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Charcot in Morocco
Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot’s travel diary of his 1887 trip to Morocco, which presents his personal reflections on the “Orient” and its inhabitants.
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Transformative Physical Rehabilitation
Transformative Physical Rehabilitation: Thriving After a Major Health Event offers an innovative theoretical approach as well as a practical application to physical rehabilitation, based on the model of Meaning Perspective Transformation in Physical Rehabilitation.
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Ethical Deliberation in Multiprofessional Health Care Teams
This study analyzes both pragmatic and theoretical perspectives of ethical deliberation, as well as the professional and philosophical backgrounds for the ethical deliberation of social workers, nurses and doctors working in the field of chronic illness. In doing so, this volume expands the scope...
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Transforming Healthcare in Africa
The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. This book examines the key players in the health system game in many African countries. It explores the regulatory regimes that impact the health systems, such as the Ministry of H...
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Preventing Dementia?
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scr...
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Making Multiple Babies
Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and regis...
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Thai in Vitro
Explores the experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.
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Asymmetrical Conversations
Explores the ways in which we sometimes attempt to bypass the dominant ideologies of health care in the medical institutions of our cultures. Case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe are used to understand the blurring of therapeutic boundaries. A combination of ...
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase
Highlights the opening up of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.
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Precious Pills
Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditiona...
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Achieving Procreation
This book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population in northwestern Turkey. Based on ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages. Investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, ...
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Healing Roots
Detailed study, compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar, of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa. Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another. The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled...
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Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe
Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the structural weaknesses revealed and exacerbated by t...
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Doctors Killed George Washington
It's no joke that we are all fascinated by the medical profession and the people in it. With Doctors Killed George Washington, trivia mavens Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo explore accidental medical discoveries, medical follies, bizarre cures, and more. This titillating tome puts doctors and medical...
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East-West Healing
A family guide for health and wellness blending two of the world's great healing traditions "East-West Healing is a book you can use immediately to change your life. Full of grounded practical exercises to heal, this is an important book."-Michael Samuels, M.D., and Mary Rockwood Lane, Ph.D., ...
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An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods
Filled with science, natural remedies and modern wisdom, this portable and concise reference is needed by those confused by the all the claims of superfoods or who want to make an informed decision about what foods are best for them. Yoga instructor, nutrition expert and active mother Elise Colli...
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Waking the Warrior Goddess
Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Once a relatively rare disease, it now affects 2 to 3 million women, and the incidence is going up at an alarming rate. What can we do about it? Christine Horner, M.D., has the prescription: Take healthy organic foods, add a goo...
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Heal the Pain, Comfort the Spirit
Specialists estimate that as many as 60 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, and approximately 20 percent of the population in most developed countries reports having chronic pain. According to one study, chronic back pain alone afflicts more than four million Americans, and nearly 50 perc...
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Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, 1890-1975
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Emergency Physician's Guide to Dental Care
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Design for Care
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and...
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Biographical Memoirs of Members of The American Philosophical Society
The distinguished physicians featured in this volume were all members of the American Philosphical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in America. The biographical memoirs, selected from the archives of the Society, present a panorama in the evolution of medicine during the 18th, 19th and e...
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Latin Technical Phlebotomy and Its Middle English Translation
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Introduction: Phlebotomy in the Middle Ages; The Latin Treatise; Late Medieval English Medicine & Middle English Medical Texts; & The Middle English Text: Related Tracts, Date & Dialect, Manuscript; (II) “Tractatus magistri enrici d...
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Practical Observations of Dropsy of the Chest (Breslau, 1706)
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Experimental Studies in Equine Infectious Anemia
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. It is not generally known, however, that Nightingale was at the forefront of the religious, philosophical, and scientific though of her time. In a...
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Proceedings of the Bockus International Society of Gastroenterology
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Psychiatric Aftercare
Each year about 325,000 persons are admitted as patients to public mental hospitals in the United States. Less than half are first admissions; 175,000 are readmissions. And each year about 310,000 patients leave the public mental hospitals. They undertake the hazards of living again, as ex-patien...
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Orthodontics
Proceedings of the 1978 International Orthodontic Conference, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Centennial Program.
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The Vestibular System and Its Diseases
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Until We're Seen
Firsthand accounts of COVID-19’s devastating effects on working-class communities of colorThe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept the country functioning. “And when they write those history books, the heroes of the battle will be t...
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Intimate Adversaries
Effective communication between doctors and patients is essential to good health care, yet patients increasingly complain of impersonal, overly technical medical treatment. Physicians, on the other hand, report that their patients have unrealistic expectations and ignore recommendations. Problems...
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Moses Maimonides’ Glossary of Drug Names
The ten authentic medical treatises of Moses Maimonides lay dormant in manuscript form for many centuries. In the mid-1900s, Hebrew editions of these works were published under the editorship of the late Suessman Muntner of Jerusalem. The pub. of several of these works in English followed, incl. ...
