering practical and theoretical developments, and a chapter on recent investigations of the neurological basis of psychological impairments in autism. Accessible to a broad general readership.

Photographic Anatomy of the Human Body


Chihiro Yokochi - 1989
    This work is geared to the curriculums of allied health and nursing students who need a high-quality, regionally-organized anatomy atlas. Includes some 290 excellent full-color dissection photos. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room


Eugene Richards - 1989
    This work includes personal revelations of doctors, nurses, and health aides working in emergency rooms, accented by the photographic impressions of the author.

Clinical Anesthesia


Paul G. Barash - 1989
    More than 100 leading experts cover every aspect of contemporary perioperative medicine in one comprehensive, clinically focused, clear, concise, and accessible volume.New chapters in this edition cover genomic basis of perioperative medicine, office-based anesthesia, and disaster preparedness and bioterrorism. A new two-color page design enables readers to spot crucial information quickly. Each chapter opens with a numbered list of key points and the numbers are used in the margins to help readers locate information on those points.Subscribe to Lippincott's Interactive Anesthesia Library and get online access to the fully searchable content of eight critically acclaimed references in anesthesiology, critical care, and pain management.

Applied Logistic Regression


David W. Hosmer - 1989
    "An interesting, useful, and well-written book on logistic regression models . . . Hosmer and Lemeshow have used very little mathematics, have presented difficult concepts heuristically and through illustrative examples, and have included references." --Choice"Well written, clearly organized, and comprehensive . . . the authors carefully walk the reader through the estimation of interpretation of coefficients from a wide variety of logistic regression models . . . their careful explication of the quantitative re-expression of coefficients from these various models is excellent." --Contemporary Sociology"An extremely well-written book that will certainly prove an invaluable acquisition to the practicing statistician who finds other literature on analysis of discrete data hard to follow or heavily theoretical." --The StatisticianIn this revised and updated edition of their popular book, David Hosmer and Stanley Lemeshow continue to provide an amazingly accessible introduction to the logistic regression model while incorporating advances of the last decade, including a variety of software packages for the analysis of data sets. Hosmer and Lemeshow extend the discussion from biostatistics and epidemiology to cutting-edge applications in data mining and machine learning, guiding readers step-by-step through the use of modeling techniques for dichotomous data in diverse fields. Ample new topics and expanded discussions of existing material are accompanied by a wealth of real-world examples-with extensive data sets available over the Internet.

Diseases of the Human Body


Carol D. Tamparo - 1989
    Each entry includes a description, etiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic procedures, treatment, prognosis and prevention. Complementary and alternative therapies are also covered. This fourth edition contains a new chapter on mental health diseas

Breast Imaging


Daniel B. Kopans - 1989
    Kopans' best-selling text and reference on breast imaging is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Third Edition. The author combines a complete, superbly illustrated atlas of imaging findings with a comprehensive text that covers all imaging modalities and addresses all aspects of breast imaging—including breast anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology, breast cancer staging, and preoperative localization of occult lesions.This edition includes state-of-the-art information on a new modality, digital breast tomosynthesis, as well as on digital mammography, MRI, ultrasound, and percutaneous breast biopsy. The book contains more than 2,100 images obtained with the latest technology, including many new mammograms and scans using other imaging modalities.

Fundamentals of Skeletal Radiology


Clyde A. Helms - 1989
    The author's entertaining writing style quickly conveys the essence of the material. This thoroughly updated 3rd Edition features an increased emphasis on MR imaging and enhanced coverage of knee imaging, plus many new and improved imaging examples. It remains a perfect first book on musculoskeletal radiology as well as a terrific quick review of the subject.Uses hundreds of high-quality digital radiographs, MRIs, bone scans, and CT images to demonstrate all of the concepts discussed.Features a succinct, highly accessible writing style that makes information easy to understand.Offers an increased emphasis on MR imaging.Presents an expanded section on knee imaging.Covers hot topics such as MR Imaging of the Knee - MR Imaging of the Shoulder - Lumbar Spine: Disc Disease and Stenosis - and Metabolic Bone Disease.Delivers 25% more images than the last edition, with improved image quality throughout.

