Air-Borne chronicles the dark side of aerobiology with gripping accounts of how the United States and the Soviet Union clandestinely built arsenals of airborne biological weapons designed to spread anthrax, smallpox, and an array of other pathogens.
After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own first-rate medical schools and hospitals.
Sickening examines institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine.
In Kid Food, nationally recognized writer and food advocate Bettina Elias Siegel explores one of the fundamental challenges of modern parenting: trying to raise healthy eaters in a society intent on pushing children in the opposite direction.
A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs.
In Drugs, Money and Secret Handshakes, Robin Feldman shines a light into the dark corners of the pharmaceutical industry to expose a web of shadowy deals in which higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines.
This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities.
Here, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital that prioritizes people over profit.
How to Make a Killing reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we'll have a fighting chance of fixing our country's dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose.
Based on their extensive expertise in helping people build their families, Mayo Clinic physicians break down what contributes to healthy eggs and sperm, steps you can take to get ready for pregnancy, how babies are made, and tips for ovulation tracking, timing sex, and improving your chances.
In this short, accessible guide, Mayo Clinic breast-cancer specialists Tufia C. Haddad, M.D., and Kathryn J. Ruddy, M.D., and colleagues offer their insights on how to navigate this new phase of the journey
The former Surgeon General of the United States—freed from the many constraints he worked under in public office—reveals critical lessons learned from both mistakes and successes overlooked during the pandemic.
Covers up-to-date information about breast imaging and the surveillance pathway of the patient with breast cancer. This textbook is intended to give most of the information a Mammographer should have to understand and perform successfully breast imaging techniques.
Drawn from research in archival documents, secondary sources, and interviews, Li tells the story of Benjamin's collaborative work with over a thousand transgender patients and his efforts in education, research, and networking, to create the institutional foundations of transgender medicine.
Revised to include over 270 parenteral medications. Forty one new monographs, some of which are recently marketed drugs, have been added since the 11th edition. Previously published monographs have been extensively reviewed and updated to include the most recent literature available.
Public health entities struggled to establish authority over its isolated inhabitants, eroding the power and control of mothers and midwives. The transition from home to hospital and from midwife to doctor created a dramatic shift in the intimately personal act of birth.
In 1965, Ewan's older brother died unexpectedly - leaving Ewan, a trans man, the next in line to inherit the baronetcy. When his cousin John - spurred on by Ewan's sister - contested the inheritance, he was forced to defend his male status in Scotland's supreme civil court, where he prevailed.
Autobiographical memory (ABM) - the type of long-term memory that holds information about ourselves and our past experiences - is key to social learning and social communication. This guide shows professionals how to support ABM in children and adolescents on the autism spectrum.
The HESI Admission Assessment (A2) Exam is the first step on the journey to becoming a successful healthcare professional. Guide includes sample questions, explanations, illustrations, and comprehensive practice exams to help review various subject areas and improve test-taking skills.
From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories in newspapers and magazines, social media, and popular culture. Schattner explores the ramifications of so much openness, good and bad, and asks: Has awareness backfired?
This book presents a compilation of case studies, prescriptive or retrospective reflections, conceptual pieces, interventions, and methodological approaches to guide and inspire global health practitioners in their application of systems-thinking.
As mental and behavioral health concepts have evolved, a more holistic view of mind and body has become widely accepted in American culture, reflecting increasing knowledge of the ways in which these aspects of human life are intertwined.
Provides safety features that help you practice knowledgeable, safe medication dispensing. Covers more than 5,000 generic and brand-name drugs, and includes complete pharmacokinetic tables that explain the mechanism and absorption of the drug as well as the action, duration, and excretion .
Research study reflecting nurses' experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping. Findings indicate nurses' spiritual development impact their proficiency in spiritual care.
El doctor Franz Martín Bermudo es uno de los investigadores y educadores más destacados de Europa en este campo. Su experiencia y rigor científico son la base para ayudarnos a comprender mejor la diabetes y abordarla adecuadamente. Para que, en última instancia, podamos vivir con ella, pero no ser superados por ella.
Los avances científicos están revolucionando nuestra comprensión del Alzheimer y los biomarcadores que permiten su detección temprana. Este libro analiza cómo la aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías y el big data está transformando la investigación, allanando el camino hacia un futuro con una mejor calidad de vida para los pacientes.
Países en pánico, desesperados por conseguir vacunas, pero temerosos del efecto de las dosis. En esta historia épica de pandemias y vacunas, el historiador Simon Schama describe cómo los humanos y los virus han coexistido durante milenios y cómo la humanidad ha quedado atrapada entre el terror al contagio y el ingenio de la ciencia.
Constituye una propuesta para que los docentes de las facultades de Odontología diversifiquen sus programas de estudio, sus técnicas de enseñanza y medios de evaluación, mejorando la eficiencia de los egresados.