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Bargaining for Life
Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century, fears of infectiousness compounded their anguish. Historians have usually focused on the changin...
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Comparative Anatomy, Pathology, and Roentgenology of the Breast
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Thudichum
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Time to Heal
In the 19th century, Joseph Lister related the germ theory of fermentation to the cause of putrefaction in wounds. Listerism was adopted because its success was greater and more consistent than other methods of healing the sick. The circumstances which made this possible were a theory for explain...
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Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia
Gabriele Zerbi (1445-1505), born in Verona of an old patrician family, was a remarkable medical man & anatomists of his time. He probably studied at the University at Padua, where he began to teach medicine in 1467, having obtained the doctorate at the age of 22. He then taught medicine &...
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The Development of Modern Medicine
The relation of the progress of medical science to the social history of humanity. Starting with the seventeenth century, the author analyzes the defeats as well as the triumphs that medicine has gone through to reach its present usefulness.
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Economics of Public Health
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Medium Chain Triglycerides
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Forgotten Leaders in Modern Medicine
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. More than 65 illustrations.
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The Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875-1941
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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What Is Public Trust in the Health System?
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-ND licence. This book explores the concept of public trust in health systems. In the context of recent events, including public response to interventions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination uptake and the use of health data and digital h...
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The Therapeutic Revolution
This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth c...
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There's Nobody There
There's Nobody There is a study of family members who care for, and those suffering confusion caused by Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. The authors describe the experience of caregivers, often the caregivers' own words, and assess the impact of community care policies on their lives.
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Caring in Crisis
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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A Patient's Guide to Surgery
In a Patient's Guide to Surgery, Dr. Edward L. Bradley III explains all you need to know to prepare yourself for the surgical experience. This book describes how you can actively participate in the decision-making process and, as a result, improve your chances for successful surgery and recovery....
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Grand Rounds
The history of medicine has come to occupy a significant place in our understanding of modern society and the American cultural fabric. To fully understand and appreciate American medicine in the twentieth century one must contend with the twin processes of specialization and professionalization....
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Innovation and Tradition at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
From the time of its establishment in the eighteenth century until late in the nineteenth century, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine was the most respected medical institution in the United States. Today it is among the leaders in medical education in the U.S. It continues to pl...
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John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine
John Heysham Gibbon, Jr., M.D., was the first researcher to develop a heart-lung machine that could fully support an adult's cardiac and respiratory functions during surgical procedures to repair defects in the heart and lungs. The difficulty of such a task can be seen in the number of people who...
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Exocrine Glands
This volume collects an impressive amount of information about many of the challenging problems pertaining to the exocrine glands, discussed at this Satellite Symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania. This Symposium was one of the 18 highly specialized conferences, the detailed informatio...
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The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France
Smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century was the genesis of modern immunology. This new method of purposely contracting a disease in order to secure protection from it was an empirical folk practice from the New East that ran counter to traditional European habits of thought in both medicin...
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The Mechanism of Nervous Action
A series of experiments on the mechanism of sense organs and motor nerve cells, for which the author was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567)
Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was one of the foremost medical writers of his day, ranked by his contemporaries alongside Andreas Vesalius, reformer of anatomical studies, and Paracelsus, radical reformer of theories of disease and treatment. He is arguably the leading expositor of the Galenic system of...
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Healing Traditions
The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of Western, scientific medicine and those of unconventional health systems. Providing in...
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The Pulmonary Circulation, Normal and Abnormal
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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The Works of William Harvey
William Harvey's revolutionary book on the circulatory system, published in Latin in 1628, demonstrated for the first time how the heart pumps blood through the body. His findings overturned the world's basic understanding of the way the body functions and changed fundamental knowledge of physiol...
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Time to Go
This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the end of life. The purpose of the volume is to increase awareness and knowledge about advance directives and, beyond that, to facilitate discussion ...
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“Tabula Antidotarii“ of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew Translation
Armengaud Blaise or Blaise (d. 1312), a nephew of the celebrated medieval medical & theological figure Arnau de Vilanova (d.1311), is becoming better known, thanks in large part to the documentation preserved in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon. Armengaud became a practicing physician and w...
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Say Little, Do Much
In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light on the work of these women's religious communities. According to Nelson, the popular view that nursing invented itself i...
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Caring and Responsibility
June S. Lowenberg examines the symbolic meanings underlying the larger holistic health movement, and locates those changes within the broad social and historical context. Her analysis helps us understand the strains, as well as the strengths, of the emerging, more holistic medical model.
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Women at War
Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the e...
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John Haygarth, FRS
An excellent biography of John Haygarth, an important 18th-century physician who is most well known for his visionary plan to eliminate smallpox from Great Britain through the careful practice of inoculation & isolation. Haygarth made many more innovative & far-reaching contributions to m...
