Best of
Medicine

1974

Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease


Vinay Kumar - 1974
    No other resource has been able to match its outstanding coverage of pathophysiology and disease. Now renamed Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, the new, 7th Edition of this classic text delivers a host of improvements that make it an even clearer choice for students and practitioners!

Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness


Barbara Ehrenreich - 1974
    Citing vivid examples, including numerous "treatments" and "rest cures" perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture-in education, in jobs, and in public life. Ever since Hippocrates, male medics have treated women as the "weaker" sex. By the late 19th century, when the authority of religious documents had waned, the ultimate rationale for sex discrimination became solely biomedical. In this intriguing pamphlet, the authors raise the diffuclt question: "How sick-or well-are women today?" They assert that feminists today want more than "more": "We want a new style, and we want a new substance of medical practice as it relates to women."

World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17


G. Edward Griffin - 1974
    Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease like scurvy or pellagra aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modem mans diet. That substance is vitamin B17. In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile. It is the most complete and authoritative treatise ever produced on Laetrile. It explains the theory by which Laetrile is believed to work. Case histories are includedWhy has orthodox medicine waged war against this non drug approach? The author contends that the answer is to be found, not in science, but in politics and is based upon the hidden economic and power agenda of those who dominate the medical establishment. New Edition Revised and Updated

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health


Ivan Illich - 1974
    In Limits to Medicine Ivan Illich has enlarged on this theme of disabling social services, schools, and transport, which have become, through over-industrialization, harmful to man. In this radical contribution to social thinking Illich decimates the myth of the magic of the medical profession.

The Healing Benefits of Acupressure: Acupuncture Without Needles


F.M. Houston - 1974
    Shows how the simple application of finger pressure to specific points of the body can stimulate and alleviate many common ailments.

Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects


Keith L. Moore - 1974
    Completely revised and updated, the 6th Edition emphasizes the clinical aspects throughout by using clinical correlations as well as hundreds of outstanding illustrations.Incorporates the molecular aspects of embryonic development, including information on stem cells - homeobox genes - gamete formation - regulation control and the molecules/receptors involved - gene activity and expression - and more.Includes illustrations of new diagnostic procedures, including sonographs, MRIs, electron micrographs, 3D images, and clinical photographs.Presents completely revised and updated Clinically Oriented Questions and Answers based on the current requirements of the USMLE Step 1.Offers reader-friendly features including brief explanations of clinical terms - clinical applications boxes - timetables for critical periods in prenatal development - and end-of-chapter summaries-enabling readers to quickly zero in on essential information.

Country wisdom & Lore: 1000s of Traditional Skills for Simple Living


Jerry Mack Johnson - 1974
    A grand encyclopedia of country lore by famed Texas folklorist Jerry Mack Johnson, covering water witching, maple syruping, weather wisdom, country remedies and herbal cures, cleaning solutions, pest purges, bird migrations and animal lore, firewood essentials, adobe making and bricklaying, leather working, plant dyes, farm foods, natural teas and tonics, granola, bread making, beer brewing and winemaking, jams and jellies, canning and preserving, sausage making and meat smoking, drying foods, down-home toys, papermaking, candle crafting, homemade soaps and shampoos, Christmas wreaths and decorations, butter and cheese making, fishing and hunting secrets, and much more.

Microbes And Men


Robert William Reid - 1974
    During this period bacteria which cause disease and death were identified and soon cures or vaccines against them were developed. Medicine was revolutionised. Many men of prodigious talent took part in this momentous transformation. The story shifts from country to country - from Jenner's rural practice in England to Pasteur's laboratories in the breweries and silk farms of France, and on to Koch's surgery in Prussia. It is a narrative as exciting as any novel. But it is more than just that. Robert Reid is able to use the germ theory as a case-study in the methods and responsibilities of scientists. A great discovery may turn out to be a double-edged sword, yet the process of discovering ways to control nature must go on if a world saved from disease is not to see, instead, men dying of starvation.

The Neuropsychology of Memory


Alexander R. Luria - 1974