La salud mental de los adolescentes se desplomó a principios de la década de 2010. Las tasas de depresión, ansiedad, autolesiones y suicidio aumentaron drásticamente. ¿Por qué? Haidt hace un claro llamado a la acción. Propone cuatro reglas simples que podrían hacernos libres y describe los pasos que los padres, los maestros y los gobiernos pueden tomar para restaurar una infancia más humana.
Cada bebé cuya madre decidió amamantar pasará inevitablemente por una fase de destete. Este libro ofrece consejos específicos para muchas situaciones diferentes y recopila casos individuales de destete de la práctica para que sirvan como pautas en esta última fase de una lactancia feliz.
Cómo los científicos descubrieron las células, comenzaron a comprenderlas y ahora utilizan ese conocimiento para crear nuevos humanos. Contada en seis partes y mezclada con la propia experiencia de Mukherjee como investigador, médico y lector prolífico, La canción de la célula es a la vez panorámica e íntima: una obra maestra sobre lo que significa ser humano.
Revela los verdaderos números y hechos del manejo criminal de la pandemia en México para esclarecer los daños e identificar a los responsables. Abarca en detalle todos los errores de acción, la turbia comunicación y las fatales consecuencias en una población diezmada durante el mortífero segundo año de la crisis sanitaria mundial.
Destaca el impacto que tienen los alimentos ultraprocesados en nuestro cuerpo y cerebro.
Dividido en tres partes principales, el libro guía a los lectores a comprender la menopausia, manejarla y prosperar en los años siguientes.
Reviews the global, regional and local issues that affect health in Australia, and show how social, economic, political and educational elements in society contribute to population health and wellbeing. Health promotion needs multiple solutions, and strategic opportunities and partnerships.
Step-by-step guidance for every question type on the NCLEX-PN, including Matrix, Multiple Response (e.g., Select all that Apply), Cloze, Drag-and-Drop, Highlight, Bowtie, Trend, and 4-Option Multiple Choice 9 critical thinking pathways to break down what NCLEX-PN questions are asking.
Highlights the important role that family - specifically, the relationship between mothers and daughters - plays in improving public health outcomes. Black Women's Health takes a much-needed, intimate look at how Black women and girls navigate different paths to wellness.
A powerful and critical investigation of iron deficiency in women throughout evolutionary history and in our current society. This book shows that women's evolved bodies - optimized to protect themselves and their offspring - are devastated by structural forces beyond their control.
Through a Screen Darkly examines what is possible now as the pandemic runs its course. It makes no predictions of how all this will ultimately play out, but offers a time capsule of how people have coped with a disease that landed suddenly and that we still do not fully understand.
Explores the origins, science, and economics of UPF to reveal its catastrophic impact on our bodies and the planet, and proposes real solutions for doctors, for policy makers, and for all of us who have to eat. Ultra-Processed People will open your eyes to the need for action on a global scale.
Whether disconnecting life-support systems, choosing not to resuscitate, administering a lethal overdose, or choosing not to commence life-sustaining measures, the public is deeply divided: should these actions be viewed as "mercy killing," or are they acts of murder pure and simple?
Demand for organs continues to outstrip availability as waiting lists surge, the pressure to make morally questionable, unethical decisions becomes more likely and trust in transplant medicine starts to erode. Stammers analyses the complex ethical web that constitutes the worldwide exchange of organs and tissues
Investigates moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender, gender diverse children and adolescents; and combines a detailed ethical analysis and accurate clinical description of gender development and available clinical pathways.
Despite engaging with residential care, moving from residential mental health programs to life in the community, many still confront disturbing prospects. This book proposes a template that is both credible and feasible for improving community living outcomes upon leaving residential mental health programs.
Effectively explores a series of fundamental questions about the present and future of fat and obesity.
Focuses on the meaning and management of both medically diagnosed chronic diseases and medically unexplained physical conditions or syndromes.
El estudio de las enfermedades dio lugar a manuales, tratados y libros que intentaban dar respuestas a lo desconocido. El propósito de este volumen es comprender la evolución de la medicina en la Edad Moderna hispánica más allá del ámbito estrictamente científico, y su relación con las disciplinas humanísticas de la época.
El Dr. Jesús Garrido, uno de los pediatras más influyentes de España, te ofrece su método pionero para identificar las causas del sufrimiento de tu hijo y eliminarlas de forma sencilla y sin medicación, tan solo cambiando algunas pautas en tu forma de cuidarlo.
María Zuil Navarro y Antonio Villarreal firman este texto que pretende ser también una reflexión sobre qué dice de nuestras sociedades la manera de experimentar, investigar, callar, reivindicar o malinterpretar el ciclo menstrual.
Uno de los médicos más reconocidos del país rememora sus experiencias como médico en un pueblo del oeste pampeano y reflexiona sobre las condiciones en las que se ejerce su profesión en la Argentina.
