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Mammasonographie
In kurzer und prägnanter Form wird die Vielzahl der gutartigen und bösartigen Tumoren der weiblichen Brustdrüse in Form von Fallbeispielen dargestellt. Der histologische Befund wird den Ultraschallbildern mit den entsprechenden Beurteilungskriterien gegenübergestellt.
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Hysteroskopischer wegweiser für gynäkologen
Die Diagnostik von Blutungsstörungen und Sterilitätsursachen ist ein Problem der täglichen gynäkologischen Praxis. Hysteroskopie kann das Spektrum der diagnostischen Möglichkeiten erweitern. Die 2. überarbeitete Auflage des Wegweisers macht den Frauenarzt mit der diagnostischen Hysteroskopie...
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Vaginalsonographie in der gynäkologie
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Pschyrembel wörterbuch naturheilkunde und alternative heilverfahren mit homöopathie, psychotherapie und ernährungsmedizin
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Notfallsituationen in der geburtshilfe
Das Buch beschreibt in einfacher und präziser Weise alle bekannten Notfallsituationen, die in der Geburtshilfe auftreten können und gibt praktische Handlungsanweisungen für beteiligte Ärzte und Hebammen. Mit kurzen und prägnanten Übersichtsschemata werden u. a. die Themen vaginale Blutungen,...
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Geburtshilfliche operationen
Geburtshilfliche Operationen gehören zum Alltag in der Gynäkologie. Das Frauenärztliche Taschenbuch bietet in bewährter kompakter und praxisnaher Form eine schnelle Orientierung für Assistenzärzte in der Facharzt-Weiterbildung. Zeichnungen, Fotos, diagnostische Bilder und erläuternde Texte g...
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Kolposkopie in klinik und praxis
Die Kolposkopie ist ein wichtiges Diagnoseverfahren in der gynäkologischen Praxis, das im Rahmen der Facharzt-Weiterbildung gelehrt wird. Insbesondere beim Zervixkarzinom bedarf es einer verbesserten Diagnostik, u.a. durch Kolposkopie. Das Frauenärztliche Taschenbuch soll als praxisorientier...
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Endometriose
Allein in Deutschland leiden 1,2 Mio. Patientinnen an einer tumorartigen Erkrankung des Uterus: Endometriose. Die 3. Auflage des Frauenärztlichen Taschenbuches ist komplett überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Es enthält u.a. die neuen europäischen Therapie- und Diagnose-Richtlinien sowie neue The...
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Lexikon des arztrechts
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The 1993-1994 debate on health care reform:
This book brings together public opinion results on the 1994-1994 health care reform debates
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American health policy:
This book focuses on the process of competition in our private health insurance market and its effects on the cost of care and access to insurance coverage.
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Bring market prices to medicare:
Medicare is quickly approaching insolvency, in part because the program pays too much for the services it provides.
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The u.s. organ procurement system: a prescription for reform
Experts make a compelling and persuasive case for markets in human organs.
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Understanding ptsd
This book explores the complexities of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, offering an accessible guide for those without prior knowledge of the condition. This comprehensive resource traces the historical roots of PTSD, debunks common myths, and explains its various symptoms and types across differe...
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The employment & distributional effects of mandated benefits
Free health benefits like free lunches are wishful thinking. There is no way to extend health insurance coverage to millions of people without paying for it.
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How hospitals survived: competition and the american hospital
This study examines how hospitals have evolved since 1975.
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Securing a safer blood supply
In response to renewed concerns over illnesses related to blood transfusions, this volume provides two diverging perspectives on how a high-quality blood supply can best be achieved and maintained.
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Responsible national health insurance
Universal health insurance can be achieved, according to the four authors of this book, by reshaping government regulation and tax policy on health insurance. In their plan, every American would be required to buy insurance, and tax credits would be available. These credits and the deductible on ...
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Clinton's specialist quota:
This book discusses President Bill Clinton's approach to health care industry reform.
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The cure
Drawing on personal experience in both the Canadian and U.S. systems, Dr. Gratzer shows how paternalistic government involvement in the health care system has multiplied inefficiencies, discouraged innovation, and punished patients. The Cure offers a detailed and practical approach to putting ind...
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Culture of death
When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy’s life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict....
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Life liberty & the defense of dignity
We are walking too quickly down the road to physical and psychological utopia without pausing to assess the potential damage to our humanity from this brave new biology.
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Common sense labs
Updated and Expanded Edition of the Bestselling Book Common Sense Labs!Features the latest medical research and insights, offering a more comprehensive explanation of blood tests.Blood tests are one of the most effective and accessible tools for monitoring your health, but in today’s fast-paced h...
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Rehab science: how to overcome pain and heal from injury
Alleviate Pain. Rehabilitate Injuries. Move Better!At some point in your life, you will experience pain and suffer from injury. But you are not powerless. Your body is not fragile. It is strong and adaptable. With the right education, exercise strategies, and mindset, you can figure out what’s wr...
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Public insurance and private markets
As America debates the merits of government-provided health insurance, it is important to note that the U.S. government is already the largest insurance provider in the world. For decades, it has used taxpayer funds to support the world's largest health care insurance programs (Medicare and Medic...
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Reform medicaid first:
The authors offer principles for reform designed to encourage equity, efficiency, and accountability in all publicly funded health care programs.
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Romancing opiates
Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong. Not only is it wrong, but it is obviously wrong. Heroin is not highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medically serious; addicts do not become criminals to feed their habit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stop taking ...
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Global budgets versus competitive cost-control strategies
This book discusses how global budgets relate to competitive cost-control strategies.
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Mind, mood, and memory
ENGMind, Mood, and Memory in Multiple Sclerosis is enhanced both by the latest science and by eloquent case histories that illustrate each cognitive and emotional disorder. Feinstein also provides recommendations for evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Written in an immediate, accessible wa...
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Medicare for you
“The decisions you make when you sign up for Medicare can impact your costs — and your quality of care — for the rest of your life. No one gives better advice about Medicare than Diane Omdahl. “ — Terry Savage, Author of The Savage Truth on Money and Nationally Syndicated Financial Columnist Get ...
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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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Canadian medical schools
The history of sixteen extant medical schools by a distinguished surgeon-historian glows with biographical sketches of their pioneers, "movers and shakers". Setting out to expose the elements necessary and common to all modern medical education, the author's zest for the unique, the colourful and...
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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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Accessibility and active offer
This edited volume examines language issues within the active offer of health and social services in francophone and anglophone minority communities. Action based, it will help shape the leaders of tomorrow.
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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
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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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)
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
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Experimental studies in equine infectious anemia
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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
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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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
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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
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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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The one best way?
In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food supply, and public health concerns such as health care costs and the obesity “epidemic.” Breas...
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The perils of patient government
In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that “once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration,” a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients. Assum...
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A fragile revolution
Despite two centuries and three major reform movements, mental patients have remained on the outside of the mainstream of society, often living in poverty and violence. Today we are undergoing yet another period of reform and, in a historical first, ex-mental patients, now calling themselves cons...
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Living recovery
Living Recovery takes readers through the journey of ELAR (emergence, loss, adaptation and recovery) of interviewed youth living with mental health problems. The book shows us that youth do in fact adapt, recover, and reintegrate over time.
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China interrupted
China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment as “enemy aliens” of Japan from 1941 to 1945. Over three hundred Canadians were among the 13,000...
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Healthcare in transition
Health policy thinking must change. This book explores the fundamental currents and tensions that lie behind recent trends such as shared decision-making, co-production, and personalisation. These are often discussed in relation to an epidemiological transition but this text argues that they embo...
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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
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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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