Morphine, Ice Cream, Tears: Tales of a City Hospital


Joseph Sacco - 1989
    

Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics


Bonnie Steinbock - 1989
    Each of the book's seven parts is prefaced with helpful introductions that raise important questions and skillfully contextualize the positions and main points of the articles that follow. This seventh edition updates and expands parts throughout the text, including the discussions of conflicting roles and responsibilities for medical professionals and justice in health care. A new Part Seven entitled "Emerging Technologies and Perennial Issues," which explores the issues of behavioral genetics and human enhancements.

Textbook of Family Medicine


Ian R. McWhinney - 1989
    While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a practitioner might see in clinical practice (thus they become watered-down internal medicine texts), McWhinney defines the principles and practices of family medicine as a separate and distinct field of practice. His initial sections cover the basis principles and philosophies of family medicine and a later section discusses the approach to the patients with common diseases encountered in practice (these discussions not only address these clinical problems, but each is a workshop for incorporating what it means to be a family physician into everyday practice). The new edition is updated throughout with help from a group of reviewers and a new coauthor, Tom Freeman, who is Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at McWhinney's institution, the University of Western Ontario.

Oxford Handbook Of Clinical Medicine


R.A. Hope - 1989
    Now in four colors, the text has been extensively revised and updated, including two completely new chapters on oncology and radiology and a separate easy-to-use emergency section. Blank pages provide ample space for readers' notes and the update boxespublished in the British Medical Journal (also available by fax and electronic mail). This pocket-sized handy reference, familiar to countless readers, is packed with facts and practical advice in an easily accessible format, making it an essential, reliable companion for every doctor.

Principles of Manual Medicine


Philip E. Greenman - 1989
    The text covers the foundations of manual medicine as well as specific techniques for diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal pain. More than 1,000 photographs combined with detailed instructions for each technique make this an invaluable clinical reference. Practitioners can keep up to date with expanded chapters on increasingly popular soft tissue techniques and new techniques for the treatment of closed head injuries. Adjunctive techniques and the use of exercise to prevent and treat disease are also covered.

Plagues and Politics


Fitzhugh Mullan - 1989
    2-color illustrations.

Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use


David L. Streiner - 1989
    It is widely used by people from many disciplines, who have only a limited knowledge of statistics.This thoroughly updated edition of Health Measurement Scales 3e gives more details on cognitive requirements in answering questions, and how this influences scale development. There is now an expanded discussion of generizibility theory, a completely revised chapter on Item Response Theory andmany revisions are included, based on the latest research findings.These features combine to provide the most up-to-date guide to measuring scale development available. It synthesizes the theory of scale construction with practical advice, culled from the literature and the authors' experience, about how to develop and validate measurement scales to be used inthe health sciences. The theory goes into issues of reliability, generalizability theroy, validity, the measurement of change, the cognitive requirements of answering questions, and item response theory. Practical issues cover devising the items, biases that may affect the responses, pre-testingand weeding our poorly performing items, combining items into scales, setting cut points, and the practical issues of using scales in various ways, such as face-to-face interviews; mailed or telephone-administered surveys; and over the internet. One chapter also discusses some of the ethical issuesthat scale developers and users should be aware of. Appendices lead the reader to other readings; sources of already developed scales and items; and a very brief introduction to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.

Modelling Brain Function: The World of Attractor Neural Networks


Daniel J. Amit - 1989
    Substantial progress in understanding memory, the learning process, and self-organization by studying the properties of models of neural networks have resulted in discoveries of important parallels between the properties of statistical, nonlinear cooperative systems in physics and neural networks. The author presents a coherent and clear, nontechnical view of all the basic ideas and results. More technical aspects are restricted to special sections and appendices in each chapter.