This anthology celebrates 40 years of an archaeology of mind, the investigation of how the modern human mind emerged, as discerned through material artifacts such as the stone tools used throughout the Paleolithic and the hunting technologies and numbers found in the Neolithic.
Interest in the brain bases of language goes back to the birth of the modern neurosciences in the late nineteenth century. In this book, Jonathan Brennan shows how brain signals are connected with the intricate cognitive structures that underlie human language.
This book illustrates evolutionary strategies used successfully by common organisms for hundreds of millions of years. Howard shows that the organisms in our daily lives are not trivial neighbors or even pests but are just as amazing as those in the Serengeti or the Galápagos Islands.
Clancy takes up a host of timely issues surrounding menstruation, from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life.
Introduces and examines recent advances in neuroscience regarding neural mechanisms of imagination and high-level abstraction under the premise that humans are innovative because they can imagine freely using high-level abstract concepts.
Traces how biomedical, social, political, and experiential forces entangle to produce hormones. It illuminates how hormones emerge and exist as complex entities that permeate every sphere of our lives, challenging conceptual underpinnings of our understandings of disease, wellness, and normalcy.
Caroline Williams spends a year exploring "neuroplasticity" - the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections - to find out whether she can make meaningful, lasting changes to the way her brain works. A science journalist with access to cutting edge experts and facilities, she volunteers herself as a test subject, challenging researchers to make real changes to the function and performance of her brain.
Draws on on the latest findings in neuroscience to explain how magic deceives us, surprises us, and amazes us, and demonstrates how illusionists skillfully 'hack' our brains to alter how we perceive things and influence what we imagine.
Humphries presents a new vision of the brain, one where fundamental computations are carried out by spontaneous spikes that predict what will happen in the world, helping us to perceive, decide, and react quickly enough for our survival.
Goldberg presents a wide-ranging discussion of history, culture, and evolution to arrive at an original understanding of the nature of human creativity. He discusses the origins of language, the nature of several neurological disorders, animal cognition, virtual reality, and even artificial intelligence. Included are his bold predictions about the future directions of creativity and innovation in society, and how they will change the ways the human brain develops and ages.
Many health claims are made about vitamins and minerals, and the claims made in commercials and the internet confuse as much as they clarify. The Goldsteins discuss what vitamins and minerals do for your body, and then explain the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs).
By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and easily, and provides lecturers with a flexible resource that they can use to support any introductory course on biomechanics.
Restriction enzymes cleave DNA at specific recognition sites and have many uses in molecular biology, genetics, and biotechnology. More than 4000 restriction enzymes are known today, justifying their description "the workhorses of molecular biology."
In Seven Deadly Sins, Guy Leschziner, a writer who has explored the mysteries of our sleeping brains and the odd crossed wires of our five senses, asks whether these traits truly represent sin, or simply reflect our intrinsic drive to survive and thrive.
An exploration of our most essential yet least understood sense. Our sense of smell guides our lives far more than our screen-heavy, sight-privileged era would suggest. It animates our experience of food and drink, helps us access memories, and strengthens our intimacy with each other.
Serious mental decline is not an inevitable part of aging. You can boost your short and long-term brain health and significantly lower the risk of dementia - if the right steps are taken now. The Age-Proof Brain will provide the tools you need to ensure that you're living a happier and more fulfilling life - today, tomorrow, and well into your future.
An easy-to-read book for anyone who wants to learn about the importance, effectiveness and safety of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases.
Covering everything from what happens when photons hit your retina, to the neuroplasticity of real nerve nets, to what a computer algorithm must be able to do before it can be called truly 'intelligent,' to why some people have neurons that only fire in response to Jennifer Aniston's face, We Know It When We See It is a deep and thoughtful examination of how our brains make sense of the world
In this up-to-date revision of his 1998 book Creating Mind, Dowling conveys the essence and vitality of the field of neuroscience--examining the progress we've made in understanding how brains work, and shedding light on discoveries having to do with aging, mental illness, and brain health.
This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization 15,000 years ago to today.
Arising from the 2021 Darwin College Lectures, this volume invites leading thinkers on the subject to explore the many meanings of blood across a diverse range of disciplines.
Esta guía fundamental para la salud hormonal analiza cómo las hormonas impactan cada sistema del cuerpo, brindándole el conocimiento que necesita para llegar a la raíz de los problemas de salud crónicos y lograr un bienestar sostenible y duradero.
Esta impresionante exploración del cuerpo humano, ya en su tercera edición y revisada con los avances médicos más recientes, es el libro de referencia generalista más detallado sobre anatomía humana que hay en el mercado.
José Ramón Alonso nos relata de manera descriptiva, a la par que amena, cómo la ciencia ha ido descubriendo y entendiendo el órgano más esencial para ser humano; cómo ha evolucionado su conocimiento, su concepción, sus funciones, las enfermedades que nos atormentan, la psiquiatría, la cirugía, la neurociencia
Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.