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James Hutton’s Medical Dissertation
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Electrical Signs of Nervous Activity
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Biting off the Bracelet
This is a book about the social situation of the hospitalized child in twentieth-century America. With details and examples drawn from the day-to-day life of children in hospitals, the author shows how children are often frightened and confused by a system that professes to be a benevolent one. S...
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Congenital Malformations
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Manual of Industrial Medicine
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Emil von Behring
In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in med. for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era and its develop. generated procedures for testing, standardizing, and re...
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The Human Joint in Health and Disease
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Isidore of Seville
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Postpartum Psychiatric Illness
Clues which point toward the etiology of postpartum psychiatric illness and its appropriate treatment are spread over four continents and 150 years of history. James Alexander Hamilton and Patricia Neel Harberger decided that it was time to assemble the bits and pieces of information.Postpartum P...
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Radiologic Anatomy of the Jaws
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Lactogenesis
Proceedings of a symposium, satellite to the 24th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.
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Benjamin Waterhouse and the Introduction of Vaccination
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Discovery and Healing
In Discovery and Healing: Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, David Vaughn describes the history of the Perelman School of Medicine's Division of Hematology/Oncology. Vaughn knows the subject well: he trained in ...
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Beauty Is the Beast
Americans spend more than five billion dollars a year on cosmetics. In such a culture, to be unattractive is to be at a disadvantage; to have a physical abnormality that impairs one's appearance is to be stigmatized and rejected. Destructive to adults, this rejection can be devastating to childre...
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Life with the Pneumococcus
Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. As a res...
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Why Does It Still Hurt?
Can knowledge heal chronic pain? The ultimate, science-driven guide to understanding chronic pain. Paul Biegler—a science journalist and former doctor—has interviewed the world’s leading pain experts, along with people who have weathered their own chronic pain battles. Chronic pain is the single ...
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The Boy Who Wasn't Short
A geneticist tells the stories of men, women, and children whose genes have shaped their lives in unexpected ways. It was while listening to a colleague tell the parents of a newborn girl that their daughter was going to die that a lifelong interest in genetic medicine was sparked in Dr. Edwin Ki...
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Medical Emergencies in Early Childhood and School-Age Settings
The essential guide for quickly addressing children’s medical situations. Revised with new 2015 American Heart Association CPR & ECC guidelines.
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Emergencias médicas in situ para el cuidado del niño
The most effective emergency responses to common injuries and illnesses in early childhood settings.
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Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide
An in-depth look at how lethal animal viruses breach interspecies boundaries and threaten human populations.
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Ultimate Intimacy
For women who want the medical knowledge of Masters and Johnson and the passion of 50 Shades of Grey, Ultimate Intimacy helps them take back control of their sex life.
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Human-Centered Leadership in Healthcare
A healthcare leader’s guide to changing culture by embracing this secret....it starts with the leader but it’s not about them.
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Thrive in Your Healing Business
Thrive in Your Healing Business shows readers the techniques needed to balance a business in the healing arts with a healthy lifestyle.
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The Ultimate Cure for Depression
The Ultimate Cure for Depression is the first step to winning the battle against depression as Dr. Joy Kwakuyi presents the journey to permanent victory.
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To Medicate or Not? That is the Question!
To Medicate or Not? That is the Question helps readers to start their journey to H.A.R.M.O.N.Y. in their health and life.
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Physician, Care for Thyself
Physician, Care for Thyself teaches doctors how to get their fire and desire back their lives.
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I Can Sit Again
Within I Can Sit Again, readers learn what to expect during their visit with a physician and feel empowered as they navigate through the interventional orthopedic regenerative medicine field, stem cells, and other evolving treatments.
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Path to Pet Wellness
This revolutionary, heartfelt guide is for pet lovers who want their furry friends to live happier, healthier lives, to support their pet’s health naturally and confidently.Groundbreaking holistic veterinarian Jeff Feinman shares his innovative “whole-istic” love-based framework, cutting-edge sci...
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The HypoThyroid Diet
The purpose of "The Hypothyroid Diet" is to help those with hypothyroidism lose weight, beat fatigue, and feel normal again. The number one thyroid disorder in the US is Hypothyroidism yet medication for this problem doesn’t always work. This program helps jumpstart the thyroid by removing harmfu...
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Prognosis HOPE
A powerful formula that ignites a revolution to restore humanity to healthcare.
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Simple Medicine
In Simple Medicine, the most common medical conditions, complaints, screening, medications, and medical testing are described in layman terms and very easy to understand, helping patients take control of their own health care and challenge their doctor to do the right thing.
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Career Clarity for Nurses
Career Clarity for Nurses helps guide nurses to a career path of passion and fulfillment.
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To Pee or Not to Pee?
To Pee or Not to Pee? provides women with the information they need to reduce and stop their bladder leak for good.
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